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I'm sorry guys but I had the idea of a battle report after the battle so there are no pictures, sorry again.

Also my opponent gurgle is not here and cannot comment so forgive me if this may seem slightly bias.

The Tau force

HQ Shas'o-AFP, Plasma Rifle, Shield Generator, Hard wired Multi-tracker and a stimulant injector-150points.

TROOPS 12x Fire Warriors-5 carbines, Photon grenades and Shas'ui with Markerlight- 153 points.

Ditto

The Khorne force

HQ Herald-Unholy might and Iron-hide- some points, sorry I don't know how many.

TROOPS 6x Letters-90 points.

7x Letters with the above herald- 105 points

HEAVY SUPPORT Daemon prince-Unholy might, Iron-hide and it may have other things like death-strike but it didn't get a chance to use it.

We agreed on pitched battle annihilation and I let him go first.

Turn 1 Daemons

As always his preferred sternguard came in on turn 1 which was the 6 letters.

They scattered away from my men (who were in a line with the suit in the middle) and ran towards me.

Tau turn 1

I rolled to hit with my markerlights and got one hit. I then shot with my suit, AFP first and killed two. The plasma rifle felled another. Then a warrior squad shot with an improved BS from the markerlight and killed the rest. The other squad ran an inch towards the table edge. The suit moved towards the table edge in the assault phase with his jetpack.

Daemon turn 2

The herald and letters came in and scattered almost into my lines just outside one inch and ran almost into my midst.

Tau turn 2

I hit with one markerlight and immediately fired the suit, +1 BS AFP killing 3 and the Plasma rifle killed 1/2 more I forget. Then a warrior squad wiped out the last letters and the second squad made Khorne furious and those pulse weapons just relieved it of it's last wound.

Daemons turn 3

The prince stayed in reserve

Tau turn 3

I hugged the table edge ready for his final assault.

Daemons turn 4

His prince as usual came in on the fourth turn and ended up approximately 20 inches away from most of my force and ran at me. In all our games that daemon is always my biggest worry.

Tau turn 4-The decider!

1 markerlight hit but I think I forgot it. The warriors opened fire and managed to kill the abomination from hell! Just. May Khorne revoke it's power!

You may have realised that I wasn't even attacked let alone wounded so this turned out to be a very good game (for the Tau anyway). A tactic to daemon players facing Tau, try to come in on mass if you can, that way they will struggle to annihilate you.

Thanks for reading, please comment below.

I got my unholy ass kicked.
Next time we'll use cover and I might roll a three for my preffered wave .


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TRISKELION7 wrote:In all our games that daemon is always my biggest worry.

Just wait untill I've got 2 soulgrinders!

Maybe the daemon player should drop the herald alone because that way he would get 2 units in the first turn no matter how he arranges the waves. It's going to be an uphill battle anyway but that might help it.

If I'd have done that then my herald would have been singled out and anhialated.

But the herald would take shots from 1-2 squads, depending on the luck. This would mean that your bloodletters might survive. I don't play daemons, however, so you might know better.

Soulgrinder could be ace because it can shoot as well.

At 455 pts. I don't think so!