quick report from me
Game 1 - Reedar (orks)
this started out quite cagey, I put my planes on CAP early, anticipating a landa dropping in somewhere, then strung out a couple of scout screens, there was some tit-for-tat shooting, and I dopped some termies in and killed off a couple of his kults of speed, as his BTS was bristling with Macro and TK weapons it was too big a risk to go after with the termies, in the end I very stupidly gave the game to darren on turn 3 by overwatching with my scouts to place a blast marker and suppress one of two soopaguns, they were then unable to move to screen my blitz and Darren dropped a landa full of orks on it, textbook!
Game 2 - MikeT (orks)
Mike had a very similar list to Reedar, although with smaller blitz brigades and a second landa, yet again the BTS was a cc stompamob so I avoided it.... I didn't do a huge amount wrong here, trying to smash mike's ground activations, but his landas were superb, taking out my BTS (and supreme commander) quite handily and splatting a warhound, coupled with some obscene armour saves on mike's part and some dodgy rolling from me, mike ended up with a 4-0 win on turn 3
Game 3 - Nat (Steel Legion)
I've never played Nat before, but was pretty familiar with Steel Legion, he deployed two shadowswords back to back, covering his deployment zone in TK death and ruling out a T1 air assault! Again the game was cagey with lots of shooting, my preds were outstanding, blowing up two fully shielded warhounds in quick succession, then blasting a bunch of chimeras to bits from his BTS, an air assault from my termies gave me BTS, but then he gunned down my own BTS, as we pushed in to turn 4, Nat rushed his other mech infantry into my half, grabbing blitz and another objective, thanks to two sustaining warhounds and a thawk landing, they didn't remain unbroken for long, but at the end of the turn, they rallied, denying me TSNP and a 2-1 win, in the end I claimed a winning VPs draw
Game 4 - Monkeyboy (Saim-Hann)
A cagey game again, I had some very good results on T1, blatting several formations, but then on T2 Rob won the initiative, killing one warhound and breaking the other, if I'd gone first, it might well have been BTS broken and a falcon formation destroyed! I managed to grab his blitz with my BTS, and destroy 3 units in an assault, but I couldn't stop Rob stringing out to contest all the objectives, as we were short on time, we called it a flat draw in T3
Game 5 - Hel Tanner (Tyranids)
I went into this game having never won against tyranids... HT began by teleporting in 3 formations of lictors on my right flank, I won the initiative and blatted one with a withdrawing warhound, then retained and shot another up with my BTS, he then engaged and destroyed the warhound with the 3rd formation, and advanced at great speed with his big swarms. I was fortunate that my preds blew up 5 of his big beasties with the tyrant, I also pounced on his remaining lictors with my 2nd warhound, wiping them out, and one of my thawks gunned down the broken survivors, my TBolts doing the same with the stragglers from the other warband. He invested quite a lot in attacking my speeders which I was fine with, but I ignored his genestealers and paid the price! they rampaged through my predators, then hit the BTS, I was lucky that I got some shots back, which meant 2 stands of marines survived and were quickly surrounded by a protective scout screen! I shot up his big swarms as best as I could, then engaged with thawks and termies to make sure the warriors took the hits, this worked really well, wiping one swarm out. The other ended up bottlenecked and out of engage range of anything tasty, and out of march range of my blitz. My warhound grabbed his blitz and my scouts nabbed another objective. As he was out of activations and I couldn't grab all my own objectives, I sent my termies in against his dominatrix to try and nab a cheeky BTS, suffice to say they died and were eaten for their troubles! so the game ended 2-0 to me on turn 3. The fact that tom seemed to enjoy watching swarms of nids mown down more than me and had a smile on his face throughout earned him my most sporting nomination there and then!
5 excellent games all-round!
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