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Why hello there! This past weekend I attended my first major tournament at Cleveland, Tennesee called "Maul in the Mall" which was run by Dicehead/Shane in Cleveland. A plethora of generals attended and I had a great time. This is my only third month wargaming (read: bought my first units late April), so I was a little nervous but very excited to play and see new armies!

I decided to post the battle report for my second game here on Dakka, as the general I fought was a fellow Dakka user and has displayed his army here! You can find the other two games, and this one, on our blog here:

Game 1=http://anygivencodex.blogspot.com/2011/07/maul-in-mall-batrep-1.html
Game 2=http://anygivencodex.blogspot.com/2011/07/maul-in-mall-batrep-2.html That's this one!
Game 3=http://anygivencodex.blogspot.com/2011/07/maul-in-mall-batrep-3.html

Feel free to take a look!

Anyway, on to the show:

After breaking for lunch the three of us come back to find our new matchups. Legendary Gannon winds up on the table right next to me against Nids. I look up and notice a Grey Knights army across from me. It looks familiar....



http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/369598.page

This is the same one! It looks simply stunning in person. Tony/Kal-el(on DakkaDakka) has run with a superman theme and even has the shirt to match it. Here are some more pictures.



Amazing.

Even though the shot was blurry; the LED lights were awesome. Tony's Knights had quite the backstory and were called "1st Company of the Kandorian-Knights of New Krypton."

His knights presumed to demand to wipe the minds of a few Space Wolves for accidentally happening upon a few knights. These Knights had arrived early for a suspected Daemon Incursion on a planet occupied, momentarily, by the Steel Wolves. Logan scoffed at their demands and dispatched Bjorn and a chosen few to show them that the wolves are not to be trifled with. The Steel Wolves (that's us-the good guys!), decide to show them that they can take our fellow wolfkin if they wish to pay the price-the price of blood.

The stage has been set; his list is as follows:

Grand Master
10 Purifiers in a Rhino with Psybolt Ammunition
10 Grey Knight Strike Squad in a Rhino with psybolt ammunition, two of these
Stormraven with Lascannons and TL multi-melta
Land Raider Redeemer
Nemesis Dreadnight, bare save for a personal teleporter
5 GK terminators with MC Daemonhammer, halberd x3, and a psycannon with psybolt ammunition

My list is as follows:

Bjorn with a Plasma Cannon
Rune Priest - Living Lightning and Storm Caller, w/Chooser of the Slain
2xDreadnoughts with TLLascannons and heavy flamers
3xWolf Guard(2xw/Combi-plasma, 1xw/Combi-melta and power fist)
9xGrey hunters(Mark of the Wulfen and Wolf standard, and 1xMelta gun) in a Rhino
5xGrey hunters w/1xplasma gun in a LasPlas Razorback
5xGrey hunters w/1xplasma gun in a LasPlas Razorback
5xGrey hunters w/1xFlamer
6xLong fangs w/5xMissile launchers, in a TLLC Razorback
6xLong fangs w/5xMissile launchers, in a TLLC Razorback
6xLong fangs w/5xMissile launchers, in a TLLC Razorback

The mission: 5 objectives, Dawn of War (no nightfighting), and any unit can score. Nominate a unit that you don't want killed and another unit you don't care if it dies (VIP and unit X). If your unit X is alive and their VIP is dead, you win this tertiary objective. His Grand Master gives the purifier and terminators counter-attack.

He chooses his Purifiers as his VIP and Dread as his unit X. My VIP is Bjorn and unit X is my Rune Priest. I still have faith in Bjorn even though last game was rough for him.

I win the roll off and let him go first.

He rolls on a Rhino, and I opt to have nothing on save Bjorn.

He moves on and waits for me. Thankfully the Stormraven doesn't go full out to my face; I'm not sure if he could anyway, and he wasn't sure either I think (he hasn't played in a while, he said).

Amazing.



This is what I decided to do. The wolves have prepared to defend themselves from the pompous Grey Knights and show them the true meaning of loyalty to the Emperor. I open fire with the fury of 5 twin linked lascannons and two regular ones.
I pop a Rhino, spilling the contents to the table. He has LED lights in them, and he turns them off when they die; I felt bad extinguishing the lights from such a great looking vehicle, but such is the cost of war!

