Tournament reports, after a fashion
Conveniently, and coincidentally, timed with Bill Stark's recent call for tournament reports, Adam Smith over at Warhammer Tau has written about his recent experiences with his Tau army at the 40K Grand Tournament.
Rather than try to summarize, I'll suggest that this is a fun read if you aren't familiar with modern 40K but would like an insight into what it's like to play the game competitively. Certainly, the game reports are automatically more colorful than a typical Magic report:
The Genestealers leapt upon the Hammerhead and immediately 4 of the 8 were torn apart by the flechette dischargers. Unable to land a single blow, they were in trouble.
The Tyranid warriors also charged in, but were only able to glance the vehicle, preventing it from firing next turn while losing one of their number to the flechette dischargers.
The rest of the Tyranid swarm rushed forward as before with the big stompy Carnifex getting dangerously close to the Broadsides along with the 32 strong gaunt swarm.
It's just hard not to end up with vivid descriptions even from a fairly staid retelling of a 40K game.