Alright, we finished the first round of our campaign last night, so I want to post a report of what happened here.

You can see the original post with the new events here.

After seeing who showed up we made the following eight teams:

Robert - Imperial
Matthew - Tyranid
Mike - Necrons
Justin - Dark Edlar
Wes - Chaos (Nurgle)
Spencer - Tau
Joe - Eldar
Dave - Chaos

EVENTS PHASE

Since everybody had the same size empire (one tile plus one city) we rolled to see who would choose events first.

Here is what everybody chose:

Robert - Land Grab
Matthew - All or Nothing
Mike - Gold Rush (rolled 7 and received 70 gold)
Justin - Scouts
Wes - Drop Pods
Spencer - Scheduled Orbital Bombardment
Joe - none (showed up late)
Dave - none (Caleb played for him as he couldn’t make it)

REVENUE PHASE:

No revenue was generated as nobody has any mines.

CHALLENGE PHASE:

Once again we rolled to see who would choose to challenge whom first. Here are the challenges that were issued:

Robert vs Matthew (Imperial vs Tyranid)
Mike vs Wes (Necrons vs Nurgle)
Justin vs Spencer (Dark Eldar vs Tau)
Joe vs Dave (Eldar vs Chaos)

BATTLE PHASE:

And here are the results of the battles:

Matthew - Minor Victory - 3 points + 2 points for All or Nothing
Robert - Loss - 1 point

Wes - Minor Victory - 3 points
Mike - Loss - 1 point

Justin - Draw - 2 points
Spencer - Draw - 2 points

Joe - Major Victory - 4 points
Dave - Loss - 1 point

BUILD AND CONQUER PHASE:

Matthew - expanded two tiles and built a mine
Robert - expanded one tile (thanks to Land Grab)
Wes - expanded to a mountain tile (used Drop Pods to go across the map)
Mike - raid - added 70 gold
Justin - two raids - added 140 gold
Spencer - expanded by one tile
Joe - expanded two tiles
Dave - raid - added 40 gold

END RESULTS (ordered by largest empire to smallest empire):

Matthew (4) - no gold
Joe (4) - no gold
Robert (3) - no gold
Wes (3) - no gold
Spencer (3) - no gold
Mike (2) - 140 gold
Justin (2) - 140 gold
Dave (2) - 40 gold

INTERESTING SIDE NOTES:

-The Scheduled Orbital Bombardment didn’t do much for Spencer this round as it basically missed anything important.
-I found that playing a Nidzilla army against an Imperial player isn’t that fun as I am used to enjoying watching my guys die in large numbers and then still make it to the enemy, whereas with this army I just didn’t die.

Any other interesting points should be added as comments by our players!