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We played Pitched battle and Kill points.

I had
Draigo
5 paladins with Brotherhood banner in a Stormraven with Psybolt ammo
10 terminators with 2 Psycannons and other melee weapon upgrades
5 Purgators with 4 Psycannons
a Razorback with a Las Plas build
and finally a Dreadknight with Inferno cannon and Heavy Psycannon

He had
Swarmlord
3 warriors
Carnifex
30 Hormagaunts
30 Hormagaunts
12 Genestealers with a Broodlord
A Venomthroap
a Trygon
and 2 Zoanthroaps

I rolled a 6 for grand strategy and gave my dreadknight, stormraven, and Terminators the scout rule.
I moved forward with the dreadknight and stormraven on scout covering half the board and then during top of one ( I had first turn) I moved forward, fired with the Dreadknight and killed half the first unit of Hormagaunts. My Terminators set down in front of a carnifex. The Stormraven fired at one zoanthroap, the paladins put a wound with shooting on the carnifex. I then assaulted with the Paladins and one shotted the Carnifex with a Halberd. My Purgation squad killed the second zoanthroap. My terminators shot at the swarmlord and killed one of the hive guard. My las plas then shot the second hive guard and scored a wound.

Bottom of two
He assaulted my Dreadknight with his hormagaunts and only did one wound. He also assaulted my terminator squad with his other hormagaunts and killed 1. I killed a bunch and left 6 after his fearless checks. His warriors shot and did 2 wounds to my paladins and of course I used the wound allocation shenagins to keep em alive. My Dreadknight killed 3 more hormagaunts and he did none killing 3 more from fearless. He assaulted the Paladins with the swarmlord and I killed it and his Hive Guard. His warriors missed with their shooting and he was trying to move them over into position to support the Hormagaunts that were assaulting the Dreadknight.

Top 2
I shot the First Zoanthroap with my Stormraven and killed it. I shot at the venomthroap and killed it with the Purgation squad. My Paladins shot and assaulted the Warriors and killed them. My Dreadknight killed 4 hormagaunts and he did no wounds again after saves. This caused a leadership test due to no brain bug in the area. They ran and I didnt catch em. My terminators finished off the second unit of Hormagaunts.

Bottom 2
He has nothing left on the table but 2 units in reserves He rolls and doesnt get anything in.

Top three I position my army so that I can defend from the outflank from the Genestealers should they come in and more the large assets to the middle where they can redeploy quickly.

Bottom three
He gets the Trygon and the Genestealers on the board. THe trygon scatters in the direction of the table edge near a crater and the genestealers come on the edge that is close to my Purgation squad. He gets a great roll for move through cover and manages to assault my Purgation squad. I kill three genestealers but he manages to wipe the squad which worked to my benefit.

Top 4
I shunt the dreadknight near the genestealers and use the two templates to really decimate the unit. There were 2 left after his attacks. The Terminators shot the remaining genestealer and the Broodlord. My Stormraven heads to the trygon and deploys the paladins. I shot the trygon with the stormraven doing 3 wounds and then shot with the Paladins finishing the job. No more bugs...

In the end I lost 2 paladins, 2 Terminators, and my Purgation squad. The paladins were killed in the assault by the swarmloard with his insta kill weapons. The entire game Draigo didnt even get to attack. Things were dead by halberds before he got the chance to attack.

I was ashamed to sit there and bring that kind of filth to the store. Its a tournament army for sure. I am going to look into making it less mean for the friendly environment that we play in.

That said... Holy crap is this army good! Its about time that one of my impulse "oh I like the way that looks" buys isa decent army. I'm looking forward to getting the army painted so I can play in a few local tournaments.

Not a bad day at the shop IMHO.

Chris

A Draigowing army (Draigo with paladins) is definitely a competitive Grey Knight build. However, it is not the most balanced army as, say, Crowe-Purifiers or Coteaz-henchmen GK builds. It's got its limitations and is more prone to certain bad matchups. It can dominate in casual play, but in a tournament, don't expect it to do as well.

Congrats on this battle, but keep in mind that it won't always be this easy.

ChrisSpaceWolves wrote:I then assaulted with the Paladins and one shotted the Carnifex with a Halberd.

Just FYI - not legal. You must end your scout move more than 12" from one of his units. more than 12 - 6 for movement - 6 for assault range = more than 0, which means you could not have assaulted.

I was ashamed to sit there and bring that kind of filth to the store. Its a tournament army for sure. I am going to look into making it less mean for the friendly environment that we play in.

Well, your opponents list wasn't that great, but you played the strategy right.

Like jy2 said, they won't all be that easy.

One more point to bring up: You cannot give the Storm Raven the Scout Rule. It has to be either Infantry, Walker or Monstrous Creature.

@rigeld2

He could have assaulted as the Storm Raven can move 12" and he still be able to assault out of it so the math would be:

12.1"-12" (for Storm Raven) -6" (for Assault move) = -5.9" So he still had almost 6" to get into combat.


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Also, to be perfectly honest...I would have sent all 4 Mindstrikes at the Swarmlord and cause 4 un-savable wounds

Bear in mind he can move 6 but get out within two inches of the raven, so basically he gets out two more inches away, and moves six more and assaults six more.

So that's a total of 14 inches if he wanted it. Or he could do like martyr said.

Unholy_Martyr wrote:One more point to bring up: You cannot give the Storm Raven the Scout Rule. It has to be either Infantry, Walker or Monstrous Creature.

@rigeld2

He could have assaulted as the Storm Raven can move 12" and he still be able to assault out of it so the math would be:

12.1"-12" (for Storm Raven) -6" (for Assault move) = -5.9" So he still had almost 6" to get into combat.

... I missed the stormraven completely in his post. And I'm not sure how. Thanks for correcting me, and sorry to the OP.