Saturday, April 2, 2011

Got a game in with the Deathwing

Game vs. Black Templars His list was 4 squads of BT Terminators each with 2x Cyclones and Tank Hunters, and 4 squads of BT with 5 powerarmor and 3 novitiates with lascannon and plasma rifle in each squad. So 4 lascannon shots and 16 Strength 9 Krak shots every round.

My list was 3 squads of terminators,

5 terminators, 1 w/ cyclone, 1 w/ chainfist and stormbolter, 3 w/ lightning claws
5 terminators 1 w/ cyclone, 1 w/ powersword and stormbolter, 3 w/ powerfist and stormbolter
5 terminators 1 w/ assault cannon and p-fist, 1 w/ th/ss and Deathwing Standard, 3 w/ th/ss

Terminator Armored Librarian (they apparently suck, he's beautfully painted, but he's in retirement until I get a new DA codex with real psykers in it.)

Belial with TH/SS

Land Raider Crusader

Land Raider Godhammer

Venerable Dreadnought with Missle Launcher and Twin linked Lascannons

Venerable Dreadnought with Assault cannon, stormbolter, and DCCW -- This guy needs a conversion to having a heavy flamer like I need a bigger paycheck every month.

The game was for KP and VP, with victory requiring 3 KP and 300 VP more than your opponent, and with 4 markers located in the center each table quarter counting for 1 KP each.

It didn't go well. I chose to go first, put both the dreads on my right with the Mortis pattern in cover, put the Godhammer in the middle near some terrain so that it would have a cover save from the far right corner, and the Crusader to the left of it.

My opponent put his entire army in the corner to my far right, with the sword brethren bubble wrapping three of the BT squads with the lascannons.

He reserved one squad of BT, and then seized the initiative.

Did I mention how many tank hunting krak missles he had?

It simply sucked. He shook my asscan dread, stunned the mortis dread, stunned my Godhammer and stripped it of both Lascannons, and stunned the LRC (which reduced to shaken with it's extra armor).

I couldn't do anything the next turn except drop the reserved squad of terminators. I dropped it as close as I could to my opponents rear right (my left), which was basically the center of the board, and shot all it's guns (cyclone and 5 stormbolters) at one of the BT squads and killed several. The LRC and Godhammer moved forward as far as they could with their cargo of assault oriented terminators.

He immobilized the Godhammer and shook the LRC again, shot down 3 of the cyclone squad and stunned the mortis again, and wrecked the Asscan dread.

It went downhill from there. I made an attempt to chase the KP from the table quarter markers and get as far from those 16 krak missles as I could to deny him the VP/KP. It didn't work.

The next round saw my Godhammer get wrecked, stranding the squad of lightning claws 18 inches from the enemy. I smacked the squad he brought in from reserve to contest the far left table quarter down to a lascannon plus one with the guns of the LRC, and it promptly got detonated killing two terminators.
Further shooting the following round whittled down the TH/SS squad to 2 members and I called the game.

I'm not sure how I could have salvaged this game with this army.