Game #5 Blackmoor’s Grey Knights vs. Blood Angels

Here is part 5 of our 5 part series

Game #5 Blackmoor’s Grey Knights vs. Blood Angels

My List (in case you have forgot)

HQ

Draigo

Librarian w/Force Staff, Servo Skulls, Shrouding, Sanctuary, Might of Titian, Hammerhand, Quicksilver, Warp Rift

Elite

Purifier Squad

Knight of the Flame w/Master Crafted Demonhammer

3 Purifiers w/Halberd

2 Purifiers w/Psycannons

Troops

10 Paladins w/4 Psycannons, 2 Demonhammers, Halberds, Swords, 1 Falchion, Brotherhood Banner

5 Strike Squad w/Psycannon

Heavy Support

Land Raider

Land Raider

My Opponent’s Blood Angels list

HQ

Reclusiarch w/Melta Bombs

Elite

Furioso Librarian w/2 Blood Fists, Blood Lance, Wings of Sanguinius

Drop Pod

Furioso Dreadnaught w/Blood Fist+Melta Gun, Magna-Grapple, Frag Cannon

Drop Pod

Furioso Dreadnaught w/Blood Fist+Melta Gun, Magna-Grapple, Frag Cannon

Drop Pod

Troops

10 Death Company w/Thunder hammer

Drop Pod

Death Company Dreadnaught w/Blood Talon+Melta Gun, Blood Talon, Magna-Grapple

Drop Pod

Death Company Dreadnaught w/Blood Talon+Melta Gun, Blood Talon, Magna-Grapple

Drop Pod

4 Assault Marines w/Melta Gun

Sergeant w/Hand Flamer

Drop Pod

4 Assault Marines w/Melta Gun

Sergeant w/Hand Flamer

Drop Pod

Heavy Support

Dreadnought w/Blood Fist+Heavy Flamer, Multi-Melta

Drop Pod

Dreadnought w/Blood Fist+Heavy Flamer, Multi-Melta

Drop Pod

Dreadnought w/Blood Fist+Heavy Flamer, Multi-Melta

Drop Pod

Alright, for those of you playing at home, that is 8 Dreadnoughts, and 11 Drop pods.

Slaughter in Space Game #4 Blackmoor's Grey Knights vs. Janthkin's Tyranids

Slaughter in Space Game #4

Part 4 in our 5 part series!

So this is the beginning of day #2, and I show up late and tired on Sunday. I am really tired and I am a little bit out of it during my first game. I normally work nights, and this is very early for me. 

My List (in case you have forgot)

HQ

Draigo

Librarian w/Force Staff, Servo Skulls, Shrouding, Sanctuary, Might of Titian, Hammerhand, Quicksilver, Warp Rift

Elite

Purifier Squad

Knight of the Flame w/Master Crafted Demonhammer

3 Purifiers w/Halberd

2 Purifiers w/Psycannons

Troops

10 Paladins w/4 Psycannons, 2 Demonhammers, Halberds, Swords, 1 Falchion, Brotherhood Banner

5 Strike Squad w/Psycannon

Heavy Support

Land Raider

Land Raider

Janthkin’s Tyranids

HQ

Hive Tyrant w/TL Devourer Brainleech Worms, Hive Commander, Wings, Paroxysm, Leech Essence

Elite

3 Zoanthropes

3 Hive Guard

8 Ymgarl Genestealers

Troops

10 Termigants

10 Termigants

Tervigon w/Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Scything Talons, Cluster Spine, Catalyst

Tervigon w/Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Scything Talons, Cluster Spine, Catalyst

18 Genestealers w/Toxin Sacs

14 Genestealers w/Toxin Sacs

Fast Attack

20 Gargoyles w/Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs

Slaughter in Space Game #3 Blackmoor's Grey Knights vs. ChristianA’s Imperial Guard

Slaughter in Space Game #3

My List (in case you have forgot)

HQ

Draigo

Librarian w/Force Staff, Servo Skulls, Shrouding, Sanctuary, Might of Titian, Hammerhand, Quicksilver, Warp Rift

Elite

Purifier Squad

Knight of the Flame w/Master Crafted Demonhammer

3 Purifiers w/Halberd

2 Purifiers w/Psycannons

Troops

10 Paladins w/4 Psycannons, 2 Demonhammers, Halberds, Swords, 1 Falchion, Brotherhood Banner

5 Strike Squad w/Psycannon

Heavy Support

Land Raider

Land Raider

Christian’s Imperial Guard

Christian has a very well painted army, and one that is brutal. His list: 

HQ

Company Command Squad

4 Plasma Guns

Chimera

Company Command Squad

4 Melta Guns

Chimera

Troops

2x Veteran Squad w/3 Melta Guns

Chimeras

3x Veteran Squad w/3 Plasma Guns

Chimeras

Fast Attack

3x Vendetta

Heavy Support

3x Manticore

Wow! Not what I wanted to see. 3 Manticores+ 3 Vendettas + Melta and Plasma Vets. My poor Paladins and Land Raiders!

