Australian Masters

Feburary, one of the busiest in the 40k tournament calendar this year in Australia.  On top of some of the larger events like Cancon and Arcanacon with the later of the two attracting 145 players for 40K alone this year.  The upcoming weekend however has been booked in for the Australian Masters - details of which can be found here on their Facebook page.  Invites were sent out to the winners of each state based Masters, since the first place declined their invitation it went to the 2nd place (that's me!) so I will be attending and representing South Australia.




Australian 40K Masters is a yearly national event with 16 of the top ranking players and winner of local state based masters tournaments.  Five games over two days will crown the new king of 40K for the year and set the meta for the near future no-comp tournaments.

The format is 1850 with the following  list building restrictions:

• 1 CAD sized detachment
• 1 Ally
• 1 Formation/Dataslate/Assassin choice

Missions are done up with a mixture of both Eternal War, Maelstrom and KP's, a potential mission would look like this:

Mission 1:
Objective #1: Eternal War: Big Guns Never Tire – 5 Objectives (3 Victory Points Each).
Objective #2: Maelstrom of War: Deadlock.
Objective #3: Kill Point Differential.
Secondary Objectives: Slay the Warlord, First Blood and Linebreaker.
Deployment: Dawn of War.

Here is an example of how the results would be scored.

Player 1:	Player 2:
Scores 4 Objectives from Objective #1 [12vps]	Scores 1 Objective from Objective #1 [3vps]
Killed 2 Heavy Support Units [2vps]	Killed 1 Heavy Support Unit [1vp]
Achieved 9VP from Tactical Objective Cards, Objective #2 [9vps]	Achieved 6VP from Tactical Objective Cards, Objective #2 [6vps]
Obtained 4 kill points to Opponents 8 [0vps]	Obtained 8 kill points to Opponents 4 [4vps]
Achieved First Blood and Line Breaker [2vps]	Achieves Slay the Warlord [1vp]
Total: 25vps	Total: 15vps
Difference of 10 Victory Points
Round Points: 2	Round Points: 0
Game Points: 15	Game Points: 5

The kill point criteria for each game is something I am not a fan of coming from an MSU Dark Eldar pedigree and only does more to encourage death stars and outright tabling the opponent rather than playing to the mission.  So in the spirit of doing the exact opposite of my normal high KP figures I have gone with the lowest KP I have ever played or played against - 6 of them (9 models in total)!

Still to come I will post up the list I am taking and a batrep of it vs Chaos Deamons and Necrons.