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I'm halfway through a battle with Barnett's orcs, but he's got so many models to roll for, he's new at the rules (so a lot of references) and he's got so much crazy wargear to look up in his antiquated codex that what would have been a 4 hour game at the most turned into a 6 hour game we've only half finished. I took pictures and notes, and tomorrow we are supposed to finish. My particle whip decimates his boyz, but he's got two looted tanks borrowed from E so he's got some punch this time, and it's immobilized my 'lith.

Corvus, I'm getting better with every match and hopefully with my Nightbringer and incoming Pariahs I'll have what I need to dominate tougher models. Plus Lt. Krick is new to the rules so I'll at least have a couple of chances to catch him when he's inexperienced.

See you guys tomorrow!

EDIT: There seem to be errors in posting. I've posted this message but it doesn't show up, even though it confirms I've posted. If it ends up giving me multiple posts, I apologize and will fix it when it shows up on my browser.

You don't need to fix it diesel, if there's no real timeframe difference between the posts it fixes automatically.

Just watch out for winged Daemon Princes. The SSgt I played basically hopped it from cover to cover till it reached assault range to keep it safe from volley fire (which can and will kill it)
The Defiler is a big easy target and can be taken out by Heavy Destroyers (assuming they don't make constant crap rolls like mine) and the Obliterators can be killed by volley fire, force them to make enough saves and they will lose at least a few. Rhino Rush can be handled by keeping your flayed ones/Pariahs close enough to counter any charges.
Good luck!

I assume if it's winged that it counts as jump infantry or something of that sort? Therefore has to take dangerous terrain tests when it enters/leaves cover. I don't know what kinda save it has but that seems like a dangerous prospect to me.

yeah he's jump infantry, but by "hopping from cover to cover" I mean hopping behind buildings and whatnot, so no dangerous tests, he's just staying out of my LOS

Hey guys. So I was just cruising Dakka to look up some opinions on a rule discrepincy I was having with my buddy. We were playing a game via vassal and I noticed this topic. We are also currently also on FOB Echo Iraq. We were wondering who you guys were and where you play. We would like to come by sometime and say hello. We didn't bring any models with us like you guys, but we play using vassal all the time. We are in C108 near the battalion TOC if you guys ever want to come by and say hello.

Its cool to know there are some other war gamers on the FOB. Have a good one guys.

How random. Haha.

Also, all these guys I believe bought their models while on FOB Echo.

wow you guys are on echo too..crazy...private message we will link up..

I was at FOB Echo in 2009 painting my Tau in preparation for 'ard boyz. I was in the medevac over by the TMC. I'm at Camp Adder now.

This has been a great thread to follow.

WHAT A TWEEST!

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Yeah, I suggest for right now, if you have any more games w/o your tanks in the mail, to use the deathstrike in for another manticore. I can 100% guarantee you that it will do WAAAAAY better. Just say the one missle seperates into several munitions each round or something.

Do not underestimate the normal leman russ, however, pumping out 9 HB shots AND a s8 ap3 large blast is killer for hordes and light vehicles as well. Though HB's are admittedly terrible for AV, they can do the job in a pinch to take down a rhino/trukk.

As well, the Russecutioner is a VERY powerful, but VERY expensive tank.

I run mine w/ Plasma sponsons for 5 plasma cannon shots, and a Hull Heavy Flamer, that way your opponent wont be able to pull some wound allocation shenanigans with the lesser ap of the HB that you normally get.

Hope I helped ^.^

very cool stuff

All looking very good and promising. Begs the question though Diesel, what's next on the shopping list?

*crosses fingers for another lith*

Here's today's update!

Barnett (Orks, orky-bitz) will probably elaborate on this further, but he is getting transferred to another FOB in the near future, and so his participation has probably ended. He has placed his Ork army up for sale amongst us. Perhaps some of the guys from the other group near the Battalion TOC would like to buy them?

We never finished our game, by the way. He had to work late, and I think he's given up on the prospect of furthering the hobby in light of recent events.

