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Magnus and Ahriman have had they eyes on the Black Library for some time now.
On a distant maiden world a gate seems ungarded
The Avatar of Khaine stirs
The Thousand Sons are on the march, war is coming to the Webway
Send in the clowns...
Last week I played a game with my friend and I faced off against Magnus, Ahriman, a squad of Terminators, a squad of thousand sons, 3 squads of cultists, 1 demon prince, 2 sorcerersand a big squad of Tzengors (sp?)
I had 2 Troupe Masters (Starmist rainment on one), 2 Shadowseers (Suit of Hidden Knives on one), 1 Solitaire, 3 Death Jesters, 3 Squads of 2 Bikes with Glaives and Haywire, 3 Troupes with 2 Caress, 2 Embrace, 1 Kiss, all with Fusion Pistols, 3 Starweavers, 1 Avatar of Khraine with 5 Rangers (For gaks and giggles).
Game was Maelstrom with 6 objectives each at the start of the game. Classic deployment.
Soon as the game started I moved my army forward and opened fire with all the Haywire I can decimating a squad of Cultist who thanks to a stratagem succeeded with their morale so as to prevent me from scoring a point. Shuriken Cannons from Starweavers peppered squads here and there but nothing major. My Death Jester was deployed on an objective I needed so easy points for me.
His turn: I get hit with lost of psychic powers, I deny a few but nothing too bad. My rangers die a quick painless death and one Starweavers dies to focused fire. He re-deploys or teleports his Tzengors in a line to keep me away from the middle objective while his demon prince moves on to it. One squad of bikes dies as well. Harsh turn 1. Does not look good for the clowns.
Turn 2:
The troupe that lost their transport dashes towards the Demon Prince.
Another troupe disembarks and moves towards Ahriman who hurt himself casting psychic powers.
Death Jester focus on Ahriman.
My Shadowseer, 1 Troupe Master along with the Solitaire and the Avatar charge the Tzengors and wipe them out (12-15 that were left.)
One troupe charges the demon prince and weaken him a bit.
Second troupe charges Ahriman who dies quickly. I play a stratagem and consolidate troupe 2 into assault with the demon prince.
His Turn:
The terminators and thousand sons deep strike and drown the Solitaire in bullets from a funny angle, him being the closest to them.
Magnus moves forward to engage a Shadowseer who dies in CC.
One Troupe dies from the demon prince, the other is maimed by psychic powers.
Turn 3:
One Shadowseer and troupe master make their way towards the Terminators.
The bikes finish off cultists here and there.
Death Jesters lend support fire
The Avatar charges Magnus as an EPIC fight begins.
The Shadowseers and Troupe Masters charge the terminators and my opponent realizes how painful the suit of hidden knives can be with Veil of Tears and Fog of Mind. He does his best to avoid hitting the Shadowseer for now and focuses in the Troupe Master.
The Avatar puts a good seven points of damages into Magnus who retaliates with lots of wounds and then...Khaine was with me. The tally meant my Avatar would nearly die twice. I roll invul. Two wounds make it through. So 6 damage. I roll the FnP. 1 point gets through. My opponent could not believe it.
Past turn 3 it's a bit od a blurr as my Harlequins fell but always brought lots of models with them. Magnus eventually killed the Avatar after the Avatar took off 20 wounds from him. Lots of saves and lots of FnP. The Avatar is a BEAST.
My Shadowseer and Troupe Master died after taking 4 terminators with them.
His sorcerers and cultists and got annihilated by the Death Jester who maximized their Shrieker rounds into cultists squads to force Ld checks and the loss of even more models.
My third troupe made it to the center of the table of cleaning the right half and tore into the thousand son squad while dodging overwatch.
Last turn, my third troupe fell to combined fire from the terminators and psychic powers.
My last troupe master waltzes past Magnus on his way to the Thousand son squad and snaps off a shot from his shuriken pistol and the wound goes through. Magnus is down to 2 wounds. I change my mind, the Troupe master charges Magnus and finishes him with a shot from his Harlequin's Kiss before big red can retaliate.
The game ends, he has 4 thousand sons left, 6 terminators and 2 cultists. I have 3 Death Jesters in strategic positions and 1 bike sitting on an objective.
Final score...
10-10
That day was not the day the Thousand Sons would enter the Black Library.
Brutal game.
Lessons learned:
+ The Avatar is a beast. Send him at the biggest target without fear. Yes I am talking about you Guilliman. You next mofo.
- Always keep the Solitaire inside your formation. Painful loss.
+ Suit of Knives is a VERY powerful Relic. Watch as your enemy kills himself.
- Death Jesters lack FPR. The AP 0 sucks big time. I might have to move my DJ to a Vanguard detachment of the Sombre Sentinels so I can squeeze the Curtainfall in there. Should be way more useful.
- Fusion pistols are nice but highly situational. I might take a few less next time.
Against anyone else with much less Psychic powers I would have Steamrolled them by Turn 4. 90% of my losses were to Smite Spam and other Mortal wound powers from Magnus/Ahriman/Sorcerers.
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