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RTT, Saturday, nine players: Marcus (DE), Thomas (Eldar), Heiko (Nids), Peter (Nids), Benny (Daemons), Simon (Orks), Eric (Orks), Toby (Necrons), and me (Red Ravens).

Red Ravens army:

Codificier w/ terminator armor, storm shield, nullzone, gate of infinity
10 Terminators w/ cyclone rocket launcher x2
10 Assault Terminators w/ thunder hammer x10
2x 10 Marines w/ missile launcher, melta
10 Scouts w/ sniper rifle x5, missile launcher

First game vs. Daemons: pitched battle, 5 mission objectives (one in the centre and one in each quarter).

Daemon army:

Lord of Change (LoC)
Bloodletters + Khorne Herald
Horrors
Plague Bearers
2x Soul Grinder
DP

I deployed almost my whole army on one flank. The Sniper Scouts occupied an objective on the other flank, while the bolter Scouts outflanked.Tacticals combat squaded.

Daemons started the game. The LoC targeted the Sniper Scouts, while one Soulgrinder couldn't be deployed so that I could place it in the corner opposite to my main force. In turn 2, my normal Termies killed the LoC, while the Assault Termies incl. Librarian took down the DP with ease. The Assault Termies then took on the Horrors and Plague Bearers wiping them out. The Khorne Daemons were shot down and the normal Termies destroyed one Soulgrinder. The game ended with one Soulgrinder in the center left, while my army held three mission objectives (two by the combat squaded Scouts). Nullzone is brilliant vs. Daemons. Result: 3:0, after 5 rounds.

Second game vs. Nids: deployment in opposite quarters, 3 mission objectives (one in the centre, one in each home quarter).

Nids army (beautifully painted):

Winged HT
5 Warriors (reading, leaping)
8 Genestealers
2x shooty Gaunts
2x cc Gaunts
2x Zoantrophe
2x Carnifex

I deployed my army in the back field. The Sniper Scouts deployed in a free quarter, with the Genestealers closest, while the bolter Scouts outflanked. Tacticals combat squaded. There was a large structure in the centre so that the Nids were dividing their force, while one unit of shooty Gaunts held the objective in their home quarter and the other shooty brood headed towards the objective inside of the centre piece. One Nids fraction passing the structure to the left (as seen from the Nids player) consisted of one Carnifex, Warriors, Genestealers, and one brood of cc Gaunts. The Gaunts were able to charge one combat squaded Tactical unit; the Marines died after two rounds of combat. The Carnifex and the Warriors were shot and taken down by the normal Termies including the Librarian, while the Genestealers headed towards the Sniper Scouts killing them. The normal Termies then advanced towards the objective in the Nids quarter while shooting the Genestealers and finally targeting the shooty Gaunts left in their home zone.
On the other side of the structure, the Assault Termies killed the HT, Carni and cc Gaunts with ease, and then took on the shooty Gaunts in the centre structure and the Zoantrophe close to them. They cleared the centre piece so that one Tactical combat squad was able to capture it.
The outflanking Scout squad appeared close to the Nids objective keeping them the holding brood (shooty Gaunts) busy for a while, but finally falling into the dust.
The game ended with 2 objective held by the Red Ravens (home and central). The Nids had one Zoantrophe left. Result: 2:0.

Last game (final) vs. Orks: pitched battle, kill points.

Orks army:

Warboss + 5 Mega Nobz w/ trukk
Bigmek w/ SAG
8 Kommandoz
20 Gretchins + Runthred
2x 20 shooty Orks w/ PK, bazzukkas
20 cc Orks w/ PK
20 Stormboyz w/ PK
2 Kanonz (artillery)

Orks deployed first with the Stormboyz in the centre and the Mega Nobz incl. Warboss mounted in a Trukk slightly to the left (as seen from the Nids player). Therefore, I deployed my whole force diagonally opposite to thisTrukk to avoid the Nobz as much as possible. My formation was something like this (Tacticals were deployed in a building with 3 floors; missile launchers at the top floor for better TLOS):

Normal Termies....Tactical 1...Tactical 2....Assault Termies
Librarian.................................................Scouts

There was a large structure in the centre. Orks started the game and all Orks moved forward. In particular, the Stormboyz moved with full speed into the centre piece (with no Boy dying from bad landing). The Mek's SAG killed three Assault Termies (he rolled double 6 for strength, ouch!). In round two, the Stormboyz charged the Assault Termies (two Stormboyz got killed while moving out of the structure). The normal Termies counter-charged helping to wipe out the Stormboyz. The cc Boyz were now rather close; they got shot and heavily decimated. The remaining cc Boyz and the (outflanking) Kommandoz managed to charge the normal Termies, but both mobz fell back unable to regroup. The Assault Termies consolidating back were then charged by a shooty Ork mob hiding in the centre structure, and the normal Termies were again able to counter-strike. The mob died but also the Assault Termies. Now the Mega Nobz came close to my front ranks. They had to take a walk as their Trukk exploded. Lol. The remaining 6 normal Termies charged the Mega Nobz to benefit from the charge bonus. All Nobz were killed, and I managed to pass 5 of 8 invulnerable saves. Unbelievable! So three Termies were left and also the Warboss with 1 wound. The last shooty Orks counter-striked. Before the last Termie died from a power klaw attack, he killed the Warboss. The remaining shooty Orks were shot to death. At the same time, the Gretchins got shot down since they came too close. Stupid Gretchins! The game ended with almost a massacre. Orks had Bigmek and the artillery left, while Red Ravens lost both Termie squads.At mid-game, the Librarian decided to keep out of close combat action due to the potentially large number of power klaw attacks. However, his nullzone power forced the Warboss to reroll his passed invulnerable saves (but he failed all of them). Result: 9:2 in 7 rounds.

Summary: The last game vs. Simon's Orks was one of the toughest games I played for a long time. All combat actions were thrilling. My army withstood the charge of three Orks' waves. Extinct the Xenos!

Final standing: Red Ravens, Orks, Nids, Necrons, Orks, Daemons, Eldar, Nids, DE.

Out of curiosity, how many points?

Well, it was 1500 points.

Space out your paragraphs! reading this was a big pain.

Still good reports!

Great job! Especially versus those orks!



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