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My friend and I last night played a game of 40k. We predecided that there would be 5 objectives, one placed 2 D6 from the center(echo), one one the top right side of the board (alpha), one on the bottom left side of the board(bravo which the techmarine bolstered giving it a 3+ save) and two on either side about 16" looking onto the center objective (the one on his side is delta, the one on my side is charlie) (not our intention,it scattered that way!) We played that if a player so chose he could field multiple detachments, provided each detachment had the same amount of points and followed the force organization chart, we also said that any bonuses confered to one detachment (i.e. chapter tactics) was also confered to the second(third fourth) detachment. I chose to split my army into 2 detachments of 1,000. Normaly I only pick one HQ choice, my logic is that the firepower is greater in squad than in a single man. For some reason on this list I chose to field not one HQ choice,not two but three HQ choices! To do so I would have to use the aforementioned detachments.
All objectives were in cover and all cover with objectives gives a 4+ cover. All other terrain gave a 5+
My Space Marines 2020 points total
Detachment 1
HQ:
Eppitomus Occulte
Troops:
Scouts(10) w/camo cloaks,Telion,3 boltguns and a heavy bolter
Tactical Squad(10) w/plas/missile and storm bolter on sergeant
Heavy Support
Whirlwind w/Chronus
Elites
Gold Sternguard Veterans(10) w/multi-melta
Techmarine w/4 servitors
Detachment 2:
HQ:
Pedro Kantor
Varro Tigurius
Troops:
2xTactical Squad Plas/Missile
Elites:
Green Sternguard Veterans w/multi-melta and stealth
His Eldar:
HQ:
Farseer (doom,fortune, runes of warding,spirit stones)
4 Eldar jetbikes
Phoenix Lord Fuegan
Troops:
2xDire avengers(10) w/exarchs,2xshuriken catipults
Guardians(20) w/warlock
Ranger Pathfinders(5)
Fast Attack:
2x(4) Guardian jetbikes
Elites:
Fire dragons (10) w/exarch and 8 firepikes,crack shot and tankhunters
Wave Serpent w/twin linked star cannons,spirit stones,star engines,vectored engines and shuriken cannon
Heavy Support:
Wraithlord w/two flamers
The terrain was deployed evenly on either side, so we did not roll for table edge. I won the roll off for the first turn and he failed to seize the initiative. I deployed the whirlwind, the techmarine and servitors w/Tigurius (directly behind the whirlwind),Green Sternguard Vets.w/Kantor and two tactical squads behind charlie objective. I then put another tactical squad and Gold SVs behind bravo. In my infiltration turn I infiltrated the scouts and Occulte (not the same squad) into Bravo objective.
He then deployed his Guardians behind some cover (5+) in front of (about 24" from) bravo and put his wraithlord next to them. He then deployed 4 of his jetbikes on the left side of delta and 4 more with the farseer on the right side of delta. He put 2 squads of dire avengers, and the wave serpent with the fire dragons embarked in it behind delta. He put his remaining squad of dire avengers behind Alpha.
Turn 1:
Moved up with most of my squads, and shot with what I could. Shot with whirlwind onto the jetbike squad without farseer killing 3! He then failed his leadership and ran off the board. I then wounded the wraithlord with Occulte His turn was much the same moving up towards Charlie objective.
He did much the same, causing minimal causalties to one of the tac.s holding Charlie. He moved his wraith Serpen to the right of charlie but could not disembark.
Turn 2:
Opened fire onto guardians with Gold squad (not in cover but behind it and killed the warlock with Telion. He was down to 15, and passed his ld. and pinning (and continued to do so the entire game, except for with the jetbikes earlier and later on...) Caused another wound onto wraithlord.
Caused heavy causalties with whirlwind onto dire avengers behind delta.
CATASTROPHE!Fire dragons hit on a 6 (TWICE!) and roll TWO 6s on the AP chart, needless to say the whirlwind blew up horribly! Jet bike squad chops tactical squad B down to two members. Dire Avengers then assault tactical squad B, luckily killing only 1. Meanwhile the Guardians start to advance while the wave serpent goes to pick up another dire avengers squad (one had been destroyed and the other held alpha objective)
Jet bike squad moves in and shoots tac. squad B holding charlie and then assaults them, killing 3(5 left).
Tigurius fails a perils of the warp test (it turns out I wasn't required to take one as I was using a psychic hood, unfortunatly I didn't know ATT).
Turn 3:
Once again opened fire onto the guardians who were then down to 10. Shot with the rest once again inflicting minimaly (meanwhile a dire avengers squad is holding alpha objective unchallenged) and then using Tigurius' gate of inf and deep struck a safe 14" away but due to placement, my nearest model was 12" from the hated fire dragons
Assaults continued,tac. squad B is reduced to 2 models. My opponent forgot to move his fire dragons.
Turn 4:
At this point I was ready to quit, I was surrounded by jetbikes, fire dragons, was about to lose a tactical squad, and another was sure to fall to the fire dragons. I attempted to offer quits as it was already late under the condition that the game be called a draw.He refused. All during turns 3 and 4 I lost ALL plasma guns to gets hot.Let me repeat that there were three plasma guns, I got gets hot on all of them failed to wound on two of them (rapid fire 2 shots) and failed armour saves on ALL of them!
With one well placed sniper shot I fell the wraithlord as he attempted to hack at my totally defenseless tac. squad (no power fist) on bravo. Then using Tigurius' gate of infinity and deep struck a safe 14" away but due to placement, my nearest model was 12" from the hated fire dragons and rapid fired them killing two. The techmarines and 3 servitors having no purpose after the destruction of the whirlwind valiantly charged the firedragons, slaying one fire dragon (phoenix lord a exarch left) losing one servitor.
The jetbikes finally killed the remaining two members of tac. squad B. While the servitors held their ground against the phoenix lord.
to be continued...
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