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Orcs: Warboss on Bike, PK, Attack Squig
10 Nobs on Bikes, 1 PK, Waagh banner, Painboy and Orderly
12 Stormboyz, Nob w/ PK
16 Shootas, Nob w/PK

Imperial Guard
3 big tanks with battle cannons and a bunch of other weapons
10 Stormtroopers w. srg & power weapon and Chimera
Command group w/ Inquistor??

Search and Destroy mission at Alpha level and 3 objectives

I set up first and moved first
My Shootas were on the right flank in rough terrain w/i 6" of one objective

My Nobs w/ War boss were in the center.
Stormboyz were on the left in a ruined building

His Command group were in the center in rough terrain. His tanks were in the center behind the command group, and he had a commander in a tank.
His Chimera was in front of his stormtroopers on my left and near an objective.

Turn one: Stormboyz moved out of the ruins 12+3 toward the Storm troopers. Nobs advanced in the center and took a difficult terrain wound (no save). Nobs advanced 12" and shot the command group killing 4.

CHimera moved toward stormboyz and killed 1. Storm troopers, Inquistor, and 3 tanks shoot nobs and killed 2. I made many cover saves.

Turn 2: Stormboyz roll a 1 and failed the save. They shot the stormtroopers with their sluggas and killed one. On the charge they destroyed the unit and the nob destroyed the Chimera.

Warboss charged the command tank on the side armor and destroyed it. Nobs attacked another tank and the Inquistor destroying the tank and tie in combat vs. the INquistor. Another Nob failed his difficult terrain test. He choose to fail his test, made his initative roll and fell back 7".

The Inquistor retreated off the board. The final tank tank shocked the Stormboyz, they passed their leadership and the nob hit, glanced, and rolled a 1. Squishy-squishy.

Turn 3 The Warboss and Nobs charged the tank in the rear. 2 Penetrating hits - Immobilized and weapon destroyed. He surrendered.

This was the most one-sided victory I have ever had. We are having a mini-con at Cal Poly SLO next week and we were just practicing. Although people have suggested that this mob isn't very competitive because they aren't fearless, I wanted to try a Nob biker mob because I had 7 biker mobs of 3 with a Nob w/ a PK with the last codex and always lost miserably. In this game the nobs attracted lots of fire but the 4+ cover save and Feel no pain saves meant that I only lost 3 (and 1 of those was to failing difficult terrain tests). Best of all, the stormboyz received very little fire. Because he had so few models I never got the whole mob in contact (besides the fact that they couldn't scratch the paint). Perhaps there were too many of them and I would be better off with 6 nobs and a loota mob.

What do you think?