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the local store has a league going and it's offering 10 points for anyone who fields an "underdog" army, such as all conscripts or such like, and a further 10 points for winning with them. I fielded an all-grot army, using the grot models i have, because it sounded like a laugh.

the list, over 2 force orgs, at 1250.

lvl 2 weirdboy
lvl 2 weirdboy
11 grots and a herder
looted wagon (bare)
11 grots and a herder
looted wagon (bare)
8 x 20 grots with 2 herders
aegis with quad-gun
dakkajet


wound up against an imperial knights player. so facing down 3 knights with 200+ guns which can't hurt them and 4 that can. roll on the battle!

we were playing on a 4x4 table, playing maelstrom of war (woo!) number 6. he deployed first, then I deployed for a while, having gotten the warlord trait that let 3 of my units infiltrate, which bagged me some objectives from the start. my weirdboys got 1 vortex, 2 S5 novas and a leadership check power between them. so all dice for vortex, get in!

suffice to say, his first turn saw him move forward and a few grots die. boo hoo. he gets 1 objective for having number 2.

my turn 1, I move up to meet him (well, to get the objectives) and my weirdboy tries to cast the vortex of doom, fails, perils, rolls a 6, passes his leadership test and becomes imbued by the might of gork! quad gun misses. I get 3 objectives.

his turn 2, he kills more grots and both wagons. moves up to meet my weirdboy and charges him, and the weirdboy punches him twice in the legs, taking 2 hullpoints off - yay for free armourbane! the stomp kills some grots and the weirdboy runs away with them.

my turn 2, weirdboy regroups, dakkajet arrives. vortex of doom is successfully cast and takes another hullpoint off the knight. the weirdboy perils, rolls a 6, passes his leadership test and is imbued with the cunnin' might of mork! dakkajet comes in on the knights side armour and knocks it down to 1 hullpoint (WAAAGH!). I score another 2 objectives with the grots, and one for casting a psychic power.

his turn 3, he kills more grots. charges the weirdboy again and the weirdboy finishes him off. the explosion kills all the remaining grots but the weirdboy stands firm.

my turn 3, the weirdboy joins another unit of grots but foolishly stays at the front - this is to be his undoing. the weirdboy successfully casts another vortex, which narrowly misses a knight after a 10" scatter brings it to 1/2" from the base. the weirdboy perils, and you know what? he rolls a 6, passes his leadership test and is imbued with the might of spork! dakkajet fails to hurt a knight. more points from objectives!

his turn 4, vortex scatters into his knight and chips off 2 wounds. he kills the weirdboy using a 2-shot battlecannon into the grots he was with, and loading all the saves on him. he passed all but 1 (yay for free 3++!) but one's enough when you're T4.

my turn 4, other weirdboy randomly casts powers to try and become uber, instead takes a wound. vortex scatters into grots (woo!) killing 4. quad gun chips a hullpoint off the other knight, none of them are walking away unscathed! dakkajet gets all 9 hits but no 6's.

his turn 5, more grots die.

my turn 5, a couple of units run for linebreaker. objectives by now are fully secured by grots and I'm pumping out points.

his turn 6, he kills... ...more grots.

my turn 6, i get another objective and the game ends.

final score, 10-3 to the grots. knights only had first blood, linebreaker and the point they got turn 1. I still had 4-5 units left on the field, and was amazed I managed to kill a knight!!!!

it was a good game, I'll have to try it again some time!

More excellent than a very excellent thing!

And what was your ooponent's reaction to losing to the GrotTide?

FacebookJunkie wrote:
More excellent than a very excellent thing!

And what was your ooponent's reaction to losing to the GrotTide?

"I shouldn't have picked maelstrom"

to which I pointed out I had all but one of the objectives at the end anyway

Bloody brilliant.

Haha that is great. You never know sometimes. 2 Full Squads of Nercon Warriors got 51 wounds on 5 of my PA GKs. I was going to just remove the squad but decided to roll just to see how bad they were killed. I made all 51 3+ PA saves.

Yet worse they were a purg squad w/ 4 Incinerators so they killed all 40 Necrons.

That's awesome haha. Grots are OP!

