1 more...1 freaking more

[thundrchickn]

1 more game until I'm king of the hill at my LGS. The current king of the hill is a necron player running 15 destroyers, 2 warriors squads, 2 monoliths, and the deciever with a lord with destroyer body. He has come out multiple times saying my list was made to wreck him and that he has no way of defending it. If I win I have to defend the title for 5 games to win 1000 points of any new army I want from the store.

 

Yesterdays game was my third against a nurgle demon player. We've drawn the 2 before mostly because it was bases which is a pain for us since it's the immovable object verses the unstoppable force.

 

Here's the BATREP

 

me:

libby

SP power weapon

5 5 man RAS meltagun, power weapon, razorback, las/tlplas, HK missles

1 5 man RAS meltagun, power weapon, rhino

3 baal preds heavy bolters, hk missles

2 preds autocannon/lascannon, hk missle

 

him:

Kugoth

epidemis w/ huge blob of plaguebearers

10 man plaguebearers

9 beasts of nurgle (6 and 3 in a squad)

pink horrors with 2 blue scribes

2 DP

1 soul grinder

 

3 objectives, he placed 2 on his side of the board, I placed the third sort of close to his, pitched battle deployment, I reserved everything.

 

Turn 1 he deep strikes his first choice all along my deployment edge(I told him to do that last week so he'd be in my grill more than likely when I come out of reserves. Don't ask why I was teaching him how to beat me). He runs his units where he wants them

 

Turn 2 his soul ginder comes in with some plaguebears. Runs everything closer to where he wants them.

 

My turn only 2 razors come in and a predator. We roll on 6 inches from my corner nearest to a DP, soulgrinder, and kugoth is about 1.5-2 feet away. I shoot everything and only score 3 wounds on the DP which is his closest unit to me. Guess what he does next turn.

 

Turn 3

 

Some more stuff of his comes in. His blue scribes/pink horror squad is still out with something else. Can't remember. He shoots with his DP and soulgrinder. Not much happens until he assaults with his DP killing a razorback

 

2 razors, 2 baal preds, my rhino, and pred show up. This little corner I've decide to make my stand in about 2.5 feet from any objectives is kinda tight now. The baal preds outflank on my corner side( ty jesus) behind the soulgrinder far away from everything. I run my surviving razor from the previous turn up to get rear armor on the SG an using that and both my baal preds toast the SG. The razors kill the DP thats wrecking tanks and put a couple wound on kugoth who is closing in.

 

Turn 4

 

everything but the blue scribes are in for my opponent. He's handily holding 1 objective but the 2 nearest me are wide open. Kugoth closes with a predator and wrecks it. The rest of his army is way far away.

 

Everything else comes in for me(only 1 razor and a baal) and I start rushing everything across the board to the 2 nearest objectives which are wide open. My rhino immobilizes itself on some terrain not to far from it's starting point. The guys get out and start running. The guys from the wrecked razor assault kugoth and survive to steal his next turns movement. I basically forgoed all shooting this turn to speed everything 18 inches for objectives. Kugoth is down to 1 wound now as well. Those 5 dudes are awesome and will forever be remembered.

 

Turn 5 the blue scribes/ pink horrors are coming in and he plants them in the center of 3 tanks with about 6-8 square inches of landing room. his plan was to split fire and take out at least 2 of them as he owuld have rear armor on 2 of the 3. Guess what he did. Mishap kablooey. It was a nessecary gamble as he new I was gonna be tank rushing for the rest of the game and he needed to kill some tanks or at least slow them down. The more reliable spot for DS would have given him front armor 13s only and I would be free to mow them down in the open if I so choose. the rest of his army is slogging across the board trying to beat me to the objectives buts it obvious he's not gonna make it and I am on my next. Kugoth finishes my 5 man squad and plans to come after me.

 

I speed a few baal preds across forgoing some shooting trying to put them in a position to tank shock onto the 3rd objective if it doesn't end this turn. I take 2 objectives easily and line 6 tanks in a line right across themiddle of the board to seperate him from the 2 objectives. It was risky and would give him 2 charges with beasts but all the tanks moved more than 6 so he would have to hit on 6's and wreck a couple at least in order to get his models through.

