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Hey folks!


You can read my other battle reports for this event here:
Round One
Round Two
Round Three
Round Four
Round Five

After game three, I'm leading the race in the #1 spot. I was visiting L.A. with Hulksmash as my host, and he had his finger closer to the pulse of where everyone was - based on our discussions about where people ended up point-wise, I was expecting to face off against an Ork player for round 4 who had a couple battlewagons - and I was greatly looking forward to the game because of my own Orkish heritage. Additionally, after running out the bottle of Captain Morgan during game three of the previous day, I stopped into a liquor store and decided to get a fifth of Captain this time instead of a flask sized endeavor. Thus armed, I arrived at the Convention center ready to do battle. I'm feeling incredibly nervous; at this point I didn't know that I was in the top spot, but I did know that I was playing with an army I wasn't used to, against people I admire for their accomplishments and skill, and despite horrific shooting, I've managed to get by, in good part because I won the toss to go first in all three games so far. After several trips to the restroom trying to settle my stomach (too early to start drinking my bottle!) I wander in and see that I'm on table one....but not against Orks! Andrew Davis and the forces of Chaos have rallied to repay the beating that Blackmoor took round two.


Purple People Eaters:
HQ: Lelith Hespirax + Wych Retinue + Raider
Troop1 - Troop6: Units of 5 Wyches, Succubus+Agonizer, Raider. Couple squads had blasters, couple raiders had horrorfexes. All wyches in the army had haywire grenades.
Elite 1 - Elite 3: Units of 5 Warriors, each with a Dark Lance, each with a raider. Two squads with a sybarite, one with a Nightmare Doll, one with a Crucible of Malediction.
Heavy 1 - Heavy 3: Three Ravagers, all with Disintegrators.


I brought a little bag of washers, and each washer was labeled twice on both sides in magic marker 1-6 so that I could denote my wych powers - I haven't thought of a better system yet. As you look through this and other of my battle reports from this tournament, that's what those washers are.

Andrew Davis' Verdant Angels
HQ: Daemon Prince + Lash
HQ: Daemon Prince + Lash
Summoned Greater Daemon

Troop1: 10 Chaos Marines (2x Meltas), Aspiring Champion (Power Fist) in Rhino with twin-linked bolter and Havoc Launcher
Troop2: 5x Noise Marines (in addition to a 6th Noise Champion with Doom Siren and Power Fist), Rhino with twin-linked bolter and havoc Launcher
Troop3: 8x Thousand Sons, Aspiring Sorceror(9th) with Force Weapon, Gift of Chaos, Inferno Bolts and a SPAWN!, in a Rhino with twin-linked bolters+Havoc Launcher
Troop4: 6x Plague Marines (2x Melta guns) + Plague Champion (Power First) in Rhino with Twin-Linked Bolters + Havoc Launcher
Troop5: 5x Plague marines (2x Plasma Guns)

Heavy1: 6x Havocs with 4x Missile Launchers
Heavy2: Defiler with Battle Cannon

Mission 4 was a unique deployment zone with triangles, using unique mission scenarios. You can find the full mission description on page 9 of the Mission Packet
Primary (3 points): for each force category where all units are reduced to less than half strength or immobilized.
Secondary (5 points): Control one of your own objectives.
Bonus (2 points): Control one of your enemy objectives
Bonus (1) Destroy an enemy HQ choice

I lost the roll to go first - I rolled a four, and Andrew rolled a 5. I used my Nightmare Doll to make him reroll; its worth a shot! He rolls a six. I'll definitely not be going first. >< Andrew chooses to deploy and go first and deploys. His Havoc squad is in the building to the rear, as is his defiler. Everything else is out on the line, ready to bring it to me early on. Reading Blackmoor's thoughts about our game2, I'm wondering in hindsight here if I should be less orky and not charge at the enemy every game....but the thought doesn't cross my mind during the tournament, and I play extremely agressively. Anyway, here's his deployment:


My deployment in return: Isn't that a beautiful sight for ordinance? Those three raiders that have red pony-tail drivers are all warrior raiders, which are empty - their warriors are deployed in the building and forest behind the raiders.


