tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513400754887236072024-03-19T05:59:53.511-04:00Let it all BurnA blog about my warhammer and warhammer 40k hobby.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-32820123681339242882012-07-09T18:30:00.000-04:002012-07-09T18:30:02.425-04:006th edition and back to the BlogSo 6th edition is here and things have changed a lot.<br />
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I was in a bit of initial depression about the total nerf bat leveled on my webway dark eldar.... still stings. But out of the ashes of despair I have risen up on the wings of the immortal Vect, and the rise of haywire.<br />
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Got my first games in with the edition and I have to say that with the amount of haywire attacks that dark eldar can get they can really clean up vehicles.<br />
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In 2 turns my 3 talos killed a landraider with ease, something that would only have been a pipedream in the last edition. And with many units capable of carrying the grenades no vehicles are safe. Not only will dark eldar grenade units rip vehicles apart on the charge but each can now toss a grenade at times too. And so far I have been unable to find anything that keeps me from tossing said grenades at flyers as well... obviously needing 6's to hit.<br />
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So thats my initial thought to start. Ill start posting up what Im toying around with in terms of lists... and they all involve Vect right now, and hopefully some battle reports soon, after I finish off 5th edition with a bang down at the ATC this weekend.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-77818440457896230672012-02-28T19:00:00.006-05:002012-02-28T20:37:35.885-05:00February 25th Grim Tournament: Game 3The last game was against a buddy Jeff and his test list for the Colonial in March.<div><br /></div><div>Draigo</div><div><br /></div><div>Karsimov</div><div><br /></div><div>10 Paladins</div><div><br /></div><div>10 Paladins</div><div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Mission was a bit wacky. Primary was 8 objectives.... yep 8 except for 2 the rest would randomly disappear at the start of turn 4, staying only on a 5+. Secondary was to pick one unit in your army and your opponent had to kill it. Tertiary was something, maybe I should write these down more often.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZGKSZk93qmNO_6pycnmkSUYN1Cx8blNBzv20Vok9I6UjsSElb5aYZIzz4MW0yceemt4iWicgZA_naUnhBh1cQEYpCqBhK9bJSItx_Sy9bCoe4OWJztdkKhMmhMH-PQ8kAJyno3TLDGM/s1600/DSCN1132.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZGKSZk93qmNO_6pycnmkSUYN1Cx8blNBzv20Vok9I6UjsSElb5aYZIzz4MW0yceemt4iWicgZA_naUnhBh1cQEYpCqBhK9bJSItx_Sy9bCoe4OWJztdkKhMmhMH-PQ8kAJyno3TLDGM/s320/DSCN1132.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714341093592722962" /></a>This report is gona be short. Jeff and I didnt do much. You can see his two paladin groups here. Well the one on the right is near his objective that wont disappear. And they had some problems. For one the mission was down of war... so when Karsimov came off the edge turn 1 and joined them they had to stay still. Then they started rolling really terrible terrain rolls for the next 5 turns and made it only about 14 inches from where they started when the game ended.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqqfPYPVSyftQeSUo8k9QqYBI859aJ-N8OtVTXCCaeMnfZwE-xnFlD8P5SczGWezA00s1u6BofDOXCCEoHNyVp0AX_nU3jacsrDBJMnbjlj5pI_KOaPP4sHFypPqiPD80E3e3ZZDZpn8/s1600/DSCN1133.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqqfPYPVSyftQeSUo8k9QqYBI859aJ-N8OtVTXCCaeMnfZwE-xnFlD8P5SczGWezA00s1u6BofDOXCCEoHNyVp0AX_nU3jacsrDBJMnbjlj5pI_KOaPP4sHFypPqiPD80E3e3ZZDZpn8/s320/DSCN1133.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714340994048980802" /></a>The other unit I killed. Slowly painfully. Sending nearly my entire army to die against it. I had poor rolls when the beasts and harlequins hit it and did no wounds..... then the next turn I had the duo I wanted with the Incubi and the bloodbrides... but the Brides rolled too low on fleet to make it and so the Incubi died, well except for Drahzar. Drahzar jumped around in there and with the Archons help for one turn eventually killed them all. A few remnants of a wych squad and an inspired turn from the Talos helped along.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE9BfV8T0gB10l3bOGFfCo5h2ok0ymj2f_FI4JOW1mdSXDThkFcxGyXAOijAIJ-A6QpJ0gYh7buOdrEIJRZGgPy-Gsf9Cjk6Dz4rn39iELaO_2OD_4I5jJeBjYOutF-I1JEUktua2JZDM/s1600/DSCN1134.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE9BfV8T0gB10l3bOGFfCo5h2ok0ymj2f_FI4JOW1mdSXDThkFcxGyXAOijAIJ-A6QpJ0gYh7buOdrEIJRZGgPy-Gsf9Cjk6Dz4rn39iELaO_2OD_4I5jJeBjYOutF-I1JEUktua2JZDM/s320/DSCN1134.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714340904518374818" /></a>Draigo smash.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqHSkZewk62t-Q1HZka-6OySxND20AVw_mxR5dDU_WucMFRHtWThBqvLTYhVtY1_1XZJkNVuLDTEKHlmLrv6cC_t6GNwME3xb446iYYlV74xMwK0VV7F53Cnrfcsjb_YtJDX8JT5o2cY/s1600/DSCN1135.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqHSkZewk62t-Q1HZka-6OySxND20AVw_mxR5dDU_WucMFRHtWThBqvLTYhVtY1_1XZJkNVuLDTEKHlmLrv6cC_t6GNwME3xb446iYYlV74xMwK0VV7F53Cnrfcsjb_YtJDX8JT5o2cY/s320/DSCN1135.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714340810761058338" /></a>But when the dust settled I had 2 objectives and he had only one. This was helped in large part because out of the 6 "disappearing" objectives the only one that stayed was deep in my territory. I had lost everything but my 2 5 man wych teams but managed to win primary, draw secondary(I killed the correct 10 man blob, he killed Drahzar), and tie whatever the tertiary was.... oh right it was holding your own objective(the one that wouldnt disappear).</div><div><br /></div><div>So it was a fun event overall. I had to kill a lot of terminators between the two grey knight lists I played. I got a good feeling from this 1850 list, so Im pretty set on taking it to Adepticon. I also came in second... by one measly point... should have picked someone other then Drahzar as that target in the last game.... he used to die never... died in two straight games here.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-73021202692717587372012-02-27T20:46:00.014-05:002012-02-27T22:17:58.350-05:00February 25th Grim Tournament: Game 2<div><br /></div>Game 2 this past weekend was against my friend Brandon and his Space Wolves.<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Bjorn the Fell Handed</div><div><br /></div><div>Rune Priest - living lightning and murderous hurricane</div><div><br /></div><div>Rune Priest - living lightning and jaws of the world wolf</div><div><br /></div><div>4 combi melta wolf guard in a pod</div><div><br /></div><div>5 wolf scouts with melta bombs</div><div><br /></div><div>8 Grey hunters with banner, mark of wulfen, melta gun + Wolf guard with combi melta and powerfist in a Rhino</div><div><br /></div><div>8 Grey hunters with banner, mark of wulfen, melta gun + Wolf guard with combi melta and powerfist in a Rhino</div><div><br /></div><div>8 Grey hunters with banner, mark of wulfen, melta gun + Wolf guard with combi melta and powerfist in a Rhino</div><div><br /></div><div>6 Long Fangs with 5 missile launchers</div><div><br /></div><div>6 Long Fangs with 5 missile launchers</div><div><br /></div><div>Vindicator</div><div><br /></div><div>Deployment was pitched battle. Primary mission was 5 objectives placed like Nova(one centered in each quarter and one in the middle), secondary was kill points, and tertiary was getting units into the opposing deployment zone. I forget what the bonus points were.</div><div><br /></div><div>I chose to let Brandon go first, because pitched battle is my weakest deployment and I would prefer to know where the bulk of his army would be.</div><div><br /></div><div>He deployed one squad of long fangs on the left with Bjorn and a grey hunter squad in a rhino with one of his priests. The vindicator was almost dead middle. With another grey hunter rhino and priest next to it. With the last grey hunter squad sans priest on the far top right.</div><div><br /></div><div>I in turn deployed my Archon and harlequins on the right, as this had a clear path to the bulk of his force, the middle on my side was too clogged with terrain for good portal placement.</div><div><br /></div><div>Brandon dropped his pod in, obviously with no good vehicle targets that they are used to, and that was it.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTy1b47x23Feu1ryQkNwzOJkq-NPi9H84BTQi5pvcb85b7zcBrNQ1AzW8ZfMYn-emMSnPEHDrnty59BjbcJXGt1eCUoxu4HVbCwpo5VUYhEW29TqNQSMm_aSP0Xc9gv407I1xkffwSSg/s1600/DSCN1120.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTy1b47x23Feu1ryQkNwzOJkq-NPi9H84BTQi5pvcb85b7zcBrNQ1AzW8ZfMYn-emMSnPEHDrnty59BjbcJXGt1eCUoxu4HVbCwpo5VUYhEW29TqNQSMm_aSP0Xc9gv407I1xkffwSSg/s320/DSCN1120.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713998375787745986" /></a>Turn 1 I moved up and dropped the portal.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_MNlU3dMr9QdQl2l2oYFXlUquWZVI0Ki5GEOgfkRV5yUEr3p7sYQhu7gtDudB-SMivCjvechNFsINlpn2ayHc4livBlpu-iWf9g2U1ej6e1YzhBBTchzm2ldQFrf98scV6Gk1LFLkxLw/s1600/DSCN1121.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_MNlU3dMr9QdQl2l2oYFXlUquWZVI0Ki5GEOgfkRV5yUEr3p7sYQhu7gtDudB-SMivCjvechNFsINlpn2ayHc4livBlpu-iWf9g2U1ej6e1YzhBBTchzm2ldQFrf98scV6Gk1LFLkxLw/s320/DSCN1121.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713998284011099826" /></a>Turn 2 Brandon got his scouts in. Like his pod he didnt have a clear goal with these, as my army lacks the conventional targets for them both. He put them on the left side near the pod. Bjorn shuffled forward, the vindicator moved slightly up. As did the rhinos, but no one could as yet get range on the harlequins with the shadowseer's ability shrouding them.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoj4AUTc69eP9YNZqRZx2mE08TJ3djENwFQl7qcFhZBMZRFL579QxD_MfF10embSTeBnnEfx4qI4ao5FSiVYOleQhHpVOHtD1x_ndk5-98U43UA1kLfvM_1QGJKqvHvPLcdHb1Op8mStk/s1600/DSCN1122.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoj4AUTc69eP9YNZqRZx2mE08TJ3djENwFQl7qcFhZBMZRFL579QxD_MfF10embSTeBnnEfx4qI4ao5FSiVYOleQhHpVOHtD1x_ndk5-98U43UA1kLfvM_1QGJKqvHvPLcdHb1Op8mStk/s320/DSCN1122.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713998166173055154" /></a>On my turn 2 I got a lot of reserves in. Incubi with Drahzar, Bloodbrides, 15 man Wych squad, Talos, bikes. Moved things on with Bikes jumping the terrain to shoot at a Rhino... only knocking off its gun. Talos did one better breaking the Vindicator's cannon. The rest spread out getting closer with Incubi in front giving cover to bloodbrides and wyches. The bikes used their assault move to spread out more giving cover to everyone including the Talos. Ill mention here that I had rolled a 6 for drugs so almost my entire army had feel no pain right here from the start(Archon joined Incubi giving them feel no pain).<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGM_lLY0uQN6OOxl2s9uy9Qwxunq84Kr5YMPtxi0wljBew-a6bSp1qlw2Upo-DpQQk-tozgSI1Vo_T4s_6N-VzxwxctzEc88FkrMSisNNA7dbdEG0aiWyamZa9YlMhRAbyU76jwahRyXM/s1600/DSCN1123.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGM_lLY0uQN6OOxl2s9uy9Qwxunq84Kr5YMPtxi0wljBew-a6bSp1qlw2Upo-DpQQk-tozgSI1Vo_T4s_6N-VzxwxctzEc88FkrMSisNNA7dbdEG0aiWyamZa9YlMhRAbyU76jwahRyXM/s320/DSCN1123.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713998047571363170" /></a>Turn 3 for Brandon and I knew I was going to need to weather some shooting. First he tank shocked with his Vindicator into the bikes, but they passed morale. Then he moved Bjorn and the scouts a bit. Shooting commenced on the bikes the most, living lightning and melta shots killing all but the last 2 who fled. Then he started dropping frag missiles on my Incubi and Wyches, but with cover and feel no pain casualties were extremely light.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3njHahsSi7-KdQxml25zdSpQG2f2R6w8bCi1hWcPVbdwzf_ddv8KMmPztDMmjLp2FwSkfhUl1aqfn6Z6dVafSM13J8YUeW6xlSf0hKv1uAdga8sc0qthf30BcnMhmJNTZUO5k9qFD10w/s1600/DSCN1124.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3njHahsSi7-KdQxml25zdSpQG2f2R6w8bCi1hWcPVbdwzf_ddv8KMmPztDMmjLp2FwSkfhUl1aqfn6Z6dVafSM13J8YUeW6xlSf0hKv1uAdga8sc0qthf30BcnMhmJNTZUO5k9qFD10w/s320/DSCN1124.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713997930969823570" /></a>On my turn 3 I got the beasts in. I deployed them off the table edge and they charged through terrain to maul the 4 wolf guard, and then consolidated back and left to get out of Bjorns threat bubble. The Harlequins moved up and Melta'd the Vindicator blowing it up, and freeing up the Talos to shoot at the Rhinos, got an immobilized result on the nearer of the 2. The Incubi ran towards that Rhino and assaulted it... merely stunning it. The Bloodbrides charged into the long fangs in the bunker and killed a few but stayed locked in combat. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsZLMfqDeHononhrqAiaCFyQJqs0qCY-dBxJq2jEJ-mYX5m8Ot0gX5_K7ilyeukXUdLDYWQbg-T9GApZMMbXBJ0ZQgqnivU9havJ25NX7MUpZVpKv-ZXHVxadM-7ItZLhJxEtoAhn2uc/s1600/DSCN1125.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsZLMfqDeHononhrqAiaCFyQJqs0qCY-dBxJq2jEJ-mYX5m8Ot0gX5_K7ilyeukXUdLDYWQbg-T9GApZMMbXBJ0ZQgqnivU9havJ25NX7MUpZVpKv-ZXHVxadM-7ItZLhJxEtoAhn2uc/s320/DSCN1125.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713997824388096178" /></a>Turn 4 and Bjorn moved towards the middle instead of towards my fearful beasts, he took a wound off my Talos with his plasma cannon. The grey hunters and rune priest in the immobilized rhino jumped out to assault the Incubi. First they and nearly everything else fired at them weakening them. Then they charged... and a single mark of the wulfen guy killed Drahzar.... Drahzar almost never dies certainly not to weak punks, I was hurt here by my own hubris. Drahzar was initially locked with his rune priest but I jumped off him to kill more marines, but didnt bother to see that I was jumping onto the wulfen guy, I should have stayed on the rune priest and easily killed him. The combat was tied up. But the Bloodbrides finished off the long fangs.</div><div><br /></div><div>I jumped the Bloodbrides in to help out the Archon and remaining Incubi. The beasts tried to charge up the flank into the wolf scouts but failed their terrain roll. My two small wych squads entered and moved up towards objectives.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD44PKuMCMhmyn6jqhVnPV8JP8ciV6OzRVCYEUel4AmlaPvL98EkyOT1DUzK6P4PS8qm9Q9oGsx_qviRqWNIMkD8146k-Wfe4SyORHfvShEUpTOPajxiJWf6J8peLXrEu3bLs0eVt4Tss/s1600/DSCN1126.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD44PKuMCMhmyn6jqhVnPV8JP8ciV6OzRVCYEUel4AmlaPvL98EkyOT1DUzK6P4PS8qm9Q9oGsx_qviRqWNIMkD8146k-Wfe4SyORHfvShEUpTOPajxiJWf6J8peLXrEu3bLs0eVt4Tss/s320/DSCN1126.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713997726814874578" /></a>Drahzar doing the dance of shame back in the hut.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGl4g_GBzE9jmj02YKYWeY4qB_-RHMor6gbmgnQNAlmNNRtVN1Llg21H36VFx6YcRQDfgfx9aLUv_25myN3_Ctj1sZ2mxZPXChrgnst3YBk2o-kPrUzBYpkUecdQecxgHmsKCy5uF0bUY/s1600/DSCN1127.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGl4g_GBzE9jmj02YKYWeY4qB_-RHMor6gbmgnQNAlmNNRtVN1Llg21H36VFx6YcRQDfgfx9aLUv_25myN3_Ctj1sZ2mxZPXChrgnst3YBk2o-kPrUzBYpkUecdQecxgHmsKCy5uF0bUY/s320/DSCN1127.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713997633643579314" /></a>With Fire power dwindling Brandon again took a wound off the talos with Bjorn. The long fangs remaining were now dropping templates on the beast unit. The Bloodbrides and Incubi finished off that grey hunter unit. Consolidating back towards the fleeing rhino in the corner.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 5 the Archon left the lone incubi and joined the Bloodbrides in assaulting the rhino. The beasts again failed a charge through terrain. Haywire grenades stunned the Rhino.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrr-_L2q8u9-bFoDMszH68OsaGQJscqmt7FGWRbiEVDseooTZe-zB3gcoQbVKURO7GHNS0xczzaltkxOUSvu92TtivYvTA1pvgbzcEGmiedXW94cbY_K81Y6XYuA6gQNf40T4s1mjO3WQ/s1600/DSCN1128.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrr-_L2q8u9-bFoDMszH68OsaGQJscqmt7FGWRbiEVDseooTZe-zB3gcoQbVKURO7GHNS0xczzaltkxOUSvu92TtivYvTA1pvgbzcEGmiedXW94cbY_K81Y6XYuA6gQNf40T4s1mjO3WQ/s320/DSCN1128.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713997514217741170" /></a>On turn 6 Brandon charged the beasts with scouts.... who died. He also shot and charged the Bloodbrides with his grey hunters, cleverly leaving the Rhino in the way to keep my Archon out of the fight(due to close quarters blocking any possible vectors for her pile in). Tie combat. Bjorn finished off the Talos.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 6 the beasts charged the long fangs killing a few. The harlequins used their fusion pistols to stun Bjorn. And the Bloodbrides continued their combat with the grey hunters, a stalemate still but at the end of this turn their was finally enough space to get the Archon in.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHjofy-hy9gY20YU0Dqn4ILbc5vDp3Px9rLz5_f4F7t60Ml8iJpcRQcPM_1D-LPmtlfAgHCEUsBYFzXaKjCkpQEtXKdswrMHaBKX3ER80qqN2rSDE0i3Bgtu0uqnF_yGZoljWZHYxRCk/s1600/DSCN1129.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHjofy-hy9gY20YU0Dqn4ILbc5vDp3Px9rLz5_f4F7t60Ml8iJpcRQcPM_1D-LPmtlfAgHCEUsBYFzXaKjCkpQEtXKdswrMHaBKX3ER80qqN2rSDE0i3Bgtu0uqnF_yGZoljWZHYxRCk/s320/DSCN1129.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713997435422261730" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOW4zeuWjhr1sYSIivHJS8v90poNLeXamKdKe-rbQX7S9Bfllz1m4-eEUef9QwR1sVgP111eFcawLvMJBclU32YjjPfNV28Xkut_lyOUgSM_K23b9vIXPh0fkLpZttDfpfMgDvNotN4bk/s1600/DSCN1130.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOW4zeuWjhr1sYSIivHJS8v90poNLeXamKdKe-rbQX7S9Bfllz1m4-eEUef9QwR1sVgP111eFcawLvMJBclU32YjjPfNV28Xkut_lyOUgSM_K23b9vIXPh0fkLpZttDfpfMgDvNotN4bk/s320/DSCN1130.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713997338764608866" /></a>We rolled and the game went on to turn 7. With the game all but lost Brandon tossed his last grey hunter squad into the fray with the beasts. They did spectacular routing the beasts... I was so close to passing leadership too, huzzah the space wolves had taken the field... well that part of the field. The Archon and the Bloodbrides finished off the grey hunters in the top.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBI9K-zXIcUUUbSsFpQ-Dy6xQ-1SuH6NbjZ1g38oxIfJcbnJeKHE1UjW0SHimZcOoV3C7D59gZZdv9o_N7YBYsnX2z-rqdzR5iE3UbM4MZ0iMkQUe-XeCi9AxlWElev98OSvkCHIfPERI/s1600/DSCN1131.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBI9K-zXIcUUUbSsFpQ-Dy6xQ-1SuH6NbjZ1g38oxIfJcbnJeKHE1UjW0SHimZcOoV3C7D59gZZdv9o_N7YBYsnX2z-rqdzR5iE3UbM4MZ0iMkQUe-XeCi9AxlWElev98OSvkCHIfPERI/s320/DSCN1131.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713997208722748546" /></a>At the close of the game I had wyches on each bottom objective. My large squad lined up from the center to the top right objectives. Brandon had the top left objective as he watched the beasts flee. I was up on kill points and had units in his deployment zone. I ended up with all but 1 of the bonus points as well... whatever they were.</div><div><br /></div><div>Game was great. Fun table Brandon is a great player and better guy and spacewolves are rock solid. The list was very solid and basic but his troop units still stood up to my elite combat units which is scary. Luckily I have more than a few elite combat units.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-57331261626278536642012-02-26T17:17:00.013-05:002012-02-26T20:36:29.891-05:00February 25th Grim Tournament: Game 1<div><br /></div>Went to an 1850pt Tournament this past weekend. Was looking to test out my ever changing Kabal for Adepticon. Here is what I went with after the drop:<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Archon: hukblade, combat drugs, clone field, phantasm grenade launcher, webway portal - 185</div><div><br /></div><div>Drahzar - 230</div><div><br /></div><div>8 incubi - 176</div><div><br /></div><div>7 Harlequins - shadowseer, death jester, 6 kisses, 2 fusion pistols - 210</div><div><br /></div><div>10 Bloodbrides - haywire grenades, 3 shardnets, Syren with agonizer - 210</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Wyches - haywire grenades - 60</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Wyches - haywire grenades - 60</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Wyches - 3 shardnets, Hekatrix with agonizer and phantasm grenade launcher - 220</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Beast Masters - 8 Razorwing flocks, 4 Kymerra - 228</div><div><br /></div><div>6 Reavers - 2 heatlances - 156</div><div><br /></div><div>Talos - chain flails, twin linked haywire blaster - 115</div><div><br /></div><div>My first game opponent was Maurice and his Grey Knights:</div><div><br /></div><div>Mordrak and 5 Ghost Knights</div><div><br /></div><div>Librarian: shrouding, warp rift, sanctuary, some servo skulls</div><div><br /></div><div>10 Terminators - mix of stuff, 2 psycannons, psybolt ammo</div><div><br /></div><div><div>10 Terminators - mix of stuff, 2 psycannons, psybolt ammo</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Dreadnought - 2 twin linked auto cannons, psybolt ammo</div><div><br /></div><div>Dreadnought - 2 twin linked auto cannons, psybolt ammo</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Game 1 was spearhead deployment. Primary mission was holding the center of the table. You scored a point for every full turn you had a troop within 6" of the center with no contesting enemies. Secondary mission was beating your opponent by 300 victory points. Tertiary was having something in their deployment zone. Bonus points for keeping your most expensive Hq unit alive, for keeping the enemy out of your zone and for killing all of someones troops.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maurice let me go first and I deployed the harlequins and Archon. He in turn deployed his 2 Dreadnoughts, with everything else deepstriking.</div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6iUitxsTctJgPfWdDAeoHLtW0CaTAKicoKE6VWNNhg9-5BUvJVffjfpe1pZke2B4Sig6N9laGZsh2XkGfPKfrKodngqX_fbK0e1s-vfir6LQSORqAdDpo_i91mgMf4iCuaW1vytwyig/s1600/DSCN1110.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6iUitxsTctJgPfWdDAeoHLtW0CaTAKicoKE6VWNNhg9-5BUvJVffjfpe1pZke2B4Sig6N9laGZsh2XkGfPKfrKodngqX_fbK0e1s-vfir6LQSORqAdDpo_i91mgMf4iCuaW1vytwyig/s1600/DSCN1110.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6iUitxsTctJgPfWdDAeoHLtW0CaTAKicoKE6VWNNhg9-5BUvJVffjfpe1pZke2B4Sig6N9laGZsh2XkGfPKfrKodngqX_fbK0e1s-vfir6LQSORqAdDpo_i91mgMf4iCuaW1vytwyig/s320/DSCN1110.