Alright, I played vs a vulcan list tonight so here is the report:
He had the following list:
Vulcan
10
Tac squad,
MM, melta, combimelta, rhino
10
Tac Squad,
MM, melta, Combimelta, rhino
10
Tac squad, Lascannon, Flamer, Combiflamer, Razorback,
TL-
LC
5 Assault Termies,
TH/
SS
Land Speeder,
MM/
HF
Land Speeder,
MM/
HF
Land Raider Reedeemer,
MM
1500 Points
I was using:
Captain on Bike with Relic Blade
Bike Squad, 4 Marines, 1 Seargant, Attack Bike w/
MM
Bike Squad, 4 Marines, 1 Seargant, Attack Bike w/
MM
Bike Squad, 4 Marines, 1 Seargant, Attack Bike w/
MM
Dreadnought, 2
TL-
AC
Dreadnought, 2
TL-
AC
Attack Bike Squad, 2
HB 1
MM
Attack Bike Squad, 2
HB 1
MM
Pred w/
HB
Pred w/
HB
Pred w/
HB
We played our own Table 1/4's mission. We put an Objective in the center of each table quarter and did a standard pitched battle deployment. The game was set for six turns. The center of the board was fairly clear with a very large skill pile and 2 hills. Each corner had a building to hide in, and there were rocks and statues scattered around the board. It was a reasonably open board with enough cover to advance with it if needed, we both thought it was pretty well balanced.
I won the roll and after some thought decided to go 2nd, figuring I could use that last turn and a set up advantage over getting first shot. My opponent chose his side, and set up the Land Raider in the very center, 12" out. He put his Razorback on the landraider's left with the flamers/combiflamer squad inside of it. He placed the other 5 marines with a lascannon on his right objective as the objectives were on the deployment line. His other two rhinos were set up on the outsides of his Land Raider and Razorback with the speeders on the ends.
I set up a Predator, an Attack Bike Squad, and a Troop Bike Squad in my righthand corner, along with the Captain, attaching him to the Troops. I put my Dreads and another troop squad behind a building in the very center of my deployment zone so they were totally unseen but able to step out step out and fire on my turn. Each dread was able to step out and shoot anything of his on my turn. In my left corner I placed, from left to right, A Pred, Another Troop squad, the other attack bike squad, and the last pred, which ended up being about 15" from the other dread.
I failed to seize the inititive.
TURN 1a
He moved the raider and both the rhinos 12" forward. One speeder moved 12" toward my outside pred on the left. The Razorback moved 6" up behind the Landraider and set up to fire at my pred on my right flank as well.
Tac squad stayed put. Finally he boosted his landspeeder away from my right flank over toward my left flank and parked it safely behind his rhino on that side.
He smoked his Landraider and two Rhinos. The Razorback fired its lascannon at the front of my pred and failed to get through the armor. On my left flank his Multimelta and Lascannon also failed to damage the front armor of pred on that side.
TURN 1b
Sweet, he didn't even damage me. With everything in cover except the preds though, i figured he didnt have too big of a chance of hurting me on his 1st turn. I began by casting fortune on my seer council, errrr.
I first moved both the troop squad and attack bike squad straight up 12" along my right hand board edge. I boosted the troop squad in the middle up in front of my two squads on the board edge to provide the squads behind them with cover while having the invulns myself. My dreads popped out from behind the building and took aim, one at the razorback, one at the Landspeeder that did not boost. My biker troops moved up 12" along the left board edge and took aim at his leftmost rhino. My attack bike squad moved up a few inches and lined up just under 24" away from his that same rhino. All three preds stayed still.
On my right flank I took two multimelta shots at his leftmost rhino, failing to damage it (glance->"1"
. My dakka pred on this side fired at the same rhino. A glancing hit from the heavy bolter managed to tear off his storm bolter. My 1st dread fired at his razorback and managed to score 2 pens, rolling up a "3" and a "4" i basically neutered his razorback. My other dread fired at his Landspeeder, scoring two pens, but rolling snake eyes, so at least he can't shoot. On the left flank, my Troop's
MM and my
AB squad took aim at his rhino. I scored one pen between them, he failed his cover save and i managed to roll a "5," exploding the transport. The rhino took 1 marine with it in the explosion. Due to
los, my preds fire had to be divided and each took shots at troops, one at the squad in the crater, one at the squad on the objective with the las cannon. The rhino squad lost 2 and the lascannon squad lost 1.
