The result was extremely close, but we emerged victorious by 61.5 to 61 points. It all came down to the sportsmanship point I made sure one of my team was awarded for pointing out that his opponent's warlord could not claim an objective on his own before the game ended, giving him the chance to move a scoring unit closer. Our margin of victory would have been slightly bigger otherwise, as the game was then a draw, instead of a victory for us.
We lost points on the painting scores, as most of our team are relatively new to the hobby and did not, for example, have the six objectives needed to gain points for markers. (When does any game need 12 markers anyway?) I will make sure we do better on this score in March.
We had 2 Yr 7s (aka first years), a Yr8 and a Yr9. Our opponents were fielding kids from Yr10-11. Even so, we got a 9-1-2 gaming record, against 7 wins from the second-placed team.
Our team played Chaos, DA (both mainly from Dark Vengeance, although there was a land raider), GK and Tau (the cheesiest army with 2 riptides).
We are hoping to enter another team for more heats in February.
I just need to ask my Head now if he is happy to pay for a minibus again to get us to Nottingham.
