It's time for the results and write-up of the Tabletop Republic 40k League's Second Season, which ran from January - March 2022. This blog will go through each round's mission, player's secondaries and and other key info.
THE LEAGUE
This league came straight after the 1st season and had some small changes from the feedback of the first season.
Still at 1000pts and with the core league rules still the same, this season swapped to War Zone Nachmund rules onces that book came out partway through the season, and had some all-new custom/homemade missions too!
We had 18 signups to begin with, with 2 players being swapped out partway though due to other commitments.
THE FINAL TABLE
First things first - let's see the winners!
Tom M is officially, and unbiasedly, declared the winner of the league and the best ever player to ever exist! (in all seriousness, I'm not sure how I came out the other end of the league undeafeated - I'll go into more detail on my games later in the blog)
In 2nd place is Lawrence Hide's combat Crons, and in 3rd place is Jack Pugh's Tau (going undefeated after the new Codex drop!) Here's the Win/Loss table:
2 games could not be played in the last round due to time constraints: that being Jake G v Kieran M and Alex D v Thomas C (who was being "controlled" by Tom M in the last 2 rounds)
THE ROUNDS
In this section, I'll go through each round's mission, terrain and each game's scores (I won't show the full info such as secondaries chosen, etc as that'll take up a lot of room!
ROUND 1: FACE OFF (Custom Mission)
ROUND 2: RAID (Chapter Approved 2021)
ROUND 3: SACRED GROUND (War Zone: Nachmund)
ROUND 4: DECISIVE STRIKE (Custom Mission)
ROUND 5: RISE OF THE MACHINE SPIRIT (War Zone: Nachmund)
ROUND 6: RECONNISSANCE MISSION (War Zone: Nachmund)
SECONDARIES
Now it's time to showcase how each secondary scored throughout the 6 rounds of this season. Please note that this is obviously not the best method to see what secondary is best for you, as 1000pt games can be very skewed and some of these secondaries changed mid-season with War Zone: Nachmund
As you can see here, Engage on all Fronts was the most chosen secondary (same as Season 1), with Assassination, Retrieve Octarius/Nachmund Data, To The Last and Grind Them Down not far behind.
In terms of the top scorers, Oaths of Moments (Space Marines), Blade of Sanguinius (Blood Angels), Investigate Signal and Behind Enemy Lines were some of the top average scorers.
AWARDS
And finally, we can get to the prizes and awards - the first section are all ones that come with a physical prize of some kind, and the rest are just for fun!
LEAGUE WINNER: Tom Mepham (Chaos Knights)
LEAGUE RUNNER-UP: Lawrence Hide (Necrons)
LEAGUE 3RD PLACE: Jack Pugh (T'au Empire)
BEST PAINTED: Matthew Linnett (Tyranids)
PLAYER'S PLAYER: Jake Gregory (Grey Knights)
WOODEN SPOON: Adam Eveleigh (Space Marines)
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MOST POINTS SCORED: Lawrence Hide (Necrons) - 441
LEAST POINTS SCORED: Adam Eveleigh (Space Marines ) - 202 [excludes dropouts and late entries]
LEAST POINTS CONCEDED: Tom Mepham (Chaos Knights) - 243 [excludes dropouts and late entries]
MOST POINTS CONCEDED: Adam Eveleigh (Space Marines) - 501
CLOSEST GAME: Jake Gregory (Grey Knights) 36-36 Tom Kay (Necrons)
BIGGEST WIN: Jake Lovegrove (Chaos Daemons) 97-12 Sam Smith (Chaos Space Marines)
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The 'Bang Average' Award: Sam Willis's Astra Militarum (most even PD)
The 'New Codex Syndrome' Award: Jack Pugh's T'au (most wins after a new codex)
The 'Of Course He Won' Award: Tom Mepham's Chaos Knights (wow - he makes the games, choses the matchups and he won the league? what a surprise!)
The 'Ragequit' Award: Sam Smith's Chaos Space Marines (left the league after a big loss - totally unrelated reason though!)
The 'Most Improved Player' Award: Alex Davis's Necrons (+10 places vs Season 1)
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BEST CHAOS PLAYER: Tom Mepham (Chaos Knights) - 1st
BEST IMPERIUM PLAYER: Sam Wrightson (Space Marines) - 4th
BEST XENOS PLAYER: Lawrence Hide (Necrons) - 2nd
AVERAGE CHAOS POSITION: 7.75
AVERAGE IMPERIUM POSITION: 12.67
AVERAGE XENOS POSITION: 8.0
And that's the report! Hopefully you enjoyed all the results and statistics - Season 3 is just about to start so I'll see you again in 3 months for that report!
- Tom M