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The report is located here;

http://op40k.blogspot.com/2009/08/planet-strike-take-2-marines-v-chaos.html

Feel free to leave comments and thanks for reading.

Nice report. Defenders are definitely up against the wall in Planetstrike, but it is kind of supposed to be that way.

I think it makes perfect sense for the defender to set up the table in the best way that they can - these are, after all defensible areas that they have set up. Shep has a pretty decent record as defender. He typically will surround his bastions with tarpit units behind walls to prevent assaults on the bastions right away. I totally agree with coming up with house rules to make it work better within your group, however. That is one thing I absolutely love about the various non-standard expansions (Cities of Death, Apocalypse and Planetstrike) is that they are much more story driven.

Your terrain is absolutely amazing, by the way. A real pleasure to read all of your battle reports and bask in the glory of painted models on great terrain - certainly the pinnacle of the hobby! Well done to you and your group, sir, I commend you all.

Great batrep and pics - thanks for sharing. I like the house rules you came up with to beef up the defenders ... how many games have you played with them in effect?

Nice report, I like the color scheme for you army the landspeeder looks really nice like that.

Oh man, this looks awesome. Will read this when I get home.

PS in a city no less? Given the sheer stupid amount of CoD terrain I own, this should teach me a thing or two about how to run this.

The table, as always, look amazing. People need to do more terrain like this - and not just from a quality perspective, but from a quantity perspective as well.


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Where did the Custodes come from?

Now thats how you do a bat rep! great terrain and fantastic models with an easy to read, turn by turn narrative.

I also enjoyed the post game thoughts and your house rules. I was wondering how Planet Strike would play in an urban setting.

Thanks for posting - keep 'em coming

Loved this battle report, the terrain, the models, the only thing that was weird was the chaos marine army. Really cool idea (1 themed DP for 3 of the 4 chaos gods and troops for each of the 3 gods), but I wonder how good that works when you don't have a good advantage.

It's reports like this with well painted armies on a great looking table that got me into this hobby. Excellent on all accounts.

Wow, what a game. Good job on remaining forthright and upbeat even when taking a stomping, and better job on working out rules to have more fun next time around.

A really enjoyable read.

I shall by trying out the 'adjustments' you suggested, as both times I've played planetstrike defending it was just not fun!

Halsfield wrote:Loved this battle report, the terrain, the models, the only thing that was weird was the chaos marine army. Really cool idea (1 themed DP for 3 of the 4 chaos gods and troops for each of the 3 gods), but I wonder how good that works when you don't have a good advantage.

Not quite sure what you're asking? Specifically the, "when you don't have a good advantage," part. If you're asking how my army performs, I would have to say that I win more than I loose, except against AgeOfEgoes, that would be more like 50/50.

Thanks for the compliments.

Mike