Greets all,
Life being the hectic tsunami that it is, has prevented me from updating lately. I found myself with some time this morning and decided to update on recent playtests with the chaos book, as well as an RTT I attended at Showcase Comics and how that went.
So first the RTT.
So we drove three hours to attend the monthly Showcase Comics RTT in Media Penn. This was the second RTT of theirs I've attended, and of course SVDM which was a blast.
So let me say, I forgot to take pictures or keep army lists from my opponents. So I'm doing each turn completely from memory, apologies in advance if I forgot something, get something wrong or otherwise.
This was at 2k, the army I brought was....
Chaos SM w/ Daemon Allies
HQ
Juggy lord w/ Axe, sigil, meltabomb, mutation,
Nurgle lord on bike w/ black mace, meltabomb, mutation, sigil, blight grenades
Troops
3x 10 autogun cultists (idea is to help shoot down flying MC's or additional fire support)
Fast Attack
1x Baleflamer dragon (autotake at least one, lets be fair, i kinda need him in order to make ChaosSM decently viable, apologies though MEQ armies)
2x5 nurgle spawn
Heavy Support
1x1 Nurgle Oblit
2x1 Maulerfiend w/ magmacutters
Allies
HQ
Nurgle Herald w/ greater gift, lesser gift, psyker level 1, palequin of nurgle, FNP Locus
Troops
1x10 Plaguebearers
Fast Attack
1x5 Plague Drones
Heavy Support
1x1 Skull Cannon
Game 1 vs. Daemons of Chaos! Kill points Primary
Vanguard Deployment, no night fight
My opponent had..
3x1 Tzeentch Heralds, w/ gifts, psyker level 3, locus to give +1 S to powers
1x1 Khorne herald, juggy, greater gift, w/ gifts
1x1 Great Unclean One, psyker level 3, exaulted gift,
3x18(rougly around that), pink horrors
1x20 Deamonnetes w/ allures, banner of some sort
1x20 Khorne dogs
Aegis line w/ quad gun.
My opponent got a really good selection of powers, all of his tzeentch heralds took one tzeentch power and 2 divination powers. Two squads got prescience and ignore cover (really good for him!) and the third got prescience and the 4+ invuln save ability. The GUO got enfeeble and some other biomancy powers he never really got to cast, details why in a few. The GUO also took the book to enhance or reduce invuln saves.
I got a boon of mutation to give my Nurgle lord have +1 attack, and the juggy lord was apparently not worthy and rolled a nothing. My herald took the instant-death balesword and cleaving strikes (2x S on a 6).
My opponent gave himself first go, set up the Aegis line at about the 24 inch point, and then set up just behind that. He used his GUO in the dead center, and one one side the daemmonettes, the other the khorne dogs w/ khorne lord. The pink horrors hung out behind in their massive blobbyness, but stretched a thin line forward in order to get the needed single model into LOS / range for shooting.
I set up with the maulerfiends and a spawn squad directly across from the daemmonettes, and set everything else up in front of the khorne dogs. Everything except the maulerfiends was about 30 inches away, so he couldn't walk forward and dakka me first turn. Game plan being, only let him get one round of shooting off on me before i assault, not two. As my army is all fast moving guys, It should be very easy to accomplish that.
Turn 1
All his stuff moves forward, fires ineffectually at the maulerfiend in range.
I move all my stuff forward, a maulerfiend and a spawn squad set up to charge the daemonnettes and the other maulerfiend at a very exposed pink horror squad (in the hope to wipe them or tie them up out, then in the follow turn be inside of his line and cause havoc the rest of the game). The skull cannon pounds a squad of horrors killing 8 or so.
I roll my charges, I only need about 7 to 8 inch charges, even with fleet, only one maulerfiend makes it to the daemonnetes.
Turn 2
His guys moved forward, khorne dogs screening the other two squads of pink horrors. Some shooting kills 3 of my exposed nurgle spawn from one squad, and two from the other squad. His GUO casts enfeeble but I deny the witch. The GUO then charges the exposed maulerfiend who failed his charge, and the daemmonettes charge the squad with 3 spawn in it. The maulerfiend holds his own, putting a wound on the GUO, and spawn teniously survive, and kill a few daemmonnettes in the process.
My go, remaining spawn not in combat and plague drones and juggy lord move into position to assault khorne dogs. The black mace lord sets up next to the GUO to prepare for assault. With careful positioning i make sure the closest to closest aspect of that charge will involve plenty of daemmonnettes being within 3 inches of the base. Some reserves arrive, notably the baledragon and plague bearers. Plaguebearers deep strike far backfield onto the secondary objectives. The dragon flies over a pink horror squad vector striking (does nothing).
The skull cannon blasts another handful of pink horrors back into the warp. The oblit wiffs ineffectually at something or other. Dragon kills 1 or 2 pink horrors with his flamer (lots of saves passed!)
Charges are all successful. The GUO explodes into a delightfully messy goo due to black maces fleshbane and ton of attacks from the lord (in a challenge of course) striking first! The Mace lord becomes T7, woo ! A few of daemmonnettes in the combat nearby also explode into a fine mist with toughness tests.
