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My friend and I decided to test out some list for an upcoming tourny. He is going with SM, I am torn between Daemons and SW. So I first decided to try out my Daemons

My list
HQ
Lord of Change w/ Breath
Herald of Tzeentch w/ Chariot, Bolt, and MoS

Elite
3x 3 Flamers

Troops
4x 5 Pink Horror w/ bolt and a changling in one unit

Fast
3x 3 Screamers

Heavy
3x DP w/ flight, iron hide, mark of tzeentch, bolt and gaze

His list

HQ
2x Chapter Master

Elite
Dreadnaught w/ TL lascannon and hvy flamer
5 man Assualt Termies w/ SS/Th and LRR w/MM

Troops
3x 10 man Tactical w/flamer, lascannon, Razorback (one with tl lascannon

Heavy
3x Vindi w/ seige shield


We roll Pitched Battle and Annihilation. I win the roll for turn and make him go first. He deployed fairly evenly on the board, 3 Vindis and LRR out front, the razorback spread out. He combat squaded the tactical and took the lascannons into cover, with a chapter master in 2 of the squads.

Turn One- SM
Well he suddenly realized that combat squading in a KP game wasn't the best idea but that was about it, he spread out a lil more and hoped for some crappy force drops on my side.

Turn One-Daemons
I roll for preferred wave and got my wish, 2 Screamers, 2 DP, Herald, 2 Pink Horrors, and Lord come out. My screamers drop out of sight of his fire, 2 Horror and one DP drop in behind his armor, one DP drops near a Squad, and Herald and Lord behind one Vindi. Shooting sees 1 Vindi destoryed, 3 Marines from one squad killed, and 1 razorback immobiled and the Lascannon one destoryed w/2 marines killed in the blast.

Turn 2-SM
He moves his remaining tanks a bit, and starts shooting. Both Chapter master call down Bombardment, one hit perfect to kill 4 Pink Horrors with the lascannon killing the last one. The other scatters off and actually hits the unit that came from the wrecked razorback, killing 2 of his troops. His Vindis put a wound on the Herald, and the other doing nothing. Razorback fires and put 1 wound on DP. LRR put a wound on the other DP.

Turn 2-Daemons
I roll and get 2 flamers in. One lands perfect to open on a Squad the other mishaps and gets placed in a back corner. Screamers race to the LRR and might be in range for assualt this turn. Shooting sees another razorback destoryed, both vindis shaken, and 2 squads killed in shooting/assualt.

Turn 3- SM
LRR runs from the screamers, and drops out the Termies to attack a demon prince. I lose one wound on the Lord and 2 more on the Chariot. In assualt he kills my DP but loses 2 termies himself.

Turn 3- Daemons
Basically this is where he gave up. Horor came in, Popping both Vindis, Lords killed all but Chapter Master in a squad, Flamers killed remaining termies. My other screamers drop in surronding his LRR. He only had one razorback, one chapter master and about 12 marines left so he gave up and called it a match.

My take on the fight was that I got really lucky with my drop rolls, allowing horrors to get shots off on the rear armor of vindis and my rolls with the flamers just rocked. I will probably change out Lord with more heralds, but since they are such a pain to make it might take some more time. Going to run a few more games with Daemons and a few with Space Wolves and see which holds up better against all types of list.

Nice battle report. Grats on the win.

I play daemons as well, it's nice to see someone else who doesn't run a bunch of bloodcrushers, or a mass of nurgle to sit on things.

I dont get why your opponent chose two Chapter masters...
Where they bought with no upgrades?

Yes, both Chapter Master where with no upgrades, so he gets 2 oribital bombardments a game. After that they act as Sgt. for the combat squads is about it.

Thats...well, really dumb to do XD

Nice report, congrats on the win.