And a complete formation of terminators! (I realise you may have forgotten about them, it happened so early in the game!).

Well what can I say. With the Tau allowing the marines to pick on their formations one at a time allowed them to play to their strengths. I probably could have teleported the brown terminators out of MW range of the crisis as I never planned to engage them, their job was flak supresssion.

All in all the plan worked.

You seemed surprised that the Orca only has 4+ armour, not 5+RA. Statistically they are very similar Vs AA (5/9 Vs 4/8 chance of a save). However, the +1 for CAP makes a big difference meaning the TBolts should get 2 hits on average with a 25% chance of an outright kill. So I guess the question is whether this is too unbalanced and if so, what to do to correct it?

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It may not need fixing, I was just a bit surprised. Off the top of my head I can't think of another WE that doesn't have RA.

Not in the 'regular' armies.

In the Dark Eldar, the Slave bringer has DCD2 with 4+ armour though it also has a Shadowfield 'shield', while the Barge of Pleasure is DC3 with 5+ armour and 2x Shadowfield 'shields'. So even here, these are slightly more resilient that the Orca.

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Ork 'Fortresses don't have reinforced armour either.  Nor do Eldar Revenant Titans.

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True, but the titans do have that handy 3+ invulnerable save though!

Like I said earlier the save is probably fine, just that I'd not noticed it before.

Another great report Mephiston.  And congratulations on the win this time.

Minor point: the Marine list at the top only has one Thunderhawk, but there seem to be two in the battle.

Mephiston you had a really solid plan for the Marines this time, and a nasty anti-tau list.

The Orca is noted as not really being ideal/suitable for "hot" combat drops.  The lower save represents this well.

I was worried for a minute and had to do a quick count up of the list posted! Yep, 2800 as listed!

I'd happily take this list against any forces. It wasn't selected as a pure anti tau force.

Sorry I didn't mean to imply that the Marine force was specifically selected as anti-Tau.  Just that it was one that had a lot of tools that could be used well against the Tau.

So Hena, if you knew you were going to face Mephiston again, what would you do different? What would you change about your list?

Great report guys!

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