great tactical article by Matt Root

[Jack Shrapnel]

Goes through tourney list building taking into account Gatekeeper armies and building to the tourney scenarios

very interesting and worth a read:

thebrownmagic.com/2018/05/08/how-to-win-the-itc-part-2/

[thesanityassassin]

The first part of this series is huge too!

thebrownmagic.com/2018/05/03/how-to-win-the-itc-part-1/

Example of "maybe just ignore the super unlikely in a playtest" - the other night testing my Crusade list against Andrew's eldar, 3 Chosen fired Overcharged plasma with +1 to wound against a Wraithlord with 4 wounds left. Odds are *very high* I kill it. Instead I roll 4 1's, a 2 and a 5, losing my whole squad and not hurting his model.

In a tourney, super good luck for him - rather than me clearly securing an objective and board segment, he got it without trying and had Lances left to shoot my Dread.

In a playtest game he said "Ok so instead my Wraithlord dies and you put your guys back" because it was so much more valuable to try and figure out what to do next in the likely scenario than win in the unlikely one.

[question]

Liked both of these articles. Even if you "know" every point made, a refresher is always welcome. Everybody should read these, and i imagine the rest of the series when they are available.

[Duffy]

Thanks for the articles guys. As a guy trying to make his first few lists this came in handy!