I found it incredibly disheartening that there were no tyranids present at all at BFS, and no xenos at all in the top bracket other than my tau, not even dark eldar! I'm taking it upon myself to correct this. Xenos armies have their place in 40k competitively speaking and just because they require more thought that imperial armies does not mean they should be neglected.
The tau I won at 'ard boyz, while still my army, are going to be in the usage of a couple friends of mine. I chose tau partly for the challenge, and partly because a couple friends of mine both like tau and want to get into the game but can't afford it. So, while my army soon arrive (1-3 weeks according to GW) I will be working on tyranids! I'm going to make them my main tournament army for awhile, because I personally have the most fun with them and there are a lot of nuances in there game play that I really need to hammer down. I have to play test some more against dark eldar but if I can handle them I think I can stand a good shot against just about anything.
My tyranids also provide the most tactical challenge to me, and while the tau are a tougher army to use, I'm not really a fan of sitting back and shooting. I am tired of grey knights simply they make the game too easy for me, I actually became a worse player from playing them for so long... My tactics consisted of "table opponent in 4 turns, rush to objectives on the 5th". That's not what I want because that's not fun for me, or argueably more important my opponent. A game which both players are pushed to their tactical limits, calculating every move and placement for a planned victory in 3 turns is fun and rewarding. Because of this I think I'm going to take tyranids out again.
While my tyranids are all built and painted decently, with most of the big monsterss converted, I can do better. I really want to make my tyranids stand out and pop with their paint score, not that it will be easy. I will slowly refine them to a point which every single model in converted and painted with out detail spared(at least for my 2000 point list).
Monday, October 17, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Tau at BFS Roumd 2
Round 2 I'm looking at the people who have won and I'm only really afraid of descent of angel's lists. So of course I pulled Simon Leen, a good friend of mine and a great player and his DoA list. At least I knew this game would be fun!
HQ
BS4 HQ (shas'el) w/plasma, missile, multi tracker, 2 gun drones, black sun filter.
Shas'el w/plasma, missile, multi tracker.
2 bodyguards 2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays (BS4 as well), team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
6 FCW in Devilfish w/Disruption Pod
6 FCW in Devilfish w/Disruption Pod
10 Kroot
10 Kroot
10 Kroot
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Hammerhead w/rail, 2 burst, targeting array, disrup pod, multitracker.
2 broadsides w/targeting arrays, team leader w/target lock, 2 gun drones
2 broadsides w/targeting arrays, team leader w/target lock, 2 gun drones
Something like that lol.
His list was
HQ
Librarian- jump pack, shield and sword
Elites
2 Priests- jump packs
Troops
10 Assualt Marines- 2 meltas, fist
10 Assualt Marines- 2 meltas, fist
10 Assualt Marines- 2 meltas, fist
10 Assualt Marines- 2 meltas, fist
5 Assualt Marines- 1 melta, fist
(I think 1 or 2 of these squads had power weapons but it didn't matter)
Fast Attack
5 vanguard- Jump Packs, 2 power weapons, 1 power fist, 3 sotrm shields
Heavy
5 Devestaters- 4 missiles
5 Devestaters- 4 missiles
5 Devestaters- 4 missiles
The mission was spearhead table quarters with objectives secondary.
I won the roll for first and was terrified of him blitzing me so I took it. This eventually screwed me in the end, but it's better than being screwed in the begining I suppose.
I deployed keeping everything close but spreading out as much as possible, as I didn't want him deep striking in my deployment zone. He deployed his devestaters in cover and elected everyone else deep striking. My kroot infilrated to centerfield and spread out.
I shot up his devestaters for 2 turns while he was waiting for his reserves. There were 3 devestaters left by the end of my 2 turns.
He rolled for deepstrike and got his entire army on thanks to the reroll. They didn't have mny good places to go so they hung out behind the los blocking hill in the middle of the table. His vanguard deep struck by 2 squads of kroot, multicharged them and made 5 out of 5 saves and swept both squads. He forgot to shoot his 3 missiles but I allowed him to after the assualt phase, then he proceeded to blow up a devilfish that was sneaking into 1 of his quarters.
