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Sorry, no pics. It was the first game I played in a very long time against my friend. He had his CSM led by Kharn and Abaddon, for troops he had two 10 man cultist squads and a Chosen squad from Dark Vengeance. One of his cultist squads had a flamer, the other had the heavy stubber but niether were fired during the battle. I had in my army a Warboss with bosspole, power klaw, eavy armour and an attack squig, two ten man mobs of Boyz, one lot had choppas and sluggas the other had shootas. The sluggas were loaded in the trukk I had with its red paint job and reinforced ram, I had intended them to rush the objective in the centre of the board. At the front of the army was a 10 man lot of Gretchin with a runtherd, they were to act as a sort of meatshield until we could get to the objective and sit on it. Behind the gretchin were three Killa Kans each armed with Grotzookas. Behind those was the squad of shootas closely followed by the Warboss. Not too far away, 3 Crisis battlesuits who chose to aid the Orks against the CSM were ready to perform a sort of flanking maneuver.

He deployed first, he chose to surround Abaddon with his Chosen and had Kharn lead the two cultist squads. A load of things happened, I moved the truck next to the objective, unloaded my boyz, had them sit on the objective for two turns until Abaddon and his crew came over and screwed everything up. Fired a load of Grotzookas in Abaddon's direction, had a load of Skorchas fire away at them and every chance I had I would shoot my Grot Blastas and Shootas at Abaddon. My boyz with sluggas and choppas charged Abaddon's party only to fall at the hands of a man with dual lightning claws and a load of power fists. The trukk, now almost surrounded by CSM was put into a sort of retreat only to be driven into a corner it could not escape from and the Chosen proceeded to beat it to death with power fists.

Meanwhile on the other half of the board my Crisis battlesuits were trying to outflank the enemy only to be attacked by Kharn and his cultists. The battlesuits didn't even fire a single shot for the entire game. Rushing to aid the battlesuits, my Warboss used his kombi-flamer on Kharn's cultists taking down five of them before having the Kans barrage Kharn with grotzookas. Kharn was down, two cultist squads were down, now we only had to deal with Abaddon who was still beating my trukk to death. At last my friend managed to destroy the trukk with a cleverly placed shot by a man with a bolter only to have the trukk explode in the faces of five of his friends and Abaddon. I probably mucked up the rules somewhere to give myself a distinct advantage (probably) and decided that the explosion did in fact give every model 6 hits instead of 6 hits to the entire unit. Four Chosen died, Abaddon remained unscathed and one Chosen was slightly wounded. So we had taken down two cultist squads, Kharn the Betrayer and had badly injured most of Abaddon's squad. We had lost a trukk, 10 boyz, 3 battlesuits aided by 4 gun drones, a squad of gretchin who I had stupidly chosen to have charge Abaddon were swatted aside like flies and my Kans were too far away to provide any support.

By this time it was getting late and I was tired. I decided to speed things up a bit by saying that we were on our last turn. My friend said ok and thought it would be a good idea to have Abaddon and his Chosen charge my shootas. The Chosen attacked decimating the shootas and hardly taking a hit. Now that things were heating up a bit more I decided to add another two turns to the game. My Kans moved into a good position for firing and my Warboss was going to move towards the objective. My Kans kept firing at the Chosen with the Grotzookas taking one more marine down but still leaving Abaddon unharmed. It was now dark and we decided to stop playing entirely. He accepted victory for capturing the objective for the longest amount of time and I thought I did pretty well for having destroyed most of his army.

He was bad at 40k, I was worse. We argued about the rules, bickered over movement and wound allocation, accused eachother of cheating but had a pretty good time.

The moral of the story?

Stay the hell away from Abaddon.

It's yep, 36 hits instead of 6 is quite a difference

Abbaddon is quite possible to beat with your list, but he needs to get downed with weight of ap2 attacks. So, basically, you needed to charge him with a warboss, kanz and a squad of boyz at the same time with staying away from a challenge with a boss...or just avoid him, yep

i've found that when you're facing the MEGADEATH CHEESE STARS with orks, you always have to shoot the choppy and chop the shooty. you're never going to out-melee their super melee champs and never going to outshoot their shooty stuff, but if you do the opposite, the results are generally better (but not always great). this might seem harsh but i'm going to ask some questions that might help or not.

why not lucky stikk on the boss? it's a better squig

what's the advantage of having choppa boyz?

why not mek gunz instead of the kans? BS3 goes a long way.

at the end of the battle as long as you had fun, that's what matters

why not lucky stikk on the boss? it's a better squig

what's the advantage of having choppa boyz?

why not mek gunz instead of the kans? BS3 goes a long way.

I was not aware of the lucky stikk at the time but now that I look back at it, I'll give him one.

I chose choppa boyz because I just thought they would be good fun to paint and wondered what they would be like in battle. Their CC extra attacks are useful against things like Tau but they probably weren't great against the GODDAMN TERRIFYING ABADDON.

Again with the Kans, liked to paint them, wondered what they would be like in battle. Couldn't get my hands on any mek gunz because the only way I get and GW stuff is by ordering from a guy here who has a limited stock and the nearest FLGS is in Shang Hai.