A win. Lost 1 chimera, a hellhound and some turrets.
What can I say, mission suited me so very well. Got to put 6 melta guns right on top of the far objectives. And had open shots to most of the battle. Hellhounds have been useless throughout, ho hum.
For Dan's part, he was in a foul mood most of the game. Dark Lances were extremely inaffectual. Either not hitting or rolling 3 for pen. Highlight was when his lord through a big template of doom of some sort, missing and blowing up one of own squads, Though I did not make much of it. Would of prob made his temper worse. At the end he handed me the win turn 4 and stormed of out :(
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Friday, 3 February 2012
Guard vs cover and 2 multi meltas
Pretty much all that happened.
The sisters never moved, not once, and why would they, a plethora of 3+ cover for them. And the two multi meltas, and an exorcist pretty much got one kill point a turn. Was on average putting 15 or so wounds on the two big sisters units every single turn, and over half of them survived the battle. Admittedly I should of prob stayed back and fired, but wanted to get as many shots as I could as I knew things weren't going to die.
Lost 7-3, did kill Saint Celestine, moral victory.
The sisters never moved, not once, and why would they, a plethora of 3+ cover for them. And the two multi meltas, and an exorcist pretty much got one kill point a turn. Was on average putting 15 or so wounds on the two big sisters units every single turn, and over half of them survived the battle. Admittedly I should of prob stayed back and fired, but wanted to get as many shots as I could as I knew things weren't going to die.
Lost 7-3, did kill Saint Celestine, moral victory.
Friday, 20 January 2012
Negativity
Went to sleep at 1, awake at 5, wtf body, wtf.
Anyway last post was overly negative, and it really wasn't supposed to be. the game I had vs james wasn;t fun, maybe that was it. Although the mission v Joel was horribly against me and it was a massacre, I still enjoyed it, Joels list had none of the asshattery I expect nowdays. Such as invulnerable deathstars (well unless you count Eldrad...) or those annoying abilities that do stuff that remove things from the table in sweeps (I hear Necrons are full of this)
On another day, with a different mission, maybe a standard game. Would of prob done a lot a better and would really to like to play that game, hmm.
Anyway last post was overly negative, and it really wasn't supposed to be. the game I had vs james wasn;t fun, maybe that was it. Although the mission v Joel was horribly against me and it was a massacre, I still enjoyed it, Joels list had none of the asshattery I expect nowdays. Such as invulnerable deathstars (well unless you count Eldrad...) or those annoying abilities that do stuff that remove things from the table in sweeps (I hear Necrons are full of this)
On another day, with a different mission, maybe a standard game. Would of prob done a lot a better and would really to like to play that game, hmm.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
First game
Versus Joels Eldar, and I lost quite badly, although there really wasn't anything I could do.
His objective was to kill my commander and then it was down to Kill points. If he rusvuved I won regardless.
So what happened is I had to put down three units further han 12" from any table edge, inc my commander. Joel then did the same but within 12" of any table edge. No matter what happened I would be within 12" of 2 wraithguard units. Fate was sealed from then. The two vet squads was annihlated. Then turn after the commanders chimera snuffed it, because for some fucked reason Tanks cannot outrun infantry. He did survive a hail of scatter laser fire though when the war walkers turned up, making 5/5 armour saves. So after turn 2 I was 5kp vs 0.
I got two units from reserve, that killed two walkers. turn after two wraithlords showed up and slagged my two reserves, again nothing I could of done. Wraithguard massacred my commander. I was now 8 for nothing, and my only shot at victory was for me to kill everything. Everything being 2 untouched wraithguard units and 2 wraithlords. And one wave serpent and dire avengers
Got a vet squad turn 3, that basically showed up out of range of everything, and moved towards the wave serpent, And my leman russ squad. Whiffed with their shooting vs the wraithlord, which then proceeded to kill one.
turn 4 I got nothing from reserve.
Turn 5 Joel parked his wave serpent in front of the entire remnants of my army. game was already lost, but to rub salt in the wound, 3 meltas, a demolisher cannon, lascannon and the hellhound cannon, did no damage to the wave serpent. And then the game ended. Joel lost 2 war walkers. I lost everything, bar 1 vet squad, the demolisher and a hellhound. 9kp to 0.
So was pretty much a massacre, only reason I had 3 units at the end is because they appeared on a table edge with no one on it on the very last turn.
If I could of kept range, or started with everything, maybe had a chance, but the forced deployment and piecemeal slaughter of my forces as they arrived. Nope could not win.
And then played a slamm game vs James. Lost because I could not hit shot for one, and secondly because he had an earthshaker and a lascannon firing beween a tiny gap between two buildings. Such bullshit when people do that. It's akin to a game I played vs dark elves once, where there was a perhaps half inch between two of my regiments, with one behind them which then got fired upon by a crap load of bolthrowers. through that tiny gap.
His objective was to kill my commander and then it was down to Kill points. If he rusvuved I won regardless.
So what happened is I had to put down three units further han 12" from any table edge, inc my commander. Joel then did the same but within 12" of any table edge. No matter what happened I would be within 12" of 2 wraithguard units. Fate was sealed from then. The two vet squads was annihlated. Then turn after the commanders chimera snuffed it, because for some fucked reason Tanks cannot outrun infantry. He did survive a hail of scatter laser fire though when the war walkers turned up, making 5/5 armour saves. So after turn 2 I was 5kp vs 0.
