And so the second Club night for Sixth edition, and I find myself playing against one of the clubs better gamers. And I still haven't won. I'll go through my army list first.
Chaplain, 5 Assault Termies, ALL Thunder Hammers, in a Land Raider.
10 Legion of the Damned
2 Tactical Squads in Rhinos.
10 Devastators with two Missile Launchers and two Plasma Cannons
Storm Talon
LandSpeeder with Multimelta and Assault Cannon
Dreadnought with Plasma Cannon
Vindicator
The Chaplain and Termies against Chaos Marines were to hold back and protect or be an attacking piece. LOTD do what they do best, hold the enemy up and contest objectives. Tactical squads to get objectives or add firepower, boltguns are lethal! Devasators to pick on troops or armour, depending on what Louis takes. Vindicator, well, you know how good these are! The Storm Talon would enter from reservesa and zoom to deal with anything it wanted, and the Land Speeder will deep strike and attack the heaviest armour the enemy can muster head on with assault cannon and multi melta.
Deployment! We get the crusade mission and four objectives to fight over, 2 in or near our deployment zones. I go first, and set up centrally and close to the right side objective. Louis places a dreadnought close to threaten my lines and so becomes a priority. The rest of his troops are further back.
Game On!
So the first turn and I manage to destroy the dread that threatens my right flank, the tactical squad sent many thanks! Most of my troops just get into better lines of fire, getting close to an army thats better in assault is silly to be fair! Louis sends a rhino speeding up, which I blow up in the second turn to reveal.... 4 terminators and a Chaos Lord. OUCH!! More fire decimates the retinue until only the lord is left who ducks into cover and then assaults out and destroys my vindicator. Bugger him!
My Legion of the Damned come on, and even after the re-roll scatter off the board. Louis gets to place them in a crater right in front of his battleline. They roll bad and do little damage. In Louis' turn they get fired at.... 5 wounds, and I fail ALL of them. I start to feel this will be another loss! In good news however the tactical squad near the Chaos Lord disembark and take two of the Traitor's wounds from him, and then the storm bolter from the rhino finishes him off. Score! The Land Speeder deepstrikes down in front of the Chaos Land Raider and turns it to molten slag, Multi-melta doing the damage. This is huge as Huron Blackheart's retinue now have to do some footslogging. The Raptors come into play and prove a nuisance as they take a hull point from my Land Raider, but the Storm Talon proves annoying and is only hit once.
The Land Raider then pounces upon Blackhearts retinue and unleashes the Chaplain and Termies. Battle is met! Huron challanges the Chaplain and I accept, and cause one wound after dodging the attacks of the heretic. The Terminators are brutal and kill the opposing Terminators, and close the net around a now panicked Huron. Two remaining Raptors try to save him by assaulting the terminators as the Tyrant Clasps the Chaplains chest and takes him out of the battle, just as the Thunder Hammers rise and fall upon his head, shattering the Tyrant's skull. The Raptors soon fall and the terminators continue to rampage through the chaos lines. The Storm Talon is eventually taken down, but the Chaos forces are beaten, 17 - 10 Victory Points! First game won of sixth edition!
I find your color scheme hideous but your reports entertaining. Thanks for sharing and keep them coming!
ReplyDeleteHa cheers man! Yeah I know my colour scheme is a bit out there, but it broke some of the colour rules and I think it works=] I'm hoping to start some video's soon so keep an eye out for those!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a blast again dude, nothing like getting a victory over an old adversary!
ReplyDeleteVideos would be ace! I'm all for that
And I'm all for the colour scheme!
Ha the colour scheme is staying no matter what=] I did wonder about taking the purple out but naaaah. Its become part of my heritage!
ReplyDeleteMan the game was an absolute blast. When I played Louis last time, he used similar tactics against me with his Guard. Shoot, and move away until you fancy your chances of assaulting. It worked well! Getting a win was massively nice too, 1-4 now=D haha.
Yeah videos will happen at some point, build my confidence to speak on camera first and have some stuff to show on it! Hopefully planning a battle report too, plus some other non-games related stuff!