And the score is?  

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Geez man, you got to let me finish posting rally info. ::huff:: ::huff::

The IG won it in the fourth with BTS and Blitz. It was the selfless sacrafice of the Guardsmen who killed two Terminator stands with two hits in an assault that took the game for me. After that I was able to break the Terminators with Basilisks and Thunderbolts, so we called it there.

It effectively came down to the last couple of activations. If I wasn't able to break those Terminators it would have been 2-2 unless I somehow finagled a Take and Hold.

Thoughts

The Raven Guard Assault seem rather difficult to use with Rhinos only. They did manage to get into one assault but it was against IG en masse in woods for cover. We'll have to try them out in a THawk or Drop Podding at somepoint.

Not too much testing on the Storm Eagles this game, a lucky shot from an opening artillery salvo took one out. As a result the Terminators were left to hoof-it for the rest of the game.

Same goes for the sniper Scouts with Land Speeder Storms. I had visions of those guys ripping my SC apart, hence why I sustained on them rather than engage or sustain on the Terminators at the start of turn 2. 275 points for an ultra fast, all sniper unit is something characters will fear.

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I only had 8 activations, so I don't think you missed anything. For the SC formation it was tacticals (300), SC (100), razorbacks (50), hunter (75), so if my math doesn't fail me, thats 525. I thought I'd gone over by 25pts in my list, but that would put me right at 3k.

My thoughts on this battle: much closer on reflection than it felt at the time. I started to regret my list almost as soon as I was adding up the points. The assault formations in rhinos and storm eagles were of limited utility. My poor termies reminded me of the gladiator in the Life of Brian after hoofing it across the board: "I think I'm about to have a cardiac arrest..." As Dave pointed out during the game, I should've just engaged the manticores with the teleporting terminators, but I was initially concerned about staying near the blitz. He would've let me replay it (such a sporting fellow 'e is), but I find rewinding time and other such charity in my favor kind of distasteful. Made my bed, time to sleep in it, so to speak. Besides, shouldn't they be able to do more than lay a blast marker with 8 shots? I hate my dice...

Storm eagles are WAY too expensive

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Tight game. It seems like there were a lot of failed activations.

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Caught the math error. Ya I think you were at 3k even. No moral victories this game.

You had me down two activations most of the game thanks to my lackluster rallying. Also I didn't have TBolts on the second turn thanks to their suicide runs on the first.

Had your Terminators not taken those two casualties my plan was to break those tacticals in the woods and march the Infantry up for Take and Hold. That would not have been guaranteed though as I would have had to passed their activation and you would have had to failed your rally roll if you kept them within 15cm.

And what do you want from me? I'm a distasteful guy.

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