It did not go well

If anything, my June 2019 ITC experience affirms I'll need to modernize my 40K forces.  You can be highly trained and play pretty well, but if you are just outgunned, you still can get slaughtered.  Every game was pretty close to start, and each had their own moments and takeaways.

I think I'm on a totally losing streak now of 6 games. 

2000 Points - ITC - 10 person event.

Game 1: Nurgle

The biggest takeaway in this game is how disgustingly resilient is a game changer.  5++ FNPs vs all wounds is wayyyyy better than the 6++ that some other armies can get.  In this game I misunderstood who the warlord was, and I might have done better with better secondaries. 

Early game, Turn 1.  Nurgle heads for the center while I'd gone off to try to punch a hole in the screen that was keeping me out of their deployment zone. 

Turn 3 - Nurgle terminators in my back corner.  My reinforcements are off in the distance, distracting the opponent from fully committing to attacking my small fire base.  

Turn 5 - If it had gone another turn....

22 to 17 loss after 5.  

Game 2: vs Ravenguard
The biggest issue in this game was the -1 to hit Ravenguard more than 12 inches away.  Being closer with half your army does not help much.  Old 1W marines vs new 2W marines does not help either.  I also wanted to go back and check his maths...if it checks out, there are some cool things I can do to imprive my Ultramarines before the next event based on these ideas...

Not bad, pretty cool, modern list here.  

You know your game is going bad when your Chaplain is all alone and had no other marines to lead...

Telion can hide like a boss from large piles of shooting dice...

The score belies the fact that his 5 man infiltrator squad in ruins was nearly impossible to kill, and I could not do it on Turn 1...and barely on Turn 2...fun game.  Todd's Ravenguard are really coming in to their own!

Game 3: Orks! 
Giant piles of orks.  Not enough pictures for another great game!  Favorite opponent with a really detailed really cool ork warband! Overall, I probably should have put the fliers in Hover Mode for this one...

The horde in its glory. 

Turn 2...Kill retreat kill advance.  Its a huge mess. 

Holding the left flank.  Sternguard about to be charged (again)....

Telion ordering the scouts to stand firm...shoot the driver!  Which one?  

8 points from Victory...

After all that, on the next day was Fathers Day!  My two home-grown 40K players dropped in with a bottle of Tin Cup Whiskey and a game of 40K!  It was a great time...for one it was his first game in 5 editions...for the other it was his second game as 8th edition.  They ganged up on me (but it was to be expected) - they used my Ultramarines, and I used that practice blood angels list.  We did not keep score, but the Blood Angels were wiped off the table in Turn 5....