Another Win! Daemonhunters vs. Tau

[ntgcleaner]

So, here is another battle report of a 1000 pt game vs Tau. (I hope this is the right place to post this.)

 

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Armies:

Daemonhunters

HQ:

1x 1 Brother captain w/ 5 Terminator Retinue, 1x incinerator

 

Troops:

1x 5 PAGK

1x 5 PAGK, 1x incinerator (Mounted in a Land Raider)

10x IST, 2x Meltaguns (Mounted in a Rhino)

 

Vehicles:

1x Rhino w/ Smoke

1x Land Raider w/ Smoke

 

Tau (Not sure of all of his upgrades)

HQ:

1x 1 Commander, 2 Gun Drones

 

Troops:

1x 11 Fire Warrior, 1x Shas'ui

1x 16 Kroot Carnivore

 

Elite:

1x 5 Stealthsuits, 5 Gun Drones

 

Heavy:

1x 1 Broadside Battlesuit (TL Rail, SMS)

1x 1 Hammerhead Gunship

1x 1 Sniper Drone team, 3 Sniper Drones

 

Fast Attack:

1x 1 Piranha light skimmer, 2 gun drones

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Battle begins. (I am hazy on a LOT of details, so I will try to give you the main details that I remember)

 

Turn 1 (or 2? T1 may have been uneventful):

Tau - Kroot move into the wooded cover, other moves are made, Stealth suits fire on 5Pack, four die leaving the justicar. -First blood- He assault moves closer to my Land Raider (HUGE MISTAKE, he honestly forgot about the side hatches). Broadside fires on LR, leaves in stunned (the ONE TIME I forget extra armor).

 

DH - Justicar moves by himself, 5Pack disembarks, moves closer to stealth suits. Terminators move up closer to kroot, Rhino moves 12" next to the woods with the kroot in them, Disembarks the IST's -they make a nice gunline aimed at the kroot, knowing I cant move them. I fired on the Stealthsuits with my incinerator on my 5Pack first, took out 1 or 2?, attacked with the rest, and I think took out 2 more (I assault after the firing and that's what really mattered) My Termie with Incinerator fired at the kroot, 7 under the template, 5 die, After the rest of the Terminators and IST shoot, there were 5 kroot left (out of 12) he won his test. Firing is complete, My 1 Justicar and 5Pack assault the rest of his Stealthsuits, all but 1 die, fails his test, the unit is now falling back 3D6" per turn.

 

Turn 2 (or 3)

Tau - dances around with his units near my gray knights, other units move, his railguns hit, but I was more than 50% behind cover, my saving rolls save. kroot fire on IST's, kills 4. Sniper unit fires on Termies, one dies. Commander/gun drones fire on my 5Pack, 3 die, 2 left (3 gray knights left all together). He assault moves his commander behind a building and then makes his second big mistake. He assaults my TERMINATORS with his KROOT instead of my IST's... I'm sure you can all imagine how that went, or.. didn't for him. My initiative allows me to attack first and all kroot are whiped out.

 

DH - IST's embark on the Rhino again and move 12" towards his broadside, positioned so they can disembark next turn and still have side armor facing. Terminators move 6" towards Land Raider, Land Raider moves 12" towards Terminators, Termies can not embark because two of them were out of range, but they got a nice cover save. 3 Gray Knights fire on the piranha, nothing happens. They then assault it, nothing happens. Land raider fires on the Hammerhead, and immobilizes it. Rhino shoots storm bolter, nothing happens.

 

Turn 3/4

Tau - moves commander back into play, fires on the 2 GK's, they both die. Everything else fires, all no hits or saved on everything. Commander goes back behind cover.

 

DH - Termies embark, moved LR 12" forward, Rhino moves about 10" to allow IST's to disembark less than 6" away. Land Raider fires one TLLC at the broadside (POTMS) and destroys it. IST's disembark and are under 4" to the hammerhead, shots fired, Hammer head EXPLODES!!!. he rolled a 1 to show how far the debris went, two of my units were hit, one saved.

 

Turn 4/5

 

Tau - Moves commander closer to my IST's, fires something at them... his fire warriors fire at them.. long story short, IST's are TOAST. He moves his piranha behind my tank (closest spot) and fires a multi melta up its butt. Penetrating hit on the LR, after rolls and modifyers, he rolled a 5 on the vehicle damage table (i forget what it's called, but the Land raider is dead.) The Terminators inside automatically disembarked and put them at assault range to his fire warriors. I just realized that may have been another mistake? If he killed the land raider first, he could have used those other shots to take out my Terminators (or try to)? Not sure how that would work. Commander :) foots back behind cover. Oh, Also, his last stealth suit falls off the table.

 

DH - All I have left is a Rhino with a storm bolter and 5 Terminators. My Terminator with an incinerator moves to optimum range along with the rest of the unit to get this beautiful template shot below

 

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk298/ntgcleaner/photo.jpg

(The white tissue is the crater left by the Hammerhead.)

 

I think all but 4 of his fire warriors die which leave 5 for me to fire at with the rest of my unit, 3 more die, leaving 2. Either a Ld test was passed or he didn't need to take one, I can't remember. anyways, I assault that unit and destroy the rest.

 

Turn 5/6

I believe he killed one of my terminators. Then I fired/assaulted his sniper squad, Game over for them. My Rhino with a storm bolter moved 12" and tried to ram his skimmer. Everything equaled out, so nothing happened.

 

End of game

 

It was another friendly game. As I had mentioned in other posts, I lost to him on my first four games... in a row... Then I played the Necrons, won that game and got some new insight on some strategy from the great people here, played the Tau and now finally won against them!

 

What do you guys think?

[Magnus Thane]

Congrats on your victory and I like your list despite being a 'Pure' GK player myself.

Your post is a testimony of the fact that perseverance can pay of!

[ntgcleaner]

Thank you! I'm extremely excited about the win. I may have to go pick up some more transports.

 

Now when you say

I like your list despite being a 'Pure' GK player myself.

, do you mean a puritan list? or its just not all technical "Gray Knights"? I thought if you had IST's it is still considered a Puritan army.

[Valerian]

Thank you! I'm extremely excited about the win. I may have to go pick up some more transports.

 

Now when you say

I like your list despite being a 'Pure' GK player myself.

, do you mean a puritan list? or its just not all technical "Gray Knights"? I thought if you had IST's it is still considered a Puritan army.

 

By 'Pure', he means having nothing in the list but actual Grey Knights units. By having the IST unit in your force, then you aren't playing 'Pure' Grey Knights (although you are, of course, playing a 'Puritan' force, as opposed to a 'Radical' force).

 

Well done on the win. I'm glad to see that you are enjoying the army and the game.

 

V

[ntgcleaner]

aaaah gotcha. Yeah, I used to play like that, but I would just get chewed up. Since the guy I play Tau with only has about 1000pts, that's what we play. Not really enough to get another land raider in there and have a bunch of Termies, and I just LOVE the terminators.

 

Yeah, I definitely have fun, I was getting discouraged a bit during all of the losses, but now I am starting to UNDERSTAND my gray knights and where I need to put them.