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I tested out taking my camera to the last tourney I played in and it turned out to be a good luck charm. I also enjoyed revisiting the games and seeing all the stuff I had done wrong. So when I went to the Golden Throne, I brought the camera again to see if I could take enough pictures in the heat of battle to be able to make at least a few coherent Battle Reports.

I'll start posting reports as soon as I get the pictures uploaded. For now I'll put up my list as a placeholder:

1500pts Sisters of Battle
HQ
St. Celestine

TROOPS
Battle Sister Squad - 10 Women, Flamer, Multi-Melta, VSS with Combi-flamer
Battle Sister Squad - 10 Women, Flamer, Multi-Melta, VSS with Combi-flamer

FAST ATTACK
Dominions - 5 Women, 2 Meltaguns, VSS with Combi-flamer, Immolator with twin-linked Multi-Meltas
Dominions - 5 Women, 2 Meltaguns, VSS with Combi-flamer, Immolator with twin-linked Multi-Meltas
Seraphim - 10 Women, 2 Twin Hand Flamers, VSS with Meltabombs

HEAVY SUPPORT
Exorcist
Retributors - 10 Women, 4 Heavy Bolters
Retributors - 10 Women, 4 Heavy Bolters

FORTIFICATION
Aegis Defense Line with Quad Gun

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Game 1 vs Grey Knights
Mission: Crusade (3 Objectives)
Deployment: Dawn of War

Grey Knights Army:

Deployment


Sisters Turn 1


Grey Knights Turn 1


Sisters Turn 2


Grey Knights Turn 2


Sisters Turn 3


Grey Knights Turn 3


Sisters Turn 4


Grey Knights Turn 4


Sisters Turn 5


Grey Knights Turn 5


Sisters Turn 6


Grey Knights Turn 6


The Aftermath

It was good meeting you at the event (I was the one with the red/purple nidzilla). Looking forward to the rest of reports, especially since I couldn't watch your last game.

L'Etat C'Est Moi wrote:It was good meeting you at the event (I was the one with the red/purple nidzilla). Looking forward to the rest of reports, especially since I couldn't watch your last game.

Same here, it's always nice to put a face on a Dakka handle. You finished 5th, right? (Or was that another Tyranid player?)

It'll probably be a little while before I can get Game 7 up, but it was absurdly close! I got caught up in it and I'm pretty sure I forgot to take pictures of the last turn though.

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Subscribed as well!

Particularly interested to see how you dealt with necron flyers.

jy2 wrote:Subscribed as well!

Particularly interested to see how you dealt with necron flyers.

Now I think you're trolling me!

Lol....all in good fun.

Amerikon wrote:

L'Etat C'Est Moi wrote:It was good meeting you at the event (I was the one with the red/purple nidzilla). Looking forward to the rest of reports, especially since I couldn't watch your last game.

Same here, it's always nice to put a face on a Dakka handle. You finished 5th, right? (Or was that another Tyranid player?)

I just saw the video you put up in the Tournament thread. It looks like I got you mixed up with some other Tyranid player, sorry!

Subscribed. I'd do batreps myself if more of my stuff was painted. Remind me to yell at the people painting my stuff to paint faster.

Since this thread is overloaded with images, I've decided to move each game to its own thread. You can find Game 2 here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/468876.page

Well done sir! Who would have thought that SoB would handle both GKs and Nob bikers so well in a tournament setting. Very nice playing!

Amerikon wrote:

Amerikon wrote:

L'Etat C'Est Moi wrote:It was good meeting you at the event (I was the one with the red/purple nidzilla). Looking forward to the rest of reports, especially since I couldn't watch your last game.

Same here, it's always nice to put a face on a Dakka handle. You finished 5th, right? (Or was that another Tyranid player?)

I just saw the video you put up in the Tournament thread. It looks like I got you mixed up with some other Tyranid player, sorry!

No problem! I got 17th after losing to Reece in the last round. I was row away when you were playing him though and was paying close attention rooting on the sisters to glory!

Was a Tyranid in 5th? I thought Vince lost to Frankie in round 6?

Good on you, when I started reading I thought it wasn't going to end well for the sisters.

Weren't the war bosses falling back? You get points for them if they are.

pretre wrote:Weren't the war bosses falling back? You get points for them if they are.

There was a bit of a rules question there. First, whether or not the Warbosses would have to take a Ld check if the Nobz were wiped out in the shooting phase. The thought being that when their squad is destroyed they cease to be part of the unit and ICs don't take break tests from shooting. Second, what happens after that.

The rules say that when its unit is destroyed an IC stops being part of the unit at the start of the next phase which implies that a Ld check is necessary in the shooting phase and that the IC can break. However, what happens after that I'm not really sure. So the Warbosses are no longer part of the Nob squad, but are they still a unit of Warbosses or just two independent bosses? If they are a unit of Warbosses, are they considered to still be broken, since the unit that failed the Ld check no longer exists?

