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Hey folks! This is my battle report for Round #3 of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Media PA.

You can find my battle report for round #1 here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/281869.page
You can find my battle report for round #2 here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/281910.page

Headed into Round #3, I'm solidly at the middle of the pack. I've got a 22 point massacre and a 0 point massacred. I come up to the table and....necrons again! Two necron players in the entire GT and I play them both! *laughing* I was glad to see that it wasn't triple monolith spam again.

My list:
Ghazghkull
KFF Mek

17 Boyz+Nob(Wagon with KFF)
12 boyz in trukk
12 boyz in trukk
10 gretchin/runtherder

15 burnas (Wagon with Ghaz)
15 Lootas
15 Lootas

1 Deffkopta, Rokkits and Buzzsaw
1 Deffkopta, Rokkits and Buzzsaw

2x Battlewagons, 'Eavy armor, boarding plank, grabbin klaw, big shoota



My opponent's Necrons: Deceiver's Doombots; Lou (the guy running them) got 2nd best painted I think.

The Deceiver
Lord with Veil of Darkness / Rez Orb

10x Warriors
10x Warriors
10x Warriors

9x Immortals
5x Destroyers
4x Scarabs
Monolith



Mission: Victory Points - kill anything you can get your grubby mitts on.

350 to 500 2 points
501 to 650 4 points
651 to 800 6 points
801 to 950 8 points
951 to 1100 10 points
1101 to 1250 12 points
1251 to 1400 14 points
1401 to 1550 16 points
1551 to 1700 18 points
1701 to 1850 20 points

Bonus Point: Have an HQ choice left at the end of the game. Someone has to accept a medal, after all.
Bonus Point: Your surviving HQ choice is in the enemy deployment zone, planting the flag while accepting that medal.

Deployment: Pitched battle

My opponent and I rolled off for sides, and true to form....I lost again! Three games in a row I failed to win this roll. Lou chooses to deploy and go first, and arrayed his battle formation - Monolith on the left, immortals in the middle with good visibility, warriors behind the monolith and to the right behind the destroyers, with scarabs ready to leap forward.


I deployed in the corner, far from his destroyers, opposite his monolith:


I dropped my second Loota squad into cover on the opposite corner of the board, hoping to get some withering crossfire set up:


That cup in the background isn't part of the scenery, but it *was* an integral part of my gaming throughout the day. Round 2 started with a full bottle, and I was determined that this would be empty by the end of round 3:


Here's the side-shot of our deployment.


At this point, my opponent uses his deceiver trickery to start redeploying. He rolls a 1, and only gets to move his C'Tan - whom he promptly drops on the other side of his monolith, near to my battlewagons. I attempt to seize the initiative and....SIX! Orks will be going first this game! My memory card (256MB) ran out of room around turn4, so I don't have any pictures beyond that; we just spent $300 for this new super camera and I stuck an old memory card into it. Doh.

Ork Turn1: My Battlewagons move up 12", pass their DT tests, my trukks come in behind them, also hiding.


My Deffkoptas were in reserve to start, so wouldn't come into play yet. My Lootas on the left open fire on his immortals and....boom! Four go down (the Lord is attached here)


On the right side, my far Loota squad opens up on his warriors and knock over four as well.


Necron Turn1: Lou WBBs his immortals and fails two; he pulls them through the monolith for a second round of WBBs. His regular warriors regain 3/4 downed warriors. His immortals open up on the KFF wagon and do nothing. Destroyers lay into Ghazghkull's wagon and whiff. The Monolith puts out its flux arc and...wrecks the KFF wagon! Picture of me starting to put my boys out; this is going to get ugly quickly. His scarabs had turbo-boosted forwardand were ready to menace my vehicles.


His C'Tan attempts to pin the Lootas and fails, and thus ends turn1. Here's a blurry picture of the end of round 1, and where the Necrons are.


Ork Turn2: The KFF from the destroyed battlewagon hops into Ghazghkull's battlewagon, and the battlewagon trundles 6" forward while the trukks break out of cover and get into position to dump out and make some assaults. Ghazghkull piles out of his wagon to go threaten the destroyers, and some boyz pile out of a trukk to assault the scarabs.


I enter the shooting phase and scream, "WAAAAUGH!" at the top of my lungs. Now comes the fun part, and this story got repeated many times during the GT as the story spread.

My burna wagon moved 6". I put the flame template down on the front of the battlewagon, hit the immortals, and said, "How many do I get?" Lou says, "You have all 8."


I said to Lou, "What's 8 x 15?" Lou looks at me questioningly and I explain open-topped + flame templates. 120 hits on T5 models later...


The lord took two wounds, all 7 immortals died, and Ghazghkull is moving on the Waaaugh! towards the destroyers. My left squad of Lootas can see the Lord with a few models, so open up, and down he goes.