I wind up nailing the Stormraven as well. His Dreadknight takes two wounds from lascannons. Ouch!

His Turn!

He moves up towards my troops.

A better shot of my encroaching doom. Those purifiers are going to hurt when/if they arrive.

A better shot of my firing line. He can't hit me with anything yet as he can't reach me.

He runs away and I know he's waiting to teleport to me when I move out later in the game to get some objectives.


It's my turn and I move up slowly. The bodyguard Dreadnoughts are catching up to Bjorn and my left flank of Las/plas razorbacks with troops along with Bjorn and the dreadnoughts move up the left flank.

I wreck his other Rhino on the far right. They look awesome.

Look even better to me as they're getting shelled!

He inherits my luck from last game.

A better shot.

For his turn he moves up to my units.

Here are his remaining terminators.

It's my turn and I know he's about to unleash the pain next turn, so I have to make this count. Bjorn and friends move up to take on the Strike Squad holding up in the middle behind that ruins, and the razorbacks move towards his terminators. I wind up getting lucky and shooting at this Dreadknight, killing it through cover.

Bjorn and his cronies closing in.

The Dreadknight is shocked at our audacity for defying the Grey Knights.

I shoot a meltagun at his land raider and immobilize it. Great.

His turn! He gets out and readies his troops to assault a Long Fang squad. Uh oh.

Here they are...

At least they look good doing so.

His Strike Squad from earlier walks up and assaults my flamer 5 man GH squad. He shoots at my Long Fang Squad to soften them up, but I get unlucky with my saves and they all die under a torrent of fire from storm bolters and psycannons. Or was it lucky? He can't assault them now! No multi-assault for you. The Purifiers stand in place looking around confused at the lack of targets. My Long Fangs serve me even in death! It's time for the Steel Wolves (yes I love Battletech/Mechwarrior) to show them what a true "shooty" army can do. For my turn I move around and unload my Grey Hunter squad to shoot him.

The jaws close in. I often try to draw assaulty armies in and encircle them with my units as Space Wolves are surprisingly resilient due to counter-assault and my dreadnoughts. Plus, my 10 man squad is pretty deadly in any situation. My Long Fangs usually wind up being the anvil for the rest of my armie's hammer.

Bjorn is about to pimp slap this squad here all by himself. The old man has a few tricks up his sleeve.

Blurry! Back on my side I unload on his purifiers.

Under-costed Long Fang faceroll time! Tee hee!

He saves a lot so I only kill a few. Another try!

A few more wind up perishing.

Here's a professional action shot (blurry? It's "Action") of Anathon directing fire into the squad. His Jaws of the World Wolf fail to kill anyone. I will re-evaluate it's usefulness in my army due to the fact I have only ever killed four units with it since my first game several months ago in a garage.

REAL LIFE ACCIDENT! I knock over my display board and my snow/baking soda/cocaine/prize support spills to the ground. Somebody get a straw and paper!

His numbers dwindle as I pour more bolters into him.

Lascannons open fire and the stench of singed metal permeates throughout the air.

Bjorn flames and plasma cannons the squad before assaulting.

Here he goes! They can't hurt him so he cackles as the "best of the best" flail about ineffectively.

Here are the last two standing.

Bjorn kills all but two. The next combat turn he cuts them down, his claws dripping with blood of the slain as he steps over their dead bodies.

His turn! He shoots and assaults a Long Fang Squad, but Anathon (my rune priest) cancels Hammerhand.

He kills them and consolidates closer. I get lucky and fail several saves, wiping out my own unit so the rest of my army can blast him to dust the next turn. Long Fangs continue to serve.

A shot of the carnage. Notice the two Strike Squad units on the far right.

The remaining terminators on the far left flank eventually perish from a torrent of plasma, lascannon, and bolter shots.

I wind up killing everything but this Land Raider which survives a full round of shooting after this. Oh well. I take maximum points and show the Grey Knights that it's unwise to mess with the Space Wolves. Other chapters may acquiesce to their ridiculous demands but we look after our own.

