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Howdy all,

So my wife agreed to me getting another game in, and Jonathan McFarland is a local ork player with his own table and terrain and he invited me over for a game this weekend because the local game shop is closed for the weekend. He is new to 8th, but a veteran player otherwise with fantastic chaos models he builds himself from his huge bitz bin. Orks are his new baby, so he wanted to try them out for our game. He has never faced Death Guard, I have never faced Orks this edition, so it should be a fun game!

Death Guard List

HQ's
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Typhus - Miasma, Curse of the Leper - 175 pts
Sorcerer in Terminator Armor - Force Stave, Bolter, Vitality and Blades powers - 130 pts (WARLORD: Tenacious Survivor)
Chaos Lord - Chain sword, pistol - 74 pts (RELIC: Arch Contaminator)

Elites
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5x Blightlord - Axe/bolter, flail, Sword/plasma, axe/plasma, axe/reaper AC - 268 pts

Troops
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14x Cultists - autoguns - 60 pts
11x Poxwalkers - 66 pts
7x Plague Marines - 5x Dual knives, 2x blightlaunchers - 139 pts

Heavy Support
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Plagueburst Crawler - 2x Entropy Cannon, Heavy Stubber - 146 pts
Plagueburst Crawler - 2x Entropy Cannon, Heavy Stubber - 146 pts

6 CP total

Orks - The WAAGH of Nathan
Battalion Detachment

HQ
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Big Mek on Bike [6 PL, 101pts]: Choppa, Kustom Force Field
Warboss [4 PL, 82pts]: Attack Squig, Kombi-Rokkit, Power Klaw
Weirdboy [4 PL, 62pts]: Power - Da Jump


Heavy Support
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Lootas [12 PL, 119pts]: 7x Loota

Troops
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Boyz [9 PL, 90pts]: 15x Ork Boy W/ Slugga & Choppa
Boyz [9 PL, 90pts]: 15x Ork Boy W/ Slugga & Choppa
Boyz [9 PL, 90pts]: 15x Ork Boy W/ Slugga & Choppa

Fast Attack
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Deff Kopta [13 PL, 158pts]
. DeffKopta: Kopta Rokkits
. DeffKopta: Kopta Rokkits

Warbuggies [4 PL, 57pts]
. Warbuggy: Rack of Rokkits

Elites
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Meganobz [10 PL, 144pts]
. Boss Meganob w/ Saws: Killsaws (Pair)
. Meganob w/ Saws: Killsaws (Pair)
. Meganob w/ Saws: Killsaws (Pair)

Nobz [11 PL, 144pts]
. Boss Nob: Big Choppa, Slugga
. Nob: Power Klaw, Slugga
. Nob: Power Klaw, Slugga
. Nob: Power Klaw, Slugga
. Nob: Power Klaw, Slugga

Painboy [4 PL, 53pts]: Power Klaw

++ Total: [95 PL, 1190pts] ++


Nathans Boyz

Pre Game Analysis
Death Guard: So I'm worried because there will be so... many.... bodies. Regardless of what he picks, this will be my first time facing a horde in 8th; I wonder if I have the tools to tackle this challenge! I decided to try out some Plague Marines this game to test their melee prowess, but also to protect my Crawlers against charges. I figured Poxwalkers and Cultists would be normal and give me a few bodies to block some charge lanes. My army is essentially some terminators and tanks, haha... I do not tool my list to face armies, so I know Curse of the Leper is not optimal this fight, and Bloat Drones would be "better" in this fight. However, I thought about a more TAC style list. Also, I took arch contaminator this time, woo! I'm also worried about all the Nobz. I know they were tough in 5th (my last edition), and with a painboy, and MANZ, yeash! Hopefully the Blightlords can take all these guys on!

Orks: Nathan said he's excited to see what his Orks can do against the Smelly Marines... hes hoping the Klaws are enough to kill my blightlords and carry him to victory!

Mission
We rolled Deadlock, and I win the roll off to place first. Nathan chose Dawn of War deployment per the mission.



Deployment

His Koptas are in reserve, my Terminators and lord are in reserve.