Here's a side picture of us as the game begins.


Chaos Turn1:
His rhinos all move 12" forward, while his daemon princes do the same, and his foot-slogging nurgle marines jump into the crater in mid-field.


Here's a picture of Andrew with one of his fantastically painted Daemon Princes. You can see Hulksmash trying to butt his way into the picture in the background.


Andrew drops a battlecannon round on a raider on the left flank, which scatters off. He then declares that he's popping smoke and ending his turn....and I note that popping smoke is done during the movement phase. Andrew is stunned; he's never played it that way before. I'm torn between knowing that he wanted to and didn't know when to do it, and sitting at the top table in a GT that I flew 3,000 miles to attend; I feel dickish, but tell him that if it were a friendly game I'd absolutely allow him to do it, but since this is a GT, I've got to hold him to the rules. He nods ruefully and instantly gets max sportsmanship and my respect.

Dark Eldar Turn1:
My formation breaks apart and I eagerly move forward to unleash dark lances upon my unprepared foe:


Nothing disembarks; I'm hoping to disembark some of his troops and ravager them to death. This does NOT turn out to be the case. My crucible of malediction goes off and....does nothing. Again. Meanwhile, 13 dark lances pour out into three rhinos, none of which get cover saves from the angles I'm firing at them from. I stun one and...that's it. Seriously, what the F****!?!??!? Rhino full of plague marines on my left flank:


My ravagers open up on the rhinos as well, desperate for anything - I'd been holding them off in hopes of getting to use them against disembarking troops; while he had one squad out in the open, they were a distant threat and I didn't really have any good LOS to them. I get two more stunned results on two more rhinos.


I mean, c'mon. I was wearing a CHAOS shirt. IN a round against Chaos. You'd think the Chaos gods would approve and not screw me and my dice rolls....but my legendary dice roll luck continues.

Chaos Turn2:
Andrew moves his unstunned rhino and a daemon prince up my right flank and nurgle marines pour forth. That dangling voodoo doll bodes ill for me. :(


Here's a better shot of that:


The nurgle marines in the stunned rhino on my right flank disembark. The rules packet says that hills aren't difficult terrain, so he freely deploys on top of it. His two melta guns go up top and the rest stay below.


The noise marines disembark out of their own stunned rhino:


He enters his shooting phase (after popping smoke on all his rhinos), and bad things happen. Lelith's raider gets blown up, the nurgle marines on my left flank destroy the (thankfully empty) raider on the top hill angling for a shot at his defiler - I fail my 4+ cover for moving flat out. The nurgle marines on my right flank explode the nearest wych raider and two wyches die in the explosion. The remaining three get lashed out of their crater into the daemon prince, who eats their lunch. My succubus and one wych die, leaving a single wych. If I recall correctly, the wych promptly flees off the board.


My exploded raider on the left flank that is mysteriously missing:


Dark Eldar Turn2:
I've been struck a blow indeed, and figure that I need to make my play now. Three of my wych raiders peel over to the left flank and disembark wych squads; I'm planning on delivering three agonizers into his plague marines, and a buttload of haywire grenades into his rhino.


Another wych raider jumps into the middle building and dumps out wyches to go assault his noise marines.


Lelith and another wych squad move up towards his daemon prince in my turf. I don't want to fire at smoked rhinos (2/3 of which are empty now) so I turn my dark lances onto his daemon princes. I inflict three wounds on one - I left the one wound on the first so that I could assault into it and consolidate into cover; those havoc launchers worry me. My ravagers open up on his plague marines on my right flank and vaporize the lot of them.

I assault! My legendary dice rolling continues. The three wych squads on the left flank put agonizers into the plague marines and line up to try putting every non-agonizer into the rhino - rather than 6+ to wound a T5 model that has 3+/4+ FNP, I'd rather try exploding that rhino. Six or seven haywire grenades later....I've STUNNED THE FREAKIN' RHINO and that's it.


The champion lives, and all three wych squads consolidate in.

In the middle the daemon prince dies to Lelith and friends, while my other wych squad mostly bounce off his noise marines. At least they won't be shooting at me next turn.


