Well had 2 fights last night, both against AMTL. Here is the second report. The plan was to do 2 fights with the Space wolfs but the first one didn’t go so well so I switched army and tried something different. My opponent did the same but stuck to the AMTL.
My plan was to take out the Cadians for a spin, I tailored the army a little to be facing titans with lots of activations and perhaps a Shadowsword or two more than usual just because of my deep loss before. The Titan player promised that he would go easy on the Plasma Destructors this time but still smiled
he brought something else instead…AMTL
Emperor Battle Titan! 1250p
Reaver 1; Gatlin Blaster, Vulcano Cannon x 2 700p
Reaver 2: Plasma destructor, Plasma Cannon, Gatlin Blaster 700p
Sentinel 100p
Sentinel 100p
Thunderbolt 150p
CADIANS
Infantry Co 250p
Regimental HQ – 2 psykers 650p
Kasrkin 200p
Griffons 200p
Shadowsword 1 200p
Shadowsword 2 200p
Tank platoon 400p
Ordinatus 550p
Thunderbolts 150p
Sentinels (Cadian) 100p
Sentinels 100p
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Both AMTL sentinels garrison, Cadian Infantry Co, Sentinels and Kasrkin do the same.
TURN 1
1. Reaver 1 goes on OW, eyes set on the building that is hiding the Ordinatus.
2. Sentinels double toward the Reaver mocking her and placing their zone of control over one of her foots. (Gets 1 BM form OW sentinels on the way)
3. Thunderbolts (AMTL) attack sentinels killing 1 and breaking the mockingbirds…
4. Thunderbolts stand down…
5. Reaver 2 sustain on Inf Co. in cover killing 7 and breaking the formation.
6. Griffons double toward the woods and shoots at the Sentinels still on OW. Killing 2 and braking them.
7. Imperator (last activation) double towards the griffons killing them all and 5 nearby guardsmen form the broken Inf Co.
8. Sentinel (Cadian) runs toward obj on the right flank.
9. Leman Russ double and shoots at the Reaver 2, dropping 2 shields.
10. Shadowsword 2 moves and shoots at Reaver 1 but only drops a shield.
11. Shadowsword 1 doubles and shoots at Reaver 2 but misses.
12. Leviathan moves and shoots at Reaver 2 dropping another shield…
13. Kasrkin engage and kills the Sentinels left in the middle.
14. Ordinatus peeks out from behind a building, Reaver 1 shoots but rolls snake eyes . Ordinatus double and fires back dropping all shields and making a wound.
END OF TURN
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TURN 2
1. Leman Russ moves and fires at Reaver 1, 1 shield down.
2. Shadowsword double and fires at the shieldless Reaver 1, 1 wound…
3. Reaver 1, holds but fires at the Leman Russ killing 3 and breaking them.
4. Shadowsword double on the Reaver 1 but misses…
5. Imperator moves and takes out the Leviathan and most of the crew… 4 survivors run to the ruins.
6. Sentinel (Cadian) moves and break the other Sentinels.
7. Thunderbolts hold again…
8. Reaver 1 single moves and fires at the exposed Ordinatus. Only manage to loer the shields and get one wound past it’s armour but then the f***er rolls a crit and destroys the war engine (placing BM on all nearby)
9. Infantry Co double and places a BM on Reaver 2 to avenge the Ordinatus…
10. Thunderbolts attack the survivors from the Leviathan killing 3
11. Kasrkin runs toward the Blitz
END OF TURN (Reaver 1 fails to rally!)
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TURN 3
1. Kasrkin moves and fires at the Reaver 1 Breaking it but fails to take the blitz as some stupid broken sentinels is in the way and they fear the nearby reaver might intermingle them…
2. Sentinel (Cadians) continue to hunt the other Sentinels killing one more and breaking them again.
3. The Imperator turns and fires at the broken Sentinels that is hanging around the blitz, killing them and placing 5 BM on nearby Kasrkin. A glorious moment in the Imperators history, 3 sentinels destroyed with full loadout
4. Thunderbolts finally emerges and one is shot down by the Imperators flak but the survivor kills the sentinels.
5. Reaver double to blits and shoots at the Kasrkin killing 7 and breaking them.
6. Shadowsword shoots at Reaver but misses again.
7. Thunderbolts (AMTL) kills a broken Leman Russ
8. Lone Supreme Commander moves toward own blitz safe inside a building.
9. Shadowsword goes on OW as the Imperator blocks its view.
END OF TURN
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TURN 4 and it didn’t look too good, my only shot was to be able to kill a Reaver and take the Blitz. Not having so many fast units left it would be hard…
1. Reaver Marshall and fires at the Shadowsword but only does one wound
2. Imperator single moves and kills lone Supreme Commander (BTS)
3. Lone infantry double and shoots at Reaver 1 BM
4. Leman Russ places 1 BM on Reaver
5. Kasrkin shoots at Reaver 1BM
6. Thunderbolts stand down (3/4 times)
7. Sentinel (Cadian) runs and secures two objectives.
8. Shadoesword fires at the Reaver but it is already to late…
END OF GAME
Some of the Titans had already left when the photo was taken, sorry.
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Win AMTL on points. (as usual
) Cadian 1 VP (Take and Hold) AMTL 1 VP (BTS)
Points: Cadian 200p AMTL almost 2000p
CONCLUSION
It was a fun and sometimes a close game. Having some bad luck with the Shadowswords TK rolls and the crit on the Ordinatus, without it I might have pulled off a victory. It was a mistake not to take more fast units and perhaps I should have hidden for another turn with the Ordinatus thus disabling one Reaver…
The Imperator is massive and kills everything it wants but it is kind of slow and can be avoided. It would be hard to take down so next time it might be guarding the blitz and let the Reavers take the objectives at the center…
This time the Reavers had a more balanced build so they didn’t feel OP but still managed to kill big units. Perhaps it should cost a lot to have the same weapon more than once so you encourage different builds? Dying from 2 x (2+) TK and 6 (4+) AT was more fun than from 12 (2+) MW…
The Cadians feels kind of solid, didn’t try any of the suggested changes though. This time I fielded the Kasrkin on foot so the “infiltrate” suggestion would have made them dangerous.
200p for griffons is a little too much, sure 6 BP is good but 30 cm means you’ll be close to the enemy and probably die soon
Anyway a fun game to end the night of battlereporting/playing.