Got in two Combat Patrol games this week. Both against the Armigar Trailblazers. Now originally I thought the armigar one was one of the stronger ones, but after this bout, not so sure anymore.

First game was Scorched Earth and I was using the Stormglaive Hunters. Subatan had the Master Rider Enhancement and selected the kill warlord secondary. Opponent got first turn but due to terrain didn’t have any shots. They did move the warglaive (warlord) forward to get ready to capture the Alpha objective.  Subatan and the outriders blitz forward. The impulsor moved to take a mid objective and got a fire line to the warglaive in the process. Combined fire from both units managed to shave a few wounds off the warglaive and the outriders charged in. Using the Quarry of the Khan strat i managed to take out the warglaive in a single round. The combat was close enough to the helverin I just consolidated into the helverin. I didn’t manage to hurt any of the bikes. It then took two more rounds to take down the helverin with them backing out of melee on their turn and using the strat to fire after fall back. I lost two bikers to the shots by the end. While the bikers pushed the armigar off the objective, the impuslor and assault intercessors captured two other objectives and I just racked up VP.  Game was called and it was so quick we re-racked and I had them roll a die to determine the CP I would use. Turned out to be Octavius. So I was ready for a challenge.

New prey spotted

Hunting party ready to pounce.

Bikers corner their prey.

Mission was Forward Positions and I took the Shock Tactics secondary. They got first turn, the warglaive moving forward to take a midfield objective with an advance. This gave me a turn of no fire as i marked the helverin for my oath and shifted the Infernus and Librarian to the opposite side, not managing to get in range of the objective. The armigars moved to focus on what models I had on the board. After their move I rapid ingressed the terminators with the captain into his back field. The emperor protected my guys from the knights’ shooting, passing all the 4+ saves from both of them. The terminators closed on the helverin. The assault cannon managed to score a wound on the helverin. The librarian took a shot at the helverin and managed a massive six wounds with his witchfire attack. The terminators assaulted the helverin and nearly brought it down.  The warglaive moved to engage the rest of my force, It got up close and melted the psyker with it’s thermal spear. It then charged the Infernus squad. Opponent tried to battle shock the unit via Terrifying Charge, which i passed the leadcheck. Now this was another new player. Opted to remind them of Tank Shock being an option. I allowed him to roll, and lost two marines to the MWs.  It only managed to score one more wound in combat, downing one more marine. The terminators took down the helverin and readied to move to take on the warglaive.

Terminators surround and bring down their target.

Warglaive tries to finish off it's target

The warglaive managed to melt another terminator, this time the squad sgt, failed to hurt the infernus at it’s feet. After marking my opponent’s home objective the terminators moved in for the killl. Charging in with weapons blazing the terminators managed to score three wounds before charging into the warglaive. In a massive swing the powerfists managed to score several wounds (helped by Veteran Instinct re-rolls) and take down the warglaive. 

Terminators into the rescue.

So after this I was surprised, but I was rolling hot saves and my opponent wasn’t doing too well. The surprise of the bikes in the first game caught him off guard, but with a 18” move there wasn’t much he could do to not get caught in turn one. During the second game at least he scored a good amount of points at the start. Just didn’t hold the lead as I got 10 VP from my secondary and locked his home objective quickly. 

There was a Combat Patrol Tournament over the weekend that I couldn’t attend due to family visiting. From what I heard the winner was Tau with the Sudden Dawn Cadre. Honestly with how well the Stormglaive did i would have ran that and might have done well. Maybe next time. 

I finished the Krieg HW squad (pict incoming later), been having issues getting the want to paint the Death Riders and orks. Got distracted by a few things for upcoming megabattles. Later i should try out a few xenos CPs.

Thanks for reading.