Unfortunately for him my list was pretty much a direct counter to this list. His army looked amazing and even if I had gotten steamrolled it would have been an honor to play against such a well-painted and themed army. Tony's army went on to win Best Painted and Best Themed; it totally deserved it. However, it wasn't super competitive, but it had a great theme!
If it were me at the helm I would have moved flat out on the stormraven and not given his units counterattack; I'd have made something scoring, like his land raider and had that sit on an objective, hold three, and made me come to him. Also, no psybolt ammunition on the troops! And perhaps no terminators; I'd have made them paladins and given them a librarian. I could go on but he seemed to enjoy his list so that's more important. It was a great looking army to play and I'm honored that I got the chance to play it, no matter what the outcome was. Plus, he was nice enough to give me pointers on painting and some of his "Trade secrets!"
Unfortunately, the savagery of our battle will prove to be unfortunate. The Grey Knights were there for a reason, and the Daemons they were preparing for watched our skirmish and chose to attack not long after. The ensuing battle (read: blood bath) coming up next!

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Dayton, TN

Well written Battle report and great pics to help with the narritive. I will look into your suggestions for tweaking my army. LOL as you already said it was not a hard list to beat. I designed this army specificly to showcase the nicer models in the codex, and have a somewhat decent list in the process. It was a fun game against you, and yeah I have never played GKs and I had taken a year off from gaming, so I was kinda noobish lol. I found that if I make an uber list, it sucks the fun from the game =) I am there to lose and lose badly HAHA!

My other army I am making is going to have a weak list also, but will showcase some models. I am going to work some BA's and then some SM's, and some wolfs...my ultimate goal is to be able to use all my models for each codex, by hot swaping arms, backpacks, and subing in a vehicle here an there or a cool model like the san gaurds an stuff. Its a BIG project I am working on. For instance I will have lycan models but in the superman theme, or BA's with cool angel wings in the sups theme etc

I really enjoyed the battle report, and I hope my army makes it into others reports and I get to read about the battle. I had never gotten to experience this part of the game....pretty cool!

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Martial Arts Fiday






Nashville, TN

Hey, Stormcrow! I was there and hated to see you dump your display board. Totally looked like you were muling drugs with your army. lol

I was the guy with the IG army with all the crazy conversions BTW.

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"CHEESE!" is the battlecry of the ill-prepared.

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GW didn't mean to hit your wallet and I know they love you, baby. I'm sure they won't do it again so it's ok to purchase and make up.


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Yeah he was playing me when he dumped it. I told him to hit pause, and we would take as much time as needed to find his models. That those were what was important not the game. Yeah it does look like some drugs on the board LOL.

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Nashville, TN

The next guy to play there was asking Shane for a broom to clean it up. lol

Nice looking armies both. I guess I need to get some LEDs to top out with my Guard. Or load them with Kryptonite!

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"Holy Sh*&, you've opened my eyes and changed my mind about this topic, thanks Dakka OT!"

-Nobody Ever

Proverbs 18:2

"CHEESE!" is the battlecry of the ill-prepared.

 warboss wrote:

GW didn't mean to hit your wallet and I know they love you, baby. I'm sure they won't do it again so it's ok to purchase and make up.


Albatross wrote:I think SlaveToDorkness just became my new hero.

EmilCrane wrote:Finecast is the new Matt Ward.

Don't mess with the Blade and Bolter! 
   
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SlaveToDorkness wrote:Hey, Stormcrow! I was there and hated to see you dump your display board. Totally looked like you were muling drugs with your army. lol

I was the guy with the IG army with all the crazy conversions BTW.


I wish I'd gotten pictures of that army; your theme along with those manticores were pretty awesome.

Let's just say my board was..supplemental "prize support"

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Nashville, TN

Thanks, Man. I've worked hard on them. I lost out Best Painted last year by one vote as well. UGH!

Here's my Plog of them: The Silent Company of Korsk

"Holy Sh*&, you've opened my eyes and changed my mind about this topic, thanks Dakka OT!"

