http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/17.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net loc to fight my buddy's bugs. Though if I had known it was bugs, I'd have tweaked my list a tad (hindsight 20/20 crap). Anywho here's what I ran: (DISCLAIMER! I apologize if this report isn't super detailed and is choppy, I'm a rookie at this so I will do better next time around, promise).
Farseer
5 dragons
5 dragons
10 avengers (exarch pw/shimmershield)
10 guardians w/shuriken cannon
5 spiders (exarch w/fast shot)
falcon - holo fields, scatter laser, cannon
fire prism - holo fields (I would have brought walkers or vypers in hindsight - but it's new/shiny and I wanted to run it lol)

His list (he had a formation that had some carnifex's, warriors and i think zoanthropes):
prime
3xwarriors (blasts and dakka - idk the specific nid terms)
3x carnifex's (1 set of devourers and the large blast - stranglethorn sounds right?)
2x zoanthropes
2x mysetic spores
tyrannofex

So he won the roll & deployed first. We rolled up hammer&anvil with an emperor's will game. Both obj's were in our deployment zones. I deployed my avengers on my obj with the fire prism hanging next to them. They were on my left flank (looking longways down the board), with one unit of dragons behind the ruin they were in. The other dragons were in my falcon (MVP of the game for sure). I had my guardians in the middle of my line in cover hoping to get some bladestorm wounds on some bugs and just tie them up before they died.

So I actually rolled to sieze the initiative! My first turn of movement saw some shuffling around to get ranges and fire arcs lined up. I rolled on telepathy for my farseer, as I knew he had a load of dakka and I was hoping for inivisibility. I rolled invis, shrouding, one other I didn't use and had the primaris shriek. I got off invis on the guardians turn 1 (only unit that was going to be in range) and I got shrouding up too (6" bubble of shrouded is nice!). Shooting saw 1 wound on a fex from my guardians cannon and my fire prism whiff (you'll see a trend here).

His turn saw him moving up his big bugs. He got off some FnP (he rolled warp lance and catalyst on both zoan's) up on his warriors for my next shooting phase, I believe I lost 2 guardians through the haze of invisible guardians.

My turn 2 saw myself focus on the tyrannofex, which was going to get into my left flank the next turn and I figured would run rampant unless I killed it. My spiders came in from reserve and landed about 15" away from the big tyrant and i had to battle focus move them closer to get into range (which I didn't remember to shoot with them before I ended up killing it!). I shot my falcon at it and put 4 wounds on it before my guardians came up and rolled up 5 for ap2 wounds! Loads of shuriken can do some damage for sure! (FIRST BLOOD!) I will back up and say that my psychic phase was horrible! I had enough charges to get off 3 powers and rolled 2 failed results on shrouded, 3 failed on shriek, but got invis up on my falcon (didn't want to lose it with the mines coming in soon).

His turn two was rough for me. I lost 2 dragons (who moved up to shoot the tyrannofex too), 2 guardians and his bugs were getting closer to my lines. My guardians failed their morale and ran back 8" towards my falcon and the 2 mines that had landed in my backfield.

My turn 3 was more bad shooting and ineffective psychic stuffs (I believe invis failed but I got shrouded up). My prism hasn't even hit anything at this point. I killed both of the mines, but other than though I didn't do much but consolidate to keep him off of my obj. I basically thought at this point to jet my falcon over to his obj to try and kill the 1 zoan he had there on it.

He kept pushing towards my obj, I lost my guardians, the unit of 2 dragons left and half my spiders after forgetting to battle focus run and assault move (not playing 40k in awhile makes you forget things! )

So my falcon moves 12" and turbo boosts 24" towards his edge of the board (on my left flank) - but ended up getting chaged by a fex and wrecked...he made a 10" charge...tank didn't stand a chance.At this point I have my prism, 3 avengers (exarch is there), farseer and 3 dragons out of the wrecked falcon - not good. Now that was the bottom of turn 5. I had killed the tyrannofex, both mines, 1 zoan and I think 1 fex? probably not though, we each have out obj's (1-1) I had fire blood (2-1) and we each had linebreaker (3-2). He rolled to see if we went on - ! woohoo! got a win!

Anywho, any thoughts on list construction or target priority would be helpful. I picked up a spirit seer from my FLGS (where we played - Y2Komics in Ft Worth, TX) so I'll have some more ML's during my next game. I'm thinking of rolling the spirit seer as telepathy and hoping for invis or shrouding and having my farseer be the buffer running either runes of fate or divination. Thoughts?






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