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First, for some reason, beyond my understanding, the TO in Shanghai likes to have the semi final and final game of the tournaments a best of 3 match up. The first battle between the Grey Knights and Blood Angels is here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/481917.page

Recap of the lists:

Grey Knight Contingent:

Lord Draigo

Inquisitor Lord Coteaz

Paladin [10]
-MC Hammer
-4 Hammer
-4 swords
-Banner
-4 Psycannons

Paladin [2]
-2 MC Hammers

Paladin [2]
-2 MC Hammers

Storm Raven Gunship
-Hurricane Bolters
-Psybolt Ammo
-Multi Melta, Assualt Cannon

Dread Knight
-Heavy Incinerator
-Teleporter

Dread Knight
-Heavy Incinerator
-Teleporter

Blood Angels Host

Mephiston Lord of Death

Librarian w/ force axe

Brother Corbulo

5 Terminator Assault Marines
-5 Hammer and Storm Shields

5 Terminators
-Cyclone Missile Launcher, force axe

Assault marines [5]

Land Raider Dedicated Transport

Scouts [10]
-Cammo Cloaks
-Sniper Rifles

Storm Raven Gunship
-Las Cannon, MM

Storm Raven Gunship
-Las Cannon, MM

Storm Raven Gunship
-Assault Cannon, MM

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Mission: Kill Points
Deployment: Normal
Initiative: Blood Angels
Warlord GK - Draigo (opponent has -1 to reserve rolls)
Warlord BA - Mephiston (makes first turn night fight)

Pre-Game Analysis

Well, round two of the semi finals - I (as the GK Player) need to win this to move on. If the game is a loss or draw for me, there will be a game 3. The BA list has a large number of kill points, but for the most part they are quite tough to get (i.e., 3 storm ravens, 2 squads of terminators, mephiston, corbulo, etc.). I think it will be a rather tough game...

... okay...

Initiative to BA; GK try and steal but don't.

First turn is night fight.

BA fire snipers, land raider las cannons at the dread knight - cause 1 wound.

Terminators fire two missiles at deathstar... and wound...and for Draigo...two wounds on draigo :( Bad start for the Grey Knights


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So, I shunt one dreadknight over to take out the scounts that infiltrated in the corner, killing 4.
Other shunts to the other side - the reason is to draw the BA to choose either right or left while the death star comes up the middle

BA turn 2;

Reserves from blood angels, only 1 of the 3 storm ravens come in - the -1 to reserves from my warlord traits really came in handy She had her 5 man tactical squad in reserve too, which came on

BA able to take out the Dreadknight on my right -

First Blood to Blood Angels

BA: 2 GK: 0


GK turn 2

Storm Raven comes in as well as the 2 paladin squads (i used the psychic powers to roll 3 dice and choose 1); i would have preferred to keep the two paladins in reserve. one walks on and hides in the ruins with virtually no line of site. The second deepstrkes but scatters 12" toward the BAs

Storm Raven shoots at the tactical squad - a lot of fire power to kill 2 marines. However, they fail their leadership test and run off the board...

Dreadknight assaults the scouts, sgt. challenges so only the sgt dies

BA: 2 GK: 1

GK Turn 2 - also... Death star fired at the land raider and took off 2 hull points...


BA Turn 3

Assault terminators prepare to assault the deathstar. For some reason, she detached corbolo from the regular terminators and attached him to the assault squad. another storm raven came in and she shoots basically everything at the storm raven, which jinks...nothing happens..she does manage to kill the two paladins that deviated towards her

She goes to assault the death star and rolls a --- well, she used Corbolos reroll to modify this and asualted my. She challenged my, draigo accepted (trying to limit the amount of hammers going into the squad. Coteaz had rolled for divination primus power turn before so GK had rerolls to hit. draigo and squad cast hammerhand...

the GK swords don't do anything, neither does draigo. BAs have 4 guys with hammers = 12 hammer attacks, but only hit with about 5 and wound with 4. Swords have a 4+ save and managed to make 2 saves, then died... and lost another with a 5+ save.