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713573143645990738" /></a>Turn 1 I moved forward and dropped the portal.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJR8G4rWMWESa0Axl5x-2zwgLmqywA2rONW5Hit8K3zMwMrrXNY9rOheXxcEd3ZQYPNfaCkZBTmUL0rfcSaXCLXiP0pgT-w_qHAVPi3tXVphHqBVZhca28a5BCSp63l5J35ZuquR5McSc/s1600/DSCN1111.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJR8G4rWMWESa0Axl5x-2zwgLmqywA2rONW5Hit8K3zMwMrrXNY9rOheXxcEd3ZQYPNfaCkZBTmUL0rfcSaXCLXiP0pgT-w_qHAVPi3tXVphHqBVZhca28a5BCSp63l5J35ZuquR5McSc/s320/DSCN1111.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713573058096564642" /></a>Maurice had to drop in his Mordrak's unit turn 1. He put them in range to contest the center. With their shooting they managed to kill quite a few of the harlequins.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZTb4sQRjcJENutvaVvMuCX5PL9PFQWECUUEfTM_iJIqYBfAhC2D_C2mjm1lgc6t6HLSvXEXhz79D3JOyETv12tfTnW311UhACCZfbXrzwgqYOB1VBp7ouj3WOW4vLXfo8icL8Fmir1U/s1600/DSCN1112.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZTb4sQRjcJENutvaVvMuCX5PL9PFQWECUUEfTM_iJIqYBfAhC2D_C2mjm1lgc6t6HLSvXEXhz79D3JOyETv12tfTnW311UhACCZfbXrzwgqYOB1VBp7ouj3WOW4vLXfo8icL8Fmir1U/s320/DSCN1112.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713572970571324610" /></a>Turn 2 the pain began. I got the Incubi with Drahzar, the Bloodbrides, the large wych unit, the Talos, and one small unit of wyches in. The Talos shot at a dreadnought and took off one arm. The small wych squad slid into cover hanging near the objective. The Archon moved forward and joined the Incubi who along with the Bloodbrides and Wyches all charged the Knights. The Librarian tried to cast Sanctuary and double 6's failed. Then he died along with all the Ghost Knights. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu4QmsC7b30gqidt1-0k3Rx_I2N8mNoEYmNeKtNpwN86QN4KqerIvdb7p914hTpm4SULNmiKV81tmstAPeVO6qLaHOit52s_cSt5HUsfYBKnhOT0D7EnkYVtTBRyUWNYITxEaqLwxuFRI/s1600/DSCN1113.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu4QmsC7b30gqidt1-0k3Rx_I2N8mNoEYmNeKtNpwN86QN4KqerIvdb7p914hTpm4SULNmiKV81tmstAPeVO6qLaHOit52s_cSt5HUsfYBKnhOT0D7EnkYVtTBRyUWNYITxEaqLwxuFRI/s320/DSCN1113.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713572866337053906" /></a>Mordrak was left with one wound and promptly fled... strangely I didnt catch him. I lost about half of the Incubi but nothing else in this exchange. The Bloodbrides were awarded the painpoint for the Librarian after the random roll.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9UyR1tkx1u8m73fa_mhRbdqc-mV1UophyXxDoAXO0jmZ0r3mzSOMvqaxJon6kVRpXk5EQGBZeJmS_PDkzsiuUvuM30jfq-oCuF4AgDsWgcnNFRPe_go9ABo5ROOmvp5MeUee5iu0U0MY/s1600/DSCN1114.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9UyR1tkx1u8m73fa_mhRbdqc-mV1UophyXxDoAXO0jmZ0r3mzSOMvqaxJon6kVRpXk5EQGBZeJmS_PDkzsiuUvuM30jfq-oCuF4AgDsWgcnNFRPe_go9ABo5ROOmvp5MeUee5iu0U0MY/s320/DSCN1114.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713572781405170962" /></a>On his turn 2 Maurice got one of his terminator units in. He combat squaded them and dropped half near the ruins at midfield on the left... he tried to get them a little closer but they scattered back. The others he tried to drop near his fleeing unit but they scattered back almost off the table.</div><div><br /></div><div>He then began shooting at my bloodbride squad being as they were still within 6" of Mordrak and the Ghost Knight he had resurrected. But I went to ground and between that and feel no pain I took only one casualty.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wouCvvk-NfIXAglGXc8kchcp75KhrzNCgQIGIPIwSxvz6FPsog6dmaI9vqWvHgk15MLmjL7Y8qPCjMWYWOaPSP17nN7s4Dqcbumyt3O8iIUownz1-H9hQdPV2wqpx69srWPhCuIClAE/s1600/DSCN1115.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wouCvvk-NfIXAglGXc8kchcp75KhrzNCgQIGIPIwSxvz6FPsog6dmaI9vqWvHgk15MLmjL7Y8qPCjMWYWOaPSP17nN7s4Dqcbumyt3O8iIUownz1-H9hQdPV2wqpx69srWPhCuIClAE/s320/DSCN1115.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713572698468715234" /></a>On turn 3 I got my beast unit and other 5 woman wych unit in. The wyches went into the other cover near the objective. The beasts came in off the board edge to press the middle in case he started to land his other terminators near the center.</div><div><br /></div><div>I moved everyone else forward... but substandard fleet rolls kept me basically sitting pat.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maurice got his other terminator unit in turn 3. Half went right next to the left most unit. The other 5 went in the top right of the board.</div><div><br /></div><div>Shooting saw all the incubi and the Archon die. Drahzar was left with 1 wound. He shot at a 5 man wych unit but I went to ground and lost only a few and passed leadership. The blood brides took a loss or 2 but didnt go to ground this turn. The 15 man unit lost about half, but stuck around.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAfMuhpoQAJVCpbpwOUtQ6oI2mE7LJVSxod9qyVETRKIfljoW_Vp0V4Y14gwjNPB0wU5ALQ1-oLPrkUMCJw1cACUQK1400S2kZtPF94FVBp9yc52V6-vhYAiiYEkPytBLKMEW0mRMuMs/s1600/DSCN1116.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAfMuhpoQAJVCpbpwOUtQ6oI2mE7LJVSxod9qyVETRKIfljoW_Vp0V4Y14gwjNPB0wU5ALQ1-oLPrkUMCJw1cACUQK1400S2kZtPF94FVBp9yc52V6-vhYAiiYEkPytBLKMEW0mRMuMs/s320/DSCN1116.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713572604745615410" /></a>Turn 4 I got the bikes in at last. I boosted them over the top of the board actually killing 2 terminators with fly bys, and set them down within 6" of Mordrak to keep him running.</div><div><br /></div><div>Beasts moved forward and charged a terminator unit killing only a few but passing good invuls. Bloodbrides charged into the 3 terminators at the top and didnt do spectacularly. A side note here I had the reroll to wound drug and with about 15 or so agonizer attacks I had yet to wound anything.... grumble. Drahzar went into hide mode at this point to keep his bonus point alive. regular wyches slid back to the middle to defend my borders in case the unit at the top were to come and enter my zone.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BQ-TEKKAQMxEUZe6ZxOJb1TN7jbh1HYL4tqQyPx0Fd8bCmQEiKXRurwMaOJvOm6OoShAJmhqrih-GadJBG4LewP_JqGIt5Ps9j6mO_Si-9rJSfTnl5MtC0sFtUoYmE4buHWof-yFRpo/s1600/DSCN1117.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BQ-TEKKAQMxEUZe6ZxOJb1TN7jbh1HYL4tqQyPx0Fd8bCmQEiKXRurwMaOJvOm6OoShAJmhqrih-GadJBG4LewP_JqGIt5Ps9j6mO_Si-9rJSfTnl5MtC0sFtUoYmE4buHWof-yFRpo/s320/DSCN1117.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713572520453825074" /></a>Maurice poured his other 5 terminators into the fight with the beasts. Dice went wild here and the beasts cleaned up most of the terminators. The other terminators at the top actually moved back towards the blood brides... which was a relief. The bloodbrides finished the terminators they were involved with gaining their second pain point. Mordrak finally ran off the board.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeTXNs0ofgFqs6chCBQV6rIMTDBQLnCzU1Z02HMO1VjdWHc7SA2d9VlAqmNMSbvNS1TlFMJDlYEOcIJgEW-3UI4ac37PPgP7d6A5BjM9_isV1P3Rn6a7y9uXGxzwvfAkSBKME7BDrGhnU/s1600/DSCN1118.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeTXNs0ofgFqs6chCBQV6rIMTDBQLnCzU1Z02HMO1VjdWHc7SA2d9VlAqmNMSbvNS1TlFMJDlYEOcIJgEW-3UI4ac37PPgP7d6A5BjM9_isV1P3Rn6a7y9uXGxzwvfAkSBKME7BDrGhnU/s320/DSCN1118.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713572440409704658" /></a>Turn 5 and 6 were nearly identical. Talos moved shot and assaulted a dreadnought... rinse repeat. Turn 5 Bloodbrides charge last terminator unit do a little stay in combat, turn 6 regular wyches join into combat finishing things.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9G3ERKWpNQsN_yfGjG6zdt47AJs28pXCIOBOgsZu1MsX8zntUqSLYPplQ-vG4tGfT9G8aIYI24p-tzqXeHxc6zmsqeFwEkFy89XHx-tWDnbRmt-uMud3bHwARi-XHcsG70gNbVodFCxU/s1600/DSCN1119.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9G3ERKWpNQsN_yfGjG6zdt47AJs28pXCIOBOgsZu1MsX8zntUqSLYPplQ-vG4tGfT9G8aIYI24p-tzqXeHxc6zmsqeFwEkFy89XHx-tWDnbRmt-uMud3bHwARi-XHcsG70gNbVodFCxU/s320/DSCN1119.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713572293888927650" /></a>So game over, got all the possible points.</div></div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-76214132973378231782012-02-20T09:41:00.002-05:002012-02-20T09:56:00.586-05:00Local Event this past weekend: 1250ptsSo I drove down to Stratford Ct, to the Gaming Etc for their 1250pt tournament this past saturday.<div><br /></div><div>I brought this list:</div><div><br /></div><div>Archon - huskblade, combat drugs, clone field, webway portal - 160</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Wyches - haywire grenades - 60</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Wyches - haywire grenades - 60</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Wyches - haywire grenades - 60</div><div><br /></div><div>7 Harlequins - shadowseer, death jester, 2 fusion pistols, 4 kisses - 202</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Beast Masters - 8 Razorwing flocks, 5 Kymerra - 240</div><div><br /></div><div>3 Beast Masters - 3 clawed fiends - 156</div><div><br /></div><div>9 Reaver Jetbikes - 2 heat lances, 1 blaster, 3 cluster caltrops, leader with venom blade - 312</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>My goal for the event was to test out the Deathjester, and the clawed fiend unit as well as the large jetbike squad.</div><div><br /></div><div>I played 3 games, against Chaos, Grey Knights and Necrons.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the game against Chaos I flew over a demon prince with the bikes and did 2 wounds... and then they lost combat over several turns to 5 marines.... epic fail. The Clawed fiends charged that wounded demon prince and finished him off over 2 turns. THen they multicharged a bit too much and failed epically and fled, so mixed review.</div><div><br /></div><div>I still managed to win that game with 6 kill points to 4 largely based on the power of the larger beast pack that ate through a khorne beserker squad, a Demon Prince and an Obliterator. The Harlequins also did fairly well both denying kill points and contributing a bit of firepower.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the Grey Knight game the Bikes shot and killed a Dreadnought and then did well moving about and immobilizing another tank. The Clawed fiends were largely useless in this game. The Harlequins were again nice, sitting midfield and applying pressure. And then when his landraider moved too close they wrecked it with melta pistols and charged a small paladin squad and did enough wounds to win combat slightly.</div><div><br /></div><div>In Game 3 against the Necrons the Bikes again shot down a vehicle early. The Clawed fiends werent even able to get on the field before the game was over.</div><div><br /></div><div>So overall in the testing the Clawed fiends will get dropped easily. The bikes were usually effective best as a 2 melta lance unit. While the extra bodies are useful for taking hits I think Ill try them simply as a small 6 man dual lance unit, as my friend Bob usually does.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-17065677578770641752012-02-13T18:51:00.005-05:002012-02-13T19:02:44.506-05:00The next direction for the KabalWhats that mess on the table?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5z1MVNjRcIZflEwYPV-bvoIKAHl2vOjRhqn34dloiT7_ykb11JCCkN-CYVwJuB4mBT1fCYj_nb4Fdf0q2dA3KURoOhlngMNwXAW47-Df_PyoGbbB4kVNOVZQp0TaQ42FgFJDNdGNEp8/s1600/DSCN1104.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5z1MVNjRcIZflEwYPV-bvoIKAHl2vOjRhqn34dloiT7_ykb11JCCkN-CYVwJuB4mBT1fCYj_nb4Fdf0q2dA3KURoOhlngMNwXAW47-Df_PyoGbbB4kVNOVZQp0TaQ42FgFJDNdGNEp8/s320/DSCN1104.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708772536395626882" /></a><a name='more'></a><br /><div>New jetbikes for my Dark Eldar!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjdBg64nHSOYt4NK7WYvZPnhM4JHxohT_Ag6-FIWik11yRPm2RZomqZfN67_bTEbPWPnIKRVn4f7saFj72KEH0-g6tBUaUUHRkRoHr9eexByCGLmw33oflw9Z_qNZBe0YKMq_N9BA44ZM/s1600/DSCN1103.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjdBg64nHSOYt4NK7WYvZPnhM4JHxohT_Ag6-FIWik11yRPm2RZomqZfN67_bTEbPWPnIKRVn4f7saFj72KEH0-g6tBUaUUHRkRoHr9eexByCGLmw33oflw9Z_qNZBe0YKMq_N9BA44ZM/s320/DSCN1103.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708772449600999314" /></a>So after Templecon I began thinking of what kinds of changes I would like to make in my 2000pt list. Not that I was unhappy with how my list performed, but rather I saw areas where I felt it could be even better.<div><br /></div><div>So I am building some bikes. Got this box after a small local tournament, I have some of the old school ones in the closet, but Ill probably pick up another box of the new ones because they look so much better. So a 6-3 mix between the two styles.</div><div><br /></div><div>And to that end here is the list I want to test out. Probably wont see too much action until our local club's tournament in early march, but perhaps I can sneak a few games in before then.</div><div><br /></div><div>Archon: huskblade, soul trap, ghost plate armor, combat drugs, clone field, webway portal - 205</div><div><br /></div><div>Drahzar - 230</div><div><br /></div><div>10 Incubi - 220</div><div><br /></div><div>7 Harlequins: shadow seer, death jester, 2 fusion pistols, 3 kisses - 198</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Wyches: haywire grenades, 3 shadnets, Hexatrix with agonizer - 240</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Wyches: haywire grenades, 3 shadnets, Hexatrix with agonizer - 240</div><div><br /></div><div>9 Reaver Jetbikes: 2 heat lances, blaster, 3 cluster caltrops, champion with venom blade - 312</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Beast Masters: 8 Razorwing flocks, 5 Kymerra - 240</div><div><br /></div><div>Talos: chain flails, haywire blaster - 115</div></div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-31406192599859554052012-02-12T15:30:00.005-05:002012-02-12T15:39:12.813-05:00Templecon 2012: Game 5Game 5 I was playing Ben Mohile. Mission was to get 2 scoring units you had to choose before hand into your opponents deployment zone.<div><br /></div><div>Ben's list can be found online Im sure. it had 2 command barges, 3 min units of scarabs, 3 units of spyders, and 4 units of immortals.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ben spawned scarabs turn 1, and used one unit of 6 to get a first turn charge on my archon hoping to delay my ability to deploy the portal. Well suffice it to say that a +1 str archon with a huskblade laughs off that few scarabs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Turn 1 I moved up with the bonus of a 5" consolidate after that aforementioned combat... and I placed the portal.... oh wait thats what I should have done.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi08k6XgHvxbZkH0rzzHQoULf-f7moXcpf1kNYUy12dioJkqf0M95fZ5T9y8t2oIb6JzB2-7T_Y0reuThLdfd87mc4ogHrQ-eVMZD2-7hydObN3HJ0rBQMepB0CW8FFfzc7CTwFXVh2iVc/s1600/DSCN1073.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi08k6XgHvxbZkH0rzzHQoULf-f7moXcpf1kNYUy12dioJkqf0M95fZ5T9y8t2oIb6JzB2-7T_Y0reuThLdfd87mc4ogHrQ-eVMZD2-7hydObN3HJ0rBQMepB0CW8FFfzc7CTwFXVh2iVc/s320/DSCN1073.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708349715741650610" /></a>I chose to charge some spyders instead for sport.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24OyH7qan6H8zTiqymuvQN_cIJbWtYxlZ2ui4kI1vpNbpVk41YTqLPO7wZSEn4ru1K99X-mlOy-Q8K86FwZZi0vd2cYA3Gtfd40PZkEnYYRKWHqd3MsMPQuassvX0gcqXRc6NM7sz-BQ/s1600/DSCN1074.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24OyH7qan6H8zTiqymuvQN_cIJbWtYxlZ2ui4kI1vpNbpVk41YTqLPO7wZSEn4ru1K99X-mlOy-Q8K86FwZZi0vd2cYA3Gtfd40PZkEnYYRKWHqd3MsMPQuassvX0gcqXRc6NM7sz-BQ/s320/DSCN1074.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708349627513553762" /></a>Basically the rest of the game came to just us playing for fun. I still pressed him as best I could and had some slim chances of drawing late but they dwindled as they should have.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLB-Q5Vb9cpv_nHuyMH-e207ZuiPYyeucuJz2apcv72JCpGQnuVhbj-gUk-8iGcrY8VpUlReDxtV6HHXbC56OnF_SBiPAj61OA4PyhK4xuoiqIMK175kZU-hif2Hfs6hnjvQ34zhJHgk/s1600/DSCN1075.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLB-Q5Vb9cpv_nHuyMH-e207ZuiPYyeucuJz2apcv72JCpGQnuVhbj-gUk-8iGcrY8VpUlReDxtV6HHXbC56OnF_SBiPAj61OA4PyhK4xuoiqIMK175kZU-hif2Hfs6hnjvQ34zhJHgk/s320/DSCN1075.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708349526193057906" /></a>Unmolested Ben did manage to spawn enough scarabs to exauhst the supply he had brought with him. And then in a late combat I broke his previous combat resolution record. I won a combat against scarabs by 38.</div><div><br /></div><div>However I felt badly that I had given such a good player a lame duck game. To this day I can not say why I didnt put the portal out. As you can see in every other battle report involving this army turn 1 is pretty much a no thought process of moving up and placing that little 3" template, there is really no other choice turn 1 other than losing.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-74242917419795589312012-02-09T19:44:00.008-05:002012-02-10T21:10:11.600-05:00Templecon 2012: Game 4So day two dawned bright and early. Found myself sitting still in second by a few scarce points over the third place person. And on table 1 with me was my friend Alex and his pink necrons.<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Alex's list:<div><br /></div><div>Overlord: mindshackle scarabs, semiperternal weave, warscythe</div><div>Command Barge</div><div><br /></div><div>Overlord: phaeron, weave, mindshackle, warscythe, res orb</div><div><br /></div><div>Court: storm cryptic with lightning field and voltic staff, despair cryptek with veil of darkness and nightmare shroud</div><div><br /></div><div>Court: Destruction Cryptek with lance and solar pulse, lord with scythe and mindshackle scarrabs</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Warriors</div><div>5 Warriors</div><div>9 warriors in Ghost Ark</div><div>8 Immortals with tesla</div><div><br /></div><div>6 Wraiths with 3 whips and one pistol</div><div>6 Scarabs</div><div><br /></div><div>2 Spyders one gloom prisim</div><div>2 Spyders one gloom prism</div><div>Monolith</div><div><br /></div><div>Main mission was capture and control. Secondary was to get an Hq within 5 inches of your opponents objective. Tertiary was victory points. The deployment was spearhead. Alex passed me first turn.</div><div><br /></div><div>I deployed my harlequins and Archon. Also my Taloses. I deployed the monsters in case he decided to deep strike the monolith onto my objective.</div><div><br /></div><div>Alex deployed everything other then his 5 man warrior unit.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdiK-rjGKDnv4HLD3BRrop2ZAGSykUC2iqAGE1eiaYF-p9w7f19DAXeWFjHIQni8EtVisG5yBKqCX1JgxQjK68LTaDHK6u6gWO-KbJZArdAez62ikmSc1f-5CfNCIvdrpjBRqvFVjsts0/s1600/DSCN1066.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdiK-rjGKDnv4HLD3BRrop2ZAGSykUC2iqAGE1eiaYF-p9w7f19DAXeWFjHIQni8EtVisG5yBKqCX1JgxQjK68LTaDHK6u6gWO-KbJZArdAez62ikmSc1f-5CfNCIvdrpjBRqvFVjsts0/s320/DSCN1066.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707302129033010210" /></a>Turn 1 I moved up and dropped the portal. I ran the monsters up into the building to start to threaten his zone.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYj0ubmUgTStgLzzN55VLUesNq4DAZKaHkIY10pBCIRk3nL8iCOGoOmiDYBPwfWg2E3G8EOoSfIe2nK1TG9KJ3vjPs2bsLAQ8w-DhC0_WQ88XukVUfD2eeAPxKo49SQS58ViLkL_suBFw/s1600/DSCN1067.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYj0ubmUgTStgLzzN55VLUesNq4DAZKaHkIY10pBCIRk3nL8iCOGoOmiDYBPwfWg2E3G8EOoSfIe2nK1TG9KJ3vjPs2bsLAQ8w-DhC0_WQ88XukVUfD2eeAPxKo49SQS58ViLkL_suBFw/s320/DSCN1067.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707302013487207282" /></a>Turn 1 Alex moved his wraiths forward and charged both taloses tying them up in combat.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_U6Vlk0ojTGNdcvzUs1bDhPo6cUB7JRVbYcJn2ky0dzSZg9A6c8B6ermpqndr1b5boE_WMrZHmrOgiWtBFUz9Bl-ZiPKmAiD5HOJTUUXkqp5pbfk360QpfEioiEWtGoJvTrd0IRk-KY/s1600/DSCN1068.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_U6Vlk0ojTGNdcvzUs1bDhPo6cUB7JRVbYcJn2ky0dzSZg9A6c8B6ermpqndr1b5boE_WMrZHmrOgiWtBFUz9Bl-ZiPKmAiD5HOJTUUXkqp5pbfk360QpfEioiEWtGoJvTrd0IRk-KY/s320/DSCN1068.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707301920883469506" /></a>On my turn 2 I got every last one of my reserves in. I sent both wyches to charge the monolith and they soft killed it with 1 pen immobilized and 7 glancing weapon destroyed. A beast unit charged his command barge and did nothing. I also jumped my Incubi/Drahzar and the Archon along with a unit of beasts into the wraith combat hoping to sweep them aside and move en masse towards his line... the wraiths proved too tough to simply brush aside however.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBl9xDC50-IAeCURdmnKWUMjo7CIh-R7hvomT6-gqJzLpyb_AHSl__slVpQKZ9QcQnqvCdSkMd7sSHSoZ7heM1kFz0_9Ket4zb8-VE33URplg57QhGeNNvkanW9ItyU80jOlCLnjMJ3Y/s1600/DSCN1069.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBl9xDC50-IAeCURdmnKWUMjo7CIh-R7hvomT6-gqJzLpyb_AHSl__slVpQKZ9QcQnqvCdSkMd7sSHSoZ7heM1kFz0_9Ket4zb8-VE33URplg57QhGeNNvkanW9ItyU80jOlCLnjMJ3Y/s320/DSCN1069.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707301800743484482" /></a>Alex jumped his immortal squad over behind the building on the right on turn 3. They shot at a wych unit killing several and forcing it to fall back. He poured the ever increasing scarab swarm into combat with my beasts and monsters. He also shot my other beast squad down to dangerously small levels but they passed their leadership 5 test. I killed off the rest of the wraiths in combat but the scarabs killed many many beasts... I lost combat by 7 which took out one of my taloses.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqQqNzv4fINeG6qmiRucvvbiIsUkXOBRF8n7uBynDcU3bNFrCJJ6GsUJIN20e3pMs8Xg4-radiI2GELhs54GaL4t9yQEXI8Ds1vn5JpED6eGjOTDLVxYHcGbKhnUpR0O3TicKkFMhe1M/s1600/DSCN1070.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqQqNzv4fINeG6qmiRucvvbiIsUkXOBRF8n7uBynDcU3bNFrCJJ6GsUJIN20e3pMs8Xg4-radiI2GELhs54GaL4t9yQEXI8Ds1vn5JpED6eGjOTDLVxYHcGbKhnUpR0O3TicKkFMhe1M/s320/DSCN1070.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707301689064491282" /></a>Turn 4 my fleeing wyches rallied and ran towards the immortals. The harlequins moved through the building towards them as well. Sadly the wyches would be an inch or 2 short of assaulting with a bad move through cover roll, and the harlequins whiffed, 1 wound when they average a lot more and lost combat by 1 and fled.... sad face. The other wyches rolled a 1 on their run and were stuck around the edge of the monolith probably needing at least a 3-4 to get the assault on his large warrior squad... the beasts were stuck assaulting alone and died horribly. The Talos and Incubi slaughtered their way through the rest of the scarabs and consolidated.