My right squad of Lootas open up on his warriors and knock a few down, then Ghazghull assaults into his destroyers and destroys them all:


Meanwhile, my boys in the rear assault the scarabs, deal a couple of wounds, then the powerklaw decisively decides the scarabs should no longer be on the table.


Necron Turn2: The Lord fails his WBB and exits the game. 2/4 warriors get back up and he ports them through the monolith for a second WBB. Unless I posted this pic already by accident. =p


They portal in through the monolith and greet Ghazghkull at close range with gauss weaponry...and whiff.


Meanwhile, the C'Tan piles into the blue squad and starts the harvest. The squad in the rear open up on Ghazghkull too and he laughs as the gauss weaponry bounce off his 2+ invulnerable save.

Ork Turn3: This is where I ran out of pictures. I nudge my battlewagon with the burnas in it 1" forward while Ghazghkull gets a 6" move towards the last necron unit. The boys who finished the scarabs sidle up to the monolith innocently; in the assault phase the powerklaw actually wrecks it.

The burnas gained true MVP status here though - as I declared my shooting phase and reached for the flamer template, Lou says, "Ohhh....****. I forgot those were in there." I put the template down over his troops and said, "How many do I get?" He said, "You've got all nine." I said, "What's 9 x 15?" 135 hits later, the second squad of warriors phased off the table, leaving just the monolith, the C'Tan, and 10 warriors behind the monolith. Ghazghkull rolled 6" to get into assault, and the boys wrecked the monolith, Ghazghkull knocked over a few warriors, and they phased out on the top of turn3.

At this point, the Captain Morgan was gone, but I had no pictures left to take.....and they probably would have been blurry anyway.

I picked up a 21 point victory with a 1 point bonus for having my HQ in my enemy's deployment zone, or alive or something.

Saturday's gaming ended, and we all retired to Ruby Tuesdays to eat, drink and carouse! I will admit that I was completely hammered by this point and drank water the rest of the night trying to rehydrate. The boon is that Sunday morning, I was bright eyed and chipper while everyone else was nursing horrible hangovers!


Its 1:17 in the morning and my wife is griping for me to to go bed - I'll see about getting the other two battle reports in after work tomorrow. In other news, I was invited to the West Coast for the SoCal Slaughter in Space 2 in April tonight, and decided to attend! I'll go to a GT while my wife goes to Disneyland - win/win all around.

Da Boyz dun good, Boss. I can just sit here and imagine and the look on his face when he's reminded about the templates. Man that's still angry. Looking forward to the next report!

Owwwwwwwwwww!

Turn 3 phase out AND you killed the Monolith. Oooph that was just brutal Dash. More than makes up for the drubbing you got from that Vulkan list (which was largely because you didn't know what it could do).

You've convinced me, I shall be getting a burnawagon to try out. I've got some burna-bitz left over from lootaz so I'll probably try and get them up and running for this Sunday and see how they fare.

Heh thats funny, "whats 9 times 15?"

Though the Waaaaghh scream was a bit over the top lol.

Now I want to re-paint my Necrons! Another fine batrep Dash.

Enemy ignores a vital portion (burnas) of the ork army and gets hammered by it.

Either way, he was getting wrecked all around from the Lootas to the Burnas.

Cheers.

Good game!

How did the boyz wreck the monolith? Power klaw from the nob?

What are the points in these games?

All these games are 1,850 - and yes, it was a nob with a powerklaw that wrecked the monolith.

Well the necron player just wasted over 500 points on none necron stuff. More scarabs and destroyers would have been better.

Dash, how do you feel tournament lists are?

mercer wrote:

Dash, how do you feel tournament lists are?

Not sure I understand your question? If you're referring to my ork list, it wasn't optimal - I ran out of time building/converting so had to run with what I had.

If you're referring to the lists I saw there, I saw the usual assortment of "Hope I get to play that," and "Hope I don't run into that"

My biggest objection at the tournament was the fact that I got 7 comp points...and mechanized IG with 16 tanks - the kind of turn1 insta-rape that would end my day got 5 points. If I deserve 7, that's fine...but that list should have zero. =p

5? Thats way to high for that kind of IG.


Good game though, Burnas destroyed what, 18 Necrons? Thats awesome.

Snikkyd wrote:5? Thats way to low for that kind of IG.


Good game though, Burnas destroyed what, 18 Necrons? Thats awesome.

You think that kind of IG list should have gotten a better comp score? Higher than mine even? o.O

And my burnas did well. I primarily take them so that I have an answer to tyranids and orks, but its nice when they get in some burny power in other games. Dropping that template is one of my favorite things to do in 40k. Its nice that they can assault and be power weapons, but its a lot MORE fun to drop that template and say x15.

Just wait until I do my Game 5 bat rep against the foot-slogging horde IG and the 11 guardsmen that my opponent said fit under the template...

