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 Clauss wrote:
Wow, I feel like a complete scrub now lol.

Don't feel so bad. It's a shame when rules are forgotten, but if the other players forgets a rule for his army it's unreasonable to expect you to remember it as well. Congrats on the win, hope you take (or should it be took) it to them next match!

Sorry about that blackmoor. I had to borrow two scythes from my friend justin, sadly one of them had the portal part glued on, while the other had it magnetized on. So my Death rays couldnt fit in the slots. So I had to use 2/3 black ones for doom scythes. Sorry if there was confusion, twas now the intention.

I will type up game three tonight or tomorrow. It was against SW. Sadly this game was my least favorite due to the speed at which it was played...Should give you a hint of how far the game goes.

GAME #3----

Deployment was Vanguard--
Mission was---Objectives--quarters--kp (I think)

My opponents name was Daniel I believe. He was running a wolf list like so.

TWC Lord with SS/hammer/talisman/necklace
RP with jaws/LL
RP with LL/something else

3 wolf guard in TA + claw+combisomething

3x10 grey hunters on foot with plasma and banners

3 TWC 1 SS 1 Claw

Vindicator W SS

2x5 fangs, 4 missiles and 1 plasma

AGL with quad gun

So with objectives I am very confident due to the fact I have 4 troops, 2 of which I can drop anywhere i want to steal/contest the objective. I have mobility on him, I have better mid range shooting due to tesla, worse long range but we wont be at long range. This should be a fairly easy game in all honesty, the TWC are not big enough to take on 2 squads of wraiths, I should be able to chew through them in 3 turns of combat hopefully then with wraiths free along with shooting I should be able to wear down his troops.

Warlord traits he gets a damn good one, warlord and unit have FNP within 3 inches of an objective. So now that squad will be much more difficult to grind down if he makes his 5 ups. My warlord trait I dont think was important.

I win the roll and give him first turn because I love 2nd turn and its objectives. He deploys in top left, I am in the bottom left.

He deploys his AGL with fangs squad leader shooting it mid of his deployment with TWC squad in front, two squads of hunters on the edges each with a priest. Other fang squad goes up on a hillcrest in his corner with a 10 man squad protecting. So I am looking at a TWC squad center, two rune priests on edges with fangs more or less in the middle and on his hillcrest. Also his vindicator is behind his AGL in terrain.

I deploy all wraiths/units out of 30 inches of his JAWS priest as to not lose my D lord or anything else important to jaws. Luckily his priest is in the back of his squad so it only impedes about 5 inches of my deployment. I put a wraith squad bottom left up against the line with the other squad center/top of my deployment. My Command barge up top to go fight the rune priests squad and swipe them to piss him off. Annihilation barge on each end of my deployment behind wraiths for cover. I deploy one squad on immortals on my back corner objective to sit there all day. Also my guys are all outside of 30 inches of his vindi easily since he put it too far back.


TURN ONE---

He moves his TWC up the full 12 and runs them to the center objectives. Both of his back and right GH squads do nothing except one attempt of LL at a barge and does nothing. His bottom squad throws a wound on my bottom wraith/dlord squad with plas/bolters. LF put a wound on wraiths, quad gun also shoots them too. Maybe resulting in another wound, but he had very little shooting. Vindi moves up.

My bottom--
His TWC are about 16 inches from both wraith squads, I got a bit excited and committed both squads to them thinking I could wear them down with 12 wraiths, a d lord and MSS on his lord. Annhilation barges target his GH squads, kill maybe 1-2 each. scarbabs stay central and cover as much ground to make the largest threat bubble possible.

Wraith squads hit his TWC. Lord fails MSS. All my attacks result in two wounds total, one to his lord, and one to his naked TWC. With 48 wraith attacks, 4 lord attacks, half with PE. I resulted in two wounds. Pretty horrid. He did a wound or two back maybe.

TURN TWO--

He commits 2 of this three troops to the melee in the middle with the objective of wiping my wraiths then wearing me down from there. The only troop that does not commit to the melee is the troop on the left with the RP. They move up through terrain into the objective in the bottom left, about 18/19 inches from my scarabs.

His LF take a few pot shots at my command barge, maybe take off a hull point, vindi tosses a shell over there, i take a wound on the OV instead. Rest of his shooting is minimal or maybe kills a scarab or two.

Assaults both GH squads into wraiths, forgets to pop banner.

Wraiths continue to roll like garbage for atttacks and maybe kill 3-4 marines total and do zero wounds to TWC. To make up for my horrid attacks my saves get hot and i think i only lose 2 wraiths total to 2 squads of hunters and 3 TWC+ lord. Also the lord makes his MSS and knocks my D lord down. I think he won combat by 1 or 2.