</div><div><br /></div><div>On alex's turn 4 he used his veil to move the immortals again right onto my objective. He shot my wych squad around the monolith and broke them. His immortals killed off my warriors. His barge moved in range of my harlequins to keep them running.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW8HPYyBP6LxjyKG8cpxxGBdE2M3W7cr69fVioMSI1CPxTgy_NtPI6g2qYkCAEq9sZPXSvrneyWppBB9VjG3EWi4d829NurQBZFyVmz9nvKw1gIHJ8YS5SCRLnGRLkotpRYjAZDV9VHC8/s1600/DSCN1071.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW8HPYyBP6LxjyKG8cpxxGBdE2M3W7cr69fVioMSI1CPxTgy_NtPI6g2qYkCAEq9sZPXSvrneyWppBB9VjG3EWi4d829NurQBZFyVmz9nvKw1gIHJ8YS5SCRLnGRLkotpRYjAZDV9VHC8/s320/DSCN1071.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707301579404001442" /></a>We jumped into a quick turn 5. My talos moved and slaughtered his immortals. And Drahzar, the archon and the last 3 Incubi moved towards his objective. He had moved his warriors back behind it with 2 squads of spyders in front of it. I assaulted both groups worried about killing off one too easily and being shot... however I botched this decision badly and consolidations took me away from contesting.... so I lost. We tied the secondary. Had I simply assaulted the one group, or assaulted with my heavy hitters: Archon/Drahzar on the further unit I would have had a very solid shot at a draw. With feel no pain and 3 Incubi + Drahzar and the Archon his shooting would have had a hard time at moving me, and in assault his units just would not have been able to move me in my opinion.</div><div><br /></div><div>It was a great game. Wraiths are really solid and hard to move. I think if I had simply added the beasts to that initial assault and sent the Incubi to move towards his line at the start I would have been a much better position. Drahzar is really hard for Necrons to deal with easily, he cant even be tied up by scarabs as he can use his strength 6 to cut through bases by the handful, and the archon who usually accompanies him can also instant kill them with her huskblade.</div></div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-8322750367062847192012-02-07T22:15:00.012-05:002012-02-09T18:31:45.679-05:00Templecon 2012: Game 3Shhh... there be orks about.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkGwQl9BUeAcZiEr1PqQhwZymaSECg-Vpyc1pqc4QsjrjFUJWWv27xOQbj9iJ9Wyk-CCecSMpgc62FR3gm5P4_H1KeSEuYe0eK5w3fLDyO8PRUEi-xBx1BI1m0-uyF-eSH6i5YGVA5aU/s1600/DSCN1053.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkGwQl9BUeAcZiEr1PqQhwZymaSECg-Vpyc1pqc4QsjrjFUJWWv27xOQbj9iJ9Wyk-CCecSMpgc62FR3gm5P4_H1KeSEuYe0eK5w3fLDyO8PRUEi-xBx1BI1m0-uyF-eSH6i5YGVA5aU/s320/DSCN1053.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706599714929542546" /></a><a name='more'></a><br /><div>For game 3 I stayed right where I had been on table one. This time my opponent was Wyat Traina and his orks.<div><br /></div><div>Ghazgul</div><div><br /></div><div>Warboss on Bike - claw attack squig maybe some other stuff</div><div><br /></div><div>30 Boys - power klaw </div><div><br /></div><div>30 Boys - power klaw</div><div><br /></div><div>30 boys - power klaw</div><div><br /></div><div>14 Lootas</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Grots</div><div><br /></div><div>8 Kommandos - Snikrot</div><div><br /></div><div>3 Big Gunz</div><div><br /></div><div>3 Big guns</div><div><br /></div><div>11 Biker Boys - klaw</div><div><br /></div><div>The primary mission in game 3 was objectives. We had 4. But you scored a point at the end of your opponents turn starting on turn 2, whoever had the most total points at the end of the game won this mission. The secondary was getting more units into your opponents deployment zone than they had in yours. Tertiary was kill point differential. Deployment was pitched battle.</div><div><br /></div><div>Pitched battle is my least favorite deployment with this army. With spearhead being my favorite and dawn of war being ok. I was given first turn and deployed my harlequins and Archon.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wyat deployed everything but the Komandos.</div><div><br /></div><div>On turn 1 I moved up and dropped the obligatory portal.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wyat then moved forward trying to get into range of some of the objectives while also skirting around the charge ranges of my units.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnBNtmAiDFJ1F8iffE5KerscfYK9UekJKmRTE-pZ-JYNEZBYPY0lYmmbZUichxaXalKDnhIg_5MNUUq8X1PhIX4SLbVNUvjDzFOAuCdUKSKBcILFao4AN6LSc8alV5vwB9pxYx_ohvVA/s1600/DSCN1055.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnBNtmAiDFJ1F8iffE5KerscfYK9UekJKmRTE-pZ-JYNEZBYPY0lYmmbZUichxaXalKDnhIg_5MNUUq8X1PhIX4SLbVNUvjDzFOAuCdUKSKBcILFao4AN6LSc8alV5vwB9pxYx_ohvVA/s320/DSCN1055.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706599539172563938" /></a>On turn 2 I got a beast pack, Talos, wych unit, warrior unit, and the Incubi in. I sent the Talos off to the left. The wyches I was wishy washy with and sent them middle right. The warriors ran into cover and got into range of an objective. The Incubi and beasts ran straight forward towards the nearest boys unit that also happened to have Ghazzgkul in it. The Archon joined the INcubi and the Harlequins also moved forward towards the boys.</div><div><br /></div><div>I assaulted the boys with all three units. The Incubi had managed a 5 inch fleet and still needed every inch of their 6 inch roll for move through the terrain. Their move blocked the path perfectly for the beasts to reach without having to go through the terrain. And the harlequins made it easily since they ignore terrain. I killed all but 3 models in the unit, and Wyat chose to pop Ghazz's waagh to keep from fleeing. The archon/Incubi/Drahzar and the beasts remained stuck in with the wounded Ghazgul, while the harlequins consolidated to contest the objective on the right denying Wyat a chance at scoring first.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2TIkgR75z2K9l7kgcfPzYs43Dz3uuF7YoesiMO0Krtek3AkUJpqaWc_jOtG3ThowxnQ_ZO1BrPcw1cHqMYFbsl9FfZFe9-9Ho8GZNFy-AqgeUcWyEHYehVWvBnfIq_JoyOKkPnky1Umg/s1600/DSCN1056.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2TIkgR75z2K9l7kgcfPzYs43Dz3uuF7YoesiMO0Krtek3AkUJpqaWc_jOtG3ThowxnQ_ZO1BrPcw1cHqMYFbsl9FfZFe9-9Ho8GZNFy-AqgeUcWyEHYehVWvBnfIq_JoyOKkPnky1Umg/s320/DSCN1056.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706599441452467586" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTejVXfZuuXdl4ro_SkOpgdXmG2ku9h4VaEjZLHT591DXqJIHunsi-xmY9gd8sjKJnSa-6M1e0xgFExUXdKAg-PT1BcHYQK1JyCEeadKx0NClOmM6ZOKjllKC6kaqMS_ubjLckcQU0AMM/s1600/DSCN1057.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTejVXfZuuXdl4ro_SkOpgdXmG2ku9h4VaEjZLHT591DXqJIHunsi-xmY9gd8sjKJnSa-6M1e0xgFExUXdKAg-PT1BcHYQK1JyCEeadKx0NClOmM6ZOKjllKC6kaqMS_ubjLckcQU0AMM/s320/DSCN1057.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706599258688030114" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgva9J05ZAbzuMbhkXPyu93FW7vsxJ9E3IjXS0uOoi0kS9lqvDnAYyVYGqsNLmmucfgemRmb2Vmam2Jg3ShtEyDUR2CRLR4cLfYnmIaWg5bqheoVaDSHJzaUNNRzJebnA3tGFx0cPIH3OI/s1600/DSCN1058.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgva9J05ZAbzuMbhkXPyu93FW7vsxJ9E3IjXS0uOoi0kS9lqvDnAYyVYGqsNLmmucfgemRmb2Vmam2Jg3ShtEyDUR2CRLR4cLfYnmIaWg5bqheoVaDSHJzaUNNRzJebnA3tGFx0cPIH3OI/s320/DSCN1058.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706599171815018834" /></a>Swift reckoning would come on Wyat's turn 2. His kommandos showed up behind my lines and even with the 6 inch fleet from the waagh fell just short of assaulting the warriors meaning after some unsuccessful shooting that I would score the games first objective. A second boys mob moved forward and assaulted the harlequins wiping them out easily and consolidating around the objective. The warbikers moved up and assaulted the beasts. Drahzar was able to jump onto them and do some wounds, but other than that the combat went his way decisively. The Incubi were almost all wiped out and the beasts fled combat and were destroyed. But since Drahzar makes his unit of Incubi fearless they stayed in the combat.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_K5XDCwXZNaen55uvDbbWtPgSP5V-iacPb112YSCocuywTBR4cM0tsMhl-nTQWaPa53Oc7Q9BB3a3EuN6RQeGtW9yLc4wjrXYOtI-uLtbYnD-NBoGroji8n6ilxDPcVb3LI938kO2xA4/s1600/DSCN1059.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_K5XDCwXZNaen55uvDbbWtPgSP5V-iacPb112YSCocuywTBR4cM0tsMhl-nTQWaPa53Oc7Q9BB3a3EuN6RQeGtW9yLc4wjrXYOtI-uLtbYnD-NBoGroji8n6ilxDPcVb3LI938kO2xA4/s320/DSCN1059.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706599072214601122" /></a>On turn 3 I got zero of my remaining reserves in. This through me into a bit of a feeling of desperation. I move my wyches down to easily assault and kill of his kommandos. The Archon soul trapped Ghazgul doubling her strength, while Drahzar killed off a few bikes. But the remaining Incubi were swept away in a tied combat. I had made the mistake here of moving my Talos back because I felt it was in danger when it should have been moving forward to threaten, I had moved it back because I felt it was unsupported by my bad reserve rolling that turn. Wyat would score one objective this turn tying the score.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOcOkZr6ggo22Vcujk95Gk1LaYMkdmQ1oTxO5o_ZCAulu4lqa4SodVAnt9YMDzKgOws6OJkHl0ARdCw1yDh7Rcsb28Nu-yD8r2kb7cTU2YiX3M6xoZfeRUWe8R_OgkEskPfhBkjjpKWI/s1600/DSCN1060.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOcOkZr6ggo22Vcujk95Gk1LaYMkdmQ1oTxO5o_ZCAulu4lqa4SodVAnt9YMDzKgOws6OJkHl0ARdCw1yDh7Rcsb28Nu-yD8r2kb7cTU2YiX3M6xoZfeRUWe8R_OgkEskPfhBkjjpKWI/s320/DSCN1060.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706598987338440274" /></a>On Wyat's turn 3 that big boys mob moved in on my two assassins. While the rest of his army shot at my scoring wyches, who went to ground and absorbed the losses allowing me to score another point: 2-1. The boys charged and I jumped Drahzar onto the bikers doing several wounds, while I attempted to split my attacks from the archon between the warboss and bikes... doing only 1 wound to the bikes even with my new found str 6. The Archon herself was cut down but since I had killed 3 bikes and wounded their nob I won combat. The bikes passed leadership with the warboss and a boy died from the mob... Drahzar was now all alone.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis1r_QmVruHSuBYlzip1IhSzMbF_qMU0m4-EzJeLNOZ8SK19XLJMKt7e7sPanTWgiet8mLWFy22NqaDYrfHKwvrdNOcmWmLALNL-tYt2L9sd6aERDUGuD0GzoEl2Ik2pM2WgEBKj_5K8s/s1600/DSCN1061.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis1r_QmVruHSuBYlzip1IhSzMbF_qMU0m4-EzJeLNOZ8SK19XLJMKt7e7sPanTWgiet8mLWFy22NqaDYrfHKwvrdNOcmWmLALNL-tYt2L9sd6aERDUGuD0GzoEl2Ik2pM2WgEBKj_5K8s/s320/DSCN1061.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706598895268857842" /></a>On turn 4 I got my other Talos and wych squads in. The Talos I sent up to threaten... also sending his brother as well. The wyches I spaced out from both objectives on my side to attempt to both get cover and score both. Then it was combat time. Drahzar jumped onto the nob biker and killed him... winning combat by 1, a boy died and the warboss passed leadership. Wyatt scored 2 points this turn taking a 3-2 lead.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgg_23NmMRrqLv3jOuHanJ5LuDbhrQW0HyIDAMNrhb5YgK2mlH3y5CLi6Tdu6Dwpw-NvVnnGz-t15wqSCSSSfgdyxS2ekDtMxIFBghvu3HMTy4m0kb3spTYPMgUnG5bRSOnQYqYII_DI/s1600/DSCN1062.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgg_23NmMRrqLv3jOuHanJ5LuDbhrQW0HyIDAMNrhb5YgK2mlH3y5CLi6Tdu6Dwpw-NvVnnGz-t15wqSCSSSfgdyxS2ekDtMxIFBghvu3HMTy4m0kb3spTYPMgUnG5bRSOnQYqYII_DI/s320/DSCN1062.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706598793925668530" /></a>Wyat shot and killed a talos with ease. His other shooting was unable to shake my scoring troops letting me score 2 points swinging the lead back to me 4-3. Drahzar continued to move in combat this turn onto the boys and though the nob was able to wound him twice the combat was tied once more. His shifting had taken a combat that had started near that central building all the way into Wyat's deployment zone. This would give me the secondary objective. We had run out of time, 2 hordy armies in combat from turn 2 will do that, and my other beast unit never even got a chance to come in. Score would be 15-5 in my favor from this game.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYuhwY2kT_XJ8ZKpxNkohOhRJ19WzDN08L5YTLvv1AgS7JyMZhM_JE5OmXTeLEdoK747TN3fkz-Vcslo71NUOO4Nlt7tIxIpfKX9mhahe27Eyf4_CkH9oBKk4nBejP3c_jS2GsR9-Ujk/s1600/DSCN1063.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYuhwY2kT_XJ8ZKpxNkohOhRJ19WzDN08L5YTLvv1AgS7JyMZhM_JE5OmXTeLEdoK747TN3fkz-Vcslo71NUOO4Nlt7tIxIpfKX9mhahe27Eyf4_CkH9oBKk4nBejP3c_jS2GsR9-Ujk/s320/DSCN1063.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706598647828885794" /></a>Drahzar is an interestingly infuriating character to deal with. The more chaf you throw at him the more places he can hide, especially after the other Incubi have fallen. Wyat regretted throwing that boys squad in after the game, but had he not the Archon may have simply killed the warboss with her huskblade and Drahzar and her may have been free to walk around his backfield anyway tearing through his gun teams and lootas.</div><div><br /></div><div>Often the best way to remove Drahzar is to send in a single model that can kill him, be it monster or character. But this is difficult when he is surrounded by several Incubi and the Archon. Better yet a blood talon dreadnought is the best way to kill him, though not many armies have access to those.</div><div><br /></div><div>I myself try to multi assault as much as possible with the Incubi because it ultimately doesnt matter if they die or lose combat because they are fearless and Drahzar will then have plenty of playthings to entertain himself with.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTN47ichC8yzOdRl_6dPnBKjAjg08ea0Dzd44gUxFqdp7TniwXp6fg9KM-NYk16fjFQ9icaRCLvfNpDXjkEKehOWJbMnphtIWC4NRslvilm00k37d7W6i6NMD61AIO16tBiKxN0KNSHgQ/s1600/DSCN1064.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTN47ichC8yzOdRl_6dPnBKjAjg08ea0Dzd44gUxFqdp7TniwXp6fg9KM-NYk16fjFQ9icaRCLvfNpDXjkEKehOWJbMnphtIWC4NRslvilm00k37d7W6i6NMD61AIO16tBiKxN0KNSHgQ/s320/DSCN1064.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706598405764944850" /></a><br /></div></div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-81230182615080579952012-02-07T21:10:00.015-05:002012-02-08T21:41:33.913-05:00Templecon 2012: Game 2So game 2 came and I was on table one. And surprise surprise so were Grey Knights. Now the tournament scene is all grumble grumble about the knights, but my Dark Eldar tend to like seeing them across the table. Talos's eat Dreadnoughts with no combat arms, I have a lot of cheap invulnerable saves in close combat, Drahzar and the Archon are I7 so go before Halberds. Lots of little things that tend to go in my favor. Now the fight is still tough because the Grey knight units are so strong, but Id rather play them then things like daemons or even orks.<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Now on to the game. I was matched up with Cory who I have to say got my favorite opponent vote from the weekend. He had a great attitude and we had an awesomely fun game.</div><div><br /></div><div>His list was very eclectic and still very solid, something I really like about the Grey Knight codex, you can mix in a lot of stuff and be solid.</div><div><br /></div><div>Draigo</div><div>Librarian - might of titan, warp rift, the shrouding , sanctuary, warding stave, dark excomunication - 210</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Strikes - psycannon, hammer, psyammo</div><div>Rhino</div><div><div>5 Strikes - psycannon, hammer, psyammo</div><div>Rhino</div><div>5 Terminators - psycannon, hammer, psy ammo</div><div><br /></div><div>6 Purifiers - incinerator, psycannon, 3 halberds, psyammo, hammer</div><div>Rhino</div><div><br /></div><div>Vindicare Assassin</div><div><br /></div><div>Land Raider Crusader - multimelta, psyammo</div><div><br /></div><div>Dreadnought - 2 tl auto cannons</div><div><div>Dreadnought - 2 tl auto cannons</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Game 2 was perhaps my favorite mission type of the tournament. The main objective was objectives, each player set up 3 on their side of the board and you had to claim the ones on the opposing players side. The secondary objective was to mark an opponents unit for death and you achieved the points if you killed it. Tertiary was victory points again. The deployment type was dawn of war.</div><div><br /></div><div>For the secondary objective I picked Cory's terminators and he picked my 5 man warrior squad.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was going first again in this game. I deployed a wych squad with the Archon at midfield. Cory set his whole army to walk in on turn 1. The objectives are little blue stones, they were spaced pretty evenly across the table.</div><div><br /></div><div>On turn 1 I moved forward and dropped the portal, as usual.</div><div><br /></div><div>Cory moved his whole army in on the far left corner. I think he was scared of getting too close to the portal, and wanted to stick together for support. Its hard to see but his assassin was on foot in the middle of the building.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZnlicTR_C1y6Qk79dSL_GW4C9lYee9zn3fprzNqg0UipU9gXzkRyMoVokDAC0PgjXrjMjgyNusrzWbHE094BE0NkIGZTH7uM1y5NMz6BKq56ZXZAvYQw9mDiqejRJgOY1DtAEUHaEO0Y/s1600/DSCN1036.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZnlicTR_C1y6Qk79dSL_GW4C9lYee9zn3fprzNqg0UipU9gXzkRyMoVokDAC0PgjXrjMjgyNusrzWbHE094BE0NkIGZTH7uM1y5NMz6BKq56ZXZAvYQw9mDiqejRJgOY1DtAEUHaEO0Y/s1600/DSCN1036.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZnlicTR_C1y6Qk79dSL_GW4C9lYee9zn3fprzNqg0UipU9gXzkRyMoVokDAC0PgjXrjMjgyNusrzWbHE094BE0NkIGZTH7uM1y5NMz6BKq56ZXZAvYQw9mDiqejRJgOY1DtAEUHaEO0Y/s1600/DSCN1036.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZnlicTR_C1y6Qk79dSL_GW4C9lYee9zn3fprzNqg0UipU9gXzkRyMoVokDAC0PgjXrjMjgyNusrzWbHE094BE0NkIGZTH7uM1y5NMz6BKq56ZXZAvYQw9mDiqejRJgOY1DtAEUHaEO0Y/s320/DSCN1036.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706584677135960482" /></a>On turn 2 I got both Taloses in, along with a beast squad, my other wych squad and the Incubi. I moved them all towards his lines, joining the Archon to the Incubi. I let the beasts charge the assassin figuring it was nice and easy to get him out of the way early.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm485Sp1J7sM76npsPILPmdfKzB2YEcr7RnC1BeVtg3KtUrPtAa1ty1OoEZkQDG550sfWbEIE4odRMk9kEoHzc7OHvpiJSALJhIirJTHKAc4TL0Owc3QxnnMIxynxzOTwlTZh2-KZaD4w/s1600/DSCN1038.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm485Sp1J7sM76npsPILPmdfKzB2YEcr7RnC1BeVtg3KtUrPtAa1ty1OoEZkQDG550sfWbEIE4odRMk9kEoHzc7OHvpiJSALJhIirJTHKAc4TL0Owc3QxnnMIxynxzOTwlTZh2-KZaD4w/s320/DSCN1038.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706584560962610514" /></a>Cory got out all of his models to start shooting the beasts. He worked them down to a low number and then assaulted them with purifiers finishing them off. The dreadnoughts unloaded on my taloses, 4 wounds... 3 1's, one gone.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dUnksPvv_fQXKjnWOPFvcB0s4m4UaixwAHLoMbXLn0psRLtia9YV1MlxYIyzEHq9fsgZhcDel__zvtEljbkVs3r8utQP6brAqBTzQhs9pn1kOzJer4Tzl521MkkAf6Gdsz0YU3Zna00/s1600/DSCN1040.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dUnksPvv_fQXKjnWOPFvcB0s4m4UaixwAHLoMbXLn0psRLtia9YV1MlxYIyzEHq9fsgZhcDel__zvtEljbkVs3r8utQP6brAqBTzQhs9pn1kOzJer4Tzl521MkkAf6Gdsz0YU3Zna00/s320/DSCN1040.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706584370518465970" /></a>On turn 3 I got my other beast unit in. I put them in on the board edge on the left. This threw Cory for a loop. He had totally forgotten that I could come in on the edge as well and was now worried about getting boxed in. I stretched one wych squad from the portal to off screen to the right touching two objectives. I slid the Incubi up near the building hiding out of los behind the walls. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizBljUA7OqTGcnyIOghjl4P9DP2va7hIoypvbQLs83saK_wf38PnHCzt0goxCloYwf8KhSXkVyA00VzCpeK3iYfWIXxhnPajdpwzYROVcPOyy410nHmx8DbYm4TZZqpAxNhJJKZ7f8KUk/s1600/DSCN1043.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizBljUA7OqTGcnyIOghjl4P9DP2va7hIoypvbQLs83saK_wf38PnHCzt0goxCloYwf8KhSXkVyA00VzCpeK3iYfWIXxhnPajdpwzYROVcPOyy410nHmx8DbYm4TZZqpAxNhJJKZ7f8KUk/s320/DSCN1043.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706584067401537538" /></a>My other Wych squad moved up to charge the strikes behind their Rhino. The Talos charged into the Rhino itself and was ineffective.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3FXO3-AHlY-JiSKSotObay_zbl8iIWcEgZCYELXXzhYNzqPU2vAAsSWMViIkwKA8p6Yu85wq8eja_dyc9MKuhZa4x-Qcim5WWD-M53uLFyDRmZcNzD7SF14IQGA9w1FLldeG2qEOOA4/s1600/DSCN1044.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3FXO3-AHlY-JiSKSotObay_zbl8iIWcEgZCYELXXzhYNzqPU2vAAsSWMViIkwKA8p6Yu85wq8eja_dyc9MKuhZa4x-Qcim5WWD-M53uLFyDRmZcNzD7SF14IQGA9w1FLldeG2qEOOA4/s320/DSCN1044.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706583968786454802" /></a>The wyches were more successful.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrhksAZ6prbURn9Bfreb8vWdELFtYNMaaWG581evk5dG2qjR3eBt4vSWyVqF85zMKYadT3uLsAQLaTWATBuZUoqfOhFbngSmj2nOnZ5S7cVirSYTuyVHA2_vFk8zg_ZLj0pIltosfoSR8/s1600/DSCN1045.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrhksAZ6prbURn9Bfreb8vWdELFtYNMaaWG581evk5dG2qjR3eBt4vSWyVqF85zMKYadT3uLsAQLaTWATBuZUoqfOhFbngSmj2nOnZ5S7cVirSYTuyVHA2_vFk8zg_ZLj0pIltosfoSR8/s320/DSCN1045.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706583854847347474" /></a>Cory countered the wyches by charging with his terminators. However I was able to get 3 shardnets onto Draigo cutting him to 1 attack. He also made the mistake of multi charging into the Talos as well which led to the deaths of several terminators.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX-JJxdVwEmGwFql3d4wOPo-f1Rr7zJB7E41ExECP0wU-3EfrbBJvX5EF2E3ZaVvkJOZVkuQh2TIr-BhtJPLLZ0Gehngwf6FMvz4KWuB7tYIUkNVP6btC8S5rWcai7ypkelNO8l4AzirM/s1600/DSCN1046.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX-JJxdVwEmGwFql3d4wOPo-f1Rr7zJB7E41ExECP0wU-3EfrbBJvX5EF2E3ZaVvkJOZVkuQh2TIr-BhtJPLLZ0Gehngwf6FMvz4KWuB7tYIUkNVP6btC8S5rWcai7ypkelNO8l4AzirM/s320/DSCN1046.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706583760819041618" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZWa6rH34NY9pNSCtjnZ9O0vmfke5Y9YEEMk12l4b87F4DKpVwNfeW1grcIkPexNGQXapPsFn2Is86-0xYW4-zP96zWRuv4urmk3O8tp8rtBa9KdZwc7lsevgWOMMkX_JcMGv-Tdd3zs/s1600/DSCN1047.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZWa6rH34NY9pNSCtjnZ9O0vmfke5Y9YEEMk12l4b87F4DKpVwNfeW1grcIkPexNGQXapPsFn2Is86-0xYW4-zP96zWRuv4urmk3O8tp8rtBa9KdZwc7lsevgWOMMkX_JcMGv-Tdd3zs/s320/DSCN1047.