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The most annoying tactic is to send in an aussalt squad and then when one of the squad members dies then you retreat and have tactical squads at the back which will blast them apart if they follow you.


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The most annoying tactic is to send in an aussalt squad and then when one of the squad members dies then you retreat and have tactical squads at the back which will blast them apart if they follow you.

Most annoying, yet hilarious, tactic is careful deployment of Kroot when facing White Scars.

Playing by RAW and touching your opponent's models...esp. after you hand is greasy and cheezy from a sticking it in a bag of Cheetos or something.

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IMO, it's not the deployment that is funny, it's the smile...

Yeh that picture was timed perfectly.

Insisting on complete and total WYSIWYG.

What pic it been deleted or something?

Inexpierenced player so explain the Kroot vs White Scars thing

Basically, the White Scars player fully reserved, and had no vehciles. Tau player lined his board edge with Kroot so he couldn't come onto the board.

Result, White Scars army totally and complete and automatically destroyed.

The picture is particularly epic as it's the White Scar's player and a judge trying to find a loop hole to the auto lose, and the Tau player clearly just laughing his ass off.

Absolutely magical

My problem with that, is White Scars can Outflank.

jbunny wrote:My problem with that, is White Scars can Outflank.

Don't they have to be on bikes?

jbunny wrote:My problem with that, is White Scars can Outflank.

I believe, as the story goes, that tournament didn't allow special characters, so he was using a bike captain and not Khan.

No matter what if the White scars player did not announce that his Bikes were outflanking(in the event that Khan was used); and merely held them in reserve...


Also if it where a DoW game and the tau player had first turn...

Zefig wrote:

jbunny wrote:My problem with that, is White Scars can Outflank.

I believe, as the story goes, that tournament didn't allow special characters, so he was using a bike captain and not Khan.

That makes some sense, but does not excuse bad tactics on his part.

How did the Kroot move 36" in 2 turns?


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dirtycrabcakes wrote:How did the Kroot move 36" in 2 turns?

Nevermind... I figured it out.

He didn't go 36" in one turn they simply deployed there!

I used very similar tactics against a white scar player at GameX two weeks ago. My foe (a nice guy and fun to play) went all outflank and ended up only having one board edge to come in on. i had a really shooty list and it did not end well for the scars player.

I like to field speeders, zoom around the board picking off targets and then use them late game to contest every objective my opponnent has. Frustration IS key.

cool

o wow that is freaking hilarious. As a scars player i definitely kno to watch out for that now. But over all genius pure genius. no point in fighting a battle if you can make your opponent never arrive

That Tau guy is my hero now. Priceless

dillyx wrote:He didn't go 36" in one turn they simply deployed there!

Kroot must be infiltrators. When there is nothing on the board, they can deploy anywhere. I bet it was a great learning experience for the White Scars player.

Does their build allow a couple of rhinos? In principle, if he had any, he could have tank-shocked a beachhead through which the bikes could have poured in. But, yes, without tanks, the SM were screwed here - no point leafing through the rules.


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As Necrons, I have some of the best opportunities to dish frustration in the game:

1) Monoliths are hard to kill. I tend to DS them right in the middle of shooting armies, to maximize the casualties from the arc projectors. Many opponents get annoyed at them and start shooting them with anything that can conceivably hurt them. With a bit of luck, monoliths survive for a long time absorbing massive firepower, while my destroyers do the actual killing. The frustration mounts every turn.

2) Against assault armies, a Lord with the veil or the monoliths teleport large units of necrons out of close combat. The enemy models are left stunned and exposed in the open to be rapid-fired and arced to death. The monoliths in particular do not scatter with the teleport at all, and can pivot for free, so the warriors can emerge in any direction from the portal.

3) Stick a Lord with an orb in a large unit of necrons. The orb makes sure all casualties but ones from sweeping advance will get their WBB roll. On top, teleport the unit through the monolith as well. The combo gives WBB to all the models with rerolls on top. So downed necrons have 75% chance of standing up, even if the casualties were suffered to double Str or power weapons! The 75% resurrection hurts even more with models that are T4 A3+. That is VERY frustrating to armies facing Necron.

enteringa tournament = 20$
buying a maxed kroot unit(s)= 45$ (rounding up or down, lol dont know)
tabling your opponent without fighting = priceless

Serder wrote:enteringa tournament = 20$
buying a maxed kroot unit(s)= 150$ (rounding up or down, lol dont know)
tabling your opponent without fighting = priceless

Not even maxed kroot. You only need a little bit more than 20 kroot to cover a 6' table edge. About 23-24. So like $40 for the kroot. Just outstandingly hilarious stuff right there.

The only sad part of that picture is the complete deuscher smile he has on.

loota boy wrote:

Serder wrote:enteringa tournament = 20$
buying a maxed kroot unit(s)= 150$ (rounding up or down, lol dont know)
tabling your opponent without fighting = priceless

Not even maxed kroot. You only need a little bit more than 20 kroot to cover a 6' table edge. About 23-24. So like $40 for the kroot. Just outstandingly hilarious stuff right there.

fixed with price increase, lol

That happened too me at ard boyz two years ago...small table, dawn of war scenario, my mass infantry IG vrs some dark angels bikes and termies. He deployed right on the mid line, I deployed nada, he rushed up, dropped some termies and ran them in order to spread all of his units all the way across my deployment. Loss? not yet.

I tank shocked on, though it is rather difficult to fit 230ish guardsmen behind 3 leman russes.

Long story short, I got tabled, it was Kp's; though I did take out a sizable amount of his 2500 point force with the 1000 points I got on the board.

Now that is truly hilarious.. Big props to that Tau player!

Meat grinders are fun to play, especially with against enemy beatsticks, I was playing this 1000 point game a while back and there were 3 objectives on the board, so in typical Ork kunnin, I abandon the one on my side of the table and the one in the middle, my boss and 5 nobz making a beeline for the 8 beserkers on his side of the table, while I use 60 boyz over 3 turns to hold up Abbadon, A Chaos Dread, 5 Chaos Terminators and 5 Possessed, oh the Frustation....

racta wrote:The only sad part of that picture is the complete deuscher smile he has on.

Honestly i think that he deserves to wear the smile. The white scars player just learnt a good lesson on top o things. Anyone who plays Kroot deserves a win sometimes.

That man is my hero.