-Nobody Ever

Proverbs 18:2

"CHEESE!" is the battlecry of the ill-prepared.

 warboss wrote:

GW didn't mean to hit your wallet and I know they love you, baby. I'm sure they won't do it again so it's ok to purchase and make up.


Albatross wrote:I think SlaveToDorkness just became my new hero.

EmilCrane wrote:Finecast is the new Matt Ward.

Don't mess with the Blade and Bolter! 
   
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Sunnyvale, CA

SlaveToDorkness, amazing work on the lights! I find your Stormraven to be the most inspirational vehicle!

I think the GK codex is flexible enough to have fun and still be competitive (psi-dreads and Crowe are not mandatory).

Thank you for the battle report!


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very nice rep, if a though one for the emperors finest (very nicely painted and such , I agree)
   
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Nashville, TN

Grey Therion wrote:SlaveToDorkness, amazing work on the lights! I find your Stormraven to be the most inspirational vehicle!

I think the GK codex is flexible enough to have fun and still be competitive (psi-dreads and Crowe are not mandatory).

Thank you for the battle report!



That is Kal-el's army. Mine was Guard.

"Holy Sh*&, you've opened my eyes and changed my mind about this topic, thanks Dakka OT!"

-Nobody Ever

Proverbs 18:2

"CHEESE!" is the battlecry of the ill-prepared.

 warboss wrote:

GW didn't mean to hit your wallet and I know they love you, baby. I'm sure they won't do it again so it's ok to purchase and make up.


Albatross wrote:I think SlaveToDorkness just became my new hero.

EmilCrane wrote:Finecast is the new Matt Ward.

Don't mess with the Blade and Bolter! 
   
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Awesome Autarch






Las Vegas, NV

Great report and yeah, the Superman army is legit!

Glad to see old man bjorn kicking ass for you, too!

   
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Alabama

Aww, Stormcrow, wish I had known you needed the INAT in Game 1. I had a full printout there!

I also played Michael in Game 3. Mech BA against Mech Guard in a mission where everything recycles. Craters everywhere!

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Murfreesboro, TN

Well now I know what that thunk was in round 2, I was honestly afraid to look....

Great batrep and great pictures!

(this is Kevin aka Tenehuine)

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@puma713-Now that's prepared lol; oh well nex time I'm printing it up myself. I bet that was a crazy game with so many low armor vehicles blowing up every turn.

@gardeth-thanks! Congratulations once more on winning the tournament-what are you going to do with your winnings?

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Nashville, TN

puma713 wrote:Aww, Stormcrow, wish I had known you needed the INAT in Game 1. I had a full printout there!

I also played Michael in Game 3. Mech BA against Mech Guard in a mission where everything recycles. Craters everywhere!


Yeah, it looked like you were playing solitaire with reeeeally big cards. Michael is a newer member of our group (BLADE & BOLTER) but has done well in all aspects of the hobby.

Gardeth, I don't know how you sleep at night on that great huge pile of tourney loot. Congrats, Brother.

"Holy Sh*&, you've opened my eyes and changed my mind about this topic, thanks Dakka OT!"

-Nobody Ever

Proverbs 18:2

"CHEESE!" is the battlecry of the ill-prepared.

 warboss wrote:

GW didn't mean to hit your wallet and I know they love you, baby. I'm sure they won't do it again so it's ok to purchase and make up.


Albatross wrote:I think SlaveToDorkness just became my new hero.

EmilCrane wrote:Finecast is the new Matt Ward.

Don't mess with the Blade and Bolter! 
   
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Sinewy Scourge




Murfreesboro, TN

Stormcrow wrote:@gardeth-thanks! Congratulations once more on winning the tournament-what are you going to do with your winnings?


Replace the rest of my old DE stuff, something I have been dreading but it must be DONE!

Sent my list over to shane:
x3 Raider
x3 Ravager
x2 Kabalite Warriors
x2 Wracks
x1 Haemonculus
x1 Razorwing Jetfighter
x1 Vect SlaveGirl bits

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Nashville, TN

Ha! You will see purple stabby things in your sleep!

"Holy Sh*&, you've opened my eyes and changed my mind about this topic, thanks Dakka OT!"

