I think it was maybe June since my last game of heresy, having loved 2.0 naturally I was on the wagon for 3.0, and willing to give it a shot. Some of the rumours were weird, and after receiving and digesting the rulebook (there's a lot to digest) I'm reasonably happy with the game - now it was just time to play it!

 

The game was 1000pts against my regular raven guard opponent to try and get our heads around the new way of playing

 

Alpha Legion:

Crusade Detachment

Vigilator - exemplar for +1 to stats

Centurion - dual claws, vexilla

tactical squad, vox, combi bolter - logistical benefit - assault

tactical squad, vox, combi bolter

Rhino 2x combi bolters

Destroyer squad - 5 men, maul on serge, axe, rad grenade launcher

Fast thing detachment

Land speeder, 2x culverin

Support detachment

2x grav rapiers

10 man plasma support squad

 

Raven guard

praetor, exemplar

Kaedes Nex

tactical squad

assault squad - master sergeant with dual claws

5 mor deythan w/ combi plasma

8 autocannon heavy support squad

 

I'll add more details soon, but enjoy the pics for now! 

 

In all the excitement of snapping pics of my alphas, I forgot to take any of the setup, but the terrain was pretty heavy, 9th ed tourney amounts, plus a little more mechanicus stuff, setup roughly symmetrically with big LOS blocking bits in the middle. For ease of play, we declared all terrain elements to be medium terrain for a 5+ cover, and only blocking LOS for shooting over 3" through terrain. We ended up rolling heart of battle (4 objectives@2each) and short table edges. I lost the roll off so I deployed and went first. 

 

First strike is a huge 4pts in this mission so with a rhino and wimpy speeder, i elected to hide everything - the rhino was in cover from the autocannons, but still visible, this protected the destroyers, the mk6 tacs sat on my home objective, rapiers behind cover on the left, and the plasma support in the middle, in line of sight, but, >3" into a ruin so untargetable. The mor deythan deployed 3.1" into the opposite large ruin, autocannons on my left facing the hidden rapiers, with their tac and assault squad hidden behind the large building.

 

My opponent elected not to seize.

 

ALT1

My plasma squad moved forwards into LOS of the assault squad+praetor, and elected to shoot them. The ass squad did their advanced reaction and displaced in the shooting phase, moving out of LOS,, meaning their shots were wasted. The rapiers moved forwards onto an objective, but I'd been too cautios with them and they were 1" short of being able to paste the autocannons. rhino dove through terrain to get out of sight of the autos, while the destroyers advanced into a ruin, 2 bolt pistol guys needing and passing their terrain checks. The land speeder moved left to try and thin out the autocannons, however I frgot about the RG snap shot rule, managing 4 hits, 3 wounds and 1 kill. They electe to return fire, nuking the speeder, though in my turn, so they didnt get first strike. I have a tac squad on one objective, and rapiers on another for 6VP. 6-0 to the alphas. 

 

RGT1 

The assault marines did a cowardly shuffle onto their second objective, tacs stayed still, and the autocannons shot the rapiers killing both plasforms and 2 crew with no return fire. crew pass morale. tacs on objective, assault on objective for 6VP, 6-6 tie (afterwards I realised that the assaults have vanguard, so should only have scored 1 point for the objective making it 6-5 to the alphas).

 

ALT2

Rhino speeds forwards to block movement/los of the mor deythan, and disgorges tacticals who move 7" onto the ravens objective. The raven guard, fearing an assault, displace back off the objective (big mistake). I then shoot them, killing 2, then do not declare a charge, stealing that objective. The destroyers move forwards and pop a rad missile into the tacs, but he chooses to save on the praetor, who makes his 2+. no other effective shooting. the mk6 tacs run onto the forwards objective, the rapier crew rush and hide at the back objective and out of the game bar scoring. 2x tacs on objectives, rapier crew on objective for 10pts. 16-6 to the alphas. 

 

RGT2

 

ALT3

 

RGT3