Hey folks!
You can read my other battle reports for this event here:
Whiskey Challenge / Celebrity Match
Round One
Round Two
Round Three
Round Five
Round Six
The Pink Waaaugh!
HQ1: Ghazghkull Thraka
HQ2: Big Mek with
KFF and Powerklaw
Troop1: 7x Nobs, cybork bodies + wound shenanigans in dedicated transport battlewagon
Troop2: 16x Boyz, Nob/Powerklaw/Bosspole
Troop3: 12x Trukk Boyz, Nob/Powerklaw/Bosspole + Trukk
Troop4: 10x Gretchin + Runtherder
Elite1: 15x Burnas
Elite2: 5x Lootas
Elite3: 5x Lootas
Fast Attack1: 3x Warbuggies with
TL Rokkits
Fast Attack2: 1x Deffkopta,
TL Rokkits + Buzzsaw
Fast Attack3: 1x Deffkopta,
TL Rokkits + Buzzsaw
Heavy1: Battlewagon
Heavy2: Battlewagon (Deffrolla, Boarding Plank, Grabbin' Klaw, Armor Plates, Grot Riggers, Big Shoota).
Coming into round four, I've got two very narrow wins and a decent win in my third game against Yermom. Apparently, my win was enough to kick me out of the 2nd lowest ranked winner spot back to the third lowest ranked winner spot and I head back to table #3 to take on....JAWABALLS!!!
I know his name but don't read his blog and haven't met him before. He shakes my hand with a winning smile, shares a drink with me and we have a good laugh about life in general; I find myself liking him immediately. There's nothing worse than being at a drama-filled top table in a tournament, and I'm feeling that this is going to be a relaxed game, for which I'm grateful....I've had three great games, great opponents, and no issues anywhere.
Here's a picture of his Blood Angels. Jawaballs jokes that he doesn't belong on the top tables, and after my last game against poor Yermom's daemons, I'm inclined to believe I haven't earned my spot either.
Jawaballs' Blood Angels:
HQ1: Librarian with Shield of Sanguinius, The Sanguine Sword, Psychic Hood, Force Weapon
HQ2: Reclusiarch with Liturgies of Blood, Rosarius, Crozius Arcanum, Infernus Pistol
Troop1: 5x Assault Marines: Sergeant + Razorback with Las/
Plas
Troop2: 5x Assault Marines: Sergeant, 1x Meltagun + Razorback with Las/
Plas
Troop3: 5x Assault Marines: Sergeant + Razorback with Las/
Plas
Troop4: 5x Assault Marines: Sergeant + 1x Meltagun + Razorback with Twin-linked Heavy Flamer
Elite1: 5x Assault Terminators; 3x Lightning Claws, 1x Thunderhammer & Stormshield, 1x Sergeant: Dedicated Land Raider Crusader (Multi-melta, 2x Hurricane Bolters,
TL Assault Cannon)
Elite2: Furioso Dreadnought
Elite3: Sanguinary Priest in Terminator Armor + Power Sword
Heavy1: Autocannon Predator with Lascannon Sponsons
Heavy2: Autocannon Predator with Lascannon Sponsons
Heavy3: Autocannon Predator with Lascannon Sponsons
Nova Mission #4 is a randomized dice roll for the
GT: I think they rolled mission two, which is Pitched Battle, with the win conditions taking the following precedence:
1. Objectives
2. Victory Points
3. Victory Points
Pre-Game Tactical Assessment:
Blood Angels....I don't have a terrific amount of experience against them, but I know that their vehicles can move 18", and they're fast for shooting. In my pre-game questions, I'm looking for blood lances, meltas, lascannons, multi-meltas....the things that nullify my mobility. He's got Lascannons scattered all across his razorbacks, along with lascannons on his predators and a multi-melta on his land raider - all of those are noteworthy threats, and if I can keep him in my front armor, I should be alright. Especially if I can go first.
We roll off (Jawa throws his dice down first) and he rolls a 5. I dejectedly roll my own dice. Ha!
I win the roll to go first and deploy. That one dice of his is going to become legendary though. =p
This is probably a familiar looking deployment by now. Deffkoptas flanking, everything else in
KFF range, with Lootas left and right to range the field.
Terrain actually got moved between round 3 and 4, so its not where Vinny and I left it in game2 - terrain is forward, leaving unoptimal fields of fire. Jawa only has a single blast threat (a razorback with a twin-linked heavy flamer) so I don't worry about my spacing.
Jawa deploys in return. His twin-linked heavy flamer razorback is in reserve, with the bulk of his forces in my top right. His dreadnought deploys opposite my own forces in his center field.