On my turn I ran away from the middle as fast as possible, then I shot at his vanguar who must passed 20/25 saves but they did eventually all go down. I also shot at his 5 man assualt squad that did not have feel no pain. My fire warriors from the devilfish moved deeper into his quarter where they hoped they would be ignored since killing them would mean going the opposite direction of my army.
Sime decided o play the mission on this one and jumped his 10 mas assualt squad over to the fire warriors and killed them. He did make the mistake of keeping them out of FNP range. At some point he also killed the 3rd kroot squad. For the most part he chilled out behind the hill.
I then shot everything at his 10 man squad outside of FNP range sinc eit had just killed my fire warriors. I managed to kill all of them.
Simon didn't really do muchon his turn 4, but he strung out a ten man assualt squad with a priest and libby to hold 2 objectives at once.
I moved a dron from a wrecked piranah in to constest the center objective. He was on my side of the hill so if Simon killed him he would bring himself into LOS.
On Simon's turn he didn't take the drone that was bait, mainly because he forgot it was there lol, and just hung out.
The game ended, 2-2 quarters, 2-1 objectives (since I only had 1 troop choice left. It was a good game, and although Simon felt bad about not really playing it I had fun. He's a great guy and a good friend to joke around with.
I'm 1-1 but I still have a shot at making top bracket.
HQ
BS4 HQ (shas'el) w/plasma, missile, multi tracker, 2 gun drones, black sun filter.
Shas'el w/plasma, missile, multi tracker.
2 bodyguards 2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays (BS4 as well), team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
6 FCW in Devilfish w/Disruption Pod
6 FCW in Devilfish w/Disruption Pod
10 Kroot
10 Kroot
10 Kroot
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Hammerhead w/rail, 2 burst, targeting array, disrup pod, multitracker.
2 broadsides w/targeting arrays, team leader w/target lock, 2 gun drones
2 broadsides w/targeting arrays, team leader w/target lock, 2 gun drones
Something like that lol.
His list was
HQ
Librarian- jump pack, shield and sword
Elites
2 Priests- jump packs
Troops
10 Assualt Marines- 2 meltas, fist
10 Assualt Marines- 2 meltas, fist
10 Assualt Marines- 2 meltas, fist
10 Assualt Marines- 2 meltas, fist
5 Assualt Marines- 1 melta, fist
(I think 1 or 2 of these squads had power weapons but it didn't matter)
Fast Attack
5 vanguard- Jump Packs, 2 power weapons, 1 power fist, 3 sotrm shields
Heavy
5 Devestaters- 4 missiles
5 Devestaters- 4 missiles
5 Devestaters- 4 missiles
The mission was spearhead table quarters with objectives secondary.
I won the roll for first and was terrified of him blitzing me so I took it. This eventually screwed me in the end, but it's better than being screwed in the begining I suppose.
I deployed keeping everything close but spreading out as much as possible, as I didn't want him deep striking in my deployment zone. He deployed his devestaters in cover and elected everyone else deep striking. My kroot infilrated to centerfield and spread out.
I shot up his devestaters for 2 turns while he was waiting for his reserves. There were 3 devestaters left by the end of my 2 turns.
He rolled for deepstrike and got his entire army on thanks to the reroll. They didn't have mny good places to go so they hung out behind the los blocking hill in the middle of the table. His vanguard deep struck by 2 squads of kroot, multicharged them and made 5 out of 5 saves and swept both squads. He forgot to shoot his 3 missiles but I allowed him to after the assualt phase, then he proceeded to blow up a devilfish that was sneaking into 1 of his quarters.
On my turn I ran away from the middle as fast as possible, then I shot at his vanguar who must passed 20/25 saves but they did eventually all go down. I also shot at his 5 man assualt squad that did not have feel no pain. My fire warriors from the devilfish moved deeper into his quarter where they hoped they would be ignored since killing them would mean going the opposite direction of my army.
Sime decided o play the mission on this one and jumped his 10 mas assualt squad over to the fire warriors and killed them. He did make the mistake of keeping them out of FNP range. At some point he also killed the 3rd kroot squad. For the most part he chilled out behind the hill.
