Wolves Battalion -

Hq :
Rune priest : Warlord, Armor of Russ, saga of the beast slayer, runic staff, jump pack, living lighting, fury of the wolf spirits.
Rune priest : Tempest Wrath, Storm Caller

Troops:
Grey Hunters : 9 men, 2 w/ plasma guns, 1 w/ plasma pistol. 1 wgbl with combi plasma.
Grey Hunters : 9 men, 2 w/ plasma guns, 1 w/ plasma pistol. 1 wgbl with combi plasma.
Grey Hunters : 9 men, 2 w/ plasma guns, 1 w/ plasma pistol. 1 wgbl with combi plasma.

Heavy Support:
Predator Tank : Pred Autocannon, 2 side las cannons
Predator Tank : Pred Autocannon, 2 side las cannons
Predator Tank : Pred Autocannon, 2 side las cannons


Wolves Spearhead -

Hq :
Wolf Guard Battle Leader : two chain swords (for the lols)

Heavy support:
Whirlwind: Vengeance Launchers
Whirlwind: Vengeance Launchers
Whirlwind: Vengeance Launchers


Guard Batallion -

Hq :
Company Commander : chainsword and las pistol
Lord Commisar: Bolt pistol and power sword

Troops :
Infantry Squad : 10 men
Infantry Squad : 10 men
Infantry Squad : 10 men

Fast Attack :
Scout sentinal squad : 3 scout sentinals, each w/ autocannons

3x leman russ tank commanders with battlecannons, las cannon, 2x heavy bolter on each
2x Company commander
1x tempestor prime
3 command squads, each w/ las cannon team and 2 snipers
4x troop teams w/ mortars and plasma gun
2x scions 5 men teams
Heavy weapon mortar team
2x basilisks
3x hellhounds
1x manticore

My plan was simple. I castled up in the center of my deployment zone, 3 whirlwinds in the back, rune priest and wgbl infront of them, 3 predators infront of that, with 30 guardsmen and the officer and commisar all spread out around them. I kept at least 1 model of everything within 6 of the rune preist. I outflanked the 3 grey hunter teams and deep struck my warlord. I put the sentinals out front and used their free move to grab an objective. This started me out with 3 objectives held (not that it mattered much, the one they took never was drawn for)

He was afraid of my 30 grey hunters with all that plasma outflanking so he made sure his entire side was "covered" from me getting in. After the game he even mentioned my outflanking forced him to deploy different than he was going to, so the fact they were just there waiting to come in already had an effect on the game before they did anything.

I received first turn and got some decent missions, i dont remember their names but the end result was due to missions "stacking" 1 hellhound dying ended up earning me 3 vp turn one. I didnt move at all turn one, i cast storm caller successfully and can say i understand why they made it cast value of 8. That one spell and the stratagem caused my entire army to go into cover and get -1 to hit other than the scout sentinals. -1 to hit 2+ predarors are tough to deal with! My predators and whirlwinds unloaded onto his lines. Between everything i killed 1 hellhound, brought 1 basilisk to 6 wounds, and brought a tank commander to 5 wounds. Even the scout sentinals did 4 wounds to the tank commander, go little buddies!

So not the most effective start but it wasn't bad. I earned 5 vp turn 1.

He then drew and had some crap missions. Stuff that could be done but not turn 1, like kill a character with one of his characters (actually pretty easy to do if he could get to one of my charecters that i had hidden since he had so many tank commanders) and domination (not happening lol). He unloaded onto my lines with everything he had, and when the smoke cleared he had killed only 13 guardsmen, dropped a predator to 2 wounds, put another pred at 9 wounds left, and killed 2 scout sentinals and dropped the 3rd to 3 wounds. It was amazing, his rolls were normal but that extra cover and -1 to hit was just so helpful! Also he spent way too much attention on the scout sentinals. They refused to die! He mentioned they were such an annoyance, they were weak enough that he didnt want to care about them but with those auto cannons stong enough that he couldnt ignore them.

My turn 2 went amazingly. I drew "take no prisoners" so i had to kill stuff dead. I had weakened his lines just enough so that i was able to drop 20 of the 30 grey hunters in and my warlord runepriest. My normal priest tried to cast the storm again and failed. I would say always put the storm and the dogs power on a defensive runepriest so you have a 2nd power to cast easily if the 1st fails. I didnt do that so i found myself with no way to protect my castle turn 2. I did try to go for a living lightning jump, with my warlord smiting 2 guards from a command squad leaving the las cannon team, but my lightning only did 1 wound so that didnt work like i hoped.

Shooting however went amazing for me this round. I started by firing a whirlwind at his heavy weapons mortar team and blew them away. A whirlwind with vengeance will totally wipe heavy weapons teams off the board each turn i realized with wounding on 2's and giving them only a 6+ save. 1 grey hunter team killed the wounded tank commander with overcharged plasma and fired their bolt guns at a command squad that was outside double tap range but still managed to kill the squad, other put 6 wounds onto a hellhound. Warlord shot his bolt pistol and killed the command squad team his lightning failed to finish. Other 2 whirlwinds killed the wounded basilisk. Weak predator still managed a hit with his auto cannon but did no damage to another command tank. 2nd predator finished off the 2nd hellhound the grey hunters had weakened. Final predator fired at another tank comander putting 3 wounds onto it.

So at the end of all of that i had killed 6 different things and earned 5vp from take no prisioners alone. With my other objectives at the end of my turn 2 i had 13 vp to his 3 and had utterly crippled his army.

His turn 2 went a lot better for him. He unloaded everything at the grey hunters that were now in his lines. He needed to kill my warlord who was the only thing with flight on the board. He cut through the hunters with everything he had then leveled a tank comander at my warlord and blew him away. Upon reflection dropping my warlord so close to the enemy knowing he had to kill him to earn anything was a mistake but i felt it was the proper wolf thing to do and i wanted to get bouncing living lighting to happen. Still after all of that he only had enough firepower left to kill the last sentinal and kill the predator with 2 wounds left.

Turn 3 i got defend 1 (which was the objective my castle was on) and secure 1. I dropped my last 10 hunters into his back field now that it was open, got the storm off again but was out of cp to cast the -1 (mission doubled cp usage at turn 3). My shooting this turn was not as successful, i killed some guardsmen squads and put 4 wounds on a basilisk.

His turn 3 he drew another bad draw, he did get take no prisoners, so he fired on the weakest parts of my list, the guards. Unfortunately even with all he had left he only killed 8 guards from 1 full squad, and killed 1 from a 3 man squad. His basilisk rolled and got 2 shots which tried to kill my weak predator and failed thanks to cover save. His manticore finally did something and hit / wounded my weakest predator but when he rolled for damage it came up leaving the predator with 1 wound. His remaining guardsmen tried to flashlight the last 10 hunters but only got 3. In the end he just couldnt finish anything off either and we called the game at that point since i got defend 1. That put me at 17 pts to his 10, he was making a comeback but the mission and cards were just against him at this point.