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PRE-GAME THOUGHTS:

Daemons:

Top 10 Reasons Why Daemons Will Win.

1. Flying monstrous creatures. Lots of them.

2. Be'lakor and Puppet Master.

3. Fateweaver. Damn birdie hit the jackpot by landing a 2nd Pupper Master for his psychic power. That means each turn, I could be potentially shooting my own Space Marine army with up to 8 Destroyer pie plates! That's 4 more than what I could fire at Daemons!!! Moreover, his re-roll will play a large part in this game. With his re-roll, that means only 1 in 9 successful hits will ground a FMC.

4. Vector-strikes can actually do a lot of damage. That is potentially 24 vector-strikes that we also get daemons into better positions for assault next turn.

5. An'ggrath is nigh invincible to conventional firepower.

6. Void Shields will help them survive the Space Marine's 1st turn firepower.

7. Emperor's Will. That means objectives won't really be an issue for Daemons.

8. Daemons have got the mobility advantage. They can more easily get to the SM objective than marines can get to theirs.

9. Did I mention that they've got 2 Puppet Masters in the army? Well, that's worth 2 slots in top 10.

10. Lack of skyfire on the Marine's side.


Space Marines:

Top 10 Reasons Why Space Marines Will Win.

1. 4 Destroyer shots. Anything on the ground will be dead.

2. Marneus frickin' Calgar. Calgar is DA MAN! No marine will run away unless he tells them to.

3. Combat squadding = lots of bodies to survive the daemon onslaught +

4. lots of guns for grounding +

5. Lots of units for screening +

6. Lots of sacrificial units

7. With scouts in land speeders and the stormraven, mobility actually isn't too bad for them.

8. Ultramarines doctrines. I can twin-link my tacticals. Then with Marneus there, I can twin-link them a 2nd time! Like I said, Marneus is the frickin' man!

9. Marines are going 1st. They have a chance to cripple the daemons before they can even do anything.

10. Marines have a lot more experienced general behind them than daemons do.

herpguy wrote:
Well last night came and went

Sorry about that. I actually spent over 1 hour working on my report last night....and then my Explorer crashed.

Didn't feel like re-typing everything over so I'm doing it tonight instead.

Gotta stop watching so much porn in your other tabs.

Lol. I'm a good boy, really I am.


Deployment up.

Sneaky sneaky Jim placing all your units inside the VSG bubble and your warhound outside. Great move!

 y0disisray wrote:
Sneaky sneaky Jim placing all your units inside the VSG bubble and your warhound outside. Great move!

Thanks! You know it.


Turn 2 Up on p.1.

Where is the link?

I think that if you hadn't been merciful the first time you had a chance to kill Be'Lakor, the "dice gods" would have not killed your own marines when the war hound shout scattered on turn 1 (I think) lol

This gives a new meaning to the term 'friendly fire'... that Warhound.

Yeah by being nice and letting them get closer to your army the scattering blasts is doing more damage to you than your opponent. Good game so far!

That warhound Titan princeps is getting executed after this...

Battle report completed on p. 1.