Here's his center-field dreadnought and his left side predator; he's looking for opportunities to hit side armor, and potential bait I suppose.
My left Deffkopta scouts up the left towards his lone predator. My right Deffkopta scouts up towards his right predators - if they can both do their jobs, we'll take down 2 out of his 3 autocannons and 4 out of 9 lascannons on on turn one, leaving little in the way of a credible anti-tank threat.
Jawaballs rolls to seize after an elaborate ceremony with his die and........F***.
Blood Angel Turn One:
His first Las/
Plas razorback attempts to move forward to get better shooting angles and his epic die continues to be epic. That Razorback isn't going anywhere.
After a celebratory drink for winning the roll to go first, and a commiserating drink after having the initiative stolen from me, and another celebratory drink when his razorback immobilized itself, followed by a conciliatory drink so that Jawaballs didn't think I was toasting his demise, the Captain is running low.
His first predator opens up on my incoming Deffkopta, causing three wounds from Plasma / Lascannons. Awwww. :( I failed two of three cover saves.
His other predator and lascannon razorbacks open up on the
KFF wagon getting a total of two penetrates. My Big Mek opens up the top hatch and screams out, "DENIED!!"
On the left side, his predator delivers lascannons and auto-cannons into my Deffkopta, who fails a save on an autocannon wound and takes one.
Ork Turn One:
My Orks move up 12".
I make a significant mistake here. Somehow....I FORGOT that there was a land raider on the table. A land raider with terminators inside. Who get to reroll hits. A land raider that has an assault ramp. My rokkit buggies partly exist in this list to screen things like that away from my Battlewagons, but instead of moving the rokkit buggies up 18" to screen my battlewagons, I completely separated them from the battlewagons and ran around the side to take shots at the Furioso dread. Not joking, I was shocked when he moved up his land raider on turn2 and dropped terminators on me. I was like, "WHERE THE HELL DID THEY COME FROM?!?" I blame the Captain. And Jawaballs for being Jolly. Also Brad (Hulksmash) for being two rows away and talking so loudly that I could have set up a tape recorder on my table and listened to his game later.
At any rate, my Battlewagons are presenting front armor to his line, I'm trying to screen myself from his left side predator, and leave room between my battlewagons (1" or so) for my orks to disembark if I lose one.
Lootas on the left target his Furioso (who gets cover saves) and get three shots apiece!
That'll be enough to castrate the Furioso; I take away the claw with the multi-melta attached; one less anti-tank weapon and no more rerolls against me in close combat. I manage to shake it at the same time, so no worries about the flamer either.
My Lootas on the right are in front armor of his predators, so they go after his immobilized razorback instead. I get a weapon destroyed and shaken result.
My rokkit buggies on the left fire at the Furioso as well. I'm not sure who got the results on it, but between the Lootas and the buggies, he lost an arm and got shaken. In the back corner, my Deffkopta advances menacingly on the lone Predator and fires into its side armor, resulting in....nothing!
20 minutes after game start, and we're officially empty. Awwwwww. :(
My deffkopta assaults into his predator and inflicts a weapon destroyed and shaken result. I take away a lascannon.
Blood Angels Turn Two:
WHERE IN THE HELL DID THOSE TERMINATORS COME FROM?!? Seriously, I mentally blocked out the fact that there was a land raider on the table.
Vantage shot of his terminators popping out of the warp. I swear that Land raider wasn't there. SHUT UP! I won't hear any other version. They're ELDAR XENOS terminators.
No picture of this part, but his shaken predator tank-shocks into my deffkopta, who passes leadership and gets out of his way.
A picture is worth 1,000 words, right? Here's the summation of Jawaballs' shooting phase.
His terminators assault into my battlewagons. He multi-assaults across all three of them, and I giggle. Then he tells me about his litanies, STR10 close combat librarian powers, rerolls....and I blanch. 6s to hit, and his rerolls DELIVER! Two battlewagons explode, and he causes a weapon destroyed result (but nothing else) on my third battlewagon).
In the background you can see his other movements; his closest razorback smoked, and his predators on the right side sidled down the edge.
Ork Turn Two:
My Rokkit buggies line up for side armor shots on his Predator, while my Deffkopta swings around for rear shots.
My burna wagon tank shocks through his non-thunderhammer terminators, having declared a ram. The terminators go unscathed, while the land raider gets wrecked from the Deffrolla. My trukk doesn't have anywhere to go because of the boyz and nobs in the way, so it creeps around behind the BLOS middle terrain to wait for something exciting to do.