I then shot everything at his 10 man squad outside of FNP range sinc eit had just killed my fire warriors. I managed to kill all of them.
Simon didn't really do muchon his turn 4, but he strung out a ten man assualt squad with a priest and libby to hold 2 objectives at once.
I moved a dron from a wrecked piranah in to constest the center objective. He was on my side of the hill so if Simon killed him he would bring himself into LOS.
On Simon's turn he didn't take the drone that was bait, mainly because he forgot it was there lol, and just hung out.
The game ended, 2-2 quarters, 2-1 objectives (since I only had 1 troop choice left. It was a good game, and although Simon felt bad about not really playing it I had fun. He's a great guy and a good friend to joke around with.
I'm 1-1 but I still have a shot at making top bracket.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tau at BFS Riund 1 and Necrons!
First according to my buddy old shatter hands Necrons are less than 2 weeks away! Let's hope this is true if only because they are xenos. I'd love to see some love for these age old robots and I'm tired as crap of playing power armor or IG 4/5 of my games with the last 1/5 being dark eldar. I want diversity and hopefully necrons will help!
That said, here's the tau list I brought.
HQ
BS4 HQ (shas'el) w/plasma, missile, multi tracker, 2 gun drones, black sun filter.
Shas'el w/plasma, missile, multi tracker.
2 bodyguards 2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays (BS4 as well), team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
6 FCW in Devilfish w/Disruption Pod
6 FCW in Devilfish w/Disruption Pod
10 Kroot
10 Kroot
10 Kroot
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Hammerhead w/rail, 2 burst, targeting array, disrup pod, multitracker.
2 broadsides w/targeting arrays, team leader w/target lock, 2 gun drones
2 broadsides w/targeting arrays, team leader w/target lock, 2 gun drones
Something like that lol.
It was a Nova format tournament but since it only had 56 people as opposed to the 64 intended 5 3-1's got into the top bracket on day 2. I had a fantastic time at this tournament and it's always a blast to play with the guys from BFS. Also I had n awesome time catching up with my friends from CT, MA, NY, and VA/DC area.
Round 1 I found myself up against dark eldar with a pretty solid list.
It went aomething like this.
HQ
Baron (with scourges)
Haemonculus (with witches)
Elites
4 Trueborn- blasters
Venom
4 Trueborn- blasters
Venom
4 Trueborn- blasters
Venom
Troops
5 Warriors- blaster
Venom
5 Warriors- blaster
Venom
5 Warriors- blaster
Venom
5 Warriors- blaster
Venom
9 Witches- witch things
Raider
Fast
5 Scourges- 2 heat lances
5 scourges- 2 heat lances
Heavy
Ravager
Ravager
Ravager
The name of the game was DOW KP's. My opponent won the roll for first and too it. He deployed his witches, raider, and hamie all in the center with everything else coming out on turn 1. His scourges were deepstriking.
I then deployed nothing, bringing everything on turn 1.
He came on and boosted everything behind a hill for cover and preyed night fight would keep him safe.
I came on, I split my army in the 2 corners, I had most of my suits (including 1 broadside squad), 1 devilfish and a unit of kroot on 1 flank, and I had a hammer head, a unit of suits, a unit of broadsides, a devilfish, and a unit of kroot in the other. I had the piranahs and a squad of kroot in the middle.
On his turn 2 his scourges came in with the baron and got ballsy. They deep struck within heat lance rang of everything on my riht flank (the one with the hammerhead). Both units rolled hits though. Then his withes boosted over to that flank for support. Everything else moved up to mid field and started shooting. I think the net loss from his alpha strike was a bunch of drones, a unit of kroot, a devilefish, and a piranah.
So things were looking grim but I had a plan. I brought all of ny suits onto his venoms and raveagers and such. I exploded 6 skimmers this turn, 1 of which being the withes'. I then prepared for the inevitable loss of my right flank.
On his turn his fire power was almost depleted so that was good, all of his scourges and baron charged a unit of broadside and actually lost combat and ran.
