Greetings, everyone.   First of all, thank you for a great event.    We had an immense amount of fun putting on the Renegade, and we hope in the end, that you did as well.  There are many moving parts for an event of this size, and mistakes will happen.  We can only learn from these and make our event better for all next year.

Second, we owe everyone an apology.   One Day One, there was a mistake with our scoring software, which provided us incorrect data in choosing our Top 16.   Many of you attempted to help, and we greatly appreciate your efforts.  However, this was our event, and ultimately, we had to be the ones to fix the issue.  Here are the actual results from Day One.  They include the correct Top 16 that should have played a fourth game.

DAY ONE RESULTS (Corrected)      (click for results)

In the end, we had to make a decision in order to move the day along, and we upset several players.  We take full responsibility for our actions, and will take steps to ensure that a mistake like that will not occur again.

Third, we again owe an apology for not posting our results right away!  Another data issue, this one involving the computer our results were on, caused it to crash.   Fortunately, we had hard copies of all results, especially for Day 2, that we were able to recreate the scores. However, we could not locate all of our Paint Scores, and rather than post some paint, we chose to not include paint in our Final Results.  We know that many of you were interested in how you did, but the data was unrecoverable.

Here are the Final Results from Day Two that we announced before we closed out this year.  Congratulations to all who won!

Renegade Open Championships   (click for results)
Tim Schmidt                 The Renegade
Aaron Aleong                2nd Place
Justin Curtis                  3rd Place
Andrew Gonyo              4th Place
Tyler DeVries                5th Place
Cyle Thompson             6th Place
David Rodriguez           7th Place
David Hind                    8th Place

Renegade Open RTT Finals   (click for results)
Trent Northington       RTT Best General

Renegade Open Roll Call of Honor
Andrew Gonyo              Best Painted
Logan Schmidt              Best Sportsman
Chris Mehrstedt            Renaissance Man  (Best Overall)
Mason Satterman         Recipient of Legion Games Secret Army Giveaway  (Dark Angels)

Thank you again for a wonderful weekend of gaming.   We definitely plan to be back again next year, so keep an eye out for news on our website,  your emails, and our facebook page!

The Renegade Open Staff

Standings after round two are up!

B : Bracket P: Position VP: Victory Points SP: Soft Points SPRT: Sportsmanship SOS: Strength of Schedule

  Check out the photos from round 1 action here.

My name is Jorell and I wanted to unleash a massive tactics article for you guys before the Renegade GT so here it goes.

Moving: You can move your models whatever direction you would like.
Shooting: Roll dice and hit stuff. If you enemy fails saves his unit dies.
Assaulting: Go towards stuff and hit it. If your enemy fails saves then his unit dies.

Ok so some of the above stuff might seem pretty basic, but if you really think about it it’s not. For example, you don’t have to move in a straight line. One tactic that I love to use is this: If there is an intervening piece of terrain in the path that I want to move a model, I simply move AROUND it. You’ll lose some distance this way, but you don’t run the risk of rolling two ones!

For shooting, possibly the best tactic that I see many people mess up in my area is: Don’t shoot at stuff you can’t kill. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen people in my play group firing bolters at land raiders. I’ll explain. Land Raiders are armor 14. Bolters are only Str 4. When you roll your dice to wound, even if you roll a six that only adds up to 10. You can’t pen! Definitely a good tactic to remember on the battle field.

The assault phase is possibly the easiest phase of the game, but there are still tactical advantages that you can find on the field of battle. For example, if you have 10 lightning claw terminators and are in range to assault 5 fire warriors, DO IT. You will most likely win the combat. 40k is all a numbers game. Now would I charge 5 assault terminators into 10 fire warriors? It depends. You are risking being beaten in combat and you don’t want to be stuck in a single combat for more than a turn.

So what does this all mean? Well, to put it simply, you have to remember to out think your opponent on all these levels. If I see my opponent only moving in straight lines and shooting at my land raiders with bolters then I know he isn’t trying to out think me and that I have an ok chance to pull out a win.

Objectives are also important sometimes so try to capture them as often as you can. Make sure you take a tough scoring unit that can capture objectives in every list you make. One of the best objective capturers in the game are Dark Eldar Wyches. They can launch devastating assaults and wipe out almost any other troop unit. Not only that, but they are resilient enough to hold the objective for you for a bunch of turns afterwards.

Well, this concludes my tactica for the evening. I wanted to get some stuff out for the guys that are going to renegade. I hope this benefits you guys this weekend.

I’ll have more stuff coming in the future.

Thanks for reading!

Jorell (not Renegade Open Staff)