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We've all been there, our troops hunkered down in defensive positions that we could hold on to forever and you know damn well that reinforcments are on the way.

But even with knowing all this, you charge your troops out of cover because "how dare an ork get to bellow and charge first".

This is Dawn of War syndrome, you act like the space marines in the opening cinematic and die gloriously doing nothing but placing a standard atop a hill.

Anyone else suffer from this?

I usually divorce my chapter master from the squad to hunt down the HQ. Is it stupid - yes, it is not tactical - yes, will he most likely die... maybe, is it fricken awesome and fluffy and balls to the walls space marine bravado... YES

Thats why I play orks. We are allways behaving like a horde from a DOW cinematic. CHAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE! Slaughter those gitz, bring me their ears on a pointy stikk!

I don't do anything particularly crazy, as I like to consider my DA to be sensible, hardened warriors. Let's not kid ourselves though, it's always fun to blindly charge into anything that we have a chance of killing. If someone that isn't pure choppy gets within 12 inches of my marines, assume they will charge, regardless of likelihood to win. I even made the mistake of charging a wraithlord with them (without a melta bomb) once.
Also, what's the point of having rhinos if they're afraid to drive through stuff? I don't think I've played a game yet that a rhino hasn't tried to drive over some absurd piece of terrain or try to run over an enemy unit., especially plowing through an aegis line.

with my necron overlord I've more or less named him my big name hunter, he has a tesseract labyrinth and even if hes in a good position with immortals or otherwise, I always try my best to send him out to go capture my opponents warlord haha, so far hes captured a nurgle biker lord, a hive tyrant a flyrant and a grey knight brother captain captured within its hold.

In my army, any survivors of a Valkyrie crash-landing are likely to end up running at the closest enemy unit, firing their lasguns from the hip and screaming.

(Unless there's an objective nearby or something. The Uplifting Primer is very clear on which order those two are supposed to take place in.)

Better to send a few Kriegsmen to stall the enemy than have said enemy get close to the artillery

charge across the table to assault that vindicator with whatever is left.... hell yes

BLOD FO THE BLOD GAWDDD

Not me, I usually make much better use of cover in WH40K GAMES than in DOW2. Its probably because 1 table top game is like a single fight on the computer. A whole mission is like a whole campiagn on the tabletop.

Defensive positions? cover? what are these things you speak of? If the enemy isn't in Flamer range, it's not dying!

Th0a wrote:
We've all been there, our troops hunkered down in defensive positions that we could hold on to forever and you know damn well that reinforcments are on the way.

But even with knowing all this, you charge your troops out of cover because "how dare an ork get to bellow and charge first".

This is Dawn of War syndrome, you act like the space marines in the opening cinematic and die gloriously doing nothing but placing a standard atop a hill.

Anyone else suffer from this?

No, that would be crazy.......

I drop-pod in my warlord with a unit of sternguard, right next to whatever bothers me the most and clean it out with melta, then ASAP charge whatever is closest to avoid getting swamped by fire. The rest of my force has to charge across the board ASAP, making enough trouble to draw fire

It's not quite as insane as it sounds thanks to Gorgons chain, and with luck the locator beacon on the pod will soon be drawing in some deepstriking units, but I would hardly call it a sensible move

ORKZZZZ DON"T HIDE!!! DEY SMASH PUNY HOOMANS IN DA FACE!

See, this is why I have to deepstrike. If orks are going to man up and charge, I can't be hiding everything and waiting for something to happen.

I simply slag the Orks with artillery, life's simple like that as a Kriegsman.

Lost my first game of 40k only because I decided to charge my 5 man blood angels assault marine squad holding an objective assault a big thunder wolf death star.

Oh, I saw the title and thought this was now a thing.

FLGS has a Dawn of War tournament every couple months. That's just the name, the idea is that squads can reinforce on the battlefield. Any unit within 12 inches of a vehicle can add back members lost in the previous round in exchange for victory points. You also get an HQ on your side of the table that does the same. The only way to remove a squad from the board is to wipe it out.

But yeah, I understand the tendency to move everything forward. One of my tactics is to use Rhino walls, where I put a bunch of shooty models behind some Rhinos and dare opponents to attack. The fact there is a Rhino wall is enough to trigger most players to move towards it.

I charged my assault squad into a unit of grenadiers, they had melta bombs. short story, I had five minis looking good on the side of the table....

Dang I miss that game! I had a freagin'n awesome computer my ex got in the divorce.... I have played DOW since the beginning. I want DOW syndrome again!

 Kelly502 wrote:
Dang I miss that game! I had a freagin'n awesome computer my ex got in the divorce.... I have played DOW since the beginning. I want DOW syndrome again!

The original development team is mostly back together, working on something with an undisclosed title... so you may get your wish!

I do however, have all the games still packed away.

I only do this sometimes, usually after whatever reinforcements have arrived and when I can see it will work better to sweep them agressively.

I used to charge even assault-superior enemies just to deny them the charge bonuses. I still will if my unit lacks the ability to hurt them in Overwatch.

I have memories of my Daemon Prince gliding once when it was surrounded by the enemy and I had him charge an invisible Lysander who promptly hammered him into next Tuesday. Reasoning? IT WAS GLORIOUS

Its impatience. It's a little like Wharf screaming RAMMING SPEED!!! at every opportunity and wasting a starship, but it's a tactic I employ all the time.

First ever game with Mortarion, he was in a spartan with 5 death shroud against orks. It was a mission with death guard in the middle and orks coming in from the ends. Pretty much a full fire base was set up for me to take advantage of.

I was so desperate to use his fly through the shadows move that i detached him from all his protection and immediately charged the ork warboss and 9 nobz thinking "I'm a primarch, a son of the Emperor, nothing can stop me"

I failed all my rolls to hit and flailed around uselessly for 3 turns while the ork horde surged past cutting the death guard to pieces. eventually Mortarions skull was crushed by the warbosses power klaw...

Not one of the "exemplary battles" forge world would write about.

I play Blood Angels. Charging is what we do!
Tactical Marines, Scouts, anything..

my tyrant guard. If anything gets within twenty inches it's on the chopping block.

 Spinner wrote:
In my army, any survivors of a Valkyrie crash-landing are likely to end up running at the closest enemy unit, firing their lasguns from the hip and screaming.

(Unless there's an objective nearby or something. The Uplifting Primer is very clear on which order those two are supposed to take place in.)

"Get yer arse back here, Jenkins! You can get killed after you've secured the fething objective!"

 SisterSydney wrote:

 Spinner wrote:
In my army, any survivors of a Valkyrie crash-landing are likely to end up running at the closest enemy unit, firing their lasguns from the hip and screaming.

(Unless there's an objective nearby or something. The Uplifting Primer is very clear on which order those two are supposed to take place in.)

"Get yer arse back here, Jenkins! You can get killed after you've secured the fething objective!"

/win.

The best part?

The last time that happened, I spontaneously named the guardsman Jenkins.

I play Dark Eldar. Heroic charges, Last Stands? That's how Mon'keigh fight! True warriors hide in shadows, shoot people in the back and run away!