Here it is, another in our series of Batreps with Pictures!
If you just want to read the batreps instead of the back ground, go down to the On to the batrep!
So I went to Gamesday LA today and played in the 40k RTT. I wanted to get some easy tournament circuit points by beating up on the local talent. I am mired in 22nd in the circuit, and this would be a good way to get some points, since the other players at the top of the list don’t go to Gamesdays, and they sure will not travel all the way to LA for just an RTT. Well, I could not have been more wrong because Inquisitor Malice and the “Ohio Players” where there, as well as Mark Parker, and some of the other heavy hitters.
Oh well, there goes my idea of making up some points on them.
My Adepticon teammate Bill Kim won the Chi-town GT with our teams stealer-shock list. I had just finished painting my half painted LVGT Eldar army for the RTT, but at the last minute I was talked into running the stealer-shock list. Although they are not painted up to my Eldar armies standard, I did kind of like the fact that I was going to take a different army to 3 different tournament circuit events.
On to the Batreps!
My List:
HQ: Hive Tyrant /w enhanced senses, toxin sacs, wings, warp field, 2x TL
Devourers
HQ: Hive Tyrant w/ Venom Cannon, Scything Talons, enhanced senses, toxin
sacs
T: 8 Genestealers /w extended carapace, scuttlers
T: 8 Genestealers /w extended carapace, scuttlers
T: 6 Genestealers /w scuttlers
T: 6 Genestealers /w scuttlers
T: 8 spinegaunts /w scuttlers
FA: Ravener /w rending claws, scything talons
FA: Ravener /w rending claws, scything talons
HS: Carnifex /w enhanced senses, barbed strangler, venom cannon
HS: Carnifex /w enhanced senses, barbed strangler, venom cannon
HS: 2 x Zoanthrope /w synapse, warp blast
1499 points
Game #1 Vs Space Marines!
Captain w/Plasma Pistol, Power Weapon, Artificer Armor, Terminator Honors
Command Squad , 8 Marines w/Flamer and Meltagun
Sgt. w/Plasma Pistol, Power Weapon
Rhino w/ EA+Smoke
Master of Sanctity w/Adamantine Mantle, Plasma Pistol, Power Weapon, Artificer Armor, Terminator Honors, Jump Pack
Venerable Dreadnought w/Assault Cannon and Extra Armor
Tac Squad , 7 Marines w/Flamer and Meltagun
Sgt. w/Power Fist, Terminator Honors
Rhino w/ EA+Smoke
Tac Squad , 7 Marines w/Plasma Gun and Missile Launcher
Sgt. w/Power Fist, Terminator Honors
Tac Squad , 7 Marines w/Plasma Gun and Missile Launcher
Sgt. w/Power Fist, Terminator Honors
Land Speeder w/Multi-Melta, Heavy Flamer (they still make those?)
Predator w/TL Lascannon, 2 Heavy Bolters, Dozer Blade, EA+Smoke
<st1:city><st1:place>Mission</st1:place></st1:city>: Cleanse
The game started poorly with some shenanigans. We exchanged lists and the second heavy he put down was a Whirlwind. I was sweating bullets, because that would really ruin my day. I looked over his list to find it and I did not see it anywhere. I looked and looked, and it was not there. He then saw that I was not placing another unit and was looking closely at his roster. He then picked up his roster, and then realized his mistake, and apologized and took the whirlwind off. I will give him the benefit of the doubt, and believe it was an accident.
The set up:
On your mark, get set....
The Chaplain and a
tac squad are in the building in front of the dreadnought. There is a rhino off to the right back in the corner. The two rhinos have their squads still in them. I knew the threats were going to be the Predator with the Heavy Bolter sponsons, and the 2 rhinos that can drive up, unload a flamer, and then rapid-fire their bolters.
Turn #1
I won the dice roll to go first, and we surge froward as if we have not eaten in a week, and someone just rang the dinner bell! As a side note, I forgot to scuttle...that is what I get for playing and army that I am unfamiliar with. A carnifex stuns the Predator, and not much else happens.
He moves up his rhino and his dreadnought up. His dreadnought chews up my spinegaunts, and the missile launchers put 2 wounds on my carnifex on the bottom.
Turn #2
If you looked at the last picture, there was a guy riding on the top of the rhino to represent that there was a squad on board, and now that guy is gone. Well, the carnifex on the left killed the rhino, and the squad bailed out. Well, 2 zoanthrope warp blasts later, the squad is gone. My winged hive tyrant shoots at the squad in the building in front of it, killing a few marines. I stun the Dreadnought with venom cannons. I immobilize the Predator with shooting. I then assault it stunning it again.
On his turn he pops a shot at the Flyrant with his speeder, and his squad puts another wound on it.
Turn #3
My shooting stuns the speeder, and takes off the Dreadnoughts power fist, and I immobilize his rhino. My spinegaunts assault the dreadnought (Not that they can do anything, but they will keep it busy for a while). I have one of my genestealer squads and the Flyrant assault the chaplain killing him, and the other squad kills the marine squad in the building. I assault the predator, and kill it with a penetrating '6'. and lose 5 genestealers.
His shooting blows my Hive Tyrant away.
Turn #4
I am afraid something bad will happen, and so to make sure that I have my deployment zones are covered I move my Raveners back. Then I assault his squad in the crater killing them. I assault his dreadnought killing it. I assault his rhino with the flyrant killing it.
His turn he laments the fact that he is entangled.
Turn #5
This is the end of the game. I shoot down the land speeder, and I wipe out the last squad.
I kind of felt sorry for the guy. He said that he drove down with some guys from Seattle. I drove to Salem, OR a few weeks ago, and that was a 14 hour drive. I would hate to drive 18 hours to get tabled at an RTT.
So there was some good news, and some bad news....
The good news: I ended up with a 20 point massacre!
The bad news: On to table #1 against Eldar.