Re rolled our six tactical objectives for the game:
Orks have - Objective 61 (Kingslayer), 23 (Secure obj 3), 31 (defend obj 1), 26 (Secure obj 6), 24 (secure obj 4), 36 (defend obj 6)
Death Guard have - Objective 53 (No Prisoners), 63 (Scour the Skies), 14 (Hold Obj 4), 62 (Witch Hunter), 13 (Secure obj 3), 33 (defend obj 3)

Death Guard won the roll off for first turn, and Orks failed to seize.

Death Guard T1
Movement Phase was pretty simple; my Plague Marines shuffled up a little bit, not straying too far from the PBC's because of his Koptas. The cultists, typhus, and poxwalkers advance up my right side. At the end of this phase the Sorcerer and Blightlord drop on the top left corner of the board, aiming to clear some of the horde. Objective 3 is over by the Poxwalkers, and where the Blightlords will be fighting is Objective 4.

In the psychic phase my sorcerer takes a break... he perils on his first check for Vitality, so I take the 1 wound. He passes casting blades. On my other side, typhus throws up miasma on my poxwalkers.

Shooting is so-so, after I unload EVERYTHING I had into the Lootas I knock them down to 2 models left (he made lots of painboy/KFF saves). Cultists pick off a boy from another squad, but otherwise, pretty lackluster.

Onto assault! I make the charge for my Blightlords, and with some epic, epic rolls, they kill all 15 boyz without a single strike in return! Nice. Morale causes the last two lootas to flee.


End of DG T1

Death Guard have - Objective 53 COMPLETED (1VP), 63 (Scour the Skies), 14 (Hold Obj 4), 62 (Witch Hunter), 13 (Secure obj 3), 33 (defend obj 3)

This turn I score 2 VP. Score 2-0

Orks T1
Orks movement is tenuous as Nathan is unfamiliar with his rules as well. His boyz mobs move as far forward as possible, with the KFF biker scooting over. His warboss advances as well. His Weirdboy moves behind his Nobz, planning to teleport them. Lastly, his MANZ move to engage my Blightlords. His Deffkoptas outflank just to the side of my PBC's. He will score Obj 6 which is on his half of the board.

In the psychic phase, he fails to cast Da Jump and realizes he should have moved closer to his boyz mob.

Shooting does very little, as you'd expect, he knocks 3 wounds off a PBC and does 1 wound to a blightlord.

He charges his MANZ into the Blightlords... and whiffs a lot of rolls. He didn't realize they were Str 10, which mean't they wounded on 2's this turn, so I gave him an extra wound which kills a Blightlord to make it fair. I swing back, but the lords really hate me this turn.



Sneaky Koptas and buggy

Orks - Objective 61 (Kingslayer), 23 (Secure obj 3), 31 (defend obj 1), 26 COMPLETED (1VP), 24 (secure obj 4), 36 (defend obj 6)

Orks score 1 point this turn. SCORE: DG 2 - Orks 1

Death Guard T2
My goal this turn is to destroy his Koptas and MANZ. I move up my Plague Marines a bit, as well as the cultists, walkers, and typhus. My sorcerer also shuffles up. I make a mistake here, I should have charged with the sorcerer or moved him more conservatively as hes my warlord. I also pop my first CP to cast The Dead Walk Again.

In the psychic phase my Sorcerer fails AGAIN to cast Vitality with a perils... I choose to reroll it, but still fail (no perils at least...). Blades goes off. Miasma goes on the poxwalkers again, but I'm out of smite range with typhus (Shoudl have cast leper... bleh).

Shooting is pretty good, my mortars + cultists kill around 9 of the middle mob, while my Entropy Cannons, blightlaunchers. and Stubber fail to kill both koptas (didn't realize fliers had a -1 to hit!). But I do take one down.

In assault his MANZ fail to kill anymore blightlords, while I kill them down to a single Nob. Morale kills more of the middle boyz, leaving 4 left.



DIE MANZ!

