Newbie Tournament Prep

I agree.

I'm trying to find one with a magnetized tongue on eBay. Lol. As soon as I see one I'll buy it, but I've got so much painting and such to do already that I don't wanna buy the model and play with it unpainted for so long.

I am almost finished with my krielstone. I take FOREVER to paint.

Just my two cents, but id drop your whelps down to one set for a rune bearer or shaman on your Griss2 list.

Dk, theme, and 1 set of whelps will keep you nice and cool for her.

You know, I've seen you dropping a lot of posts getting ready for your first tournament, and I applaud your dedication to tournament prep. I also do a lot of the same kind of matchup analysis before I go into a tournament. I have found though, that list prep and preparing for your opponents lists only gets you so far. The biggest factor for winning and losing for me is usually just basic play issues, especially when I'm first starting out. I've played the lists you're bring and they look fine. It think its really more about keeping track of a few simple things:

- try and be aware of threat ranges. pre measure everything. pre-measure your opponents models and leave little markers at their limits, so you don't wander into their threat ranges unless you want to, most of the less experienced tournament players lose to me because they don't do that.
- Be aware of terrain blocking los and movement is usually one of the big factors in whether i win or lose.
- you don't have to rush everything forward. this is the one I tend to have the most trouble with. I like to get up there and apply ax to face as quickly as possible. but often times I just end up over committing. put a few things out front and leave a few farther back to clear off jammers. having layers of models lets you set up piece trades more effectively.

I'm sorry if these things are obvious, but I have found that when I play newer players these are the things they have the biggest problem with.

Every once in a while there is some list matchup where I just don't know how to deal with what my opponent is bringing to the table (I'm still traumatized by my first gorten expereince.), but usually those players are really good anyway, so even if they brought something i could deal with, they'd probably just outplay me. The point being don't sweat the list matchups too much ,and just stick to getting your play basics down, I think that will serve you better in the end.