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1st turn
SM?s won the initiative, and sent the tacticals on the far left up behind a hill about 30cm directly in front of where they were initially positioned, where they set up in a way to avoid taking too many casualties if they were targeted by the quake cannons.
I let Daryl go, and he activated his artillery warlord, and its guns caught my whirlwinds and LRs under the two templates; one hunter was killed and both detachments picked up a BM for coming under fire. Daryl retained initiative, doubled his 3xVolcano cannon warlord and again fired at the whirlwinds. He only managed to kill one, but that meant that the whirlwinds had 4 BMs for three tanks.
The SM?s then marshaled the whirlwinds, which moved forward about 15cm to hide behind a hill and got rid of all of their BMs.
Once again I let Daryl have the initiative, and he marched his remaining titan (the one with the SC) down the river, so that it was approximately in the center of the board.
Now I was free to go about my business. I marched one group of speeders over to claim the farthest T&H objective, hiding them behind a hill. I tried to double the LR?s up to attack the SC titan, but failed the activation, and so just moved them into the canyon to avoid the Volcano titan bearing down in front of them. I then doubled the 2nd tacticals up to fire at the SC Titan, which managed to down a few shields. I then marched the 2nd speeder detachment over to surround the same titan (they couldn?t support during this turn, but I planned to sustain fire with then in turn 2.
Finally, I decided to go ahead air assault the SC titan, noting that I had an advantage for the outcome. I landed my T-hawk, with the assault marines getting into CC, and the Devs hanging back by the T-hawk. Also, 4 tactical stand and 2 rhinos were in range to support. The results of this combat were that I lost 5 stands (3 aslts and 2 Devs) while he lost all shields and 3 DC (+1 crit). After roling for the outcome, we tied. In the second round, I lost my last three infantry stands, but he also lost another DC (and got another crit). This time I lost the role off, so the T-hawk bought it and the speeders and tacticals picked up a BM.
In the end phase, the SC titan rolled 2 dice for the critical hits (I assume that?s how multiple crits are handled), getting a 6 and a 1 ? so good bye titan. However, I only managed to rally the LR?s, and they only lost one of their two BMs.
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