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So, today I played two games against new and unknown opponents. First game was 1250p and second was 1850. We somewhat agreed beforehand to keep the model count low so time wouldn't be an issue. Now on to the games: Game 1 (1250p) I took a FoM Strike Force: Armored Task Force (2 vindis, 1 auto/hb pred, techmarine and 1 thunderfire cannon) Raptor Wing (stock land speeder, 2 talons with typhoon) Command(tooled up smashfather with cmd squad on bikes) He plays Necrons with a mechrite formation something containg: 2 squads of warriors, one in a nightscythe the other in an ark 1 squad of immortals with a lord and cryptic 1 monolith Mission is maelstrom something (the one where you get tactical objectives by controling objective markers) I's a pretty even game where the decisive factor was his bad teleport with his lord. He was trying to flank my cmd squad to avoid the chapter master tanking but scattered bad and didn't get a clean shot. My CM and his overlord where locked in combat for the entire game, I think we where both down only 1 wound by the end of the game. On turn 4 and 5 I manage to draw good objective cards and I go from 2-3 to 5-3 VP's, winning me the game. Game 2 (1850) I take pretty much the same list as the 1250p game but i remove the thunderfire and add a melta tac squad and ironclad, both in drop pods. I also bring my Knight Crusader He plays AM and the most funny list I've seen He deploys his entire army consisting of 3! units. 2 Chimeiras with a melta and a plasma vet squad. And then the 1500points blob consisting of a Storm Lord containing 10 bullgryns, yarric, 3 lvl2 psykers, 3 priest, an engine seer and something else I don't remember, filling up all 40points of transport capacity. He have nothing to compete with for the objective game, the mission is deadlock, and the desicive point of this game is when his 1000p 'deathstar' disembarks and fail their charge roll, leaving them to eat the combined firepower of my whole army and the charge from my knight. The remains manage to get a few power maul and meltabomb glances on my knight before he stomps them all to death. He concedes after turn 3 with only the Storm Lord left and me up by 3 VP's Conclusion on the FoM rules: I found the benefit of getting PotMS very lacklustre. I was excited about the ATF being a cheap core but it didn't do very much for me. Maybe it was the composition of my forces or how I played them. The +1 fnp was very good even though these list didn't capitalize so much on it. Next time I will definately try one of the demi-co's as my core and add a conclave. Maybe run with a second cmd squad in a pod as well.

So I thought I'd share some reports from playing my Iron Hands. I will add on to this thread as I go along and get interesting games in. First up is a 1000p game vs Chaos Daemons. I went with a CAD My list: Belisarus Cawl 5m Tac Squad - flamer, rhino 5m Tac Squad - melta gun, imperial marine Stormtalon - skyhammer 2x Quad Mortars Knight Warden His list: Fateweaver 11 Pink Horrors 11 Blue Horrors 7 or 8 Screamers Herald Anarcich Formation Herald on disc w grimoire Herald on disc Herald w paradox I knew his list was scary, I built it for him. Even though I took some of the cheesiest thing Marines could bring I knew it would be very tough. Recap: The knight was the weakest link this game. Too many small cheap summoned units everywhere, at one point i even had to assault a 30p unit of Brimstone Horrors that he had gotten for free from the warp storm table. The stars of the game was everything else. The mortars did good on thinning out his objective holders. The Stormtalon blew fatey out of the sky over two turns. The tactical squad with the rhino actually managed to survive 3 assault phases from a full unit of daemonettes and eventually even wipe them out. And it was the first time I tried Cawl and boy is he tough. My opponent made a mistake and came to close to me with his screamer star. I assaulted them with Cawl and his 5man tac squad tying them up for several turns. Finally he failed his grimoire and I could finish off his star. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn18/mperssonbmmseifer/20170413_201432_resized_zps5ymx2ebh.jpg He had a big lead on maelstrom points up until T6 where I managed to catch up. But it was to late. Daemons won 13-12. Next game will be same opponent but 1500pts instead