After battle thoughts:
Terrain
After setting up and placing down the minefields, I had to apologize to Apoc for the map taken. It was from an older game against TRC where we both had assaulting armies to some degree. I did not realize the impact of 50cm lengths of mine till I was able to effectively block off a large area of the battlefield into fire arcs. I will be more aware of the terrain in future reports.
The Firebases were fantastic to sit in and the mines were an extra bonus. With Devs sitting in each, it was if the whole area was a kill zone in the opponent's mind. Whether this was an exageration or not, they were quite effective, and I think they are a valuable edition to the force to start ahead of the line to defend their own objectives. The adopted rules for Fortification setups worked fine and after this first game, with the objectives placed as they were, there was no real need to even consider how a different set of rules for their setup would improve the situation.
The Battle - Imperial Fists
After the boon of the minefields blocking off a large area, I was plagued with bad luck. In addition to confusing my Vindicators and Whirlwinds and therefore totally messing up their setups, I could not win a Strategy Roll after round 1, and it felt like any formation that decided to take a BM ended up failing their initiative roll. Add in the fact that I kept confusing different stats (assaults move 30 - not 35, and Vindicators no longer have MW4+! ) and you have a player who is desperately attempting to claw a strategy together after realising what a dill he is. I did however get incredibly lucky with some Whirlwind fire as well as some saves when it really mattered. These things alone kept me in the game. Overall, quite a comedy of errors where I was lucky enough to come out with a Draw and eventually a win from countback.
Overall I do really think the list works well. I would like to keep playing it on different tables however as the terrain in this game favoured the Imperial Fists greatly. I have updated the Imperial Fists thread with changes I think are appropriate for the list.
The Battle - Black Legion
After seeing the setup of the Imperial Fists, the Black Legion appeared to fear the Overwatch greatly. I felt that it would have been better to trust in the Retinues and Deathwheels to break the defence. Death wheels with their shields and Retinues with their numbers could have charged up the field with guns blazing to then set up a 2nd round free-for-all with their Terminator drop. I feel that Overwatch can be over-rated at times.
The Daemon Prince was a pain in the proverbial and I feel I just got lucky in taking him out - thank goodness for the Achiiles Land Raider and their MW. Even then only the one save was failed after many activations worth of shooting at him.
Once again the Faction rule was non-existant and again makes me think that it should be scrapped or changed.
Also Steve54 (if you are reading this) - please fix the first post in the Black Legion & LatD thread. You have both links in the first post with the first being the one downloaded by people. We came across quite a few errors and discrepancies that needed to be clarified by Apoc downloading the 2nd link (updated one) .
Final thoughts
A really enjoyable game and we are planning to set up another this week if we can manage it 
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