I played the XO again today, and this time he brought in his newly acquired assault terminators with lightning claws and thunder hammers. With a chaplain attatched, they re-rolled all misses and most of them re-rolled wounds, all power weapons against my warriors. I took pictures and notes, but the defeat was so crushing I have little motivation to post it. Not to mention that by turn 3, all aspect of strategy on my part disintegrated, so it's not like there was much to review for strategy purposes. My monolith exploded by turn 3 and my nighbringer died by turn 4, a victim of piecemeal shots from sniper rifles and lascannons. All of my particle whip-shots scattered off target, and all of my N.Bringer's lightning arcs missed or failed to penetrate armor. With his drop-pods, I was surrounded on all fronts and had no heavy-hitters left to drop his two squads of terminators. The game ended on turn 5 with my barely away from Necron phase-out. Sheesh. What a bummer. I could say bad luck, as I was a good dice roll away from taking out his land raider and scout squad. But ultimately I can't control the initiative of the battle when he's got two drop-podding terminator squads.

Just Dave wrote:
All looking very good and promising. Begs the question though Diesel, what's next on the shopping list?

With my pariahs still on their way, I may wait a bit to buy some more, and see where pariahs take me, strategy-wise. I'm pretty much set to defeat any army other than SM (or CSM?). Tools and terrain are becoming more of a priority.

I do intend to eventually get another 'lith. I don't know when... it's a big project. I would ideally field two of them, but it's a tough balance between points on my heavy-hitters and troops. I DO intend to take everyone's advice and try for some immortals. That will likely be my next purchase.

K-Hop wrote:

We were wondering who you guys were and where you play.

In the Charlie section of CHUs, near Alpha Company Toc. I'll PM you as well, but if you're interested in meeting up, you can contact me via ICOM, Hardrock Channel, Callsign Hardrock 1. Or you can just come to the Aco TOC and ask for Hardrock 1 or SGT McDowell.

So, basically, I *need* a way to throughly ignore his terminators' armor saves if I'm going to beat him. The only things that have power weapons are N.Lords, C'tan, Pariahs and Tomb Spyders. Tomb Spyders are almost worthless IMO, and I can't assault a terminator squad with my warriors just so I can get one attatched model's power weapon in there. I may just be truely screwed.

I'll see you guys later. Me and the XO have decided on a micro-campaign amongst the two of us at least, and I fully expect for him to win it. But for storyline's sake, I don't mind playing the villain who is defeated by the good guy. I just hope it's not as embarassing so often.

Pariahs have killed me in the past but the Terminators are one unit, you might as well just stay out of their way until you have enough room to kill them with massed firepower.

diesel,

Playing any of the 5th edition codexes is going to be a lot more challenging. You picked a very difficult army to manage right now. Melta and transport are king in 5th edition.

Your army looks fantastic however!

He's right, a Destroyer Lord, Pariahs and more careful use of the Nightbringer should help, but Necrons are rightfully rated as the hardest army to play. Don't blame yourself!

All you guys are the most awesome soldiers I have ever heard about. Way to suppress the stereotype of the stupid soldier!

micahaphone wrote:

Way to suppress the stereotype of the stupid soldier!

Heh heh. Believe me, as nerds among soldiers, we're the minority. If I had a nickel for every ignorant, swaggering, confrontational meathead I've had to associate with in this line of work, I'd put them all in a glass beer boot and shatter it over someone's head.

Just Dave wrote:

...a Destroyer Lord, Pariahs and more careful use of the Nightbringer should help...

I've shied away from Destroyer Lords because they just seem like another slot to eat up only one of the two available HQs on the FOC, when I could have one attached to move with the troops for their WBB rolls and have a C'tan along with them. Wouldn't a Destroyer Lord on it's own get chewed through as a lone, priority target early in the game? The N.Lord's stats aren't that amazing, with the exception of it's solo WBB roll.

But correct me if I'm wrong.

Byte wrote:

Playing any of the 5th edition codexes is going to be a lot more challenging.

I had heard that GW was developing a new Necron Codex. Any idea about the estimated release date, and what updates it may have?

On to today's update:

Mail came in today, and nearly everyone who plays got packages. To include another soldier in the tank platoon who doesn't even play... he ordered modeling supplies from GW for a model Abrams tank he is going to build.