Tau combat win count: 1
His witches charged a unit of suits and hammerhead and klled all of it. Their hameonculus detached to shattershard my kroot, but I passed most of my T tests and when he charged in I killed him.
On my turn I boosted a piranah over to keep the scourges running, then I proceeded to kill all of his remaining skimmers except for 1 venom. I also started to shhot away his infantry, either he went to ground to keep his quads barely alive or he died.
His witches finished off some firewarriors and my broadsides (whatever was still left on the right flank) but teh damage was done. It was about turn 4 and 10/11 vehicleas were dead. His infantry were dead or pinned, and baron and the scourges were running off teh table. The witches were even trapped on the wrong side of the board with no skimmers to come to their rescue.
The rest of the game was me cleaning up and claiming bonus stuff.
It was a fun game and my opponent knew his army and what to do with it. The game really broke down when 2 broadsides made close to 400 points flee in close combat. It was a tough match for him since litterall every weapon in my army can pen his tanks and wound his infantry on 2's. It also didn't help that I never failed a leadership test lol.
That said, here's the tau list I brought.
HQ
BS4 HQ (shas'el) w/plasma, missile, multi tracker, 2 gun drones, black sun filter.
Shas'el w/plasma, missile, multi tracker.
2 bodyguards 2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays (BS4 as well), team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
2 Crisis with TL-missiles, targeting arrays, team leader w/ a gun drone.
6 FCW in Devilfish w/Disruption Pod
6 FCW in Devilfish w/Disruption Pod
10 Kroot
10 Kroot
10 Kroot
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Piranha w/fusion, targeting array, disruption pod
Hammerhead w/rail, 2 burst, targeting array, disrup pod, multitracker.
2 broadsides w/targeting arrays, team leader w/target lock, 2 gun drones
2 broadsides w/targeting arrays, team leader w/target lock, 2 gun drones
Something like that lol.
It was a Nova format tournament but since it only had 56 people as opposed to the 64 intended 5 3-1's got into the top bracket on day 2. I had a fantastic time at this tournament and it's always a blast to play with the guys from BFS. Also I had n awesome time catching up with my friends from CT, MA, NY, and VA/DC area.
Round 1 I found myself up against dark eldar with a pretty solid list.
It went aomething like this.
HQ
Baron (with scourges)
Haemonculus (with witches)
Elites
4 Trueborn- blasters
Venom
4 Trueborn- blasters
Venom
4 Trueborn- blasters
Venom
Troops
5 Warriors- blaster
Venom
5 Warriors- blaster
Venom
5 Warriors- blaster
Venom
5 Warriors- blaster
Venom
9 Witches- witch things
Raider
Fast
5 Scourges- 2 heat lances
5 scourges- 2 heat lances
Heavy
Ravager
Ravager
Ravager
The name of the game was DOW KP's. My opponent won the roll for first and too it. He deployed his witches, raider, and hamie all in the center with everything else coming out on turn 1. His scourges were deepstriking.
I then deployed nothing, bringing everything on turn 1.
He came on and boosted everything behind a hill for cover and preyed night fight would keep him safe.
I came on, I split my army in the 2 corners, I had most of my suits (including 1 broadside squad), 1 devilfish and a unit of kroot on 1 flank, and I had a hammer head, a unit of suits, a unit of broadsides, a devilfish, and a unit of kroot in the other. I had the piranahs and a squad of kroot in the middle.
On his turn 2 his scourges came in with the baron and got ballsy. They deep struck within heat lance rang of everything on my riht flank (the one with the hammerhead). Both units rolled hits though. Then his withes boosted over to that flank for support. Everything else moved up to mid field and started shooting. I think the net loss from his alpha strike was a bunch of drones, a unit of kroot, a devilefish, and a piranah.
So things were looking grim but I had a plan. I brought all of ny suits onto his venoms and raveagers and such. I exploded 6 skimmers this turn, 1 of which being the withes'. I then prepared for the inevitable loss of my right flank.
On his turn his fire power was almost depleted so that was good, all of his scourges and baron charged a unit of broadside and actually lost combat and ran.
