And a new challenger has entered the fray. 

Drayden's Lance reporting for duty

I finally finished off the Death/Rough Riders, so Daryden’s Lance is ready for the field. I used them over the weekend. Faced off against the CSM patrol. The rough riders did their thing and managed to take out a patrol squad of CSM and half the possessed before getting wiped out while holding a forward position. The kasrkins dropping half the other patrol with disciplined fire. The command squad and kasrkins combined fire to take out another possessed after they moved in to secure more territory, with the powerfist veteran knocking out the other and the commander wounding the MoP. I seriously lucked out as after he had wiped out all of the command but the officer, the dark gods took him from the field (failed dark pact). The cultist were wiped to the heretic by the kasrkins in a single volley.  Game ended with the CSM having only two legionnaires left holding one objective and I was an order and a lucky advance roll from grabbing is now undefended home objective. Game ended 55-50, darn close. 

Horses at the ready.

Taking the fight to the enemy.

I’m going to have to learn how to use the rough riders better, while they did hit hard, they are a glass cannon unit. I might be worth giving them Take Cover (+1 Sv) instead of my impulse Fix Bayonets (+1 WS). That way they can survive longer. Only more games will tell if this is the right choice. 

To which I got and it worked better. Faced the DG CP yesterday. Managed to table the poor guy by turn 3. Got first turn, ran the riders right up and lanced the rhino. The marines that dropped out got involved with the unit that had up’d their defense, which helped since his plague was -1 sv. Skirmish move saved the other group from not only being fired on by the terminators, but also denied them the charge. This allowed me to reposition and between the rider’s charge and the kasrkin fire I wiped out the terminators. The tallyman was taken out by one unit of riders. While he tried to score the center objective the kasrkins finished off Sholgor with plasma and a bolt to the brain. The plague marines died to a pincer charge from the riders. So did much better.

Tighter formation this time. 

Pincer maneuver successful. 

I hit a wall on painting up the Ork CP, if i can get the grots and wartrakk done I can just use the 20 boyz from the old CP that I did manage to paint as part of it. It will be the next CP I do, I think. I did finish the warboss and weirdboy at least, picture pending. 

Anyway, thank you for reading.