Time to write about round 2 of the crazy tiger tournament!
Link to Round 1:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/338403.page
Again, My list was:
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mark of Tzeench
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mark of Khorne
7 Khorne Berzerkers, Champion, Power fist, Rhino
7 Khorne Berzerkers, Champion, Power Fist, Rhino
7 Plague Marines, 2 melta Guns, Rhino
Dreadnought, Missile Launcher, Close cobat Arm, Extra Armor
Dreadnought, Missile Launcher, Close cobat Arm, Extra Armor
Dreadnought, Missile Launcher, Close cobat Arm, Extra Armor
Defiler, Reaper Auto Cannon, Close Combat
Defiler, Reaper Auto Cannon, Close Combat Arm
Defiler, Reaper Auto Cannon, Close Combat Arm
My Round 2 opponent was Kai, and he was playing orks. His list was something like this:
Big Mek,
KFF
Big Mek,
KFF, Burna
30 boyz, nob, bosspole, eavy armor, power claw
30 boyz, nob, boss pole, eavy armor, power claw
10 boyz, nob, bosspole, eavy armor, power claw, trukk
10 boyz, nob, bosspole, eavy armor, power claw, trukk,
12 lootas
3 kans, 2 big shootas, grotzooka
3 kans, 2 grotzookas, big shoota
battle wagon, reinforced ram, 4 big shootas
3 deffkoptas with rokit launchers
3 deffkoptas w, rokit launchers
Mission:
it was a 5 objective game: 15 points to hold all 5 objectives, 10 to hold more than your opponent.
Seondary was kill points. 10 if you had more than 5 than your opponent, 5 points if you simply had more.
tertiary was something about a fast attack choice, but I rally didnt care since I don't have one in my list.
Deployment was spearhead.
Pre-game analysis: the only real threats I saw in his army were the kans and lootas. the rest I knew I could kill in assault, the only question was if i could do it and still have the models left to score. I knew it would be interesting, but i figured if I bunched up and sheilded my toops with walkers, then I should be able to kill everything I needed to. I knew I would not be able to hold all five, but I had a good plan to how to hold 3.
I won the roll to go first and chose to go second. I wanted him to come to me, so I saw no need to have first turn.
There was one objective in the center, and 2 on each half of the table. they were relatively close together. The pictures later on will clarify.
Kai deployed his lootas in the battlewagon and put it in the back of his deployment zone. His big meks were each attacked to a 30 man and were sheilded by the kans. The trukks sat besides each of these groups. He kept his koptas in reserve to outflank.
I deployed my dreadnoughts and defilers in a line in front my my rhinos. I kept the daemon princes toward the center so they could react where they needed to.
Kai's Turn 1:
he moves and runs each blob of kans and boyz at me. The one on the left heads toward an objective on the far side of the table, near kai, and the other moves around a peice of terrain toward me in a flanking motion. His lootas roll a 1, and their shots do nothing.
My turn 1.
I Shift my defilers to the left and up the board to threaten an objetive on Kai's side of the board. My plague marines and the khorne
DP move to my right to give opposition to the flanking kans and boyz. My berzerkers hang back. I focus fire and kill a truck. It kareens into my lines, but the boys inside get pinned right in front of me. I try and pick off some kans, but the
KFF stops it.
kai's turn 2.
Both squads of kopta's come in, and outflank right behing me. He has rear armor shots my my rhinos and defilers. I am worried. He Continues to move and run toward me on both flanks. He moves a trukk right infront of my plague marine rhino my the right side His lootas roll a 1 again, and shoot at my lead dreadnought, immobilizing it.
One group of koptas fire mat the rear armor of a berzerker rhino and get a pin, however, he rolls a 1. The other group. fires and puts 2 wounds on a Daemon prince, but I roll double 6's for his invl save, and he laughs it off.
My Turn 2.
Dreadnoughts behave, and the two mobile ones march to support the plague marines and the
DP. Defilers position up to chomp some koptas, and to shoot at his kans. and boyz. My berzerkers hop out to kill some koptas. My khorne prince flys over to assault the pinned boyz.
Good shooting kills a few boyz and picks off two kans on the left side. on the right, My plague marines hop out and back up from the trukk, then melta it to death. The boys are fine, and dis-embark unscathed. I assault and kill both kopta units without taking damage in return. I forget to assault the pinned boyz. Bummer.