Oh, did I say low, I'll change it to high. 15 vehicles? Thats insane. I'd of given it a 0 lol.

Snikkyd wrote:Oh, did I say low, I'll change it to high. 15 vehicles? Thats insane. I'd of given it a 0 lol.

That's kind of how I felt. Ultimately, I think if TOs were to use composition for pairing, but not for scoring purposes in tournaments, mumbling would go away.

Get any flak at all for the lightly modified big shoota lootas? Mine are pretty similar, though I might go back and glue on some stikkbomb chukkas now.
Or were all the people in the YMDC thread blowing hot air out their s like I thought they were.

Dashofpepper wrote:

mercer wrote:

Dash, how do you feel tournament lists are?

Not sure I understand your question? If you're referring to my ork list, it wasn't optimal - I ran out of time building/converting so had to run with what I had.

If you're referring to the lists I saw there, I saw the usual assortment of "Hope I get to play that," and "Hope I don't run into that"

My biggest objection at the tournament was the fact that I got 7 comp points...and mechanized IG with 16 tanks - the kind of turn1 insta-rape that would end my day got 5 points. If I deserve 7, that's fine...but that list should have zero. =p

The quality of the lists of others, but you've answered that question

7 compy points is that good or bad?

Gorkamorka wrote:Get any flak at all for the lightly modified big shoota lootas? Mine are pretty similar, though I might go back and glue on some stikkbomb chukkas now.
Or were all the people in the YMDC thread blowing hot air out their s like I thought they were.

Mike looked at my Lootas and gave a nod of approval. I glued all sorts of things onto those big shootas to make them more dakka. Ammo magazines, Loota bits, gubbins, battlewagon big shootas, an exhaust pipe....I was going to put a Zza[ gun on someone's shoulder, but timing really was the issue.

*edit* Mercer, it was 7/20 points that I got. Neither good nor bad in itself, just a rating. I just disagreed with how I was rated compared to some other lists I saw there.

I do not know how comp scores work. I guess you get rated how good your list is etc? I guess some people just rate good lists low perhaps out of spite or because they couldn't beat you? I guess it's also how you are as a player too?

mercer wrote:I do not know how comp scores work. I guess you get rated how good your list is etc? I guess some people just rate good lists low perhaps out of spite or because they couldn't beat you? I guess it's also how you are as a player too?

Comp score is completely based on your list.

If your list is deemed very competitive, you get a low score.
If your list is deemed not very competitive, you get a high score.

There's a big thread over in Dakka discussion about it, might be worth a look.


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Also, how has this whole thread gone by with no commentary on my choice of beverage! =p

and I guess the one with the most points wins the compo? So tough lists which are competitive, in a competitive environment get ranked low? Er, yeah, that makes sense...

I am utterly floored you were able to pull off the burnawagon twice in 1 game. I honestly think you distracted your opponent by putting the KFF in the *OTHER* wagon as most people I know tend to like to shut down the KFF's bubble fromt he hull.

By not putting the KFF mek with the burnas, they basically became ignored it seems. Since KFFmek with burnas is a common config I see people use, maybe not putting them together really helps the burnas get into position.

nkelsch wrote:I am utterly floored you were able to pull off the burnawagon twice in 1 game. I honestly think you distracted your opponent by putting the KFF in the *OTHER* wagon as most people I know tend to like to shut down the KFF's bubble fromt he hull.

By not putting the KFF mek with the burnas, they basically became ignored it seems. Since KFFmek with burnas is a common config I see people use, maybe not putting them together really helps the burnas get into position.

I've run the KFF+Burna configuration for quite a while; I switched it up because I wanted a powerklaw in both wagons. Ghazghkull's powerklaw in the burna wagon, the boyz' nob's powerklaw in the KFF wagon. My new iteration of lists includes a powerklaw on the KFF, but I plan on leaving Ghazghkull with the burnas, and room in all three battlewagons for my ICs to hop back and forth if one gets wrecked.

And still no comments on the Captain Morgan. *laughing*

Drinking changes me from "I think you moved 6.5 inches there, not six" and "Alright, lets open the rulebook and find out" to "ahhhhgogetem" and "izzcool we'll play thish your waaaay"

Winning is fun, and for most of the year and a half I've been playing, I've desperately wanted to win (in part to help fund fleshing out my armies); most of the orks, some of the Tau, and most of the Dark Eldar were acquired through tournament winnings and store credit. Now that I have full armies, and the ability to build anything I want into the army (including multiple stompas).....I'm not concerned about prizes anymore, just prestige. It was something of an epiphany at the SVDM - they were discussing prizes, and I realized that there's nothing on my 40k wishlist. There's no more models I want, no more units to fill out (except for maybe a couple more killa kans)...

I think I've evolved into the second stage of 40k; past the "need more models!" and into "lets have fun with the models!"