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706583672295917730" /></a>On my turn 4 I got my harlequins and warriors in. I put the warriors in the far corner away from all the action denying Cory his chance at that mission. My beasts moved ever forward. And my INcubi jumped into the terminators. The terminators and librarian were finished but Draigo soldiered on.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCfmJnll2nJABwYgghgRHeZvsfQDCu-K75dmlJUNRQGbsalL0KACQgcMDB99ssXuSXzTmsiYaQBiHp8EtGVMzX2oicGNPSNdmLDKF9mx-lQ05ygz23wljouDebb4we9iFdlJbB6KJ21_c/s1600/DSCN1048.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCfmJnll2nJABwYgghgRHeZvsfQDCu-K75dmlJUNRQGbsalL0KACQgcMDB99ssXuSXzTmsiYaQBiHp8EtGVMzX2oicGNPSNdmLDKF9mx-lQ05ygz23wljouDebb4we9iFdlJbB6KJ21_c/s320/DSCN1048.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706583574570864930" /></a>Cory slid back with his landraider and jumped his remaining strike squad into it. His purifiers jumped in a rhino and strove to get near my other wych squad and force them off their objectives. Either this turn or the next they succeeded in breaking them. Cory however was unable to break the beasts even after repeated tank shocks.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofSG0mgBUSlouNTMKW9TBqXxJvj4MYDMGOkM7HuEakjv270wFME9FyOxVznmUExZl6TR-vOAgLrEX4UxeIjr0m9A7BfCcsm4TcU0XXOId4vXxCOBgPjjKHAv9ZwSrnSFyf_46lWPrqtI/s1600/DSCN1049.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofSG0mgBUSlouNTMKW9TBqXxJvj4MYDMGOkM7HuEakjv270wFME9FyOxVznmUExZl6TR-vOAgLrEX4UxeIjr0m9A7BfCcsm4TcU0XXOId4vXxCOBgPjjKHAv9ZwSrnSFyf_46lWPrqtI/s320/DSCN1049.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706583462338552146" /></a>The harlequins eventually reached the landraider and broke it with their melta pistols. THe beasts charged the remaining purifiers. Draigo eventually died on turn 6. We rolled to see if the game would go on. All he had left were rhinos and dreadnoughts and 5 strike marines. But if the game ended it would be a draw. But it went on and I was able to immobilize the rhinos and kill the marines getting the win.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-DufTFmA1sWOxPSWuoJEIJExodR4OWyhhKRKZ-VUvhreJe-yWMk8nf8haCtrgBaWH-DCF9sdmP81NgizjBZHca05I8vIOP2kQ7qnb3xoOCYzZ5PUKKLG_Dsfw9CZUbxGvbX7ps3K6X0/s1600/DSCN1050.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-DufTFmA1sWOxPSWuoJEIJExodR4OWyhhKRKZ-VUvhreJe-yWMk8nf8haCtrgBaWH-DCF9sdmP81NgizjBZHca05I8vIOP2kQ7qnb3xoOCYzZ5PUKKLG_Dsfw9CZUbxGvbX7ps3K6X0/s320/DSCN1050.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706583362138094962" /></a><br /></div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-75910604348542528422012-02-07T16:35:00.011-05:002012-02-07T17:19:05.078-05:00Templecon 2012: Game 1So game 1 of Templecon arrived bright and early Saturday morning. After saying hello to the people I knew I moved to check the pairings. I groaned when I saw my first round matchup would be Nick Nanavanti. Nick is a great player who I have had the pleasure of playing before, he groaned at having to play me as well, apparently he had gotten very little sleep the night before and hadn't expected to see myself or any other good players at the venue.<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Anyway Nick was playing his Tyranid list:</div><div><br /></div><div>Swarmlord</div><div>Tyrant Guard</div><div><br /></div><div>Tervigon</div><div>Tervigon</div><div>10 Gaunts</div><div>10 Gaunts</div><div>6 GeneStealers</div><div>6 GeneStealers</div><div><br /></div><div>8 Ymgarls</div><div>2 HIve Guard</div><div>2 Hive Guard</div><div><br /></div><div>Trygon</div><div>Trygon</div><div>Trygon</div><div><br /></div><div>Game 1 mission was Spearhead Deployment. The main objective was capturing table quarters, secondary objective was kinda like capture and control only the objectives were placed in the corner opposite from the one you started in. Tertiary objective was victory point margin.</div><div><br /></div><div>I got to go first and deployed my Harlequins and Archon, and put everything else in reserve.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nick deployed his monsters in an arc as close as possible. Swarmlord near the center flanked by tervigons and trygons with hiveguard as well. Gaunts out in front. He outflanked the stealers and of course special deployed the Ymgarls.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW1qLpXWDkLdyKunaf7moBerG68VVsXXhlwG2uNpzsanqWGQti7tdVmhyEjmWFwlZ9T0-lkpC9_k1yJZKvd6ghLavC-j25kuTCpHEQTW6_21B7OOaQQ1pYbkxZsurbK2agXhft85gnIz8/s1600/DSCN1026.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW1qLpXWDkLdyKunaf7moBerG68VVsXXhlwG2uNpzsanqWGQti7tdVmhyEjmWFwlZ9T0-lkpC9_k1yJZKvd6ghLavC-j25kuTCpHEQTW6_21B7OOaQQ1pYbkxZsurbK2agXhft85gnIz8/s320/DSCN1026.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706511430465181666" /></a>On turn 1 I moved up and dropped my portal... pretty much all I ever do on turn 1.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nicked moved his gaunts to form a wall in front of his monsters, and tried to shoot with his hiveguard. He gave both gaunt squads feel no pain.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIgIfSFeSWwbVEFl4Jhv1xLOfxo5HR07l7Fggxaad5CpZBIYtG-yRpygJ1qs6LY86c3UAeOSP6iKHPFgRKSAFvE_0LDX68UQ7obuD3lae4spNdGxfJkufEp8wnYzUdre9khL6Wm2RwaR0/s1600/DSCN1027.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIgIfSFeSWwbVEFl4Jhv1xLOfxo5HR07l7Fggxaad5CpZBIYtG-yRpygJ1qs6LY86c3UAeOSP6iKHPFgRKSAFvE_0LDX68UQ7obuD3lae4spNdGxfJkufEp8wnYzUdre9khL6Wm2RwaR0/s320/DSCN1027.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706511321266249554" /></a>On my turn 2 I got both Wych squads, both Taloses, a beast squad, and my INcubi/Drahzar in from reserve. I joined the Archon to one squad of wyches and both squads charged the gaunt wall. Was able to multi assault into a hive guard squad with the Archons group. Needless to say even with feel no pain I killed the small screens.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nick got the Ymgarls in as well as one genestealer squad. THe stealers came in on the far left while the ymgarls deployed out of the big building in the screen. He spawned gaunts and advanced shooting at wyches. THe left squad fled, while the other squad took the hits and stood strong. It got Paroxisized by the Swarmlord and charged by a Trygon, Swarmlord and the Ymgarls, who also mulit charged into the INcubi. All but 2 of the remaining Wyches would die, I would also lose 2 INcubi. But Drazhar and the Incubi would take a large toll on the Ymgarls.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtqXjeSEAlwmnQWOTmQvAwYSYGWdMJjkyotItlSZXtuFeLAEHNCAdPebij6b1HQV2qbFZb6T8sFNeNxx-jlbuoxnAd2Ooq0XfUeqDYbfiDxuF55scq6-nm1PR0nbyJ0R3RrC2cFi_R-Do/s1600/DSCN1028.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtqXjeSEAlwmnQWOTmQvAwYSYGWdMJjkyotItlSZXtuFeLAEHNCAdPebij6b1HQV2qbFZb6T8sFNeNxx-jlbuoxnAd2Ooq0XfUeqDYbfiDxuF55scq6-nm1PR0nbyJ0R3RrC2cFi_R-Do/s320/DSCN1028.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706511230600755042" /></a>On turn 3 none of my remaining reserves arrived. I multi charged 2 trygons and a unit of 10 gaunts with my Harlequins and a Beast pack. The Harlequins only did a wound or 2 on the charge, after doing 2 with shooting, the beasts wiped off the termagaunts and hurt the other Trygon, the combat ended in a tie. In the other combat the last 2 wyches died, but so did the Ymgarls with the addition of the Talos and the exploits of the incubi.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdM9stl6hQQfe-kIEhPjK0VKxez9uLUwDebxshzJQqHqAMl5DytLfbBSGOTDa6vhJk1fiTP7NQAV97c0dsCCUlwiigEEAkGrU5mkXGW_uxy_0VWGKRs32wBxU5zVEQKemymdfaC02cjg/s1600/DSCN1029.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdM9stl6hQQfe-kIEhPjK0VKxez9uLUwDebxshzJQqHqAMl5DytLfbBSGOTDa6vhJk1fiTP7NQAV97c0dsCCUlwiigEEAkGrU5mkXGW_uxy_0VWGKRs32wBxU5zVEQKemymdfaC02cjg/s320/DSCN1029.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706511146968238290" /></a>On Nicks turn 3 his other stealers came in on the left again. He joined the earlier squad into the assault on the harlequins wiping them out, add in the good work of the Trygon and the beasts all died, though they took one of the 2 Trygons with them. In the other assault a tervigon joined the fight putting himself on Drahzar. Drahzar jumped off onto the Tyrant guard taking the shocked monster out of the fight. My Archon rolled for 2 clones from his field and then made a tough choice, either attack the swarmlord or the Trygon, believing that the lower Ws of the Trygon gave me more chances for hits I chose the Trygon. I rolled 4 hits and got the magic 6 to instant kill it with my huskblade. The Swarmlord then swung at my Archon and with 5 attacks only landed 2 hits... easily canceled with my clones and Nick's heart fell. Drahzar and the incubi, along with the Talos did 4 wounds combined to the Tyrand guard and Swarmlord leaving him in a combat that he had lost by 8. He died but the tervigon remained to tie me up.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9j4VT9tYTLO7TT3d7fxK_uI8kOhSNkup78dvC6TIGEifN2XQSssHPOHUDc8Hyr4Y-DmzmijsIhza2V3UgKwLfIC76r5nYFTt_1yy_U1rmTX9-VhsySiEY876ICGdyuoufaHnFTV0tmiQ/s1600/DSCN1030.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9j4VT9tYTLO7TT3d7fxK_uI8kOhSNkup78dvC6TIGEifN2XQSssHPOHUDc8Hyr4Y-DmzmijsIhza2V3UgKwLfIC76r5nYFTt_1yy_U1rmTX9-VhsySiEY876ICGdyuoufaHnFTV0tmiQ/s320/DSCN1030.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706511061037135090" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIxo5mCko0ti-41N3bdQ6TRPUTw-8PPAqgb5hQA8HSXFukFD0SCohXSfSzNaHbypzpKFwdVDmHWQ686e-GzFOaTdRt-sq48vPpCyMVDoNnX7zbjkFnnuc2hc2FoQtQvKUdOEiRtWwJ8o/s1600/DSCN1031.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIxo5mCko0ti-41N3bdQ6TRPUTw-8PPAqgb5hQA8HSXFukFD0SCohXSfSzNaHbypzpKFwdVDmHWQ686e-GzFOaTdRt-sq48vPpCyMVDoNnX7zbjkFnnuc2hc2FoQtQvKUdOEiRtWwJ8o/s320/DSCN1031.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706510957488859106" /></a>On Turn 4 I got my last beast pack in. They jumped onto a large multi assault into 11 termagaunts, the genestealers, and the last Trygon. While my other Talos jumped the last tervigon. My archon now sporting str 8 after soul trapping the Trygon(I had the +1 str drug) calmly soul trapped the other tervigon. The beasts used a big combat resolution to kill off the bugs. All the combats cleared other than the Talos solo fighting the tervigon.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0Y6DV2oZa0qynQlqq99IFswSkDp7KCAJTjuGyXp2d1t24q-zfzDNjpyeGxyThpVNCFdyQUpa4kqZX9m0uXPDw6HK_js8DVPDqxHTcxcvcujumE5hQ73xPVU00Ohec0LZIz9qm-ol8vc/s1600/DSCN1032.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0Y6DV2oZa0qynQlqq99IFswSkDp7KCAJTjuGyXp2d1t24q-zfzDNjpyeGxyThpVNCFdyQUpa4kqZX9m0uXPDw6HK_js8DVPDqxHTcxcvcujumE5hQ73xPVU00Ohec0LZIz9qm-ol8vc/s320/DSCN1032.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706510858611298706" /></a>On Nicks turn his Hive Guard gained revenge for his army and killed my Archon. The Talos hadnt quite finished off the tervigon but it would only take one more turn.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh4xQQ4gWM-UOJUrZqRd9hvhRqHr0LeyJvwxwK_choLRkZimu_x7HbSOXtlIifaNDBYiWrK36Hn86hY5KIoJhcYKMwwzvfKM2s8P4W36GxWRThO43oHn2Sg0ZiPCmf_AXYOvHdG-EHKq4/s1600/DSCN1033.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh4xQQ4gWM-UOJUrZqRd9hvhRqHr0LeyJvwxwK_choLRkZimu_x7HbSOXtlIifaNDBYiWrK36Hn86hY5KIoJhcYKMwwzvfKM2s8P4W36GxWRThO43oHn2Sg0ZiPCmf_AXYOvHdG-EHKq4/s320/DSCN1033.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706510768423798610" /></a>On turn 5 we simply called the game as it was clear with my warriors moving on the objective and plenty of combat power left to finish off his hive guard and tervigon that it was all over. Nick got to go get some much needed sleep.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-7604277690918693302012-02-03T11:34:00.010-05:002012-02-03T12:03:30.744-05:00Templecon Here We Come!Whats that in the distance... a peaceful Victorian home, it must be the Templecon convention.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Fgjj82XNN_mqgBoxymMxAmyf74RTGEF4T0HHOc9uXXyxBkEOM8t-bksffe6e2X_3gF8sFRQEa1PnRbp1soqBbCE373s1TyIZbSwueakXJF4STBQQ8YQS_zP0n-xl_jE2p_ykVldZ6Ss/s1600/DSCN1020.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Fgjj82XNN_mqgBoxymMxAmyf74RTGEF4T0HHOc9uXXyxBkEOM8t-bksffe6e2X_3gF8sFRQEa1PnRbp1soqBbCE373s1TyIZbSwueakXJF4STBQQ8YQS_zP0n-xl_jE2p_ykVldZ6Ss/s320/DSCN1020.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704949364392706578" /></a><a name='more'></a>Oh no its been over run by evil dark eldar!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmceQNTPDh6naQL4VIlLUp0HiZ3gh8rLK6UqK5zRZNWZOy8XgTT-7fDC-bj19uCX8UY5-J3qdi2oyTuqNcm6jQEDwOMaDYU7StCKlywqzTSy6y932rJyOTTFqVxyYMKkF1PN42Hw7fe8/s1600/DSCN1021.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmceQNTPDh6naQL4VIlLUp0HiZ3gh8rLK6UqK5zRZNWZOy8XgTT-7fDC-bj19uCX8UY5-J3qdi2oyTuqNcm6jQEDwOMaDYU7StCKlywqzTSy6y932rJyOTTFqVxyYMKkF1PN42Hw7fe8/s320/DSCN1021.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704949269489598434" /></a>Joking aside I wanted to snag a few pics of the army before throwing it into foam and getting on the road to Rhode Island.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE-C21APK-CNU0nJ1l8qHLjrourDRVnnZx90tcystOoC1KVA2eiYBbadhgza1OfNESAyJ9PZ2YshMCJ0Fa2VNppat5cSAFd8ljJkwP8bvj2AXrSOvlgFHZzxuRF1LVqvITYZvokskmXS8/s1600/DSCN1022.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE-C21APK-CNU0nJ1l8qHLjrourDRVnnZx90tcystOoC1KVA2eiYBbadhgza1OfNESAyJ9PZ2YshMCJ0Fa2VNppat5cSAFd8ljJkwP8bvj2AXrSOvlgFHZzxuRF1LVqvITYZvokskmXS8/s320/DSCN1022.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704949176589026034" /></a>Most of it came out pretty well. I love my Taloses and wyches, and Incubi... the beasts kinda came out blah I may need to redo them all. Also astute observers will notice that the warriors look terrible, old models painted by a friend while in high school. And that the beast handlers all have one arm... man the beasts must be hard to handle.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31_vLqKnvttgP_u1Q7EAXcd7KVcaY6Z_vc8LFqiD8xzV_9FcApRrZTWfYPmAzf5ej0QCGZoAY35i1Sjkzn26VISBtruhcWjhGay4DBCnXxnLM4C6vBrGlE2uAxt_LQQbYnWXEAVISJzY/s1600/DSCN1023.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31_vLqKnvttgP_u1Q7EAXcd7KVcaY6Z_vc8LFqiD8xzV_9FcApRrZTWfYPmAzf5ej0QCGZoAY35i1Sjkzn26VISBtruhcWjhGay4DBCnXxnLM4C6vBrGlE2uAxt_LQQbYnWXEAVISJzY/s320/DSCN1023.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704949089028205970" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAYzGslyPeLGALuwHKdxYIPMpUUtx0iMC_cnSP6TcLYSOxzb0Gv5LIZi9WC60D6j5b2KoPWgB8SULbWSxMA6It3RtXTCXB9ez_R9imR5b_PcuGZF09jinnXncje9d7o8xbgtNsfV2-NY/s1600/DSCN1024.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAYzGslyPeLGALuwHKdxYIPMpUUtx0iMC_cnSP6TcLYSOxzb0Gv5LIZi9WC60D6j5b2KoPWgB8SULbWSxMA6It3RtXTCXB9ez_R9imR5b_PcuGZF09jinnXncje9d7o8xbgtNsfV2-NY/s320/DSCN1024.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704948988482727202" /></a>I tried to mimic the tiling pattern of the house on the bases. It doesnt look half bad when the models are actually in the house... but when they arent the bases look really amateurish. So I'll have to think about that.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZJxHgYXaH74MT3QtngH2V0JuYbp2VhAGNs7osz2OHg4KLtVhilnMZ0eCBU_1QhW2WlBpkZeqbkhzMXyRepWgTZZ0Pz91i6HUTNiu2Cu3Jwg56td7xax1pMkb_g1DlVoPne6eyCZIqek/s1600/DSCN1025.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZJxHgYXaH74MT3QtngH2V0JuYbp2VhAGNs7osz2OHg4KLtVhilnMZ0eCBU_1QhW2WlBpkZeqbkhzMXyRepWgTZZ0Pz91i6HUTNiu2Cu3Jwg56td7xax1pMkb_g1DlVoPne6eyCZIqek/s320/DSCN1025.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704948868246015682" /></a>Anyway in case you were reading this and wondering what my list is here you go:<div><br /></div><div>Archon: huskblade, soul trap, combat drugs, ghostplate armor, haywire grenades, webway portal, clone field, phantasm grenade launcher - 210</div><div><br /></div><div>Drahzar - 230</div><div><br /></div><div>7 Incubi - 154</div><div><br /></div><div>6 Harlequins - 6 kisses, 2 fusion pistols, shadowseer - 182</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Wyches - haywire grenades, 3 shardnet/impalers, Hekatrix(agonizer, phantasm grenade launcher) - 250</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Wyches - haywire grenades, 3 shardnet/impalers, Hekatrix(agonizer, phantasm grenade launcher) - 250</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Warriors - 45</div><div><br /></div><div>4 Beast Masters - 8 Kymerra, 4 Razorwing Flocks - 204</div><div><br /></div><div>4 Beast Masters - 8 Kymerra, 4 Razorwing Flocks - 204</div><div><br /></div><div>Talos - twin linked Heat Lance, chain flails, extra close combat weapon - 135</div><div><br /></div><div>Talos - twin linked Heat Lance, chain flails, extra close combat weapon - 135</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway I have a lot of fun painting the models in this list, and tons of fun playing it. Hopefully things will go my way this weekend. Ill let you know when I get back.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-60753072504414328282012-01-29T17:50:00.004-05:002012-01-29T18:18:33.727-05:00Conflict 2012: Game 3Game 3 I sadly have no pictures again. Usually I feel that I have plenty of time to snap shots between turns. I dont know what it was about Conflict this year, but I felt rushed. It may have been the unfamiliarity I have with Tyranids. Unlike my drop pod Marines, which I know inside and out, or my Dark Eldar which are more fire and forget the Tyranid list I was playing required a lot more thought power.<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Anyway I was playing George Tsemberlis in round 3. George and I met at Conflict 2010, 3 years ago and I see him at other events around the north east. We play at every Conflict too... kinda our mid January tradition.</div><div><br /></div><div>George has a gorgeous Demon army... sadly he had shelved this for Grey Knights. He had Crowe and 2 10 man Purifier squads in Rhinos. A full Strike squad in a Rhino. 3 Dreadnoughts and a terminator Squad of decent size.</div><div><br /></div><div>The mission was spearhead and kill points. George won first turn and settled into his corner with his Rhinos and dreadnoughts, with his terminators in reserve.</div><div><br /></div><div>George started to spread out. The only thing I had on the board were my two Mawlocs in the corner. I left them there on turn 1 as well.</div><div><br /></div><div>Turn 2 George spread out further. He had 2 dreads in a piece of terrain along with Crowe who he hid on the 3rd floor of a building on a very narrow outcrop.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 2 I got my Hive Tyrant, both Lictor packs and 2 genestealer units in. The genestealers I put on the far right well away from his starting quarter. My Hive Tyrant shot up one of his purifier Rhinos and managed to wreck it. While my lictors shot the rear of 2 dreadnoughts, 1 wrecked and one simply shaken. I also burrowed one Mawloc this turn.</div><div><br /></div><div>On turn 3 George landed his terminators in the hopes of applying pressure on the stealers, he also moved the Strike squad in that direction. The foot slogging squad of purifiers decided to shoot up one Lictor pack, which took the pounding and lost only 1 model, while the Dreadnoughts opened up on my Tyrant taking it down to a single wound. Crowe was stuck on the top floor of the building with my Lictors in his way so he stayed put.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 3 I got my warriors and last genestealer unit. I brought them in on the top left and tried some rear shots on a Dreadnought. My mawloc popped out under the purifiers and thanks to the nearby lictors didnt scatter. George went to ground but still lost 6. My Ymgarls also arrived and along with one lictor pack charged the other Purifier Rhino. They managed to surround it completely but exploded it. Still only about 3-4 Purifiers were able to be placed so the rest died. My Hive Tyrant moved forward and managed to heal himself by using leech essence on the pinned Purifier unit, so back up to 2 wounds. I also burrowed the other Mawloc.</div><div><br /></div><div>On turn 4 George turned his Strike squad and terminators around and came back towards me. He began shooting up my warriors with the terminators and his remaining dreadnought, killing a few. His mobile purifiers tried to kill off the ymgarls successfully.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn the other Mawloc arrived and finished one purifier unit. The Hive Tyrant healed himself another wound off the other Purifiers. He along with the Lictor and mobile Mawloc finished them off. My other genestealer unit charged his Dreadnought in the top of the board.</div><div><br /></div><div>On turn 5 his terminators shot up and killed my last warrior. His strikes got out to shoot the mawlocs but did inconsequential damage.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 5 my monsters grouped together and charged his strike squad. He was able to force weapon kill a Mawloc but my other one and Hive Tyrant killed the grey knights.</div><div><br /></div><div>We rolled to see if the game ended and it did. I won on Kill points. Having killed a Rhino, 2 Purifier units, 2 dreadnoughts, and the strikes. And losing only 1 Mawloc, the ymgarls, and the warriors.</div><div><br /></div><div>This was the kind of Grey Knight list I had hoped for and planned for. Paladins and Draigo like the game one are a much harder matchup than mass Dreadnoughts. The Lictors really can make a mess of them between rear shots and combat. Also Id much rather pop Mawlocs up under Purifiers... then Strikes with darn warpquake.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-30757274662545410432012-01-28T09:57:00.008-05:002012-01-28T10:07:19.913-05:00Templecon is a Week awayWe're back....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNGEWJCnZqmceicMYewmjB1tieDMrWWlCV3MwAyUqxMcno18lWgu5a-lE-CsbfiEkVPZz_DOI6q2kV6_RwfuLGUBh6NzjSml-9-Ukx9VBwfE7HkkbF-XcJIjwCok-gbvqhWnSEx7bywg/s1600/DSCN1011.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNGEWJCnZqmceicMYewmjB1tieDMrWWlCV3MwAyUqxMcno18lWgu5a-lE-CsbfiEkVPZz_DOI6q2kV6_RwfuLGUBh6NzjSml-9-Ukx9VBwfE7HkkbF-XcJIjwCok-gbvqhWnSEx7bywg/s320/DSCN1011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702698229229156754" /></a><a name='more'></a>So after the brief Tyranid hiatus. Im back to Dark Eldar. I love the foot webway list, the way it plays the fun units. Its my favorite army to play right now. Sadly it works best at 2000pts since Drahzar and my Archon cost about 440pts combined. But they look ready to party here.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlLZ9KH-ufDbo_luDow5qjPqBj_tc08VcaYFYmjWsr9fLLHgrmixye8R2hpNyfJ9eEZh-pIIgNwurCUTDhu2OAi1-gLqTsYfyRhoq-K3uKeydgSiQjPSj_Q8NSITX6Zi4cbzSgPP5mqAs/s1600/DSCN1012.