I got two units from reserve, that killed two walkers. turn after two wraithlords showed up and slagged my two reserves, again nothing I could of done. Wraithguard massacred my commander. I was now 8 for nothing, and my only shot at victory was for me to kill everything. Everything being 2 untouched wraithguard units and 2 wraithlords. And one wave serpent and dire avengers
Got a vet squad turn 3, that basically showed up out of range of everything, and moved towards the wave serpent, And my leman russ squad. Whiffed with their shooting vs the wraithlord, which then proceeded to kill one.
turn 4 I got nothing from reserve.
Turn 5 Joel parked his wave serpent in front of the entire remnants of my army. game was already lost, but to rub salt in the wound, 3 meltas, a demolisher cannon, lascannon and the hellhound cannon, did no damage to the wave serpent. And then the game ended. Joel lost 2 war walkers. I lost everything, bar 1 vet squad, the demolisher and a hellhound. 9kp to 0.
So was pretty much a massacre, only reason I had 3 units at the end is because they appeared on a table edge with no one on it on the very last turn.
If I could of kept range, or started with everything, maybe had a chance, but the forced deployment and piecemeal slaughter of my forces as they arrived. Nope could not win.
And then played a slamm game vs James. Lost because I could not hit shot for one, and secondly because he had an earthshaker and a lascannon firing beween a tiny gap between two buildings. Such bullshit when people do that. It's akin to a game I played vs dark elves once, where there was a perhaps half inch between two of my regiments, with one behind them which then got fired upon by a crap load of bolthrowers. through that tiny gap.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Gw does FAQS, confuses the world. Collective sighs abound.
Just about everyone got updated at the beginning of the month.
So now questions abound regarding Dawn of War deployment.
Deploy up to 1 hq unit, and two troops units. Unit being a single body. So transports count as a unit. makes sense...sort of. As an aside, space marines can screw themselves by combat squading? Breaking down one unit will consume both your 2 troops allowance,
But anyway, Imperial Guard Infantry Platoons have been FAQ'd to count as one unit for deployment. So this to means that I can stick down 1800+ points of platoon as one one of my units. And then another 1800 as my second. Since chimeras are bought as part of the platoon, I do believe they count to be included.
This is huge. Arguments abound as it outright sticks it fingers up at the rulebook.
oh internets, argue yourself cold.
They also show a general lack of consistency with this batch, along the lines of "We love space marines, Xenos can go F themselves"
So now questions abound regarding Dawn of War deployment.
Deploy up to 1 hq unit, and two troops units. Unit being a single body. So transports count as a unit. makes sense...sort of. As an aside, space marines can screw themselves by combat squading? Breaking down one unit will consume both your 2 troops allowance,
But anyway, Imperial Guard Infantry Platoons have been FAQ'd to count as one unit for deployment. So this to means that I can stick down 1800+ points of platoon as one one of my units. And then another 1800 as my second. Since chimeras are bought as part of the platoon, I do believe they count to be included.
This is huge. Arguments abound as it outright sticks it fingers up at the rulebook.
oh internets, argue yourself cold.
They also show a general lack of consistency with this batch, along the lines of "We love space marines, Xenos can go F themselves"
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Boards
Seriously considering getting myself a sheet of ply and some other bits of wood and building a board, well two if you consider it would be two 4x4's
Would need to borrow a drill...
and some skills...
and would be better if i had a table to put it on.
meh details
The reasoning? Thought about painting some terrain, but would ideally need a table to match the terrain to. Well when I say terrain, I mean 4 ruin pieces that need basing.
Would need to borrow a drill...
and some skills...
and would be better if i had a table to put it on.
meh details
The reasoning? Thought about painting some terrain, but would ideally need a table to match the terrain to. Well when I say terrain, I mean 4 ruin pieces that need basing.
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Finalised list
Main goal is to overwhelm the enemies ability to deal with all the armor, so here it is
Company command - 237 points
4 Plasma guns
Officer with bolt pistol
Astropath
Officer of the fleet
Chimera with turret/hull heavy bolter, and pintle storm bolter.
Veteran squad - 155 points
3 melta guns
Chimera multi-laser/heavy bolter
Veteran squad - 155 points
3 melta guns
Chimera multi-laser/heavy bolter
Veteran squad - 155 points
3 melta guns
Chimera multi-laser/heavy bolter
Hellhound - 135 points
Hull heavy bolter, smoke
Hellhound - 135 points
Hull heavy bolter, smoke
Leman Russ Vanquisher - 220 points
Pask, hull lascannon
Leman Russ Demolisher - 220 points
Hull lascannon, sponson Plasma Cannons
Leman Russ Squadron - 335 points
Leman Russ Battle Tank
Hull heavy bolter, sponson heavy bolters
Leman Russ Battle Tank
Hull lascannon, sponson heavy bolters
1747 points
10 vehicles, 13 kill points. 3 scoring units (!!)
What could go wrong?
Company command - 237 points
4 Plasma guns
Officer with bolt pistol
Astropath
Officer of the fleet
Chimera with turret/hull heavy bolter, and pintle storm bolter.
Veteran squad - 155 points
3 melta guns
Chimera multi-laser/heavy bolter
Veteran squad - 155 points
3 melta guns
Chimera multi-laser/heavy bolter
Veteran squad - 155 points
3 melta guns
Chimera multi-laser/heavy bolter
Hellhound - 135 points
Hull heavy bolter, smoke
Hellhound - 135 points
Hull heavy bolter, smoke
Leman Russ Vanquisher - 220 points
Pask, hull lascannon
Leman Russ Demolisher - 220 points
Hull lascannon, sponson Plasma Cannons
Leman Russ Squadron - 335 points
Leman Russ Battle Tank
Hull heavy bolter, sponson heavy bolters
Leman Russ Battle Tank
Hull lascannon, sponson heavy bolters
1747 points
10 vehicles, 13 kill points. 3 scoring units (!!)
What could go wrong?
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