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WEEK 4
2011 House League San Diego 2k Black Templar’s vs. 2k Blood Angel

Mission: Kill Points, Table Quarters, Objectives
Deployment: Pitch Battle

My List

Emperor’s Champion w/ AAC
Marshal: Bike, Fist, Stormshield, Termie Honors, Artificer Armor, Adamantine Mantle

3X5 Cyclone Terminators with Tank Hunters

3x5 Crusaders: Lascannon, BP/CCW

2X3 Typhoons
X2 Typhoons


Jr’s List

Mephiston

Furioso w/ blood talons
5x TH SS Termies

10x Assault Marines; Jumpacks x2 Melta, Pfist
9X Assault Marines; Melta Gun, Pfist Rhino
8X Assault Marines; Melta Gun, Pfist Rhino
5x Assault marines Plazorback

Stormraven Plama Cannon, Multimelta

Auto/Las Predator
Auto/Las Predator



Setup.

Jr.s is our resident badass Blood Angles player. He has a few league wins under his belt and the dice gods usually favor him. I always enjoy our match ups but have yet to beat him. This is his first time facing off against the Templars. Before I used to play Deathguard and Mephiston would roll threw my army.

We roll to see who goes first and we tie with a 5!



With the roll off I win with a 4 and decide to go first.

I chose my standard pitch battle deployment by splitting up my fire power into three sections.



Jr. hesitantly decides to hold everything in reserves.


Black Templar 1

Nothing happens.

Blood Angel Turn 1

Nothing Happens

Black Templar 2

I debate on turbo boosting the speeders but there was enough block line of sight that they would get cover.

Blood Angel 2

Jr. Rolls for reserves and on comes 2 Predators and 2 Assault Squads in Rhinos.

He deploys each predator in a corner to take shots on my speeders and moves flat out with the marines down my left flank popping smoke.



His predator on my left flank has a pretty good shot but I still have cover.



Unfortunately my cover saves fail me and he blows up 2 speeders and a missile system on the other.



The other Predator takes a similar shot and downs 2 of my other speeders.

Pretty good start for the blood Angels.

Black Templar 3

Time to make some points back.

I turbo the damaged speeders towards the center and a unit of terminators towards the left flank.

My opening volley manages to blow up one rhino and immobilize the other.



Missiles keep flying and I managed to wreck the rhino I had just immobilized and stun the predators.



Blood Angel 3

Jr’s reserve rolls decided to be fickle and the only thing that came on was the jumping assault squad which he also put on the left flank for reinforcement.



Here’s a shot of the board after his movement phase.



The assault marines open up into the terminators downing one and righteous zeal brings them closer.



The rest of his shooting is pretty moot since both predators were shaken.

Black Templar 4

Since I didn’t have to worry about Mephiston, Assault terminators, Storm raven I nudged my forces left and backed away from the assault marines.



I continued to dish out the missile storm bolter love reducing the assault marines a bit.

Unfortunately I was unable to stun the predators so I’m sure they will be picking on my speeders in the next round.



Blood Angel 4.

Mephiston and the Assualt Marines with the Plazorback come on but still no Terminators and Dread which Jr could really use.

The remaining Assault marines decide jump into the ruins getting ready to charge my crusader squad.



The other Assault Marines advance around the broken wall to try and get some melta shots on my terminators.



And the Plazorback plants itself behind the forest to go speeder hunting.



And poor Mephiston coming in on from the board edge hides behind the ruins closest to him.



Jr’s shooting manages to hit but my saves decide to make up for previous turns. I think I only lost a terminator and some speeders ended up getting skaken.

The assault marines charge my guys in the ruins and score some hits but my armour saves hold up.



Time to swing back.
I managed to score 9 hits due to preferred enemy.



Which only yielded to 3 wounds



He makes his saves and the powerfist swing scoring one casualty. Brother Crusader Danny met the fateful blow (Danny is Jr’s brother irl).



I managed to hold in combat much to Jr’s dislike.

Black Templar 5

Things are looking pretty good and I’m leading by a few kill points.

If I can manage to kill a few more vehicles and play defensive I might beat Jr. for the first time.

The key decision I have to make is whether or not to move my Marshal midfield and try to slow down Mephiston who is within striking range of my center terminators.

I decide against it and move the termintaors back forgoing shooting with them and have the Marshal join the unit of crusaders off to the right for further protection.



My shooting this round is total failblog.

The fight in the ruins continues and we manage to draw.



And my terminators on the left flank manage to wipe out the smaller of the assault marines but not without losing two.



Blood Angels 5

Finally reinforcements!

The storm raven loaded with goodies comes screaming down the right flank.

Mephiston jumps over the ruins and getting ready to fleet and ruin my day.

He lines up some good firing lanes with his predators and razor back which I’ve failed to kill all game.




During the shooting phase he decides to fleet Mephiston first to help with his target priority. Eyeballing it he needs about a 3.5 to charge the Marshal and marines but rolls a 2!



I lose another terminator from assault marine shooting


Marines charge in and deal 9 wounds and I almost made all of my terminator saves.


The fight in the ruins goes in my favor and I managed to kill the sergeant but the last marine holds.


At this point I’m leading by 3 kill points and Jr rolls for random game length and it’s a 1


I mentioned instead of reserving and coming on piece meal he could have hit one flank with his entire army and made it through.

Even though this ended up being a win for me we had some extra time and decide to play out the remaining turns.

He tables me… ;p

At this point I'm 4-0 out of a 6 week league. The other undefeateds are a Gray Knight and IG player.

Thank you for reading!

Thanks for posting, that was a great report. I really prefer these types of reports as you get much more out of them. You can really see the action and figure out what worked and what didn't. I just don't get the same feeling from the videos of your later reports. This only took me 2 minutes to read, and I learned much more than watching the 11 min video.

Thanks,

Razorlead

Great report, I love your army, Black Templar are very cool and not many people play them so I am glad your list kicks ass!

One question--and it's a minor one, honestly. Why did you give the marshal a fist, over a thunderhammer? Seems to have more utility to me. Unless I'm missing one of those "derp" things somewhere.

Very exciting and well written report with some great pix. Thanks!

@Razorlead
I tend to favor this type of report as well and i have been bouncing back and forth. The benefit of the video report is it only takes 30 sec's after each round and then i can just stick and upload. With the picture report i have to remember to take shots after each major event and then do a write up which can be time consuming.

@MasticatorDeelux
The Black Templars have the old school armoury system and have a cap at 100pts worth of wargear. If i bought the hammer i would be 5 pts over. AA 20pts SS 15pts Bike 30pts Termie Honors 15pts Fist 25pts. I could drop honors and pick up the hammer for 30 pts and bionics but i find the extra attack more useful.

@everyonelse

Thank you for reading and I'm glad you enjoyed the report.