In retaliation, there were 5 hammers, WS 5 vs. WS 4 so hitting on 3's with re-rolls... and +1 attack for the banner, so 15 hammer attacks plus 3 from Coteaz... hit with 16, wound on 2's and the unit re-rolls 1's (grand strategy), 15 wounds...

Well...

score:

BA: 3 GK:2



GK Turn 3

Storm Raven flies off the table... death star casts re-roll to hits, and multi charges the remaining terminator and land raider

both get blown away, and...

Mephiston, who earlier entered the landraider, gets pinned.

The scouts are finished off by the Dreadknight

Score

BA: 3 GK: 5

Not looking too rosy for the angels. The shortcomings of her list is really telling.

BA turn 4

Final Storm Raven comes in;

one storm raven converts to hover mode, the terminators and librarian embark; the other storm raven (previously hovering) zooms.

The entire BA army opens up on the Paladins...


GK Turn 4

storm raven comes in and shoots at the storm raven, but only causes 1 hull point of damage (this is the one with troops)

Paladins go after Mephiston (who had taken a perils wound earlier)

Basically, draigo managed to kill mephiston with the 4 base attacks, 1 for charge and 1 for banner...
Mephiston went at I 1 because of the grey knight grenades.
Banner allows auto activation of force weapons in unit

Of six attacks with re-rolls; hit 5, str 10 as i am attacking a psyker, wounds all 5 (mind you a roll of 1 is re-rolled)
mephiston fails 1 (maybe two saves) and dies to instant death..

Slay the warlord... +2 for Grey knights

Score:

BA: 3 GK: 7

BA turn 5..

Blood angels only have the 3 storm ravens, one with terminators and a librarian in it... I knew she would have to basically zoom with all of her storm ravens, otherwise she would have to risk taking fire from the death star...also, by zooming, she will overshoot my death star with two of the most right hand storm ravens...

the other storm raven zooms...

Basically nothing happens. she shot at the dreadknight with two of the storm ravens...i was well behind the buildings and made my cover saves... the third storm raven shot at mine, glanced me and i jinked...made my save but could only fire snaps shots...

I turn my storm raven to follow her two storm ravens - this reminded me of a dog fight...kind of cool.

Shoot my paladins and storm raven - all snapshots - at her damaged storm raven, lucky for the BA I only took off another hull point, if i had taken off 2 it would have crashed with the terminators and librarian inside.

..

so, end of turn 5

BA:3 GK: 7


Roll to continue... GAME OVER - GREY KNIGHTS WIN


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Post game..

So, unfortunately, the Bat Rep isn't that great, but the game didn't have many climactic moments. Blood Angels managed to put two wounds on Draigo in the first turn...after that, she wasn't able to do much.

Jy2 brought up earlier the imbalance of the BA army. I think it honestly showed here too as well.

I would say the biggest mistake the BAs made was to 1) join corbulo to the terminator assault squad and 2) charge the death star. I just don't see how 5 TH SS terminators, even with corbulo, will stand up to 9-10 paladins. I would say that swords on a Paladin squad are great; the 4+ save in CC is almost as good as the TH SS terminators...

Was talking with Diu Diu after the game - in objective missions she will split the scouts and place all in storm ravens and then contest/take objectives in the end. But, i think she is relying too much on the storm ravens. They are great, but they won't carry the game every time.

Hope you like the report.

The next game will be against Necrons All i know about that list is that it has 2 doom scythes, a night scythe, the lord that takes a power from an enemy (like FNP) and can give a power to a unit of his.

Thanks everybody


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... also, I think her plan was to (if all went well) is to charge the death star with her terminator assault squad and terminators...even then though, I think it would have been tough for the BA to win it...

BA with NO DC units or FNP granting priests? Interesting choice to run that many SR's. Drop the LR, add some Baal Preds. This could easily be a much more competitive list for a tourney.

Nice armies. Good painting. Do a lot of people play 40k in Shanghai?