TURN 2a
He began by boosting his shaken speeder near my left table edge. The one he boosted last turn moved up from behind the rhino crater and took aim at my predator (only thing he had a shot on as the bikers all have cover saves.) Both troops on this side, being near an objective with targets in range, decided to stay put. His Land raider turned and came straight at my right table edge and bearing down on my squad that boosted on to that side. His rhino on that side moved 12" dropped off its cargo with 12" of my boosted squad. The razoback squad disembarked and began running for cover near his leftmost objective.
During his shooting phase his landraider's machine spirit took a shot at my pred, immobilzing it. Vulcan hit two of my boosted bikers with his flamer, failing to cause any damage. His troops shot at my boosted squad with 8 bolters, 1 bolt pistol, and 1 meltagun, causing 3 armor saves and 1 invuln, i passed all 4 on 3+. On my left side his land speeder failed to damage my pred again. His lascannon missed my attack bikes. His troops in the crater shot at my troops, with the
MM and 6 bolters being within 24". I had to make 2 saves, pssed them both and failed a cover save losing a guy to a multimelta. At this point my opponent was visibly upset at my little run on successful armor saves.
During his assault phase he failed to in range of my bikers (which i knew before he even moved unloaded them)
TURN 2b
During my movement phase I boosted the same squad that boosted last turn back to behind the building i deployed them behind at the start. Both of the other biker squads moved 12" back along my right table edge and took aim at his troops (now just about 24" away). One of my dreads moved to take aim at his boosted Landspeeder and the other moved and took aim at his non boosted land speeder. On my left flank my troop squad moved up another 12" along the table edge and faced his lascannon troops. The attack bikes set up to fire at either land speeder or his troops in the crater.
My shooting phase saw one of his landspeeders explode from a dread and another getting immobilized and weapon destroyed from the other dread. My attack bike squad failed to damage his
tac squad's rhino, but my troops and pred managed to kill 3 bolter marines in the squad. On my left flank my biker troops cooked one marine in the lascannon squad with
MM and my leftmost pred managed to kill another one, leaving him with one bolter and one lascannon. My attack bikes and last pred both fired at his troops in the crater, killing another 2 marines. He passed all his leadership tested, I had no assaults, it was his turn.
TURN 3a
He started by embarking his termies in his land raider and moving it diagonally 12" toward the building with my dreads and the boosted bike squad with my leader attached to it. His
tac marines embarked on the rhino, which moved into cover behind a wall and claimed another objective. His two troop squads on my left flank held position on his objective again. His troops from the razorback moved and ran again, moving across the middle and toward my right objective that his landraider was also near.
His shooting phase saw his troop's lascannon miss for the 3rd time! His troops in the crater took another shot at my biker troops, seeing 3 and his
MM in range, cooking 1 with a
MM, reducing that squad 3 bikes and an
AB. On the other side his land raider hit my pred with
MM and exploded it. His landspeeder with just a
HF that can't move managed to catch one of my bikes sneaking by it on the table edge, but i passed the save (suprise!). He had no assaults, its my 3rd turn.
TURN 3b
I line up one of my dreads to shoot his last rhino and the other in a place that it can see all 3 of his troops (
LC, crater, and razorback guys). Both my Attack Bike squad and my Troop Biker squad move up along the board edge 12" again and put his razorback squad and his concealed rhino in their sights. My troops in the middle with my captain boost (for the 3rd turn haha) this time parallel to my long edge toward my left objective (right in front of my objective) My Attack bikes move up right next to my captain's squad. My leftmost pred moves up so it can see all 3 of his troops on the ground with its autocannon. The last pred stays still. Finally I move troops on the my left board edge inward toward the lascannon squad with 2 bikers making it within 12"
I started by firing my bikers that just moved at his las troops, seeing the
MM cook one and him failing a save, finishing that squad. My stationary pred and my Attack Bike squad fire at his crater squad, reducing the squad to a seargant, 2 bolter guys, and the
MM guy. My pred's Auto cannon and my dreads 2
TL-Autocannons manage to fire at the razorback squad and kill 2 marines, leaving a seargant, a bolter, and a flamer. My Attack bikes and troops all fire at his rhino, but the shots bounce off his hull and the wall. He passed all his leaderships tests and its his 4th turn.
