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shrike wrote:charging a scout sergeant headlong into:

3 SM bikers
chapter master
inquisitor & henchmen
monolith
chaplain
ghazghkull thraka
2 leman russes
2 land speeders, vindicator, predator
vindicator
predator
5 nobs
creed, kell & command squad
stompa
tactical squad
chaos lord

every new line is on a seperate occassion.
every one the sarge came out on top.
he's the new emperor.

I now have so much faith in him I charge him headlong into the biggest thing he can feasibly take out, relying purely on sheer luck and my propaganda that I spread about him before each game.
I had a 20-man 2,000 point squad, and the scout sergeant with three men. My opponent shot everything he had at the scouts.

sometimes I rely on subtlety, sneaking him round the board edge pretending like he is an afterthought and then bam!- there goes your basilisk/commander/farseer/battlewagon.

worst failed tactic I used was forgetting about my 5 plasma cannon devastators for three turns.
against an ultramarine terminator calgar spam list.

sounds like that sergeant is EPIC... I WANT ONE !!!

Worst tactics ever.... lemme see:

Charged a lone slaaneshi daemon prince at an\5 man ork boyz squad with nob IN COVER... *wait i have grenades, umm yeah* he died pitifully
Assaulted 5 thunderwolf cavalry with 8 khorne berzerkers, lost 2 zerkers, won combat by 2 and actually made the cavalry break and run off the edge.
Charged a dreadknight with a defiler thinking, "meh, i'll at least get a couple wounds on him".... couldn't have been more wrong
Tried to have Abaddon w/5 termies assault a hive tyrant..... "proxysm does what, oh WTH its Abaddon" .... 2 rounds later and 2 's rolled for daemon weapon attacks Abaddon goes down

Charged two pimped out Tzeentch DPs separately into squads of Chaos Spawn. Too many wounds to deal with and they each took a couple hits in return >.<

First time playing my footguard. Thinking i've got so many guys that i didn't need cover.

I was wrong...

Agreed to fight against an armor company. Then if that wasn't enough I forgot to give transports to my multimeltas.

hisbanana wrote:Agreed to fight against an armor company. Then if that wasn't enough I forgot to give transports to my multimeltas.

Armored company is an underpowered list with the recent update to it.


and a Transport wouldn't help a Multi-melta as its a heavy weapon(can't fire out of a moving vehicle)

shrike wrote:charging a scout sergeant headlong into:
monolith.

How? He can't even touch it. Melta Bombs glance on a 6, and then you need a 5 or 6 to either immobilise or take a weapon off it...

it was an awesome sgt...

charged a twolf cavalry with 60 boyz, epic failed with klaws, lord with saga had 20 attacks after three rounds of combat, then he killed my killa kans with him. only killed one twolf

Mass bayonet charged about 40-50 guardsmen with a lord comi./pwr fist. And two minostrum priests/ evicerators at an avatar. who was joined by a wraith lord and prince monacul of doom after two full rounds of combat.


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Sabet wrote:

shrike wrote:charging a scout sergeant headlong into:
monolith.

How? He can't even touch it. Melta Bombs glance on a 6, and then you need a 5 or 6 to either immobilise or take a weapon off it...

Power fist perhaps?

Str8 and you have multiple chances.

still couldn't destroy it.

Sabet wrote:
How? He can't even touch it. Melta Bombs glance on a 6, and then you need a 5 or 6 to either immobilise or take a weapon off it...

The average roll on 2 dice is a 7, he could easily penetrate the monolith with a meltabomb

Monoliths have Living Metal. No 2d6 for you!

JamesMclaren123 wrote:sounds like that sergeant is EPIC... I WANT ONE !!!

aye, he has his own fluff, name and is married to a calldus assassin.

Sabet wrote:

shrike wrote:charging a scout sergeant headlong into:
monolith.

How? He can't even touch it. Melta Bombs glance on a 6, and then you need a 5 or 6 to either immobilise or take a weapon off it...

alabamaheretic wrote:it was an awesome sgt...

that it was. glanced to death.
also, technically he stopped 20 necrons coming into play, so another 20 kills?
what do you reckon?

Is it even possible to glance a Monolith to death? You can immobilize it, and any subsequent weapon destroyed/immobilized results merely strip -1 from the D6 flayer shots right?

So you would need a minimum of 7 rounds of combat to immobilize and then strip the flayer to -6 shots, and even then I don't know if it would become a wreck.

I may have to call shenanigans on that.

L. Wrex

yeah, its impossable to glance it to death. glance it into uselessness, yeah thats possable.

Stupid tactic countered by even more stupid tactic:

During the "Return to Armageddon"-campaign at my local GW store, the battle for northern hive hades was split by a river and our side featured a super-heavy company(8 bane blade variants total) supported by lots of DOA blood angels as defenders against a huge horde of Evil Sunz and Bloodaxe Orks supported by an artillery regiment from Van Strahlens renegade companies.

