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Does anyone/everyone have any time this Sunday? I might be able to get away for a game or 2.

I'll ask the long haired commandress tonight, she'll probably be up for seeing what it is we do with our beards and little men as she's never experienced nerdom to such an extreme.
I'll tell her it'll take 2 hours max! Lol.

Konichiwaaaargh!

I can do Sunday although may only be able to stay to play/observe 1 game and realise I have low war priority due to getting in two fantastic games last week.

I could host 1 at a pinch.

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Commissar Combrink surveyed the building through his magnoculars, it looked ordinary enough.

"There sir" suggested Lieutenant Jenkins as he pointed at a sudden movement.

"Xenos sighted" said Combrink under his breath. Jenkins was proving a capable officer, not inspired but competant and the commissar didn't want too much initiative.
"Very well deploy the men to attack from all directions, lets make this swift"

"Yes sir!"

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Industrial wasteland near the Capital of Testea. All terrrain by MLCS.

Deployment: Dawn of Waaargh Mission: Emprah's Will

I ended up with the Right side of the table on the above pic and deployed my single objective in the big building in the background..



Mew

MLCS deployed his in the diagonally opposite building (big one in the foreground).



Bleep Bloop



Macragge XV in all their glory.



Filthy Xenos.

Our lists are in this thread already (back a page?). Mine contains my new unit of conscripts which are half done, some riflemen from the same platoon filled in, and my new priest seen here for the first time.

Deployment.

The Tau piled there entire force into their objective building, either in it or behind it.



2 Crisis teams with marker drones.



Broadsides command the heights.



Deploying opposite the Russ 'Old Reliable' enfiladed the skulking xenos gaining LOS to a Crisis team now in the open. It was bubble wrapped by the Conscripts and the PCS led from behind.



In my centre I deployed my Mech Vets ready to storm to the other side of the table.



On the Imperial right in my objective building I deployed my Infantry and Rocket battery.

Initial thoughts.

My massive numerical advantage was painfully obvious to both of us. He was poorly equipped to deal with a sea of troopers and the Russ at the other end of the spectrum. I expected him to cluster in his building so deployed to assault it on several fronts. The tank and conscripts would move forward putting fire on whilst awaiting his DS commander with his large entourage of gun drones (who are good at shooting Troopers). He'd rolled the 'DS without error trait which was huge as now his double melta hitting on 2+s hero will blow up my tank. At least the Conscripts and PCS should be able to make him pay with his Warlord point. The Vets will hoss across the table to threaten his suits with their meltas and maybe go for linebreaker. The infantry will hold the objective in case he made a move for it and the AC and Rockets can lend some fire support. I know his fancy suits are very flexible and deadly but by painting himself into a corner I hope to leave him with nowhere to go. He can't stop every attack can he?

FIND OUT SOON!

Randy I've PM'd you my battle notes.

Thanks for doing the report!

Thanks for the notes! My pleasure, I like doing BatReps, pity they take so long.

AND SO IT BEGINS...

No cheese is seized.

Tau open the ball by the Crisis teams marker lighting the Russ, the Sniper Broadsides took boosted aim on the Russ and slammed high velocity solid iron-nickel perpetrator rounds into the ground near it. That was their turn as the HQ was in DS reserve.

The IG moved forward as one. The Russ dominated flank began the turn by trundling forward, the conscripts used the new order that lets them shoot and run, they managed a few wounds on the drones who made their saves. They then managed a 1 on a run roll.



The Russ opened fire and missed the suits in the open by a mile, as an afterthought the hull gunner closed his eyes and blazed away with his heavy bolter, 2 6s later 2 of the drones in the open were wrecked.



None one forms such strong attachments to their frisbees as Tau however and the unit off 3 suits fled the field. Oops. MLCS goes to his happy place (it says so in his notes).



The distant IG base finds it's heavy weapons out of range and so advances, the snap fire manages a few hits but no damage.



The Commissar takes charge of the IG home objective. Mew?



The Vets flat out to complete the encirclement.



The Shas'o surveyed the scene and leaped from his circling manta. Arg'Os! Roll out!!