I got my order in, too! 10 Pariahs (which I've already started to assemble), two more Flayed Ones to max out the squad I have, a bunch of Vallejo paints and varnishes, some new GW brand brushes (to include small drybrush and stipling brush), another block of black Chessex dice, and 5 craters (enough for one battlefield, but with multiple games going, we're still going to have to use homebrewed stuff). I also got a box of regular Necron Warriors to have two large squads or three small ones for Seize Ground missions. They come with Scarabs, so that will help if I want to max out my swarm squad.

Erickson will probably go into detail, but he got a huge box of soldiers and armor. I'm not sure of the specifics, but I know some Leman Russ' were in there.

Kehrer got several new Crisis Suits.

Quinn's Eldar have yet to arrive, and it will still take a while for Phillips' Tyranids to arrive.

With everybody's new models, the night was spent assembling new models. Lt. Krick is working on his Defiler now, and the work that the XO has done on his chaplain so far looks amazing! Those of us who have been working on this stuff for the past couple of months are definitely showing marked improvements on painting skill, but I guess that's what happens when you spend 4-6 hours a day, nearly every day for two months, working on the hobby.

I will say this: Where Flayed Ones are hard to paint, Pariahs are just as hard to assemble. The Pariahs come with a very frail pewter piece, and it, with the others, often come rather warped. In fact, one I got was missing the fitting end of a piece and now I may have to custom make one from scrap pewter or Green Stuff. The pieces have lots of very narrow spacing with molding lines in them that I can't get to with a file or a hobby knife. I may have to use one of Doc's scalpels, as they have a smaller blade.

I had considered a strategy of using several squads of Heavy Destroyers, using their AP to punch through Terminator Armor. Unfortunately, I enjoy assembling and painting Destroyers the least.

I don't know what on earth I'm going to do with my Tomb Spyder. It's cannon fodder, it's Necron-sustaining ability is somewhat laughable, and for all of it's "monstrous creature" power, it's stats are low. Maybe if it had more than two wounds, but jeez. I haven't hit anything with it in any game.

I do have a question for you guys. Is there a telltale mark that indicates what edition a codex or rulebook is? I have yet to find one I only know my rulebook is 5th edition because I just bought it two months ago, but I know some Codexes (or Codices) have yet to be updated. And I suspect Barnett's Ork Codex may be an older edition than what is currently available.

That's all for today, guys! I'll post pics of a Pariah as soon as one is done.

Hahahaha. Information on exact release dates, years in advance?

You're better off asking for...well, something ridiculously unlikely to happen.

Welcome to the GW Hobby! Where release dates are as elusive as Bin-Laden.

Yo! Got my reinforcements in today,the Imperial manufacturing facilities are working fast to finish my Lemass Russ trio...They are assembled and waiting to go through the paint line..All my infantry are put together..Waiting to be painted also.All that is left is to slap together this last valkyrie and paint it and thats a wrap my army is complete for a while.This brings my total count to:
4 Leadership figures
3 Ogryn
15 Stormtroopers
6 Heavy weapons teams
4 Infantry squads
1 Platoon command squad
1 Company command squad
1 Tech priest
2 space marine servitors
3 Lemann russ demolisher/executioners/punishers
1 Manticore missle launcher
1 Hellhound
3 Valkyrie/Vandetta gunships
1 Baneblade
I`ll be ready to play apocolypse rules soon..lol
With the Lemann russ I found a way to make detachable guntubes.So at any time I can play demolisher/executioners/punishers.How awsome it is...bwahahahaha! Anyways as soon as they are painted I`ll post some pics.Thank for the feedback y`all have been giving us,it make the game that much more fun."E" signing out from the bunker...
Imperious Dominatus

Diesel: the advantage of Destroyer Lords is that they move like jetbikes and can turbo-boost, which allows them to blitz across the board and into CQB with high-value enemy targets. Combined with a Warscythe, they can lay waste to MEQ squads. A regular Lord on foot is usually too slow to be of much use offensively