The core of the super-heavy company was a Shadowsword formation, which included some Sentinels and Leman Russ which would be destroyed instead of the Shadowsword losing structure points. So I flank-marched a formation of 30 Deff Kopas right next to the Shadowsword, shot 30 twin-linked rokkits at it, and then proceeded to assault it with a suicide attack which is a special ability given to the formation(1+d6 S6 attacks each, kopta dies on a roll of '1'). I destroyed all Sentinels and one Leman Russ out of three, immobilized the shadowsword, destroyed its main gun and shook most other weapons, but failed to destroy it.

On their turn, the shadowsword shut down to repair itself and close to every other weapon in range shot the deff koptas, dropping them one by one, until no more than ten were left. Out of options and really afraid of rokkits so close to the rear of super-heavy tank, a banesword turned around and fired its S9 AP3 10" ordinance barrage weapons at the koptas and scattered - killing all koptas and hitting the shadowsword with the hole. The hit penetrates, and destroys the main weapon of the other tank, which was just repaired, again. The shadow sword never got to fire it's destroyer cannon again.

Lycaeus Wrex wrote:Is it even possible to glance a Monolith to death? You can immobilize it, and any subsequent weapon destroyed/immobilized results merely strip -1 from the D6 flayer shots right?

So you would need a minimum of 7 rounds of combat to immobilize and then strip the flayer to -6 shots, and even then I don't know if it would become a wreck.

I may have to call shenanigans on that.

L. Wrex

IDK about necron rules, the kid just said it's AV 14.

I charged on an Ork line forgetting i was playing Tau.....You can figure out the rest.

Anvildude wrote:Monoliths have Living Metal. No 2d6 for you!

Living metal says nothing about grenades, 2d6 for me!

it does say you never get more then a single D6 for armor penetration.

there is a 'stealth' printing of the Cron codex which clarifys this.

shrike wrote:

JamesMclaren123 wrote:sounds like that sergeant is EPIC... I WANT ONE !!!

aye, he has his own fluff, name and is married to a calldus assassin.

Sabet wrote:

shrike wrote:charging a scout sergeant headlong into:
monolith.

How? He can't even touch it. Melta Bombs glance on a 6, and then you need a 5 or 6 to either immobilise or take a weapon off it...

alabamaheretic wrote:it was an awesome sgt...

that it was. glanced to death.
also, technically he stopped 20 necrons coming into play, so another 20 kills?
what do you reckon?

he should be promoted to captain cuase of his impressive kill streak the heretic approves of this

Grey Templar wrote:it does say you never get more then a single D6 for armor penetration.

there is a 'stealth' printing of the Cron codex which clarifys this.

Curse GW and there stealth updates, how they will always be the bane of my existence!

Let's see...

I had 6 firewarriors take down a pair of Lictors in CC, one after the other. That was entertaining, but not much of a choice as they'd jumped me and not vice versa.

I charged a mob of 20 shoota boys with 4 fenrisian wolves. I lost one wolf in the initial round of combat, but I killed 3 boys, winning the combat. Too bad they were fearless...

I once ran a 1500 point 80 man marine list that included a Devastator squad nine men strong with NO heavy weapons. They were literally there just to be 9 guys with bolters that deployed before anything else in my army. Typically they staked out my DZ's frontline, ensuring I wouldn't be pushed back on table quarter games (it used to be, we oscillated deployment between players, each dropping a unit working through their army one FOC selection at a time.)

played tau fire warrior based list vs dark eldar. I had a unit of 12 fire warriors, and charged a 10-strong unit of wyches with hesporax in it. Great that I won, though.

Luckiest I've ever had was a single pathfinder in cover take multiple (2+) battle cannon template hits, surviving despite the horrible squishy deaths of his comrades without going to ground, and subsequently lighting up the enemy hammerheads for shoosting (It was balanced out by broadsides with S10 AP1 guns rolling crap for penetration though...)

Best tactic I ever tried was markelighting the hell out of 2 squads of vanilla tac marines camping on an objective in cover ~9" from the board edge. TL Missiles to cause the min wounds for a morale check, and everyone always forgets the lights can drop Ld. Needless to say, 2 full tac squads were reduced to about 5 or 6 marines each, and scampered off the board.

Worst tactic was charging an Ethereal out of difficult terrain (Previously his ride) and into an assault marine squad...

I just started playing GK. First game was against BA lead by Mephiston. I had a 6 man purifier squad assault him and then forgot completely about the psykout grenades which drops psykers to an initiative of 1. Couple that with 18 I6 S4 attacks from power weapons and I'm pretty sure I would have had one dead Mephiston. As it was we went two rounds and I took off a wound. His hood held up against my guys turning on their halberds to get the ID. And I had a perils of the warp on the first roll so I lost a guy.

Well I didn't do it but I thought it was worth mentioning in this topic, but me and a pal were playing a friendly match, his Tau against my SM, a couple turns into the match and he starts movin his guys closer to engage my guys in CC, and at the time he had no Kroot what so ever so in that turn my guys massacered all the lowly Tau

3-5 suicide anti tank chaos terminators armed with 2 chain fists and combi weapons loaded into a land raider...For when that stupid hammer head must die no matter what the cost...

Worked rather well, just left me with a small army that diddnt do much else well.