 

Dice roll says we're going to turn 6 and he does hwat I knew he had to do. Assaults with both squads of beasts and kugoth made it in too. (NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!).

He stunned a razorback with guys in it, broke a plasmagun off another without guys, and immobilized a third with guys in. My marines proceeded to stick their tongues out at kugoth about...................right................now! His epidemis plaugbearer blob is getting close to the 2nd objective and a demon is parked right in my path to the 3rd which also has plaguebearers on it.

 

My turn has some marines coming out of their razors to creat human shields to objective 2 in the center of the 3 and bolster the numbers at number 1. A baal pred and an empty razor park 2-3 inches from objective # 1. I popped smoke here to prevent the Dp from getting easy shooting at rear armor and he'll have to hit on 6's and somehow detroy both vehicles. Kugoht has 1 wound left and my surving pred decides we've had enough of you. he dies, we party, and some of the other surving tanks creat more walls for the plaguebearers and beasts.

 

Dice says we're gonna see a 7th.

 

We're talking about what he has to do to win the game. objective 1 is mine and he can't do anything about it. he needs to contest 1 and take the other in a way that my final turn won't contest. In a surprising move he falls back with his large squad of beast to my pred at #1 and gets in charge range. I was expecting him to try to swoop them around a tank to #2 but this would be better for him as his DP at 1 could take out my razorback with shooting/assault(o noes I think I screwed up). So it's obvious what he's trying to do. He's going to TAKE #1 and go for the contest at 2. Except 1 thing......he rolls 2's for his slow and purposefull for the plaguebearers to move to #2. I explode with giddiness but it's not over. He goes into the shooting phase and rolls a 1 to run his plaguebearers. He's a good 6 inches from objective #2 leaving me with 2 of 3 and it no longer matters whats gonna happen at #1.

 

 

Normally I don't like winning over dice rolls. It doesn't make me feel like I was the reason we won. This was not the case for this game. These bad rolls (the plaguebearers movement and blue scribe mishap) were all my opponent had to save himself from my outgunning and outmaneuvering. The blues scribes had to take that spot to slow my tank rush. The plaguebearers had to walk a ton of distance to beat me to the objective with the deployment strategy he went with. I had survived his initial strategy and opened a path to flank his entire army.

 

Next week I hope to get a shot at the top spot. it's kinda starting to suck now because a lot of the people i don't like to play (either beacause they're very dangerous to me or possible cheaters) are now right under me about to try pulling me down the hill. I dodged a bullet this week by goin up the hill as 1 guy I don't want to play(he's not a fun person to play and I think he bends some rules when your not looking) wanted to challenge me.

 

Let me know what you think of my Batrep and if there's anyway I can make them better. I haven't been getting many repliies on them so hopefully I'm not boring people.

[jeremy1391]

Well done . All mech has usually wrecked Daemons in my experience. But you pulled a good win here and hopefully yourlist stays on top.

[thundrchickn]

Well done . All mech has usually wrecked Daemons in my experience. But you pulled a good win here and hopefully yourlist stays on top.

 

normally i have zero problems with demons but this guy has 3 advantages over normal demon players around here.

 

1-He's actually good. He runs a space puppy army and eldar and has whooped it up in some reals tourneys.

 

2-He plays almost all nurgle which is almost a good matchup for BA. He has tons of high toughness critters with multiple wounds and invuls. Before I would run assault cannon spam but the added shots didn't overcome his fnp and low armor save so I switched to las/plas to negate those 2 things. Problem is I'm shooting half as much and only twin linking 1-2 shots instead of 4.

 

3-I told him how to beat me or at least steal some of my advantage. If I had more than those 3 tanks come in from reserves, I would have had a lot more of my armor in his MCs charge ranges. I got lucky with what came in and opening up that corner. I was kind of dissappointed because I told him he NEEDS to give his Dps wings or take all soul grinders to keep up with my speed. He wanted to go without and take another small nothing squad but to each his own. I think if he had taken the wings he could have closed the distance and at least taken object #2.

