This was my third game of the day. I was up against a Steel Legion player. I felt confident I could handle his infantry. He had two Warhounds, a tank comany and a two deathstrikes, these units were all a concern. RA has allways been a problem for me when playing Tau. On the other hand I had loaded up on MW attacks this time around. Crisis suits, Riptides and hammerheads all have Macro weapons.
My list was the following:
Shas'o Borkas Ballers
Quote:
Tau Vior'la v1.0 (NetEA v1.0 *UNDER DEVELOPMENT*)
3000
pts
CRISIS BATTLESUIT CADRE [275]
4 XV8 Crisis Battlesuit, 2 Gun Drones
VIOR'LA FIRE WARRIOR CADRE [350]
8 Fire Warriors, 3 Pathfinders, 2 Gun Drones
VIOR'LA FIRE WARRIOR CADRE [325]
6 Fire Warriors, 3 Devilfish, 2 Pathfinders, 1 Devilfish
VIOR'LA FIRE WARRIOR CADRE [325]
6 Fire Warriors, 3 Devilfish, Skyray
XV104 RIPTIDE FORMATION [450]
3 XV104 Riptide Battlesuits, 2 Shielded Missile Drone, Shas'o
ARMOURED SUPPORT GROUP [350]
6 Hammerheads Gunships, Skyray
ARMOURED ATTACK GROUP [300]
4 'Railhead' Hammerhead Gunships, Skyray
RECON SKIMMER GROUP [150]
3 Tetra, 2 Piranha
RECON SKIMMER GROUP [150]
3 Tetra, 2 Piranha
BARRACUDA SQUADRON [150]
2 Barracuda Fighters
SUN SHARK BOMMBERS [175]
2 Sun Shark Bombers
3000
pts
CRISIS BATTLESUIT CADRE [275]
4 XV8 Crisis Battlesuit, 2 Gun Drones
VIOR'LA FIRE WARRIOR CADRE [350]
8 Fire Warriors, 3 Pathfinders, 2 Gun Drones
VIOR'LA FIRE WARRIOR CADRE [325]
6 Fire Warriors, 3 Devilfish, 2 Pathfinders, 1 Devilfish
VIOR'LA FIRE WARRIOR CADRE [325]
6 Fire Warriors, 3 Devilfish, Skyray
XV104 RIPTIDE FORMATION [450]
3 XV104 Riptide Battlesuits, 2 Shielded Missile Drone, Shas'o
ARMOURED SUPPORT GROUP [350]
6 Hammerheads Gunships, Skyray
ARMOURED ATTACK GROUP [300]
4 'Railhead' Hammerhead Gunships, Skyray
RECON SKIMMER GROUP [150]
3 Tetra, 2 Piranha
RECON SKIMMER GROUP [150]
3 Tetra, 2 Piranha
BARRACUDA SQUADRON [150]
2 Barracuda Fighters
SUN SHARK BOMMBERS [175]
2 Sun Shark Bombers
I don't have my opponents exact list, but you should get the general idea from the deployment photos. With that said lets go to deployment. (there weren't a whole lot of places for infantry to hide, so we decided that all the brown parts of the hills counted as scrub (giving cover and a 6+ save).
Tau:
Imperial Guard:
My riptides were the only WE I had so they weren't all that happy about phasing deathstrikes. Naturally I was very glad when I won the initiative. I sent my Barracudas in, they survived the attacks of the lone hydra that could reach them. an killed a missile launcher.
Tau followed up with more airplanes. I finally got to use my Sun Shark Bombers (they had either died or failed to activate in my previous 2 games). My opponent had also by misstake put his company within 30cm and markerlights of the central recon formation. I wanted to soften up his garison so went after the guard company. I didn't dare to go after the manticores as they were guarded by two hydras in range.
Anyways both AA attacks missed and I killed a four guard units.
The manticores then opened up on my deployment zone hitting both the hammerheads and the central FWs.
I was quite lucky with my saves (4 hits) on the hammerheads and only lost one tank (taking me 1 BM from breaking. One devilfish also ate a missile.
I then regrouped with the hammerheads but failed to remove all BMs.
The guard company didn't like being markerlit so sustained fire on the my recon, getting two hits but my piranah made its save.
I sent forward the crisis suits and killed a few more guard units, breaking the company. I used my tau jet pack move to get behind cover.
Warhound 2 went forward and hid behind a house. He shot at my forward recon formation killing the 2 units it could see. The broken fromation fled behind a hill.
I doubled forward my sedcond recon formation to take the first formations place, putting markerlights on both the warhound and tank company. The 2 piranahs actually hit the tank company with one guided missile attack and my opponent was gracious enough to fail his RA save.
Thunderbolts intercepted my Barracudas taking one down.
Railheads were sent forward and shot the markerlit hound, it was hull down. I took down both shields thogh.
Rough Riders went forth
I then did something I cant rember?
IG sent forth the SC company. My Riptides went ahead and killed two or three chimeras. I retained with the FW on foot and dbl towards the infantry company. I killed all the infantry that was without cover (as they had lost their chimeras). This tooke the company 1 BM from breaking. Being out in the open was of course a rahter risky move. It was a gamble, counting on me to win initiative for turn 2 and a follow up sustain order.
Warhound 1 went forth and tried to kill some crisis suits. The MW attacks missed though and only a single gun drone units went down.
FWs with pathfinders dbl up and hacked down a few of the broken guards.
The tank company then dbled and took some long range shots at my MW-toting hammerheads getting 4 hits. I rolled great for my saves and only the skyray went down.
Edit: correction. My FWs with skyray did not fail but rather, marshaled and shot a guided missile at the IG Supreme commander company inflicting no casualties but actually breaking them.
That concluded turn 1.
The End phase saw the broken guard company on foot rallied but more crucially the SC mech. company did not rally. They ran behind the close by hill to get out of sustain or advance distance of my FWs on foot.
I failed to rally my broken recon.
Turn 2 to follow when i get home tonight.