Slaughter in Space III Batrep Game #1 Grey Knights vs. Space Wolves

So I tried some units that I have never played with before (Draigo/Paladins) and I think going forward I will playtest units more before a big tournament

Game #1

Here is my 24 model army:

HQ

Draigo

Librarian w/Force Staff, 2 Servo Skulls, Shrouding, Sanctuary, Might of Titian, Hammerhand, Quicksilver, Warp Rift

Elite

Purifier Squad

Knight of the Flame w/Master Crafted, Demonhammer

3 Purifiers w/Halberds

1 Purifier w/Sword

2 Purifiers w/Psycannons

Troops

10 Paladins w/4 Psycannons, 2 Demonhammers, Halberds, Swords, 1 Falchion, Brotherhood Banner

5 Grey Knight Strike Squad w/Psycannon

Heavy Support

Land Raider

Land Raider

Batrep #2 Grey Knights vs. Black Templars

Empire Games 1000 Point RTT Game #2

My List 

My Opponent’s list

HQ

Emperor’s Champion (Do I need really need to write the vow?)

Elite

6 Sword Brethren w/3 Thunderhammer-Stormshields, 3 Lightning Claws  

Troops

Crusader Squad  6 Initiates, 4 Neophytes w/Upgrades

Rhino

Crusader Squad  6 Initiates, 4 Neophytes w/Upgrades

Rhino

Fast Attack

Land Speeder Typhoon

Heavy Support

Vindicator

Mission: Capture and Control

Deployment: Pitched Battle

Setup

I win the dice roll to go first!

I set up for most of my stuff in cover. I am going to have my strike squad hang back on my objective while my terminators and my Purifiers will try to take his objective. 

 

He hides as much as he can, and places his terminators in reserve. His EC is in the rhino on the far right. I forgot that he had a vindicator when I placed my terminators and that could be a lot of trouble.

 

Batrep #1 Grey Knights vs. Noise Marines

 Game #1 Grey Knights vs. Noise Marines

This is a 1000 point tournament with a restriction of one HQ, Elite, Fast Attack, and Heavy Support. 

You can see the post below for my GK list

My Opponent’s list

HQ

Chaos Lord w/Blissgiver

Troops

9 Noise Marines w/Blastmaster, 9 sonic Blasters

Aspiring Champion w/Power Weapon

5 Noise Marines w/Blastmaster

Fast Attack

4 Raptors w/Melta Gun, Plasma Pistol

Aspiring Champion w/Plasma Pistol

Heavy Support

2 Obliterators

Oblits can be trouble because I have nothing that can deal with them. 

Mission: Annihilation

Deployment: Dawn of War

Setup

I win the dice roll to go first!

I start with my Terminators with the Librarian in the middle of the board in the center of the table. My strike squad is just to the right of them behind a hill.

He starts with his 10 Marines+Lord in the left corner and the 5 marines in the right corner and chooses to deep strike his Raptors and Oblits.

Turn #1

He seizes the initiative and goes first!

Noise Marine Turn #1

He starts off by shooting my terminators with his 10 man squad but only a few were within 24” but I make my saves. His small squad shoots at my strike squad and does nothing.

Left side:

Right Side:

Batreps for my Foot Eldar

Here are the batreps for major events that I took my Foot Eldar to for the past year. 

Now I am only posting events that I played in that had 20+ players. I attended some smaller RTTs and won there was well, but they are not worth the time and effort it takes to write up a report. Also I play many armies, and I did not take Foot Eldar to every event that I attended (I should have taken them to Adepticon, but I was in a chaos mood at the time).

2009 'Ard Boyz: July 2009 Mesa, AZ
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/250049.page
I went 2-1 (In the loss I was massacring my opponent and the game ended on round 4 giving him the win). I also beat the guy who will go on to win the AZ 'Ard Boyz Semi-Finals in game #1.

Slaughter in Space: Aug 2009 Los Angeles, CA
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/262581.page
I went 3-0 and won the event
I only wrote up a batrep for game #1. Game #2 I beat an Ork army and Game #3 I beat Tyranids.

