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UK GT Heat 1 Round 1

 

Hello Everyone,

 

My buddy Mike and I decided to bite the bullet and go to the UK GT Heat 1 this year.  I must say to all of the Americans who have not been to the UK, it is quite a fascinating place.  I highly recommend taking the opportunity to go and enjoy the landscape, beer, club scene, beer and beer.   

 

Well – I could talk about the cathedral in Chester and walking along the city walls at night, but we’re here for some battle reports.  So here goes.  The following will eventually be a summary of my six rounds of battle with our “Saim-Heinous” list (Mike and I took the exact same army). 

 

Round 1.   – I played Richard who had space wolves and here’s the armies. 

 

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I setup as follows and tried to use cover as much as I could while keeping my vehicles within striking distance.

 

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Luck has it that I went first.  I moved up to setup for minimizing the effects of the scouts when they eventually come on board.  I was able to immobilize the rhino with the grey hunters and negate any return fire from that unit.  I destroyed the ven dread’s plasma cannon and attempted to shake the predator, but failed. 

 

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Richard’s first turn only had two vehicles that could shoot.  Other vehicles and units moved into various advancement positions.  Alas, the predator cuts through one of my falcons like a knife through butter.  All I heard on the coms was ‘We have a Purple Falcon down, we have a Purple Falcon down.”  (movie reference from Black Hawk Down). 

 

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I initiated the final maneuvers to minimize the kill potential of the scouts.  Stunned the predator and destroyed a large number of the grey hunters.  Farseer Ilianth lost a brief battle with some slaaneshi daemon and took a wound from perils of the warp.

 

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Richard moved the vindicator forward and various other units again into advancement positions.  The vindicator blew apart another falcon leaving it in a flaming pile of wreckage (Another Purple Falcon down – sounds almost like the movie).  The scouts came on, but their melta shot failed to land home.  The dreadnought attempted to charge and grab a hold of a falcon, but the crew was able to gain more altitude and pull out of harms way. 

 

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Farseer Ilianth is a little perturbed at these events and now decides to go on a killing rampage.  He chucks a spear through the back of the dreadnought into the pilot’s skull, destroying the machine.  A guided falcon stuns the predator.  The scouts and the vindicator are destroyed by wave serpents. 

 

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Realizing they are severely outgunned, the grey hunters pull back.  The valiant terminators fire an assault cannon and assault the same wave serpent.  Alas, the vehicle is only shaken.  The blood claws continue to move into a hiding position.

 

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The serpents and the falcon move to attack the terminators killing two and destroy the remaining grey hunters.  One guardian unit assaults the predator, plants haywire grenades and destroys the bane of the first Purple Falcon down.  Another guardian unit moves to take one quadrant for end game objectives.  

 

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Richard is in a very tight spot, but the rage of the wolf will not be quieted just yet.  The terminators administer the emperor’s wrath and destroy the guardians that assaulted the predator.  The blood claws continue to hide.

 

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The wave serpents and remaining falcon move to kill the terminators and achieve end game objectives.  Farseer Ilianth goes on another rampage and destroys a rhino in HTH.  I warned him not to hit the fuel tank, but alas – he did and it blew up causing him enough grief to take another wound. 

 

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Blood claws hide.

 

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I destroy the rhino, but have not other shots.  The game ends with two quadrants in my favor for an additional 1,125 VPs with a total VP differential of ~2,000 points. 

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In summary, I could have possibly avoided losing the one falcon to the vindicator.  I also should have setup more to attempt to eliminate the blood claws in the final round.  Alas, live and learn.    Let me know what your thoughts are on this battle rep.  I know that there are a lot of pics, but I wanted to get everyone round by round details.  I figure it will take me about a week to do each one since I still have a lot of painting to do for Adepticon. 

Nice Reprt love the diagrams

you need to add a few more items to your sig.

like ironman champ 2005

ukgt heat1 champ 2006

or sum it up and just have

Greg sparks best 40k player in the World!!!!111!!!!!

Keith - you just know how to instigate everything don't ya'. 

You wee bit of a puff.

there i sig'd it for you

Great batrep. I look forward to the rest.

Congratulations towards the big Win. My hats off to you going across the pond and beating the Brits at their own game.

Thanks guys.  I'm working on round 2 which was against Tau played by solid player, Isreal (a spaniard). It was a tight game throughout.  Hopefully I can have it up by mid next week.

Am I the only one not able to see any of the pictures?

Fantastic report. When I started seeing your armies show up on various forums after the GT, it was great to see the type of army that you brought. I enjoy seeing how you ran it vs. other tourney players. I am looking forward to the rest of your reports and pics.

congrats on the result. liking the batreps btw, the turn by turn 'Results' for each player is really handy

Posted By yakface on 10/28/2006 12:07 AM

Am I the only one not able to see any of the pictures?

I haven't been able to either until today, which means I better check this out before they disappear again!

- Boss Salvage

Very cool report. For some reason, I'm not seeing the diagrams for game 2.