Tau combat win count: 1
His witches charged a unit of suits and hammerhead and klled all of it. Their hameonculus detached to shattershard my kroot, but I passed most of my T tests and when he charged in I killed him.
On my turn I boosted a piranah over to keep the scourges running, then I proceeded to kill all of his remaining skimmers except for 1 venom. I also started to shhot away his infantry, either he went to ground to keep his quads barely alive or he died.
His witches finished off some firewarriors and my broadsides (whatever was still left on the right flank) but teh damage was done. It was about turn 4 and 10/11 vehicleas were dead. His infantry were dead or pinned, and baron and the scourges were running off teh table. The witches were even trapped on the wrong side of the board with no skimmers to come to their rescue.
The rest of the game was me cleaning up and claiming bonus stuff.
It was a fun game and my opponent knew his army and what to do with it. The game really broke down when 2 broadsides made close to 400 points flee in close combat. It was a tough match for him since litterall every weapon in my army can pen his tanks and wound his infantry on 2's. It also didn't help that I never failed a leadership test lol.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Back from BFS!
A great weekend catching up with some friends like Simon Leen, Bill McFadden, Mike Brandt, Alex Fennell, Ragnar Arneson (sp?), Eric Hoeger, Mike Somerville, Ed Miller, Dan Mautlich, Chris Dubuque, and tons more! I had a really fantastic time.
I'd like to thank Ed, Bob, and John for running a wonderful tournament! It was a blast. And Fritz for running the 500 poitn tourney which was pure sillynes but I nice way to de-stress after losing round 1 of day 2.
I certainly would also like to congratualte Mike Brandt for ren man, Neil Gilstrap for tournament champion, and Ragnar for just kicking ass with CSM!
For those of you who don't know I borrowed my friend Rich's TAU! They were a blast to play and only one game made me feel like I couldn't do much. I went 3-2 but made it into the top bracket, then won most kills in the 500 point tournamt lol. I played 3 friends of mine who I don't get to play often at all, Ragnar, Eric, and Simon and all were fantastic games. My other 2 games were very nice and relaxed aswell.
But nothing compares to the crazy fun I had in the 500 point tournament. That thing was just an awesome joke where kroot were killing everything! No one took it seriously and everyone was playing for fun and laughs which was the best part!
A quick recap of my games will be coming and I learned a lot about tau for when I do eventually get my army. I have some pretty unorthodox ideas I want to try so we'll see what heppens!
I'd like to thank Ed, Bob, and John for running a wonderful tournament! It was a blast. And Fritz for running the 500 poitn tourney which was pure sillynes but I nice way to de-stress after losing round 1 of day 2.
I certainly would also like to congratualte Mike Brandt for ren man, Neil Gilstrap for tournament champion, and Ragnar for just kicking ass with CSM!
For those of you who don't know I borrowed my friend Rich's TAU! They were a blast to play and only one game made me feel like I couldn't do much. I went 3-2 but made it into the top bracket, then won most kills in the 500 point tournamt lol. I played 3 friends of mine who I don't get to play often at all, Ragnar, Eric, and Simon and all were fantastic games. My other 2 games were very nice and relaxed aswell.
But nothing compares to the crazy fun I had in the 500 point tournament. That thing was just an awesome joke where kroot were killing everything! No one took it seriously and everyone was playing for fun and laughs which was the best part!
A quick recap of my games will be coming and I learned a lot about tau for when I do eventually get my army. I have some pretty unorthodox ideas I want to try so we'll see what heppens!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
I'm famous!
I did an interview with Pat from 11th company, check it out! It's episode 88 and my little secion starts at 42:12. http://www.tangtwo.com/11thcompany/episodes.cfm
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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.
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.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Battle For Salvation Next Weekend!
I've been struck by list ADD pretty recently, not just list actually, army ADD. I went from demons to grey knights to tyranids, to demons since this year's start. As you good little blog followers now I have the BFS GT coming up next weekend and I've been all over the place on what to bring. I've now decided, but I'm going to keep it a secret from you guys until the big day. I just want those attending to know, you guys are in for it now. *cough Mike Brandt and Alex Fennell cough*.
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