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Lumineth vs vampires. Horrible scenario for me, teclis & co not that good vs big monster spam, made critical mistakes like forgetting to put power of hysh on both pikes and wasting eltharion and turn 3 priority going to opponent gave turn 3 sudden death win.
Situation in pic didn't end up that badly. Neferakh(?) Dealt with 7 pikes but took 8 wounds in return. Big block lost like 6 or 7 but caused 11 in return(if only i had the 5+ mw spell on....). He gained 2 back for both. On his turn i nearly killed the named hero on zombie dragon when he cast mw on 5+ to all within 12". Didn't bother to dispel and instead for for every my unit on 4+ spell ignored and i cause d3 mw. Ended up 1 short...lol. he caused no mw, i caused 4.
Been playing a few games of Garagehammer with a friend. Decided to use my Imperial Fist Successors, an army which I haven't actually played this year, been focussing more on my Guard and Custodes.
We're both semi-competitive players, him moreso than I to be honest, so my list consisted of a bolt-heavy force backed up by 5x TH Terminators and a Leviathan. He was running a (half-proxied) Black Legion list with Abaddon, 90 Cultists (120 with Tide of Traitors), 3x Butcher Contemptors and a 10-man Plasma Terminator bomb.
Battle was intense but I managed to whittle down his Cultists enough to secure the centre, until Abaddon strutted in and wiped out a 10-man Primaris squad with no effort. A cheeky Null Zone and some snipers ended him pretty quickly, leaving his remaining Cultists vulnerable to morale. I ignored his Tide of Traitors squad however, and focussed on the Terminators, who thanks to some unlucky rolls didn't do much damage to either the Leviathan or my Captain.
While I tabled him the final score was 55-43. I very much like this about the scoring system for 9th, and how it can be so close despite appearing the opposite. The photo below is from turn 4 I believe.
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Sob vs eldar with best troll model i have seen. First 9e game with sisters for me.
The troll made game hilarious jumping all over the board messing my plans and giving me "huh?" Moments all the time when supposedly safe area suddenly got him there. Didn't actually do much damage(5 girl basic sisters aren't optimal targets, repentia not much better) but drew focus certainly.
Inferno pistol got hit past inv save despite cp reroll. 6 from miracle dice, 2 fnp passed, triumph killed in melee. Canoness unneeded.
With such a troll was half expecting some way to resurrect like sisters/necrons have.
Still 63-68 loss. But great fun. If i ever start eldar of any kind that model is instant first model.
Yep. It was hilarious. Was popping around all the time and with heroic intervenes got couple times into melee right away.
Bit lucky on last teleport. Not sure why he shifted position. Gave triumph and canoness easier charge and inferno pistol target to shoot. Did get away from repentia but they were gunning for axe and shield wraithguard anyway.
Don't recall when i have been laughing as much in 40k though. That jumping around i found hilarious.
Couple of weeks ago I joined a Crusade campaign reaching its close. Played a game yesterday against a highly-upgraded Word Bearers army.
First image is my (mostly finished) Imperial Fist successors. Only upgrade is a +1" move and charge bonus on the Terminators.
His list consisted of a Lord and the standard WB characters, Obliterators, Venomcrawler, several small CSM squads and 5 Terminators, plus some extras here and there.
Second image is the end of Turn 3, as you can see he was pretty much tabled despite his upgrades.
Thanks, the store has invested in a couple of 3D printers so the terrain variety has vastly expanded. Admittedly it was very bare, I think we're all still getting used to 9th Edition terrain, having a table full of pieces each with different rules and effects may have been a bit much at the time.
I wouldn't say that the table is bare by 9th standards. The lack of terrain makes that look more like your average fantasy battle table, not a 40K table.
A bit more DUST action, these were full armies when it started but when i remembered to take a picture it was almost over.
Allied forces were attempting to blow the fuel cash, axis forces defending in a breakthrough mission.
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750 points. 9th edition. T'au vs Space Wolves. Open play, "Hold at all costs" scenario.
Quick Batrep below.
Spoiler:
T'au deployed in the middle, and had to survive three turns of SW attacks. Victory to the army with the most models in the center at the end of the last turn.
Outcome: T'au shot really well. Like really well. Space Wolves should've dropped the wolf scouts for another rhino for the other squad of BC's. Space Wolves almost got the victory for "most models in the middle" but the sheer number of T'au they needed to kill just made it difficult. The Blood Claws getting decimated in overwatch didn't help.