 

 

Anyways leave comments. Tell me if you want me to write more batreps. I'm thinking I might start taking turn by turn pics if you guys like my reports. I played another game on saturday against space puppies. It was my first game against them and I wanted to see what they had and was osrely dissappointed. I guess the guy I played wasn't very good or too set in his ways for what he brought to the table. I tabled him on turn 6. I'm not gonna write that one up because I don't like games like that. I prefer the game from friday where I actually had to work for it and could've lost.

[Arkio]

pics would be nice, hard to comment when there is a lack of a visual of how the turns rolled out

[lunchb0x]

wait the necron player is only running 2 squads of warriors? that should be pretty easy to win then....phase ooooooouuuuuuutttttt...unless i am missing something.

[thundrchickn]

wait the necron player is only running 2 squads of warriors? that should be pretty easy to win then....phase ooooooouuuuuuutttttt...unless i am missing something.

 

thats what I'm expecting and that's probably what he's thinking too. We'll find out on friday. There's 1 other person on the second tier that might get a shot at him before me. He's an eldar player that tailors his list for every game.

[Red Fury]

Great Batrep! I really like your writing style, it make the read flow very well and is easy to visualize. Some pics would be nice, as always, but don't ditch the writeup!

 

So why did you reserve everything? His force seems to have pretty limited shooting and having a round to shoot him up when he DSs in would seem good for you, plus you would be able to hold your deployment zone and not have to worry about him blocking off your reserves. Would you play it the same way again?

 

I was surprised when I saw your razors with the tl plasma/ lc setup. Did you just proxy or do you have all these guns modeled too? I gotta say that's a handy little swap out there, no points change but very different firepower.

[thundrchickn]

Great Batrep! I really like your writing style, it make the read flow very well and is easy to visualize. Some pics would be nice, as always, but don't ditch the writeup!

 

So why did you reserve everything? His force seems to have pretty limited shooting and having a round to shoot him up when he DSs in would seem good for you, plus you would be able to hold your deployment zone and not have to worry about him blocking off your reserves. Would you play it the same way again?

 

I was surprised when I saw your razors with the tl plasma/ lc setup. Did you just proxy or do you have all these guns modeled too? I gotta say that's a handy little swap out there, no points change but very different firepower.

 

i reserve almost every time I play demons. I know most other players will wait to see who's gonna go first and what not to decide but reserving everything in a MEQ BA against anyone is almost a non issue. The only drawback is if you roll poorly and piecemeal everything in horribly but I overcome that alot.

 

-everything I have except my command rhino is ran in multiples so I'm rolling tons of dice and more often than not a lot of stuff is coming in.

-it gives a free strategic redeployment so if he over commits to something I can change tactics on the fly and come onto the table anyway I need to to capitalize on his mistakes.

 

this game I focused everything at his most devestating side and cleaned up a chunk of his heavy hitters. His other 2 DPs and his nurgle beasts were taken out of the game esentially because of how I cmae in and using his slow and purposefull to leave him out of the game. I think I would have played it about the same. I made 1 mistake which immobilized a rhino that I'd take back but stuff like that just happens. I only sacrificed 2 tanks and a 5 man squad with my deployemnt but they took out a DP, soul grinder, and brought kugoth to 1 wound so they made up their points.

 

 

I do have 4 of my 5 razorbacks modeled up las/plas. I need a LC to finish the fifth. I used the normal razorback las and took a plasmaturret gun from IG demolisher kits for the plasma. I was gonna put 2 plasmaguns together with the LC but they were just too tiny and I didn't want to go through the hassle of buying plasmacannons from ebay(they kind of look too big anyways. The plas from the IG kits really looks nice. Its big enough to pull off the TL but small enough to fit under the cowling provided with the razor kit. For an allcomers list, las plas seems the way to go. You can get 3 shots of AP2 instead of 4 AP4s not to mention your much more reliable for killing tanks no matter what armor your going for. Most tanks are AV12 so an assault cannon need to roll 6s no matter what. LC just needs a 3 to do something.

 

 

I will start running pics for next time.