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlLZ9KH-ufDbo_luDow5qjPqBj_tc08VcaYFYmjWsr9fLLHgrmixye8R2hpNyfJ9eEZh-pIIgNwurCUTDhu2OAi1-gLqTsYfyRhoq-K3uKeydgSiQjPSj_Q8NSITX6Zi4cbzSgPP5mqAs/s320/DSCN1012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702698153255767698" /></a>Backed up by the luscious Incubi.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQUuhgrnz8OMDhHLS6sHoufQm1u9qtlX9xoSpbHX-jdzZlmn5hJbK8b4TqaXOH6Lj9mK-miFtneA_VKPPBsloKFaHW0lk_vcZ2ugdhyphenhyphencTJ-fn9adBSUiBrCb38ziVtrigFOenWBOYay0/s1600/DSCN1010.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQUuhgrnz8OMDhHLS6sHoufQm1u9qtlX9xoSpbHX-jdzZlmn5hJbK8b4TqaXOH6Lj9mK-miFtneA_VKPPBsloKFaHW0lk_vcZ2ugdhyphenhyphencTJ-fn9adBSUiBrCb38ziVtrigFOenWBOYay0/s320/DSCN1010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702698073864558722" /></a>With harlequins to lead the foray out of the webway.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMSyVVe4bBEBZIc4XUe7MvwpX3hvF9SCTJTHsjexBogHL8C0E_aPRy3tLuXlGRswSKywq0TG7biZn8CRv3Zbhak8YFdpWRcjFUOlnZjDQ5AU4HEjXbDMlTIxoWUw4tzzq1TzZ7-2lehQU/s1600/DSCN1009.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMSyVVe4bBEBZIc4XUe7MvwpX3hvF9SCTJTHsjexBogHL8C0E_aPRy3tLuXlGRswSKywq0TG7biZn8CRv3Zbhak8YFdpWRcjFUOlnZjDQ5AU4HEjXbDMlTIxoWUw4tzzq1TzZ7-2lehQU/s320/DSCN1009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702698008992560242" /></a>And Wyches to clean up. Thats what girls are for right?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQwCm_bl9Xru58bxAWADk9KoMZrp5xTs6IeRzdPXQ5NgYZdZv6WkXbS1_tAKtrvWq6MIczMUHWrtMXKbaIMAcTu1gHaB9cqX8WW_q457nFbnAo8fPRMshWpVV1A2z-uL2SEwBRgI9W1u8/s1600/DSCN1008.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQwCm_bl9Xru58bxAWADk9KoMZrp5xTs6IeRzdPXQ5NgYZdZv6WkXbS1_tAKtrvWq6MIczMUHWrtMXKbaIMAcTu1gHaB9cqX8WW_q457nFbnAo8fPRMshWpVV1A2z-uL2SEwBRgI9W1u8/s320/DSCN1008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702697596704430210" /></a>Its coming for you....<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfTBSQgUn_Wjabtd1oRAvMKXW8n6bOMIzRkQcb3djjGG6n8_fSZIv8upDOQ08Nod14xnQaTT7qXytPXfQsouZw5Sc3wfykcurhQZ0qAO6vokeuc8yvAYzc8A6D9ASLbtHVyYQmQpdV2o/s1600/DSCN1007.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfTBSQgUn_Wjabtd1oRAvMKXW8n6bOMIzRkQcb3djjGG6n8_fSZIv8upDOQ08Nod14xnQaTT7qXytPXfQsouZw5Sc3wfykcurhQZ0qAO6vokeuc8yvAYzc8A6D9ASLbtHVyYQmQpdV2o/s320/DSCN1007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702697511110699490" /></a>The army was a barely painted shell for Battle for Salvation. Its mostly ready now with only some basing and details to do for most everyone, and some decent work to do on the two pain engines in the back.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-8529664832591397832012-01-28T09:12:00.008-05:002012-01-28T09:46:37.544-05:00Conflict 2012: Games 1 and 2<div><br /></div>Game 1 I played Matthew Bennet and his wonderfully eclectic Grey Knights army. He had Draigo, and only one Dreadnought, he had a few strike squads, a Purgation squad, Paladins and a Storm Raven.<div><br /></div><div>We were playing 3 objectives.<br /><div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Basically I got greedy going for a storm raven with just a Lictor Squad, leaving my hive Tyrant too close to get rofl stomped by Draigo. And minstrike missiles suck for Broodlords. Did manage to Mawloc his whole purgation squad. Had a few chances at the end to either pull out a win or tie, but Mawloc needed to cause one more wound to a paladin to prevent its death, and warriors needed to cause one more wound to the dreadknight to contest. neither happened so a big ol loss on round one.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think the game would have gone much better had I been more patient. But I still was in a bad spot with how mean Draigo is to nids. He was a good opponent, only he kept apologizing to me for how bad my army is...</div><div><br /></div><div>Game 2 was against Stephen. He had from memory Vulkan and the master of the forge. A servitor squad, a 5 man tactical squad in a razorback, and a 10 man in a rhino. 2 5 man scout squads, 2 Dreadnoughts in pods, and a thunderfire cannon in a pod. Also 2 vindicators.</div><div><br /></div><div>Objective here was to have more of your scoring units in the opponents half of the board at the end of the game then they had in yours.</div><div><br /></div><div>Well since all 4 of my scoring units outflank I was pretty confident I could do this. All I would need to do is kill off one of his scoring units.</div><div><br /></div><div>Steve's list isnt bad exactly, though without 5+ Dreadnoughts I dont see a real need for the master of the forge, but he was going for an Adeptus Mechanicus feel and conversion. His conversions on his master and his Vulkan to bring them into the Mech were great. And everything else other than the servitors is solid in my opinion. Its just that I also run Vulkan the master of the forge and drop podding Dreadnoughts so this is something I know inside and out.</div><div><br /></div><div>I deployed both mawlocs deep in my corner. And had all my troops set to outflank, with the Hive Tyrant coming on from the edge, and the ymgarls hiding in a central building.</div><div><br /></div><div>He deployed his scouts in the second floor of the ymgarls building and the others in another both already in my deployment half. The rest of his army formed a mechanized convoy and drove right up the middle of the field. He dropped his two dreadnoughts right in front of my mawlocs. They shot them doing a wound to each.</div><div><br /></div><div>I burrowed both Mawlocs away leaving the dreadnoughts far from anything else in his army.</div><div><br /></div><div>He moved up some more turn 2, and turned the dreadnoughts around to come back towards the center.</div><div><br /></div><div>I got 2 genestealers in round 2, along with the ymgarls. Ymgarls went straight for the scouts in their building and killed all but 1. The Mawlocs popped up and one scattered badly, while the other hit right on the thunderfire cannon killing it.</div><div><br /></div><div>His turn 3 he turned his guns around and opened fire on the mawlocs, killing one with the combination of melta and vindicator fire. He charged into the ymgarls with his master of the forge and servitors. The ymgarls won scattering the servitors and slaying the scouts and forgefather.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 3 I got both Lictor packs in, along with more genestealers and warriors and Hive tyrant. The Tyrant went after one Dreadnought in the bottom right breaking its arm and taking no damage in return. The warriors got in the rear arc of another and sadly did nothing leaving the genestealers to assault it. They ground it down over the next turn or so. Lictors shot up the Rhino and razorback only doing minor inconsequential damage. The ymgarls mutated for strength and charged the vindicators. Tore the gun off of one and stunned the other.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Steve's turn 4 he got vulkan and the small squad out of the razorback and flamed down the ymgarls... poor bugs. While the Rhino fled from the lictors. He thought about getting the big squad out, but chose not too when he realized that my Mawloc had burrowed again last turn and would be coming back.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 4 the mawloc popped up and killed Vulkan's retainers and pushed the man towards the hungry maws of the Lictors. The Hive Tyrant that had finished off the Dreadnought on his turn flew up and cast Paroxsym on Vulkan. Then all 6 Lictors charged him. In a gross display of dice they hit with all 24 attack... several missed at first but they were all 1's which Lictors reroll with scything talons. Wounded him with 17 regular and 4 rending. Needless to say he died horribly.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLLKiMerKhzs9Rmd7cJZQk4pmdXD-evmgJ6lzqJhRSv4ylzb8y2uz0qL0Uv2rqWuuGhF8w7gkOTlKTT2LnQkoBG8Qc6k-y9GGfaCyV92GpuapJHMyXLWH3HxaJSGAI-3fIATEXY99jXw/s1600/DSCN0998.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLLKiMerKhzs9Rmd7cJZQk4pmdXD-evmgJ6lzqJhRSv4ylzb8y2uz0qL0Uv2rqWuuGhF8w7gkOTlKTT2LnQkoBG8Qc6k-y9GGfaCyV92GpuapJHMyXLWH3HxaJSGAI-3fIATEXY99jXw/s320/DSCN0998.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702686678821287746" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RXlYBBfZWZq3JzEQgpXCgdDyqHN-vRL7z5bmNxeGzX-0i4XDj4eSoOZz7puPgxYBac3YOYPdt7wwOIprRC405Sh4pdzslGHd783Mg6WeOjzbSVxTALmM_us-doRduu5ax-qIkf4vq48/s1600/DSCN0999.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RXlYBBfZWZq3JzEQgpXCgdDyqHN-vRL7z5bmNxeGzX-0i4XDj4eSoOZz7puPgxYBac3YOYPdt7wwOIprRC405Sh4pdzslGHd783Mg6WeOjzbSVxTALmM_us-doRduu5ax-qIkf4vq48/s320/DSCN0999.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702686586451720674" /></a>From there Steve did some nice cagey moves to keep himself in the game. His scouts ran and hid in the razorback and his other rhino stuck to the mission and tried to push for my zone.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSUr5-sGZ7Fsr7hHPOtzQY0YTB3px6zACuRphnnAKiSfUEyOjcvkzDYoqPrTDscHFWMmOekSpEsSzG40e_ZccDSRcUSrGJWQTt_4GT_YqVZ6fytDvUrbB1qEP7KTfXSK2ccFXZMzlP3M/s1600/DSCN1002.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSUr5-sGZ7Fsr7hHPOtzQY0YTB3px6zACuRphnnAKiSfUEyOjcvkzDYoqPrTDscHFWMmOekSpEsSzG40e_ZccDSRcUSrGJWQTt_4GT_YqVZ6fytDvUrbB1qEP7KTfXSK2ccFXZMzlP3M/s320/DSCN1002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702686478907923906" /></a>But all the monsters and genestealers were able to run amuck and catch the poor marines.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5RnOU32RV-27cDyaHIvZCDWW-qWzAB9AuXNWpCDWWxqfAvj_KvQ4Aw-K6N64O0WcM3GlcrrGIfmmM_SHLUqN6mJSqXNE_JLBI_9cVUXWHDFdVwZ3uhSY1DISpFfX5Uk96YbH-wuJopFk/s1600/DSCN1004.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5RnOU32RV-27cDyaHIvZCDWW-qWzAB9AuXNWpCDWWxqfAvj_KvQ4Aw-K6N64O0WcM3GlcrrGIfmmM_SHLUqN6mJSqXNE_JLBI_9cVUXWHDFdVwZ3uhSY1DISpFfX5Uk96YbH-wuJopFk/s320/DSCN1004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702686285445484386" /></a>So after 2 games I had the low of a major defeat and the high of everything working to perfection. So no real consensus so far on how the list would work out for the whole event.</div></div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-43047842737370932882012-01-18T18:07:00.003-05:002012-01-18T23:48:34.664-05:00Conflict 2012The Conflict Gt has a special place in my heart. Two years ago it was our groups first major foray into a large Grand Tournament. So this year was my third straight year attending. The first year I took 7th with my Space Marine Salamanders, and last year finished 4th with those marines again.<div><br /></div><div>But this year I took a whole new tool to the game. Not my awesome Dark Eldar but a totally new project that from Christmas to mid January I toiled over on my painting table. Tyranids!!</div><div><br /></div><div>Tyranids are kinda low on the power totem pole, with most people dismissing them totally in events that include Grey Knights and Dark Eldar. But they have some fun things and some really cool models.</div><div><br /></div><div>So I went into list design with two things in mind. One I had 22 Space hulk Genestealers so would like to use most of those to keep costs down to an extent(lol). And Two I think that Lictors have some of the coolest models in the range and would love to use as many of them as possible.</div><div><br /></div><div>With those things in mind it starts to become pretty obvious that Im heading to another mainly reserves based army. Both my Drop Pod Marines, and my Webway Dark Eldar are built this way, and I think the style is something I really gravitate towards.</div><div><br /></div><div>To go along with this I looked into Mawlocs. What I see with people taking Trygons is that they pop up but are run away from and/or shot down before they can kill even a single model. Mawlocs arent nearly as good in a straight fight as Trygons, but their ability to hit people with a template when they arrive, and burrow back to safety, combined with hit and run helps keep them alive longer.</div><div><br /></div><div>Early playtesting had me running loads of regular stealers, but I kept finding them dying but Broodlords are great. I adjusted to change some of the regular stealers to Ymgarls, and cut down to small Broodlord led squads of troop stealers.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Hq slot was another struggle. Really I almost wouldnt want one at all. But since I had to take one the Hive Tyrant ended up being my choice. He is super expensive especially once you add wings, and hive commander. And two devourers. But he fits well with the reserve style.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway here is the list. Im going to follow it up with some rough reports... didnt take too many pictures. I ended up the event 7th overall, 5th in battle points with 3 wins, 2 draws, and a loss.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hive Tyrant - 2 twin linked devourers, hive commander, wings - 285</div><div><br /></div><div>8 Ymgarls - 184</div><div><br /></div><div>3 Lictors - 195</div><div>3 Lictors - 195</div><div><br /></div><div>5 Genestealers + Broodlord with scything talons - 132</div><div>5 Genestealers + Broodlord with scything talons - 132</div><div>4 Genestealers with scything talons + Broodlord with Scything talons - 126</div><div><br /></div><div>4 Tyranid Warriors - death spitters, adrenal glands - 160</div><div><br /></div><div>Mawloc - 170</div><div>Mawloc - 170</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-50719464438935094602011-10-21T22:56:00.011-04:002011-10-21T23:36:00.563-04:00Battle for Salvation: Game 4Game 4 came. Obviously just after a loss its harder to get pumped for your next game. Add in that its the 4th game of a long day. And even worse... or better... I had to play my good friend and traveling partner in crime Bob from my home club. And we are both exhausted.<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>The good thing about playing your buddies in this time frame in a tournament is that you are looser with each other and less likely to get annoyed or stressed out. The bad part is you have to either knock out or get knocked out by your friend.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bob's list is intimidating to mine. He has enough both anti infantry shooting and high strength shooting to mess with my units. But at the same time I have some of the tools to really mess up his lynchpin unit.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Baron Sathonyx<br /><br />Haemonculus<br /><br />7 Incubi (Raider with Flickerfield, Enhanced Aethersails, and Shock-Prow)<br /><br />19 Hellions (including Helliarch with Stunclaw)<br /><br />3 Wracks (Venom w/ 2 SC)<br /><br />3x 5 Warriors (Blaster; Venom w/ 2 SC)<br /><br />3x 6 Reavers (2 Heat Lances each)<br /><br />3x Ravager (Dark Lances; Flickerfields)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Our mission in game 4 was spearhead, with quarters primary, followed by objectives and kill points or vice versa I dont remember.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I ended up going first... though if I won the roll or he passed it is beyond my intelligence to remember.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Here is our deployment. Me using my harlequins again to deploy my Archon with webway.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Bob his his Helions way back in the building. Had his reavers close to my line. and venoms and ravagers off on the edge.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIZrX-MqtvLkimdb1wRChFruRt-tqn93psbatlQXOg2g7X5y_vPuOkGa53g6RactDQJS_MQhSR5sGtw8NLMhYqPZkFnyh63QfodDiYDAjaoOhkyVkazJDlXBDXCYP-g5vTMTW_G3o2XE/s1600/DSCN0523.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIZrX-MqtvLkimdb1wRChFruRt-tqn93psbatlQXOg2g7X5y_vPuOkGa53g6RactDQJS_MQhSR5sGtw8NLMhYqPZkFnyh63QfodDiYDAjaoOhkyVkazJDlXBDXCYP-g5vTMTW_G3o2XE/s320/DSCN0523.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666146521641943058" /></a>Turn 1 I moved up and dropped the portal. Bob's turn 1 he turbo boosted all the reavers over my unit... and bladvanes killed me to the last man... ouch. The rest of his army shuffled around a bit. Nothing so far or since has been so effective at killing off my harlequin unit like those reaver jetbikes were. Im glad I was going first and wasnt seized on, that was brutal.</div><div><br /></div><div>My turn 2 I got both beast packs and a unit of wyches in. I sent each one into a unit of his reavers. In hindsight I should have sent just the wyches into two, and used the beasts to get pressure on the rest of his army. But I wanted to end the reaver threat immediately and totally.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdfemmh5RCFMkzjj-30OmkbixdVmezlA8kyocRdtblrduJtPQaZuJOgkxy2zHtRMRC_kb5hAqff0D25Lqs-CqZRB8QUGi43joZoMJ2aLjddUzF7onvtC2E3F2-J9yTlAIqGaq-1-wGueg/s1600/DSCN0524.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdfemmh5RCFMkzjj-30OmkbixdVmezlA8kyocRdtblrduJtPQaZuJOgkxy2zHtRMRC_kb5hAqff0D25Lqs-CqZRB8QUGi43joZoMJ2aLjddUzF7onvtC2E3F2-J9yTlAIqGaq-1-wGueg/s320/DSCN0524.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666146385545554658" /></a>Bob's turn 2 he shuffled his rides around and began taking shots at my beasts and wyches. Wycehs got 4+ cover plus feel no pain. Beasts soaked wounds on birds.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJCvFFndWM6W9TmtFi3k1Lz8IhzaNhX78f0w0VgoPYySvG55di9l_x9-vPo9vRggbiXjYO74RkfrtBokKqhrLeXCDV5zjamBo2K_h-3YkeeJ_wgaTnTkie3dfPNt_uvfExTN24xRDVuW4/s1600/DSCN0525.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJCvFFndWM6W9TmtFi3k1Lz8IhzaNhX78f0w0VgoPYySvG55di9l_x9-vPo9vRggbiXjYO74RkfrtBokKqhrLeXCDV5zjamBo2K_h-3YkeeJ_wgaTnTkie3dfPNt_uvfExTN24xRDVuW4/s320/DSCN0525.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666146265168025058" /></a>Turn 3 I got the Cronos, 1 Talos, other wych unit and the Incubi in. Cronos came out of the portal in the center to threaten his flank up there. Talos, wyches, and Incubi came off my edge on the right. Its something that people forget that can happen with this list, since units arent dedicated to the webway they can come out of it or the edge. In spearhead I like to place the portal up high in the middle and push units that way early, in the hopes that the enemy slides towards my board edge to create a pincer effect.</div><div><br /></div><div>Well either my plan or Bob's tiredness worked here. Couple of venoms and a ravager were sitting closer to the edge than he would have liked. Talos wrecked a venom. Incubi got both a huge fleet and huge assault though cover roll and ate a small warrior unit. Not only getting them closer to his lines but also earning them feel no pain.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wyches on the left stretched out towards the middle and back objectives. Beasts slid around with the left unit hedging toward the objective there with some thoughts of simply hunkering down on that objective.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTA-R9bbb14wmO-ANZ6Q1OS456fJb8XIr-r02sRWqOV1waDfRL9TCssPWzsnUBgj8n609PE8s8R04TCcIH90Pf6rw7AYDUMPoLXvHjQ1_4SDqBpNjmzXOQc6ysspwIFltuniLloCC1wIQ/s1600/DSCN0526.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTA-R9bbb14wmO-ANZ6Q1OS456fJb8XIr-r02sRWqOV1waDfRL9TCssPWzsnUBgj8n609PE8s8R04TCcIH90Pf6rw7AYDUMPoLXvHjQ1_4SDqBpNjmzXOQc6ysspwIFltuniLloCC1wIQ/s320/DSCN0526.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666146115190840850" /></a>mmm tasty warriors. I really like how the blue scheme I chose is popping with the purple in these pictures. I cant wait to get the whole army done up like the Incubi are.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQtXteJmFpqydu6axYNdeQkvF_f_zxk6w6420E22EiWBQLy91bbyXwhquS5U0uFvkE2zeVrfmTnFSfrBQsKw-Y-wIuLo-ya-IB1to0Atc8PN1y4WpKIgVSgnYnypDw2T0Nnt4V1FxBYg/s1600/DSCN0527.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQtXteJmFpqydu6axYNdeQkvF_f_zxk6w6420E22EiWBQLy91bbyXwhquS5U0uFvkE2zeVrfmTnFSfrBQsKw-Y-wIuLo-ya-IB1to0Atc8PN1y4WpKIgVSgnYnypDw2T0Nnt4V1FxBYg/s320/DSCN0527.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666145989543149858" /></a>Bob kept shooting in turn 3, I think my central and rear wyches went to ground for improved cover. His helions jumped forward to reinforce his lines. His lances easily downed the Cronos as I expected they would.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRVoNMaLS78YYQ5phGbYi-0wWxFoECuEWLSAEM23w2PeA6uaw8wRHKuT9LryU853c7O6k4t2USikyQcZ7Ta6t9fJyA9LIkaa_4lsTraXMS67sOgmwa6TGEWhyphenhyphen2rkYEgVcrG2gs1tlU4w/s1600/DSCN0528.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRVoNMaLS78YYQ5phGbYi-0wWxFoECuEWLSAEM23w2PeA6uaw8wRHKuT9LryU853c7O6k4t2USikyQcZ7Ta6t9fJyA9LIkaa_4lsTraXMS67sOgmwa6TGEWhyphenhyphen2rkYEgVcrG2gs1tlU4w/s320/DSCN0528.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666145848151168706" /></a>My turn 4 I got the other Talos in, putting him in the center to reinforce the objective there. Beasts on the left moved to get back towards the fight.</div><div><br /></div><div>On the right my beast pack and INcubi assaulted his venoms. Took a gun off one venom leaving me in the open with the Incubi. Beasts exploded the other venom leaving one warrior alive.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPbP0zWmGQ6WpZ_6m5X6Qx_hzHFBE8xdyiPJ_9y65Wk46z-K2G2kSa0Dm_qxq3qmB8Biz2ummMkPt3iH52vx8CiEZKGpjZ1BA2UW2Fo6qfK8eCsSA-R9yHpq5mUFyDdOkps4DVzvljE1A/s1600/DSCN0529.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPbP0zWmGQ6WpZ_6m5X6Qx_hzHFBE8xdyiPJ_9y65Wk46z-K2G2kSa0Dm_qxq3qmB8Biz2ummMkPt3iH52vx8CiEZKGpjZ1BA2UW2Fo6qfK8eCsSA-R9yHpq5mUFyDdOkps4DVzvljE1A/s320/DSCN0529.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666145679374336930" /></a>Bob multi assaulted like crazy. After shooting down all but one Icubi and Drahzar. Did some damage with my beasts and Drahzar, killing all but 2 or so of his Incubi, and perhaps a few helions. But he won combat. Beasts passed morale, and Drahzar passed fearless saves. Helions hit and ran out of combat, leaving Drahzar free to move as he was too far from anything else.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_caNmNms6u37K2F083WY4sxe4t11mLX-Gzokn9pXw8Cl2vSeBCcvRBJmy9NOQixQiKyhzBqTVI_KlOwScRP7g3W5SSgkgGtWUmJAOGnUNHcF6fGeocF2UcwcHlD08JYYiruabUlMEYc/s1600/DSCN0530.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_caNmNms6u37K2F083WY4sxe4t11mLX-Gzokn9pXw8Cl2vSeBCcvRBJmy9NOQixQiKyhzBqTVI_KlOwScRP7g3W5SSgkgGtWUmJAOGnUNHcF6fGeocF2UcwcHlD08JYYiruabUlMEYc/s320/DSCN0530.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666145556646519330" /></a>mmm Drahzar likey killy Incubi.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHklxw8XnGZwj3V2YBgYrvyaN1ounQwocCWV3vApm0Xc55HD4-BJ7QOsE8cSAZpqN72pMgMkGgpt4rcYGflcdNIXWgyhjRTDWndXWqLvQM-Je4UtXLjL96Lk9jieMhQTo42Q4kbgHwc4/s1600/DSCN0531.