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Lost in rollover...

Participated in a doubles, Adepticon practice tourney yesterday. First BatRep is up: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/495027.page#5083376

Is that tray new? Very spiffy!

Solar_lion made those for us last year. Perfect movement tray for a 1k army. I was just the lucky recipient.

yeah nice tray

Nice batrep too!

Hmm, maybe I should make a tray for my Wolfwing. It is very practical and cool

R

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Participated in a doubles, Adepticon practice tourney yesterday. First BatRep is up: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/495027.page#5083376

Great story bro! ...

Sorry couldn't resist. They were probably hoping you would try and take that objective for additional points. Instead they were a 1000 points investment in babysitting...ouch! Post deployment, it probably would have been a better idea to simply run the pallidins towards the objective you guys were gunning for and left a bike unit to score the other. Anyways, way to go ignoring those Pallidins.

 Gitsplitta wrote:

Final pic of Brother Duciss.

Hey, Gits !!!!

Brother Duciss reached home !!! Sadly, not "really" in one piece, but mostly safe !! (Only extended chainblade broken - glue's curing as I speak)

Thanks you so much for that model, it was well worth the wait !!

It'll be standing (jumping ?) proudly by the side of my "show" models !!

That's supposed to be an insult, right??

I think there were a lot of ways those termies could have been used better. They knew where our fortifications were so just sitting on that other objective with a combat squad would have freed up the paladins to deploy closer and wreck face all they wanted. i wasn't about to point it out though... we had all we could handle with the 1000 points we ended up facing.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
That's supposed to be an insult, right??

Nope, as in... "side-by-side", or "equal footing"

Oh, and... He looks waaaaaaaayyyyy better IRL than in the pic ! (Also love the right shoulder pad, looks so Eastern )

I finally finished my Mantis warrior I hope you like him

 Yggdrasil wrote:

 Gitsplitta wrote:
That's supposed to be an insult, right??

Nope, as in... "side-by-side", or "equal footing"

Oh, and... He looks waaaaaaaayyyyy better IRL than in the pic ! (Also love the right shoulder pad, looks so Eastern )

...I think Gits was responding to my hipster comment "Cool Story Bro" that was stated in jest. But yeah, that was an awesome model and while I have not been a fan of the mantis like chainswords of the past, he really out did himself with his latest reincarnation.

Yggdrasil wrote:

 Gitsplitta wrote:
That's supposed to be an insult, right??

Nope, as in... "side-by-side", or "equal footing"

Sorry Yggs, I didn't see your post before I posted my response... that comment of mine was in response to wyomingfox's comment, not yours! I was worried that he wouldn't quite make the journey in one piece, but I'm very glad the damage was not irreparable. Problem with odd poses like that... they tend to be fairly fragile.

Oh, and... He looks waaaaaaaayyyyy better IRL than in the pic ! (Also love the right shoulder pad, looks so Eastern )

I'm very pleased you feel that way! It's a good day in Gittsville!

M0rdain wrote:I finally finished my Mantis warrior I hope you like him

Mordian did a great job on his Mantis Warrior... make sure you go check it out folks!

I'm not going to bother posting this one in the bat reps section as I only have a few pics and it wouldn't make much of a story. (I have trouble remembering all the details without a complete set of pics).


Our strong showing in the first round guaranteed that we'd be paired with one of the top teams in the second. Our opponents were running necrons. Nice, balanced lists by my estimation. Two night scythes each, 2 large scarab units, mix of troops, couple of spyders, pair of anni barges, 5 wraiths, d-lord, deathmarks & cryptek in one of the scythes. Our opponents were Jarrod & Joe. Great guys, fun to play, very knowledgeable.

The Game:
We were on this table with a MASSIVE sight blocking (but not impassible) terrain piece in the center. Short edges. 4 objectives, one in each quarter. I can't remember what the secondary was... I'll have to check my notes tonight. Night fight for turn 1.

Deployment:
I put the wall too far forward, should have slammed us against the back edge in order to maximize shooting. Otherwise I'm deployed along the wall. Pedro is with the combat squad on the right objective (because I set him on the table and forgot about him & that's where he stayed). So... two big mistakes for me on deployment... not a good start. Chaos is scattered on the flanks and behind to give close support as well as their heavies on the bunker thingie. The Necrons deploy forward with the assault elements hiding behind the mountain of sight blocking terrain in the center.