Death Guard have - 63 (Scour the Skies), 14 (Secure Obj 4), 62 (Witch Hunter), 13 COMPLETED (1VP), 33 (defend obj 3)

I secured objective 3 this turn. SCORE: DG 3-Orks 1

Orks T2
This is a big turn for Nathan, I haven't eliminated nearly as much as I would have liked. He starts by advancing all his boyz up and popping 1 CP to combine his Boyz squads. His other Nobz move to intercept my sorcerer. His KFF biker moves to hold Objective 6 so he gets the defend objective. His warboss also advances with the boyz. Lastly, the Weird Boy moves to act as a smite machine. His painboy moves to support the MANZ as he was out of range last turn.

Psychic phase he gets smite to go off, but it only does a single wound which DR blocks (yay!).

Shooting he has nothing much to do, but he does kill 2 Cultists and 1 Poxwalker with shots (so I gained 1 walker). His deffkopta does its bombing run on my PM's, killing 2 would mortal wounds and another one with its Rokkits. His buggy fails all hits on the PBC.

In assault he makes all of his charges, thanks in part to a reroll. He clobbers my Sorcerer lord with ease, scoring 2 VP + 1 for kill the warlord, consolidating to contest Obj 4. On the right side, he wipes all my cultists making the Poxwalker blob enormous, and kills a couple walkers too. Walkers and Typhus result in around 7 dead Boyz. On the Blightlord front, thanks to Blades, I'm able to kill the last MANZ with mortal wounds alone thanks to failed FnP, and I consolidate to face his Nobz. His buggy charges and does 1 wound to my PBC.


Sorcerer took many, many, powerclaws to the dome.



End of turn 2 for orks

Orks have - Objective 61 COMPLETED (2VP), 23 (Secure obj 3), 31 (defend obj 1), 24 (secure obj 4), 36 COMPLETED (2VP) + Slay Warlord

SCORE: DG 3 - Orks 6

Death Guard T3
That really sucked... even though his damage was minimal, he scored a boatload of points. I need to catch up here!

We start with me moving my PBC away from his Buggy. My Plague Marines just hang tight. Everything else is in combat.

Psychic phase miasma goes off, but I perils... I reroll a 6 and get a 5. Whew! Down to 3 CP! I also smite a few boyz.

My shooting is good, finally, and I kill his buggy and last Kopta. I also pick a wound off a Nob.

Assault sees my Poxwalkers and Typhus kill all the boyz to my right. This clears them all out, leaving just Typhus within 1" of his warboss, so all the poxwalkers consolidate backward toward Objective 3 again. I also do 3 wounds to his Warboss, and Typhus tanks all the hits with epic saves. Screw you powerklaw! My blightlords take a break, killing 2 nobz, and he does 1 wound with a Choppa.


Typhus vs Warboss!

Nobz vs Terminators! The eternal battle.



Death Guard have - 63 COMPLETED (1 VP), 14 (Hold Obj 4), 62 (Witch Hunter), 33 (defend obj 3)

SCORE: DG 4- Orks 6

Orks T3
Hes short by 1 objective, rolls, and gets Secure objective 2. He feels he can get this as long as Typhus dies or cannot get out of combat; he forgets about my huge walker blob.

Movement is limited, his painboy moves to help his Nobz, his Weird Boy stays still to smite, and finally his Mek Biker turbos to objective 2 (on the hill near the Typhus fight).

Shooting he picks off a single poxwalker, and I'm able to block his Smite with Typhus.

In assault, my Blightlords take a nap, and he rolls really, really well between the Painboyz klaw and the nobz, killing 2 terminators! This leaves a single flail. Typhus, on the other hand, destroys his warboss with something like 9 unsaved wounds (3 hits/wounds, failed all saves). Yeash! Typhus consilidates toward his biker. and is easily within contest range (hes just out of controlling it anyway).

Orks score no points this turn. DG get Slay the Warlord.

Orks have - 23 (Secure obj 3), 31 (defend obj 1), 24 (secure obj 4), Secure obj 2

SCORE: DG 5 - Orks 6

Death Guard T4
With the Nobz in combat, we discuss how shooting in this situation would work because his Painboy is closest, but I can target the Nobz too. We decide that I could target both.

