Yup, last night I managed to raise my game - out of 167 dice, 44% of my rolls were 4+ and only 56% were 3-.
This is up from the previous debacle of 39% 4+ rolls, but still not 'average' . . .
As Steve said last night, it also depends on the timing. Last night Steve had an Aspect and his BTS Guardian formation in the webway, with only a single Storm Serpent and a Gate for their exit. Destroying the Storm serpent would both severely hamper his strategy while also protecting my advanced forces.
I mounted a series of attacks at the start of the first turn, successfully breaking both his Falcon formations and a Ranger formation to clear away the obstructions for the assault on his Storm Serpent by my Thawk and Bikes. We both inflicted a hit (taken on the THawk) leaving me 3+ for the assault resolution. However Steve threw a "6", while I got 2x "2", meaning I lost by 1 point.
The result was I lost the THawk and the broken Bikes retreated, while his Storm Serpent was able to consolidate 25cm and disgorge the Guardians to assault my intermingled forces, destroying my Devastators and the other landed THawk and breaking the Terminators.
And the game then went rapidly downhill from there
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Nevertheless, it was a really cracking game with both sides making the best of their chances