Wild West Shootout : Oct. 2009 Mesa, AZ
http://www.40konline.com/community/index.php?topic=191410.0;topicseen
I went 5-0 and won the event

The Broadside Bash: Feb. 2010 Los Angeles, CA
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/281069.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/281688.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/283230.page
I finished 4-1 and ended up 7th in Battle points out of around 50 players
Note: I might write up the final 2 batreps this weekend.

2010 'Ard Boyz: May 2010 Mesa, AZ
http://blackmoors40k.blogspot.com/
I had 2 Massacres and 1 draw

To sum it up I went 16-2-1 in the past year in big tournaments, and winning 2 out of 5 events.

Blackmoor’s ‘Ard Boyz report

I had been planning on taking my Tyranids to the 'Ard Boyz but I was unable to get the big bugs and bone swords necessary to get the army together, so it was on to plan B.



So it is back to my old standby of Foot Eldar. I almost switched to Chaos the night before (and maybe I should have) but at that point it was too late.



I am playing at Empire Games in Mesa. Since there are only 4 stores running the tournament in Arizona, and the other stores are smaller, a lot of the overflow came there to play so they had 20+ players.


My list:

HQ

Eldrad

Avatar


Elites

8 Harlequins w/Kisses, 2 fusion pistol

Shadowseer

Troupe Master w/power weapon


Troops

10 Guardians w/Brightlance

10 Guardians w/Brightlance

10 Guardians w/Brightlance



9 Dire Avengers



3 Jetbikes w/Shuriken Cannon

1 Warlock w/Singing Spear, Destructor



3 Jetbikes w/Shuriken Cannon

1 Warlock w/Singing Spear, Destructor


Fast Attack

9 Warp Spiders

1 Warp Spider Exarch w/2 Spinner, Withdraw, Surprise Attack



9 Warp Spiders

1 Warp Spider Exarch w/2 Spinner, Withdraw, Surprise Attack


Heavy Support

Wraithlord w/Brightlance, Missile Launcher, 2 Flamers

Wraithlord w/Brightlance, Missile Launcher, 2 Flamers



4 Dark Reapers

1 Dark Reaper Exarch w/Fast Shot, Missile Launcher





So on to the games!

Slaughter in Space II batreps!

I brought what I thought was a harder list than what I normally play. Why I say what I thought was harder I will go into at my next post.



My List:

HQ

Demon Prince w/MoT, Wings, Doombolt, Warptime

Demon Prince w/MoS, Wings, Lash

Greater Demon



Troops

7 Thousand Sons Marines

1 Aspiring Sorcerer w/Winds of Chaos

Rhino


9 Chaos Space Marines w/Lascannon, Plasma Gun

1 Aspiring Champion w/Powerfist

Rhino



9 Chaos Space Marines w/Lascannon, Plasma Gun

1 Aspiring Champion



8 Lesser Demons


Heavy Support

3 Obliterators

3 Obliterators

3 Obliterators



More about my list later

Game #1 vs Shep's Mech Guard

His army:

Mech Guard



Mission: 3 Objective evenly placed between the deployment zones

Deployment: 12" in from the table corners with Dawn of War style w/HQ and 2 Troops start on the board.

He starts with a Chimera and it's squad on the board and I start with my 2 troops and a DP.

Turn #1 his Chimera lights up one of my CSM squad that was going to go after the left objective and it dies when he fires his whole army at it.



My turn, darkness! I am not use to using searchlights, and I need to remember to start on the board with a rhino so I can use their searchlight.



Well, time for plan B. Now that holding the objective on the left is off of the table I am going to hold the right objective, and fight it out over the center objective.

We spend the rest of the game trading shots and moving forward.

Turn #5 he rushes the center objective with 3 chimeras. I counter with 3 monstrous creatures and a Thousand Sons squad. I end up killing one chimera.



The game ends on turn #5 in a draw. Not much either one of us could do to get the primary. Maybe if the game went to turn #7 my DPs could have killed everything, or his meltas could have killed my DPs, but otherwise it was going to be a tie.

Game #2 vs. Dash of Pepper's Dark Eldar

HQ

Leilith Hexperax

8 Wytches


Elite

5 Warriors w/Dark Lance

Raider w/Dark Lance



5 Warriors w/Dark Lance

Raider w/Dark Lance



5 Warriors w/Dark Lance

Raider w/Dark Lance


Troops

4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance


Heavy Support

Ravager

Ravager

Ravager

Mission: Whoever has the most kill points alive at the end of the game (dedicated transports do not count).

Ok, let me get this straight…I need to kill 5 units that are hiding in raiders and not lose any units to 13 Dark Lances and 9 Plasma Cannons? Um yeah.



What Dash could have done is just fly around in circles, and I would not have been able to kill enough to win this missions.