My movement sees me spend 2 CP to bring back a terminator, and they fall back from the Nobz. Poxwalkers stay put, and my Plague Marines move toward Obj 5 within range to take it if I somehow pull it.

Shooting is pretty effective seeing me wound his Painboy a couple times, and killing 2 Nobz (the last one passes).

Assault Typhus wipes his Big Mek easily. This turn I'm able to defend Objective 3 finally.


Plague Marines pewpew!

Death Guard have - 14 COMPLETED (2 VP), 62 (Witch Hunter)

SCORE: DG 7 - Orks 6

Orks T4
Only having a Weird Boy, 1 Nob, and a Painboy left he does what Orks do... CHARGE! Also, he drops Obj 1 because he has too many objectives

The results? He kills 1 Terminator, and I kill his last Nob. He was hoping to Secure obj 4 to tie it up.

Orks have - 23 (Secure obj 3), 24 (secure obj 4), Secure Obj 2

SCORE: DG 7 - Orks 6

Death Guard T5
My plague marines move to make sure I get obj 5. My last blight lord falls back, hes still within 3" of Obj 4. Typhus should have advanced toward Nathans board side, I was dumb and didn't do that.

I unload ALL my shooting, killing the painboy, and then 6 mortar shots see the Weirdboy turn into pink mist.




Death Guard have - 14 COMPLETE (1VP), 62 COMPLETE (1 VP)

FINAL SCORE: DG 9 - Orks 6

Post Game Thoughts

I really need to get objective cards man... that said, I feel I did well controlling the flow of battle. I'm still learning with my Terminators when to stay in combat, and when to peel off and let my guns do all the work. I also learned that Fliers are a PAIN to shoot. The Arch Contaminator did serious work with those Mortars though. The MVP of this battle has to be the Blightlords; they held up half of his army, while the PBC's and Typhus accounted for a majority of the kills. I almost feel like Typhus should deep strike in, the Poxwalkers take a lot of wounds anyway... but meh. Maybe further testing on that front. The Sorcerer Lord does his job of buffing, but he dies to a stiff wind it seems, and his combat prowess leaves a lot to be desired. Great game though, I learned a lot!

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I really like your new list a lot. I’m looking forward to the next report.

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 Primark G wrote:
I really like your new list a lot. I’m looking forward to the Ned report.


Thanks G!

Its basically the list I used against Space Wolves, but with Plague Marines tossed in. The Blightlords I feel are a sleeper unit; they are incredibly durable and incredibly powerful. Unless someone has a way to remove their Invun saves, they stick around. I have a feeling I'll be using them a whole, whole lot. I'm interested in seeing how they perform without Warp time to ensure a charge.

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The orks list has lots of issues and underperforming units, you shouldn't have problems.

 
   
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 Blackie wrote:
The orks list has lots of issues and underperforming units, you shouldn't have problems.


Nathan has very little 8th experience, and is relatively new to Orks. He was testing a few things out. I will say, MANZ do a ton of wounds, only my saves made a difference here, but Boyz seem overcosted for how easily they go down, and Koptas seem overpriced as well. I think he will do better in future games, he took a lot of High STR attacks to combat my Lords and tanks directly.

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 Zid wrote:
Battle is complete! Enjoy and feel free to C&C


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 Blackie wrote:
The orks list has lots of issues and underperforming units, you shouldn't have problems.


Nathan has very little 8th experience, and is relatively new to Orks. He was testing a few things out. I will say, MANZ do a ton of wounds, only my saves made a difference here, but Boyz seem overcosted for how easily they go down, and Koptas seem overpriced as well. I think he will do better in future games, he took a lot of High STR attacks to combat my Lords and tanks directly.


It's funny you mention that about the boyz, as for most Ork players its the opposite, boyz are the most competitive choice in our army and MANZ are seen as overpriced/garbage. The main issue in this game for him was that he didn't take nearly enough boyz. For most Ork lists, 60-90 boyz is a minimum and for footslogging lists you need 25+ boyz to deal with incoming damage and enough numbers to get the +1 attack bonus for having 20 or more boyz in the unit and benefit from mob rule. Having 15 per unit means even a slight amount of focus with shooting will start making morale matter a lot sooner and reduce their damage output greatly. As you noticed, ork boyz' weakness mainly lies in having to rely on stuff like da jump to get to their targets unmolested and having relatively low durability. So depending on how many boyz he has, I would suggest significantly larger squads to see better results.
   