I'm sure those questions have answers but we were running a little low on time. I think we ultimately decided that they would break and then become ICs which would rally automatically.

@Petre

The warbosses passed the Ld and regrouped on Reece's turn.

Then he did the rest of his thing.

Then on Amerikon's turn, I believe the only things he did was to roll for Celestine and also to regroup his troops who were falling back before calling it game.


@Amerikon

Great games so far.

Ironically, I wanted to play against Reece's nob bikers and not against your army. I was thinking that your army would actually give me more problems. However, I also think that Reece's deathstar army is one that I just may have problems with as well. But mainly, I just wanted to give him some payback for beating my daemons last time we played.

What happened with his warboss was this. They fell back because they were still a part of the nob biker unit this turn. They don't become their own unit until the start of their next turn. Then on Reece's turn, he can regroup on his normal warboss LD. He rolled 1,1 to pass. However, because they just regrouped that turn, they basically can't do anything but consolidate and shoot at snapshot mode so he basically just ignored them.

jy2 wrote:Ironically, I wanted to play against Reece's nob bikers and not against your army. I was thinking that your army would actually give me more problems. However, I also think that Reece's deathstar army is one that I just may have problems with as well. But mainly, I just wanted to give him some payback for beating my daemons last time we played.

Your Necrons against the Bikers would be an absolute slaughter.

Good to know!

Well done Amerikon, I was curious how you defeated Nob Bikers. I've had difficulty facing them back in 5th using codex Witch Hunters. Though that was before I discovered how useful codex Witch Hunter Seraphims were way back then. Despite not having Spirit of the Martyr for 3++, it seems the Phims bolstered by Saint Celestine's fearless presence is still good at tying up unit in assault.

Excellent work and congrats on the first two games. I look forward reading the rest.

SabrX wrote:Well done Amerikon, I was curious how you defeated Nob Bikers. I've had difficulty facing them back in 5th using codex Witch Hunters. Though that was before I discovered how useful codex Witch Hunter Seraphims were way back then. Despite not having Spirit of the Martyr for 3++, it seems the Phims bolstered by Saint Celestine's fearless presence is still good at tying up unit in assault.

Excellent work and congrats on the first two games. I look forward reading the rest.

Thanks! Nob Bikers are even better than they used to be. Now they get the wound shenanigans without having to worry with all of the separate wargear bits and their natural T5 denies instant death from our Meltas and Exorcists. Not to mention that they now get FNP against those same guns and against our Rending attacks.

I wish I could take credit for having "figured out" Nob Bikers or something cool like that but, against that list, it just boils down to "will this guy fail enough saves before I get eaten". Yeah, I sac'd my Seraphim to get another round of shooting, but really this whole game felt hollow. I might has well have just won a coinflip.


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Since this thread is overloaded with images, I've decided to move each game to its own thread. You can find Game 3 here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/468877.page

Cool battle reports, and congratulations on your victory! I just have one suggestion-- can you make your pictures smaller? Right now, they break the tables on the forum post and make the page take an inordinate amount of time to load.

Well played, Amerikon! We had a few quibbles on rules, but you are a very good player and I enjoyed our game. I look forward to a rematch!

Damn, that was so crazy when my entire jetbike squad got wiped by overwatch from 5 sisters! haha, and then I failed 12/13 saves that last turn of shooting and the Nob Bikers just melted. Failing that last morale check was the nail in the coffin to the game. Had that not happened, I could have still won. Oh well. Next time I won't drink so many beers before a tough game, hahaha, that was stupid of me.

Giving up First Blood with the Trukk was dumb, too. I basically handed you the game with that. My thinking was to destroy the Quad gun using every weapon at my disposal, but that was a bad choice.

And I disagree that Jy2 would slaughter my Orks with his Flyer. Nob Bikers actually average about 2 HP of damage to an AV11 flyer per volley, and only the Doom Scythes scare me. Jim and I both were hoping to play that one out, as I think with clever play I could have done just fine. Oh well, maybe we'll get to try that out.

Well played to you though!

Reecius wrote:And I disagree that Jy2 would slaughter my Orks with his Flyer. Nob Bikers actually average about 2 HP of damage to an AV11 flyer per volley, and only the Doom Scythes scare me. Jim and I both were hoping to play that one out, as I think with clever play I could have done just fine. Oh well, maybe we'll get to try that out.

Yeah, I took that into account when I made my claim. The long and short of it is that those 2 HP (which discounts his Jink saves, btw) are all you'd have (assuming the same list). So you can possibly expect to take out 1 Scythe per 2 turns of shooting IF none of the Nobs die. The Doom Scythes outrange Nobs (30" threat for Nobs, 48+" for the Scythe) and will be able to dictate who gets the first shot off. He doesn't have to roll to hit and will wipe half the Nobz the Death Ray touches.