The game

I am sure he will write more about it, but he made a huge mistake that made it a game. He could have stayed back and shot me off of the board, but he played aggressive and assaulted me with his wytch elves. Normally wytch elves do a number on marines, and they were doing a good job with mine. He assaulted both of my CSM squads with 2 wytch squads each.



What this did was allow himself to be exposed to assault where I can kill the units I need to kill. The weakness of wytches is monstrous creatures. They halve your WS unless you have strength 6, and they take off the extra attack for 2 CCW. Demon Princes have strength 6, and all of their attacks are base attacks, and wytches can't hurt them with their puny strength of 3.



So just when I was assaulting them I pulled a bone head mistake. Now I have never played with lesser demons, and I will go on the record as saying that I will never use them again. So I assaulted the wytches with my DPs and my lesser demons, and the Wytches butchered my lesser demons and that cause a ton of fearless saves on my Demon Prince and my Greater Demon, and that almost killed them. I killed the wytches in the next round, but I was so crippled that they were easy pickings for Dark Lances.



I was tabled on round 4 or 5 and that was all she wrote. I ended up shooting down Leliths raider and in hindsight I should not have. I can kill her and pick up the secondary mission objective and that should have been my priority since there was no chance that I was going to the primary mission objective and I should have just tried to end the round trying with what points I could get.



Game #3 vs. Blood Angels

Mission: You had 2 objectives, and your opponent had 2 objectives and you were trying to keep yours, and destroy your opponent's by being within 3" at the end of the round.



This game is easy to describe. Mepheston came down one side and my Demon Prince came up the other and they both wiped out half of their opponents army. I had a chance to kill Mephiston when my aspiring sorcerer hit him with 2 attacks and was looking to end his life with a force weapon, but I could not roll a 6 to wound.



We both killed one of our opponent's objectives for a tie.



Game #4 vs Blood Angels

Mission: You get 3 points for each force category you destroy of your opponents. (Elite, troops, fast attack, heavy support)



Since I do not have any elites or fast attack my opponent starts out with 6 points.



He has Astorath and a lot of troops. He rolled and all of them got furious charge and fearlessness.

He started by running at me. I started by running at him since I think I can take him.



We end of in a big fight in the middle of the table. It was a good fight since CSMs have more attacks than his tac squads, but he has FNP. The problem was that the Demon Princes don't care about all of the Feel No Pain, and started butchering them.



At the end of the game I wiped him and he saw the writing on the wall so he jumped his last tac squad with a sanguinary high priest into a rhino and drove across the table to hide with an attack bike that I rolled a 1 to wound with a lascannon and it lived.



So he had an elite with the SHP, a troop with the tac squad and a fast attack with the attack bike. I had lost the greater demon to the Death Company.



I nearly tabled him and it was a tie.

Game #5 vs Foot Eldar

How dare someone try to beat with my specialty!!!!

Mission: Kill points.


I nearly table him and I win the game.



The secondary objective was to get 2 points for each table quarter you hold, and I only had 2 troops left so I only got 4 points. The only ones who got max points where IG who have a ton of scoring units.

1750 Point Tournament last weekend

So I played in my FLGS's 1750 point RTT tournament this last weekend. I needed the tune up for the Slaughter in Space Tournament next weekend, so I took a pared down list of what I will be bringing. I think that is one of my problems is that I jump around from list to list and don't play for a long time and I get a little rusty. I need to hone my lists and my tactics by playing more frequently.



My List:

HQ

Demon Prince w/MoT, Warptime, Winds of Chaos, Wings

Demon Prince w/MoS, Lash, Wings



Troops

5 Thousand Sons Marines

1 Aspiring Sorcerer w/Winds of Chaos

Rhino w/Combi Flamer



9 Chaos Space Marines w/Lascannon, Plasma Gun

1 Aspiring Champion

Rhino



9 Chaos Space Marines w/Lascannon, Plasma Gun

1 Aspiring Champion w/Power Fist



Heavy Support

3 Obliterators

3 Obliterators

3 Obliterators



No comp so I can bring what I wanted.



Game #1 vs. Word Bearers in Command and Control/Table Quarters

I know everyone hates KP missions but I hate this mission. I find it nearly impossible not to tie.

I played against Lash Sorcerer, 4 CSM in Rhinos, Land Raider w/Berserkers, and 2 Predators w/AC, HB



Turn #1

He went first and bum rushed me with his whole army.



I started shooting and not much going on. I had one rhino off to the side and I drove it around his rhino wall.



Turn #2

Next turn he drove at me again.