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 Zid wrote:
Battle is complete! Enjoy and feel free to C&C


Automatically Appended Next Post:
 Blackie wrote:
The orks list has lots of issues and underperforming units, you shouldn't have problems.


Nathan has very little 8th experience, and is relatively new to Orks. He was testing a few things out. I will say, MANZ do a ton of wounds, only my saves made a difference here, but Boyz seem overcosted for how easily they go down, and Koptas seem overpriced as well. I think he will do better in future games, he took a lot of High STR attacks to combat my Lords and tanks directly.


The boyz are among the most competitive orks units but they really perform in big mobs of 25-30 bodies. Smaller units should take a transport. Meganobz can do a lot of damage but without a transport they're too fragile and slow, in fact you manage to fight them with units that had invulns. Deffkoptas are insanely overpriced. Nobz of foot can be good but they need ammo runts as cheap ablative wounds and maybe 1-2 stock dudes to make the unit cheaper and to remove as the first inevitable casualties.

Overall it was a nice report, I liked it, thanks

 
   
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 Grimskul wrote:
 Zid wrote:
Battle is complete! Enjoy and feel free to C&C


Automatically Appended Next Post:
 Blackie wrote:
The orks list has lots of issues and underperforming units, you shouldn't have problems.


Nathan has very little 8th experience, and is relatively new to Orks. He was testing a few things out. I will say, MANZ do a ton of wounds, only my saves made a difference here, but Boyz seem overcosted for how easily they go down, and Koptas seem overpriced as well. I think he will do better in future games, he took a lot of High STR attacks to combat my Lords and tanks directly.


It's funny you mention that about the boyz, as for most Ork players its the opposite, boyz are the most competitive choice in our army and MANZ are seen as overpriced/garbage. The main issue in this game for him was that he didn't take nearly enough boyz. For most Ork lists, 60-90 boyz is a minimum and for footslogging lists you need 25+ boyz to deal with incoming damage and enough numbers to get the +1 attack bonus for having 20 or more boyz in the unit and benefit from mob rule. Having 15 per unit means even a slight amount of focus with shooting will start making morale matter a lot sooner and reduce their damage output greatly. As you noticed, ork boyz' weakness mainly lies in having to rely on stuff like da jump to get to their targets unmolested and having relatively low durability. So depending on how many boyz he has, I would suggest significantly larger squads to see better results.


I could definitely see Boyz being your bread and butter, I mean, they are a horde! I think I was just unimpressed due to his smaller squads; I was able to pick them apart pretty easily. Poxwalkers are actually very good in this matchup as well, but this showed a need for me to take a few more guns, and rely less on my Blightlord Bomb. But yes, this game definitely highlighted the shortcoming of the Boyz. MANZ are INCREDIBLY powerful when they get in, 4 attacks at str 10 is no joke! They were wounding my lords (due to failed vitality) on 2's, which is not a small feat. I'm just lucky my dice rolled about average.


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 Blackie wrote:
 Zid wrote:
Battle is complete! Enjoy and feel free to C&C


Automatically Appended Next Post:
 Blackie wrote:
The orks list has lots of issues and underperforming units, you shouldn't have problems.


Nathan has very little 8th experience, and is relatively new to Orks. He was testing a few things out. I will say, MANZ do a ton of wounds, only my saves made a difference here, but Boyz seem overcosted for how easily they go down, and Koptas seem overpriced as well. I think he will do better in future games, he took a lot of High STR attacks to combat my Lords and tanks directly.


The boyz are among the most competitive orks units but they really perform in big mobs of 25-30 bodies. Smaller units should take a transport. Meganobz can do a lot of damage but without a transport they're too fragile and slow, in fact you manage to fight them with units that had invulns. Deffkoptas are insanely overpriced. Nobz of foot can be good but they need ammo runts as cheap ablative wounds and maybe 1-2 stock dudes to make the unit cheaper and to remove as the first inevitable casualties.

