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4 guns zooming, 3 hovering if it moves up to 12", ja?

I was going to say "but the Stormraven doesn't have 4 weapons" then I remembered the missiles.

So yes, 4 weapons while zooming. Unsure on the hovering part since I'm without a rulebook and haven't had the need yet to check the rules out. Should get round to it though as it may come up vs Diudiu.

We discussed about POTMS with Yang before the tournament. He thought that POTMS could shoot other target with full BS, but except flyer.
So, if declare skyfire, you could shoot 1 gun at ground target with regular BS with POTMS. if no declare, you could shoot 1 gun at flyer with BS1. At least in this tournament, that's so.

Diu Diu,

That doesn't make sense...the entire vehicle should be using skyfire or not.

the way you describe it actually works better for me though...

Also, Luke - Storm Raven

T/L Multi Melta or ML
T/L Assault Cannon or LC
4x Mind Strike or Blood Strike Missiles
2x Huricane Bolters

They can have

4 weapons and 4 missiles

So 4 with normal +1 with POMS right? hehe.


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and yeah, can fire 4 normal weapons at a flyer and the mindstrike (grey knights) at a ground unit.

Luke, I finished my first turn last night, then I would face your five scythes.


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So 4 with normal +1 with POMS right? hehe.


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and yeah, can fire 4 normal weapons at a flyer and the mindstrike (grey knights) at a ground unit.

Actually, you could fire 4 normal weapons and 2 missile any time, just some ones are Snap Shots.
In 6th, vehicle always could fire all its weapons, with regular BS or Snap Shots as rule, except flat out or smoke.

So, being that I i got a pass onthe first round, i had an extra week to paint up my massiive, high model count army.

pictures attached...the storm raven still nees some finishing, but other than, all paineted

Lilian took the photos - just wanted to say thank you to her for her photography skills...

Some others

Just a heads up, but this is not how you get ahead in life. As a matter of fact, he's heading to the land down under!

So a quick update since I finally played my second round game. Simply put, I lost. DiuDiu's list was tough and I just couldn't break ahead. A quick rundown of some of the most important things:

1. The Scouring, with my deployment zone having a 4pt, 3pt and 2pt objective. I chose 2nd turn since I wanted last chance grabs at objectives.

2. Corbulo is just so hard to kill once he hits cc if you don't have S8. My D-lords were pounding on him in a challenge and he just wouldn't fail that 2+ save. This was the real killer as it left Mephiston free to knock out Troops 1 after the other.

3. We made use of the new FAQ rulings and I made the mistake of not focusing on her Stormravens (I figured my Death Rays would be put to better use on the ground) while she was eliminating my fliers 1 by 1.

A real tough game. Although she had a big disadvantage (I had 8 Scoring units to her 3) she played flawlessly while I made some stupid mistakes and learnt a but more about 6th edition. Now that Scythes have become better (again!) I think I will try to find a way to incorporate some more.

Congrats to DiuDiu on the win and good luck in the rest of the tournament.

Cool report! Thanks for the update. Last time you did a detailed report for the final, no?

Sorry to hear about that Luke.

Diudiu must truly be a gifted tactician (or very lucky) to have pulled that victory off, though the new FAQ's do help her cause.

Yeah last time I did my best to make detailed reports. Unfortunately this time I have a lot less time on my hands. New job and a new baby will do that though I guess.

Am hoping to do a bit better in the winter tournament. since Night Scythes got a bit of a boost (and my Doom Scythes aren't providing the anti-air) I may try more of them.

Thanks for such a wonderful game. And it's very lucky for me the new FAQ.

In my plan before, the ten terminators with Corbulo would tie the D-lord and Wraiths, Mephiston destoried other units on the ground. And then, the five Sythes would be large problem. Stormravens would hover to shoot 24" away, but it's hard to resist 2+ with 5+.

While we got the 4th mission, then fliped the points for each Objective, I thought I lost it.
But it's so lucky the Brother Corbulo! I rolled all my Dise 1 onto other units. Although he is MVP while S8-, but he did much more than he could in this game.
And it's not a good idea for you to wait for my close combat nearby the 4 points Objective.

William (the talented 15 month old) playing and beating Luke's Necrons.

BTW, my 2nd round game should be this weekend; I will post a battle report.


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Caption should read "yeah, i just blew up your Death Scythe. What you gonna do about it"

Way to start them young, Mark.

Screw piano, swimming lessons and sports. Warhammer is where it's at!

1st - sorry for all the people on Dakka who can't understand why a tournament takes so long...we feel you and unfortunately it has to do with the game dynamics here in Shanghai.

So, after two, i finally got my first game in - note that this is a round 2 game (I came in second place in the last tournament so automatically got past round one



My List:

Draigo
Coteaz

10 Paladins
- 1 MC Hammer
- 4 hammers
- 4 swords
- 4 Psycannons
- Banner

2 Paladins
- 2 MC Hammers

2 Paladins
- 2 MC Hammers

Storm Raven
- Hurricane Bolters
- Psybolts

Dreadknight
- H Incinerator
- Teleporter

DreadKnight
- H Incinerator
- Teleporter


Opponent's LIst: Space Marines

- Vulkan
- Lysander

5 Hamminators

9 x stearn guard
- 4 combi mleta
- 2 melta guns
- Drop Pod

Iron Clad
- 2 Heavy Flamers
- Drop Pod

10 Scounts
- Cammo Cloaks
- Sniper Rifles

10 Marines
- las Cannon
- Melta Gun
- Combi Melta
- Drop Pod

Storm Talon Gunship
- Missile Launcher

Land Raider

Bastion w/ Quad Gun


Used Chapter Tactics from Vulkan; he has vulkan and lysander with the stearnguard. I actually like his list quite a bit. He made a few mistakes during the game which allowed me to win, although i think it was a close game.



