wolves ve Tau 1250 points battle report

[Ikken]

Here is my 1st battle report as a spacewolf , and my first victory as a space wolf . thanks very much to everyone who helped me tweak and refine my list , your adviise is the reason I was successful . 9 grey hunters lead by a rune priest in a rhino , 9 bloodclaws lead by a WGBL , scout squad lead by WGPL , whirl wind , preditor , leamon russ .

 

 

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the match was a 1250 point match against a Tau army .

 

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I have never played Tau b4 so it was ga game of 1sts .

 

the mission rolled out as seize objectives , with 4 objectives , they are the little box / crate things on the board .

 

deployment was spear head , spacewolves go 1st

 

Tau player tried to seize iniit but failed .

 

Turn 1

space wolves :

BC in lead rhino move forward 12 inches , GH in 2nd rhino follow , tanks hold position , and shoot at stuff . not much luck in the 1st shooting phase ,I managed to get a crew shaken result on one of his tanks but that was it .

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Tau

his shooting was more effective than mine , on his turn he managed to pop my whirlwind . but other than that not much , he re positioned his tanks someand that was that :P

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Turn 2

Space wolves , tried to have scouts OBEL but they failed to come in ,

I disembarked the blood claws b4 moving their rhino , and the GH as well . moved them up so they could shoot then assault on of his tanks , but never got to assault it as the melta gun with them wrecked it

the GH fired on his fire warriors killing on or 2 .

 

the preditor moved to get a better shot on his other tanks and fired on his twin linked rail gun broadside battle suit thing killing it . empty rhino 1 moved out of the way an fired at something missing completely , same with rhino 2 .

the russ shot at the other tank but didn't do much .

 

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Tau :

Tau deep strike a bunch of robot looking things in behind my tanks , and one where his twin linked rail gun thing was b4 it got killed .

2 tau robot things shoot at the preditor and stun it , can't move or shoot

the other 2 go after the GH rhino and destroy it . his other units do some shooting but with not much damage .

 

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Turn3 :

space wolves :

scouts come on from his side ( YAHOO !!! about time ) , rotate the russ on the spot , the grey hunters fall back towards the objective and so they can shoot the robot tau things .

the scouts move over and fire on the robot tau hq thing that deep striked on his side , killing it ( good scouts )

the leamon russ opens up with twin linked auto cannon and 3 hull mounted heavy bolters on2 of the robot tau things that deep striked in behind the Space wolves armor .

the grey hunters open up on the other 2 but none of the plasma weapons or melta weapons are in range , bolters only , but they killed 1 ,and caused the other to run ;) .

the blood claws shot at something but did not do much .

 

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Tau :

His running robot thing rallies and wrecks the predator , another battle suit thing gets round the the back of the russ for a shot on it rear armor and stuns it , can't move or shoot .

the other tank fires a large blast template at the blood claws and kills 1 .

 

there is some more shooting but only 1 or 2 SW die

 

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Turn 4

Space wolves , get down to some solid killing ;)

Bc pack assaults his transport , some defensive weapon on the thing goes off and kills one , then thew wreck it . and out f the back pile a bunch of troops , the scouts shoot them then assault ,and kill the last of them .

 

moved the remaining rhino so the front armor was facing the last robot thing . the grey hunters fell back further onto the objective ,

 

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Tau .

 

one battle suit robot thing moves up arround the wrecked preditor tank and wrecks the last rhino . the other one comes arround the back of the russ and destroys it . his last tank pops off another template on the blood claws ,and the fire warriors fire on the scouts .

it was a bad day to be a tank driver

 

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Turn 5

Space wolves :

grey hunters re deploy so they can get a shot on the 2nd battle suit , they get in a nice line and roast him :) plasma and meltas are your friend !! , the Blood claws , pop the other suit robot thing , and the scouts line up shoot the . fire warriors , then assault and kill the last guy .

 

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Tau :

his 1 tank left , pops off a blast template on the blood claws killing 1 .

 

 

role to see if game continuse and it does .

 

Turn 6 :

 

Space wolves :

reposition units to hold the objectives then shoot at the tau tank

didn't do any damage to it but made a lot of noise

 

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Tau .

tank pops off another template but not much damage .

 

 

Role to see if game continues but it does not

 

well thats about it . I hope the pics show up properly .

 

 

the scout unit was a killing machine.

the BC did a good job .

The Grey Hunters did a good job as well , but never got into CC ,and all the points I spent on the tooled up rune covered weapon for the rune priest were a waste . but it could have gone the other way and if he had to fight another IC in HtH it would have been worth the money .

the armor didn't do much but it kept him occupied while the other units did their thing .

on the whole I was pleased with the way things went ,

[Rokafort Stonewolf]

A few things I noticed:

1) Your tanks weren't using cover very well. I know it can be hard to cover a Russ and still get the heavy bolters firing, but you can at the very least cover your flanks, and sometimes your rear. If the enemy is advancing like the Tau player, don't hesitate to hug your rear against a table edge!

 

2) Your whirlwind could have deployed completely out of sight, as it is indirect fire. Admittedly there wasn't that much terrain, but it can still help.

 

3) Try to take 2nd turn unless you're in a bad deployment situation (you can usually tell when you see your deployment zone) and can't reserve your forces. Otherwise, take second turn, and if your deployment zone sucks, consider putting your guys in reserve instead of going first. Hopefully more guys will survive to take the objectives. This doesn't work in every matchup (Tau is an example where it's often better to go first) - just ask yourself who in any given matchup is the beatdown - that player will be trying to push to objectives and kill the other army, while the "control" army will be trying to contest those objectives or deny KPs.

 

A good example of poor role analysis is the SW vs Nidzilla matchup. The nid player often tries to play his usual role rushing up the midfield with winged units on the flanks, thinking he's still the man in charge. Problem is: he's not. Unless he assaults one of your units with multiple monsters, you will win close combat. In this case the nid player needs to play more conservatively; start in reserve, engage only when necessary. The Space Wolf player often makes the opposite mistake and doesn't play aggressively enough, afraid of a bunch of S6 power weapon attacks. Just remember: you have S8 power weapon attacks. He's afraid of THOSE, plus all your assault cannons and heavy bolters.

 

The big one though, is use cover. :(

[Warhorse47]

Thanks for the report and pics!

[clanfield]

them cursed blue face xenos ,well done on the win