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So I played a game last night against my friend's Blood Angels with my Orks. We're both relatively green but I do have a bit more experience than him.

We played a 1000 Points Orks Vs Blood Angels match.

We were using a third friend's home made board which is a Cities of Death board - basically a ruined city block, very cool looking and good for me because I was playing a mostly footslogging Ork list, so lots of cover saves. Not that it would have mattered a whole lot - he tried to tailor his list a bit to beat mine by including a large amount of flame throwers.

The game was set and we ended up playing Dawn of War - Kill Points (Annihilation)

My List:

HQ:
Ghazghkull Thraka

Troops:
20 Boyz, Nob with PK & BP
20 Boyz, Nob with PK & BP
5 Nobz, PK, BP, Waaagh Banner, Painboy, Eavy Armor, Cybork Bodies

Elites:
7 Lootas

Heavy:
1 Battlewagon with Deffrolla, RPJ, Grot Riggers, Big Shoota

His list: (approximately)

HQ:
Mephiston

Troops:
5x Assault Marines (no packs)
Free Razorback with Flamer
5x Assault Marines with packs

Elites:
5 Sanguinary Guard
5 Assault Terminators

Heavy:
Baal Predator with Flamers

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I won the roll off to go first and chose to let him deploy and go first. He puts on a squad of Assault Marines in a Razorback transport with Heavy Flamer on the top inside his deployment area on the right flank (my right).

I deployed two 20 man Boyz squads each led by a Nob with a Power Klaw (dead killy stuff) as far forward in two of the streets as I can, in the middle and left flank.

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Blood Angels Turn 1: The rest of his army comes on, 5 Assault Terminators amble up on foot along the left flank directly opposite my Boyz. His Baal Predator with heavy flamers drives up the middle and stops facing my other boyz, poised to inflict massive casualties next turn. His jetpack Assault Marines with Mephiston his HQ hop on the board behind a building along with his Sanguinary Guard. His razorback moves up around the buildings looking to flank my Boyz facing the Baal Predator.

Score: 0-0

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Orks Turn 1: My lootas with their huge deffguns come on the back of the board in the middle, and my Battlewagon rolls up the right flank containing my toughest squad - Ghazghkull Thraka and his 5 nobz. Boyz in the middle move up further into harms way of the baal, the other boyz move up a bit too. My lootas pour fire into the front armor of the Baal Predator, they get lucky and hit very well for the fact that it's still dark on the board and the sun hasn't really risen yet. They manage to immobilize it, blowing off a tread and stun the crew meaning they won't be able to shoot the following turn.

My Boyz pile in and my Nob takes a swipe at it with his power klaw slicing it with ease and hitting something critical as the whole thing errupts into a ball of fire destroying the tank, leaving a smoking crater where it once was, in a blast so violent it takes 3 Ork Boyz with it.

Score: 1-0 Orks

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Blood Angels Turn 2: Looking to retaliate the Terminators move up slowly along the left flank - still well out of combat of my second boy squad. His razorback exposes his rear armor to my battlewagon in a suicide run into my first boy squad and heavy flames the boyz killing 4 more. His squad disembarks and cooks 3 more boyz with hand flamers. Finally his other assault squad moves up and also takes pot shots at the boyz further reducing them by another 3 boyz. His Sanguinary guard move into a ready position to strike the following turn.

He manages to kill 10 orks, reducing that squad from 20 to 7 now, but still no kill point.

Score: 1-0 Orks

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Orks Turn 2: I pull my boy squad out of there, sensing the inevitable now that his close combat squads are there, and pull back my other boy squad away from the terminators. I run my Battlewagon with deffrolla right into the back of his razorback but only manage to stun it rendering it immobile and unable to shoot next turn. However Ghazghkull and his Squad pour out the front of the wagon and directly into his assault squad that had disembarked the razorback the previous turn. Ghazghkull kills all 5 on his own and the nobz look disappointed. The lootas in my backfield take pot shots at his assault squad with Mephiston killing two Assault Marines.