Top performers:
Space Wolves: Dreadnought and Wolfpriest both performed admirably and lay down some damage in CC. The Rhino successfully and safely delivered Blood Claws to the center of the board, but was kind of useless after that.
Tau: They all really shot well. The Breacher squad eliminated a pack of Blood Claws in overwatch, which saved them having from the SWcc onslaught. The XV8s outflanked the SWs from manta strike, and took out a pack of bloodclaws.
Poor performers:
Space Wolves: Bloodclaws were both taken down easily. Ragnar never got into battle (Strategic mistakes.)
Tau: The two HQs didn't do much, other than thankfully having lots of wounds to survive the last round.
More pics in spoiler.
Spoiler:
Firing squad watching the west flank close in.
Fight for the middle
End game.
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Played some Epic Armageddon with my motorized XIV supported by a Reaver against an infantry Krieg force. A grueling match that was looking like a tie until the fourth turn, when the guardsmen charging the middle factory suffered an unexpected loss as they assaulted into the titan's support range and got blasted off the walls before a fatal charge of the Krieg commander out of the woods got broken against Captain-Commander Erasmus' tactical detachment, turning the game into an Astartes win on kill points after neither side could achieve a decisive win on objectives.
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Looks fantastic sherrypie, those are the trolls under the bridge gorgons?
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Trolls have an ebay store as well as a regular web store they are under the brand trolls.cz
i got all my necron infantry from them, and i think they are the only ones i have seen so far that have the gorgon. both vanguard and trolls carry various krieg infantry units. vanguard has quite a bit more options for vehicles for them like the macharius variants, artillery tractors, towed artillery units, quad mortar teams and so on. .
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Crusade patrol game vs new 40k player and his marines. I got skorpek lord and praetorians charge and caused havoc. As he failed to deal with my lord with enduring will and timeslinter cloak for maximum resilience before all but dreadnought were dead(and it was with 3 wounds easily finished by praetorians) i got easy 80-0 vp.
H.B.M.C. wrote: You seem to be a big fan of the Skorpek Lord?
Well for crusade force my force is pretty much set in stone Don't want to dilute experience points too much as upgrades are half the fun. So for my crusades it's now HQ period.
But then again...he IS pretty nifty. Overlord is basically just +1BS for one unit(2 with CP). No other purpose and trivial to remove. Skorpek lord minces stuff apart with ease and is tough as nail especially with set up I have(T6, 3+/4++, -1 to damage, 5+++, 6 wounds, living metal). He's only gone 2 times. Here because I failed to get 2 wounds with 4 attacks, hitting 3+(rr1), wounding 3+(rr1). Then with 4 attacks hitting 3+ wounding 2+ he got 3 and I failed all 4++ even with CP reroll. Second time I deleted myself via scenario special rule because game was lost anyway yet opponent refused resignation so I just moved him to area where as per special scenario he died.
VS IG he practically single handedly killed half the enemy army AND soaked up most of their focus(well that was easy. Scenario objective was all about his survival). Here he took out 8 basic marines, captain and could easily have ripped the dreadnought apart(only thing left that really makes a dent in him). Have had him deal with the chaos discordant, dreadnoughts etc. Gives me flexible beatstick that handles various threats as needed.
Even in 2k games he rarely dies so depending on what opponent has while we stand we fight is quite viable secondary. Got 10-15 from that quite frequently.
Necrons have pretty lackluster HQ's generally. This one's pretty much only one that can actually stand and fight.
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I played my second game of 9th Edition a couple of weeks ago, and this was also my second game of 40K this year...
So it was awesome to get down to my local club (the amazing HATE) after so long being stuck indoors.
My planned opponent couldn't make it so I ended up playing against a chap I hadn't met before - that's why I love this hobby, you can meet a total stranger and still have a shared language and never run out of things to talk about.
This was his first game of 9th so we played a casual 1,500pt game - Tyranids vs my Ultramarines.
It was a very fun game but a clear victory for the Ultras - I only found out afterwards that although this was his first game of 9th he had only ever played a couple of times. he did very well for a brand new player.
The pics are from the epic moment my Ultras tried to kill his Warlord, who was surrounded by Zoanthropes.
A glorious charge by the Ultras that ended with most of the Zoanthropes being killed but the Warlord escaping....
Don't want to dilute experience points too much as upgrades are half the fun. So for my crusades it's now 
