Dec 16th @ 7PM EST - Tau vs Astra Militarum (1850pts)

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**1PlusLogan**

Tomorrow night (Dec 16th), we'll be featuring another live battle report of Logan's Tau vs Nick's Astra Militarum! Tune in live @ http://twitch.tv/1plusarmour at 7PM EST!

Logan's Tau
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XV8 Commander Crisis Suit w/ Command and Control Node, Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite, Neuroweb System Jammer, Onager Gauntlet, Puretide Engram Neurochip, Stimulant Injector, Vectored Retro-Thrusters, XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit
Ethereal
10x Kroot Carnivores w/ Kroot Hound
10x Kroot Carnivores w/ Kroot Hound
Tetra
Tetra
Tetra
3x Broadside w/ Early Warning Override, Twin-linked High-Yield Missile Pod, Twin-linked Smart Missile System, 5x MV8 Missile Drone
KV128 Stormsurge w/ Advanced Targeting System, Early Warning Override, Pulse Driver Cannon, Shield Generator, Twin-linked Burst Cannon

Riptide Wing
2x Riptide Shas'vre w/ Early Warning Override, Ion Accelerator, Stimulant Injector, Twin-linked Fusion Blaster
Riptide Shas'vre w/ Early Warning Override, Heavy Burst Cannon, Stimulant Injector, Twin-linked Smart Missile System

VS

Nick's Astra Militarum
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Cadian Battle Group

Battle Group Command
- Company Command Squad

Emperor's Fist Armoured Company
- Leman Russ Exterminator w/ 2x Multi-melta, Lascannon
- Leman Russ Exterminator w/ 2x Multi-melta, Lascannon
- Leman Russ Squadron w/ Demolisher
- Tank Commander w/ 2x Multi-melta, LAscannon, Pask
- Leman Russ Executioner w/ 2x Plasma Cannon, Heavy Bolter

Emperor's Blade Assault Company
- Company Command Squad w/ Chimera
- Hellhound Squadron
- Veterans w/ Chimera
- Veterans w/ Chimera
- Veterans w/ Chimera

The AV14 wall will be daunting against my Tau, as will the huge amount of AP2 weaponry. Here's to hoping that I can get close enough with my Riptides, and roll well enough with my Ordnance weapons to punch through the armour!

What are your thoughts on this matchup? Who will walk away the winner? What would you change with the lists?

**notredameguy10**

Against Astra Militarium I would much rather have HBC on my Riptides than IA. 12 Rending shots (24 with firestorm ability) will help much more against AV14 than IA

**1PlusLogan**

notredameguy10 wrote:
Against Astra Militarium I would much rather have HBC on my Riptides than IA. 12 Rending shots (24 with firestorm ability) will help much more against AV14 than IA

I think it's going to be very close on the math (working this out below). If we ignore Firestorm (since it would double the result in any scenario), we get the following when buffed to BS5:

HBC - 12 shots > 10 hits > 2 Rends (1.6, rounding up) > 1 HP (1.3, rounding down) and no modifier on the result if a pen.
IA - 1 hit > 1HP (~.66 rounding up) with a +1 modifier on pen result

So with this, it does look like you're right, though IA has a chance of clipping multiple vehicles, etc... but I think I would still give the slight edge to the HBC.

With that said, this is not a tailored list, but rather what I'm hoping to run at Adepticon so it's an attempt to account for all variety of things (on-demand AP2, template interceptor, etc...) where running only HBC could fall flat on its face (e.g. against Pod Grav Centurions). I did run triple HBC Riptides in a game last night against drop pod sisters, however, and it was extremely strong (especially while all had SMS instead of Fusion). As it stands, I'm going to test both out and see where it gets me! My models all have the weapons magnetized in either case!

**Dman137**

Is it going to be a live game or vassle.?

**1PlusLogan**

Live, in person, at a local store! The goal is to have a live game streamed every Wednesday (except holidays, etc...).

**1PlusLogan**

Quick bump - we'll be live at 7PM tonight @ twitch.tv/1plusarmour!

**ArmchairArbiter**

How'd the game turn out?

**Skimask Mohawk**

What a blow out from Nick, though the nerf to pask will help when playing against him now

**1PlusLogan**

ArmchairArbiter wrote:
How'd the game turn out?

Massive victory for the Astra Millitarum. Some misplays on my end, and horrific dice rolls, decided the game by the end of turn 2.