Kai turn 3,
Kai moves up and declares his waaaaagh. He moves and fleets the 30 man unit and the Kan toward the center of the board, right at my immobilized dreadnought. on the right side, his 30 man runs right toward my empty rhino and the kans move right up agaisnt my lines as well. In shooting, he puts one would on my Tzeench prince with kans. His lootas blow the battle cannon off of a defiler and shake it, but Daemonic possession cares not. the 4 big shootas on the Battle wagon shoot my khorn prince and do a wound. He then assaults my Khorne prince the boyz I forgot to assault and does 2 wounds. I kill 3 boyz, but the unit holds. In the center, his 30 man boy unit assaults my immobile dread and takes the center objective. I punch out the big mek with my attacks, and his Power claw is out of range to attack.
On the right side, his other 8 man boy unit assaults the plague marines and 4! I kill a dew back in
CC, but lose combat and lose another plague marines to combat res. This shocked me and put a major hamper on my plans. The 30 man boy unit that WAAAAGhed, assaulted my rhino and blew it up. the explosion killed a handful of boyz from both squads.
My Turn 3.
I move one squad of berzerkers into position and disembark another squad and move them toward the big scrum in the center. I move two defilers up to help as well. I fly the daemon prince toward the center for back up and march one defiler into a better firing position.
On the right side, 2 dreadnoughts march up to try and bail out the plague marines and my Tzeench prince flys over to chomp some kans.
Shooting lets me kill a few boys with abattle cannons thanks to a good scatter off the 1 surviving kan on the left side. In assault, I throw 2 defilers and 7 berzerkers into the large boy unit. I get it to 9 models and kill it, only losing 2 berzerkers in return.
on the right side, My dreads assault the small boy unit fighting the plague marines and try to bil them out, but 8 dreadnought attacks is not enough to kill 4 boyz, and they redice the plague marines to 1 model, while not doing anything to the dreadnoughts.
My tzeench prince attacks some kans, killing 1, and weapon destroying another. he takes 1 wound in return.
kai turn 4. The 30 man on the right side advances toward the plague marine and dreadnought combat. He moves his one kan toward the immobile dread in the center. Shooting from the lootas immobilizes and my fron defiler. he assaults and kills the dreadnought in the center with his Kan, and the 30 man pours into the plague marine units and dreads. he kills the plague marine, and his claws do a whole lot of nothing to the dreadnoughts. My
DP kills a kan
My turn 4. I am now debating cutting and running for some objectives, or going bold and trying to kill Kai's big boy unit with my remaining berzerkers. I decide that khorne would prefer a bold course of action and move toward his boyz on the right side to set up a turn 5 charge. In shooting, I take battle cannon shots a the battle wagon, and do nothing. My khorne
DP flies up to kill the kan in the center. In assault, my Khorne
Dp explodes the Kan in the center, and my Dreads punch out the
lst few models of the small ork boy squad. the one Klaw shakes and stunns a dread. My tzeench prince wiffs against the kans.
Kai turn 5. Time is running low, and we know this will be the last turn.
Kai shoots and blows up rhino full of berzerkers. The explosion kills 2. In assault, he shakes the dreadnnoghts sand I plink off a few more boyz. On the Kan front, my
DP finally kills the last Kan.
My Turn 5.
I look at the combat, and realize that I have 20 some orks to kill, and if i can't kill every model in 1 round of assault and then cnsolidate into objectives, I won't control any. So, with a sigh of dissapointment at not getting to charge in, I move and run by berzerkers onto two objectives. My free tzeench prince flies over to contest the one the fighting orks are techncally holding. Super lucky shooting with 2 battle cannons kills the Battle Wagon and my dreadnoughts survive to hold the orks in place. The game ends.
I have 2 objectives and Kai has 0, so I get 10 points.
I scored many more kill points than Kai did, so I get 10 points on the secondary.
No tertiary for either of us.
Final Score:
Me: 20
Kai 0
Thoughts: It was a good game, and my walkers did exatly what they were suppose to do: not die, and kill everything. Daemon princes were excellent cunters to kans and defiler shooting was great. Althought my troops did their job, this gme really showed me how careful I have to be with my troops against orks. I need to really pick and choose where my troops get involved in an objective game.
MVP: Not as big as round 1, but probably has to go to the tzeench prince. Killing 3 kans and then contesting an objective is always nice.
Here are some pictures from the game:
