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Hello all, well i finally had my first game today, first one ever, so i keep the army kinda small we did a 1k battle. Now I do not know his entire army as this is all still new to me... SO please forgive me.... I will try and write the stuff down next time, but will give you the details as i can remember.

[HQ]

Emp Champ with AAC 140 pts
Marshall 80

[Troops]

1st squad

7 Initiates
2 neophytes
1 Power fist
1 melta
1 rhino with EA and smoke

2nd squad

same as first but with marshall in rhino

3rd squad (footsloggers)

8 initiates
2 neophytes
1 PF
1 melta

[heavy]

1 vindicator
blade, EA


Mission: Annihilation
Deployment: Pitched Battle


Deployment (me)

Everyone on table no reserves, put foot sloggers behind a wall for cover hide vindicator behind building, 1 rhino to left of battle field, one coming up the middle of field.

Deployment (him)

Everyone on table (no reserves), Grey Knights (8) Heavy Support guys on my left side of table (bad news), some dude (sorry like i said dont remember his name, with some sniper called shot whatever in the 2nd floor a building, his HQ (inquisitor on the 3rd floor of same building) , Some hunters (troops) on top of a catwalk on another building. So yes i know, bad, hard to get a total grasp on it but please bear with me.

Turn 1: He goes first deploys first and I do no steal initiative.

He brings his troops up, not alot going on, on his part, just setting up to obliterate me.

Me, i move my rhinos forward 12" move my foot sloggers up tryin to stay in cover, but not much out there so i move six and run 2 (yaa for me)

Turn 2:

Now its getting ugly for me quick! His GK are now in range of one of my Rhinos (one in middle), and takes a shot at it, not only does he hit it, it penetrates, and oh ya, what does he roll? A 6, boom goes the rhino!! There goes an entire squad along with the EC. Holy cow what did i get my self into?? He uses his Troops on the catwalk to take some pot shots at my footsloggers, and only 1 gets hit and he saves, The sniper on the 2nd floor takes a shot at my foot slogger with melta, and rolls a 1 thank you, live to fight another turn.

My turn, my vindi is still safe behind the corner of a building and i see the GKs are going to move to the other side of the building to go after my other Rhino, so i disembark my troops and take position up waiting for GK to come and meet their impending death (so i think). I move my footsloggers up some more headed to the building where the sniper is, also taking pot shots at the troops on the catwalk, not hitting them (ya for the 4 WS).

what i learned in turn 2, when you move your rhino (there is a point of taking smoke), use IT!!!!!

So down 1 rhino and whole squad now!


Turn 3: His GK head towards my disembarked squad like i thought he would (ya i guess right), he fires off some shots and what do you know, only half my squads doesnt get there armor save. So down to 5 in the unit. He pop shots with sniper and misses (again a 1), then his catwalk troops shot at me and i save all.

So here i am, (new to the game), thinking crap i am down this many units already this is getting ugly fast! So I fire some shots at his GKs with the bolters just bouncing off him while he is laughing at me! Great i think, these guys are done for. So i pull the vindi out 6 inches (has PoTMS) and get in a position to fire on his GKs, and get in range of his troops on the catwalk and his HQ and sniper, so i have everyone in range. Just wait.....

Turn 4: He finishes off my the rest of my unmounted squad, minus Marshal, takes a couple of my foot sloggers out, not much going on, and his sniper (wait for it, wait for it, MISSES again)!!!!

So I am with my back against the wall, 2 rhinos down, 2 squads down, i said fine, here we go, my vindi is dropping in on your GKS... I drop my scatter die, and guess what?? BAM direct hit, he just looked at me like whoooah??? Said ya, direct hit, AP 1 bye bye, and in one shot his ENTIRE GK's are dead, and i feel a little bit of hope, maybe i might get this....

Turn 5; He now only has troops on and in a building so no ground soldiers left, he pop shots me with sniper, NOTHING, hits me from catwalk, 2 of my guys dont save. Hes done.

Me, I finally am able to get a good shot on his sniper with a 2+ save, and he rolls a 1 dead, get out of here!! I turn my vindi towards catwalk he has 7 guys up there (1 died from a plasma over heat), I drop the template and 5 are in the circle, so i say here we go, BAM direct hit no deviation!! He was like WTF! 5 dead (13 from vindi), he has one guy up there on catwalk and HQ thats it for his army

We roll for T6 and it happens, he doesnt do much, i kill his HQ 1 guy left on Catwalk.

Game over he wins on Kill pts.


I know this isnt the greatest Batrep one has seen, but like my army and my painting i can only get better over time.


What i learned from this:

USE SMOKE!
Ensure that Rhinos dont die early

Maybe place Vindi in another location that can get off a shot quicker, while maintaining cover..

Just trying to help a new player here:

Are you saying because your opponent got a penetrating 6 on your Rhino you lost the entire unit inside? That's not how it works. I don't have the BRB in front of me and I'm typing on a phone otherwise I'd give page #s and such. But you should've lost about 2 guys from that.

Did you remember to make righteous zeal tests?

The Vindicator has an AP 2 cannon for future reference. Wouldn't have changed anything in your game since you were shooting at infantry.

Did you move and shoot at all with the Vindicator? It didn't sound like you did. You don't need PotMS to move and shoot.

Did your Marshal have any wargear?

Also for future reference, writing daemon in the topic title makes people think daemons instead of daemonhunters

Also to help out a new player.. getting a 6 on a penetrating hit of a transport just means all in the models inside take a strength 4 hit all armour saves allowed and then take a pinning test page 67 heading effects of damage results on passengers

EDIT i misread the result thought you wiped him out but you didn't apologies

You did good for a begginer. Im not very familiar with the templar but i no they have a good amount of power weps get in there and use them.

Eldrad wrote:You did good for a begginer. Im not very familiar with the templar but i no they have a good amount of power weps get in there and use them.

NVM. Misread... The power weapons would have destroyed grey knights in CC.