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He took aim at the Russ's rear and lets fly with 2 Meltas, one still misses (BS5) the other blew out the HB causing a HP. The cloud of killer frisbees decide to finish the job and unleash twinlinked BS5 fusilade into the tender rear armour. 3 HPs are caused but I make 2 cover saves for the intervening guardsmen leaving the tank with 1 HP.



He then sheepishly moves away from the angry tank...MLCS retreats further into his happy place...

The Broadsides smack a APFSDS round or 2 into the front armour of the Russ, the high tech weaponry is defeated by foot thick chobham armour...

The last Crisis team crack off a few Missiles into the Chimera immobilizing it.



The Russ moves it max speed (6!) away from the scary robot and fires at the suits occupying the Tau building and again misses by miles. The infantry reposition to swarm said robot..



CHARGE! The cloud of Frisbees unleash a massive volley of snapfire in defence of their leader, the high energy bolts could hardly miss with such a press of bodies and Flakk armour proved no defence..5 conscripts were slain and 1 member of the PCS was killed by their close combat attacks.



Undeterred by such losses whilst under the direction of the chaplin, the raw recruits flailed with rifle buts and bayonets and smashed all but one of the drones into the ground (re rolls to hit from the priest helps! but he fails to pronounce his hymn correctly). Arg'Os looked about him and decided only heroism would save him and issued a challenge, Jenkins stepped forward and failed to harm the robot with his chainsword. In return Arg'Os utilised and ancient form of martial arts he'd seen in a film once and bludgeoned the entire PCS down!



Action shot!

The Veterans debuss from the crippled Chimera and occupy the ruin next to the Tau base, they fire a few shots at the Crisis team but to no effect. They were in a position to either hunker down and claim LB or assault the Tau base however.

More soon!!!(ish)

Good stuff guys, looks great.
The table looks decent for what you called a quick cardboard job.
Pew pew!

The final turns..

There are only a few pics here as the game began to feel played out..



Arg'Os found himself in a sea of flashing bayonets and stamping boots, whilst he held out for many rounds and challenged the priest repeatedly (who skulked at the back and tried to remember how he chorus went), he managed to kill a few more 3pt meat shields but was eventually ground down.

The Russ pounded away and managed to finally roll a hit and flatten 2 suits, leaving the Tau base held by only 2 'Sides and 1 suit with a drone buddy. The Broadies continued to fail to take the last HP off the venerable tank..



The Veterans advanced and put some minor fire out, they were targeted by the 'Sides and remaining suit and went to ground but after a flurry of 1s followed and their nerve failed and they fled to the tenuous safety of the nearby craters, this was good for the communist space camel-fish but it was too little too late...





The IG firebase moved to get in range but failed to make much impact..

We called the game on turn 4 (ish) as there was only 4 Tau left. The mighty IG had been proved the mightier (mostly due to some horrible rolling) but thems the breaks when you only have 9 models (plus the frisbees). Still everyone had fun so we were both the winner really.

Ahhhh.

Ouch... Commiserations to MLCS on the drone death induced panic test fleeing suits. Commendations on him stamping down an entire unit of pinkskins with his warbos... I mean commander...

Congrats to Randy on his victory.

Also the cardboard buildings and the table both suited both armies for camo!

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
Good stuff guys, looks great.
The table looks decent for what you called a quick cardboard job.
Pew pew!

Thanks Alex, even having some really basic stuff on the table makes a difference, but we missed the stalwart bastions and lush arboreal regions of Moon Base Kolodotschko.




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 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Ouch... Commiserations to MLCS on the drone death induced panic test fleeing suits. Commendations on him stamping down an entire unit of pinkskins with his warbos... I mean commander...

Thanks MGS - I played a friendly a few nights ago against Mephistoned with our 750 points list. It was a clear Tau victory but I still lost another whole team due to a drone break. I suppose Ld8 is too unreliable when you are carrying that many models and points around - it's just very hard to find the points for the Vet.Sgt upgrade at this level. Oh well onto bigger and better(lead) things now!

