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So I have my list exact, the other three not so much but its pretty close
My team
tau
2 Broadside teams of 2, shield drones
Pathfinders in transport
Firewarrior squad
Firewarriors in transport
Commander Shas o something, female allows leadership reroll at ld 10
Crisis suit team of 3, with drones

My thunderwolves
Wolf lord, Thunderwolf mount, 2x fenrisians, thunder hammer, belt of russ, runic armor (otherwise known as MR Angry)
Wolf lord, Thunderwolf mount, 2x fenrisians, power fist, stormshield, runic armor
Wolf guard battle leader, thunderwolf mount, 2x fenrisians, runic armor, powerfist, saga of the wolfkin
wolf guard battle leader, thunderwolf mount, 2x fenrisians, runic armor, power fist, stormshield, wolf tail talisman

Thunderwolf cavalry, PF, storm shield, storm sheild, melta bombs, naked

Grey hunters, PF, rhino
Grey hunters, PF, rhino

IG
Two basalisks, seperate heavy
Lemon russ, lascannon
two banewolfs, seperate choice
two plasma taxi, two melta taxi, (one melta taxi was the hq)
lascannon in a chimera

Deamon Hunters
Grand master, 9 termis, land raider
vindicare assassin
inquisitor (elite)
stormtrooper squad
greyknights, landraider


There was a lot of terrain for as many vehicles as they had. Each of the four quarters had a bunker style, 6" by 4" box about 5" from center.
Set up for the mission was bases, table quarters. IG win the roll off. Basilisks placed in the corner with all the chimeras ready to roll out in front. Lemon russ guards center of the table with a clear line down the middle. Bane wolfs hide behind the Land raiders, storm troopers held in reserve with inquisitor, vindicare prepares to infiltrate.
Tau lines up the broadsides for down the table shots, fire warriors preparing to hold the base objective. other fire warrior squad in transport held in reserve. pathfinder team is placed in the middleof the quarter awaiting their scout move. Tau hq is placed to cover everyone with the ld bubble. Crisis suits held in reserve. Space wolf rhinos deploy left flank to keep the vindicare from infiltrating to a nasty position in a ruin. Thunderwolves line up across the forward line preparing for death or glory (actually happens!)

Vindicare assassin infiltrates, not terribly important as the good places were within 18'', good strategy notice on my part. pathfinder team scout moves, turbo boosting and landing on a flat spot on a hill.

First turn, Land raiders move up 12, chimeras behind, banewolfs pass up the land raider in a sprint around the outside. Vindicare takes first shot of the game and take s out the pathfinders transport, they dive out into the cover of the hillside. Basilisk, Lemon russ, land raiders all open fire on the thunderwolves, doing a few wounds, but nothing removed, (maybe one fenrisian). Bottom of turn on, there is a clear line of sight to the lemon russ and two of the broadsides blow it to smitherines. thunderwolves charge forward, moving over terrain, bloodthirsty, and fleeting, then assualting what was to me the left most landraider, only three models make it into base, thunderhammer, 2 PF, hitting on sixes is painful, but they try! grand total result, can't shoot, but I did get an extra 12" of movement

Turn 2, Land raider with grey knights thinks it's going to tank shock my thunderwolves, the PF from the squad is in the way, and having been wounded from the first turn Death or glorys! Single attack auto hit, 6 to pen, 6 on the damage chart, 6 inch explosion! Glory be to the thunderwolves! This was the most exciting moment of my day haha. Killed off 2 grey hunters inside, no wounds to my cavalry that were close. This leaves room for chimeras and bane wolfs to shoot the crap outta my wolves. The other land raider drops the termis out the front and the shooting commences. Basalisk target my rhino blowing it to smitherings, leaving 4 men standing, other basalisk kills fire warriors holding the objective. Vindicare snipes wolf guard battle leader to death. 2x melta taxi, and a plasma taxi and their chimeras rip into my wolves after the banewolfs tears up a few fenrisians and random wounds (they were amazing for the way I was lined up because of the assualt move.) Grey knights and termis shoot into them as well as the remaining land raider. By the end of the shooting, all but one fenrisian wolf is dead, and naked thunderwolf and his buddy melta died. Lost a battle leader. Most everyone has taken a wound at this point. Termies and grey knights assualt my wolves, grand master going at the same time as my wolf. Grand master does one wound, saved on the storm sheild, wolf epicly takes out two terminators! Gotta love getting the countercharge. Grey knights and my stormshield wolves get to go at the same time as the rest of the termis. grey knights fail to do any wounds due to storm shield and belt of russ saves. Termis kill off another thunderwolf that strikes back as he dies taking the termi with him. My angry wolf leader kills half the squad of grey knights, the power fist from the thunderwolves finishing the last two. The other wolf lord takes out a termi or two, leaving only two and the grand master. After fearless saves the grand master has a single wound left an no terminators with him.

Bottom of two, Land raider gets popped by the broadsides, in assualt the thunderwolves finish off the grand master, not before he takes out a wolf lord and his fenrisian, spreading out for consolidation to minimize damage from templates. Suites come deep striking in, and the marker lit vindicare gets taken out by a single double toughness wound that makes it through.

Top of three, Baneblades make a run for our base, templating tau commander and drones, leaving her with two wounds and a single drone. basalisk takes out the rhino near the tau commander and explodes! killing a grey hunter, tau commander takes a wound and a drone goes down. Thunderwolves take fire from the chimeras, one parking on top of a building like it was nothing in order to get line of sight. Mr. Angry, PF and two storm shields are all down to their last wound, and only Mr. Angry has the saves to keep going, the other three falling to massed fire.