E_ninja13 wrote:Yo! Got my reinforcements in today,the Imperial manufacturing facilities are working fast to finish my Lemass Russ trio...They are assembled and waiting to go through the paint line..All my infantry are put together..Waiting to be painted also.All that is left is to slap together this last valkyrie and paint it and thats a wrap my army is complete for a while.This brings my total count to:
3 Lemann russ demolisher/executioners/punishers
1 Hellhound
3I`ll be ready to play apocolypse rules soon..lol
With the Lemann russ I found a way to make detachable guntubes.So at any time I can play demolisher/executioners/punishers.How awsome it is...bwahahahaha! Anyways as soon as they are painted I`ll post some pics.Thank for the feedback y`all have been giving us,it make the game that much more fun."E" signing out from the bunker...
Imperious Dominatus

If you do not glue the barrel of the lemann russ demolisher models you can do all three, same with the hellhound with some magnets.

Byte wrote:diesel,

Playing any of the 5th edition codexes is going to be a lot more challenging. You picked a very difficult army to manage right now. Melta and transport are king in 5th edition.

Your army looks fantastic however!

Melta means nothing against a lith.


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Corvus wrote:Diesel: the advantage of Destroyer Lords is that they move like jetbikes and can turbo-boost, which allows them to blitz across the board and into CQB with high-value enemy targets. Combined with a Warscythe, they can lay waste to MEQ squads. A regular Lord on foot is usually too slow to be of much use offensively

You can always port the lord with a monolith if you don't take the veil as well. Works well for me usually.

roger that mongo only thing is with the hellhounds i already used the guntubes for different mods..oh well..the melta gun is good enough for now..

First off....I just want to say a big Thank you to all you guys serving currently. You're doing a job I've been interested in for a long time but could never do because I'm far too unfit. I have the utmost respect for all you guys keeping this and other countries safe. It sounds mushy and a little out of charector for me I know, but...thanks.

Secondly, I'm loving all the work in this thread so far. The Guard are currently doing it for me the most, but everything else is uber cool. I have to say I was a little dissapointed that the 'Crons didn't have camo paint, but you can't have it all I guess!


Again, thanks. And damn you, becuase you're out in hostile territory where an attack could happen anytime and you can STILL paint better than me.

I had a lot of trouble getting these pics to work. EDIT: Ignore the odd-looking thumbnails, because if you click them you see a proper image. But, here we go.

Today we had those other soldiers from across the FOB come an visit us. Unfortunately, they're not staying on the FOB long, and won't be investing in an army because they'll hardly have enough time to take advantage of it.

Not much was done today. I assembled and cleaned up a bit more of my Pariahs, but me and the XO struck up a campaign agreement and launched the beginning of it today.

We basically planned it out as a story for his and my armies. Maybe E will join in later, but we realized that we would have to start simple if we were going to get anything off the ground, so we decided on this: Give the good guys a mission, set the circumstances in which they enter the problem, and play several games as we work out the unfolding story along the way. No set number of matches, no branching trees. He will tell me how his space marines will react given outcomes, locations, and forces, and I will set terrain and objectives for him, as the protagonist, to accomplish. I take all notes and write down all background story in my Moleskine notebook (Bondsman number 7?), and take pictures.

So, here we go with a background and batrep for the first conflict of our campaign:
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The Brynar System. An unassuming star with unassuming planets, on the eastern fringe, on the outskirts of eastern edge of the Tau Empire. The only world with a acceptable climate and atmosphere is Brynar II. Scanned and slated for investigation, the first colonization ships arrived 4117961.M41, with a compliment of Adeptus Mechanicus personnel to investigate unconfirmed xenos ruins. A Ghost world, with seismic analysis reports indicating heavy adamantium deposits. Emergency reports from the colony requesting military assistance against an unknown assailant began 4402961.M41 and ended a few weeks afterward. The panicked reports suggest xenos agression. The local Imperial Guard detachment to that settlement was unheard from through the entire event. The colony is presumed destroyed. At that time, all available Imperial Forces in the area were engages with Tau border disputes and Ork infestations.

