Relentless Tournament Campaign

[N.I.B.]

Doesn't most space marine armies have access to grav gun bikers?

[sunnyrobert]

Hmm not sure.....

Were they the ones with salvo as well? Played one way back... Fun game but dont remember details



Its like the bikes have scout move, then on first turn termies deepstrike within x inches of the bikers without scattering, then even if the bikes run, then can still shoot salvo 4(?)....

So fast shooting bikers and in your face termies.....

Or was it white scars? Hahaha Dont remember

[sunnyrobert]

BAttle vs dark angels about to begin



Is it a pure dangels army? With ik support? Allies?

Well find out in a while.....

[sunnyrobert]

Ok! What a game....

The dark angels army was a pure one. With just 2 termi squads, 2 bike squads, a skiinmer, 3 full marine squads, a dread, and 3 amazing characters that beef up this army nicely



The skimmer is placed on the left side plus one biker squad, while the rest of the squads are peppered in the center. On the center his dread and another biker squad.
His 2 termie squards will deepstrike

At first i was wondering " what no vehicles?" Why did thos guy go for squads and a dread a skimmer and some bikers? I was to find out soon enough...


He had 2 objective in hos deployment and one in center

[sunnyrobert]

As for me my main concern was the deepstriking termies... Didnt want them to go behind my lines, which has 2 objectives...



I placed my gants to claim objectives and also the zoans and vens, barb and exocrine behind ruins or adl to max 2+ cover saves, and i made sure no space for those ds termies hehe

My opponent hinted of giving me first turn so i take it and place all my flying units onto the board....

What made the game interesting is that units with objective secured gives up 1 vp while those without os gives up 2 vps!

I thought sure and fine until i found out that nearly all of the ravenwing units the bikes the termies the marines and even the skimmers were all OS units....

(please do not swear)

[sunnyrobert]

The bikers make their scout moves



While one fail their terrain save....

[sunnyrobert]

At this point am thinking, lotsa marines with s4 guns. This should be quite easy....

So i decided to move my fliers forward while my shooters stay in adl to await the termies



Concentrated fire kills a biker squad. There is no vp for first blood and slay warlord

I try to shoot the skimmer and cause one hp damage

Others hard to kill since they are on cover and its night fighting

[sunnyrobert]

Ok now here comes the termies!



One drops near the exocrine while the other plops just behind the malanthrope

While the skimmer moves and boosts across the field



This is where it gets ugly... In the psychic phase he gets to cast twinlink on a crone, and also rending as well (ugh)

Then starts shooting at my malanthrope. A unit of 10 marines shoots 4 shots each ( due tona banner) for 36 shots.... And also his plasma guns as well. Even with a 3+ cover the malanthrope is killed (ouch)





Then he starts shooting at my crone. Nearly 60+ twin linked snap shots caused about 9 hits and now causes 2 rending and 3 wounds.... No worries as i jinked until he mentiones one character also causes -1 to cover! Dang....
So thats his combo.... Down goes the crone and dies



Since both crone and malanthropes are not OS units , he gets 4 vp right away and gets 2 maelstrom objectices : on center objective and for killing an mc

End of first turn and he is leading 6-1.... Tsk tsk


This guy was supposed to be a newbie? Yikes

[sunnyrobert]

I panic due to the sheer number of fire, all twin linked and rending, and with a weaker cover saves, enough to kill fliers..

Note also he has a character that give a 4+ invul

So i decided to pull back my flyrants from swooping and gliding into the ruins...



First off my gants all train their borers on the skimmer and causes its last hullpoint....



I start shooting a termie squad using the exocrine...3 dead... Then other shooting by flyrants wipes out the rest of the termie





The second termie was a threat so i block their path via the gaunts...



I get a few objectives and vps

[sunnyrobert]

The last termie unit walks around the gaunts, shoots at it then assaults the gaunt killing all but 2! Due to the nearby zoan and flyrants the gants stay and the termie are tarpit

This bikes assault the exocrine to keep it from firing but os eradicated by the mc....

While the rest amble forward

[sunnyrobert]

The turn of the tide was the turn when the barb goes and charges onto the termie and wipes it out...

The key error was that when the dangels started to move towards my line, the characters were in the lead... I took the opportunity to take them out

First i shot at the character that had a 2+ save and a 4++...if i remember it right this character gave all units a 10 leadership and 4+ invulsaves .. My barb connects and he rolles a 1. Instakill!

The next was the pesky banner, i throw all my flyrants onto it and after botched look out sirs it dies as well thats a 4
Vp swing as characters arent os

With these 2 key characters down i take the offensive next turn and send ally fliers onwards and the barb as well



With just basic sm troops without tlink, salvo, rending... It was a loosing battle until only one marine remaining on turn 06




The barb shoots one ap3 gun and the last marine fall

Total wipeout

After tabulating the vp score was 24-9, another win for the nids. 3 down 3 to go

[sunnyrobert]

Hmmm just found out that from the north group there is this player playing a non cad list, 1 warhound and 3iks

Totally decimated a space wolves player by turn 4....

4 big plate D weapons

Tsk tsk

[sunnyrobert]

This came up during our last game:

A squad has a character to gives bonus to squad (4+ invul) In shooting phase i let loose with the barb heriodule. The character is nearest. While resolving the character fails its 2+ arm save and is insta-killed... There were 6 more wounds to be resolved to the rest of the marines...Question: does the next model still benefit from the now dead characters bonus? (Ex giving 4+ invul to squad)...

Thanks