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Dan played two games - one versus me, and then another against another store regular (which I GM'd).
In the first game, we took one Warlord, Reaver and Warhound each and squared up against each other. I was able to knock out his Reaver in the first turn. My Warhound survived a strafe from his Warlord and ended up in close combat with the Dan's Warhound. Meanwhile, our Warlords went toe-to-toe with almost identical loadouts: my titan had twin Gatling Blasters, A Quake Cannon and a Volcano Cannon, Dan's had twin Gatling Blasters and twin Volcano Cannon. Dan's mistake was moving his titan when could have stood still; that meant that I could open up on him in First Fire. My Gatlings and Quake Cannon stripped his remaining shields, and the Volcano Cannon dealt the final blow.
For his second game, Dan wanted to do something a bit diferent, and decided that he wanted to take out my Imperator, Machinator Formidabilis ("Fearsome Engine" in Low Gothic), against a pack of four Warlords. The Imperator stood and watched (and banked plasma) as the Warlords approached.
But calamity! In a well co-ordinate strike, all four Warlords pounced at once, stripping the Imperator's shields and starting to do damage! First a gun tower was knocked out, then a sensorium. Just when it seemed that the Machinator was going to survive the turn without any serious damage, a deflected shot took out the coupling on the left arm, and the mighty Plasma Annihilator came crashing to the ground!
With Machinator's most deadly weapon wrecked, and surrounded on all sides, there was little that Dan could do as the Warlords moved in for the kill. One of the Warlords was reduced to slag by the defence laser, but in the same turn, a shot from the rear penetrated the plasma reactor, and KABOOM! For the first time in twenty years, my beloved Machinator Formidabilis was destroyed in a mighty conflagration.
Despite the ignominious defeat of an ancient and noble God-engine, great fun was had by all.
Last edited by Jodrell on Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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