For me to hate a list, it must be worse than necrons...
Ok enough whining.
We were playing last week, and I had the opportunity to prep two loaded Gorgons and assault.
So far so good.
There was a bit of a gap between the gorgons, and having lots of spare activation, I cunningly shot at the gorgons with scouts from 10cm on the right flank, then was going to assault the other Gorgon from 12cm to the left. So that way only Gorgon one would be inside FF, and gorgon two (the right most) would have to either stay still or counter charge the near by scouts.
So here began the first argument.
The guardsmen of Gorgon two 'disembarked' not counter charged, 'disembarked', this meant they could take their 5cm move to the Left and bring themselves into FF.
Worse was to come,
The Left most Gorgon, who would be blocking some of these disembarked troops, then counter charged 5cm towards the assaulter, and so stopped blocking the FF of the guardsmen.
Then the guardsmen in that got out.
So we had a question there. Does disembark all happen at once, or can it happen at different times as above, AND can units disembark in the opposite direction form the nearest unit.
- sadly i think the answer to both is how we played it. But I am sure you appreciate why I was raging.
This got worse.
Having lost the assault, the guardsmen all got back in the Gorgons.
Trying something different, I air assaulted with a squad of bikes and Thunderhawks, trapping the units in the left most Gorgon. The guardsmen got out of the right Gorgon and we thought the assault. It was a draw. But as I had lost a bike, I no longer had the left goron pinned.
So the guardsmen got out, and I was toast in the next round.
So two issues here, between assault rounds can units disembark.
Can units disembark and walk past / over units in close combat? - in this case the guardsmen sat to the left of the bikes that were next to the gorgon, it just seemed weird.
And, AGAIN, they don't need to enter base contact as its a disembark and not a counter charge?....
Finally, and really at the end of my tether, I air assaulted with terminators (yup, it was a pretty crazy list I was also running).
One of the Gorgons had by then taken a hit.
This time my opponent had left the guardsmen out of the vehicles, so I put a terminator into each of four guardsmen, ...but.. the gorgons counter charged also putting themselves into close combat.
I scored three normal and two macro hits. One of the gorgons had already suffered a wound and my opponent was loath to lose one. So he separated the hits as follows, three normal's into the first gorgon, then two macros into guardsmen.
My understanding is that all normal get resolved, then all macros get allocated and that the player chooses where the front is.... but, can the front move. In other words if the gorgon was the front for the normal hits, surely it would also be front for the macros? (If I had been guard i would have happily had them into the gorgons anyways). - but do want to clarify this.
Thanks for your thoughts.
p.s look how dreadful and expensive plague towers are. even Orky-o-sarus' can't easily trebbile and don't get to be fearless with a commissar! this list is way too good!! Please NERF. (but only after Copenhagen
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