Feast of Blades - Demons and Flyers

Feast of Blades has turned into one of the big four national tournaments.  And so with a few hundred people battling it out in both the Invitational and Open tournaments a couple of things were very obvious.  Cranberry Muffinman from 40K Nation and I webcast the event and interviewed all the players on the feature table.Here is what we saw and heard around the tables.

Daemons are in

Four of the top 8 armies were Daemons.  Daemon armies were all over the place.  Why?  Screamers and Flamers.  Two ridiculously tough units.  Screamers act like jet bikes and are S5 AP 2, 2 wounds and basically a beast in HtH.  Flamers really can't be assaulted because of their weaponry and can dish out huge shooting damage.  As we were broadcasting the feature table, we saw 3 Daemon on Daemon games in addition to the final!

Necron Night Scythes are insane

BoLS just wrote an article you need to read.  8+ Necron Night Scythe armies were in evidence and while not in the top 8, were clearly powerful.  Twin Linked Tesla weapon at S7 and Assault 4.  Av 11/11/11 with living metal.  And it is a dedicated transport and only 100 points!

The thing is, they have limited/small units to hold objectives and so while packing a lot of Tesla love, they have a hard time with games that require you to hold objectives.  So I think there is a lot of noise, but in tournament games, they are total hit or miss armies.

Of course in Apocalypse, they are pretty nasty, and I expect my good friend and local Necron Lord "Wild" Bill Hubbell to start fielding lots of these.


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Alec