I choose to leave my entire SM biker army in reserve!

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**Waaagh_Gonads**

Courtesy of Valkyrie on WargamerAU...

An international tourney, a Russian brought an army based on White Scars (withouth Khan) with bike spam and he played against a french player with Tau.

The russian won the initiave and decided to go first and leave everything on reserves. The french infiltrated his kroot freely to his enemy deploy zone. Funny stuff came when he told his opponent he couldn't get into the battlefield with ANY unit.

Result - Tau 1500 SM 0

Guess who is playing Tau?

**Horst**

lol was it you?

thats freakin evil man.

I LOVE IT!

honestly, marine armies need variation to be succesful, and this is just further evidence of it. spam any one thing, and you have glaring weaknesses. it may not be obvious, but they are there.

**TheBog**

This is actually really funny.. I'm showing this to my friends.

**starbomber109**

I did not understand what happened...until I saw the line of kroot on the edge of the table! :O

that is....interesting. As someone I know once said "The ultimate Dick Move!"

**General Stubbs**

Nice. That will teach him or her not to put them all in reserve.

**hawkeye**

This might be the single greatest batrep of all time.

**temprus**

Who is who in the picture?

**Bookwrack**

On the one hand, that is a rather wankish move to pull. On the other, it _is_ completely legal, and in a tournament, if your opponent presents you an instant-win opportunity like that, can you really be faulted for taking advantage of it?

**Liquidice281**

I'm actually impressed by the tau player, to have the knowledge to do that is nice. Maybe next time he shouldn't have all his forces in reserve.

**Nurglitch**

Wow, someone actually fell for that. Seriously, deploying entirely in reserve when your opponent can field enough Kroot (or similar Infiltrators) to corden off the field is dumb. Still...

Advantage: Gonads.

**Brother SRM**

I absolutely fething love the face of the Tau player. That is single most deservedly smug expression I have ever seen.

I saw this on SA in their Warhams thread a few days ago and sent it to a bunch of buddies. Great story.

**Kingsley**

I think the smirking guy is the Tau player, the guy with the red vest is his opponent, and the guy with the logo-polo is a ref or organizer of some kind.

**Nurglitch**

I'd say the guy in the vest is the referee. Why else would you wear a highly visible garment like that?

**JohnHwangDD**

I saw this when it was originally posted for the European Team Championship.

Pure WIN!

**Aduro**

Has anyone told you that you look like the gunner from Enterprise?

**Iron_Chaos_Brute**

I love it!

**mal**

Nurglitch wrote:I'd say the guy in the vest is the referee. Why else would you wear a highly visible garment like that?

I'm going with: the guy in the white polo, with the twin russian flags and white scars logo, being the russian white scars player; the guy with the french flag on his shirt and the big grin would be the smug french tau player. The guy with the rule book being the ref...

**Kingsley**

Ah, that's what those are? You have better eyes than me, then, and that certainly explains the wacky vest on the rulebook guy.

**KingCracker**

This is really hilarious. I remember loosing squads of chaos failing a LD test by a rhino just moving closer and closer to the edge. Great stuff. Best part is tho, that white scar player will NEVER do that move again. Live and learn

**Gwar!**

I am guessing the person flicking through the rulebook is the White Scars Player?

**Shaman**

white shirt is scars player.. I'll remeber not to put evertyting in reserves lest this happens to me. ..

**Iago**

Yeah, heard of this... know someone who pulled it off against marines, it takes 30 kroot, from one side of the other of the table. Lolz. Aka -jerk- aka yay for win.

**Crazy_Carnifex**

Awesome. Cheesy, annoying way to deal with a cheesy, annoying tactic. Love it.

**mattv2099**

Wow.

Who knew that russians could afford to play Warhammer 40k???

**Canonness Rory**

Shoulda taken Khan, so that he could outflank.

**Gwar!**

Canonness Rory wrote:Shoulda taken Khan, so that he could outflank.

Even if he had Khan, if he declared his whole army was entering normally from reserves, the result would have been the same

And with enough Kroot he could have just covered the 2 side edges and used his normal guys to block the back

**Falconlance**

Can skimmers or Jetbikes defeat this set up?

**Dr Weirdboy**

Falconlance wrote:Can skimmers or Jetbikes defeat this set up?

Yeah, if the space marine player was spamming any kind of skimmer or jet bike he would have simply been able to "fly" over the kroot line-of-awesome. An IG player tried blocking my outflankers with meat guard in order to protect his basilisks but my deffcoptas simply flew over the line.

**starbomber109**

Hmmm, come to think of it, jump infantry could get around (or rather over) that wall as well.

The point is he didn't have any of those things he was relying on his bikers and he didn't think about "Oh fine I'll just scout over to your table edge HA I WIN"

This wouldn't have worked against mechdar though.

**Gwar!**

Or any sort of army with a model that can tank shock.