Bottom of three, plasma taxi falls to suit fire, banewolf #1 becomes a shell, the other exploding, broadsides and rail rifles tearing them apart. My lone grey hunter PF charges the hulk of the banewolf seeking vengence for his buddies that were burned alive. Mr angry assualts into plasma vets eating them and consilidating behind terrain. Fire warriors from reserve barely move on table in their transport.

Top of four, storm troopers come in trying to shoot at mr angry, and he saves like a champ. plasma taxi and two melta squads shoot at the suits after the basilisks have their shots, only drones fall, and one suit takes a wound.

Bottom of four, Mr angry eats storm troopers for lunch while the suits take out a melta taxi, now with IG on foot, Mr angry consolidates back into hiding from flashlight fire. Broadsides do nothing and other firewarrior drop in on our objective to reinforce, with their transport empty turbo boosting for the contest. Lone power fister from the grey hunter squad re assualts the banewolf hulk, this time wrecking it for good.

Top of five, plasma vets shoot everything they have into Mr. Angry, making him save 3 4+ invulns and 2 2+ saves. Melta and plasma into the suits taking out more drones.

Bottom of five, Mr. Angry eats yet another squad! Plasma vets are tasty after all. He consolidates towards basilisk wanting something crunchy to eat. Suits combined with pathfinders and gun drones take out the HQ squad running around (one of the melta squads) Broadsides take out a pesky chimera.

The game ends with 1 objective each, so defaulting to kill points. Thunderwolves and Tau take the Massacre, 8 to 17!

Overall I am very happy with my thunderwolf cavalry. They stood up to twice their army points shooting at them and still killed more than their point value. My troops really didn't do much this game, I think I could have used them much more effectively, the rhino s at least to block a driving lane for the bane wolf s that hurt so much.

Wow... Mr Angry kicked ass.

Yes he did, his pet smoochie the unstoppable (fenrisian wolf) took down two termies. Point sink made up Overall, even in a 3000 pt game, the thunderwolves took out nearly 1500 pts. The amazing part was that was after nearly double their points cost in enemy units shot at them. Game ended, and Mr. Angry was still ready to rampage. Although for fun, my friend rolled some las guns that would have been shot at him next turn, he failed his saves, his anger apparently subsides completely when the battle is won, probably distracted with pulling out a tankard of ale in honor of his fallen brethren.

Doesn't appear that the grey knight list is legal. Land Raiders can only fit a total of 5 terminators and Land Raider Crusaders a total of 8. The DH player has 10 terminators there (including the GKGM).

I'm not really a big fan of deathstar units like your TWC there. They did alright here, but against a better player with a balanced list, they would never survive. Luckily, the IG player didn't take any Psyker Battle Squads.

I may have been off on counts, sorry his list was from memory. Yea psyker battle squads could mess me up, fall back 3d6 and all that. I am drastically familiar with psyker battle squads, but against them I split up the unit. Can't stop them both. I used to not be a fan of big death star units either, but I am really loving my cavalry.

themrsleepy wrote:I may have been off on counts, sorry his list was from memory. Yea psyker battle squads could mess me up, fall back 3d6 and all that. I am drastically familiar with psyker battle squads, but against them I split up the unit. Can't stop them both. I used to not be a fan of big death star units either, but I am really loving my cavalry.

Except... that if you have a 5 man group of TWC, see your opponent puts down a battle squad, then decide "oh dang, I'm gonna split them" then your being cheap and a WAAC player. As others have said, TWC are easy to handle, just takes a capable player.

You would call me a WAAC player because I use strategy to outmanouver my opponent? Really? Do you intentionally lose games for fear of being labled WAAC? No? I didn't think so. For me a WAAC player will tailor his list to best defeat his opponent, I use the list regardless of opponents list, using my strategy and intelligence to defeat my opponent. I look at it this way, if a sports team is losing doesn't the coach call a time out and make a few changes? He doesn't pull in new fresh faces from some outlandish place, merely the team he came with. Strategy may change, life is volitile, roll with it. If this makes me WAAC, I give two shakes of a stick.

I accidently lose games because i'm not a WAAC player... but i don't think that's the same thing

Would you mind explaining how you 'accidentally' lose games because you're not a WAAC player? This doesn't make sense to me.

Mr Sleepy, I think you two are misunderstanding eachother. He thinks you would split your Thunderwolves into two units, aka changing your list after you see your opponets. You I assume mean you would detatch your HQ's to make a seperate unit. So WAAC being that you would tailor after you see your opponet.

Besides that, the GK player looks like he ran the same list he played against me. So that would be 7 termies and a GM. He knows the transport restrictions.

Looks like you guys had fun last night. Wish I could have made it out.

Sounds like someone is going to be running more Thunderwolves...

Yes Mr Hyperviper you are right. Thanks for the clarification.

I was the IG portion of this battle and yes a battle squad would have been great but I took what I had because thats all that I have without having to proxy. Was an overall fun game though ( better if Mr. angry didn't make an ungodly amount of saves being the last member of his squad!!!.....jerk.) Would like to play a one on one against him just to see if the mech vets can handle it. If such a game does happen i'll be sure to have me or Mr. sleepy make a battle report of it.

He was angry, not his fault that the rest of the squad failed to be as amazing! That's what made him so angry