 Mythra wrote:
Haha that is great. You never know sometimes. 2 Full Squads of Nercon Warriors got 51 wounds on 5 of my PA GKs. I was going to just remove the squad but decided to roll just to see how bad they were killed. I made all 51 3+ PA saves.

Yet worse they were a purg squad w/ 4 Incinerators so they killed all 40 Necrons.

This. This alone. Best Warhammer story of my life.

 some bloke wrote:
the weirdboy perils, and you know what? he rolls a 6, passes his leadership test and is imbued with the might of spork!

This made me laugh for about 60 seconds, well done.

You seemed to have done a masterful job, rolling onto the objectives and making sure you got points every turn, it seems like he struggled to gun down that [Edit: Wow, I misread your list...you fielded 101 grots :O]. I have also been hearing that the Knights can't hit flyers, though it was kinda curious that the dakkajet could barely hurt them either. Still you played the mission exactly right, if the mission had been killpoints you would have probably been screwed

That guy brought more than 1 knight in 1250? Ha. He lost at list. PRO GROT.

 Mythra wrote:
Haha that is great. You never know sometimes. 2 Full Squads of Nercon Warriors got 51 wounds on 5 of my PA GKs. I was going to just remove the squad but decided to roll just to see how bad they were killed. I made all 51 3+ PA saves.

Yet worse they were a purg squad w/ 4 Incinerators so they killed all 40 Necrons.

The opposing player must have called a serious "Dice Check" after that. I know I wouldn't play another turn with you until you rolled those things 20 times each.

 Mythra wrote:
Haha that is great. You never know sometimes. 2 Full Squads of Nercon Warriors got 51 wounds on 5 of my PA GKs. I was going to just remove the squad but decided to roll just to see how bad they were killed. I made all 51 3+ PA saves.

Yet worse they were a purg squad w/ 4 Incinerators so they killed all 40 Necrons.

my best one was ages ago, I had a unit of 30 hormogaunts in cover in front of a space marine gunline. he rolled all his bolter shots at it and did about 25 wounds. I rolled the 5+ cover saves, with the store dice, and only 4 died!!

then a baneblade shot them and killed the rest but until then it was amazing XD

Sir, you are inspirational.

Epic, i gotta tell my son about this he loves grots lmao!

Now, where are those people saying that Objective Secured wouldn't matter that much? Or that Orks couldn't win!

Imperial Knights, defeated by Grots. I. Love. It.


And who preferred 6th Ed to 7th??

Best grot story ever!

Exalted!

Dude this is quite possibly one of the greatest batreps ever. I am still amazed that a weirdboy punched a Knight to death.

This is friggn brilliant.

That was great. A fun read and inspiration to grots everywhere.

The Waaaagh! is strong with your Grotz and Weirdboy! Really lucky rolls on the PoW table there too

This is just totally amazing. Loved this report. Sir you made my night!

Barnstaple? how is the league?

ahzek wrote:
Barnstaple? how is the league?

I'm not sure as, unfortunately for my spare time, I've gotten a full time job and can't turn up on thursdays any more :(

though we are running a campaign at the local gaming club if it interests you?

worst thing is this game catapulted me to the top, as people scored 1 point for a loss, 2 for a draw and 3 for a win. then I got 10 points for running an underdog army, then another 10 for winning with it, then 3 for the win as normal. bumped me up to 26 points on the second week!

this is the reason i like 7th, this wild crazy army, full of flavor and easly the most intresting battle rep i have read all week, Bravo sir Bravo

Haha, great stuff, the Meta just shifted

Awesome battle report!

The funny thing is most underdog armies will tend to have mass of troops like this , I'd have tried for the conscript rush though something like 5-6 vet squads in chimeras with heavy flamers all round and flamers on the vets would have made for a very funny game.

Sadly, I doubt an IG/AM list with chimera vets are considered underdog at all. XD

Who knows, maybe IG/AM platoon squads with nothing but krak grenades and lasguns would have been a really good laugh. First rank fire second rank fire and then charge in to suicide bomb vehicles to death.

I need to play lists like this for the fun of it! Great battle report and tactics employed. Wish there were pictures though :(