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHklxw8XnGZwj3V2YBgYrvyaN1ounQwocCWV3vApm0Xc55HD4-BJ7QOsE8cSAZpqN72pMgMkGgpt4rcYGflcdNIXWgyhjRTDWndXWqLvQM-Je4UtXLjL96Lk9jieMhQTo42Q4kbgHwc4/s320/DSCN0531.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666145356506565154" /></a>My turn 5 I sent Drahzar scuttling after the Helions who were standing in front of my wych unit. Wyches and Talos joined them in the assault. Beasts made it from the other side to assault a venom, but did nothing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Drahzar assaulted in with 6 attacks, and killed 7 helions(every time he rolls a 6 to wound he gets a bonus attack, I rolled 3 6's). Talos ate some more, Helions broke and were cut down. Other combat was a draw between beasts and Incubi.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bob's turn 5 he boosted over to claim an objective with his wracks on the top left. And settled his ravagers to take shots on my Talos.</div><div><br /></div><div>At this point in the game we were both so lost we lost track of turns... its only in rehashing it that we got it right lol. We ended up thinking that I had last turn, and so we played my half of turn 6 and called it there. I ended up moving to take all 4 quarters, and had 3 objectives to his 2. And was winning on kill points. If we had really done it correctly, he would have likely gotten 1 quarter and 1 objective, perhaps a second quarter, and I would have still gotten 2-3 quarters and won on either objectives 3-1 or kill points.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bob is great. We have close tight games, especially since we know each other's lists so well as we spend lots of time debating and helping each other craft them. I would have loved to have played someone else, who I dont see every week. But sometimes thats how the cookie crumbles at tournaments. And you cant ask for a better person to play than Bob, and Im not the only one who would say that, he won best sportsman at BFS.</div><div><br /></div><div>Check out his blog here for his version of events: http://bloodskullsfire.blogspot.com/2011/10/bfs-game-4.html</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-60552022418093706172011-10-20T17:57:00.010-04:002011-10-21T00:05:05.613-04:00Battle for Salvation: Game 3Who's got thumbs and Loves Chaos? This Guy!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qIxAgWBaWXoOuYXIa1D3UtZlO7jrpCbIntUr5BaQWwKMXvWiUjffAd2XYnRPFHhHKxMt5qS9UeIPVkxISLZOkIl6BlitR35x4zgdEjGLlGarhx-TMa-AbW13nD0APdviVbUNCwIkqwE/s1600/DSCN0516.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qIxAgWBaWXoOuYXIa1D3UtZlO7jrpCbIntUr5BaQWwKMXvWiUjffAd2XYnRPFHhHKxMt5qS9UeIPVkxISLZOkIl6BlitR35x4zgdEjGLlGarhx-TMa-AbW13nD0APdviVbUNCwIkqwE/s320/DSCN0516.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665698500138976994" /></a><a name='more'></a><br /><div>Game 3 paired me up with my friend Ragnar from the Cold Steel Mercs. Ive known Ragnar for about a year now, and even helped him win the annual CSMercs invitational by drawing with Matt Cassidy. But I had not had the opportunity to play Ragnar until now.<div><br /></div><div>Ragnar's list:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><b><span class="glossaryitem">HQ</span></b><br />Lord Uriel Ascendent<br />Daemon Prince (110), Wings (20), Mark of Slaanesh (5), Lash of Submission (20) = 155<br />Lord Talmachus the Reaper<br />Daemon Prince (110), Wings (20), Mark of Slaanesh (5), Lash of Submission (20) = 155<br />Skane the Soul-Eater<br />Greater Daemon = 100<br /><b>Elite</b><br />The “Deathwing”<br />3 Chaos Terminators (90), 3x Combi-Melta (15) = 105<br />Feared Brother Domius<br />Chaos Dreadnought with Missile Launcher, <span class="glossaryitem">CCW</span> = 100<br />Hunter Squad V<br />5 Chaos Chosen (90), w/3x Meltagun (30), 1x Flamer (5), Aspiring Champion Flavius (10) = 135<br />in Rhino I w/Smoke & Searchlight = 35<br /><b>Troops</b><br />Tactical Squad I<br />5 Chaos Space Marines (75) w/Icon of Chaos Glory (10), 1x Flamer (5) = 90<br />Tactical Squad II<br />10 Chaos Space Marines (150) w/Icon of Chaos Glory (10), 2x Meltagun (20), incl. Aspiring Champion Ezekiel (15) w/Power Fist (25) & Bolt Pistol = 220<br />in Rhino II w/Smoke & Searchlight, Combi-Melta (10) = 45<br />Tactical Squad III<br />10 Chaos Space Marines (150) w/Icon of Chaos Glory (10), 2x Meltagun (20), incl. Aspiring Champion Michael (15) w/Power Fist (15) & Bolt Pistol = 220<br />in Rhino III w/Smoke & Searchlight, Combi-Melta (10) = 45<br />Our Desire Frustrated<br />5 Daemonettes (Lesser Daemons) = 65<br />Our Rage Given Flesh<br />5 Bloodletters (Lesser Daemons) = 65<br /><b>Heavy Support</b><br />Havoc Squad Omega<br />5 <span class="glossaryitem">CSM</span> (75), Icon of Chaos Glory (10), 4 Missile Launchers (80) = 165<br />Reviled Brothers Brutus and Magnus<br />2 Obliterators = 150<br />Reviled Brothers Cassius and Publius<br />2 Obliterators = 150 </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">Game 3 was pitched battle deployment. Primary objective was seize ground. Secondary was kill points and tertiary was quarters. Ragnar won the roll and gave me first turn.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div>Here is our deployments. Ive got the harlequins with archon on the far right.</div><div><br /></div><div>He's deployed the 5 man marines near the building on the right. Havocs up in that building. 10 man marine squad in the Rhino on the right. Chosen and other 10 man squad on the left. Princes in the middle. Terminators, demons, and oblits deepstriking.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizf5HOAdRs2IGmBnPusrgtO4jQP3eciYlon7lLfV4Y7bnhctormTv5cN-30-QvSq43ZjUOqH1EpA0cRCxGIGorzjxFXfO70LHQEJLk-9gFQ3UClFbq9SHvn-QyGNHmCa8-Whyphenhyphen-RSPLRiM/s1600/DSCN0517.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizf5HOAdRs2IGmBnPusrgtO4jQP3eciYlon7lLfV4Y7bnhctormTv5cN-30-QvSq43ZjUOqH1EpA0cRCxGIGorzjxFXfO70LHQEJLk-9gFQ3UClFbq9SHvn-QyGNHmCa8-Whyphenhyphen-RSPLRiM/s320/DSCN0517.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665698335258431794" /></a>I move up on turn 1 and drop the portal. Pitched battle is actually the worst deployment for the one portal list set up.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ragnar then moves up. Sorry the pic is blurry, you can see his rhinos have shuffled towards the central cover, trying to give a little berth to the portal.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiW2Ydm9GQHoVq8ClqWBP1tAcGjjlEYIvF3c7iGB3ZVs0C8_sa2ZbX9S22u4HGokyeGkkZAFVuQ1k3fwaA2giZuHqMCRaNq2houxgX27b22-3yuiY0l2FyZw5ehkAJ8EBc71IZGPp9p4A/s1600/DSCN0518.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiW2Ydm9GQHoVq8ClqWBP1tAcGjjlEYIvF3c7iGB3ZVs0C8_sa2ZbX9S22u4HGokyeGkkZAFVuQ1k3fwaA2giZuHqMCRaNq2houxgX27b22-3yuiY0l2FyZw5ehkAJ8EBc71IZGPp9p4A/s320/DSCN0518.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665698159837881858" /></a>Turn 2 I got 1 Talos, Cronos, 1 wych squad, 1 beast squad, and the Incubi in. Wyches and Incubi got great move through cover rolls though the building. Cronos went left and ran. Talos moved right and lined up a shot on the Rhino there. Beasts came out the back of the portal and wrapped forward. Archon joined the back of the Incubi, while harlequins separated and ran left.</div><div><br /></div><div>Was just inside half range with the heat lance. hit, pen, explode. Great fleet rolls by both Incubi and Wyches meant 10 dead chaos marines with no casualties back. Archon is great for giving grenades to Incubi. Randomly placed the pain point and lady luck favored the wyches.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADpjO_z5c7UwAbl16teEQinA8YfQRdqYSJLznh5IeQGpIJfCZlIo8Ya5maJpyjmxA7k5x3pp88y4kIEWpHHPHSgvpHuKVjboeK2nQn7YjDSjWiD6edjibgt9EM9-k5JvV5ihCD07ieA0/s1600/DSCN0519.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADpjO_z5c7UwAbl16teEQinA8YfQRdqYSJLznh5IeQGpIJfCZlIo8Ya5maJpyjmxA7k5x3pp88y4kIEWpHHPHSgvpHuKVjboeK2nQn7YjDSjWiD6edjibgt9EM9-k5JvV5ihCD07ieA0/s320/DSCN0519.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665697883403130770" /></a>Ragnar was reeling from the fast hit, but he is a pro. On turn 2 he got in one lesser demon pack, and both Obliterator units. He dropped one oblit on the top side, with a lesser demon pack, and the other off the bottom left of the board near my deployment edge.</div><div><br /></div><div>Rhinos pulled back, needing to get safely away from the Incubi death team. Princes lashed wyches in front of the oblits. They got flamed... a lot. But passed an ungodly amount of feel no pain saves. Leaving me with about 9 of the 15 still alive. So Ragnar had to charge into them with the lesser demons. I killed 4 of the 5 sadly getting stuck in combat.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxL37Se_n-RX8xFi8zbOj4acGOzBVExBZR2wJ6J3nfTE2dmjYnXtBylfXbkjXGzhoc_tbp7x1Y0o8yAZBslPXJeJ3XODWQkl2Azsauf_sa8tW-dLhd3SqNNK3be1PCVqFDBLsyGCuphTg/s1600/DSCN0520.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxL37Se_n-RX8xFi8zbOj4acGOzBVExBZR2wJ6J3nfTE2dmjYnXtBylfXbkjXGzhoc_tbp7x1Y0o8yAZBslPXJeJ3XODWQkl2Azsauf_sa8tW-dLhd3SqNNK3be1PCVqFDBLsyGCuphTg/s320/DSCN0520.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665697715909353570" /></a>Turn 3 was pretty pivotal. I got my other talos, wych squad, and beast unit in. Seeing Ragnar's oblits close to my board edge on the left(see final pic) got me all excited to charge them with beasts. I sent the Talos in on that edge as well to give support in case his dreadnought came down.</div><div><br /></div><div>After a few moments of indecision I sent the wyches in from my table edge on the right side.</div><div><br /></div><div>My other wyches were locked in combat. My other beasts moved toward the building on the top right, followed by the Talos, and after a weak move through cover roll the INcubi... who I really didnt have a plan with and in hindsight should have gone left instead though it may not have mattered.</div><div><br /></div><div>Also on the left the Cronos and Harelequins moved up and assaulted the Chosen's Rhino wrecking it. The wyches predictably finished off the last lesser demon.</div><div><br /></div><div>The beasts on the top right assaulted though the building needing a 6 to double to 12 to reach the 5 man troop squad there. Easily tearing through their power armor and sending the last man fleeing for the table edge.</div><div><br /></div><div>And on the left side failure.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh66rHbwdCxkO9yzEVd_3WWjCNU4zcRlxT_JxMKDRKmxEBMzQUPPZMpxAFHMHFskmKPYSSYJeRh9oy3d9F9e7IlWKvRKdoPbro3Qf-VeRrEDcmm0zFhMkyoTi5SQpB9VWu-leXb07t5VSg/s1600/DSCN0521.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh66rHbwdCxkO9yzEVd_3WWjCNU4zcRlxT_JxMKDRKmxEBMzQUPPZMpxAFHMHFskmKPYSSYJeRh9oy3d9F9e7IlWKvRKdoPbro3Qf-VeRrEDcmm0zFhMkyoTi5SQpB9VWu-leXb07t5VSg/s320/DSCN0521.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665697531409635618" /></a>here was my assault set up with beasts on the oblits... I moved poorly and so had to touch the terrain so needed to test. Needed probably just a 3 to get there, rolled double 2's oh well. I think in hindsight there may have been a way to make it creating a screen with the furthest models, but regardless sloppy play and a clock will leave you in bad spots sometimes and you need to take your lumps. So Ragnar's forgetfulness in putting the oblits so close to the edge was saved by my poor movement phase.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjIuyCAXJ81DuKTXLA8paTASruXNUcEjXAA1-91o_WwlYDX1nLjrCTCLTWL1v_mEnehiYYW1Y3PBC-36QliAhFLNYAAgZGmUCWcRJhRvYYNtmeCEP2UJJ_C6khcyhsDlKJwTpEW5rgJAE/s1600/DSCN0522.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjIuyCAXJ81DuKTXLA8paTASruXNUcEjXAA1-91o_WwlYDX1nLjrCTCLTWL1v_mEnehiYYW1Y3PBC-36QliAhFLNYAAgZGmUCWcRJhRvYYNtmeCEP2UJJ_C6khcyhsDlKJwTpEW5rgJAE/s320/DSCN0522.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665697271480502146" /></a>Ran out of pics at this point as the game got really tight and the clock was against us.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Ragnar's turn 3 he got his other demon pack in, and his terminators. Terminators and Chosen killed off my Cronos. Demon princes both lashed the INcubi, into a tight little pile, which he hoped to plasma cannon away... but my wyches kept passing feel no pain saves, so he shot them down instead. Havocs dropped frag on my incubi and 37 wounds later everyone but Drahzar and the Archon were dead.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 4 I slid my wyches in the bottom half trying to maybe reach out and grab the middle objective in addition to that one in the corner but couldnt reach. My beasts in the bottom left got to charge the oblits there and killed one. In the top right Drahzar assaulted the Havocs and killed them, while the Archon joined the beasts to give them grenades while they assaulted and killed the demon prince.</div><div><br /></div><div>On the top left all I had was the Harlequins. So I lined them up and assaulted his 10 man marine squad and lesser demons I guess hoping to break them both to win on objectives. I killed some but not enough, losing all but one harlequins.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Ragnar's turn 4 he did some things including killing the harlequin. But all that really mattered was he moved his demon prince its 12" and was just high enough while sitting on his wrecked rhino to see my wych squad and just in range to lash them off my objective so he could pull off the win.</div><div><br /></div><div>I won the secondary and tertiary.</div><div><br /></div><div>Both our lists did a great job of putting pressure on each other. I think in that last turn I lost sight of the fact that I didnt need to win primary to win the game, I was winning everything else already. If my harlequins had assaulted the demon prince instead of the troops I think the game would have easily been mine no matter how many more turns we went. As it was with the demon prince running free he would have won no matter how many turns we went on.</div><div><br /></div><div>I had 6 harlequins with kisses left at that juncture. Thats 24 attacks, so 12 hits, so 2 rends and 2 saves for the prince. So he loses maybe 2 wounds. He probably kills 3 back or so, probably lock him a turn which is probably all I'd need.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ah well. It was an awesome game. With us both making some critical mistakes and also wonderful counters back and forth. Cant wait for another shot at it with Ragnar king of Chaos!</div></div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-54356160883883519202011-10-19T18:25:00.009-04:002011-10-19T19:36:56.291-04:00Battle for Salvation: Game 2So game 2 and they told me I was on table 1. I got all giddy and was kinda weirded out because I thought I hadnt won all that well in my first round. Well I had forgotten it was NOVA and not regular swiss so not only was I really the worst winnner from round 1... doh... I had to play the best winner.<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>And the best winner from round 1 was Chris Dubuque. Ive played chris at several other events. He has even travelled up the perilous 7 connector to play me at my home store. We always have fun exciting games. And Chris's army is absolutely beautiful. He ended up winning best painted at Battle for Salvation against stiff competition.</div><div><br /></div><div>His list was:</div><div>Mephiston</div><div>Sanguinor</div><div>3 Priests with power weapons, 2 had jump packs</div><div>5 Assault terminators </div><div>Chaplain</div><div>2 10 man Assault squads with power weapons, and a mix of meltas and flamers</div><div>2 5 man Scout squads</div><div>A Landraider Crusader</div><div><br /></div><div>Mission was Spearhead, Table quarters first, with seize ground and kill points as tie breakers.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think Chris won the roll to go first and told me to go for it. We shook hands and prepared for glory.</div><div><br /></div><div>I deployed my harlequins with the archon. The harlequins are my go to deploy in this army in everything but dawn of war. They really make a great unit to deploy my webway archon in. Not only do they ignore terrain for movement, but with the shadowseer they have improved night fight making them hard to shoot at so I can almost always get my webway down going first or second.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chris deployed his army behind his Landraider, with scouts sitting in that building and another squad outflanking.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyP_SPe080bKIMlGkvkcjvxAZk9639NKZRFik2RmAAdn7MR5RAtIA1yLsgp1ATm3xC5PUO63wjZ_gXftWHClcixHKOc9-LddEm3IV9wmiKqppgSCdEPxbc31E3W26ZFY0GJjnsM5wJTLI/s1600/DSCN0509.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyP_SPe080bKIMlGkvkcjvxAZk9639NKZRFik2RmAAdn7MR5RAtIA1yLsgp1ATm3xC5PUO63wjZ_gXftWHClcixHKOc9-LddEm3IV9wmiKqppgSCdEPxbc31E3W26ZFY0GJjnsM5wJTLI/s320/DSCN0509.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665336269812028162" /></a>Chris shuffled forward a bit on his first turn, and shot at the harlequins killing a few.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCZoofPPvphpd6jTMdBECSqSuHWLUn3r9z4hkC_7ofZFruqa8yBZz9Jw94L5lZNW54IJ48FoA5x-zoymElCl5QFgUs_09WNbrdBvDRJ_ZJsxnbIG5bRIE9Jk_65_h_Sd0kKBvA2nWDfes/s1600/DSCN0510.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCZoofPPvphpd6jTMdBECSqSuHWLUn3r9z4hkC_7ofZFruqa8yBZz9Jw94L5lZNW54IJ48FoA5x-zoymElCl5QFgUs_09WNbrdBvDRJ_ZJsxnbIG5bRIE9Jk_65_h_Sd0kKBvA2nWDfes/s320/DSCN0510.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665336146473237234" /></a>My turn 2 I got a unit of wyches, a unit of beasts, and 2 Taloses into the fray. Wyches got a terrible move through cover roll... a 2. But oh well Archon switched to them. Talos moved centrally out of the portal to shoot the Landraider. Beasts slid up top. Shot at land raider and immobilized it with heat lances. Then charged with beasts, Talos, and wyches hoping to surround it. After all that was 2" short to close it off, stupid slow wyches.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincrK_nOWQ8XhI8Rq51nWwxfAkctjD3tEa6MQN2tjO6vLTnDHYn0VTHl0i3KPOInSuvCufh9FuKQnnDeKRBA1335NeOR1aHxHLsrFzoTJ8jO_A0CCb493xL3vhsFPu_22taKTVPn7b4wc/s1600/DSCN0511.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincrK_nOWQ8XhI8Rq51nWwxfAkctjD3tEa6MQN2tjO6vLTnDHYn0VTHl0i3KPOInSuvCufh9FuKQnnDeKRBA1335NeOR1aHxHLsrFzoTJ8jO_A0CCb493xL3vhsFPu_22taKTVPn7b4wc/s320/DSCN0511.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665335957491111922" /></a>But the wyches wrecked it with Haywire grenades spilling the terminators out the rear door.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpU4J2uSi-FOvmYDzQZTWQCz_lSBe2cRkn3WGbWj3OUpyI9bFMswhhmX86jqoVmX3j_kQ57IVWfwC3jtRz2VRSp0_PLDDbGPDzObfFCusRdvwItOSppFNUQ-lNTZYemeccA1sC2uKhho/s1600/DSCN0512.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpU4J2uSi-FOvmYDzQZTWQCz_lSBe2cRkn3WGbWj3OUpyI9bFMswhhmX86jqoVmX3j_kQ57IVWfwC3jtRz2VRSp0_PLDDbGPDzObfFCusRdvwItOSppFNUQ-lNTZYemeccA1sC2uKhho/s320/DSCN0512.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665335761442338514" /></a>On Chris's turn 2 the counter charge was on. It was at this point in the game I began to worry a bit. Mephiston jumped up on the cliff ready to charge my Archon. The terminators and Sanguinor lined up to charge some wyches. Assault squads shuffled and began shooting up beasts, who went to ground. I go to ground a lot more with this army than any I have played before.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mephiston charged my Archon and I got to use the spiffy plans for my clone field and shadnets. 3 shardnet wyches got into base to base with mephiston. Combined with defensive grenades and a healthy 2 clones I was able to negate all of mephistons attacks on my Archon. Then Chris began to sweat, I had the reroll to wound drugs and a blade that causes instant death whahahahah. However with 5 attacks I managed one measly hit, and after 2 tries to roll a 6 failed Chris breathed easier. Terminators did healthy amounts of death to wyches. I lost combat by 8-9, would have only been 3-4 had I killed mephiston. Failed leadership and was promptly cut down by mephistons sweeping advance.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrmaSAnT304O8dJCWi9nGla-9muOVHydZNm2Vok6wtv_8J7138aSOs8FJYBrLKbGT2A033GcKZLBF8ta_RrPJlKaEAx-nw_GtOmWqvO_yWXN-uxAyOYFqJaoodHYF20wjP6M3TQJusO04/s1600/DSCN0513.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrmaSAnT304O8dJCWi9nGla-9muOVHydZNm2Vok6wtv_8J7138aSOs8FJYBrLKbGT2A033GcKZLBF8ta_RrPJlKaEAx-nw_GtOmWqvO_yWXN-uxAyOYFqJaoodHYF20wjP6M3TQJusO04/s320/DSCN0513.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665335610738954482" /></a>My turn 3 I got only the Cronos and another beast pack in. My other beast unit was pinned down. I sent one Talos into his nearest assault squad. Everything else I sent into the terminators and mephiston. Mainly hoping to kill the terminators and maybe hurt mephiston enough to win combat and maybe he would run away.</div><div><br /></div><div>Managed to kill the terminators, but they got to attack since I had no grenades. Tie combat meant everyone was still stuck, beasts and one lone harlequin on mephiston and Talos and Cronos on the Chaplain who survived.</div><div><br /></div><div>The other talos started killing marines at a high rate, only taking one wound in return.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Chris's turn 3 he moved the free assault squad and Sanguinor to take care of my other beast unit. His other scout squad out flanked on the far left side of the board and went into hiding. He easily sent the beasts fleeing.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the huge scrum in the middle the chaplain was easily killed by the monsters, and the beasts began to wound mephiston with rending attacks. Now here came an interesting ruling from the judges, after the combat I moved my beasts in to surround mephiston, which left no room for the Talos or Cronos. In my understanding of the rules they would then be free of combat while the beasts and mephiston would be locked. THe judges said that since somebody couldnt get in the whole thing broke up... I didnt argue too much even though I didnt agree since it just meant that I would charge again with the beasts... but still not how I would play that situation.</div><div><br /></div><div>The other talos routed the remaining assault marines.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7SV-s2KXZnrAqi1znMoKob3af1NuyeMN_FXGMfIsn72U1ARb35ENphdvACPvsX8ZyGz3Pbg65VcsFtaP_PMVlDsQ1ezWD3UANv_58xUWi28tnN166McIcSKbVD2KlZePD3Xs1S_4tN4/s1600/DSCN0514.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7SV-s2KXZnrAqi1znMoKob3af1NuyeMN_FXGMfIsn72U1ARb35ENphdvACPvsX8ZyGz3Pbg65VcsFtaP_PMVlDsQ1ezWD3UANv_58xUWi28tnN166McIcSKbVD2KlZePD3Xs1S_4tN4/s320/DSCN0514.