Venter_Of_Russ Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 So, I ended up fighting a different Tau army tonight than I had expected, but it still went very much so in my favor. My list: 2 x Venerable Dreadnaughts with MultiMelta, Heavy Flamer, Dreadnaught CCW, extra armor. Drop pods. 15 Blood Claws, 3 power weapons, flamer Land Raider Crusader 10 Grey Hunters with 9 bolters, 2 power weapons, and a flamer Drop Pod 10 Grey Hunters with 9 bolters, 1 power weapon, 1 power fist, and a flamer Wolf Guard Pack Leader with TDA, Runic Charm, Twin Lightning Claws Drop Pod He had, much to my surprise, nothing but fire warriors, suits, and drones. Not a vehicle or kroot in sight. We rolled spearhead deployment with an annihilation mission. Turn 1, Me: I drop both dreadnaughts in, one doesn't scatter and the other scatters in such a fashion that there was nothing but mishap terrain for the full distance (Such that the drop pod's guidance system reduced the scatter to 0). The Land Raider moves up 12 inches. The dreadnaughts fire their heavy flamers and multimeltas into a couple crowds of fire warriors, killing about 20 all together. The LRC opened up with it's assault cannons on the biggest crisis team, knocking out a few drones. Turn 1, Him: He brings a Broadside out of it's hiding spot behind a ruin, fires it's railgun and plasma rifles at a dreadnaught. Glances once with a plasma rifle, gets crew shaken. The railgun hits, but fails to even glance. A 3 crisis suit team opens up on the dreadnaught with plasma rifles, twin linked, and glances a couple times; never gets better than crew shaken. (Had to make him reroll one of them :-p). His commander in a crisis suit shot a fusion blaster at a dreadnaught, hit, penetrated, rolled a 6, rerolled a 1. Crew shaken :-). Turn 2, Me: Both Grey Hunter packs come in from reserves. Feeling ballsy, I try to land both pods very near his corner edge, and both scatter dice get perfect hits. The grey hunters pour out, the LRC moves up and unloads the blood claws, and suddenly the very diminished tau army is very much so surrounded. One of the grey hunter packs opens up on his ethereal and body guard, who had been winged by the tip of one of turn 1's heavy flamers. Another 5 fire warrior bodyguards drop, along with 2 of the ethereal's gun drones. The other grey hunter pack fires at the broadside, killing one of it's shield drones and scoring a wound on the suit. The bloodclaws manage to get a 3 man crisis suit squad as well as a 3 man fire warrior team remnant in the same assault, kill everything horrifically, etc, etc. The dreadnaughts each assault a fire warrior squad, one killine 1 fire warrior, 1 killing 3, both teams losing combat, losing the sweeping advance, and dying horrifically. Turn 2, Him: A crisis suit with twin linked fusion guns comes in from reserve, right behind the land raider. His ethereal's remaining body guards shoot at a grey hunter pack, kill a single bolter wielding grey hunter. His broadside hits a dreadnaught with it's railgun, immobilizes it. The new arrival crisis suit misses both shots with the fusion gun at the land raider. He concedes, with a rather small handful of models left on the board and completely encircled. Total casualties: 1 grey hunter. For the wolftime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 how did you field 2 venerable dreadnoughts? other than that, awesome whooping! wolf lord kieran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venter_Of_Russ Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 As the oldest and finest warriors in my great company, they were assigned to lead the packs. (1500 point game, 2 HQ choices, Venny dread = HQ choice...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Betrayed_Spacewolf Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 also you can pick it to be an hq it doesnt have to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venter_Of_Russ Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 True. But there aren't any other HQ choices present... :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 i might be wrong, but isnt the Ven Dread a 0-1 choice, regardless of his spot on the FoC? wolf lord kieran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deedark Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Cant you upgrade a normal dread to VDread and take one as HQ giving 2? Never done this But either way only one Vdread can be listed as a HQ option so another is required D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearboy Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 2 vendreads as HQ sounds illegal. And its a 0-1 choice. But you absolutly womped those fishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf89 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 As everyone has been saying it's illegal, first and foremost there's a 0-1 limit. Next we're no longer allowed to take an elite dread and convert to a ven. dread to have two on the field (note this would be 1 HQ and 1 elite anyways if he was doing this, he'd still need a 2nd HQ). Either way he could have easily made it a normal dread for a lot less and possibly have gotten wolf scouts if he moved some points around. Nice win. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyInDeath Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Nice win:) If the guy really wanted to be smart he should prolly have let his ethereal die so that his guys now get preferred enemy and could maybe put up a little more of a struggle in CC. Either way, a sound whooping, and another example of how pod wolves with absolutely decimate Tau. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logain the Ranger Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Great victory for Russ. Two turns of total devastation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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