Chaos Turn3:
His Greater Daemon comes out of reserve, and explodes out of the nurgle champion I'm locked in combat with.


Uh-oh. I now have three wych squads out in the open, not in combat.

He drops a battle cannon round from his defiler onto one of my raiders on my left flank - where my wyches are freshly stuck out of combat and explodes it - it explodes into my wyches who miraculously make 2/4 6+ armor saves. His remaining daemon prince lashes Lelith out of cover, and he opens up with havoc launchers - killing everyone but Lelith. He attempted to spawn one of my wyches in combat with his noise marines, but I was too far away (at the beginning of the turn). The daemon assaults Lelith, who kills him. Bwah ha ha. On the left flank, the greater daemon assaults into wyches and dies. It was either assault me or get assaulted.


In the middle of the field, I finish off his noise marines and consolidate away from his sorceror. I don't want to be spawned!


Dark Eldar Turn3:
We're actually running out of time, so I turbo-boost one of my remaining wych raiders onto one of his objectives. Several of my empty raiders line up to try taking shots at his defiler and my dark lances all fail again. I've got no assaults to make (I moved one of my other wych squads onto one of my own objectives to get the secondary points).

And there, the game ended. I came out ahead on the primary and got all secondary and bonus points for a total of 17 points. I thought we got further, but I ran out of pictures so I guess not. It was a very messy game....if it had continued, I imagine that it would have been a matter of me trying to finish off his heavy supports while taking raider attrition.

We broke for lunch, and I broke out my fifth of Captain Morgan with Andrew on the way to Subway to see how much we could drink by the time we got there - turns out that he's an ex-Navy man; I've never been one much for interservice rivalry, and as a former army man I knew there was a reason I liked him. We drank to celebrate the fun game we had and I drank to celebrate being on the top table headed into round 5 too!

On the walk to lunch, I got to meet some other cool cats, including Yakface! I whipped out my wallet and passed him $25 on the spot, which is why I suddenly have a DCM tag.

Gratz on another win.

Btw, your complaining about your dice rolls does make your reports less fun to read. And it makes your opponents look worse, because they lost while you had bad luck all the time which I'm sure is not what you mean to say

Shrubs wrote:Gratz on another win.

Btw, your complaining about your dice rolls does make your reports less fun to read. And it makes your opponents look worse, because they lost while you had bad luck all the time which I'm sure is not what you mean to say

Hrm....in my DE games, I'm having to pick up the slack in the assault phase. My orks are mostly assault-oriented, and the point of starting Dark Eldar was to get a bit more flexibility in my tactical menu - but the options aren't materializing because I can't get my dice to perform. Some of my opponents were even commenting on it.

If thirteen dark lances needing 3+ to hit and 2+ to wound can only inflict one wound in a round of shooting (which doesn't get through because of a successful cover save) wouldn't you be disappointed? If 8-10 dark lances spend two full turns all firing at the same vehicle needing 3+ to hit and 4+ to glance....and not a single one glances or penetrates....wouldn't you be disappointed? My math says that 10 dark lance shots each turn for two turns should give me 6.6 glances/penetrates, not zero. And I consistently roll this crap - its quite discouraging.

Dash, surely a dice purge is in order?

Shrubs wrote:Gratz on another win.

Btw, your complaining about your dice rolls does make your reports less fun to read. And it makes your opponents look worse, because they lost while you had bad luck all the time which I'm sure is not what you mean to say

Dash is always very respectful and would never pretend to be better than others, I don't see him ever showing ego like you suggest in your message.

From reading the reports it seems that shooting is below average (which is unfortunte with 3 Ravagers sitting and watching) but your CC rolling is exceptionally good (like the last game against the Eldar).

I do agree with the comment that people's perception of what you do is more heavily dependent on how you do it rather than what it is you are doing. It is hard to get that across in text sometimes, but the sportsmanship scores seem to speak for themselves.

That or you keep boozing up the other players!

