NETEA EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 4.0X VS NETEA ORKS PLAYTEST

Playtest 5 of the EC. We switched it up a bit and Dave took Orks. I was reminded how much I hate his ork lists. No point-sink gargants, and 35-unit bike formations. Ugh. It’s like he wants to be competitive or something. This happened well before Christmas so my memory is fading a bit. Anyhoo:

For the EC, I switched the list also. I made sure the knights were not the BTS, and took raptors, a big noise marine formation, and some daemons.

EC 4.0x, 2995 points:
Retinue, warlord, rhinos, pact: 330
Retinue, rhinos, stalker: 305
Retinue, 3 chaos marines, 4 marines replaced by havocs, 2 dreadnoughts: 450
Noise marines (8), 2 dreadnoughts, pact: 495
Chosen, rhinos: 145
Knight pack (2 hell scourge, 150; 4 hell striders, 200): 350
Raptor cult, 2 raptors, pact: 265
Raptor cult, 2 raptors, pact: 265
Hell Talons: 225
Hell Talons: 225
Daemon Pool: 6 free Lesser Daemons, 2 lesser daemons: 30



Start of Game:

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TURN 1

Strategy: EC

Hell talons ground attack garrisoned boyz, lay a BM


Retinue with dreadnoughts advances out of intermingling with chosen, takes out 2 boys


Mob marshals and sheds its BMs


Hell talons break the storm boys


Big guns sustain and take out a chosen rhino


Raptors double


Boy mob goes all blurry and fails to activate (I think) and sheds one BM


Other raptor cult doubles up


Gigantic warbike formation doubles up and lays a BM on the chosen, after chosen burn their overwatch and lay a BM on the bikes first


Retinue with stalker advances


Fighta bombas intercept hell talons, killing one


Knights fail to activate, regroup #$%##@!!!!


Ork BTS doubles, breaks raptor cult (doubling, in cover, hitting on 7s and 8s; #$%##@ times 2!!!!)


Retinue doubles, takes out some warbikes


Mob doubles, makes sure retinue is walking the rest of the game by taking out two rhinos


Noise marines double, take out an ork transport


Gun wagons (yellow mass in the background with a green cube in front of it ) double and break the chosen


Scorchas double and take out a havoc


EC hell talons exit the board with 1 and 3 BMs respectively


Fighta bombas escape unmolested (an accomplishment when facing slaanesh)

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TURN 2
Strategy: Orks ([Begin sand-in-vagina whining] //of course, when it matters, EC lose strategy// [end whining])








Scorchas sustain and take out a marine and a havoc:



Mob engages, retinue breaks with dreads, lord, and havoc surviving. Mob suffers 2 losses



Retinue sustains on the warbikes, taking 4 out – a minor inconvenience for the orks


Antoher mob doubles, takes out a noise marine


Hell talons strafe the BTS, take 4 units out


Big guns double, take out a rhino


Hell talons stand down


Braving the dangerous terrain, the war bikes double, lay a BM on the retinue sans most of its rhinos


Another mob engages said retinue, which breaks, 1 marine unit survives



The “highlight” of the game for me: summoning two daemons as bullet catchers, the raptors engage big guns on overwatch. They suffer only one BM in the assault move, but manage to miss most of their attacks. They are driven back, all but 2 hacked down. That’s right, by big guns. The second photo is blurry because they’re running away so fast (#$%##@ times 3!!!!). wow, that was “fun”



Nice of you guys to joint the party: the knights double and take out 2 gun wagons.



Gun wagons return fire and kill a Hell Scourge with the TK shot. That’s a fine howdy do.


Noise marines engage the warbikes and are victorious, in exchange for a couple of losses



War boss mob doubles and lays a BM on the retinue


The retinue advances and returns the favor


Fighta bombas strafe the noise marines and lay a BM





Aircraft that activated escape relatively untouched

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TURN 3




Strategy: Orks //see above whiney comment about strategy rolls, heh//

Mob engages knights (forgot to take the initial pic). Two AV knights are destroyed, the remainder run back to the board edge.



Ork BTS fails to activate and moves out of harm’s way


Hell talons stand down


Big guns sustain on retinue, easing the burden of future maintenance by ridding them of their remaining AVs


Retinue engages ork BTS, is victorious but broken in the end



Fighta bombas strafe the noise marines and break them


Hell talon strafes the scorchas and lays a BM


Gun wagons march to a T&H objective on the ECs far right flank


Chosen advance to protect the Blitz and lay a BM


Big guns… do something, I can’t remember what (cube says sustain or overwatch, but I’m not sure of their target). No matter, orks win 3-1 in turn 3


END OF GAME




Orks: They shall not pass, Take and Hold, and Defend the flag
EC: BTS

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Thoughts: Ground pounding EC are tough to use if you don’t out-activate the opponent. I find it’s like playing IG, easy to get pinned back on my own board half, but with the added disadvantage of fewer numbers.

The knights did not perform overly well. I thought I took a good mix of shooty and FF-capability, while avoiding making them the BTS. If anyone has any doubts about it, initiative 2+ (as opposed to 1+) makes a big difference. When I did get them into the thick of things, they did not prove to be all that impressive. I’m still not inflexible on points cost, but at least they’re not making up for bad luck and/or poor usage… I would think one of the characteristics of a broken FM is that they’re good no matter how they’re used, and that isn’t the case with these, I can safely say.

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I edited your first post with my list.

And in all fairness, my Zzap only did 1DC to the knight. it just took crit...

Knights are less scary when you're Orks. I'm fine loosing a boy or two as opposed to loosing a Marine in an assault.

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Cool batrep, thanks! I love the EC army. Very nicely painted.

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True, I had forgotten about that... Of course, that's the downside of WEs; there's a 1/6 chance that it turns into an AV for the purposes of dying.

thank you for updating the list

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