Game 5 vs. nikeforever22?s Ulthwe.<?
I hope he posts his list because I am not sure of all that he had...
Seer Council:
3 Farseers 2 w/Mindwar, I with fortune
4 Warlocks w/augment
10 Scorpions
5 Storm Guardians w/2 flamers in a Wave Serpent w/Bright lance
6 Black Guardians w/Starcannon
6 Black Guardians w/Starcannon
6 Black Guardians w/Bright lance
Viper w/starcannon
Viper w/starcannon
Viper w/starcannon
Falcon w/starcannon, spirit stones, holostones etc.
Falcon w/starcannon, spirit stones, holostones etc.
Falcon w/starcannon, spirit stones, holostones etc.
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:place>Mission</st1:place>: Hostage rescue (You take a troops from your opponent, and the attacker has to come into contact with it) you determine the attacker/defender by who has the most fast attack, and since I had only a ravenor, I was a defender. Kind of funny that the Nids are defending against Eldar.) The bonus was that the defender got a 18" deployment zone (Yahoo!), and the defender only a 12".
He set up in the back and got first turn. I set up the same as I always do Dakkafexs in the middle, gunfexes to the sides. Spinegaunts to the left and to the right with the carapace genestealers behind them and the large 12 genestealer squad in the middle. But since there was no terrain, I hid my flyrant behind a wall of dakkafexes. The other tyrant was way off to the left against the board edge so not to many guns can shoot at him. I know how fast eldar can take down the big bugs, so I tried to hide the synapse the best I can.
Turn #1.
He shoots at the carnifex in front of the Flyrant, killing it, then he kills the flyrant. Uh oh!
I try to move my spinegaunts on the left and they break and begin their long march toward the last tyrant. Everything moves up. I want to take out the starcannons as fast as I can and the weakest units he has with them are the vipers. I stun one, blow of the guns on another, and down one. I also shoot down a falcon, and stun another.
Turn #2
With the 18" deployment zone and FoF I guess he thinks I am getting to close and he moves up to assault. He has his storm guardian?s flamer hit the 12 genestealer squad (without carapace) in the middle of the board and kills only 2. He moves his scorpions up and assaults the same squad and does a few more wounds than me and I roll an 11 for morale and they break (I forget they should run to a tyrant, and instead have them run off the board being followed by the weaponless vyper). He kills some more big bugs.
I collapse my 2 other genestealer squads on his scorpions and counter assault. I also have a long string of spinegaunts thrown in that have a long line back to my tyrant. I kill a lot, and with him being outnumbered 5-1 he breaks and gets run down, and my genestealers consolidate into his storm guardians. My ravenor assaults a black guardian squad and whiffs, and gets killed by guardians (the shame!)
Turn #3
He shoots and kills one of my gunfexes, and tries to protect his seer council. I kill the storm guardians and consolidate closer to the seer council.
I shoot down another falcon and my genestealers and spinegaunsts assault the seer council. I do 10 wounds and he ends up taking 7 of them after his saves (He should have only lost 2.5 with a 4+inv save with a re-roll, but I was very lucky. And since the spinegaunts where there, I outnumbered him 5-1 and he runs.
That was the end of the game due to time. I don't know where the time went. It did not seem like we were taking our time, but that was it.
At the end I only had a gunfex and my tyrant with 1 guard left and he killed all my other TMC. I had almost all of my gaunts left and a couple of chewed up genestealer squads. He had a squad of black guardians, a wave serpent, a falcon, a vyper, a vyper with it's guns shot off left.
So I went 5-0 in my first RTT outing with the Godzilla nids and I won over all and took home the golden gargant. I was quite impressed with the list. The TMC are durable and quite shooty. I beat 2 assault armies in heavy terrain, and 2 shooty armies in an open board, so they are quite good. Perhaps they are a bit overpowered. There are some armies that can beat them, but it will not be easy.