Yeah that list will do very well against Marines.

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Commissar Combink toed the corpse of Lieutenant Jenkins, Lad showed promise and led from the front, no more could be asked of him...he kicked the officers bolt pistol and the heavy, dangerous and unwieldy weapon contacted the boot of corporal Smythe who paled visibly. The Commissar with the ghost of a smile and a fixed stare congratulated the new leader of 3rd Platoon. "Well done I saw the charge against the Xenos abomination, stirring......collect the men we move now....there is still the unclean nearby.....I can smell them...."

The new officer picked up the spattered pistol, it was heavy......Smythe's head spun as he stooped, he was only just recovering from the severe concussion he'd received from a flailing limb of the robot thing and the grisly death of his academy mate Jenkins, now he was supposed to lead?

Combrink surveyed the after action report, the butchers bill was mostly amongst the expendable...nothing a few forcible volunteerings amongst the locals couldn't fix, give them the 30 mins it takes to learn to operate a lasgun and some standard issue fatigues and that was it....now to the next nest of villainy...

Smythe eventually realised that he was dismissed as the black garbed commissar seemed to just be staring into the middle distance, endlessly ratcheting the mechanism of his ornate golden pistol..."errr..BURAIL DETAIL!, he shouted giving his first order...

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Hello Scrotoxen,

In case you haven't noticed I've made a Scrotox XIII battle report thread (with the Alex V me report in it) in the appropriate section in an attempt to generate some additional interest for the campaign: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/640921.page With this thread, or plogs, battle reports and the army lists thread things are starting to sprawl so may I suggest a bit of a format?

Campaign thread - General chit-chat & knob jokes; first post updated to include links to our campaign status, scores, individual plog threads, battle reports thread and army list thread. We could use this thread to post sneaky peeks of our plogs (as we have been doing so far), and the background text that is linking our battles.

Plog thread - obviously do what you want it's your thread!

Army lists - Add in 1k lists once stage one battles are fought and we are all ready. Maybe continue to do a poll it might catch on?

Battle reports - The full reports with background nonsense, photos and AARs and discussions etc.

Just a suggestion to avoid all our hard work getting lost in the warp.

Laters

You missed saying 'knob gags'.

Shall I cut and paste mine over there then?

This seem to be getting more complicated!

 RandyMcStab wrote:
You missed saying 'knob gags'...

'Knob gags' hardly rolls off the tongue though, does it? You might say it's a bit of a mouthful.

Anyway sorry, I've updated the Battle report thread with my game against Mephistopheloid: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/640921.page

p.s. Pretty freed up Thursday PM and Friday if you guys can get together for the last few 750 games? I'm happy to float around and take notes/photos.

ta.


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Oh and here's a little bonus lore for our campaign, just for added immersion...


A Scrotbeast, yesterday.

Alex and I are planning to 'do it' on Saturday, I'm afraid so I'll take pictures as I know you like to watch. I still need to do Mephy as well some time....don't think I can get away Thurs, slight chance of Fri but he works then I believe..

Lovely Scrotbird there...

Looking forward to reading your BatRep!

Oh.
I thought it was like this, must not have got the notes on the pronounced wattle.

They are a different species especially prized for making small purses..

So last day of the month..

Glad to report...



750pt Army all done...



Custom Objectives reporting in (more pics soon in blog).

Can I has points?

Hope to play 'Stoned on Thursday/Weekend (feel free to pop in too Alex/MLCS)...

How goes the fight guys? You’ve been very quiet over there.

Yes people seem to have stalled out a bit. I did play Meph and should do a quick rep really. I might start it today. Meph has one more round 1 game to do but Alex seems to be busy.

My last report (Vs SM) is done now in the BatRep thread..

Hi all,

In an attempt to kick start our amazing campaign back up I've updated my Tau plog to include the round 2 forces. We are still waiting for Vampire Knights versus Evil Elves 750pt battle to take place however I'm going to take the liberty of posting my finalised list for next round:

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Tau Farsight Enclaves CAD (1002 points).

Commander with two missile pods, shield generator, target lock, drone controller, two marker drones.

