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So a new league started down at the FLGS. 1500 point games to be played on Sundays. Can play any army you want from week to week.

First game was today. Mission Annihilation/Dawn of War. League organizer threw a twist in it. Nominate a HQ in each army, they had Rage special rule vs. each other.

His 1500 pt list....
Avatar (Rage)
Farseer with Mind War
x3 Wraithlord (x2 BL and Starcannon, x1 BL and all with twin flamers)
x10 w/ exarch (bladestorm) Dire Avengers in Wave Serpent
x10 w/exarch (bladestorm) Dire Avengers on foot (Farseer attached)
x9 w/ exarch Banshees in Wave Serpent

My 1500 pts
Farseer on bike RoW, RoWi, Stones, Doom, Fortune, Mind War (Rage)
x6 warlocks on bikes...Enhance, Embolden, x2 Destructors
4 x6 bike squads with x2 cannons each
x3 Fire Prisms with shuriken cannons

He wins roll to deploy and chooses to go first. He deploys Farseer with on foot Avengers on hill and Avengers in Wave Serpent. He announces the rest will move on turn 1.

I deploy Farseer and Warlocks in center on table. Rest moves on table on turn 1. After a cock-dice, I reroll a 6 to seize initiative.

My turn 1.
I throw up fortune on Seers. Move on x3 Prisms and x4 bike squads. x2 turbo boosts for covers saves. Out of range with everything via Night Fight. Do some assault moves and say go.

His turn 1
He moves everything into a 24" box on his right flank. Avengers pop out of Serpent and bladestorm my bikes. I make 8 of 9 saves. I lose 2 more to Wraithlord. He says go.

My turn 2
Throw up Fortune and Doom his Avengers on hill. Prism pops serpent killing 4 Banshees and pin them. 2 bike squads and prism erase Avengers that bladestormed on his turn. Seers and prism wipe out other Avengers. Ship turn after assault moves to provide cover. Move closer to Wraithlords with council to coax them out of cover.

His turn 2
Banshee Exarch embarks in serpent and moves 12" inches. He shoots alot at Seer council. Drops 4 of them to Wraithlord shooting. Serpent shakes Prism. Wraithlords try to shoot up Council. I make all saves. He charges with Wraithlord, I cause it a wound and he kills 1 warlock.

My turn 3
Throw up Fortune, Doom Wraithlord. I immobilize Serpent. I shoot Avatar and Farseer off table. Kill all, but 1 exarch Banshee. I manage a wound on a unscathed Wraithlord from shooting. Wound Wraithlord in HtH with Council.

His turn 3
Serpent stuns Prism. He also charged council with wounded Wraithlord. I kill first Wraithlord and he fails to wound with fresh charging Wraithlord. I add further insult by watching him fail a "no retreat" save on 2nd Wraithlord.

My turn 4
Throw up Fortune, Doom Wraithlord. Kill 3rd Wraithlord with shooting.

His turn 4
Banshee exarch disembarks and charges 6 bikes. He kills 1. I make Morale. Kill 2nd Wraithlord in HtH (went stationary with no seer in range). Consolidate towards his Serpent.

My turn 5
I kill Banshee and he kills another bike. I charge Serpent and auto hit with 6 Witchblade attacks getting 5 pens and wreck it.

Tabled....

Kill point score 10-0

Scoring for League
Win 100 pts
Loss 50 pts
+15 for killing opponents Raged HQ..... yes
+10 for killing Raged HQ with your Rage HQ....no
+10 for winning by 3 kill points....yes
+15 for having Raged HQ survive game....yes

Final 140-50



Automatically Appended Next Post:
Shuriken Cannons and Prisms w/ Shuriken cannons destroy Eldar.

His dice just stunk. I felt bad.

He didn't have RoW or RoWi on Farseer, just Mind War. That was bad!

I was quoted the scenario rules. I didn't actually read them. Commish was printing them when I was playing. I didn't get the killing blow on his Raged HQ. All good though. I'm 10 pts off the pace. 3 guys ahead of me ATM.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
DAaddict claimed I was too aggro with my bikes. I responded with "I used the "woodshed" formation to get win".

Woodshed formation?

EasyE wrote:Woodshed formation?

Inside joke......I took his a$$ to the woodshed.

The woodshed worked... The toughie is get the EJB close to the enemy and it could have been disaster.

If those banshees in the serpent did not get pulverized...
don't want to imagine a multi-charge by 10 banshees against 2 or 3 jetbike squads...

It all worked out though so one for the woodshedder.
I will try to do the same when we match up later.