Sorry to barge in, but as a former Ork player, I have to say that the reason for your shooting is pretty clear!
(It happened to me when I dubiously switched to Space Wolves).
It's Orky Karma You're not used to needing your shooting, and thus it doesn't appear.
However, your assault dice clearly show that the Ork within is still strong, as really... you shouldn't be crunching through opponents like that with so little effort
On a more serious note:
Don't worry, just a bit more practice and it'll even out, but remember that less dice means that every shot counts, and that the whole means of Ork shooting (which uses mass numbers of dice to help even out probability) is quite different. When your shooting dice seem to "fail" you, it's just that you're rolling fewer dice than you're used to, and when you hit the opposite end of the bell curve, it feels like you're kicked in the jimmies, so to speak. Never calculate the odds going in, you'll always be disappointed
-GM

nice, cant wait for 5th game

Farseer Faenyin wrote:

Shrubs wrote:Gratz on another win.

Btw, your complaining about your dice rolls does make your reports less fun to read. And it makes your opponents look worse, because they lost while you had bad luck all the time which I'm sure is not what you mean to say

I agree, but expect it from Dash. No offense Dash, but you have a terrible habit of holier than thou. Perhaps work on it and you'll be a better gamer. :-) I was once a major jerk, despite doing things properly. It's 10% what's delivered and 90% of how it's delivered

I love it when people say "no offense, but..." and then go on to say something insulting. It doesn't hurt less just because you say no offense. Just by saying that you know you are offending.

If you're saying that and you don't know him in person, good on you, mate.

calypso2ts wrote:
I do agree with the comment that people's perception of what you do is more heavily dependent on how you do it rather than what it is you are doing. It is hard to get that across in text sometimes, but the sportsmanship scores seem to speak for themselves.

I'd like to think so - I've gotten max sportsmanship at my last two tournaments.


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Farseer Faenyin wrote:

Shrubs wrote:Gratz on another win.

Btw, your complaining about your dice rolls does make your reports less fun to read. And it makes your opponents look worse, because they lost while you had bad luck all the time which I'm sure is not what you mean to say

I agree, but expect it from Dash. No offense Dash, but you have a terrible habit of holier than thou. Perhaps work on it and you'll be a better gamer. :-) I was once a major jerk, despite doing things properly. It's 10% what's delivered and 90% of how it's delivered

It would appear that you may still be a major jerk.

Guys, come on. Dash said like two things in this rep about poor rolling, and if thats all it takes to ruin a battle report for you, then that's your problem.

Anyways, another solid play; seemed like a close game. The marionette holding DP is a nice twist on the more standard models too

Pulled this because it was unrelated and escalating a situation. My appologies for my part in it.

Farseer Faenyin wrote:

Shrubs wrote:Gratz on another win.

Btw, your complaining about your dice rolls does make your reports less fun to read. And it makes your opponents look worse, because they lost while you had bad luck all the time which I'm sure is not what you mean to say

I agree, but expect it from Dash. No offense Dash, but you have a terrible habit of holier than thou. Perhaps work on it and you'll be a better gamer. :-) I was once a major jerk, despite doing things properly. It's 10% what's delivered and 90% of how it's delivered

Well, your delivery leaves something to be desired, then, as you've managed to cause offense.

If you're enjoying reading Dash's battle reports, and wish to continue to do so, then there's really no reason to poke & prod at him. If you're not...then don't, and quit trying to ruin it for the rest of us. Writing up battle reports, especially those with pictures, often takes LONGER than the game being reported, and it's often a thankless task.

Dash, thanks for sharing. I didn't run into many of the armies you did (wrong end of the tables, I fear), which makes your reports & pictures all the more valuable.

Farseer Faenyin wrote:

Yeah, I tell other people their opinions are useless and claim a 15-1 W-L ratio. Oh wait...no I don't.

And if your sportsmanships are good in game, I commend ya. But perhaps trying for a higher sportsmanship on here would be good too. Again, sticking to the fact that delivery is as important as what you have to say.

Ah, I get it now. You're a troll. Very few posts, nothing constructive posted anywhere, and your addition to this and other threads consists solely of personal attacks. Very nice.

I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I will.