Crisis Team - Shas'Vre with twin-linked plasma rifle. Two Shas'Ui with twin-linked fusion blaster. Bonded.

Crisis Team - Shas'Vre with burst cannon and flamer, drone controller. Two Shas'Ui with burst cannon and flamer, vectored retrothrusters. Six gun drones. Bonded.

Crisis Team - Three Shas'Ui with twin-linked missile pods. Bonded.

Crisis Team - Three Shas'Ui with twin-linked missile pods. Bonded.

Broadside with twin-linked heavy rail-rifle, twin-linked plasma rifle and seeker missile. Bonded.

Broadside with twin-linked heavy rail-rifle, twin-linked plasma rifle and seeker missile. Bonded.
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And that's it - I've refitted the commander as a Mark'O and moved my anti heavy armour over to a dedicated Crisis Team. The missile teams can now benefit from more accurate marker lights. Due to being swamped by Guard and Kabalites I made the controversial decision to include a dedicated anti horde team in the form of the burst/flamer unit. Should be fun!

May I invite our other campaign participants to display their lists for the lads?

Ta.

Cool Beans, 2pts over!? You should take 0pts this round...

Macragge XV

Elements of the Regiment arrived so far:

Commissar Lord Combrink
Emperors Benediction (magic Bolt pistol), Power Weapon.

Priest Elton
LP, CCW

Platoon Command under Lieutenant Jenkins
Bolt Pistol, Meltaguns x 2

Infantry squads 1 & 2
Grenade launchers x 2, Autocannon x 2

Conscripts x 20

Rocket Launcher Battery

Veterans
Bolt Pistol, Meltagun x 2, Flamer
Chimera
Multilaser, Heavy flamer, Dozer Blade

Russ
Battle cannon, Heavy Bolter, Dozer blade.

752

Additional reinforcements:

Armoured Sentinels x 3
2 x Lascannon, 1 x Plascannon

Wyvern

Commissar
Bolt pistol, power weapon

That's 255pts, the PCS will downgrade a MG to FL leaving me at:

1002..

Decided after lots of vacillating to try out the Sentinels, only used them once and they really dropped in points with the new Codex, should give me some sneaky anti-tank/heavy infantry power. Wyvern is just amazeballs..Commissar should help me Conscripts perform better and have further punch in CC.... might be able to play you MLCS on Thursday early-ish?

Hey all. Even though the battle reports are done already (good job on those guys) I thought i should still post my 1000 point list. Well 1003 point list i should say but hey who's counting.

HQ
Priest +bolt pistol+jump pack+power sword

Troops
10 man tactical squad +Heavy flamer+melta gun

7 man tactical squad + lascannon

5 man scout squad+camo cloaks+4sniper+missile launcher

Elites
8 man death company+power fist+jump packs+inferno pistol

Fast
8 man assault squad+flamer+melta

Heavy
Predator+las spon+oc engines

Transport
Rhino

One last hunt, the sequel.....

Methusela woke with a start, the thought of the heat outside had been too much for him.….
His informants had relayed countless acts of debauchery and distraction. Surely, It was his rite as king of this planet.
This time he would be ready for that hunt.......

Mephistoned wrote:Hey all. Even though the battle reports are done already (good job on those guys) I thought i should still post my 1000 point list. Well 1003 point list i should say but hey who's counting.

HQ
Priest +bolt pistol+jump pack+power sword

Troops
10 man tactical squad +Heavy flamer+melta gun

7 man tactical squad + lascannon

5 man scout squad+camo cloaks+4sniper+missile launcher

Elites
8 man death company+power fist+jump packs+inferno pistol

Fast
8 man assault squad+flamer+melta

Heavy
Predator+las spon+oc engines

Transport
Rhino

Cool stuff I look forward to your 1.5k

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:One last hunt, the sequel.....

Methusela woke with a start, the thought of the heat outside had been too much for him.….
His informants had relayed countless acts of debauchery and distraction. Surely, It was his rite as king of this planet.
This time he would be ready for that hunt.......

*Cowers in fear*