Overall it was a nice report, I liked it, thanks


THank you for reading! Yes, I can see your points. MANZ are incredibly strong, but the equivalent of footslogging my blightlords, However, with the Painboy/KFF they were pretty darn resilient, and I won't be writing them off in close combat. But I think Nobz excelled over them; even foot slogging, you get more of them, and with a KFF/Painboy they survive just the same as the MANZ in many situations. However, the MANZ having 3 vs 2 wounds also helped him a lot in combat, because generally my Flail can mow through a unit of 2 wound models. It was a great game, and I'll have to see what I can do against Hordes in the future; more Poxwalkers may be the very answer!

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Just going to echo that if he dropped the fast attack units, the lootas, and maybe a MAN or two; his list would be a lot better overall.

Unfortunately, that's the state of the index - maximum boyz (Boyz, Stormboyz, Kommandos), support units for them, and maybe some Tankbustas (not fantastic but they're the best AT we've got) is really the best list - the more "fun" units you take, the less boyz you can get in your list. Really, they're the only actually points efficient units in the index...

Tell your friend to take a 30+10 squad of Boyz, mob them up at the start of the game, then jump them in (with potentially the Wierdboyz +1attack power as well); if they make the charge roll, whatever they touch should evaporate [vehicles/super heavy armor excluded].

That said, I'm not the most familiar with Deathguard; perhaps massive squads of 1w troops aren't the best against them...

Glad to hear the MANZ did some work though, I always loved those guys.

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Was that warboss on a bike made from a reaper chainsword? If so thats baller. Great report Zid! Still stoked your back in the hobby. I am hoping the coming DE release is solid and maybe it will pull you back into the fold

   
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fe40k wrote:
Just going to echo that if he dropped the fast attack units, the lootas, and maybe a MAN or two; his list would be a lot better overall.

Unfortunately, that's the state of the index - maximum boyz (Boyz, Stormboyz, Kommandos), support units for them, and maybe some Tankbustas (not fantastic but they're the best AT we've got) is really the best list - the more "fun" units you take, the less boyz you can get in your list. Really, they're the only actually points efficient units in the index...

Tell your friend to take a 30+10 squad of Boyz, mob them up at the start of the game, then jump them in (with potentially the Wierdboyz +1attack power as well); if they make the charge roll, whatever they touch should evaporate [vehicles/super heavy armor excluded].

That said, I'm not the most familiar with Deathguard; perhaps massive squads of 1w troops aren't the best against them...

Glad to hear the MANZ did some work though, I always loved those guys.


A tide of dudes actually is a great way to face my elite Death Guard list, I don't have many responses to that kind of pressure... except poxwalkers. They can dominate the board very quickly if they can feed. This was a good way to test my army though and see this may be a pivotal weakness; my next game is up against Nids, so we shall see.


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Was that warboss on a bike made from a reaper chainsword? If so thats baller. Great report Zid! Still stoked your back in the hobby. I am hoping the coming DE release is solid and maybe it will pull you back into the fold


It was his Warbuggy, haha.


Thanks Red! Its fun to be back, forgot how great it was to toss some dice. I won't be coming back to DE though, I don't have the cash to drop on models too often anymore in my current situation... if anything I'll expand into Daemons lol.

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McCragge

I really enjoyed your report and congrats on the win!

Bow down to Guilliman for he is our new God Emperor!

Martel - "Custodes are terrible in 8th. Good luck with them. They take all the problems of marines and multiply them."

"Lol, classic martel. 'I know it was strong enough to podium in the biggest tournament in the world but I refuse to acknowledge space marines are good because I can't win with them and it can't possibly be ME'."

DakkaDakka is really the place where you need anti-tank guns to kill basic dudes, because anything less isn't durable enough. 
   
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Jacksonville, NC

 Primark G wrote:
I really enjoyed your report and congrats on the win!


Thanks for reading G!

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