Score: 2-0 Orks

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Blood Angels Turn 3: Finally he's able to do something to me. His razorback is basically out of this turn so he launches an assault over the building into Ghazghkull and friends with his Sanguinary Guard. He then also flanks the nob squad with Mephiston and his remaining 3 Assault marines. He rolls maybe slightly below average but not too badly, and between them all manages to put one wound on all my Nobz, he hits Ghazghkull 3 times with Mephiston but Ghaz makes 2 armor saves and the Painboy in his squad heals his other wound. In response I turn around and wipe out the remaining 3 Assault Marines, earning another kill point and deal 2 wounds to Mephiston. On the other side of the melee I manage somehow to kill 2 Sanguinary Guard after they fail their armor save. I win combat but his tough as nails guys don't want to run so we're drawn in combat still.

Score: 3-0 Orks

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At this point he knows what's coming and it's late so he calls it. On my turn I would more than likely have steamrolled his razorback with my deffrolla battlewagon for a 4th kill point, and I would also likely have wiped out either Mephiston or the Sanguinary Guard, one or the other, and even if not, and he killed my nobz the score would likely still only be 4 to 1 in my favour. Best case for him, He manages to kill Ghazzy and Nobz, earns 2 points, I don't earn any more and it's 3-2, He might then be able to kill my rolla and tie, but I've still got lootas and boyz to contend with and it's unlikely things would go THAT well for him.

We shake hands and call it a night.

He should not have used his terminators like that, they basically walked around the board all game while I danced around them. That was a big loss to him losing 25% of his army composition to them. Too few models on the board for him I believe and that solitary Baal made a juicy turn 1 target inspite of Dawn of War. Learning experience for us both with me playing my new army.

Intereresting to see both Ghazzy & Mephiston in a 1000 point game. Short but nice batrep.

G

Nice Batrep, and I agree interesting to see Mephiston and Ghaz

Ghazghkull always was a beast in CC
Those BA had absolutely no chance!!

Good game.


Did the Lootas really shoot on the turn they walked unto the table??

Nicely written battle report Nice format easy to undestand and fun to read

There are a few points though which should be noted, you probably missed them as you are "green":

Lootas carry heavy weapons, so they can't fire when they move i.e when they come on the table
"The lootas in my backfield take pot shots at his assault squad with Mephiston" this may be a typing error but as far as I remember Mephiston is not an IC and can't join other units. The lootas shot either at Mephiston or at the assault squad
"he hits Ghazghkull 3 times with Mephiston but Ghaz makes 2 armor saves " Unless Mephiston failed his phycic test he should have a power weapon in which case Ghaz doesn't get an armor save. He did have an Invunerable save from Cybork or Prophet of the Waaagh if you called it.

Couple things I want to mention - your Nobz, while they did their job, were a bit of a point sink. You attached a Dok, gave them Cybork and 'Eavy Armor, spending an unholy crapton of points to give 4+ armoar 5+ invuln and FNP to a whopping five models. Could have been better spent elsewhere, the Boyz for example - 'Ard Boyz with FNP can be a royal pain to get rid of.

Also, you should probably have assaulted with that squad of 7 boyz if you were in range, instead of moving them off - with the number of attacks Orks get on the charge, you'd have cut him down to size. They'd have died, but not before paying for themselves. Not that it mattered in the end anyway.

Finally, you're right about the BA player doing almost nothing of worth with those Termies, that was a grave misuse of what, 250 points?

In any case, great batrep. Short but sweet. Look forward to seeing more!

The painboy/dok cannot heal wounds from weapons that ignore armor saves (i.e., Mephiston's force weapon).

G

Lol. The Blood Angel assault squads get a specific discount on their transports. They aren't 'free'. They are like 35 points with the heavy flamer upgrade after the discount IIRC. Quite a few rules mistakes but alas, fun was had so no matter.