Maulerfiend and bike lord massacre towards remaining pink horrors. The spawn in combat with daemmonnettes die. The khorne dogs (who have a 2+ invuln atm), essentially tie combat with the plague drones and spawn. This combat will go on essentially the rest of the game. Juggy lord who issued a challenge manages to punch himself in the face, after failing a dangerous terrain test, so only two wounds remaining...
Turn 3
Deammonnettes attempt to charge in with mace lord or run, can't remember which, net result is it doesn't end up happening. Maulerfiend lives through shooting, and the dragon is the subject of lots of gun fire from pink horrors, manages to get a weapon destroyed result... woo....
Combat with dogs and drones drags onwards
My turn, dragon flies forward doing some vector strike damage to pink horrors. Black mace lord charges into a squad of pink horrors, again positioning to maxamize blowing up of other models. Maulerfiend charges a different squad of pink horrors. Skull cannon blows up some more pink horrors from squad 3. Oblit moves forward and assault cannons the deammonnette squad.
Lots of pink horrors die this turn, they were not missed!
At this point, the deamonnette squad only had a few models left I think.
Combat drags on
Turn 4
At this point, the game being KP my opponent decides to use the remaining shooty squad he has to blast at the dragon, who either denied the witch or something.. but nothing happened is the net result. Everything else is pretty much locked in combat. Combat drags on with the khorne dogs, who are now slowly winning, but can't manage to kill the nurgle spawn. Deammonnettes decide its time to be brave, and assault the nurgle lord who is in combat with just a few pink horrors. Nurgle Lord dies but not being removing all but 1 or 2 models from the pink horrors and deammonnettes. Rot rot glorious rot kills one of my cultist squads.
My turn, maulerfiend kills more in his combat, the squad is almost gone now (thanks to instability).
My remaining reserves come on, i throw one cultist onto a secondary objective, the other I put near my opponents deamonnettes. The cultists near the deamonnettes shoot them down. Oblit moves forward shooting at the pink horrors surviving, reducing it to one model.
Khorne dogs are now just biting at a single nurgle spawn. Everything else has bit the dust.
Turn 5
So at this point, my opponent has a pink horror squad w/ herald thats about half strength, a pink horror locked in combat with a maulerfiend, a single pink horror by himself and the khorne dogs w/ herald biting a single spawn. I have an oblit, 2 cultist squads, plaguebearers, a skull cannon, the dragon, and a maulerfiend. Its time to figure out kp and go for the win (on both sides). He decides to shoot the pink horror squad to get another kill point, and whatever went on, it ended up not doing anything. BUT! the Khorne herald finally kills the last nurgle spawn. The squad massacres to the board middle. But also good news for me! My maulerfiend in combat with the pink horror finally kills it, and massacres towards his fleeing pink horror.
My turn, so its game face time. I have some decent shooty options still available. Its conceivable I can shoot down the remaining pink horror by itself with the oblit, use the skull cannon to kill a few from the half strength squad, then charge the maulerfiend in and HOPE i manage to kill enough to kill the rest with instability tests, or that he rolls a 12 for his leadership. It's a longshot but its basically all i have.
So the oblit shoots nicely, anddddd the pink horror goes to ground and passes his saves, boo. The maulerfiend now has no choice but to assault it, so i do, killing it.
GAME FIN.
End result- Out of his 10kp, i got 6. He got 8 from me. He wins.
Now that i've typed this up, i realize we actually did the score wrong for me on this. I held two bonus objectives, and had slay the warlord + linebreaker. I only gave myself 2 bonus points instead of 4, and he took i think 14 (10 for win, first blood, warlord, linebreaker and one bonus objective). ... so not that it matters now, But i cheated myself a few points.
So that's ok.
Game 2 vs. Tau! 2 Objectives primary.
dawn of war deployment, no night fight
His list - About 60 fire warriros, 2 hammerheads, 2 crisis squads w/ plasma + missle pods, 3 broadsides w/ split fire, assorted drones on the squads.
So this game does not need to be nearly as detailed. So this is a "fast recap" as it were.
I gave myself first turn, set up at the 12 inch line. Make a nice even spacing of it, one maulerfiend on each end, one spawn on each end, plaguedrones + skull cannon in the middle ect.
He deployed on his board edge as far as possible away from me.
I moved forward 12 and ran where possible. Skull cannon blew up a squad of fire warriors, but they pass leadership. Oblit tries to get first blood, fails.
His turn, he shoots everything he can at me, kills a few spawn, takes a hullpoint or two off of a maulerfiend.
I assault him the following turn. I assault him a lot more in following turns.
Game Fin.
I get 16 points, I think i got first blood, warlord, linebreaker, and 3 bonus objectives.
Game 3 vs. GK! The Relic primary.
Hammer and Anvil deployment, no night fight.
NOTE:::: This board had essentially ZERO terrain in the aspect of hammer and anvil deployment. I had to run across a blank battlefield to reach him. There was ONE tiny piece of terrain off middle, and 1 or 2 larger piece in each corner of the board. The middle was essentially empty.
