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Dawn of War
The Relic

Death Guard
HQ 230
TYPHUS 230

TROOPS 626
PLAGUE MARINES X7, PLASMA X2, ICON, COMBIPLAS, MELTA BOMB 223
PLAGUE MARINES X7, PLASMA X2, ICON, COMBIPLAS, MELTA BOMB 223
ZOMBIES X20 90
ZOMBIES X20 90

FAST 520
HELLDRAKE 170
HELLDRAKE 170
SPAWN X5 W/MON 180

HEAVY 474
OBLITERATORS X2, MON, VETS 158
OBLITERATORS X2, MON, VETS 158
OBLITERATORS X2, MON, VETS 158

Grey Knights
HQ:
Librarian Torris - Mastery 3 (200) (He was also using some crazy grenades)
Ordo Malleus Inquisitor - Terminator, Psycannon (80)

Elites:
4x Paladins (220)

Troops:
2x 5man Strike Squads - Psycannon x2 (220)
5man Terminator (200)
2x Razorback - TL Assault Cannon, Psybolt, Dozer Blade (180)

Heavy:
Land Raider (255)
2x Dreadnought TL- Autocannon, Psybolt x2 (270)

Fast:
Stormraven - Psybolt (225)

Night Fighting is not in effect turn 1.

I win the roll off to deploy and take first turn. I deploy zombies, centrally, in box formation around the two units of Death Guard(referred to as DG from here on). The zombies are two ranks thick on the front, and single rank on the side. The Spawn sit on the right side of the box. All units of Oblits hide in ruins along the deployment edge on either side.

He also deploys centrally, the LR in the middle with a razor on each side, one dread on each side spaced further apart. He attempts to steal but rolls a 1.

Turn 1
DG
All bodies move 6" forward, the Spawn jet up 12 into a forest for cover and assault positioning. The oblits explode 1 razor and heavily damage the other, 1 hull point down and stunned. The strike unit passed morale and wasnt pinned.
GK
He moves the LR up and deploys the other strike unit. In his shooting phase he manages to kill an oblit and a few zombies.

Turn 2
DG
Both HellTurkeys fly on board. I deploy one directly in front of the LR front assault ramp and the other blocking a dread on the right. All bodies move up 6". I begin to spread the zombies out a bit longer. I also place the spawn 1" away from the LR's right assault ramp door. The oblits manage to take out a dred, the other razor, and immobilize the last dred. The HellTurkies wipe out one strike unit and send the other running for the hills with only two members left.
GK
His Storm Chicken flys on and shoots some stuff. His LR scoots back 6" and the Terminator unit hops out. Shooting phase is pretty weak. I think he kills a DG, a few zombies, wrecks a HellTurkey, glances the other, and a Spawn. He assaults the Spawn with his Termies and loses combat by 2. They stay locked in.

Turn 3
DG
The remaining HellTurkey Vector Strikes the Storm Chicken and accomplishes nothing. I surround the objective, moving the zombies into the surrounding forests while a DG unit picks up the relic. I do alot of shooting at the Chicken and nothing happens, he dodges a bunch of shots. In assault the Spawn manage to kill another terminator and lose one themselves. They stay locked.
GK
He goes into Chicken hover mode and drops his Paladin death star off. He shoots a bunch more and kills some zombies. My DG armor rolls are working nicely. The way ive got my zombies surrounding the objective makes it impossible for him to assault my DG relic holding unit. We draw with zero wounds in the spawn combat.

Turn 4
DG
The relic unit backs off. I prepare a multi zombie unit charge on his Paladin unit. The oblits keep moving up. I dump all the plasma I have in the army into the Paladin unit and kill every paladin off and wound the inquisitor. I then multiassault that unit and swat harmlessly at them. The spawns manage to kill another guy off. He passes moral and stays locked.
GK
He moves the Chicken into position to fire upon the Relic unit. The LR remains stationary to fire more shots. His shooting doesnt do much. An oblit and Typhus take a wound.

Turn 5 (Night Fight is on)
The HellTurkey comes back on, vector strikes the Chicken, does nothing to it, then lights the remaining strikes on fire to finish them off. He also regained a Hull Point the previous turn. Lots of shooting, the Chicken saves everything, and twin linked meltas fail to hit the LR. The oblits assault the Chicken(still in hover mode) and punch it to death. I finish off the last terminator in the spawn combat and harmlessly swat with the Zombies. At this point the GK player concedes the game. There's no way for him to win. His units will never fight out of the zombie combat in time and the LR is the only thing left standing other than a dred thats facing the wrong direction.

All in all a good game. We both had some pretty epic rolls, so no complaints there. Spawn with MoN rock! Even with Hammer Hand he just couldnt deal damage to the spawn. Such a great unit. Oblits are. . .well . . .Oblits. I miss fearless, but whatever. The Bale flamers worked wonders. The zombies worked very well as meat shields.

Nice report, and a very nice deadguard list.

I do think the grey knight list is utter crap, it lacks bodies and punch.

I must agree, his list wasn't optimized, polished, or otherwise effective. . . He would suffer greatly against horde armies, and my fearless meatshields proved to be just that, a mob of easy to move rabble.

Yeah the knights list is pretty shocking?

Why 4 paladins? That seems absurd, you need 5 to unlock the tasty psycannons, and if you want a cheap extra unit, solodins can be effective. He has some good points like the inquisitor, psyfleman dreads, even a land raider can be good. But you need to synergise it better. It looks like hes just grabed some random things together.

Good bat rep. Nurgle marines are looking strong now, cant wait to play the new chaos codex

I'm really disappointed in the new chaos dex. Honestly, IMO, I just took the best choices out of the new dex and fielded them. Most of the units have awkward price to power ratios. And all roads lead directly back to Plague Marines. No matter how you try and cut it, PM's get everything you want on the other choices but with toughness bumps, defensive grenades, all the gear, and poison blades at a respectable price point. I might try to play around with a Nurgle lord rocking the black mace rather than Typhus and adding a few more Plague Marine units. I love the spawn now. Three wounds, T6, beasts! Yes please! If the Hell Turky's didn't share the same FOC slot I might field 15 of them.

Sounds like Chaos is sharing some of the same problems as the crons - overcrowding of the Fast Attack and Heavy Support slots.