DNME wrote: strewth talk about bad rolls in cc with your vets when +4 against gaurdians lol
Was thinking I would of ditched the art company as only good for massed infantry, although *SNIP*
Yeah, my CC rolls always go terribly.
I chose the arty to combat his holo shields but in the end the Warlord managed to knock them out anyway. Can you do that with the thunderhawks? I knew you could replace rhinos with deathwind pods but not thunderhawks. Also I'm one of those people who refuses to play with unpainted miniatures (myself, enemy can use cardboard counters for all I care) so I play with what I've got painted, which can be a severe handicap. I don't mind having different titan weapons to what I have on the model but otherwise it must be the right thing and painted.
Right, after a rather long wait here is turn 4.
I did exactly what I said I would in the last post, devastators withdrew to cover behind the building, the last veteran on the bottom objective went on FF and the veteran platoon at the top charged the 2 remaining wraithguard in the rubble objective in the centre.
His last dreadnought charged in to the rubble and his reserve guardians at the top corner bundled in as well. At the bottom the remains of the 1st and second guardian detachment and the Avatar dogpiled the last veteran and rhino.
In the Shooting phase the veteran killed one of the attacking guardians. No one else on either side did anything remotely useful.
In CC the veterans killed one guardian stand before being overwhelmed and amazingly so did the rhino.
The CC at the top was pretty brutal, 4 veterans and 1 rhino went down compared to 5 guardians, a falcon and the final dreadnought.
I had nicely broken the guardian war host this turn and so got a nice fat 9 VP for it. Unfortunately my veteran company had lost exactly it's break point, giving him a nice fat 9 victory points too. Curses.
In a typical display of Xeno cowardice all of his guardians failed their moral checks and went on fallback orders. My veterans somehow managed to roll the 1+'s they needed, although I was little worried I might somehow manage to roll less than one.
However, I held 3 objectives but the rubble was contested, leaving him with only 2.
So Eldar had 9 for the titan, 9 for the vets and 10 for objectives, a total of 28
I had 9 for the guardians, 5 for the spirit host, 3 for the reapers, 1 for the wraithguard and 2 for the serpents plus 15 for objectives putting me on 35.
At this point we realised it was waaaay too late in the night and called it quits.
The board at the end:
Well, not quite the 40 I needed to win but close enough. Next turn, had it happened, I was probably going to take the rubble objective as the guardians were on fallback, so the wraithguard would have taken the same orders.
The Tempests could have made a last minute dash for it but they would be outnumbered and I'd have sent my Chaplain in too. Idiot that I am I forgot to embark the 3rd platoon so they would not have been able to charge in to really make it mine, but even with my appalling CC rolling, 2 vs 6 would have gone my way. All I had to do was kill 1 tempest to break them and get 5 VP which would have given me the win anyway, even if I didn't take the objective.
He could have charged his Titan into the objective as well which would make things a bit more hairy, but I could also have charged with the rhinos from 3rd Platoon with the marines running up behind them, the vets might not have made it into CC that turn but the Rhinos would at least make it 3 vs 8.
If he just charged with his titan it would have been 6 vs 1, or even 8 vs 1 with the rhinos, so really whatever happened I was very likely to get the 5VP I needed and at best he could make it 34 to 35 if he took the objective and killed the chaplain for the VP.
Flattening his other guardians with the artillery while they cowered in cover on fallback orders would also have been entertaining.
All that said, if I'd just charged my chaplain in with the 1st wave I would definitely have killed one more Falcon (the CC vs a vet stand was a draw, so the +1 would have given me a win there) and had a very good chance of killing those last 2 wraithguard as I could have fought 2 more CC's at an even greater numerical advantage and that would have given me the win right there.
Anyway, hope you've all enjoyed the report. I've been playing a couple of intro games of 40K 5th ed recently with the same opponent so Epic has been on the back burner for a bit but I think I'll play another game soon, we'll try to play earlier in the day with bigger armies, plus I've picked up all my old scenery now so the table might look a bit better next time with any luck.
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