Mission

- THE RELIC
- Normal Deployment

Initiative - Grey Knights

Warlords:
GK - Furious Charge in enemy deployment zone
M - FNP within 3 inches of objective.

Obviously this is a deamonic relic that must be put in the vaults on Titan - maybe the foolish Astartes just don't understand the power of the artifact the planetary government asked them to retrieve; they obviously don't know they are being played by Chaos and some of them will pay with their lives. But this is a sacrifice that must be met in order to keep chaos at bay.

...

Turn 1 - Grey Knights

Nice! Looking forward to any more pics/rest of report.

Marines Turn 1

Stern Guard Drop Pod with Lysander and Vulkan come in

Drop pod with combad squad come in.


Because of Coteaz, he cannot get too close to my deathstar, but he still has a lucky scatter and gets close enough so i don't get my "i've been expecting you shots"

Note: the move 6" after disembarking from a drop pod has really made them far more dangerous...


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Grey Knights Turn 2

Sorry, i missed some pics here

I use reservers special pwer on draigo, all reserves come in - no need to have used power

BTW - on my turn 1 , Coteaz took a wound from perils..., a 1,1

One Paladin squad arrives between his strearn guard and my death star, the other arrives near his five many tac squad with laz cannon.

My other dreadknight runs from his terminators, near back of stearn guard...i flamer him but he makes all but 1 save (11 wounds).

I reach the Relic with death star...

the storm raven blasts his terminators; kill 2; I think deathstar shot at his tac sqaud killing 2 marines

Quite a poor performance on my part.


His turn 2 - his reserves fail to come in. He actually pulled the stearnguard away from my death star (i was surprised and this was the mistake that cost him the game ithink. His terminators move into the Bastion to man the quad gun.

shoots at me some more but not too much happens

Turn 3 Grey Knights.

Death star moves towards land raider,

Paladins in corner move to assault his 5 man tac squad with las cannon.

Storm Raven goes to hover mode to blast his LR (note, the SR lost a hull point from quad gun - last turn the termies manned it and shot at me).

LR goes boom... I assault his tac squad and they die. not much else on my turn. BUT I HAVE THE RELIC

Turn 3 Space Marines,

Iron Clad drops in, fires 2 flamers and two missiles at my dreadknight, takes off two wounds,

Storm Talon comes in, shoots death star

Quad gun takes down storm raven :(

Grey Knights lose a few paladins in the death star

GK last turn (3) palaidn wipe out his combat squad...

GK Turn 4... move my guys away -

Coteaz Parilled on casting to reroll to hits...

Dreadknight and paladins assault the iron clad - paladins failed the role and he overwatched taking off three wounds (1 paladin only has one wound now)

Dreadknight beatsticks his ironclad - everybody said the doom fists on a dreadknight are STR 10, but for some reason, i thought they were only Str 6...anyway, we played them as STR 10.

deathstar gets further away from lysander...

Space Marine turn 4,

GK Turn 5


he continues to shoot at the death star and does some damage to them.

GK manages getting velcity lock on the storm talon and it eventually explodes on my last turn.

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In the End - Crushing Victory to the Grey Knights 5-0

First Blood - GK +1
Enemy in Deployment to GK +1 (he may have 1 point - didn't really measure but based on photos i think his drop pods were too far out...)
THE RELIC - GK +3



Overall, a fun game and more challenging than i thought. I brought the Draigo Wing as i thought it would be fun to play - and it is. I actually really liked my opponents list a lot and decided to make up a similar one myself, with some changes of course.

The biggest mistake he made was backing off his stearnguard. Maybe it would have been suicide for him to go after my death star, but i think Vulkan and Lysander would have been a real challenge for them.

Again, pretty fun match. My next match is in a week against a 9 Drop Pod space wolf army with a lot of plasma death :(






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Also, I left my dreadknight gaurding the door of the bastion...i didn't want to assault the basition as then the terminators could assault out of it... we basically felt that it was like a vehicle and you could not assault coming out of it.

I am not sure i would have put his hamminators in there, even though there were only two of them...


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oh, and my paladin in his deployment zone did destroy the drop pod the ironclad came down in...

so summary:

Draigo (3 w left),
Coteaz (1 w left)
3/10 paladins (2 w/ only 1 wound left)
1/2 paladins (only 1 wound left)
Dreadkinight

is what i had left...

Lysander
Vulkhan
2/5 Hamminators
2/5 Tac Squad
5/9 stearn guard
2 drop pods
Bastion

Is what my opponent had left.

Congrats on the win Mark. Looks like your opponent made some mistakes, you capitalized, played well and won. I wouldn't mind a competitive, non-tournament game at some point in the near future when my final 2 Scythes are assembled. I'm itching to try out my Deathmarks.

My battle report with Zark has been posted.. I put in in the battle report threads

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/480625.page#4842775