In my turn I unload and immobilize all of the front rhinos. I also had 3 oblits within 12" for Multi-melta shots on his Land Raider and I rolled a 2, 2, and a 1 to hit!!! Nooooo!



Turn #3

A pred kills my Rhino that was making the dash to his unprotected objective. His berserkers' w/Sorcerer kills my oblits that took the shots at the Land Raider.



My flanking rhino squad kills a pred with their powerfist. I get ready to lash the berserkers into WoC and assault range for the 2 Demon Princes, but I roll an 11 on the psychic test and fail to get Lash off, and they are out of charge range. I immobilize some more rhinos that were trying to drive around the others that were broken down.



Turn #4

He shoots up my Demon Princes and assaults my MoT DP with his berserkers. He kills a lot, but they bring him down. His CSM are now trying to run to my objective.



On my turn my other DP goes after a CSM squad and starts to butcher them. I start to run to his objective with the flanking CSM squad. My oblits are shredding CSMs.



Turn #5

He splits his Sorcerer and his berserkers and the sorcerer joins another CSM squad and Lashes my CSM squad out of their building, and he charges them and they end up getting in a big assault that is not going well for me. The berserkers charge my DP that is fighting a CSM squad and the DP kills the Berserkers before they get to swing (I like MoS even without lash) and the CSM break and get run down. He realizes that I have a squad that is headed to his unprotected objective so he shoots his immobilized Predator and Land Raider that them, and a squad that was in the rear gets out of their immobilized rhino and shoots them too.



In my turn my DP goes after the squad that is after my CSM squad that is running to his objective. I should have lashed them but I was on my last wound and I was worried about a PotW, and I thought that my assault would bring them 6" back anyways. My DP killed a lot of them, but they did his last wound and headed back toward my CSM again. In the big battle for my objective his Sorcerer and CSM were doing a number on my CSM so I tried to throw a couple of Oblit squads at them, but I rolled bad for S&P and could only get one unit in the fight, and I lost 2 of them to a powerfist. If the game ends now, I have my Thousand Sons on the objective and I win…but it does not end.



Turn #6

He shoots up my CSM that are almost on his objective and I can't make any saves. On his turn his sorcerer and his CSM win the combat with my CSM and oblit, but they look like they have been in a fight.



On my turn what is left of my CSM run on to his objective. My Thousand Sons get into the action, and quickly dispatch his Sorcerer and the 3 CSM that he had with him. If the game ends here I win with 2 objectives…but it does not.



Turn #7

He does not have much left, and he shoots my CSM on his objective and then assault and kills the one guy that was standing there after his shooting, and my Thousand Sons hold the other objective.



Tie game….grrrr!!!! If the game could have only ended!!!



Game #2 vs. Vulcan Salamanders in Command and Control/Table Quarters

Same stupid mission!!!

I will sum it up by saying that he had his 5-man squads with the heavy weapons in the back, and charged at me with the 5 man squads with the special weapons in rhinos/razorbacks. I killed the things headed to my objective without much of a sweat, and I had my Thousand Sons go after his objective just for kicks, but there was no way that he was going to get my objective, and there was no way I was going to get his, so we tied. Maybe is I could have summoned a couple of oblit squads off of the Thousand Sons squad, but I was afraid of Vulcan with the assault termies in the land raider, so I needed the firepower to blunt his charge.



Game #3 vs. Astral Claws in Kill Points Dawn of War

Huron Blackheart himself! I have never played against him before. He had an army like the first guy I played against with lots of CSM in rhinos+Huron, a Greater Demon, some lesser demons, 3 oblits, and a vindicator.



To sum it up, we danced around a bit and I shot the crap out of him. The highlight was that my MoT DP went after the Greater Demon and hacked him down in 2 rounds. Also Huron and the squad he was with were lined up so my Thousand Sons got out of their rhino and hit him with a WoC and rapid-fired them, and then charged what was left. My aspiring sorcerer wounded Huron with a force weapon, and without eternal warrior, that was it for him.

I win!!!



So I went 1-0-2 and got 3rd place which paid for my Blood Angels codex.



I learned a few things.

#1. My games were fast. Now that I used this army at Adepticon and now this weekend I am getting faster at it. The one thing that I found so frustrating with my Eldar was sweating getting the full game in. Eldar end up rolling so many dice that they take a while to play, and I want to get a full game in. Games ending early cost me many, many wins.

#2. I need more troops, and I wish I had the demons with me. 2 big unwieldy squads and one small special purpose squad were not cutting it.

#3. I should have put Warptime on my MoS DP. Warptime+DP is pure win!



I sent in my Slaughter in Space list, so I am stuck with it, but the only thing I would change is #3.