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Astartes ricitus 5C

Deployment:
Captain Solon (special spawncaptain) + command squad
Tactical squad 7 bolters, Plasma cannon,Rifle and pistol.
Scouts 10 snipers w/ cloaks
Land raider Crusader
Predator

Special rules:
Clear ground
Any unit on ground higher then 1' above the base of the table gains 6" RA on basic (Excluded blast weapons :( )

Logicals: Put Predator on mountain climb (on each side there was a track up)

enemy: 120 boyz + Waaaabaws. (didn't record weaps) 2 weird IG-type tanks (looted?)

Idiot sends his boyz (90 of the poor sporm) within 18" of my LR (2 Sbolters, 2 hurricane bolters-DL, assault cannon-DL)
Move in 6" (with 10 little doozy-tacticals + captain inside, all disembark), S-bolters (4 attacks total) count as defencive, 2 H-bolters (6 bolters, dual linked.) = 12 attacks at 12" Assault cannon (4 attacks at S6.+rending) due to my pretty little land raiders POTMS, I managed a total of 6 attacks which turned to 4 for two storm bolters, 12 for two hurricane bolters and 8 for assault cannon (only weapon over S4, so it got a double attack) the best part? 20 of those attacks were re-rolled. with no cover and no AS (nothin' special for armour, 6 armoursave negated.)all S-bolters hit, 9 hurricane and 6 assault cannons hit, 5 more hurricane and one more assault cannon through dual linked.of those 13+7 attacks, only 2 failed to wound. 18 hits. thats more then 50%, the entire squad routed. (15-ish" from end of board.) that left (.8% per unit, so x30 = 24% routed.)
then predator took his flight, w/ autocannon and lascannons. hitting the next squad for four. all hitting (thank the emporor.) thats a further 4 to the 22 killed, and 34 MIA/KIA.
Then the scout squads pounded for a further 10, with 4+, 6 of them hit, and all wounded. rounding out to 40 MIA/KIA

Then the captain and tactical squad took their shots. (including plasma cannon, doesn't specify in rules whether this is illegal or not.) so, the plasma gun hits for 2, the cannon for 7, the bolters, within 12" hit for 16, and the SM-captain hits for 2 w/ his storm bolter. this is 9+18. plasma cannon scatters and ends up hitting a little less, 3. and the plasma gunner fails completly. 3 hits on s7ap2 18 hits to go. of those 18, 11 hit. (captain and sergeant were a bit drunk the night before and couldn't shoot straight D of thos 3, all killed, no armour, and of the other 11, 4 wounded.7 extra kills. of the second squad, 17 kills, the orks morale failed to hold (no nobz?) and they routed.

I don't know much about orkz, but they kinda lost more then they owned, with a total of 35 kills and 25 MIA's, I think that that 50%populace of infantry was not good for my young friend.
This was, as he said very crippling.
EOT.
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So... you are playing with some weird personal rules where you just make up stats etc? I didn't really understand most of this, but 8 hits with an assault cannon, that can shoot 4 shots max, seems to set the standard. Bragging that you beat someone by cheating what seems to be a young inexperienced player is kinda... stupid

WTF happened?! what's with all of the math! tell what happened again like a really person would

By the looks of it, he's taken double shots for all his weapons in half-range.

Either he has some sort of "home" rules, or he just does not understand the rules terribly well... If not the former, I highly suggest the OP go back and actually read his rulebook.

A couple quick things I glanced over and saw wrong, if this game was played using the standard 40k rules...:
- A weapon over S4 on a vehicle does not get a magical "double attack" - the assault cannon would have gotten 4 shots, period, not 8 shots.
- The Tactical Squad can't shoot the Plasma Cannon if it disembarks - disembarking from a vehicle after it moves is considered movement.

Land Raiders can't take two storm bolters either.

I'm pretty much jacked up on cold an flu medicine and codeine so am I imagining this report?
I particularly liked the assault cannon getting 8 shots, because it was over strength 4! and the pleasure the OP got from his mathematical genius (18 hits being more than 50% of what I cannot follow). Beautiful.

Very crippling indeed. I hope the Ork player gets his MIA's back for his next game.

My head hurts.

Im sorry, but wtf? Write turn for turn, without all that math packed into two lines I didn`t notice the doubles, to much concentrated math.
BTW, don`t call your opponent idiot when you shoot 8 shots with your assault cannon. If you don`t get the rules, then good luck. But NEVER call an opponent an idiot, (meybe if he`s the fething guy).

We all make mistakes as new players, lets not get too harsh here. The fact is, a game was played, and at least marginally enjoyed, so it's a win.

That being said, rules are very important to getting the most out of a game, and keeping players from having a badly one-sided rout. The rulebook is worthy of being read cover to cover. No excuses. You don't have to be able to quote it, but having a good working knowledge makes the game much faster, and you should at least know where to look something up.