TURN 4a
Right now he has 4 Marines in a crater claiming an objective, with a
MM in that squad. He has 7 marines with a melta and a
MM in a rhino on another objective. The 3 guys from the razorback are using cover and moving towards my left objective. His land raider with assault termies is somewhere on my side, a little closer to my bikes than i realized.
His crater marines stay still. His Assault termies move in and drop off the terminators, this time they are close enough to catch my biker squad! It turns out I totally goofed my movement on this flank when i moved t hem back up last turn. He disembarked his 7 men and moved them towards my attack bikes which were in front of the biker troops. He took the empty rhino and ran it 12" at my objective and used it to give cover to his razorback marines.
The crater marines shot at my attack bikes which were now in range, and zapped a heavy bolter bike. Vulcan fired heavy flamer at my troops, i failed a save and killed a guy. He thought for a bit and decided to just shoot bolter pistols and melta at my attack bikes so his troops could assault, he figured it would at least keep me there. His melta killed an attack bike and his pistols put a wound on another. His razorback marines ran and are now about 8" from my objective. The land raider fired
MM at back at one of my preds, but failed to damage it from 20" away.
He assaulted my troop bikes with his assault termies, and my Attack Bikes with his troops. We started with the attack bikes, but his 14 or so attacks failed to anything, and either did my 4. We tied there. His termies rolled my troops effortlessly and consolidated 6" and moved in to support his troops.
TURN 4b
Well i was actually hoping to lose with my attack bikes, but hey I'm doing good so who cares. I moved my troop bike squad with my captain 12" toward his crater troops. I move my other troop that now on his deployment zone line 12" along that line and take aim at his razorback troops. My attack bikes take dangerous terrain test to line up and shoot at his razorback squad. My preds both move up to take shots at the rear armor of the empty rhino with their autocannons. My dreads take aim at the rhino as well.
My squad in his deployment zone try to fire at his razorback squad, but are a hair short of 24". My captain and his troop squad fire at the crater squad, killing a bolter guy. Both of my preds fire Autocannons at his rhino, but dont damage it. My first dread explodes the rhino and my 2nd dread shoots at the marines it was hiding, wounding 4 and killing 1. My attack bikes are over 24" away, but the
HB manages to kill another marine.
During my assault phase, I kill a marine and he finishes my 2nd
HB attack bike. We tie again. My Captain and squad assaults his 3 crater marines, and i fail one dangerous terrain test. My captain kills 2 with his relic blade and the squad finishes them off, i consolidate out of the crater.
TURN 5a
His termies wait to charge my attack bike (because there nothing else within 24" of the termies) The Land raider moves to shoot at one of my dreads with its
MM in ubermode. His Razorback troop claims my objective and tries to hide.
His land raider hits and destroys one of my dreads.
His termies assault my attack bike and slaughter it. His troops consolidate 3" but cant make it to cover. His termies consolidate 6" but are still quite a ways away from anything else (the closest thing was the dread he just cooked).
TURN 5b
My captain's squad spreads out in such a way to claim just claim both his and my objective on my left side of the baord. The other troop squad moves up with range to shoot at his last guy from that razorback. Everything else points at his 6 marines.
Shooting sees his last razorback guy fall, as well as all but 2 of his marines in the other squad.
TURN 6a
Its basically over, but he moves his land raider up to shoot at my other predator with an uber shot for fun. His termies run get within 3" of my righthand objective, but dont make it with a run result of 1. His other troops try to hide.
He gets a weapon destroyed result on my pred with his
MM via a glancing hit.
TURN 6b
I quickly boost my troops from in front of his deployment zone to claim the objective on my righthand side, taking dangerous terriain tests, failing one. Everything else fires at his troops and kills them. I end my turn.
Final Thoughts
Well my entire plan involved staying on the outside and using mobility and firepower to slow him down worked perfectly. I rolled better on saves than him, but really wasn't called upon to take too many (i think i took around 12 saves that game and failed 2 or 3)
I really liked how it worked, it was exactly how i conceptualized it. Thoughts?
PS: Sorry im too lazy to proofread it, ill fix it later today im sure.
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3rd 40k Army