Ghazghkull's wagon moved a grand total of 5", and can't get out to get into the terminators because of the tight groupings, so he jumps out 2" towards the predators. My hand has been forced, so I'm going to have to Waaaugh! and get what I can.
Much shooting later, a couple terminators fall over. My gretchin even get some shots in and cut through a 2+/4++
FNP.
Lol.
Ghazghkull declares his Waaaugh! On the left side, the Rokkit buggies and Deffkopta open up on the Predator, scoring two more weapon destroyed results and a shaken. It has no weapons, but its a mobile tank shocker!
The Lootas on the left take a smoke break since they can't see anything, and the Lootas on the right open up on side armor on the nearest predator, wrecking it. Ghazghkull runs 6" towards the other one. The
KFF from the exploded
KFF Wagon also jumped into Ghazghkull's wagon this turn.
Asssaults!
My deffkopta in the top left assaults into the predator and whiffs.
There's a big scrum in the middle. My nobs multi-assault his dreadnought and terminators. My boyz all assault into his terminators.
His terminators eat half of my boyz, and his dreadnought whiffs against my Nobs, who pass an invul save to be untouched. In return, a powerklaw wrecks the Furioso.
My boyz and a couple nobs lay into his terminators and put down both independent characters, the lightning claws, and the priest, leaving the Thunderhammer, who whiffs against the Nobs. His thunderhammer terminator loses combat by ONE. He's fearless (blood rage thing), and fails his single fearless save.
Ghazghkull Thraka pulls his own "Pop out of the warp" trick and explodes the remaining predator.
Not a bad Waaaugh! turn!
Blood Angels Turn Three:
Jawaballs is in trouble now, so focuses on objectives. His reserved razorback didn't come out turn2, and still doesn't come out. The razorback that smoked last turn cranks 18" down the field, tank shocks through my Lootas (who are fearless and ignore it) and onto the back side of my objective. His assault squad jumps out and hunkers down.
His weaponless predator tank shocks backwards through my deffkopta again, which I dodge and ignore because I'm fearless. In the top right, Jawa concentrates his remaining firepower on....I'm not sure what, but I didn't take any pictures of stuff dying, so it probably didn't do anything.
Orks Turn Three:
My remaining boyz move (and later run) back towards my gretchin held objective. My gretchin
2d6 away from the assault marines trying to get away from the assault squad. They're not going to make it.
My right side Lootas turn around and wreck the razorback.
My left side Lootas finally have a target and open up on his assault squad, doing nothing. My gretchin turn around and unload on the assault squad and....also do nothing.
My nobs move forward towards his table quarter while my trukk full of boyz jets 12" towards the top left table quarter. My deffkopta and rokkit buggies swing around towards his table quarter and Ghazghkull moves into threat range of more of his stuff.
Blood Angel Turn Four:
The assault squad on his objective hunkers down in preparation for Ghazghkull. His reserved heavy flamer razorback continues to avoid joining the fight. In my rear, his assault squad stomps through my Gretchin gleefully and wipe them out.
Ork Turn Four:
We're running out of time, and this will end up being the last turn.
My trukk boyz jump onto the top left objective.
My Rokkit buggies and deffkopta line up for shots on his immobilized razorback and explode it - letting Ghazghkull assault the contents instead of having to assault the razorback.
In my backfield my boyz assault his assault squad after both Loota units unload on them and clean them up.
With that, the game ends. I own the bottom left and top right objectives. Ghazghkull contests the top right objective (otherwise empty) with my Lootas on the bottom left. I own two objectives, all four table quarters, and win on victory points too.
Post-Game Analysis:
I think that Jawa's list was decent, but I think his deployment was a mistake. He offered up a predator as a sacrifice in the top left corner and I took advantage of it. I'm not sure why he reserved his other razorback with the twin-linked flamer and melta, but it denied him a unit capable of doing bad things to me with either melta or heavy flamer. I was also surprised to see him present Predator side armor to my Lootas in the second half of the game, which I took advantage of. Jawaballs had some horrid shooting, and I made some great
KFF saves. I *did* have to pay heavily for missing the Land Raider, but I took an early heavy toll on his lascannons, and his ability to threaten me at range or insta-gib my nobs.
With that, the tournament ends with me being 4-0, and winning "Tournament Ace" which is the equivalent of Best General. I got a trophy, a razorback, and some other loot, and access to day two's invitational.
Mike called us into the judge room afterwards - the way pairings worked out meant that the top seeded winners were going to get a bye.....while I ended up ranked as the "Worst winner" with the lowest win ranking based on my performance in my first four games. As such, I'm required to show up Sunday morning and fight for the right to compete in the winner's brackets.
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