I went down to my local shop yesterday and got to play my friend Tom who I planned a game with. I used my standard 2k grey knight list which can be found a few posts down. He used his latest blood angel list with mephiston, 2 units of assualt termies, 2 redeemers, 3 las plas backs with assualt squads, and a regular land raider with assualt squad.
The game was capture and controll pitched battle. He put his objective in his deployment zone and parked his scoring land raider on it. I put mine at the edge of my deployment zone since I wanted to be in mid field. the game went quick until massive combats hit. He rushed at me with his raiders and mephiston while I castled up in mid field and protected my melta henchmen. Without any other targets I neutralized the 3 las plas backs and heavy boltered away their contents relatively quickly. But I had no forward element to kill his land riader with. He unloaded one squad of assualt termies and killed 2 razorbacks turn 3 and both squads got pinned. After that I got lucky and immobillized both of his redeemers with my melta henchmen. From then on it was just me tryong to kill mephiston and 10 assualt termies in teh heart of my army. Eventually I prevailed and killed all of it, but I made little effort to puch for his objective, so in the end we drew.
After this game I decided it would be better to make the razorbacks on my purifiers into rhinos and give al my troop transports dozer blades.
I then got to play my friend Rich, who is really a phenominal player. The only army I have a winning record with against him is demons (that includes my new grey knights too). The mission was kill points dawn of war. He won the roll fr first and deployed 1 sister unit all the way up front. The rest of his army was supposed to come in turn 1. I stole the initiative!
I came on castled up in the center ready to push wherever needed. I then made quick work of his rhino. He came on and couldn't see anything. The next turn I shook up his fire support and immobilized a lot of his tanks in his deployment zone. That really stalled him up and put me in a poisition of playing to not lose. Every oppurtunity he got to do something, he was too limited to be successful when compared to me. So I managed to just play the range game, keep my stuff together for support, and deal with whatever he through at me. Eventually he conceeded turn 4.
There is a RTT at a store in my area, which is 2000 points. I will be attending as well as a bunch of other players from my store, who are all pretty compeitive. Were hoping not only to sweep their RTT, but to also get some good practice games in. I'm especially looking forward to it, since I'm going to be borrowing a bunch of stuff, to hopefully have a functional grey knight army to test out.
Here's what my new list looks like if you're interested.
HQ
Coteaz 100
Elites
5 Purifiers- 2 psy cannons master crafted demon hammer 150
Rhino 40
5 Purifiers- 2 psy cannons master crafted demon hammer 150
Rhino 40
5 Purifiers- 2 psy cannons master crafted demon hammer 150
Rhino 40
Troops
5 Strikes- 1 psy cannon master crafted demon hammer 120
Razorback- psy bolts dozer blades search light 56
5 Strikes- 1 psy cannon master crafted demon hammer 120
Razorback- psy bolts dozer blades 55
5 Strikes- 1 psy cannon master crafted demon hammer 120
Razorback- psy bolts dozer blades 55
5 Strikes- 1 psy cannon master crafted demon hammer 120
Razorback- psy bolts dozer blades 55
3 Henchmen- warriors melta guns 42
Chimera- dozer blades 60
3 Henchmen- warriors melta guns 42
Chimera- dozer blades 60
Heavy
Dread- 2 Twin Linked Auto Cannons psy bolts 135
Dread- 2 Twin Linked Auto Cannons psy bolts 135
Dread- 2 Twin Linked Auto Cannons psy bolts 135
2000 exactly
At my LGS yesterday (after picking up 4 Seeker boxes and 18 Fiends, thank you store credit!), I threw together a 1500 list inspired by your Skarbrand list a while back. Ended up beating an all-vehicle Eldar list in objectives. Did Skarbrand help? A bit. The opponent had to reconsider Tank Shocking, as it would leave his vehicles too close to assault. We played a variant of Capture & Control that includes an objective in the center of the table, to help prevent the inevitable draw.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy you're trying my lists, or your own versions of my lists. I'm even more happy you're having success with it. It's a very powerful army, but don't overplay it (I think I did) or it will really take the fun out of the game quickly.
ReplyDeleteWell I definitely needed to try something different, as in our last game Ol' Kairos took it upon himself to fly away prematurely.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to dig through your blog here and see what other nuggets of wisdom I can sample. I'm definitely up for being a second play-tester, though I think you've got at least 5 years experience over me. :)
I usually play something different with every list. I was so excited for the Seekers, I opened a box at the store and got my first 5 of them put together for the game. For all the excitement, they didn't do anything directly. But I do believe they acted as deterrent enough coupled with a Slaanesh chariot, Bloodcrushers and Skarbrand (in support) to force the Eldar player into retreat and play to contest. It was my first time facing down Fire Warriors though, yikes. Thank Chaos for invulnerable saves.
At this point, I'm just hijacking your post about Grey Knights to talk about Daemons, especially now because you're the best person to answer this particular question. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm looking across my desk at 20 Seekers built on the rounded-off bike bases. These bases aren't circles, so how do you arrange them coming in from Deep Strike? It looks like a grey area in the rules and I can arrange them however I like, so long as they are base-to-base and resemble a circle.
Well yeah pretty much, just make it resembe a circle and no one will argue. If you arrange it properly you can go with each model faced forwards, int 3 rows of 6,7,6. That is as close as possible to a circle as you can acheive. Now that leaves 1 seeker leftover, so that can in theory be placed anywhere on the unit in any way. That let's you get about 2 inches closer to the enemy
ReplyDeleteIf Simon shows up tomorrow night at the LGS as planned, we'll put our heads together. The 6-7-6 isn't one I've tried yet. I have ones that look like flowers and others that look like diamonds...
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