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Well after a fire at my house destoryed my armies I decided to start an IG Mech Army, so before I bought a lot of things I decided I needed to test out my list. So I posted in the Army List Section and tweaked out a list to play at an upcoming tourny in about 1 months....depending on if I get everything assemblied. So my friend came over and allowed me to proxy a few things and use his IG army. He is planning on taking a Killa Kan Army to the tourny as we are having a ton of these list pop up....there were 4 in the last tourny of 10 people. List as follows...

King Kong Killa....(no clue why he calls it this)
HQ
2x Big Mek w/ PK,KFF, and Bosspoles

Troops
4x 30-man boyz + Nob w/ PK
2x Deff Dread w/ 2 Big Shoota

Fast
17 StormBoyz w/ Boss ???? (allows them to assualt after Deep Strike)

Heavy
3x 3 Killa Kans w/ 2x Rokkits

My List
Shadowhunters (going to be using the shadow camo paint scheme)

HQ
2x CCS w/ Medipak, 3x Plasmaguns, Commander w/ Plasma Pistol + Chimera w/ Hull Hvy Flamer

Elite
2x 7-man PBS + Chimera w/ Hull Hvy Flamer

Troops
2x Veteran w/ 3xMeltaguns + Chimera w/ Hull Hvy Flamer
2x Vet Squad w/ 2x Flamers (goes into the Vendettas)

Fast
Vendetta
Vendetta

Heavy
Manticore
Manticore
Ordance Battery w/ 2x Colassus

Mission Pitched Battle/Annihaliation

We rolled off and I won and decided to go first/deploy first.

Deployment
I split my forces in 2, castling each in a corner....so one corner had the 2xColossus, Mounted PBS, Mounted CCS, and Mounted Veterans with a Vendetta on the flank....the other corner had same 3 Chimeras, Vendetta and the 2 Manticores. He deployed all his forces on the side near the manticores. I scout move the Vendettas to the middle, he fails to steal init.


Turn 1
IG
Movement I started moving the chimeras and manticores towards my other board edge, using the chimeras to shield the manticores from sight of those rokkits, I moved the vendettas up and in position to start shooting kan unit at a time. I shot the Colossus first at the Big Mek Unit closest to them, and wow...rolled 2 hit rollz and got about 18-20 of the unit. I then fired the into the same unit with the chimeras to get a few more so they weren't fearless, got about 4 more which put there number to 8 total. PBS Weaken Resolved the unit to Leadership of 2. Manticores targeted the other one taking all but the Big Mek, Nob, and 8 boyz. Other PBS Weaken Resolved them to Leadership 3. Vendettas opened up to the First Kill Kan unit and destoryed 2 of the 3...in which we spent about 15mins debating if 2 of the 3 are destoryed, and the 3rd is shaken, does it ignore it as they started out with 3. I let him have it as it was a very bad start to lose both KFF in the first turn....in my defense...he did deploy them very close together thinking that I could only shoot indirect and would miss all my shots. Big Meks Run off the board...no more cover saves.

Orkz
Move, Run, Stunned one of the Vendettas, took out the multi-laser on the moving PBS chimera.

Turn 2
IG
Keeped moving the one corner to the other. Destoryed one Dread, Destoryed the remaning one Kan unit....shots bounced around a little bit but the colossus unit still took out a bunch. Manticores took out a bunch, and even killed 2 Kanz with good placement of templates.

Orkz
Move, Run, and StormBoyz come in, his luck continued as he scattered into terrain and lost 5 in the drop. He had enough to catch my 2 Front Moving Chimeras and wrecked both. Dumped the models out...figured they would be sacrificed, but could possible be a good speed bumps.

Turn 3
IG
I started rolling shots but after both manticores rolled 3 templates each, my opponent called it as a solid victory to me.

My thoughts on this army is that it can be very deadly on the Orkz that are going to show up, as well as any other foot-loggers. We played another game with him using a SW Drop Pod army, tho it was a lot more even, I still took another win. Just need to see how it does against Razorspam and Speed Freaks. Over all, I'm fairly happy with it.

Unusual to be tabled on turn 3 in a 2000 point battle! Jesus! Well played my good sir!

Wow, well done on the win.

Turn 1 sounded brutal, might have to look into some colussi

Damn, now I see why they call them "the Hammer of the Emperor." Great victory, if you ask me.

Great report! that first turn was very unlucky for you friend.

Ya we talked the next day about tactics. I told him it wasn't the best idea to bunch up all his forces on half a deployment zone, even worse to do it when your opponent is fielding 4 large blast template weapons. Even if I had rolled poorly on scatter, there really wasn't much that I could scatter to that wouldn't have hit something. I'm loving the Colossus because it ignores cover. Str 6 AP 3 is good enough to knock out Orkz Walls or SW LongFangs. Just have to keep them far away as they cannot fire direct.

The game was basically over after the first round killing those 2 KFFs. He wasn't tabled on the 3rd turn, but he only really had 4 Kanzs, 1 Dread, and maybe 45 boyz with 2 nobs left. And he was trying to walk into a castled mech line with Hvy Flamers, Plasmaguns, and Meltas in them. Worse yet was that he was using his Kanz in front and rolling 1s and 2s on his run roll, that was holding up his forces behind him. Next game we play I told him to spread out a lot more.

Well done on the win! That was a short but dang brutal batrep