SBG wrote:
Good report - that's a crazy Tau list!

 corrm wrote:


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 Saber wrote:
Another joyless tournament army, eh? I recently had the pleasure of playing against something similar and I was more offended by the lack of personality than the power of the army. It's not an impossible army to beat, though it is an awful lot of guns.

I was expecting some very hard lists and crazy combinations at the tournament to be honest. I thought my own army was pretty strong going in, but still quite thematic for a White Scars force. It can be nice to strike that balance sometimes.

 corrm wrote:
Final battle report of the recent tournament that I attended. My White Scars take on a ton of Tyranids. http://standwargaming.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/caledonian-revolution-2016-game-5-white.html

 Silverthorne wrote:

 corrm wrote:
Final battle report of the recent tournament that I attended. My White Scars take on a ton of Tyranids. http://standwargaming.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/caledonian-revolution-2016-game-5-white.html

Thanks for the reports!

I think in the last game against Tyranids you would have been much better off selecting the two winged tyrants as the primary and secondary target (should be fine, they are both HQs) and the thropes as the tertiary. I think your target priority was off, the centurions should have alpha striked the tyrants, their firepower and the tactical initiative was wasted firing on respawning gaunts. With average rolls and the hunters eye the cents should kill both flyrants on the drop (rerollable everything, no armor or cover save against grav) using the split fire you could have taken down both flyrants first turn on the ground.

After that the game would have been easy, the 2 flyrants were around 500 points, 50% of his synapse, 66% of his psychic support and 100% of his anti air and rapid mobility. Your cents probably would have survived the gaunt retaliation but even if they didn't, that is an advantageous trade. I always read your reports and I really enjoy them, it seemed at this tournament you were less aggressive than usual, and it cost you. I mean the entire army is designed as an HQ killing decapitation force, but I think you were just a tad too cautious and didn't play it that way. I really enjoyed reading about your tournament though, I think you have a very entertaining army.

 Silverthorne wrote:
Thanks. I didn't realize that about the gaunt spacing, although it is logical. Just glancing at the maps I thought you had a central gap to get through. Your army influenced my latest bike build a lot although it's only at 1500 right now and I use a librarian conclave and hunting force with chapter master instead of Khan. I find that the conclave + chapter master build has been buffed very strong by geomancy, since it's very easy to keep the wounds topped off on all the characters and phase form with the hunters eye gives 2 units ignores cover, and the primaris is great against hordes. An average roll of Chasm on that gaunt horde would have killed 3 from every unit, which starts to add up for a dumb wc 1 primaris