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Game 2 was me attacking an Agri world. This was defended by the guy in 2 place in the tournament (I'm now first  ) and who is quite a good player. (so I wasn't confident)
He had a Dauntless, except it was fitted out as a carrier with three lances (didn't even know about it 'till then) a cruiser with a nova cannon (?) and another cruiser (cant remember which they were) Also in his fleet he had a defence monitor (the firepower 8, 1 lance thing).
I had my usual Hammer, Terror ship and a squadron of two onslaughts plus ravager. (the way the fleet lists work, is you choose a 1000pt list [with a leader free]) and then you pick your ships to use in each engagement from that. Attackers choose 600pts, defenders 700pts.)
With being out numbered, I was a bit worried. We had a few people around us too, as we are the two current leaders. Everyone had apparantly pursuaded him to play me as I was destroying everyones fleets, and they were struggling to repair them.
He won first turn, and slowly advanced. His nova cannon hit the hammer dead on, and dropped its three shields and took off a point of damage. I decided that had to go, before I did. (I had been warned it had effectively won him a couple of games.)
I advanced asap, at my free all ahead full. I launched my craft, although they were at half effect. I had to get them after that nova cannon though.
He didn't realise the defence monitor was so slow, and left it behind. I turned all my fleet, and concentrated on his cruiser without the nova cannon and his dauntless thing that were clumped together. This left his other cruiser out of range on its own. I sent my assault boats after this.
I lost two of my escorts to nova cannon fire, and my terror ship was crippled by the combined fire of the cruiser and dauntless lances. It was now my turn though, and after burning retros to turn my terror ship, I fired at point blank with my hammer, terror and 1 onslaught remaining. (i had got my kruisers facing his cruiser with their bases only about 3cm apart, and the dauntless to their side about 4 cm away. It was very congested). My onsluaght fired on his dauntless and took down its shield. My terror then fired its side weapons at it, but with it being crippled missed, even at that close range. My hammer then opened fire, and failed to hurt it with its regular gunz, the heavy gunz then fired though, and caused 3 hits. Doubled up, that meant 6 = death. The first drifting hulk.
The two kruizers then fired there forward armamnet at the cruiser in front. The terror unleashed its normal gunz and heavy gunz dropping its shields and causing a hit. The hammer then fired its gunz causing another two hits. Its bombardment cannon then fired hitting twice more and causing two criticals with its 4+. One hit caused the starboard weapons to fail, the other was a double 6! I rolled the dice and got a 5. Rolling on the catastrophic table, my opponent asked me to carry on with my high rolling (if there was an explosion, I was so close it would hit my entire fleet. And as we were so close, the blast markers on his ships were also touching mine so my shields were down too.) I let him down though, and another crusier became a drifting hulk.
My assault boats succeded in damaging the nova cannon on the other cruiser (but he repaired it anyway) and In my next turn I destroyed the defence monitor. Lack of time caused us to end the game, but he conceeded anyway as he only had his one cruiser left, which had damaged weapons. I had my hammer (down one point) my terror (still with 5 points) and an Onslaught.
This means this Friday I land on his planet with a full 1500pts of 40K as all my troops were on the hamer (eggs all in one basket  ) To defend he will have 1000pts plus D3 x 100pts (for a total of 1100-1300pts) So I'm pretty confident in taking another planet. Even though an agri world is crap.
Phew, wrote a lot. Sorry. So far, the low points cost of the fleets is really helping me. As Orks are a raider force, they aren't outclassed in such a small force. Dont know how I'd do in 1500+ battles.
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) and my two kruisers on a head on with his Gothic, which i'd knocked two points off. My cruisers were still undamaged.
but it was funny. We had a crowd gathered, as no-one had seen Orks in action. It was peer pressure that made me ram, it was all in one turn. I lost two out of three Onslaughts to one cobra! 
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