Well I played with my imperator today against Beardies Ork horde.
I took:
Imperator with CMLs and Legate (BTS
Warlord with 2 turbo lasers and two gatling cannons
Warhound with Vulcan mega bolter and plasma blast gun
Warhound with Vulcan mega bolter and plasma blast gun
Skitarii demi century
Beardy had something along the lines of
2 mekanized Ork warbnds with a few extra boyz and/or nobz and a Zzap wagon
2 big blitz brigades with 2 zzap forts each
5 strong stompa mob with 3 dreadz and a supa stompa. (BTS)
In the first turn the imperator, a Warhound and the skitarii wiped out the stompa mob (Skitarii killing the last stompa by waving their heavy bolters at it). In return my other Warhound was destroyed by one of the mechanized mobs and one of the blitz brigades.
The warlord heavily damaged the other blitz brigade
Turn two
The imperator shot up the warlords mekanized mob, damaging but not breaking it. And the warlord engaged the damaged blitz brigade wiping it out for no damage.
The orks retaliated by the warbosses mob breaking the remaning Warhound and reducing it to one DC (so it fled deep into the Ork side) and the remaining mob and blitz brigade breaking the warlord and reducing it to 2 DC.
The skitarri sustained at the warbosses mob to little effect.
The Warhound failed to rally, but the warlord rallied
Turn three
The Orks continued to harry the crippled warlord and destroyed it. The imperator turned and blasted at the intermingled blitz brigade and mekanized mob, doing little damage to the mob and breaking the blitz brigade. The mob then rushed behind the imperator and shot at the Skitarii hiding near the blitz, to no effect.
The warbosses then doubled back into his own side and finished off the damaged Warhound, the skitarii then marched out of their cover into a wood on the centre of the battlefield.
Turn 4
The imperator engaged the Ork mob behind it. Winning the combat by 12 before the dice off.
The Skitarii carried on marching, this time into some ruins on the Ork side of the battlefield, but close enough to one of the objectives on their own side to contest it.
The warboss tried to engage the Skitarri but only his wagonz were in range to firefight and he lost by 1. The blitz brigade thought about ramming the imperator but just sustained at it instead, stripping many of its shields.
The warboss failed to rally
Turn 5
The Imperator wiped out the blitz brigade and the Skitarii took some pot shots at the broken warlord
AMTL victory 2-0, BTS and They shall not pass.
Thoughts
My dice rolls sucked. I barely made half of my 4+RA saves and couldn’t hit anything with 5+ (which was most of the imps weapons). However even with such poor rolling the imp was able to dent a formation a turn and towards the end it was able to take them out.
Turn 1 it sustained at the stompa mob killing the supa stompa a dread and 2 stompas
Turn 2 it advanced on a mekanized mob and bare did anything, I think it killed a trukk
Turn 3 it advanced on a blitz brigade and managed to also hit a mekanized mob. Again it didn’t do that much damage (about a third of the blitz brigade and a few wagonz and boyz), but did lay a host of BMs
Turn 4 it engaged a mekanised mob and wiped the floor with them
Turn 5 it advanced on the blitz brigade and finished it off.
Though the weapons look impressive I didn’t manage to do that much to the enemy apart from when I had my fully charged plasma annihilator. A 13BP attack hitting on 5s, a volcano cannon and 4 lots of AP4+/AT4+ isn’t that impressive.
I also never got to use the imps quake cannons MW ability.
The battle also felt very defensive. I am use to storming forwards with my titans, however I was on the back foot this entire game, trying to hold off the horde, rather than smashing into it.
Though this could be due to the slow nature of the army.
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