His list
Coteaz
Psyker inquisitor
2x Henchmen warband, w/ 3 plasma servitors, 3 plasma acolytes, some bolter guys
2x10 Strike squad, 2 psycannon, Hammer, 2x halberd
1x10 Interceptors, 2 psycannon, Hammer, 2x halberd
1x psybolt dread
1x vindicare assassin
1x techmarine w/ upgrades + that orbital bomb array
Aegis line w/ quad gun.
My opponent had first go.
He set up at the 24 inch line with the Aegis line, then piled up guys behind it / just in front of it. Sticking Coteaz with one henchmen squad, the inquisitor with the other. He took prescience on both. All of his GK squads deploy combat squaded.
I set up just beyond 30 inches, again not interested in being volleyed for two turns.
This battle report is going to be convoluted as I have no idea what formations his squads were in. They all looked the same to me and were intermingled, so I relied on him to tell me who was in what group, and was almost immediately forgotten.
Turn 1
He moves all of his GK guys forward. Fires the quad gun at a maulerfiend immobilizing it. Uses the vindcare to fire at the skull cannon, which passes its cover save. Plasma cannons do some small damage to spawn.
I run forward at him, maximum speed! Running where possible. The skull cannon kills a bunch of guys from one servitor squad. One of his strike squads is sticking way to far out so I manage to successfully assault it with the juggy lord and some nurgle spawn, wiping it naturally. Oblit wifs, as is his job. A maulerfiend tries to make into a purgation squad, ( i forgot the damn flamers are S6, not S5), and ends up almost dying to the overwatch, and not making it into the combat to boot. (It gets a wound back though from IT will not die).
Turn 2
He moves his strike squads, purgation and interceptors even closer to my spawn / drones. This round of shooting for him is devastatingly good. I lose 5 spawn, 3 blight drones, and the juggy lord. He declines to assault me except a 5 man squad into a 4 man spawn squad. (with two models with two wounds on it). The two spawn with wounds die, but the rest hold their own and kill a few marines back.
My turn. Mace lord w/ his two remaining spawn move into the middle of a large cluster of GK strike guys, and assault a 5 man squad. Careful positioning ensures a ton of GK guys from outside this squad are within 3 inches of the biker base. Nurgle herald + drones move to assault another 5 man squad not within range of the blow up bases. Maulerfiend sets up to charge a 5 man strike squad cluster.
All the charges are successful, and as devastating as his shooting was, my charges are. Lots of marines die. Nurgle lord + nurgle herald (and associated squads) stay locked in combat at the end with a single poor marine with a psycannon. Woo, won't be shot in the face the following turn.
Oh and the dragon comes on, and kills the entire purgation squad. Cultists come on and grab backfield bonus objectives. One squad runs towards the center relic.
Turn 3
His servitor squads blast at.. something.. I don't think they did much of anything really. The psybolt dread fires at the skull cannon and fails. However! Two psycannons and the vindicare assassin manage to blow up my dragon.. Fail =(. I clear all my combats this turn
My turn, I set up for the next round of assaults. Maulerfiend hits another strike squad cluster, spawn hit the same cluster (to absorb the overwatch, which as it turns out was def needed). Nurgle lord sets up to assault henchmen squad w/ psyker inquisitor. Nurgle herald sets up to assault coteaz's squad.
Charges are succesful and devastating. All of the henchmen guys die, leaving only the hq's. Coteaz squad runs (and can't be swept because of slow and purposeful), and nurgle lord is locked in with the techmarine (the inquisitor died). The maulerfiend kills its squad and then moves to sit behind a ruin on his sit for cover.
Oh and naturally i keep moving my troop squad towards the relic.
Turn 4
So at this point, he has a strike squad with a single psycannon guy, a 5 man strike squad with 2 halbers, psycannon and hammer, a vindicare assassin, coteaz and a henchman (who rally), and the psybolt dread. He moves his surving troops towards the relic and sprays shots at the maulerfiend, who doesn't care, like a boss. Psybolt dread also shoots ineffectually at it. Vindicare wiffs at the skull cannon again.
My turn 4, Maulerfiend kills the psybolt dread, Nurgle lord kills the techmarine and single psycannon guy. Cultists with autoguns kill the single psycannon bro. Nurgle herald charge and kill coteaz squad and massacre towards the 5 man squad.
Turn 5
All that's left is a 5 man strike squad and vindicare. They shoot, nothing happens, Then they get assaulted and die.
Also i picked up the relic, and moved necessary models to get all bonus objectives.
Had to start summarizing there at the end.. this is a lot to type out! Wish i had remembered to take pics.
Anyways
Game Fin
18/18 points for me.
So, at this point I was pretty sure I'd get second place. I knew what the score was for the two guys at the top table, one of them is likely to lose bad, and that'd put me ahead. Worst case was third, which still isn't bad.
HOWEVER!
The relic being the kind of mission that it is, as it turns out, neither person won on the top table. Which put me into first.
WOO!
kinda silly, but I guess that's how it goes.
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