As far as battle-reports, the best method is to break the action down turn-by-turn, with some clear method of player turn break.

For example:
Turn 1 (a): Squads C and D shot at his Squad X, squads A and B rolled forward and disembarked, also shooting at X.
Turn 1 (b): His squads shoot at my Squad A. Squad X assaults my squad B.
Turn 2 (a): He is Tyranids, so I loose.
Turn 2 (b): Victory dance, wave your probiscus in the air like you just don't care!

etc etc etc.

Try to space it out so it's in easily readable, understandable segments and in logical order. If you don't have pictures, your words have to do much more of the work.

wow... If a land raider moves 6" it may fire all weapons (storm bolters are 4 s, along w/ hurricane bolters.)

I may also fire one weapon over s4, and with POTMS, I may fire another one, totaling two attacks from the Assault cannon, you guys don't get out much, do you?

Read the codex.

And, quoting 'fetterkey' where in the rules, or in the codex does it say that a land raider crusader can't get 2 storm bolters it says
"may take any of the following."

Two storm bolters, two hurricane bolters, one assault cannon.

Only one turn shown

the assault cannon got two attacks because of POTMS


Never cheated, and as far as I'm concerned, I asked the store's manager (40k for 10-ish years?)
and was informed that it was OK for a plasma cannon to disembark the LR and fire.

look before you leap

lmao

Captain Solon wrote:wow... If a land raider moves 6" it may fire all weapons (storm bolters are 4 s, along w/ hurricane bolters.)

I may also fire one weapon over s4, and with POTMS, I may fire another one, totaling two attacks from the Assault cannon, you guys don't get out much, do you?

Read the codex.

I've read the codex. Maybe YOU should read the Codex. PotMS does NOT allow you to fire a weapon twice, it merely allows you to fire one more weapon than would normally be allowed. No weapon may be fired more than once in a single shooting phase.

Captain Solon wrote:And, quoting 'fetterkey' where in the rules, or in the codex does it say that a land raider crusader can't get 2 storm bolters it says
"may take any of the following."

Two storm bolters, two hurricane bolters, one assault cannon.

Only one turn shown

the assault cannon got two attacks because of POTMS

No, no, no. No. No, never. "May take any of the following" does NOT mean that you can take an unlimited amount of the options presented. You can have one of each option.

Again, no. The Assault Cannon cannot be fired twice because of PotMS.

Captain Solon wrote:Never cheated, and as far as I'm concerned, I asked the store's manager (40k for 10-ish years?)
and was informed that it was OK for a plasma cannon to disembark the LR and fire.

look before you leap

Well, then your store manager was wrong. Disembarking from a vehicle is considered movement, and a Plasma Cannon cannot be fired if its unit moved.

Captain Solon makes me sad and confused

I'm just going to ignore the first post as its also impossible to read.

Wide ranging insults probably aren't a good idea btw, people on this forum will more than likely be more experienced than you.

Aside from the fact that you can never fire the same weapon on a vehicle more than once in a turn, POTMS states that you may fire 1 weapon more than you would normally be able to. This doesn't mean you can fire the same weapon twice, you can fire 1 weapon over S6 when moving 6" (the Assault cannon). POTMS lets you fire 1 additional weapon but since you don't have any additional weapons you can't use it.

The Plasma cannon is a heavy weapon, please read the rules for shooting heavy weapons (I'm pretty sure there is a huge diagram of how it works).

Taking multiple Storm Bolter vehicle upgrades (and indeed other vehicle upgrades, notably the HK missile) is something many people have tried and failed to pull off (people trying to pull of the tank with 50 storm bolters or HK missiles). You may take 1 of each upgrade, check the wording again "may take any of the following" doesn't mean "may take as many of the following as you want to".

That is a scary LR... And when did your tac squad get Relentles? Cause I want it for mine.

Captain Solon wrote:were in the rules, or in the codex does it say that a land raider crusader can't get 2 storm bolters it says
"may take any of the following."

Man I just got an idea for my next conversion! 50 stormbolters!!

Zarake wrote:That is a scary LR... And when did your tac squad get Relentles? Cause I want it for mine.

Didn`t you hear?
"THE SPHESS MEHREENS ISH NAT GOD ENOPH!!!!GIV EM RELLENTLES!!"
Not that i have anything to say, i play crimson fists

I love users like this, this is almost as epic as the "orbital bonbardabonbonment" guy

lol, I am now going to read every post this guy writes and has written.

EDIT--Never mind, they aren't that bad. He just doesn't know the rules.

..and we're done here.

To the Op there are several rules here that you didn't get quite right..to everyone else..play nicely please.