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battle today at the blossom hill GW

First the army lists:
chaos list

typhus
dreadnaught w/ plasma cannon
dreadnaught w/ plasma cannon

10 plague marines 2 plasma pistols, aspiring champion w/ power wpn, plasma pistol, meltabombs
10 plague marines 2 plasma pistols, aspiring champion w/ power wpn, plasma pistol, meltabombs
10 plague marines 2 plasma pistols, aspiring champion w/ power wpn, plasma pistol, meltabombs

2 obliterators
1 obliterator
defiler

ork list
Warboss
slugga, power klaw, eavy armor, frag
Nobz (9)
1 w/ slugga, klaw, eavy armor, frag, bosspole
8 with slugga, choppa, eavy armor, frag
Trukk
Rokkit launcher, red paintjob, ram, stikkbomb chuka

slugga boyz
1 w/ rokkit
nob w/ slugga, klaw, bosspole
all with frags

Trukk
Rokkit launcher, red paintjob, ram

slugga boyz
1 w/ rokkit
nob w/ slugga, klaw, bosspole
all with frags

Trukk
Rokkit launcher, red paintjob, ram

shoota boyz
1 w/ rokkit
nob w/ slugga, klaw bosspole
(using old mekboy for this)
all with frags
Trukk
Rokkit launcher, red paintjob, ram

Stormboyz (20)
nob w/ klaw

Biker Boyz (12)

1 counts as nob w/ klaw


battlewagon
boomgun
4x big shootas
ard case


needless to say neither army was optimized, I'm redoing my army with new figs now that they're coming out, but this battle went REALLY bad for chaos.

feel free to critique, I knew the bikes were not the best call and they proved it today with their bad LD. stormboyz had bad luck but the warboss went on a waaagh and the nobz slaughtered more than their points before going down.

NaZ

Very nice report. It was actually easy to follow the game. Looks like sluggas in trukks are the way to go..
Did the rams on the trukks ever come into play furing the game?

I had to cross the building to make it into assault with the slugga squad after the stormboyz died. the ram saved me right there so I could take the reroll or they wouldn't have made it.

terrible luck on the stormboyz due to a bad set of rolls..

the shootas in truck actually did well against the targets I gave them so I may keep them around for a few games before going back to sluggas.

the warboss and nobz squad really impressed me with the amount of damage they did. all told the squad cost me 400 or so including the trukk and they took out about 500 points worth of stuff before going down.

bikes are coming out for another squad of 20 stormboyz that I have and to upgrade the nob squad to add a painboy and counts as cybork/FNP (i'm just calling it doc's juice)

once I get a batch of lootas in I'll probably take out 1 squad of stormboyz since there is plenty of assault power as it is.

thanks for the feedback. anyone else?

NaZ

On the chaos list:

- 2 dreads? Right on, and plasma isn't SO bad if they get angry and frenzy on the plaguers.

- Plasma pistols? Honestly can't think of an advantage to taking them over plasma guns, though perhaps they're 5 points less? I forget.

- And the lack of powerfists is distressing, when compared with all those I3 power weapons.

I think Chaos should have stuck it out and brought the hurt on the orks. 3 plaguers + Typhus could still be a terrifyingly hard nut to crack, and way to go Big T grinding through those multi-wound orks. Nurgle might not have carried the day (particularly if orks backed off and took pot shots, winning because everything else was dead), but further carnage could have been had. Breaking the 20 stormies was a nice stroke by the plaguers too.

- Salvage

they might have been plasmaguns.. I did this report 5 hours after the game and used their codex as a reference point to remind me.

yeah losing the stormboys sucked.. but honestly the plague marines got creamed in CC with my orks. total bloodbath.

NaZ

Hey, looks good. I thought I might mentioned that Battlewagons can't have Boomguns. They can only have Killkannons.

was a typo on my part but you get the idea

NaZ

NaZ wrote:but honestly the plague marines got creamed in CC with my orks. total bloodbath.
NaZ

I found this an odd thing for you to say.

Plague Marines bounce Orks off, even on the charge.

The only reliable killing method are power klaws.

I didn't see anything in your list to threaten PM besides your Nob unit.

stelek,

the power klaws did all of the work. the plague marines did shrug off all of the choppa wounds but lost 2-3 plague marines a turn to the nob (5 atk on charge then 4 after)

NaZ