Alright so me and my friends Rich,George, Brad, Vinny, and Luke (all former GT top finishers) drove up to North Jersey to play in a tournament. We all figured it would be good practive for NOVA since it's 2k points and small enough that we would mostly be playing each other.
The list I brought was as follows:
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- Psy cannon master crafted demon hammer 125
Razorback- psy bolts dozers searchlight 56
5 Strikes- Psy cannon master crafted demon hammer 125
Razorback- psy bolts dozers 55
5 Strikes- Psy cannon master crafted demon hammer 125
Razorback- psy bolts dozers 55
5 Strikes- Psy cannon master crafted demon hammer 125
Razorback- psy bolts dozers 55
3 Henchmen- meltas 42
Chimera 55
3 Henchmen- meltas 42
Chimera 55
Heavy
Dreadnaught- 2 twin linked auto cannons 135
Dreadnaught- 2 twin linked auto cannons 135
Dreadnaught- 2 twin linked auto cannons 135
2000 exactly.
Round 1
Mission- kill points primary, table quarters secondary
Deployment- Spearhead
Opponent- Space Wolves
His list from memory-
HQ
Bjorn
3 rune priests- 2 jaws, living lightnings, (apparently that's legal if they have different equipment) 1 jaws murderous hurricane
Elites
5 wolf guard- 4 with power fists, 1 termie armor cyclone missle
5 wolf scouts- melta gun
Troops
8 Grey Hunters- melta wolf standard mark of the wulfen
rhino
8 Grey Hunters- melta wolf standard mark of the wulfen
rhino
8 Grey Hunters- melta wolf standard mark of the wulfen
rhino
8 Grey Hunters- melta wolf standard mark of the wulfen
rhino
Heavy
5 Long Fangs- 4 missles
5 Long Fangs- 4 missles
5 Long Fangs- 4 missles
The table had an enourmous hill that took up 2 quarters, a GW landing pad in another corner and a forest in aother corner. He won the roll for first and took it. He chose the deployment zone with the landing pad and put his long fangs on it. Then he put bjorn and the rhinos in fromt.
I took the oppurtunity to make use of teh terrain and hide my whole army behind the giant hill. He would draw LOS to a few tanks and dread but everyone had cover, and many had 3+.
His turn 1
He scoots up with his rhinos and unloads missles and living lightnings into my army. He managed to stun a dread and explode the chimera with coteaz and his melta buddies.
My Turn 1
The dread fortitudes the stun, and I move my rhinos and razors up a little to gain ground, but still being defensive and playing for cover. I unload heavy bolters and auto cannons all accross his army and kill 1 long fang squad and bring another to 3 models.
His Turn 2
He shuffles a little, and shoots accomploshing nothing with my cover and fortitude.
My Turn 2
I drove my 3 purifier rhinos up 12" and smoked. They were now taking up center field. Everything else stayed behind to support and fire havey bolters. I knocked out another long fang squad and immobilized a rhino.
His Turn 3
His scouts come in and blow up a dread, the his shooting wrecks a razorback.
My Turn 3
I move around my rhino wall with my razors to protect my flanksand support, then I unloaded 6 psy cannons on heavy from the purifier rhinos and knocked out the 3 mobile rhinos. I used the heavy bolters to shoot up a squad. The heavy flamer from a chimera burned the wolf scouts to 1 man, then the melta henchmen finished him.
His Turn 4
He footslogged his way up a hill to get to my rhinos and tried to do what he can, he was supprted by bjorn.
My Turn 4
I decided to make a game out of it and get out as opposed to just sit there and shoot. I got out and shot then charged, however 2 units rolled poorly for difficult terrain and failed. The 1 squad that got it's charge off finished off their respective unit.
His Turn 5
He charged and wiped out the squads that finished the squads that failed their charges. Bjorn also ate the squad that was successful with their charge.
My Turn 5
I got out and anhilated all the remaining grey hunters.
We rolled to see if the game ended and it did. I got the primary, and the secondary and all the bonuses for a full 20/20.
Nice batrep and nice list (not the typical Coteaz list but probably the best use of him).
ReplyDelete"3 rune priests- 2 jaws, living lightnings, (apparently that's legal if they have different equipment) 1 jaws murderous hurricane"
Not legal. FAQ:
"No number of Rune Priests may share the exact same two psychic powers. For example, a Rune Priest may choose to take Living Lightning and Thunderclap. A second Rune Priest may then choose to take Living Lighting and Jaws of the
World Wolf, as he will not have the same two psychic powers as the first Rune Priest.
Note that the restriction on weapons and wargear still applies, so you have to have each Rune Priest with a unique wargear selection."
That's what I thought, but then I figured he knew his army better than I did, so I let it go without pushing the subject. I also didn't want to start the game off on the wrong foot.
ReplyDeleteYeah sometimes its best to let stuff go like this if it's of little consequence to the game. Now if running my tervigon/carnifex army against such a list, I'd have to bring it up.
ReplyDeleteCurious to hear about the rest of it. Did you think that fighting that kind of list was pretty easy on the list your brought?
ReplyDeleteGoing into the game I was pretty worried, but I out played him which made it a lot easier on me. Against a better opponent I don't know if I'd call it an easy match up, but as it was after turn 2 there was no point where I was afraid of losing.
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