Blobs Park Round 3

I finally made it to table one! And I got paired up against blood angels!

My list was as follows-

HQ
Swarmlord 280
Guard- lash whips 65

Elites
2 Hive Guard 100
2 Hive Guard 100
8 Ymgarls 184

Troops
10 Gaunts 50
10 Gaunts 50
5 Stealers 70
5 Stealers 70
Tervigon- adrenals, sacs, clusters, scything talons, catalyst, 200
Tervigon- adrenals, sacs, clusters, scything talons, catalyst, 200

Heavy
Trygon- adrenals 210
Trygon- adrenals 210
Trygon- adrenals 210

His list was a little silly.

HQ
Mephiston
Sanguinor

Elites
2 priests-power weapons

Troops
5 Assualt marines- melta power weapon
Land Raider

5 Assualt marines- melta power weapon
Land Raider

5 Assualt marines- melta power weapon
Land Raider- redeemer

5 Assualt marines- melta power weapon
Land Raider- redeemer

The mission was Dawn of war objectives, we placed the objectives pretty centrally. He won the roll for first and started a raider and mephiston half way up the board.

I chose to bring everything on turn 1.

He brought his army on and chilled out, then I brought my army on behind a nice gaunts wall. I took note that he clustered all of his forces on one side of the table, giving me free rain on 3 objectives. If I could box him in successfully I'd have the game.

He focus fired and a trygon and brought one down on turn 1. Then I shook 2 of his vehicles land raiders, significantly reducing his fire power. He decided that being aggressive was the right play, relying on me not making my 6's to hit his land raider. His 2 redeemers drove 12" up, and meohiston hid behind them as a counter charge. In responce I spat out gaunts and moved them around his land raiders, tying up mephiston for a turn. A trygon and swarmlord charged 1 redeemer and exploded it, another trygon charged the other redeemer and exploded it.

Fun Fact! Scything talons on trygons means 2 hits on average against vehicles that move over 6"!

My ymgarls stealers popped up and charged 1 of his regular land raiders and stunned it.

My outflanking stealers came on in control of the objectives that he more or less abandoned.

In an effort to contain my army, he charged sanguinor into a trygon and tied it up for 3 rounds. 1 Squad got out and tried to shoot away the stealers, after their shots plus 2 heavy bolters, I was left with 3 ymgarls. Mephiston killed off the last of the gaunts lol. On my turn a trygon fleeted 5" into another land raider and ripped off all off its las cannons and immobilized it. Swarmlord charged into mephiston and killed him. Note I cast paroxysm on mephiston so it was actually better to grant swarm lord furious charge rather than prefered enemy. My 3 ymgarls got FNP and charged his 5 marines, they eventually killed them on the bottom of 6.

His 1 land raider that was happy drove 12" away securing an objective, and 2 5 man squads that were forced out charged a tervigon and killed it. Damn furious charging power weapons! Sanguinor finally died in close combat. My trygon whiffed really hard against his useless land raider lol.

It's around turn 5 or 6 now so I mvoe swarmlord over to kill the 2 5 man squads with that charged the tervigon. They both got good consolidation rolls and made it impossible for swarmlord to multicharge them on his own, so I spat out some gaunts and they did the multi charging, then when we consolidated swarmlord got to fight both squads.

This game is pretty much over, I have 3 objectives to his one and all but 1 bonus point, because swarmlord couldn't kill 3 marines in 1 round!

It was a good game and pretty tactical.

I'm sitting 2 points shy of max battle points and at 5600 of 6000 VP's in first place! With tyranids! Only downside is that my next round opponent is space wolves.