Had a game against Steve54 on thursday

My list:

Tacticals w/supcom+ bastion
scouts
scouts
terminators w/chaplain + 2 crusaders
LR achilles
fellblade
vindicators
thunderfire battery
thunderbolts
thunderbolts

Steve had IIRC:

2 large mech firewarriors w/skyrays
2 railhead fms with skyrays
broadsides
crisis
3 recon formations
barracudas
Orca


start of game

Tau win strategy rolloff

orca drops broadsides off, they destroy a crusader


recons retain and call co-ordinated fire on the markerlit scouts


firewarriors move up and fire guided missiles


rhinos die


fellblade doubles and pops a broadside


barracudas strafe scouts, kill one and break them


scouts withdraw


Tbolts intercept barracudas and shoot one down

I believe steve failed an activation at this point...


tbolts ground attack orca doing 1 damage


Hammerheads double forward and pop up, hitting the fellblade but not hurting it


Achilles Single and hit the mech firewarriors killing 3


recons markerlight achilles and do combined fire, no kills


scouts engage broadsides and lose


hammerheads single and hit achilles, taking one out


vindicators single forward and take out two recons


fire warriors kill 2nd achilles, breaking them


achilles hide


terminators double into engage range of broadsides


thunderfires pop a few recons


one tbolt is shot down on flyoff, others fly off table edge

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Turn 2

marines win strategy roll, most stuff has rallied


Terminators engage broadsides


Broadsides die


thunderfires sustain on hammerheads, 3 die


hammerheads break and withdraw


fire warriors double up and pop a couple of vindicators


recons roll a double 1 to retain (steve not happy with this)


achilles move up and shoot fire warriors, killing a vehicle and 2 infantry


vindicators clip firewarriors, combat is a draw, vindicators lose rolloff and die

*pic missing of what steve did*


scouts fail to activate


Barracuda hits thunderfires


Tbolts break mech fire warriors


Tbolt breaks recons on retain (I believe)


Recons break scouts


Fellblade tries to snipe a crisis, but misses


Fire warriors refuse to activate (I think)


Tacticals pop a recon


crisis suits blow up an achilles, the other one breaks

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.... moaaar! Please

Eating lunch, will post turn 3 in the next hour.....

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My list was
Mech Fire Warriors+Fire Warriors+Skyray+Bonded team
Mech Fire Warriors+Fire Warriors+Skyray
Broadsides
Crisis+Shas'O
Recon 5 tetras+1 piranha
Recon 4 tetras+2 pirnahas
Recon 1 tetra+5 piranhas
Hammerheads (rail)+skyray
Hammerheads(rail)+skyray
Orca
Barracudas

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Turn 3


start of turn

Marines win initiative


Thunderfires shoot at crisis killing none


Achilles finishes scouts off


Hammerheads hit fellblade doing 1 damage


terminators surround objective


Orca breaks Achilles


fellblade doubles and hits recons


thunderfires break hammerheads (I think)


Tbolts break fire warriors


fire warriors hit fellblade, no damage


scouts double and hit something.... forget what


other scouts double to objective, string out and pop a couple of fire warriors

Both fire warriors and hammerheads fail to rally giving the imperial fists a 2-0 win with DTF and TSNP

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Thoughts

Thunderfires - very good unit, plenty of shooting and range, Steve remarked he would almost always take 2 formations to garrison on objectives, considering limiting them to one per tactical formation to prevent spam

Achilles - again a very good unit, points cost increase justified, considering limiting to max 2 per LR formation as they are overgunned quite considerably, and also meant to be very rare...

Fellblade - DC4 is ridiculous, almost impossible to break with ATSKNF, and blast markers not much of a hindrance with int1+ DC will almost certainly drop to 3 in v0.2, possibly with an invulnerable, no justification for TK on the main gun from what I've read about its 40k stats, considering removing the 0-1 limit, fluffophiles get your nerd rage ready

Bastion - doesn't work, explodes if unit moves too far away, needs re-thinking more along the lines of tyranid hive nest, should probably be its own unit

Scouts - considering dropping infiltrator and dropping them to 150, they didn't shoot much at all in our game last night

Terminators - lethal when you get them into combat, but total lack of shooting and FF really nerfs them, can't see them needing a points boost at the moment

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Nice report. Good to see them in action

Bastion- I would have imagined it's supposed to keep it's units onboard to defend the objective and run defences off it? Why would you move units away from it?

I don't see (perhaps because of static photos etc) much in the way of any sort of "defensive battle" from the IF. Seemed to be there was quite a lot of attacking. Or did it play out more statically than it seems?

And good to see the Hammerheads weaponry bouncing off RA as usual... They're almost useless versus hard target armour. But I digress

well I only just pushed into the Tau half, most of the time was spent in my own half of the table, I also didn't take any fortifications to free up points to try all the new toys, so there wasn't a great deal to encourage static defence, I'm planning on taking a siegework-heavy list in a few weeks time to see how the list does in a defensive capacity

sometimes a unit will *need* to move to contest an objective or table half, having an immobile formation limits this considerably, it's also open to abuse (what happens if your opponent places objectives inside buildings for example?)

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Don't forget you can choose your own Blitz to garrison that Bastion and trenches etc... Would make a nice cinematic defence of the Blitz!

Great report/pics, ta. Sad the Tau didn't win.

We have to let Simon win occasionally or he gets tearful

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Thanks for the heads-up.

Thanks for the report. I must admit that I thought the Bastion would end up as something either along the lines of an Eldar Wraithgate or standard fortifications. You buy it and place it after objectives have been placed.

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it's going down one route or the other..... either a fortification that replaces an objective, or a hive nest style static war engine..... my concern with the war engine route is how flexible it will be to place, with a few trenches or minefields, you could largely put it anywhere

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