1. If you have an issue with my win/loss record and think that I'm making something up for some reason, that's your problem. It is in my signature so that when I post advice about an army that I play, people can see my effectiveness with that army and weigh my advice accordingly. Anytime you like, you may download Vassal 40k and play a game against me. Preferably with something useful on the line (like money) because I don't want to waste my time curb-stomping another noob who has a big mouth but no common sense.

2. Trying for higher sportsmanship on here....what is that supposed to mean? I have thousands of posts on Dakka, 75% of which are in the army list section of the forums...where I'm trying to help people write and use better lists. It takes just as long to compile pictures, upload them, sort them into a coherent storyline, and write an associated battle report for a game as it does to play the flippin' game in the first place.

I'm sorry that your self-worth is incapable of reading someone else' efforts without insulting them; I'm truly sorry for whatever set of circumstances developed such a spiteful wreck, and while I shouldn't feed your attempts to rabble-rouse here, doing so makes me feel just a little better, so I do.

Feel free to find another thread to troll and another poster to stalk now.

Mod Alerts... I have been summoned!

Will everyone STOP the personal attacks, insults and overall general trollish behavior in here?

If there's some confusion as to all that, please click on the link to the rules of this fine forum that I've got in my signature.

Remember, the Mods are watching...

Where's that pic from, Alph? That's neat.

That is an awesome picture. ><

I'm sorry for starting some kind of personal attack, it was in no way intended to be that. I have a lot of respect for Dash, he's one of the creative thinkers on this board and seems to be a great general too. I enjoy reading his reports and was only trying to give a tip as to how they could even be more fun to me.

@Dash: yes, I'd be disappointed and it is discouraging.

Dashofpepper wrote:Hey folks!

On the walk to lunch, I got to meet some other cool cats, including Yakface! I whipped out my wallet and passed him $25 on the spot, which is why I suddenly have a DCM tag.

I hope Jon taught you all hte secret handshakes!

G

Black Blow Fly wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:Hey folks!

On the walk to lunch, I got to meet some other cool cats, including Yakface! I whipped out my wallet and passed him $25 on the spot, which is why I suddenly have a DCM tag.

I hope Jon taught you all hte secret handshakes!

G

Uh....he told me that he doesn't have any power over his moderators and that they run rampant. He told me that he spends all the DCM money on dwarf women, and he told me a dirty story about you actually that I'll one day possibly use as ammunition. Oh, and despite having heard it before, he also told me about when Gwar signed up to be a DCM. =p

Dodiez wrote:

Farseer Faenyin wrote:

Shrubs wrote:Gratz on another win.

Btw, your complaining about your dice rolls does make your reports less fun to read. And it makes your opponents look worse, because they lost while you had bad luck all the time which I'm sure is not what you mean to say

I agree, but expect it from Dash. No offense Dash, but you have a terrible habit of holier than thou. Perhaps work on it and you'll be a better gamer. :-) I was once a major jerk, despite doing things properly. It's 10% what's delivered and 90% of how it's delivered

I love it when people say "no offense, but..." and then go on to say something insulting. It doesn't hurt less just because you say no offense. Just by saying that you know you are offending.

Hahah, I couldn't agree more! People still do it regularly in conversation, too. I might try "No offense, but I think you're a stupid, fat, idiotic, worthless fool... what? I said no offense..."

Great report Dash, keep them coming!

Wow a thread for every round, the location, the sig, someone is an attention "seeker".

PanamaG wrote:Wow a thread for every round, the location, the sig, someone is an attention "seeker".

TROOOOOOLL in the dungeon!! TROLL!

You mean that despite this being a Warhammer 40k forum, we shouldn't have 40k related threads and signatures? I consider myself a traveling 40k reporter; I play in tournaments around the country and against armies from around the world, and take pictures of it all so that folks who aren't as nerdy as me can benefit from seeing games elsewhere. Feel free to not post here if you don't like that idea.

And you're paying him attention!

If you don't like the threads, just don't read them.

It was actually a fun game, I don't get to play dark eldar very often.