The Andreas Chapter of Space Marines, an offshoot of the Iron Legion that were separated a due to a refusal to submit to the Iron Legion's allegiance with Chaos, have been spending that past several Millenia in the eastern fringe, far away from the suspicious eyes of the massed Imperium, who question their loyalty to the Emporer. Fighting for redemption for their once-brothers' heresy, they have been trying to purge guilt through restitution for ages. As their campaign against pockets of chaos and foul xenos would take them near the Brynar system a few years after the incident, and no Imperial effort was made to investigate the attack in Brynar II, the Andreas Chapter scheduled a reconnaissance of the world as they would pass by.

On 3108978.M41, the Andreas Legion made contact with the Brynar system and made planetfall on the colony shortly after. Their mission: - Search & rescue survivors, if any. - Reclaim Mechanicus Cult technology. - Secure xenos tech for destruction or shipment to the nearest Mechanicum Cult. - Investigate and destroy xenos agressors.

Multiple scouting parties were dispatched to the surface. Some to dig sites, some to roadways, some to suspected xenos ruins. The largest was sent to the colonial city of Manifest, once populated with three to four thousand Imperial Citizens. A humble, but the only, settlement. No signs of bodies or agressors other than mass destruction of buildings and land formations. And so, the recon team begins it's sweep down the main road of the city...
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Game mode: Ambush.
Points: 750.
Special Rule: Any infantry count as scoring units.

EDIT: Remember! These thumbnails look wierd, but if you click them you get a good image.



Without sophisticated ambush markers, dice and baseplates represent ambush signals. I play the Brynar Tomb Legion of Necrons. This is the starting board setup. He has a squad of assault terminators in reserve as a "quick reaction force" element in case things go sour for the team at Manifest.



Turn 1.
The phantom signals are closing in, scattered, and immediately my squad of Flayed Ones burst out of the ground and attack a squad of his jump infantry. 1 of his squad is downed in the first turn. The other squads stop in their tracks, trying to make sense of the ghost signals and fleeting shadows. His snipers shoot, but fail to roll their Night Fighting distance. The melee with the flayed ones continues as his troops take down a Flayed One.



Turn 2.

As the shadows close in, the flayed ones continue their assault. The marines in contact fall back voluntarily, but a signal that turned out to be a swarm of scarabs assaults them as they retreat. His scouts call in the QRF, but their deployment is delayed. Scouts fire rifles and rockets at the stranded group of flayed ones, and take down one. The vangaurd assault marines (white) shoot at a phantom signal and nothing happens. The ensuing melee with the scarabs and jump infantry is a stalemate.



Turn 3.
The flayed ones take cover behind a building against sniper shots and scarabs continue the assault, but take damage without inflicting any. The drop pod of assault terminators (water bottle) lands, and opens fire in a signal that turns out to be a squad of necron warriors. Meanwhile the dispersed squads shoot at two more ghost signals.



Turn 4
Eposed by storm-bolter shots from the drop-pod in the previou round, a squad of 14 necrons open fire with two volleys on the assault terminator squad and drop four of them. Other squads continue their advance as the flayed ones and scarabs try to take care of things on their ends. His vanguard marines shot bolt-pistols at another signal, which turned out to be wraiths. I rolled poorly, and two wraiths were dropped.



Turn 5. Rolled to be ending turn.

The terminators close for assault, as do the vanguard assault marines, and although casualties are inflicted on both sides, enough units are near the end of the gauntlet to make their way out of the ambush, and go to regroup. The recon party from the Andreas Legion breaks contact and leaves the area, hearing distress calls from nearly every other recon team on the surface of Brynar II... robotic xenos. Necrons.

Nice flavorful batrep. I look forward to seeing where the campaign goes from here.

There seems to be a message enscribed on main road way, but in all seriousness nice story to go with the campaign really enjoyable to read.

Great last battle report, hope it was as much fun to play as reading. It would be great if both players had a final comment about the game, just like in a battle report in white dwarf magazine. Either a highlight or something remerable about the game.

Hey "hstnin,"
Thats a good idea.I`ll reccomend that to the guys.That would put a lil more flavor into the batreps!Thanks!