-Nobody Ever

Proverbs 18:2

"CHEESE!" is the battlecry of the ill-prepared.

 warboss wrote:

GW didn't mean to hit your wallet and I know they love you, baby. I'm sure they won't do it again so it's ok to purchase and make up.


Albatross wrote:I think SlaveToDorkness just became my new hero.

EmilCrane wrote:Finecast is the new Matt Ward.

Don't mess with the Blade and Bolter! 
   
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Decatur, TN

Fun tournament, as always! I wish Gardeth could have played the Tau and I could have played Puma! Always an easy win!

Learning 7th edition to prove that DE still rule the roost!
 
   
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I'm pretty sure both Tau players tabled at least two people; I know one did for sure lol

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San Jose, CA

Good comeback after the 1st game, Stormcrow. Wow, for someone's who only started 3 months ago, you got one heck of a nasty SW list. The only thing it is lacking is some mobility in the form of land speeders or wolf scouts.

Your opponent's army looks awesome. Yours is not too shabby either. I look at these armies and I feel guilty mine is still a WIP. Then again, I play several different armies as well as Apoc and keep jumping between armies.

2 out of 3 isn't too bad, considering how atrocious your dice was on game 1. Congrats!



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Thanks; high praise indeed from an experienced player such as yourself! Reecius was kind enough to help me with some of my questions and offer some advice about my army (which closely resembles his), so I can't take all the credit

One thing I noticed, like you said, was my lack of mobility and I've been throwing around the idea of removing the Rhino and reducing that 10 man squad, which never performed that well anyway, and adding a few speeders or scouts like you said; I'm leaning more towards speeders at the moment, however. I'll have to playtest both options to see what I enjoy more, but the scouts could be the factor which helps me break the back of a shooty IG army by coming in from behind.


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I can vouch for the pure nastiness of the 15 or so missle launchers...I was like ouch wtf lol. I got the pics also storm crow thank you very much. Storm crow knows the game pretty darn good @ his 3 month mark ESP the tables.

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He has had a decent mentor, and taken a lot of beatings as well.
   
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Boxersaint has taught me well. Perhaps too well.....

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Alabama

wileythenord wrote:I wish I could have played Puma! Always an easy win!


Maybe you could've. . if you had only placed higher.

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Nashville, TN

ZING!!!!

I did terrible. The Dice Gods were punishing me for not finishing my Night Lords. I did make my last opponent concede on turn 2 though. Marbo recycling was more than he could bear I guess...

Here's hoping next year there are new missions. I think those 3 were the same as last year.

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-Nobody Ever

Proverbs 18:2

"CHEESE!" is the battlecry of the ill-prepared.

 warboss wrote:

GW didn't mean to hit your wallet and I know they love you, baby. I'm sure they won't do it again so it's ok to purchase and make up.


Albatross wrote:I think SlaveToDorkness just became my new hero.

EmilCrane wrote:Finecast is the new Matt Ward.

Don't mess with the Blade and Bolter! 
   
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Murfreesboro, TN

That maul in the mall mission (3) can be a nasty suprise if you aren't ready for it. The first time I had to deal with it was at Connooga and it made me want to quit, even though I won my game.

Course it didn't help that I had just lost a game to Wiley, due solely to dice, cause we all know that boy can't play for sh*t.

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puma713 wrote:
wileythenord wrote:I wish I could have played Puma! Always an easy win!


Maybe you could've. . if you had only placed higher.


LOL plus one for puma.

Marbo recycling is just pure evil; I never thought about that possibility lol.

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gardeth wrote:That maul in the mall mission (3) can be a nasty suprise if you aren't ready for it. The first time I had to deal with it was at Connooga and it made me want to quit, even though I won my game.

Course it didn't help that I had just lost a game to Wiley, due solely to dice, cause we all know that boy can't play for sh*t.



HAHA! Good thing he is a cool guy huh lol....wait he placed higher then me.. lol

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where am I? *looks around* Well i'm...errr...I...I...don't know!

cool, the space wolves weren't too bad either. However those grey knights were incredible. What was happening on the stormraven base btw?




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