My list is pretty flexible and I feel comfortable fighting any army with it, except dark eldar.
Depending on who I fight I can usually out CC them, outmaneuver them, or in rare cases out gun them.
The problem with fighting dark eldar with a rhino mech troops based army is that it's both outgunned and outmaneuvered, which makes for a difficult combination as being outmaneuvered also makes it very difficult to CC on my terms.

Looking back on the GT I've got no regrets on round 4. I know my list in and out well enough to know that a good dark eldar player should be able to beat it every time, but round 4 of the GT was very generous with points where most games resulted in the winner getting a lot of points, and the looser only loosing out on 3 to 6 points. Where I really lost points was in round 5 playing the SW missile & razorback spam that Dash's dark eldar wanted so badly to avoid. I actually felt better going 2nd against that monster of a list than going 1st against dark eldar, and know I could have beaten the SW razorback spam if it wasn't for a couple of small but very costly tactical errors on my part.

Overall I'm happy with how things went. It was my 1st real GT & tourney bigger than a RTT and I had a good time.

Alpharius wrote:

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Will everyone STOP the personal attacks, insults and overall general trollish behavior in here?

If there's some confusion as to all that, please click on the link to the rules of this fine forum that I've got in my signature.

Remember, the Mods are watching...

Thanks for stepping in, I just asked for people to be treated better on here and got hammed on. Glad to see the mods doing their job.

And on a forum related note, these batreps are amazing, keep up the good work on them. Wish I could see how your list does against a more versatile grouping of people at such an important tournament, the MEQ spam really fed your winning ability.

Farseer Faenyin wrote:Wish I could see how your list does against a more versatile grouping of people at such an important tournament, the MEQ spam really fed your winning ability.

MEQ list proliferation and Mech spam are part of the play environment. That's one of the DE's strengths currently.

Farseer Faenyin wrote:

Alpharius wrote:

Mod Alerts... I have been summoned!

Will everyone STOP the personal attacks, insults and overall general trollish behavior in here?

If there's some confusion as to all that, please click on the link to the rules of this fine forum that I've got in my signature.

Remember, the Mods are watching...

Thanks for stepping in, I just asked for people to be treated better on here and got hammed on. Glad to see the mods doing their job.

And on a forum related note, these batreps are amazing, keep up the good work on them. Wish I could see how your list does against a more versatile grouping of people at such an important tournament, the MEQ spam really fed your winning ability.

I'm probably going to get dinged for this...

You're not very nice, are you? Go somewhere else. Even your "compliments" are back-handed. You want to be one who doesn't feed the mean machine? Then go away and stop posting in someone's thread that you obviously have no respect for. No offense.

Dashofpepper wrote:

TROOOOOOLL in the dungeon!! TROLL!

Reminds me of when I was in gradeschool and kids would cover their ears screaming.

Or my cat that sticks just his head under the couch thinking I cant see his ass.

Dashofpepper wrote:
You mean that despite this being a Warhammer 40k forum, we shouldn't have 40k related threads and signatures? .

It's one thing to have 40k related sigs and whatnot, it's another that EVERY SINGLE keystroke you make is to blatantly boost your ego. It's an internet forum about toy soldiers, I am always amazed that people seek to earn a "rep" in such an artificial and meaningless (to ones personal life, not the community) environment.

Dashofpepper wrote:
I consider myself a traveling 40k reporter

Reminds me of the episode of the office where Micheal holds up the "worlds best boss" mug and then he admits he bought it himself.

Kilkrazy wrote:And you're paying him attention!

If you don't like the threads, just don't read them.

Because it is a blight on the forum and this sort of attitude/behavior is why myself and I am sure 90% of the people that click over to dakka never leave the news and rumors or general discussion forum. It started in OT a year ago and is now, like I said, a blight upon the forum. You are a mod, you see to the "health" of the forum, and you can do as you see fit. However I just want to explain why this concerns me. It isn't that I could just have clicked away, its that its slowly filling the forum.

But hey I dont own it, all I can do is try and hold my tongue when I can and stick to the news forum.

So a 40k Forum cant have 40k batreps anymore?
You should try warseer Panama, that should be about right for you



Great reps as allways dash, and nice to get pics in them (never the same unless you can see an army)
Also, do you use stands for the raiders? 0_o