Hey gang!

Well, we wanted to do some AMTL testing this weekend.  Scheduled two games, but things started late cuz my wife and I went to a local Turkish Festival for lunch and didn't get home as quickly as we'd hoped.  Still, two of my friends came over to battle and they got one game in and we have rescheduled the second game.

Here's the first fight: Tau vs Titans!

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Rules Used

Epic Update 2008
NetEA Recommendations
War Gryphons v3.13
Tau v5.1

Scenario

Tournament Scenario

Armies Used

War Gryphon “Reconâ€Â

Battlefield:

4x6

Tau chose long edge.


Deployment:

AMTL chose for Tai to deploy first garrison.

Tau garrisoned the Broadsides in cover and on overwatch.

AMTL deployed Sentinels 1 in cover and on overwatch.

Tau passed.

And the AMTL passed… and promptly forgot all about Sentinels 2 until after the game!  *laugh*

Remaining deployment as shown:

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Turn 1

No teleports.

Strategy Roll: Tau

After much humming and hahing, Crisis Cadre 2 doubles to just outside the overwatch range of Sentinels 1 and drops one of the Sentinels!  The Tau then jump back into cover.

Warhound Epsilon then doubles forward and unloads all its plasma on AMHC 2, baking 3 Hammerheads and breaking the tank formation.

Seeing some prey has taken the bait, Recon 2 calls in AMHC 1 in a co-ordinated fire action.  The Recon formation advances to mark Warhound Epsilon and drop its Void Shields.  AMHC 1 advances to pop-up in place and utterly destroys the Warhound.

Warhound Charlie then double forward to bathe Crisis Cadre 2 in flames… placing 2 Blast markers with the intensity of the fires.

Crisis Cadre 1 doubles forward to fire on Sentinels 1, dropping another Sentinel and breaking the recon unit, which falls back towards the AMTL lines while the Crisis Suits move, mostly, into cover.

Warhound Delta advances on Crisis 1… and drops 1 Crisis Suit team.

The Fire Warriors then mount up and make a lateral march moving towards the Tau right flank.

Reaver Beta advances, moving from cover to cover with ease.

Recon 1 also makes a lateral march towards the Tau right flank.

Reaver Alpha doubles forward, also moving cover to cover, and has no targets at the end of its last move.

Feeling the approaching heat, the Broadsides drop overwatch and continue with the fade to the right with a march.

Reaver Command enters the fight by doubling forward and then only firing anti-tank at the Fire Warrior Cadre.  Three Devilfish and the Skyray are destroyed!


End of Turn

All Tau rally.

Even the Legate can’t get Sentinels 1 to rally!

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Turn 2

The Stealth Group shows up between the broken Sentinels and Warhound Charlie, with 1 Blast marker.



Strategy Roll: AMTL

Reaver Alpha sustains for on Crisis Cadre 1 and catch Recon 1 in the wash of flames.  The Crisis Cadre takes 2 Blast markers, while 3 Tetras are BBQed and they break.

Reaver Command advances on the Fire Warriors and shoots at infantry that is *not* in cover, since the Cadre had lost many tanks… four Fire Warriors go done… but the Ethereal’s invulnerable save saves her bacon!

Crisis Cadre 2 advances to catch Warhound Charlie in a crossfire with the Stealth Suits… and removes a single Void shield. (And this is where the Tau player’s luck started going down hill…)



AMHC 2 requires the Shas’O to get them to pop-up and advance on Warhound Charlie… and their massed firepower drops 1 Void shield and does 1DC of damage… breaking the Titan, but leaving it to limp away.

Warhound Delta advances and fires everything at the one Fire Warrior unit not if cover… which just happens to be the Ethereal’s bodyguard… they all vanish in a thin, pink mist and the Fire Warriors break.

The Broadsides advance (Actually, they rolled a “1â€Â

Turn 3

No teleports.

Strategy Roll: AMTL (Titans rolled a “6â€Â

Turn 4

No teleports.

Strategy Roll: Tau

AMHC 1 advances, popping up before they fire on Reaver Command, catching it in a crossfire… 1 Void shield and 2DC are lost.

Crisis Cadre 2 advances, maintaining a crossfire on Reaver Command… and bring the Titan crashing down!

Getting an order for the first time all battle, the lone Sentinel advances on the Stealth Group, who failed to clear any Blast markers, and breaks them with a single shot.

Reaver Alpha then *engages* Crisis Cadre 1, and wipes out the Tau Commander and all his companions.



AMHC 2 doubles, popping up, and moving into AMTL territory, catching Warhound Delta in a crossfire, drop its Void Shields and do 1DC damage, which breaks the shocked little Titan!

With great irritation, Reaver Beta sustains fire… on the single surviving Tetra of Recon 1… the one unit that could race across the battlefield to threaten the AMTL Blitz… no damage is done, but the floating Pathfinders are broken.

Warhound Charlie doubles, but is prevented from reaching the Tau Blitz by the two broken Fire Warrior Cadre survivors… with great relish (and a little mustard!) the Titan incinerates the last two units of the Tau’s “break their spiritâ€Â

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"EPIC: Total War" Lead Developer

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I guess with the recent ForgeWorld news no one is interested in battles involving Tau or Titans...  

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Everyone's in shock.

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I'm still digesting everything. I find your load out for the reavers rather interesting. I wouldn't have though that even with 6bp that would be worthwhile as the only weapons on a battle titan @30cm. There don't seem to have been any issues closing to range and using them though.

How are you finding stealth and broadsides in their performance? Stealth seems to be fairly effective at granting Tau an on the spot crossfire bonus.

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-Vaaish

Well, I wasn't a player of either side, just there recording the battle... and hosting.  *laugh*

Well, "free" weapons make for some very cheap Reavers... and they still move 40cm on a double... the ignore cover means they're still hitting infantry and LVs on a 5+... and no cover saves!  Once they're deeper in the field, the indirect fire from the Carapace Landing Pad means they can reach out 60cm if needed... I think it's a brutal combination... and automatically puts 2 Blast markers on any formations touched by the templates!

How are you finding stealth and broadsides in their performance? Stealth seems to be fairly effective at granting Tau an on the spot crossfire bonus.

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That does sound pretty evil. I may have to do that for my third Reaver since it effectively makes it a 60cm ignores cover apoc launcher, though I'd be tempted to do the same using two of those instead.

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-Vaaish

I guess with the recent ForgeWorld news no one is interested in battles involving Tau or Titans

What news?