It's time again to present the awards and the results for this season of the Tabletop Republic Warhammer 40k league! This blog will go through the missions, the results, and the statistics from this season, which ran from July - September 2022.
LEAGUE RULES
The Tabletop Republic 40k league is a 1000pt league comprised of 6 games played over 3 months. This season was the most popular since the first season, with 22 players!
TABLE
For the second season in a row, we didn't have an undefeated winner - but it was still a decisive victory as Jack was the only player who only lost 1 game, with 2nd - 8th all going 4/2
The final table above shows the full standings for each player - with their placings based on; firstly - points scored (3pts for a win, 2pts for a draw, 1pt for a loss), then points difference (total points scored minus total points conceded). If a further tiebreaker was needed, it would come down to total points scored.
Jack Pugh's AdMech won this season - with Scott Errington-Bazley getting 2nd place (and a second podium in a row), and newcomer Lee Anderson getting a very impressive 3rd with Guard!
Here is the extended table showing each player's win-loss pattern and opponents.
Manuele switched factions during the league, so his AdMech only featured for 1 game and he played his Imperial Knights from Round 2 onwards
THE ROUNDS
Here I will show off each round - including the missions chosen, the rules included and the terrain layouts
ROUND 1: Deliverance
ROUND 2: Fight Until Dawn (custom mission)
ROUND 3: Desperate Raid
ROUND 4: Stake Claim (custom mission)
ROUND 5: Display of Spiritual Might
ROUND 6: Mutated Battlefield
SECONDARIES
Here are each of the secondaries chosen during the league, how many times they were chosen and the average score for each.
Raise the Banners High was the most popular secondary with 33 picks, with Engage on all Fronts very close behind with 32.
The highest scoring Nephilim secondary on average was Abhor the Witch (12pts), with RND (8pts) and Warp Ritual (8.8pts) also good choices.
On the other side; No Prisoners (3.6pts), Engage on all Fronts (5.1pts), and Behind Enemy Lines (5.4pts) were the lowest scoring Nephilim secondaries
In faction-specific secondaries (that were chosen 3+ times), Necrons' Ancient Machineries (13.1pts), Purge the Vermin (12.5pts) and The Treasure of Aeons (14.6pts) were all really good picks - as well as Astra Militarum's Inflexible Command (12.6pts), Adepta Sororitas' Sacred Grounds (11.7pts) and Imperial Knights' Yield No Ground (10.1pts)
The below-average scorers for faction secondaries (again, chosen 3+ times) were Eradication of Flesh for AdMech (4pts), Renew the Oaths for Imperial Knights (6.7pts) and The Long War (6.3pts)
AWARDS
And finally, we get to the awards - in this first section, all the winners will recieve a physical prize of some kind - either an award or store voucher (or both!)
LEAGUE WINNER: Jack Pugh (Adeptus Mechanicus)
LEAGUE RUNNER-UP: Scott Errington-Bazley (Necrons)
LEAGUE THIRD PLACE: Lee Anderson (Astra Militarum)
BEST PAINTED: Nick Hooper's Astra Militarum
PLAYER'S PLAYER: Hughey Herbert (Adepta Sororitas)
WOODEN SPOON: Manuele Santoro (Adeptus Mechanicus)
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Then these awards are just blog-exclusive fun:
MOST POINTS SCORED: Lee Anderson (3rd, Astra Militarum, 464pts)
LEAST POINTS SCORED: Sean Wheeliker (21st, Drukhari, 162pts) [only including players who played all 6 games]
LEAST POINTS CONCEDED: Dan Hounsell (7th, Space Marines, 270pts) - second season in a row won!
MOST POINTS CONCEDED: Tom Mepham (20th, Aeldari, 463pts)
BIGGEST WIN: Lee Anderson 100-24 Adam Eveleigh (Round 3)
CLOSEST GAME: James Rocks 73-74 Manuele Santoro (Round 3)
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BEST IMPERIUM PLAYER: Jack Pugh, 1st (Adeptus Mechanicus)
BEST CHAOS PLAYER: Thomas Roberts, 4th (CSM)
BEST XENOS PLAYER: Scott Errington-Bazley, 2nd (Necrons)
AVERAGE IMPERIUM POSITION: 12.2
AVERAGE CHAOS POSITION: 9.2
AVERAGE XENOS POSITION: 14
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The 'Most Improved Player' Award: Tom Parrin (Death Guard) - up 6 places to 6th this season
The 'Least Improved Player' Award: Tom Mepham (Aeldari) - Down 12 places to 20th (I blame the army, not the player!)
The 'Bang Average' Award: Phil Puttock (3 wins, 3 losses with the closest PD to 0)
The 'All or Nothing' Award: Peter Eardland (More wins than losses, but negative PD)
The 'Ridiculous' Award: Leo Pesci (beat James K in Round 2 despite not killing a single unit)
The 'Golden Jake' Award: Lee Anderson - most unique army with a Guard Infantry spam list and plane!
Thanks for reading! This was a great season once again with the closest podium finishes to date!
And that's the report! See you all in 3 or so months for the Season 5 report - my next army will surely do better and fight tooth and nail to get to the podium!
- Tom M