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Today, i decided to go up against the bugs, with a list that I threw together in 10 minutes.

My list. I would have more boyz, but i ran out.

Big mek
shock attack gun

Warphead

19 shota boyz

19 ard boyz
shoota's
nob with pk

20 storm boyz

Deff dread
kustom mega blasta
rokkit launcha

15 loota's

9 flash giz
more dakka
more shootier
Painboy w grot orderly

3 kanz with grotzooka

battlewagon
ard case
kill kannon
4 rokkit launcha's
zzap gun

12 more boyz

3 warbuggies with tl rokkits (they may have not added up since it was a last minute addition as ai realised that i had 4 heavies by accident. i had to ditch my boomcannon)

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My opponets list.

Hive tyrant w warp blast and 3 gaurds

12 genestealers

broodlord with 11 genestealers

carnifex with about every single upgrade it could have

a huge swarm of gaunts, 25 maybee

another huge swarm of hormogaunts

yet another swarm of hormogaunts

a zoanthrope with warp blast

3 lictors
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Alright, i won turn 1. The terrain was simple, the only terrain there was was a forest in th emiddle aboout 8 inches thick, spanning the entire board, cept for a 4 inch wide gap in the middle. Sos i set my lootas in front of the gap, at my table edge. my big mek took up the corner, becuase im stuidly afraid that i will kill all my guys with it. everythign else cramped up in front. He did basically the same. I got lucky and won first turn.

I moved my kans and buggies up in front of the giganic swarm of guants, everythign else stepped back about half an inch to deny any lucky charges. i Figured it was best to slaughter them with fire then when hey got close, waaagh and charge. nothing happened that turn, my opponet had infiltrated his brrodlard into the forest, but i only killed off one genestealer with my battlewagon. He had a 4+ covere save, since hes been obsessing about those for the past 4 games. I had forgotton that i couldnt fire through 6 inches of cover, so that move was useless. My loota's fired a volly at the gaunts in the middle in vain. killing 3. I never rolled above a two for them the entire game. His turn.

All he did was move everything up. He didnt get more than 8 inches with anything fleeting, so had range to nothing.

My turn. moved back 6 inches with everything. I unleashed everything on him. my shock attack gun killed... 3 guants, all my combined firepower killed off 4 genestealers, and 3 more gaunts. very bad turn for me.

His turn, he moves up again, kills off two sttorm boyz with his tyrants blast. He asks if the terrain my mek is on counts for his lictors, i had forgotten about them. Sos i move my 12 man boy sqaud back to aid the mek. they come up short. i use my waagh, they move 2 inches, still 3 away from the mek. feth. meanwhile, everything else moved up, they didnt waaagh, becuase i wanted to fire them, stupid idea, i know, but i figured i was close enough to get into assualt with the stealers. so i sent my shoota boyz ahead of my ard boyz to take the first blow. In my shooting phase, i took out anther 2 stealers, and maybee 5 guants. I charged, rolling for terrain. 2... next squad, 3.... nothing for either, i need one exra inch.

He assualts me next turn with all his stealers. He wipes out the shoota boy squad to 3 men. they run away, leaving the ard boyz to deal with them.his warriors attack my buggies, but miss every shot. 2 of his lictors come out and cleave my mekboy in half. moving onto the boyz.

my turn. i turn my flash gitz to the warrior, and through an odd fluke, they take out 4 and a half. leaving 1 and a half. my loota's finish off a hormogaunt squad, and my battlewagon gives the carnifex a mean look. the wirdboy is useless, as he has been through the entire game. I think this time around, he exploded, yea, i rolled 1, twice in a row. She assualt phas,e my ard boyz all but died, just surviving enough to stick around. My kans attacked the gaunts, and my boyz in with the lictors died off. My ard boys did manage to kill off a hefty number of stealers. The other stealers had gone towards my storm boyz, so they got into a fight, with my deff dread in the middle of it. The dread got his arm easten, and a leg, and responded by crushing 2 of the bug's skulls, and the storm boyz violently impaled their choppa's into the skulls of the rest. My lootas attacked the warriors and killed them. I love those guys.

On his turn, all he did was assualt my Flash Gits with 20 or so hormogaunts, and 3 rippers. The flash gitz saved everything, and responded by pounding 9 gaunts into the ground. The gaunts with my kanz ran away, and the storm boyz assualted the boorlord and his stealers, kliing them off, except the broodlord. My powerklawed nob decided to go to sleep here. His carnifix ate my deff dread, but one if its arms got suck in the carnifex's teeth, wounding it once. He lobs a high power warp blast to my battlewagon before any of that though, annialating it.

My turn, i fire my lootas at his lictors 3 inches away, i roll a 1, so 15 shots, i inflict somethig like 6 wounds, he fails 5, and i kill one becuase their all seperate, so i cant even assuault the survivors. My kans moved toward the combat with the stormboyz, but fail to get there in time as the carnifex had consolidated to them, killing what the genestealers hadnt. His brrolord moves onto my flash gitz. My buggies sat there on top of a cliff and watched all this happen laughing their asses off.

his turn sees his carnifex eat my flash gitz with help from the broodlord (who had implant attack). 4 survivors pass their leadership. His lictors assualt my loota's, and get beaten down. 3 looat's survive it. amazing rolling there on my part

So i assualt my kanz to his carnifex, and infilict 2 more wounds on it, then it eats 2 kanz, broodlord finish off my gitz, with help from the hive tyrant that finally joined the battle. At this point, the battle had gone on for 3 hours, so we left, he had clearly won. I realised my biggest mistake was failing the charge early on with the stealers, i should have kept moving back and charged when they got out in the open. then i could have taken out his stealers faster, and had enough boyz to lay down some impressive firepower at tthe carnifex.

Next time: Take pictures. Edit for spelling, grammar, and layout. Add sign-posting (player turn number, phase, etc).

A battle as cool as that is worth the effort.

Just for reference: loota boy'z dakka guns are Heavy weapons. I may have read it incorrectly but it seemed to me as though you shot them and then assaulted with them in the same turn. It might but a good thing to remember when everybody starts reading up on the ork codex and yells, "hey, you can't do that!"