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Me and a few friends got together to start a small tourney, which turned out to have 40 players, so not as small as i 1st thought, anyway, long story short, played the 1st battle today, and was quite lucky.

Game 1

My Emperors Tears against a nice imperial guard army.

My list:

commander
+ 5 man term. bodyguards
chaplin with jump pack + 9 man assult squad
drednought 1 (lascannon + missile)
dreadnought 2 (2 CC weps)
10 tactical marines
10 tactical marine
10 tactical marines
10 scouts with snipe rifles
landspeeder (multi melter)
landspeeder (multi melter)
land speeder (H bolter)
vindicator
vindicator
land raider

His list: (from what i can remember)

over 150 guard (4 chimera transports)
various heavy weapon teams
5 sentinals
basalisk
leman russ
leman russ
+ other nasties.

Capture the objective mission, 4 objectives.

turn 1

his turn:
he got 1st turn and movement was minimal for him, he set up a solid fire base and opened up, now i have bad luck, but this tops it, 5 missiles fired at both dreads, destroying both!
next on his agenda was my land raider, but luckily nothing damaged it

my turn:
i opened up by moving all the landspeeders into cover by objectives, moved the landraider out of sight from his heavies (dont want a repeat of the dred situation)
firing opened up, both vindicators hit thier mark, killing over 25 of the tightly packed guardsmen!
the landraider fired at the 1st leman russ, wrecking it instantly.
the sniper team fired at his command squad, killing all but a commisar.

turn 2

his turn:
not happy about the early demise of his russ after not even getting to fire it yet, he moved his sentinals and various squads towards the objectives as fast as he could.
shooting started; not impressed by his luck killing the dreads he fired at my speeders this time, blowing one to pieces.
he then fired back at my snipers, but with over 40 shots didnt manage a thing! (space marines are lucky )
after a few moans he handed it over to me.

my turn:
i moved the speeders further into cover to keep them alive, the assult squad were now in range to assult, so moved in on a unit of 20 guardsmen, the rest of the tactical marines held ready to fire.
Shooting; once again, the vindicators made me proud, this time killing 4 sentinals and 15 guardsmen between them!
the landraider opened up on the 2nd leman russ, destroying it! (im now thinking i have a chance)
all 3 tactical squads + the scout squad open fire on guardsmen, killing 30 of them! (thier numbers are thinning now)
assult; the chaplin and assult marines done what they did best and killed 8 guardsmen for no losses in return.

turn 3

his turn:
he moved every available unit towards an objective including the chimeras that were hiding, shooting was dull for him, killing a single scout and destroying a lascannon from my landraider, also loosing another 7 men to my assuly squad.

my turn:
no movement other than the landraider moving to his left flank then opening fire.
shooting; the landraider proved great once again, blowing up a chimera and killing 5 of its passengers.
the scouts missile launcher fired at a chimera, immobilising it.
all 3 tactical squad missile launchers and melta guns fired at the 2 unharmed chimera's, destroying both of them, the vindicators once again, killing handfulls of guardsmen.

by turn 4 he had nothing left on the board, so i captured all 4 of the objectives.

next game:
saterday night, against 4,000 points of daemons, should be fun lol, ill update this once ive played the match and get some pics.

Where the hell do you game? 40 Players is huge!

How many points was the 1st game?

Were you playing 4th ed? Those vehicles were dying all over the place.

Where the hell do you game? 40 Players is huge!

just down in portsmouth, mainly friends and thier friends lol, was thinking it would be 10 or so people.

1st game was 2,500 or 3,000 i think, ill check up later.


yes, due to the ammount of people that dont know the 5th ed rules it was easier to play by rules everyone knew.

Please keep us updated as your little event goes on.

will do darrian, just tweaking my list a little, need more template weps since next fight is daemons.

ok, command group's gone, alot moer flamers and plasma cannons now, also the raiders gone and got another vindi instead.