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Very nice batrep gits...the fireknife config is amazing against marines...wyomingfox hw do you use your devilfish? im thinkin of gettin some for my tau but idk doin well without em so far


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Rollover strikes again!

Those of you who've been with the thread a while know I have a pension for objective markers. I resurrected an old objective marker show-off thread so if you'd like to take a look at the combined "glory" of my objective marker collection... you can check it out here. (it's only a 1-page thread at the moment so the link takes you to the OP)

Feel free to post your own there, would love to see what other's have been up to.

Wow those were some great markers....think im gonna have to dig in the bits n get somethin together now

I like making objectives because there's so much freedom to it... You can build *anything* you want and really let your imagination be your guide. You can go get bits from armies you don't have and build something you'd never be able to for your own army. It's a blast!! Plus it really adds to the gaming environment. Just makes it more fun.

i am so gonna finish my ork objective

While im not usually a fan of thread'o'mancy, that one is a great one to bring back!

Yeah... man folks have put some really nice things up since I fired it up again... well worth it I think.

I believe I did mention we were missing out on a local DA player

Well guess what. Last night I ran into an old highschool buddy of mine, Tim Korklewski, who returned to the area (WI Dells). He is the one that got me into 40K some 15 years ago. He was big into Dark Angels when he was living down in FL. Still has them, though he prefers Maulifaux and Warmachine/Hordes.

Always good to add another army to the mix! Dark Angels have their own dex, don't they?

indeed they do

In case anyone's interested... I did grade out my units on the last battle report (keep forgetting to do this). Here's the link in case you've lost track of it. Mantis Warriors vs. Tau, 1500 pts.

My Mantis Warriors have another game tomorrow night vs. dajobe's Imperial Guard. 2000 pts, which is pretty much the point at which my current army works as good as it's going to get. Still have to proxy my LS Storms (got to get those done!) and a couple of sternguard... but otherwise I'm fully painted and operational. Hopefully, I'll remember my camera so I can do up a bat rep.

Gitsplitta wrote: the Iron Clad [died] 2-3 turns later... but not until the dread had taken out a squad of battle suits and a hammerhead...

Woah, are you telling us your Ironclad actually achieved something in a game, other than being a melta/railgun/lascannon magnet ?

Great !

Yeah! I was kind of miffed at his initial failure in shooting, but then I did a little mental re-checking are realized it was only a single melta-gun shot... so I should probably cut him a break. He *should* have died in the tau shooting phase of turn 2 (before he did any damage), wyfox just got really unlucky and either missed or failed to penetrate. Thank God for AV 13! I've got to learn to free up some points so he can carry one or two HK missiles IF I want him to have an impact in his initial shooting phase. Otherwise I should have him pop smoke to increase the chances of his surviving into a turn he can assault in and not worry about the shooting so much.

Gitsplitta wrote:Yeah! I was kind of miffed at his initial failure in shooting, but then I did a little mental re-checking are realized it was only a single melta-gun shot... so I should probably cut him a break. He *should* have died in the tau shooting phase of turn 2 (before he did any damage), wyfox just got really unlucky and either missed or failed to penetrate. Thank God for AV 13! I've got to learn to free up some points so he can carry one or two HK missiles IF I want him to have an impact in his initial shooting phase. Otherwise I should have him pop smoke to increase the chances of his surviving into a turn he can assault in and not worry about the shooting so much.

To be fair, I like to blame the dice too often when the fault lies in my own mistakes. Rolling 3 one's Back-2-Back to pentrate was really just a flashy straw man. In realty, the dread not dying had more to do with my list building than luck. Even with my pathfinders increasing my 3 railcannons BS to 5 and the dread lacking cover, I only had a 66% of blowing an AV 13 threat up (AV 14 would be even worste)...that is simply not good enough at 1500 points.

