3sta.net~ 3 Strength,  3 Toughness,  3 Armies ~ A Warhammer 40k BlogSkip to contentHomeWhat is 3sta?Craftworld Vyse (Eldar)Slannesh Deamonettes (Chaos Deamons)Kabal of the Sullen Moon (Dark Eldar)← Older postsRound Two!Posted on August 17, 2011 by adminBy placing second at our local store’s Ard Boyz I am qualified to go to a regional now.  This brings up two questions.1) Do I go?2) What do I play?I:At first I thought the answer to the first one was a no brainer, of course I’ll go.  I qualified for a spot, I should ride it out as long as I can.  But realistically, based on playing at this Ard Boyz as well as playing at Wargames Con I realize it would be an uphill battle from where I am now to win or place in the next round.  Add to that if I go that leaves me with one ‘free’ weekend before I’m going to AWA and I’ve yet to prepare anything for that.  So as much fun as it would be to go, it might be nice to take a weekend off.The next part of do I go would be the drive.  The three closest sites to us are Omaha (3.5 hrs), Wichita (3.5 hrs) and St. Louis (4 hrs).  Since registration would be around 9 am, I’d have to leave here around 5 am.  Also if the tournament went until 7 or 8 pm then I wouldn’t get back until midnight.  And that would be one long day.  Then compound that with Friday night activities which wouldn’t end until midnight meaning I’d be going with just 5 hours of sleep at the most.Then if I do go, I want to be competitive.  I went into this Ard Boyz just with a theme and took stuff to make that theme better.  It’s not a destroyer list or a list that makes people rage on the inside.  It’s a fluff list with some strong things in it.  And to make any list more competitive I’d probably need to spend around $300.  And that’s not something I really want to do at this time.  (I spent enough working on getting the terrain for our store’s Ard Boyz ready in time.)  And with two other conventions I’m going to in September I don’t have the money to spend to upgrade my armies.II.I fiddled with ideas for Eldar last night.  Instead of throwing all the stuff I hate facing I paired it down and made it more mechanized.  The list ended up Farseer w/council of 6 all on jetbikes and Jain Zar as the HQ.  Banshees and two squads of Fire Dragons all in Wave Serpents as the Elites.  Three squads of Dire Avengers, two minimum sized and one large (w/shimershield).  Two squads of minimum jetbikes to hold in reserve (might change out if missions are known ahead of time) and one full squad of pathfinders round out the six troops.  And that’s the list.  No fast and no heavy.The thoughts on this list would be Pathfinders could provide cover fire.  Large squad of Avengers and Farseer could tie things up while Banshees take them down.  Fire Dragons would be popping vehicles or other big things, two minimum Dire Avengers would sit in their vehicles to hold th