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665335469603812930" /></a>On my turn 4 I got my Incubi/Drahzar and my other wych unit onto the table. Incubi lined up from Chris's Assault marines and Chris just took them off the table. Wyches charged Sanguinor and began to whittle him down doing 2 wounds to only one in return.</div><div><br /></div><div>Beasts finished off mephiston, while Talos and Cronos ripped apart the static scouts on the far right. My other Talos moved into the bottom right quarter to hold it.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-rtGJ8DLU_k-nDNkctt5cZUR4MgFZC8arMSdi4873-zVDAGPs0sOY-mT64Vl-AYI8FwZfS61UF7mg22TZ2Dqr6kDbWnUFsFEsVsaC4y5cg-9BLEEIpesVgL1bHpLzwwtkfzB5T_W3ISc/s1600/DSCN0515.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-rtGJ8DLU_k-nDNkctt5cZUR4MgFZC8arMSdi4873-zVDAGPs0sOY-mT64Vl-AYI8FwZfS61UF7mg22TZ2Dqr6kDbWnUFsFEsVsaC4y5cg-9BLEEIpesVgL1bHpLzwwtkfzB5T_W3ISc/s320/DSCN0515.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665335312463729122" /></a>On Chris's turn 4 he moved his scouts into the bottom left quarter, and my wyches finished off his award winning Sanguinor.</div><div><br /></div><div>Game was great. Really was impressed with my army's ability to kill some really tough units that the Blood Angels can field. Chris was wowed with just how destructive my army was in combat, with each of my units being equal to or greater than his best combat troops as well.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-19709708391791721282011-10-18T21:19:00.003-04:002011-10-18T21:27:50.588-04:00Battle for Salvation: Army listWhoops forgot to put this up.<div><br /></div><div>Archon: webway portal, ghost plate armor, huskblade, soul trap, phantasm grenade launcher, clone field, combat drugs - 205</div><div><br /></div><div>Drahzar lord of Awesome sauce - 230</div><div><br /></div><div>7 Incubi - 154</div><div><br /></div><div>7 Harlequins - 6 kisses, 2 fusion pistols, shadowseer - 200</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Wyches - 3 shardnets, Hexatrix, haywire grenades - 220</div><div><br /></div><div>15 Wyches - 3 shardnets, Hexatrix, haywire grenades - 220</div><div><br /></div><div>4 Beast Masters - 8 Kymerra, 4 Razorwing Flocks - 204</div><div><br /></div><div>4 Beast Masters - 8 Kymerra, 4 Razorwing Flocks - 204</div><div><br /></div><div>Talos - chain flails, extra ccw, heat lance - 135</div><div><br /></div><div>Talos - chain flails, extra ccw, heat lance - 135</div><div><br /></div><div>Cronos - spirit probe - 90</div><div><br /></div><div>Basically I run out and assault you.</div><div><br /></div><div>I called it Athletes Foot all weekend, because its annoying, hard to get rid of and looked embarrassingly bad in its barely painted form. Also Footdar was taken and I wanted to get a head start on the cool internet nickname.</div><div><br /></div><div>I had had a lot of fun running a list like this all summer in a club campaign and wanted to bring it to a major event to see where it really stood. It worked great and surprised a lot of people.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-43017773025006266182011-10-18T20:25:00.010-04:002011-10-18T21:08:33.665-04:00Battle for Salvation: Game 1<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Game 1 found me against Charlie.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">he had Logan, a Rune Priest in Terminator Armour; 2 units of Long Fangs with Missiles and a third with Multi-meltas (why don't more people use MM?). Then 4 units of Wolf Guard with BP/CCW each with a couple terminators, one of which was Arjac. There were two Rhinos and two Pods(stolen from my friend bobs blog who played him also).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a name='more'></a><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So game one was dawn of war deployment, with kill points as the primary. I think secondary was quarters with objectives 3rd. I won the roll to go first and deployed 2 units of wyches, with the Archon in one.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Charlie deployed Arjac's unit and a second wolf guard squad on the top right. He had everything else slated to come in turn 1. My stuff was all in reserve ready for portal fun.</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkspZEkPnB1DW8yO7iR8izHomRnxylpJh3Vhh6izLW2VTtOZYrbG0lgE0AqIj9NyCryhbB9WNWZEShY-IMXS3lm3AaJw_rwD0MN0y9KVBqAO2vj2KCWBy1b0hBV-3MhUBoQTbqX0OBeZo/s1600/DSCN0503.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkspZEkPnB1DW8yO7iR8izHomRnxylpJh3Vhh6izLW2VTtOZYrbG0lgE0AqIj9NyCryhbB9WNWZEShY-IMXS3lm3AaJw_rwD0MN0y9KVBqAO2vj2KCWBy1b0hBV-3MhUBoQTbqX0OBeZo/s320/DSCN0503.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664994192938422034" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZVzDRrwDVAQaIwbKhhWbxnDJgbg4RDlSKP8FIh7rGiEu-AJzexXHeyXvqOjLfCqzdZNSG7nA1MIY9f9uYRCfLheO6g9C8CDVg2kJGq8uNOy-39sbS_DWzQ5kiMwllYnx7TcJ70rYi5o/s1600/DSCN0504.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZVzDRrwDVAQaIwbKhhWbxnDJgbg4RDlSKP8FIh7rGiEu-AJzexXHeyXvqOjLfCqzdZNSG7nA1MIY9f9uYRCfLheO6g9C8CDVg2kJGq8uNOy-39sbS_DWzQ5kiMwllYnx7TcJ70rYi5o/s320/DSCN0504.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664993779196646242" /></a>Then Charlie seized the initiative and his stuff came in. Rhino lit up my Archons unit and the shooting began. Lost a large chunk of that squad. Down to about 6 models and the Archon, but passed morale so wasnt a huge problem.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBpv7T4Nsz6meu8YWz3oS9cZw9kRctuXY2I-8pD50cD28clUBxIYroOOS5MIgRIOcJrwGJ4_vk6U659dQSwBmj7PaCiL59zCfHLKKOoNmqkh7Ilm-Mq0ms1QjceiMEjewElU6U0CFMIlY/s1600/DSCN0505.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBpv7T4Nsz6meu8YWz3oS9cZw9kRctuXY2I-8pD50cD28clUBxIYroOOS5MIgRIOcJrwGJ4_vk6U659dQSwBmj7PaCiL59zCfHLKKOoNmqkh7Ilm-Mq0ms1QjceiMEjewElU6U0CFMIlY/s320/DSCN0505.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664993613014175154" /></a>So my turn 1 I moved the intact wych squad left and up to threaten his flank and perhaps scare his long fangs that had popped out of Rhinos. My other squad hunkered down behind the central building trying to get out of LOS. Archon dropped the portal.</div><div><br /></div><div>on Charlie's second turn he began to shoot at my left wych squad. i had spaced out to only be hit by small blasts once or twice. Got cover lost some wyches. The squad behind the building was largely safe from shooting, luckily right out of murderous hurricane range as Charlie had backed up to get away from my portal.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbc6-i8r8FgPLE36yiXAwjp6hpaptqLm4xoyjNAqp1vi6ZLZ-0eALNoDjEOZbfrkD1SuXVWAtHdWOKE9ztaW-4Rin3ICdIKCHouQ_nuondQ02xc0PTcxi65WFcRmhaDnCtxlpsLYy9n0/s1600/DSCN0506.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbc6-i8r8FgPLE36yiXAwjp6hpaptqLm4xoyjNAqp1vi6ZLZ-0eALNoDjEOZbfrkD1SuXVWAtHdWOKE9ztaW-4Rin3ICdIKCHouQ_nuondQ02xc0PTcxi65WFcRmhaDnCtxlpsLYy9n0/s320/DSCN0506.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664993453127973698" /></a>Turn 2 I got most all my reserves except for one Talos. Beasts went right, shooting toward the long fang squad and Arjac and Logan and the rune priests wolf guard squad. Incubi and Drahzar also moved that way hoping to kill some power armor. Harlequins moved through the cover toward a Rhino, joined by the Archon, along with the Talos and Cronos.</div><div><br /></div><div>Beasts assaulted the drop pod and long fangs, killing a few but not devastatingly. Beast unit absolutely deck logan and company. Killed the rune priest all 6 power armor guys, and a terminator. And won combat leaving Logan, Arjac and a terminator. </div><div><br /></div><div>Incubi had been left out with a bad run roll. Harlequins wrecked the rhino.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65U6Vj2fGkXcVbTCbayWpX0kdun57a7MA5EL0uOkEETgP07llI_VMfJs4CsG2Cv0DlpMn-ukOTGh1UPCk-PA8Ai2wR6YWT_OyW7q_y_FGcxA5FQ9-1eUBtGvBaCARTyYGURzqhf-___k/s1600/DSCN0507.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65U6Vj2fGkXcVbTCbayWpX0kdun57a7MA5EL0uOkEETgP07llI_VMfJs4CsG2Cv0DlpMn-ukOTGh1UPCk-PA8Ai2wR6YWT_OyW7q_y_FGcxA5FQ9-1eUBtGvBaCARTyYGURzqhf-___k/s320/DSCN0507.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664993296003492306" /></a>Charlie's turn 3 saw him formulating counter assaults and beginning to shoot. He shot a few wyches. Killed the Cronos. And then shot and charged the harlequins and the beasts that were locked with Logan.</div><div><br /></div><div>Harlequins were whittled down, but with Archons help won that combat leaving 2 terminators and 2 power armor guys left. With incoming help Logan and Arjac sent the beasts running. But the other BEast Squad killed the Longfangs.</div><div><br /></div><div>They also told us at this time that we were well... out of time. SO my turn 3 would be the last. A quick check of the mission parameters saw that we were likely tied or close enough on kill points as long as the harlequins and archon didnt bite it. So I just needed to close the gap on other things.</div><div><br /></div><div>I moved the wych squad on the left to spread out and take bottom left objective and contest the top one. The central wych squad was happy to sit on that objective. On the right I moved the beasts to contest that top objective. I sent the incubi back right to secure that quarter.</div><div><br /></div><div>In order to have some fun I sent Drahzar in to "save" the Archon. Between him and the Archon the space wolves died gloriously.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZpb20NbC6cDLyDPLSzdCZp5CWD6lORRT6HvIEg1AXOb4W4QOzYBo63JySmsfAXkloHY9YG8fRnq3p2RETiFYznmHd955mRKgPOktDmdKLohs0vt_QznEOW5b3pjTeHzLYfTmE0yqRtM/s1600/DSCN0508.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZpb20NbC6cDLyDPLSzdCZp5CWD6lORRT6HvIEg1AXOb4W4QOzYBo63JySmsfAXkloHY9YG8fRnq3p2RETiFYznmHd955mRKgPOktDmdKLohs0vt_QznEOW5b3pjTeHzLYfTmE0yqRtM/s320/DSCN0508.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664993107148937778" /></a>So Charlie and I tied on kill points. Tied on Quarters, and I wont 2 Objectives to none.</div><div><br /></div><div>Was a fun game, though sadly very short. Going from my all Dreadnought army that has very little dice to this was a huge change and I made concerted efforts to play even faster in games after this.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-34944740782978315722011-10-18T20:05:00.001-04:002011-10-18T20:07:44.156-04:00So Ive been too lazy to post in a long long while.<div>So Ive been busy... taking pics at events... half doing some battle reports... and posting nothing.</div><div><br /></div><div>So instead of trying to work off notes and get everything up Im going to post up some pics from all the things Ive been going to. Colonial, Bros Grim Gt. Ill post up some Nova stuff and do a few selected reports from those events. And full reports from BFS with my new army.</div><div><a name='more'></a><br /></div>Darn orks charged out and killed my dreadnought.... too bad Vulkan showed up next turn with his heavy flamer. Sorry Bill.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQzBAXNz2Yc_hvrezkqpEHwjOjLJZuTF-KgQCIKkptEbm8V-h0LSX6aLCmdzVTQu0HdVOqFuSKHPAkmy1lgFqRqnT3cl27cTIupp9hhFqYity0r8oCtMyMmmiJjhDldJZ6PLa6FkfwfA/s1600/DSCN0319.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQzBAXNz2Yc_hvrezkqpEHwjOjLJZuTF-KgQCIKkptEbm8V-h0LSX6aLCmdzVTQu0HdVOqFuSKHPAkmy1lgFqRqnT3cl27cTIupp9hhFqYity0r8oCtMyMmmiJjhDldJZ6PLa6FkfwfA/s320/DSCN0319.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664983093640903874" /></a>These were Rob Baer's great looking blood angels at Bros. Grim. Lost a tight game to them at the end of day 1.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinGKBNrl8tXBjt8JcGhONGS7bFPCwiyLo0g9zEfYklVoJ57jsu7oJB1d12btXQUDcRDUbhl9YTFPSWs-dPq2Yd9rVR_ABsCVqoCbjS9LM64vqS0w2ivSO5SUUfw-8EhM7nkcvZwvhEY_U/s1600/DSCN0424.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinGKBNrl8tXBjt8JcGhONGS7bFPCwiyLo0g9zEfYklVoJ57jsu7oJB1d12btXQUDcRDUbhl9YTFPSWs-dPq2Yd9rVR_ABsCVqoCbjS9LM64vqS0w2ivSO5SUUfw-8EhM7nkcvZwvhEY_U/s320/DSCN0424.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664982550643933746" /></a>Lost to Andrew Blackwells deamons on the top table of Bros Grim after fighting back into the top bracket. I knew the game would be tough when vulkan fled from combat early in the game... managed to regroup later but lost that poor dreadnought because of it.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpHCy7w9F1pMn6tQxkD7hodNDiCKhKq3MEEYODOgAeNwdyDoGG-Td3yRbvwwWU-UZoKtQhzOChlMwAo0CMAZiWrpZl27l_3ngmSwxoSwyU0mC0azu2XR35U5lAZSgXuvLtDDPc3Mw2YMI/s1600/DSCN0441.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpHCy7w9F1pMn6tQxkD7hodNDiCKhKq3MEEYODOgAeNwdyDoGG-Td3yRbvwwWU-UZoKtQhzOChlMwAo0CMAZiWrpZl27l_3ngmSwxoSwyU0mC0azu2XR35U5lAZSgXuvLtDDPc3Mw2YMI/s320/DSCN0441.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664982397283528930" /></a>Went to an Apocalypse game with my friend Eric. Here are his 6000pts of imperial guard. Mostly in the 1450pt Reaver and the 3 Baneblades.<br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHnDmWjtUuK3iMqMZIOpkVk0ETSX1PO8YwgEAohCtC2s5GTCJ_ZF79mi8nv0v4FZqnnEYltg4UM3YCVuCI_4HDwIIvhn4d6aVbx-v9NHsdBWdQwV7wMRIf3N-XyjWtBnRjemjZFck2Mrw/s320/DSCN0444.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664981731125594306" />And here were my 6000pts of Marines. Couple land raiders. Some terminators.<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_aEz5MxmyrpAd3weZxvzIJk8loriQiBf-RK4Zeu1aRKW33_e9bEcOA2C2JRqn67o1CjbXwFtfET19FWHjL1r99mLhHkdmjfl61I0BWitKTJ6qLIKubG71jgAH7RuysQBz6yOmauOM2Rk/s320/DSCN0445.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664981494758608418" />And something like 13 Dreadnoughts.<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQskJrLeiOtPsqdIkv3cjVMKwwAlvv8I5Bup9Zd9LmAGK8exQUsmCeb-N9rgbBzu0j9XCIKXw-lD7uS1t4OnVtLEPuTLqMSwGLXKC00YcBzKvdVXV8sDNMsnsEH7V9pmEJsysLV-JftIg/s320/DSCN0446.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663771904581891442" />Our team was over on the left. We really wanted to go first so bet we could set up our army in 4 min. we just made it and it was hilarious listening to the countdown from the other team, who bet they could set theirs up in 27 min.<div><br /></div><div>Game was fun if long. 22,000 pts per side. 6 super heavies each. we blew up their warhound, and a baneblade. And crippled their stompa and another baneblade on turn 1. Their eyes were huge after the initial destruction. But they fought on strong until succumbing to our advantage after 3 turns.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEOToCXReEL7qG5l0AVv-aYPp7TxLcgUy6EcNibaWTWpicIC_BvyJiRT2NeajpJNy-ew-YFpSMFwEZm2qb2S3xJAN0akxDYM-foII2wu_IkuSz6wFV6xwSUHv4n-hMv-XjSG5rFLGqX4/s1600/DSCN0453.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEOToCXReEL7qG5l0AVv-aYPp7TxLcgUy6EcNibaWTWpicIC_BvyJiRT2NeajpJNy-ew-YFpSMFwEZm2qb2S3xJAN0akxDYM-foII2wu_IkuSz6wFV6xwSUHv4n-hMv-XjSG5rFLGqX4/s320/DSCN0453.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664981984023826514" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">I finally got to play my friend Bob Evers at the Bros Grim Gt as well. In Salamander on Salamander goodness the dice gods favored me. Though his are far prettier.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjMyod-4mYFAQkAWbchlzytMmcDmu3AULXE_U1f775QPb1wpwJCt2Kuf-NV6FtFXzwTJxFqrFHOT3sjqm7W5UlN6_HDb9HjuqekZ7Oq7GSLCr4DTUU3CDqORO3iLXl1jc8s9IEadu8y0/s1600/DSCN0420.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjMyod-4mYFAQkAWbchlzytMmcDmu3AULXE_U1f775QPb1wpwJCt2Kuf-NV6FtFXzwTJxFqrFHOT3sjqm7W5UlN6_HDb9HjuqekZ7Oq7GSLCr4DTUU3CDqORO3iLXl1jc8s9IEadu8y0/s320/DSCN0420.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663771711929261698" /></a>And a teaser pic here is Chris Dubuque's beauty of a Blood Angel army... just before I charge them at Battle for Salvation.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNY2tAnOmTpf1LVi1AMusmWBrC2qNgxgL3XyIVeD52PJUYcSQx54GgZjy78Ri_JSgG_LJ2ReRwawz9eLmtp4y6FbZfuD0L1pWVt29ig2MGFCnAFoo6hpGqfAWZGdyUKRIrpytyyOyYtw/s1600/DSCN0510.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNY2tAnOmTpf1LVi1AMusmWBrC2qNgxgL3XyIVeD52PJUYcSQx54GgZjy78Ri_JSgG_LJ2ReRwawz9eLmtp4y6FbZfuD0L1pWVt29ig2MGFCnAFoo6hpGqfAWZGdyUKRIrpytyyOyYtw/s320/DSCN0510.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663771306784435554" /></a><br /></div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-49121568246455551242011-03-01T20:39:00.005-05:002011-03-01T21:08:54.354-05:00Temple con: 2500pt Titan's need not applySo I went to temple con early on in february. Been busy with work and such, and so havent had time to get pictures up from the weekend. Ended up playing in 3 events in a jam packed weekend. Started with the 2500pt tourney on friday night. Was running a pod filled list with no apoc or super heavy units. Just 5 dreadnoughts vulkan some tactical marines, speeders and sternguard packnig all kinds of combi meltas.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdPPdmxQVxg-2zGY1KrSl39_4nDWYSy97dVfrkjvrCIehNLwdjZpIH_0KaQ0uI1CSI0IR_6Qe7yEjeDpTCArtljTPCleQziniZQZqs_CsOdI_KmN6qMqKXXeQhAwvyxwmYvg_XSuDMog/s1600/DSCN0173.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdPPdmxQVxg-2zGY1KrSl39_4nDWYSy97dVfrkjvrCIehNLwdjZpIH_0KaQ0uI1CSI0IR_6Qe7yEjeDpTCArtljTPCleQziniZQZqs_CsOdI_KmN6qMqKXXeQhAwvyxwmYvg_XSuDMog/s320/DSCN0173.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579291911743042290" /></a><a name='more'></a>The highlight of the event was seizing the initiative against my first opponent and blowing up his gorgeous eldar titan turn 1 with the sternguard.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6kC-cAEEpxHtxOtp5RGP40Nxuzkio3f0tC6j6qVm9wYW4ljYeY5-QJ1Rmw5InCsQzJVJQyI2waFBU3U5533rixDyXQdLe8sWnAH3BFjxbViN_9HjQjykziFLHmlcrhRlCHZx3vs7ePs/s1600/DSCN0174.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6kC-cAEEpxHtxOtp5RGP40Nxuzkio3f0tC6j6qVm9wYW4ljYeY5-QJ1Rmw5InCsQzJVJQyI2waFBU3U5533rixDyXQdLe8sWnAH3BFjxbViN_9HjQjykziFLHmlcrhRlCHZx3vs7ePs/s320/DSCN0174.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579291805522840562" /></a>I also ended up playing 2 necron opponents... which I thought would be easy, but at 2500pts with apoc things necrons get nasty. Had to deal with a pylon and some tomb stalkers, but at the end of 3 games ended up winning the small field.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgolcvgZ_AlofbBND5cxWC6A8NiA5Fmp3GfMTNk0bjD8KiQkPTeCREvbAeN7YL5bSSZluXe809iHPPflc7Yf9eD5fzd0lHSKW7wzxIqMebNbJawMYcHm-GNvSzfDv5AK_xjgYR-TyPZG2Q/s1600/DSCN0175.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgolcvgZ_AlofbBND5cxWC6A8NiA5Fmp3GfMTNk0bjD8KiQkPTeCREvbAeN7YL5bSSZluXe809iHPPflc7Yf9eD5fzd0lHSKW7wzxIqMebNbJawMYcHm-GNvSzfDv5AK_xjgYR-TyPZG2Q/s320/DSCN0175.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579291690438431522" /></a>Was fun to play some 2500pt games. Was trying out a bunch of stuff that is in my head for hard boyz this summer. Some of it tweaked for the chance of super heavies, by adding more meltas.<div><br /></div><div>This is what Im thinking of for hard Boyz:</div><div><br /></div><div>Vulkan - 190</div><div>Master of the Forge - combi melta, power weapon - 125</div><div><br /></div><div>Tactical Squad - flamer, multimelta, powerfist, combiflamer, drop pod - 240</div><div>Tactical Squad - combimelta, power weapon, rhino - 150</div><div>Scout Squad - combi melta - 85</div><div><br /></div><div>Sternguard - 2 heavy flamers, 8 combimeltas, drop pod, locator beacon - 355</div><div><br /></div><div>Venerable Dreadnought - assault cannon, twin linked auto cannon, drop pod, locator beacon - 230</div><div>Venerable Dreadnought - assault cannon, twin linked auto cannon, drop pod, locator beacon - 230</div><div><br /></div><div>Ironclad Dreadnought - melta, heavy flamer, 2 hk missiles, drop pod - 200</div><div>Ironclad Dreadnought - melta, heavy flamer, 2 hk missiles, drop pod - 200</div><div>Ironclad Dreadnought - heavy flamer, heavy flamer, 2 hk missiles, drop pod, locator beacon - 215</div><div><br /></div><div>2 Land Speeders - multimelta, heavy flamer - 140</div><div>Land Speeder - multimelta, heavy flamer - 70</div><div>Land Speeder Storm - multimelta - 65</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-25525938682253571372011-01-26T18:06:00.016-05:002011-01-29T13:54:45.887-05:00January 22nd Brothers Grim 1850: Game 3So game 3 pairings were being announced and I heard my name followed by a very large groan from Michael, who's cousin or brother Chris I played in round 1, and who's other relative Rob Ive played before at Grim as well. My friend Eric was rather excited for this matchup as well, he had drawn Mike in the first round and lost slimly to him, and my other friend Brian had been beaten rather badly by Mike's orks at a previous tournament so there was a lot of pressure riding on our match, not to mention a big win for either of us could vault us into the top 3 for the day!<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Mike's List:</div><div>Big Mek - kustom force field</div><div>Big Mek - kustom force field</div><div>10 Lootas</div><div>10 Lootas</div><div>10 Lootas</div><div>10 Boyz - plus Nob with power klaw boss pole, Truck</div><div>10 Boyz - plus Nob with power klaw boss pole, Truck</div><div>10 Boyz - plus Nob with power klaw boss pole, Truck</div><div>10 Boyz - plus Nob with power klaw boss pole, Truck</div><div>10 Boyz - plus Nob with power klaw boss pole, Truck</div><div>10 Gretchin</div><div>3 Warbuggies - twin linked rokkit launcher</div><div>3 Warbuggies - twin linked rokkit launcher</div><div>3 Warbuggies - twin linked rokkit launcher</div><div>2 Big Gunz</div><div>2 Big Gunz</div><div>2 Big Gunz</div><div><br /></div><div>So an extremely shooty ork list. But with one major problem... no real strong method of dealing with AV 13 Dreadnoughts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mission 3 was Dawn of War deployment. The main mission was capture and control, with secondary objective being to kill a specific non vehicle unit chosen by the opponent and tertiary controlling terrain pieces. I won the roll to go first and chose to do so. I decided to bring my thunderfire cannon, and 2 shooty dreads in on turn 1, along with my regular speeders, and have everything else in reserve, with the scouts outflanking. Mike chose for his whole army to come in on dawn of war turn 1, aside from his gretchin which were in regular reserve.</div><div><br /></div><div>So on my turn 1 I moved my thunderfire cannon into the reenforced ruin on my left edge near my objective and my two shooty dreads nearby. I sped the speeders to just below the midline. Then I drop 3 empty pods right on top of Mike's objective. The first one hit direct and the next two scattered in just the right directions to hit near it and all 3 were in range to contest his objective, meaning if he wanted to claim his he needed to kill 3 AV 12 pods while dealing with the rest of my army.