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 Valek wrote:
This is exactly what i did in objective games in 5th and has now become my standard mode of operations.

Wipe the scoring units of the table and everything that is not overtly difficult, then watch the opponent making faulty decissions and profit of those.

Yeah, it's all about target priority. Kill the stuff that matters and/or the stuff that you can. For the rest, see Plan B.


Plan B Options:
1. Ignore.

2. Screen out.

3. Sacrifice a unit to keep them occupied (tarpit unit preferably).

4. Deal with them when you can or when you absolutely have to.

5. Run away.

I wonder how he was allowed to have a 3-man Assault squad?

 Smashotron wrote:
I wonder how he was allowed to have a 3-man Assault squad?

2 guys died from the 5-man combat squad (or perhaps 7 died out of 10). In any case, the unit wasn't at full strength after having suffered casualties.

Ah okay I must have misread. I thought he disembarked with a 3-man squad from reserves. As always, great great battle reports! I prefer your text-based style with the spoilers over a video batrep.

Great report, thanks! Looks like a fun battle.

 Smashotron wrote:
Ah okay I must have misread. I thought he disembarked with a 3-man squad from reserves. As always, great great battle reports! I prefer your text-based style with the spoilers over a video batrep.

SBG wrote:
Great report, thanks! Looks like a fun battle.

Thanks guys.

Just so you know there isn't an interpretation for the warlord trait and hatred, it's clearly written in the codex in the designers note. Having said that it may have balanced out with the melta thing though i think that abby would have done way more damage faster with the rerolls.

As far as abbadon not joining units, i don't use him because he is over costed but the idea that he can't join a unit is about the same as the idea that the Doom scythe can shoot into close combat or that you were meant to be able to put a mountain in front and an ADL, Don't play with duche players..

 jegsar wrote:
Just so you know there isn't an interpretation for the warlord trait and hatred, it's clearly written in the codex in the designers note. Having said that it may have balanced out with the melta thing though i think that abby would have done way more damage faster with the rerolls.

As far as abbadon not joining units, i don't use him because he is over costed but the idea that he can't join a unit is about the same as the idea that the Doom scythe can shoot into close combat or that you were meant to be able to put a mountain in front and an ADL, Don't play with duche players..

Yeah, found that out after the battle (with regards to the Warlord trait and Hatred). I just missed it initially because I've never used Abaddon before (at least not in the new CSM dex). Whether the stormraven got destroyed or not wouldn't have really affected the outcome of the game...other than to prevent the tabling. But Abaddon with Prefered Enemy (or was it Hatred) would have been nasty for sure.

With regards to him being able to join marked units or not, I think the majority of people will play it as he can. At least that's what the poll in YMDC seem to indicate. But next time, I will discuss with my opponent before the game. With this being my first time using Abaddon, I totally forgot about the controversy involving him with marked units.

Abaddon has been vindicated! From the new GW CSM FAQ's:

Q: Does Abaddon the Despoiler’s Mark of Chaos Ascendant prevent him from joining friendly units chosen from Codex: Chaos Space Marines that have a Mark of Chaos ? (p57)

A: No.

I feel bad for the blood angels, if he would have picked different target priorities then he may have had a few less problems with your guys.

Slayer222 wrote:
I feel bad for the blood angels, if he would have picked different target priorities then he may have had a few less problems with your guys.

In my opponent's defense, he is still new to 6th Edition after having only played a handful of games. Also, he's never played against the new CSM before until this game....and then he plays his very first game against a very sneaky player.

Also, he really didn't have any shooting so it's really hard to fault him for target priority. I guess you could say his target priority was to charge everything into the units defending my objective.