tasting blood

[mughi3]

Our resident BA player is still trying to find a happy medium for his BA list. this time around he is trying out a new all jump infantry list.

 

At 2,250 his list had

.astorath

.2 sanguinary priests(jump packs)

.X4 assault squads (fist, melta)

.X1 sanguinary guard squad

.X1 vanguard squad (claw/hammer)

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/vba4172010a.jpg

 

MY list was my normal-

.MOTF

.GK grand master with psycannon

.tac squad(flamer, missile/fist)

.scout sniper X7 (missile launcher)

.X3 venerable las/missile dreads

.X3 ironclads with FW lucius pattern pods

.X1 5 man assault squad

.X1 land speeder typhoon

 

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/2250.jpg

 

The game turned out to be daen of war and 5 objectives.

 

I won the roll and made him go first.

for obvious reasons he reserved all his units given his minimal scatter and reserve re-rolls

 

I got my scouts tacs and GKGM on the table and reserved everything else.

 

4 of his 6 units blood raged and he also got 4 of his units on on turn 2. however i got really lukcy as his vanguards mishapped when they landed on my GKGM sending them to oblivion.

 

as expected he landed close and proceeded to tear through my infantry units. the GKGM fell to a power fist and most of my scouts died at the hands of astorath. however my reservescame through for me and saved the day so to speak.

 

Drop pod assault wouldn't do me a vbit of good in this game so the lucius pods were a bit of a wast as i DS 2 of them empty and just walked 2 of my ironclads on. i knew he had to come to me so it worked out. i managed to pull one of his assault squad off an objective, destroy 2 others and his sanguinary guard. he last squad stubbornly refused to come in until turn 5. they smartly went to claim a distant objective. however my own jump troops managed to jump and then run into range to contest.

 

In the end it was a tie game with me loosing the following-

.10 tactical marine

.5 scouts

.1 venerable dread

,GKGM

 

He lost

.2 assautl squads

.sangunary guard

.his vanguard squad

and about 9 assault marines out of a 3rd squad.

 

 

The game turned out to be very tactical and more importantly it was fun as well as looked cool. loosing his vanguard that way really hurt his force as he had to dedicated units to deal with my squad in the center of the table that would have otherwise went elsewhere.

 

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[the_forgefather]

Well, having all that armor on your side that can smash things in close combat helped you out with the crazy close combat abilities of the Blood Angels. Good job!

[Mafty]

I think your buddy used the wrong list since it only adds up to 1750

[mughi3]

I think your buddy used the wrong list since it only adds up to 1750

Not with a 600+ point vanguard squad, (remember this is proxy heavy)

 

Plus the 2 sanguinary priests, upgraded sanguinary guard on top of the 4 assault squads and astoreth.

 

It was quite a bit more than 1,750

[Leonaides]

I think he used the wrong list with so many points of Vanguard deep-striking as 1 unit.

 

Its not as if he was running out of FOC spaces... At least combat-squadding would have been a good idea.