Epic: Combat Patrol
2700 or 3000pt games are the accepted standard size for a pickup game of Epic. While they can generally be finished in a couple of hours it can be a bit of a struggle to fit weeknight games into a busy schedule. To speed things up we decided to work on a sort of combat patrol version of the game, facing off small 1500pt forces of infantry on foot, armoured infantry and light vehicles against each other.
The general guideline that we used to create these lists was:
- 50% of the units should be eligible to garrison
- No War Engines
- No Fliers
These are the lists that we came up with for our first game.
1500pt Game Space Wolves vs Traitor Guard.
Space Wolves (1500pts) ? Using the standard marine list
- Scouts (4 with 2 rhinos)
- Scouts (4 with 2 rhinos)
- Scouts (4 with 2 rhinos) Sniper upgrade
- Land Speeders (5) no upgrades
- Land Speeders (5) no upgrades
- Bikers (5) 1 Attack bike
- Bikers (5) 1 Attack bike
- Assault Marines (4) 1 Chaplain
Traitor Guard (1500pts) ? Using Steel Legion List with 1 Commissar per 450pts
- Infantry (12 Guard, 1 Commander)
- Infantry (12 Guard, 1 Commander) 1 Commissar
- Storm Troopers (8 with 4 Valkyries) 1 Commissar
- Vultures (4)
- Rough Riders (6) 1 Commissar
- Sentinels (4)
Deployment
The Space Wolves decided stealth was a wise option with the traitors gun ships patrolling in the area. Starting behind cover.
Turn 1
The space wolf land speeders rocketed forward killing three units of rough riders and sending the rest running away to hide with their tails behind their legs. Unfortunately they were shot back in return by the remainder of the traitor guard army loosing two of their number.
Lots of small firefights erupted around the table but with the heavy cover and most units having to double to reach anything their were few casualties.
The traitorous guard were obviously having massive leadership problems with three formations failing to activate this turn.
End Turn 1
Turn 2
This turn turned out to be much more brutal. Kim moved her infantry formation on the far side of the table forward to shoot at my scouts at the end of the previous turn so I surrounded them and wiped them out before they could activate.
Kim moved her Valkyries forward and wiped out my bikers but failed to activate her Vultures leaving my land speeders safely unharmed. After a brutal battle I was able to wipe out her Valkyrie mounted rough riders but was left in the open to take a reasonable number of casualties myself (resulting in the Assault marines being shot at until broken).
End Turn 2
to be continued.........
