Only a test-

[mughi3]

I have been doing lots of battletech lately so me and a buddy were itching to get in some 40K. we both decided to do some minor changes to or 2K forces.

 

He normally runs a cantor/sicarius crimson fist army but decided to change out sicarius for a DIY chapter master.

 

the rest of his list is pretty simple-

X2 tac squads with fist/las/melta

X2 sterns in drop pods with combi-meltas and 2 heavy flamers

an assault termi squad in a land raider redeemer

 

 

In my list i opted to try out an all venerable dread army, to do so i had to drop my land speeder down from a typhoon to a standard bolter speeder and loose a melta bomb off my tac sarge.

 

Ass said and done it was

.MOTF BP/PW

.epistolary libby in termi armor with FW/SS and the avenger and gate powers

.tac squad with PF/flamer/missile

.scout squad in a heavy flamer storm with PF/melta bomb/missile

.X3 las/missile venerable dreads

.X3 plasma cannon/DCCW with HF venerable dreads

.land speeder HB

 

 

We rolled up one objective in each deployment and dawn of war deployment(you would be suprised how often we get DOW)

 

I lost the roll and he made me go first.

i kept a few dreads in reserve while i moved up my libby and half the tac squad. they managed to burn out one of his tac squads a bit but got shot up and fell back with only the libby and the sarge.

 

His tactic was simple, he dumped both his sterns right on top of my objective. he managd to take out the other half of my tacs but all my dreads came in and just waded into the combat annihilating both stern units.

 

I ended up having to run my scouts over to take back my own objective.

 

My libby was doing good with his powers but was doing jack in CC. he was made to run away 2 times . i thought i almost had him when i gated up to his tac squad standing on his objective, used avenger to burn out most of the squad, then i assualted them. 2 round of CC later he finally failed a save from a PF hit and died. letting him move his remaining troops back to his objective.

 

He was trying to punch my objective with his raider but i stopped it cold with an immobilised crit and 3 weapon destroyed results.

 

The game ended as this scenerio often does in a tie.

 

All in all a good game.

 

Looking at the list there were some things that stoof out. while venerable stayed 2 of my DCCW armed dreads from being dead the downside is that many hits i took from grenades and PF hits would have done nothing to my ironclads.the real marked difference is the fact that my venerable dread have no grenades like my ironclads. so assaulting into cover at I1 really sucks. especially when krak grenades can hurt me.

 

It was only a test run, while fun it does not motivate me to change my list away from my ironclads (or my theme).

 

The pics-

 

 

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