Argh, these pictures are kind frustrating.  I can see the first report, but not the second report.  Heck, I even checked it several times last night and could see the new posting.  Alas, I don't know what to tell ya'.  The 2nd battle report pics are the same format as the first battle report pics.  Yet sometimes they appear and other times, they don't.  Hmmmm.  Anyone have any thoughts?

You linked to your own hard drive/server

Ok, I will be able to fix this tonight.  Sorry about that.  I just copied and pasted them and did not know it created an automatic link. 

OK - I think I fixed the problems.  Let me know if anyone can not view the pics.

That was a classic 4th edition battle between the two armies with the best skimmer tanks. Sounds like your wise decisions paid off as the game progressed.

Now do not take me the wrong way but it seems it is rather easy to win with this type of army and I am wondering when GW will start to curb these types of lists... as Rhino Rush was eventually neutered and 60 man Ulwthe seer councils at last year's heats saw an end to that.

- Greenie

Thanks for the fix. The diagrams are very well done and very clear and concise. I'm a bit suprised he didn't try and deep strike his Stealths. His guns were useless unless he got to your rear armor. By the looks of the pics and report, he had a good chunk of points that did absolutely nothing while you took your whole army against a piece of his. The Stealths needed to be in the fight.

Green Bloater-The new Eldar codex is about to come out (some already have it) and you can still run mechanized. One thing to consider is point values got altered for some of our favorite weapons. You will still see mechanized Eldar, but without so many starcannons, in turn, will drastically alter how the army plays. I very much doubt GW will dictate how you can build your Eldar army beyond the confines of its' Codex. The Rhino Rush and Seer Counsels were pretty much crushed because of rule changes. We won't see 5th edition for 3 more years at least and another Eldar codex for years to come.

Don't take this the wrong way, but a slowed monkey could have won against that Tau list. Who takes the MP/Flamer combo?

Added to which, your opponent seems totally incompetent. "Hmm... all my opponent's vehicles are in plain sight on the far left side of the board and my Broadsides, the ultimate vehicle killer, just made its Reserves roll... so I guess I'll stick it in the middle where it can't see anything or shoot anything. Yeah, that will work. Genius!"

That has to be the worst mistake. There are plenty of others.

Taking odd-numbers (especially in Crisis Suit teams).

Taking one big unit of three Piranhas instead of three units of one.

"Hmm... I'll JS-notJ with one Tau unit, so one big expensive unit is out in the open to be shot at and even if it survives it will be totally out of place on the battlefield and lose a turn of shooting."

"I know, my Stealths are unfortunately way out of position due to unlucky deployment. But I'll just let them stand there and do nothing, rather than move them so they can fire while still being protected by their Stealth fields."

"Oh my Ionheads just made their Reserves roll. I'll stick them together, on either side of my Crisis Suits so they have trouble moving, and then I'll move them less than 6.1 inches." (At least, it looks like that's what he did.)

"Hooray, my Piranha squadron with extremely short range anti-tank guns made their Reserves roll. I'll stick them in the middle so they can't see any tanks (not necessarily a bad idea in all honesty) and the just put them by the board edge so they can be easily destroyed and be nowhere near, and no threat to, the enemy. That sounds good."

And so on...

Again, no offence intended, but I fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard when I read this part of your post: "We both knew enough about each other's armies that we were able to move through the game really quick". At least with Tau it seems neither of you knew enough. For example, Broadsides start on the table in Escalation games! That would have made a big difference. Oh, and Stealths no longer halve the distance roll for Nightfighting.

Welcome to tournament 40k Stu. 75% of the people you play against are some kind of slowed.

Lol i just realised the guy Stu is on about actually finished 6th......oh well!! I often find this happens in tournament tbh, you see someone play or read a rep where they dont seem to have player that well then they go and finish quite well - its bizarre really. He played the final round next to me and had to be told his broadsides started on, all fun at the GT i guess. Now more reports!!

Interesting. I think i would have played it slightly differently.

Assuming that the pair of trees in the bottom right are fully flush to each other and no LoS through them, i would have stacked the right deployment towards the right and gone completely after the opposing falcon and wave serpent on the right. From the diagram it appears possible that you could have done it so that the opposing grav tanks in the middle had no LoS to your falcons (which are what will kill enemy skimmers really). Then your two wave serpents in the middle are a bit lost really but i guess they might have been able to take on the wave serpent in the middle a bit. Thats how i would have done it anyway but it worked for you!!

Thanks for #3 Malice, always a pleasure. Nice work against those mechanized pansy eldar , looking forward to game #4.

- Boss Salvage

The last game looked more like a round of bumper cars than a battle.  Needs more blood.

Excellent reports, you cannot post them fast enough I say!

What a massacre. Where do you get the pics from?

The wave serpents and falcons were drawn in AutoCAD and then copied/pasted into PowerPoint.  All of the other army items were created in PowerPoint.  I created all of the pics in PowerPoint since that is the only program that I have available to me for drawing and saving in JPEG format. 

I find it interesting that Eldar won Heat 2.  That is quite kewl.