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCXU7wqPkGxr4lUrDto7B9LV89Y3Wfhjflg60Qsg7Zf39uEsOUC3_02USmJZkU4tGnZfmI3DX3lojffRQGqeJYNyhEWnaTkNBUkJZzm46lYaDqkw2vVGHrVtfaWbFvdXjP9TulAImRv54/s1600/DSCN0156.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCXU7wqPkGxr4lUrDto7B9LV89Y3Wfhjflg60Qsg7Zf39uEsOUC3_02USmJZkU4tGnZfmI3DX3lojffRQGqeJYNyhEWnaTkNBUkJZzm46lYaDqkw2vVGHrVtfaWbFvdXjP9TulAImRv54/s320/DSCN0156.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566636312919108866" /></a>Mike moved his whole army in on turn 1. 2 groups of lootas on the right with cannons in front of them, and the 3rd squad of both of those set up the same on the left. The big shootas on his trucks managed to range in on one of my speeders and wreck it despite its cover save.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wRGMVz0wfy0gQv_58CafmozSFjXmrE-mnXZMfe46I9QZvZViXIIIxnFb-nqgM1O-5mhlzdPyOnnEkWgsltc5Rd-a8-4GfnjAWSlMx_pdJiYzJ6Wy3muLtW1sqxjMuugAGErCVe7PeLg/s1600/DSCN0157.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wRGMVz0wfy0gQv_58CafmozSFjXmrE-mnXZMfe46I9QZvZViXIIIxnFb-nqgM1O-5mhlzdPyOnnEkWgsltc5Rd-a8-4GfnjAWSlMx_pdJiYzJ6Wy3muLtW1sqxjMuugAGErCVe7PeLg/s320/DSCN0157.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566636217863032498" /></a>On my turn 2 I got my dual flamer Ironclad in along with my Rhino filled with tactical marines, Vulkan and the master of the forge. The tactical squad was the objective that Mike had to kill for the secondary mission. I landed my Ironclad in front of his line burned out some lootas, killing 9 of them along with destroying a big gunz unit, dual twin linked heavy flamers for the win. My thunderfire cannon then opened up on the right most loota squad and killed 8, along with forcing the big gunz unit to break. My shooty dreads took pot shots at the buggies killing 1 and shaking one more. I sped my remaining speeder up the left flank to behind the pods making sure his lootas there would need to deal with it or face the wrath of its heavy flamer.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLSRcgicima5gC95_GkPZuQ9xGJwmrwvapENnpXDDw6etoujkbQezF4pvTURtyoyEHT0Mbe-FbwKMZrtO5GIx2OBQ381FEu23jw2Ga1ilk1r60CWd7OfJOjoizvPFwOJAu2ahTWEPhlOE/s1600/DSCN0158.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLSRcgicima5gC95_GkPZuQ9xGJwmrwvapENnpXDDw6etoujkbQezF4pvTURtyoyEHT0Mbe-FbwKMZrtO5GIx2OBQ381FEu23jw2Ga1ilk1r60CWd7OfJOjoizvPFwOJAu2ahTWEPhlOE/s320/DSCN0158.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566636098696535554" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbXGzWZPM7-ZO4k-agmYyefkyglinzojKyT3rvc__6dT4eVwMYvXAeCmFPcJim052liGnqr4y6bsYR1Xwp4aRIawjASm9ZNTTZgtuv2qGGB8f2ug_XUJNBzukIoJOgrydpOI775hYJMy0/s1600/DSCN0159.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbXGzWZPM7-ZO4k-agmYyefkyglinzojKyT3rvc__6dT4eVwMYvXAeCmFPcJim052liGnqr4y6bsYR1Xwp4aRIawjASm9ZNTTZgtuv2qGGB8f2ug_XUJNBzukIoJOgrydpOI775hYJMy0/s320/DSCN0159.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566635951107518370" /></a>Mike got his gretchin in from reserve on his 2nd turn much to his chagrin. He moved his right flank forward while the left flank merely shuffled. He fired big shootas from two trucks at my far flung speeder hoping to not need to waste the loota's shooting at it, but to no avail. The lootas opened up and immobilized it and took off its multimelta leaving it stranded doing nothing in the corner. His remaining shooting was unable to dent the dreadnoughts this turn.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6sDTIURu4yLF-oRyPQIETpp_InGap_0bKyykHeLZ698XuNiOY2XfKOoezyAuYX5nbJqxK22bXCkeWXVTtMins4CcPUBewbCKmO9K8_JZyVUBIvuA0aa9XwynLfbCWp6McKtWxkWkQl4/s1600/DSCN0160.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6sDTIURu4yLF-oRyPQIETpp_InGap_0bKyykHeLZ698XuNiOY2XfKOoezyAuYX5nbJqxK22bXCkeWXVTtMins4CcPUBewbCKmO9K8_JZyVUBIvuA0aa9XwynLfbCWp6McKtWxkWkQl4/s320/DSCN0160.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566635851849884946" /></a>On my 3rd turn I got in one of my reaming Ironclads, apparently my reserves were content to come in piecemeal. I landed it in front of his left truck flank that was attempting to hide the gretchin and poured its shots into a truck, only managing to immobilize it, but caught half the gretchin in a flamer blast but they passed their morale check. My dual flamer Ironclad then moved up to the flanks of his right most trucks and poured missiles and flamers into its side, exploding the nearby truck despite the kustom force field and then in a massive roll getting 6,6 for the heavy flamer against the far truck and since flamers ignore cover exploding that truck as well. The Ironclad then charged the orks in the first crater and after beating them in combat swept them from the board. This turn my shooty dreadnoughts were content to finish off the lootas in the right corner, while the thunderfire cannons blew away the remaining 10 man squad on the left, with the big gunz as well.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtgweQSdDgNjcjp7KT0yGffS7kwLayS-xmb473x9S7tpC4SALRwfQJBXIXZl2a5hpsuQhXRWQLqRAKtwVF74De-fAkAHQ7YjjAXYQR-afhHo7j3sdtRc7cjjoJq2LrJVBLYu6PPow-2QY/s1600/DSCN0161.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtgweQSdDgNjcjp7KT0yGffS7kwLayS-xmb473x9S7tpC4SALRwfQJBXIXZl2a5hpsuQhXRWQLqRAKtwVF74De-fAkAHQ7YjjAXYQR-afhHo7j3sdtRc7cjjoJq2LrJVBLYu6PPow-2QY/s320/DSCN0161.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566635747236734786" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJBkpbNjB4nEFo77j5VVJNifU9HIIaC1feySsX22Giz380e56wmlQgF7jQaRFoYT34LfTwWFL5GfHA1bUoXyatheHon-EnZ1FtDDAqutuA3L3nIeYXdp-T-XuAcxNdfCcsoUMsMfACxC8/s1600/DSCN0162.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJBkpbNjB4nEFo77j5VVJNifU9HIIaC1feySsX22Giz380e56wmlQgF7jQaRFoYT34LfTwWFL5GfHA1bUoXyatheHon-EnZ1FtDDAqutuA3L3nIeYXdp-T-XuAcxNdfCcsoUMsMfACxC8/s320/DSCN0162.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566635615981699858" /></a>Mike moved his buggies up on turn 3 and fired in the rear of my exposed Ironclad and despite cover it blew up. His Big mek and squad on the right charged into the Ironclad hoping the nobz str 9 powerclaw would do the job, it didnt and the orks piled in closer.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5VQAGZ6ZQ3I6b6wyQJ1sqE6fau9x7QqNzOd6niFbvdV6_LegV1imry0IEW48j0z7MJ0sKafk9kFlGWeqJL9rbrJeytuBiZ1ibSMYvQmRWqf9ANOg5P-WONZLifruhBRym6b3LCobOlWI/s1600/DSCN0163.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5VQAGZ6ZQ3I6b6wyQJ1sqE6fau9x7QqNzOd6niFbvdV6_LegV1imry0IEW48j0z7MJ0sKafk9kFlGWeqJL9rbrJeytuBiZ1ibSMYvQmRWqf9ANOg5P-WONZLifruhBRym6b3LCobOlWI/s320/DSCN0163.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566635508672568738" /></a>On my turn 4 my other Ironclad came in and performed a similar task to the last one, shot at a truck hoping to kill some gretchin with its flamer, this time it killed 3, blew up the trcuk killing some more, and then the thunderfire cannon killed all the orks in the crater and finished off the last gretchin with scatters. My scout speeder came in on the wrong side so I moved it flat out to hope to reach his objective by turn 6. I took careless shots at the buggies which he had carefully interwove for cover... though in hindsight I guess I could have called shennanigans based on GW's faq ruling on interwoven units. But oh well didnt do much there. The Ironclad in combat killed the Big mek and won combat but the orks held.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5IYrcvnXRCD6WBwGTKExb7vpKh0-4bh56uLZoO8EmY26Ce-b8WEfE0XG_fvEZFIy5LjMIhbKjjJNbCLWcxZUY17tV6DRFLiLGPAEKSJRhw3LCr8JXZNJTt-2yNNM31mhHTDVBqrknccI/s1600/DSCN0164.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5IYrcvnXRCD6WBwGTKExb7vpKh0-4bh56uLZoO8EmY26Ce-b8WEfE0XG_fvEZFIy5LjMIhbKjjJNbCLWcxZUY17tV6DRFLiLGPAEKSJRhw3LCr8JXZNJTt-2yNNM31mhHTDVBqrknccI/s320/DSCN0164.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566635407858056146" /></a>Again on turn 4 mike's darn buggies shot an Ironclad with cover in the rear and killed it. Combat once again continued with the Ironclad.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzhK51hjs4Y7jR45g-x5aUlmpXteB8ole0_fUDThkq76s91kduZzOoW0GsFz8fMvClnBtn7S1lo6WeQStJH6eXrgEtIbiBC-_hJk1U1k7ME8vMQENyEC_DQuO1HqCM20VK-gel9Tf5fk/s1600/DSCN0165.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzhK51hjs4Y7jR45g-x5aUlmpXteB8ole0_fUDThkq76s91kduZzOoW0GsFz8fMvClnBtn7S1lo6WeQStJH6eXrgEtIbiBC-_hJk1U1k7ME8vMQENyEC_DQuO1HqCM20VK-gel9Tf5fk/s320/DSCN0165.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566635292842619538" /></a>On turn 5 I poured shots into the buggies removing the nearby ones from play. My scout speeder flew up the midfield and would only need another turn to reach his objective. The thunderfire cannon fired on the far away buggies and managed to kill one.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRcU2ZdSGtT7rQnVoWoct9F4k9y6YhTHziOxoWXpXF2hFsBQp9_JkkXABGNnoPuZHbwv-Rwt8S2Xm9qJyIj8teHbn00mz_OGSyq8ZfGbt61kw-Z_Ajlw7Osvr8zqHBUdKmo-DSjJe-sTc/s1600/DSCN0166.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRcU2ZdSGtT7rQnVoWoct9F4k9y6YhTHziOxoWXpXF2hFsBQp9_JkkXABGNnoPuZHbwv-Rwt8S2Xm9qJyIj8teHbn00mz_OGSyq8ZfGbt61kw-Z_Ajlw7Osvr8zqHBUdKmo-DSjJe-sTc/s320/DSCN0166.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566635184526603298" /></a>At this point Mike mapped out what his likely turn 5 plan would be and we rolled some dice to see if he could crack the rhino with his missiles so that the boyz in that truck near midfield could possibly assault them. The buggies failed so we called the game there, since even if the nob had killed the rhino it wouldnt have gotten the boyz into the tactical squad as the thunderfire cannon and dreadnoughts could have easily cleared the squad even if the marines were pinned down.</div><div><br /></div><div>The game was fun if one sided. Michael is a great opponent and his blue ork vehicles are wonderfully stunning. And the list has a scary amount of shooting if the lootas dont get killed in two turns only getting to shoot a landspeeder. The thunderfire cannon was worth its weight in gold in this game killing 18 lootas, 12 orks, some gretchin, 2 units of big guns, and a few buggies.</div><div><br /></div><div>After the game we sat around wondering if the big wins would lead to placing in the event. THought with some luck I was sitting 3rd. Then the top table drew and my friends and I thought maybe second was possible. Ended up amazingly getting 1st place which was exciting, considering the early tie and the deep strong field at Grim. Excited for their March event!</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251340075488723607.post-39089829910419038212011-01-25T22:44:00.013-05:002011-01-26T14:07:51.871-05:00January 22nd Brothers Grim 1850: Game 2So after a bit more than a Draw in round 1 I found myself in the middle of the pack for round 2. And in that middle I found Danielle the Hive Mother at Brother's Grim and her stunning purple Tyranids. She was using a pretty diverse list:<div><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div>Hive Tyrant - wings, hive commander(let her outflank a tervigon)</div><div>10 Gaunts</div><div>10 Gaunts</div><div>Tervigon</div><div>Tervigon</div><div>8 Genestealers</div><div>3 Zoanthropes</div><div>2 Hiveguard</div><div>Doom of Malantai - in pod</div><div>10 Gargoyles</div><div>4 Ravenors</div><div>Mawloc</div><div>Mawloc</div><div><br /></div><div>The deployment for game 2 was Spearhead. Primary objective was seize ground with 5 counters. Secondary objectives were victory points, and tertiary was controlling terrain pieces. We rolled for first turn and Danielle went first. She deployed most of her army on the board, aside from an outflanking Tervigon and genestealer unit.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjebREA8BCdFlw2bFZwTDl-vSiC528RXGqYXV_99lFJ0PlGYVI5x2FH6B0cLLypAgWSF5zoxKV_uSt1bi9dGkYvQ5pDU8Wi3jjVFhmOaiBBmfeEyYGc4hhbqb4CJJ-nZlk3fSmgSRMrjgE/s1600/DSCN0146.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjebREA8BCdFlw2bFZwTDl-vSiC528RXGqYXV_99lFJ0PlGYVI5x2FH6B0cLLypAgWSF5zoxKV_uSt1bi9dGkYvQ5pDU8Wi3jjVFhmOaiBBmfeEyYGc4hhbqb4CJJ-nZlk3fSmgSRMrjgE/s320/DSCN0146.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566336518528224338" /></a>I deployed my thunderfire cannon in a reinforced ruin, and my 2 shooty dreads near the table edge. I outflanked my scouts in their speeder. My regular speeders and Rhino filled with marines and Vulkan and the master of the forge were in regular reserve. And I also had 3 pods filled with Ironclads.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzMYQNtv-BpOrRpcM0bKER76u5dJaTqLmdZTfC5ulWFnOuHc8r1Hk0eOkY_X7tiQDaqWRc5TkRH2wbelej8ITcfmEXAw-UmSE2BOs8xcYOuLQEy9rLulW1ZTeyYN7PgGGRRmCzHbX0HI/s1600/DSCN0147.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzMYQNtv-BpOrRpcM0bKER76u5dJaTqLmdZTfC5ulWFnOuHc8r1Hk0eOkY_X7tiQDaqWRc5TkRH2wbelej8ITcfmEXAw-UmSE2BOs8xcYOuLQEy9rLulW1ZTeyYN7PgGGRRmCzHbX0HI/s320/DSCN0147.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566336407692235826" /></a>On Danielle's first turn she burrowed her 2 Mawlocs back into reserve and then shuffled her army slightly forward. Her on board Tervigon spawned 14 gaunts and broke that ability by rolling doubles. She said she had lots of experience with drop pod armies so she spread out to make sure my first turn drop couldnt be too devastating.</div><div><br /></div><div>So on my turn 1 I dropped in 3 empty pods, and tried to land them on objectives. On scattered too far towards the opposite edge. One landed right on an objective near the top right, and the other scattered towards the middle and ended up contesting the objective there. I shot tremor rounds from my thunderfire cannon at her gargoyle brood, injuring a few, with the idea being to slow the advance of her fast harrowing troops. I pulled the Dreadnoughts back further and fired upon the gargoyles some more.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzjVVP5T5UpvKfyYtCaTTQZc488BtF_Bik15Sv4vQWMN_ig2vuFoqnhhptHAQZL05B_SOPqiSqZatvr5q7uVvVxdqH9emrK3zmUaxDGTUu1HZ3Y0ZShNc0sjBwg114EL4GMtAkvBLc1H0/s1600/DSCN0148.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzjVVP5T5UpvKfyYtCaTTQZc488BtF_Bik15Sv4vQWMN_ig2vuFoqnhhptHAQZL05B_SOPqiSqZatvr5q7uVvVxdqH9emrK3zmUaxDGTUu1HZ3Y0ZShNc0sjBwg114EL4GMtAkvBLc1H0/s320/DSCN0148.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566336312961230034" /></a>On Danielle's second turn she got her reserves all in. Her tervigon and genestealers outflanked on my right. She put the tervigon to the right of the thunderfire cannon, and the genestealers near the top to charge my pods. She landed the Doom of Malantai near the middle of my side. Then she began to place her Mawlocs on my stuff. She put one on top of my Dreadnoughts, and scattered off the board for a mishap, we rolled a 4 which let me place the model, so I put it on top of her genestealers killing 6. The other she put on top of my thunderfire cannon but it scattered away into no mans land. Now she began to move the rest of her army apart breaking the tight huddle that she had kept round 1 to save her from my pods. She spread out heading for objectives and her Ravenors and stealers each charged pods. The 3 remaining genestealers wrecked my pod on the objective in the top right but the ravenors failed against the pod in the middle.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63kmfGWQADdkKhWy2A3j2EcQAIRGvIC8L84XVDI8xxxCz-aKI-ysIKRMbYfF1PJyjjJygmjqLqgm80I_yatDwOw7v9gKs0bl5EYIA-uDAm2Xt3BEBcYTZ1mAXCVSpS6ZRMzQUh8eHK_8/s1600/DSCN0149.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63kmfGWQADdkKhWy2A3j2EcQAIRGvIC8L84XVDI8xxxCz-aKI-ysIKRMbYfF1PJyjjJygmjqLqgm80I_yatDwOw7v9gKs0bl5EYIA-uDAm2Xt3BEBcYTZ1mAXCVSpS6ZRMzQUh8eHK_8/s320/DSCN0149.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566336224987757042" /></a>On my turn 2 I got all 3 Ironclads in from reserve. Also both my scouts and my rhino, so all my troops were in play. I landed all the Ironclads around her Hive Tyrant. And moved my Scouts in on that flank supported by the Rhino. Missile and melta fire from 2 Ironclads brought down the Hive Tyrant with ease. The other Ironclad used its dual flamers and missiles against the Tervigon and cause 3 wounds while also killing a hive guard in the cross fire. My thunderfire cannon killed off a Ravenor and wounded another. While my shooty Dreads opened up on the Zoanthropes and killed 2 of them. Storm bolter fire from pods reduced the genestealers to just one model.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnh6RjvJ5yYc5r-qsRgQYf7IpI1xulX-sXQBpNr0FMeRMaKuRuJOnC20_13arZrSac3EE7EcSQEPLFDXcGWkm6OVkJNegTAOurmS5IdTAAN6WBoBVL5sAZtZD8-otXXy2Y_Lu7s65MSIs/s1600/DSCN0150.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnh6RjvJ5yYc5r-qsRgQYf7IpI1xulX-sXQBpNr0FMeRMaKuRuJOnC20_13arZrSac3EE7EcSQEPLFDXcGWkm6OVkJNegTAOurmS5IdTAAN6WBoBVL5sAZtZD8-otXXy2Y_Lu7s65MSIs/s320/DSCN0150.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566336125910226834" /></a>Danielle moved quickly to recover on turn 3. She burrowed the Mawloc on the far right. She charged 2 large units of gaunts into my dual flamer Ironclad to lock it up, wounds and fearless saves lost her 8. She then charged a tervigon into an Ironclad and since it only had 3 wounds left it died to the 3 attack Ironclad. Her Ravenors sprinted forward and assaulted one of my shooty Dreads and failed to rend it at all and it did one wound winning combat, and since they were out of synapse range they fled and were swept away. Her remaining Zoanthope and Hive Guard both shot into my smoke covered Rhino but only managed to blow off its storm bolter. Her Tervigon behind my thunderfire cannon spawned gaunts which along with the Mawloc charged the thunderfire cannon killing it.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my 3rd turn I got one of my speeders in. I moved it forward to flame the gargoyles which fled. I jumped my Storm forward and piled the scouts into combat with his gaunts and my Ironclad, forcing a bunch of extra saves killing off one unit and leaving the last unit with only a few bodies. On Ironclad charged and finished off the hive guard. The other flamer and melta'd the Zoanthrope doing nothing to it, but killing several gaunts. The men inside the Rhino also shot into the Zoanthrope doing nothing. My Shooty Dreadnoughts fired on the Mawloc taking 2 wounds. My drop pods finished off the last genestealer.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7UPJz1jPYd_iWw11VEQf1Q5FG4jA-y7NnCLP63pwfIEwaEF5tbW7tLhCUwJ6oIur9gN-QA16O69V64Rz3eZCXaZt9BGIZgRu0s8dCX80nVQ9L-bkU2jmb0PndpZjrFwJFntbd_dFNvBY/s1600/DSCN0151.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7UPJz1jPYd_iWw11VEQf1Q5FG4jA-y7NnCLP63pwfIEwaEF5tbW7tLhCUwJ6oIur9gN-QA16O69V64Rz3eZCXaZt9BGIZgRu0s8dCX80nVQ9L-bkU2jmb0PndpZjrFwJFntbd_dFNvBY/s320/DSCN0151.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566336027489621362" /></a>On Danielle's 4th turn her Mawloc tried to burrow onto my Ironclads on the left but scattered just clipping the Rhino but failed to hurt it. The Zoanthrope was equally ineffective. Her Tervigon spawned another big gaunt block and lost its ability. They spread out towards the objective on the right and sped toward the one in the middle. Her other Mawloc sprinted towards my shooty dread and charged it. It failed to do much of anything taking off one of the guns. My scouts and Dreadnought finished off the gaunts in the top left and consolidated back towards the action.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbOlqwMoIX-OjJkmx8Zo6JlGd3ylTj25xUXrqWKfJ26tPSQeYZMCcS1rdVgpHR6EoPSdrS50IOrUSkJxRm-A8uyjwnXBQCjKDGnaQQskw5Wlqj0P6Sq0-VKzf8F0_R6EUwArTZ81Xu5s/s1600/DSCN0152.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbOlqwMoIX-OjJkmx8Zo6JlGd3ylTj25xUXrqWKfJ26tPSQeYZMCcS1rdVgpHR6EoPSdrS50IOrUSkJxRm-A8uyjwnXBQCjKDGnaQQskw5Wlqj0P6Sq0-VKzf8F0_R6EUwArTZ81Xu5s/s320/DSCN0152.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566335923351667346" /></a>On turn 5 my scouts climbed back into their speeder. 2 of my Ironclads circled around her Mawloc on the left and charged it removing it quickly. The third charged the Zoanthrope finally killing it. My other Speeder came in from reserve and the two of them began burning down the gaunt masses on the right. My Venerable Dreadnought took 2 wounds off of the tervigon. The mawloc tried to hit and run out of combat but failed its roll.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPW6Ex9HBrwrLJStMnR9rfWcFFswrFdvDlT7jTPx-TQwVMHtVpJSccUKzwJSswDarxzxKZTL0ZJ2F7tdthWGc_J73dzUtrt659LVygp0LEJ_IvqDWpFJ9PaHYKOiq_dr3QKO_MxIieirw/s1600/DSCN0153.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPW6Ex9HBrwrLJStMnR9rfWcFFswrFdvDlT7jTPx-TQwVMHtVpJSccUKzwJSswDarxzxKZTL0ZJ2F7tdthWGc_J73dzUtrt659LVygp0LEJ_IvqDWpFJ9PaHYKOiq_dr3QKO_MxIieirw/s320/DSCN0153.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566335802647775794" /></a>The doom and Tervigon each tried charging seperate speeders but needing 6's neither hit. Danielle's gaunts continued to try and move towards objectives.</div><div><br /></div><div>On my turn 5 the speeders shifted again and burned down more gaunts. The Ironclads reached the last Mawloc and freed the Shooty Dread from combat with it. I shot the tervigon some more doing another wound.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgetvYNzNN41VdJH9-e8pIfYNoMOltJ2IyNWL3WgSkMWIO0ABGb1uBH7b57RSRiSdfVuTr-nazC0wQ4nMKp-6y-qtoNhNgeruysdCXg-RoLQ_G1OvyEF9ZEKsFokkfIhHQRwP-DWMqOzco/s1600/DSCN0154.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgetvYNzNN41VdJH9-e8pIfYNoMOltJ2IyNWL3WgSkMWIO0ABGb1uBH7b57RSRiSdfVuTr-nazC0wQ4nMKp-6y-qtoNhNgeruysdCXg-RoLQ_G1OvyEF9ZEKsFokkfIhHQRwP-DWMqOzco/s320/DSCN0154.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566335713467997826" /></a>The game still had a 6th turn to be played, but Danielle asked that we call it then while she still had models alive. I scanned the score card quickly to see that I had max points and politely acceded to her request.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIkuRPFcjE-J0xzv77VZbVLKq8_VlMHt7Z6hW5z9fefi64Hvu0ShOa7xNSwhyqXil8h_3ifV1eFkOeqZje_K1K-cugJzu1NNbEF8nav-PfOILwvGnSBgb1GgY0rdTB1adm_coFoSYF_Ng/s1600/DSCN0155.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIkuRPFcjE-J0xzv77VZbVLKq8_VlMHt7Z6hW5z9fefi64Hvu0ShOa7xNSwhyqXil8h_3ifV1eFkOeqZje_K1K-cugJzu1NNbEF8nav-PfOILwvGnSBgb1GgY0rdTB1adm_coFoSYF_Ng/s320/DSCN0155.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566335606580657266" /></a>I had been much more worried heading into the contest because I had seen Danielle use a tyranofex before and the 2+ armor is harder for my missiles to drop and then that high strength gun could start to cause problems for my Dreadnoughts. But the Mawlocs proved far inferior to their Trygon cousins as well, with their low attacks and bad weapon skill they arent as big a threat. Also Danielle's dice just werent going well, scattering her Mawlocs everytime, and her Zoanthropes and Hiveguard not being much of a factor.</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324649177159529199noreply@blogger.com0