As one person already pointed out, having a second broadside would have helped...of course 80 points for another single strength 10 shot would have stripped significant functionality from my other units . But I could have switched out a missle pod for a fusion blaster (melta gun) and added a target lock (allowing the model in the unit to split fire) to each of the crisis suit squads for minimal points.


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polari wrote:Very nice batrep gits...the fireknife config is amazing against marines...wyomingfox hw do you use your devilfish? im thinkin of gettin some for my tau but idk doin well without em so far


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Sorry for missing this. So a small exclaimer: I am not an experienced tau player. With that out of the way, I can tell you what I have seen from experienced tau players and that is that they don't sink alot of points into thier Devil Fish. Mostly, they use them to ferry around (ie keep alive) a min squad of scoring fire warriors. To that end they give them disruption fields and keep to cover till late in the game. In KP missions don't deploy the gun drones, let them die with the boats so that they don't give up KP (I wasn't aware of that in our game).

Ah ok cuz the other tau players i know swear by them but i just dont see much use in them besides in games with objectives...i usually keep my tau in a 3-4 squad firing line with overlapping fields of fire and my suits/pirahna/hammerhead do all the moving


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and no i dont have pathfinders kroot or vespid in my army my firewarriors and stealth suits do all my markerlighting

polari wrote:Ah ok cuz the other tau players i know swear by them but i just dont see much use in them besides in games with objectives...i usually keep my tau in a 3-4 squad firing line with overlapping fields of fire and my suits/pirahna/hammerhead do all the moving


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and no i dont have pathfinders kroot or vespid in my army my firewarriors and stealth suits do all my markerlighting

they are good at keeping overpriced troop units(fire warriors) alive

Usually my apponents try to focus on my hammerhead and suits and forget the firewarriors or vice versa...either way it works out for me thier 30' range usually does a good enough job keepin em alive :p

Got owned by Gitsplitta, its was a fun game though

dajobe and I had a wonderful game last night. He had more than his share of misfortunes and kept a smile on his face the whole night. Nice army, looked great on the table. I guarantee you I will never "own" him again. (That's the thing about my build... it works on people *once*... just once.) Now that he knows my tricks our next game should be very competitive.

I'll be doing a battle report including a little story. In the mean time, as a teaser... my favorite shot of the day.



Evening light streaming through the windows of my FLGS, silhouetting the chaos mantis warrior (objective marker) against the walls of an adobe house in the middle of the gaming table. dajobe saw this and pointed it out... good catch man.

@Gitz, Very cool pic . Too bad dajobe couldn't play at your house; the food there is great ...and you're rebuilding my Tau...WOOHOO!

@Polari, there is a dakka user named Timmah, who has been playing Tau competitively in WI for years. Maybe send him a PM.

once i realised what was happening at the beginning of the game i should have shouted



our AV10 back armor cant repel melta bombs of that magnitude!!!


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Lol cant wait for the batrep

Hey nice pic! Glad to see your tactics worked...

And, hell, "His enemies do not live long enough to fight another battle against His Angels of Death" anyway...

batrep! now!
what to demanding? sorry
o and Git about the current title mantis warriors.... and Tau apparently...
some of the mantis warriors are asian right? tau are fish right?
SUSHI FOR EVERYBODY!

@fatty: You make me laugh!


Battle Report: Mantis Warriors vs. dajobe's Frigian 582nd

This took me all bloody day to write up. (no lie) I hope you guys like it!

Just read the bat rep. It was pretty sweet, i liked the story.

Glad it meets with your approval dajobe. Always tricky when I involve other people's armies in my rather random battle fluff. You aren't tied to anything I write of course, but the honor of your regiment is in-tact... and you've got something to play with (from a fluff perspective) if you'd like.

Nice batrep. fun story you are a brilliant writer Git.
and yeah i like to make poeple laugh i am the funny fat guy

I fixed the "story" in the batrep. Lots of small edits and a half-sentence, the other half of which got lost in the warp. It reads much better now.

@fatty: Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it!