Hey guys,
I played 2 1250 games last night, the first in a good long while due to intense uni work. However I lost both, although the first only marginally and the second because of a few mistakes myself and in general I could have played better.
The first game was against Nids, my list was;
Big mek, bike, KFF, Killsaw, Da finking Kap,
He rolled with 3 deffcoptas and a painboy
12 slugga boyz with nob PK, BP in a trukk
10 slugga boyz, Nob, PK, BP in a trukk with a mek and weirdboy
Gunwagon squadron
10 shoota boyz in a gunwagon
9 tankbustas in a gunwagon
5 gitz in a gunwagon
Nid list (roughly dont know nids)
Hive tyrannt with a heavy blast thing at str 9? with warplance
2 hive guard
lictors
ravagers with the red terror
choopy guants in a big blob
shooty guants in a big blob
warriors with with triangle weapons and clawed arms?
2 zoanthropes
Game; 4x4 table - reasonable terrain on each side with a difficult terrain piece in the middle.
He deployed heavily on one flank with the hive, ravagers +terror, choopy gaunts, lictors inflitrated into the cover mid table on that flank too,The other flank had his shooty blob, warriors and his 2 zoans up in a building. I deployed opposite the choopy flank with the gunwagons and my coptas and boss, while I hid my choopy boyz on the other side opposite his shooty gaunts and warriors.
Basically my initial game plan had been for 2 rolls for master of ambush, which I rolled for, and then got and then didn't use in the slightest.... as I didn't infiltrate (actually I did put my trukks a little further out of my deployment but unable to be seen by his hive tyrannt.).... so I think I should have rolled elsewhere, but wasn't sure what was useful for a big mek?? On the left flank with all his choppy and all my shooty I basically baited him out as he took first turn and moved up to the cover in the centre of the left flank, I just backed away and fired rokkits and such. While on the other flank I pressed straight up, charged his gaunts with 1 boyz unit and wiped them (didn't intend to do, I was hoping to be locked in his turn).
I made a couple mistakes, I underestimated how fast his ravagers would get to my squadron and how much damage his shooty tyrannt would do. Turn 2 I was backing up along my board edge when he got a stun from a pen on my shoota boy gunwagon, stunning all 3. I had always kept the shoota gunwagon at the front to tank basically, and provide a expendable buffer unit. At this point I needed to cover the wagons, so I moved the deffkoptas and my big mek and painboy as a block to the vehicles from a lictor squad and the ravagers. I whittled him down a few lictors and ravagers through shooting, especially the bustas, they were doubling out stuff so nicely. My boyz who turn 2 got charged after a peppering from his warriors held ground and actually won combat the nob and
PK killing three himself.
Turn 3
my coptas and boss ate dust, not even getting a chance to strike, but he didn't charge with the ravagers while my nobs and boyz finished up his warriors. His choppy gaunts were midfield and looking like they were going to get charged by those gaunts, so after I had consolidated the Nob and 2 boyz from the first sqaud as a block and moved the other unit round to go for the zoans. However, he used his ravagers to move across board and go for my boyz, He charged them and promptly ate them all in my turn, but I managed a few kills with my nobz. I denied his warp lance and he failed his
FNP.
Turn 4,
I was now able to move my gunwagons again, but with his ravagers on my right flank I didn't want to continue backing away, as I felt like i'd only trap myself, so I held my ground disembarked my shoota boyz as another speed bump, Initially I had intended to charge and also try and tie his hive guard into combat too, but I realised he'd wipe me, unluckily I hadn't quite covered one flank and his hive guard and tyrannt were going to be able to swing round for a charge.
However, by this point i'd like to point out I was rolling 6's like the devil, my gitz and bustas had been seriously lifting their share of the work, after watching the terror in the distance eat my squads, they were all agreed they were not sharing the same fate. He charged my boyz with lictors and gaunts while the tyrannt and hive guard moved and needed a 6" charge to get into my squadron. I overwatched....
and well it went like this, gitz first, 15 AP2 shots, rolling 8 6's to hit, I killed both his hive guard, busta's whiffed with no hits.... looking bad..... he then failed the charge range and it would have been enough had his hive guard been alive. The gitz saved my bacon, in my turn I then used the gitz to kill off the hive tyrannt combined with the 3
TL BS shootas that the gunwagons have, while the bustas finished off his lictors.
Turn 5
his zoanthropes had moved up and his remaining 3 ravagers and terror had returned. He moved, shot psychic and failed and then in my turn I killed out all his ravagers and terror with 7 rokkit hits, soooo many
to hit
The gitz killed the zoans down to 1 wound on the last which he made with one save (cover I believe?). Game ended, he won on
KP by 1 point and avoided tabling, had the game gone on I would have won, as 1 zoan and a gaunt unit who couldn't hurt me.
I then played temptest scions, but cba to write that out;
Overall;
Tankbusta's and gitz shifted some serious firepower in both games, they were the MVP's of both matches, gunwagons are da bee's knees, lasting both games, AV13,12,11 for 60 pts with a
TL BS?? yes please! squadron rules were helpful and a hiderance, but the overwatch was deadly. Killed so many models with overwatch it was outrageous. Like I said, my
were n fire, any
BS 2 shots were mostly
.
I feel for 60 pts gunwagons are a great buy and against scions I outflanked my 3 koptas, which was equally as powerful, they turned up backfield and wrecked so many taurax and even in combat were crushing shooty units. Great mobility, but the
KFF was a waste that game, should have gone
SAG imo. Or replaced with a warboss on bike.
Looking for thoughts and feedback? I lost both games, but had such a laugh and felt minus a few mistakes like; warlord traits, not backing up enough and in general getting caught in the open with my boyz units who got eaten by the ravagers I did pretty well, my gunwagon squadron was MVP sooo much!
