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Okay, so I'm going to do this from memory...I think most of it is accurate. This was my first game of 40K and It was Awesome!

1500

Orks;
10 boys in truck
10 boys in truck
10 boys on foot
10 lootas
10 Nobs + Warboss in battlewagon (the tank truck thing)
20 stormboys deepstriking+ a named guy I cant think of

Tau;
10 FW + 2 marker drones
10 FW + 2 marker drones
3 Stealth suits + 2 marker drones
3 crisis suits + 2 marker drones
13 Kroot
12 kroot
2 broadsides
1 piranha (targeting and disruption and 2 seeker missiles)
1 commander + marker and shield drone

Seize Ground (objectives left, center and right near the center line)

There was so much little bits of cover that I only infiltrated the stealth units. In an attempt to deny flank, I used the broadsides to draw attention to my left flank which was where he deployed his battlewagon.He went first which was largely just movement. I did manage to have my SS and Kroot blast his boys on foot and actually cause them to eventually flee off the board. I made a huge mistake and left a FW unit in LOS of his lootas though. They were all but three wiped out, but I took a bonding knife so they regrouped later.
The next round he tried to deepstrike his stormboys in on my broadsides but he mishapped to try again next round. His battlewagon moved closer to my broadsides same with his trucks, firing all the way. He trimmed down my Other FWs and destryed the right side kroot. I managed to destroy his far right truck, pinning those boys and destroyed his battelwagon on the right. His center truck only lost its weapons.
Then, his stormboys deepstriked near my broadsides and would assault to destroy them. His warboss and knobs moved to fire my kroot his remaining truck tank shocked my larger FWs and his boys disembarked to assault them, winning of course. I tried to destroy the truck hoping to blow up his boys but only wrecked it. My SS, piranha and regrouped FWs pecked at them. I mowed down most of the pinned boys and assaulted with my Crisis suits ( Rookie mistake, very stupid move). The Suits won, but lost all but one suit and his two drones.
On the fourth round his storm boys started stalking my SS. His Knobs assaulted my kroot and would win, which I was fine with because it let me sweep forward towards his lootas, killing the remaining boys on the way.
On the fifth round he assualted and detroyed the piranhna. He aslo tried to assault my SS with his Stormboys but he misjudged the distance, fortunately. His lootas killed my little FW group, but its For The Greater Good. His Warboss and Knobs moved to claim the center Objective (Neither of us were near the left most objective at this point). I accidentally left my SS in his Lootas sights trying to escape the stormboys and shoot up his Lootas with my Commander. The roll to end the game had us play another round.
On the Last round he simply booked his stormboys to barely be in the distance of the Right Objective. His Lootas tried to drop my SS but couldn't see them (Horray for for stealthiness!). Knowing I couldn't beat his Warboss/Knobs I Tried to mow down his Stormboys hoping to have them fall back so I could Assault move and claim the objective. I managed to have him take a leadership test which he failed, but he had an ability to sacrifice a guy and auto-pass. So I took advantage of the Pile-In rules and Assaulted them with everything I had left that I could. I figured that if I could win I may be able to consolidate on the objective, making it a tie. I didn't accomplish that, but his Pile-in pulled him away from the Objective and I wasn't wiped out.
Battle ended on the next roll.

Final result:
Orks 1
Tau 0

As I said, For my First game, a very awesome outcome and It was a darn good fight. He took a bunch of pictures and said he send them to me soon!

Sounds like fun!

Dont forget you can only capture objs with basic troops so his Warboss/knobs and Storm boys could not have claimed any objs.

one Nobs squad can be troops for each Warboss in an army.

Thanks for the batrep. Sounds like you had a great time. Welcome to the hobby.

Welcome aboard, just to let you know, for the stormboys, that ability to BLAM a boy, lets you re-roll your leadership check, not auto-pass it.
Otherwise, sounds like a tactically sound game, just try to immobilize that battle wagon turn 1 so the nobs have to deal with all your shooting.

Great report My brother plays Tau, and I play Orks, anyway this was a great report!

Very nice good to see another tau player in the hobby.
With those 2 broadsides you could have wrecked immobilized the truck turn one, especially seeing you had 9 markerlights.
Little tip for the kroot. Say this to your enemy before the battle. ''These guys can actually fight.'' They will always concentrate all their firing power at those poor kroot.

Yeah, I put the Broadsides way on the left flank with no real support. I did have the Stealth suit near there to start but had to use them to support the center. They were still hugely effective in that he sent Both his battle wagon and deepstriked his Stormboys way out there to deal with them. I should have used more of the Infiltrate abilities of my units and deployed my FWs from Reserve, but I wanted to keep it simple, since it was my first game and all. Even though I lost, I felt really good about it. I probably would have still started with Tau if I had known how difficult they can be to play.

iGuy91 wrote:Welcome aboard, just to let you know, for the stormboys, that ability to BLAM a boy, lets you re-roll your leadership check, not auto-pass it.

Actually the 'named guy' is likely to be Zagstrukk, who simply auto-passes any leadership tests that are failed, at the cost of one boy.

Charles Rampant wrote:

iGuy91 wrote:Welcome aboard, just to let you know, for the stormboys, that ability to BLAM a boy, lets you re-roll your leadership check, not auto-pass it.

Actually the 'named guy' is likely to be Zagstrukk, who simply auto-passes any leadership tests that are failed, at the cost of one boy.

That's the guy. I recognize the name.

Thanks for the report!

Welcome to the Greater Good!!!

I love my tau, and have to say that often orks can be a tough match up, depending upon the list and terrain.

You are also correct in realizing that Tau are quite the challenge, but they can be a really fun army to play.

If you can get good at playing tau however (no easy feat, I play them competitively) it will help you overall in your game.

thanks for sharing, and hope you enjoy the game!