Turn 1
We shoot like mad at what we can see & do nothing. Darkness enhanced invuls make the Necrons immune to everything we can dish out. In their half the 'Crons pile forward... the assault elements, all of which pretty much ignore difficult terrain pile into the safety of the central terrain piece. They pick off a few stray marines but really nothing bad yet.

Turn 2
We shoot like mad at everything and succeed in knocking a hull point off of one of the anni barges... that's pretty much it for the big stuff. I bring the rhinos around to hit one of the scarab units from the right (that's the rhino on top of those spires... don't ask me, it's the convention at our uber-competitive shot that there's NOTHING that a vehicle can't drive through or over). My marines pile out and I flame/bolter 2 or 3 scarab bases. The second of the two rhino squads was supposed to run in front of the scarabs to act as a breakwater for the sternguard... but I forgot to do this, mistake #3.

In their half, 3/4 of the flyers come in. My fancy AA gun goes off and takes 1 hull point off of one flyer. These are highly over-rated as flyer defense. The assault elements pile forward, more things die to Tessla fire but we are still more-or-less in-tact.



Turn 3
We shoot like mad again but do little of consequence. I kill a few more scarab bases and put another hull point on one of the anni barges. The Necrons hit my line and wipe out the left-most squad & the sternguard. Shooting wipes my dev's on the left as well. The spyders charge my forward combat squad killing 2. I do wound it though I think.



Turn 4
In our most effective turn of shooting yet, we kill several scarab bases and a spyder. Chaos moves to shore up the center and left flank.



However the slaughter continues unabated. The deathmarks with cryptek drop next to Kantor's squad who are inroduced to the AP1 flamer that wounds on a 2 or better. Amazingly, only 3 are killed. The wraiths and lord begin the process of mopping up the chaos lord and his squad. Bikes, rhino, etc. are taken out by tessla fire. At this point I determine that we can no longer score a single point, nor can we prevent our opponents from scoring max points... but my team mate wants to continue playing. (I wished he hadn't, my back really needed a break by this point in the day).

Turn 5
As you'd expect... we mostly get wiped. He did manage to take the final hull point off one of the barges but that we pretty much it.




So... looking at it.... I did make several mistakes along the way, but the battle was so lopsided that it's hard to imagine that any of them would have made a significant difference in the outcome. Our shooting was completely ineffectual with the terrain, invuls, and night fighting enhancing the former. His best HtH unit got summarily executed by the wraiths & lord. They were just faster, more flexible, better at shooting and better at assault than we were. It's like playing mechanical Space Wolves!

Wow . They get alot of nice units for 1000 points apeice.
10 scarabs with 3 W each?

I'm not sure 10... but a lot... at least 7 and the spyders were adding to them for a turn or two.

But Gits, you were the true winner because you had a beautifully finished, fully painted army!

Actually, mine wasn't fully painted... but I appreciate the sentiment.

As we are about to get hit by a blizzard... I may be incommunicado for a bit. Take care everyone! See you on the other side of the weather!

Take care!

R

Bunker up mate! and grab a snow shovel.

or a paintbrush

Good time for some Hot Apple Pie...followed by some Hot Apple Pie

 Gitsplitta wrote:
As we are about to get hit by a blizzard... I may be incommunicado for a bit. Take care everyone! See you on the other side of the weather!

Blizzard? Is it actually snowing up there? We've got rain in Ohio, and we're supposed to be hit by the same storm.

Yep is it snowing in Southern WI, though it is a very wet, heavy snow.

Looks like the end of the world will be snowy

Stay warm Gits!

Thanks all. No Internet or TV all day. My first access today is here on my phone. Not sure when I'll get regular Internet (or TV) back. I'm guessing we had about 16" based on what I moved, hard to tell now because the high winds are blowing everything around. At least we didn't lose power which my wife and I were concerned about. Still possible that the wind will drop a tree limb on the power lines but we'll hope for the best. Odd to be completely cut off from the outside world (save for my phone).

Till later - Gits


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Just took a pic which I'll post when I can. The snow on our back deck comes up to the seats of our deck chairs. According to the chairs in the house that's somewhere between 17 & 18". Quite respectable actually.

Up in DOOR we got freezing rain followed by an 2 inch of snow. My driveway is an Ice rink.

Stay safe guys (and girls of course)...