MY BOTTOM--
At this point the game is going insanely slow, I am not going to go into why I think it was moving very slowly, but regardless i keep playing as fast as I can and believe I am playing the same speed as I did in the past two games. But for many reasons the game is going slower...judge calls, long combats.

So I try to rush as fast as I can so we can get two more turns in.

I get 1 scythe in and move it to target his vindicator so I dont have to deal with it next turn popping troops or scarabs, this scythe had warriors on. It lands about 25 inches on the board center left about 12 inches from the left center objective. I make more scarabs. My scarabs move to tie up/kill the GH/priest squad. My annihilation barges the same squad to try to weaken the squad so it is a manageable assault. Command barge moves into position to assault his GH or vindi. Spyders move centrally to contest the objective later.

Shooting I kill zero marines with both annihilation barges, granted one was snap firing. And one had the terminator as the cloest model. But still..I needed to kill the termi and 2-3 more for me to have a decent chance to kill a few. My scythe targets side armor of the vindi, I net one weapon destroyed, luckily it kills the blast.

Lastly, I am left with the decide to charge my scarabs into his Gh squad. This is where I make a dumbass mistake, I think sure, about 12 scarabs can hold Gh hunters in combat for a few turns and pull them off the objective. He overwatching 2 plasma guns and a combi plasma, gets 3 plasma hits, and a ton of bolter hits. he killed 4 bases total with his overwatch. At this point I was already hitting myself, luckily its the first thing in the game i am going to lose so I cant really complain too much. They make the charge, I dont kill any models. Then worst of all he is able to kill 6 bases in combat, 4 with regular attacks, then 2 with powerfist attacks from his wolf guard. I just fed him my entire scarab squad for ZERO gain. I feel like a damn noob and now I realize I can't feth around anymore, I was taking this game too lightly and if i make a mistake like that in any other game I will get wrecked for making a mistake.

In combat, wraiths do a few wounds to each squad, his lord passed MSS again. so he is 2/3 right now, pretty solid. barge lord charges in and kills his target with hammer of wrath( top right part of combat) :/ so no warscythe attacks this turn because he can only base one model. Then he kills a wraith or two more from each squad. I think I am down to avbout 6-7 wraiths left toal, plus the d lord woke up so he tries to swing again, does no damage to the TWC lord. Wraith squad on left kills probably 3 marines, solid makeup for last turn, right wraiths kill 1-2. and zero wounds to TWC again.

Turn THREE---

At this point because the game is going so slow it looks like this will be the last turn, my opponent isn't very happy about it, nor am i. As I keep having to recite lets play faster while not trying to be a dick. He has two fang packs in his deployment zone who are just firing, a vindicator that moves to try to block off the top right objective. Then one troop who is sitting on the bottom left objective. They move to sit on it and shoot at spyders. His TWC and other troops are locked in melee. His fangs have nothing but a flyer and my command barge to shoot at. He may shake or stun my flyer, but I think i just living metal it off. His other shots try to take out my Command abrge, they do nothing that I remember.
Melee goes very very, my saves go cold this turn while his get real solid. I kill 1 marine from squad maybe, and he kills almost all my wraiths in my lest squad. I am down to two wraiths vs 5 GH, then 3 wraiths vs 3 TWC+ lord and 4 marines plus RP. So at this point the combat has divided into those two sectors. Wraiths/Gh then wraiths/GH/TWC.

My two other reserves come in, Deathmarks jump out of scythe near his one troop to flame/rapid fire, other scythe moves to drop troops on an objective. the scythe already on the board zooms to top right to take that objective. spyders move to contest the center. troops on bottom right move onto objective. Annhilation barges target his troops in bottom right. Command barge just moves to charge into the melee to make sure he cant consolidate out onto any objective/ to kill the RP.

Shooting goes as expected. Deathmarks murder 6-7 marines plus the RP, leaving 2-3 marines plus WG who are off the objective that I am now contesting, scythe takes shots at fangs for fun. Other scythe shoots somewhere uneventful, annhilation barges kill a few more marines in bottom left. Troops run onto objectives on top left, and bottom right. No one has the bottom left now that deathmarks contested/murdered his troops. TOp left no one has, fangs are on it. Center is contested by wraiths/Spyders/TWC and he has Gh within about 7 inches.

barge assaults and wrecks his RP, in melee a few more things die but people are still locked. game ends.

I have 2 Objectives to his 0. I have 3 quarters I think to his one. or 2-2. KPs obviously arent important.

This was sadly a very boring and slow game, I won, but still was an annoying start to the day since I really dont like not finishing games.


Next game is probably the closest game I had all weekend, and Mike stated it was the closest game of all of NOVA. I will tell you that I play GK/necrons WIll type it up this weekend.