He won the roll off and elected to go first, and advanced a whole bunch of Mad Max madness up into midfield, trying to get in range to tag a tank or two.



This is the end of his first movement phase - basically everything pushed up bar the bikers who remained in that table quarter for Engage on All Fronts. The bomber is out of shot on the left but flew up to perch on top of the building my tank commander was hiding behind.

I managed to survive his shooting phase relatively unharmed. One hellhound was brought down to 3 wounds and another to 7, and due to a few short Advance rolls he was just out of range of a Turn 1 charge. So far, so good! He was in all 4 table quarters for VP purposes at the end of this turn.

On my turn, I moved the 3-wound hellhound and his neighbour up to face his middle-of-the-board blockade. Before I got to shoot with him, however, my Demolisher tank commander unloaded into the Deffkilla Wartrike and managed to bring him down. Celebration turned into despair when my opponent used a shoot-on-death strategem to melt the remaining wounds off the hellhound, who then got a 6 on his Explodes! roll and rolled over some mortals onto my last healthy hellhound as well as my opponent's boosta blasta. (Pictured: big empty hole where the wartrike and hellhound used to be).



Meanwhile the 7-wound hellhound streaked down the right flank and burned down 2 of the deffkoptas.



The tank commander hiding out to the left (my Warlord, with the relic battle cannon) poked his nose out and shot an impressive amount of firepower into the battlewagon, including a 6-damage lascannon shot. It only had a handful of wounds left after that, and they were plucked off by the basilisks, leaving the boys to bail out of the flaming wreck of their ride. I don't think this poor thing has ever made it past Turn 1...



That was it for my first turn as the scions couldn't drop in yet. I got a few Grind It Down points for destroying vehicles but no Linebreaker or Raze Objective points yet.

At the Start of Turn 2, he held 2 and held more for 15 primary VPs. In the movement phase, his last remaining deffkopta retreated to his backfield objective (you can see tzurk jr getting his paint on in the background too )




His burna bommer flew over a few tanks but decided not to drop a bomb this turn.



The nob bikers and gun wagon full of power klaws came careening down my right side to crash into the hellhound sitting out in the open.



And his two boosta blasters rammed into the other hellhound, leaving it with a single wound remaining.



At the start of my Turn 2, I held a single objective for 5 primary points. My scions dropped in in his backfield, two squads planting themselves on one of his objectives and laying some fire into the boyz, and the other dropping 9" away from his kopta and bringing it down with melta fire. My lame hellhound retreated from the boosta blastas, opening up a firing lane into them.

My warlord TC then unloaded a full 12 shots from his battle cannon into the boys, killing a swathe of them, and threw a 5 damage lascannon shot into the injured boosta blasta, just enough to destroy it.

My demolisher commander brought down the bommer on his own, and...also blew up! Sharing more mortals around.

The basilisks combined to destroy the rest of the boys squad, leaving the scions free to roam in his backfield for Linebreaker points and Raze Objective actions later on.

My last commander deleted the gunwagon, whose mega armoured inhabitants jumped out lookin' ready to krump.

At the start of his Turn 3, his bikers managed to Raze one of my objectives, and his boosta blasta crashed into my tank commander, dealing a heap of mortal wounds through two abilities/strategies that both went off on 4+s.



His nobz made it into combat with the tank commander but lost two to Overwatch on the way. The mek soon followed, but the TC made all his saves vs those power klaws thanks to some good rolls and the 2+ armour save from Uparmoured tank ace.



It was looking pretty dire for my opponent at this stage. One of my scions squads Razed a back objective and the other two advanced to do the same to the remaining one next turn.



My two tank commanders in combat fell back, allowing my Warlord TC to shoot his boosta blasta off the table and the basilisks to lay into his last remaining big mek.

A single meganob made it into Turn 4...and was quickly melted by heavy flamer overwatch. It was a nice call back to our previous game when my last remaining model, a regular sergeant, stood defiant against a squad of nobz - even managed to plink one with an overcharged plasma pistol shot before they butchered him.



I didn't feel great about the win after deleting two priority targets Turn 1, but it's a swingy game and we've both been on the receiving end of these things before. Another inch on his advance roll and the wartrike would have made it in for a charge and things might have been different...ah well. I am glad the defensive positioning paid off - I do not always place my minis well in deployment, going too aggressively, and end up paying for my mistakes when I lose the roll off. This time I had planned on going second even if I won the roll off and I think that mindset helped a lot in the end.