That's just the bikers! The only other AT in the army is a single Power Klaw and a Singing Spear. So even if you can deny shooting attacks on the Bikers (most likely because you're in CC with something) the rest of your army just stands around and gets shot up. I honestly can't imagine a scenario outside of really hot dice where the Orks come even close to winning.

I could certainly be wrong here and we play the games for a reason. jy2's a batrep makin' fool so I'm sure y'all could make it happen.


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Reecius wrote:Failing that last morale check was the nail in the coffin to the game. Had that not happened, I could have still won

Since I'm being disagreeable, I'll disagree with this too.

Look at the picture in the "Sisters Turn 3" section. I'll let you pick any two of the units there and kill them with your warbosses. For me to win after that I have to either kill just your Warlord, or kill either of the two Warbosses and the 5 Orks on the left. To reliably expect to kill one of the Warbosses, I need to put 2 or 3 wounds on him (that would give me a 75-88% chance of 1+ failed save). So I guess it's technically true that you "could have still won", but it's profoundly unlikely.

Seriously, once your bikers were dead this game was pretty much over, which I have to think is how you'd expect it to work.

Well, it is also profoundly unlikely to lose 3 bikes to overwatch from 5 sisters, or to fail 12 of 13, 4+/5++ saves as well and then to fail a leadership 9 check! Hahah.

I am not saying what would or would not have happened of course, but that victory was a possibility. Not in my favor, but then, not much had gone my way that game! Celestine is just so damn good in book missions. Her getting up was brutal after that terrible turn of luck I had. It was like a 3-4 point swing.

Oh, and I was wrong about the bonus points in Purge, they are 2 total, not 3, sorry about that. I misread the rule, it was clarifying that they were NOT worth 3. Been playing that one wrong.

I also forgot my stupid Boss Pole, that was a bummer. But that is my fault.

I would play Jy2's flyers for sure. He and I both wanted to play that game, actually.

KP would be the only game I would worry about. In objectives I could largely ignore and our maneuver the flyers and then play to objectives.

You're free to hold whatever opinion you choose of course, and as you said, it's why we play the game, but I don't think it would be a slaughter as you stated, at all.

Lol. I'm not as confident against Reece's orks as Amerikon is. That is because you don't just consider the lists. You have to consider the player as well. Reece is a damn cunning general. Last time I faced him in tournament play, I though I had him outmatched with a superior matchup. And then I almost lost. I was saved when the game went on to Turn 7. So dice aside, you can't really discount a good general, because he can make a good list great.

Now with that said, I still think orks would be the underdog in our matchup in any mission other than the Relic.

But I guess we will find out soon enough the next time I drop by Frontline Gaming.

Did they Crash Their tanks and Leave the Gas hose in when they Started Driving ? ( The Sisters )

Reecius wrote:Well, it is also profoundly unlikely to lose 3 bikes to overwatch from 5 sisters, or to fail 12 of 13, 4+/5++ saves as well and then to fail a leadership 9 check! Hahah.

Sure, I was just allowing for what actually had happened to happen and then giving you the benefit of passing the LD check and then killing any two units you'd like.

Reecius wrote:I am not saying what would or would not have happened of course, but that victory was a possibility. Not in my favor, but then, not much had gone my way that game! Celestine is just so damn good in book missions. Her getting up was brutal after that terrible turn of luck I had. It was like a 3-4 point swing.

Oh, and I was wrong about the bonus points in Purge, they are 2 total, not 3, sorry about that. I misread the rule, it was clarifying that they were NOT worth 3. Been playing that one wrong.

Yeah, I checked it when I wrote the report and made sure the points were right. That would also mean that Celestine getting back up is a 2pt shift.

Yes Celestine is good, but she's not all that impressive by herself. If she doesn't have Seraphim to back her up she's very easy to tarpit (a fact that won the game for Christian in our semi-final match) and you're always at the mercy of her 4+. She stayed down for 4 straight turns in my first game and she failed her first shot at getting up in this game too. People only ever remember the games where Celestine did something silly and caused them to lose.

Reecius wrote:I also forgot my stupid Boss Pole, that was a bummer. But that is my fault.

Sure, but you'd have to have killed your other Warboss to get the re-roll. (I'm assuming he would have failed his save. )



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Kasrkin229 wrote:Did they Crash Their tanks and Leave the Gas hose in when they Started Driving ? ( The Sisters )

Are you asking me why I didn't take Rhinos?


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Fetterkey wrote:Cool battle reports, and congratulations on your victory! I just have one suggestion-- can you make your pictures smaller? Right now, they break the tables on the forum post and make the page take an inordinate amount of time to load.

The forum should automatically resize the images to fit your browser window. If that's not happening try doing a hard refresh. Other than that, I can't really do much else since everyone has a different sized screen. The images themselves aren't that big, maybe 300KB per.

Anyway, my batreps are so good it's worth the wait!

Since this thread is overloaded with images, I've decided to move each game to its own thread. You can find Game 4 here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/468878.page