2000 point "loganwing" vs "skavenids"

[nurglez]

Right, this is the second game I've played against commander sasha's "skaven counting as tyranids" army (first one was a draw, 1500 points).

I was using my renegade first company "count as logan wing" with some hired help heh.

 

Game type was capture and control, pitched battle. 2000 points.

 

My force.

 

Logan

wolf lord TWC, RA, WC, WTN, WTT, MB, saga of the beast

3 termies 3 combi plasma, 1 wolf claw: drop pod

4 termies + Arjac cyclone, 2 combi melta, 3 wolf claw: drop pod

5 termies SS, cyclone, 2 combi melta, 1 power fist, 1 wolf claw: drop pod

5 termies SS, cyclone, 2 combi melta, 1 power fist

3 twc SS, PF

3 twc SS, PF

 

his force (might be some mistakes)

 

Hive tyrant, twin linked devourer, hive commander, 2 tyrant guard

Tervigon

2 hive guard

2 zoanthropes in mycetic spore

2 zoanthropes in mycetic spore

20-30 gaunts with a nasty assault 3 weapon

20-30 hormagaunts

9 genestealers

10 genestealers

10 genestealers

3 shrikes with barbed strangler, 2 lash whip bone swords.

 

terrain is a small power station to my middle, ruin to my left, large ruin to my top right, some trees/difficult terrain around the middle, objectives were my power station and his large ruin.

 

I win the roll and choose to go second. He deploys his gaunt brood on his objective, his hormagaunts around it, hive guard to the right of the objective, his hive tyrant with guard and his shrikes to the middle of the map and the tervigon further back between his tyrant and the hive guard. He outflanks the 2 10 man genestealer squads and reserves his zoanathropes, while infiltrating his 9 man genestealers.

 

I deploy my foot slogging squad near my objective, and my twc lord with 1 squad of twc in the middle of my deployment zone. reserving the other twc squad and attaching logan to the combi plasma squad. he then infiltrates his 9 genies in the ruin to my left.

 

First turn.

his tervigon, shrike and tyrant move towards me, and his shrike's barbed strangler shoots and covers all 5 of my termies, i fail 2 saves and also the pinning test, but pass the moral one (otherwise they would have fled off the table...). 2 of my drop pods come in (both 5 mans), Arjac's squad between the h tyrant and his side, the other squad between his tyrant and my board. both squads unload on his tyrant and when the dust clears both the guards die and 1 wound inflicted on his tyrant. he forgot to move his infiltrated genies, had he done so he probably would have killed off that pinned squad.

 

Second turn.

His 2 genie squads both come on to my left, 1 near his objective the other one near mine, right next to the infiltrated genies. 1 of his zoanthrope squads comes in and lands smack bang on my objective, contesting it with the spore. the tervigon, shrikes, spawned gaunt squad and tyrant head towards Arjac's squad, while both his genies on my side move towards the footslogging squad, but are out of assault range. he charges Arjac and due his bad luck and my amazing rolling skills only 2-3 die, I kill the shrikes and win the combat by 6, putting a wound on the tyrant and tervigon. Logan decides to join the party and lands inbetween his objective, 1 guy dies from an overheating plasma but they fail to hurt the zoanathrops, while the other twc are busy and dont come on. My twc lord splits off and heads towards the combat while the twc move towards the zoanthropes. my footslogging squad backs off and shoots at his zoanthropes, killing 1. The unengaged drop pod squad charge his hive tyrant, while the twc lord charges the gaunts. I win the combat (Logan gives them all +1 attack, lord kills gaunts, Arjac kills the tyrant and the tervigon dies from a few wounds and no retreat saves). All my squads advance on his objective, his zoanthrope goes pop.

 

Third turn.

His other zoanthrope brood comes in, landing to the right of my objective, due to lack of synapse his gaunts on his objective stay there, while his hormagaunts head towards my drop pod squads and twc lord, along with the genie squad near his objective. The 2 genies near mine split up, 1 heading for the footsloggers, the other for my twc, who they charge and die against, killing 2 twc. My second twc come on and charge the genies heading towards my footslogger squad, wiping them out for the loss of 1 twc. while pretty much everything else heads towards his objective. my twc lord, arjac, 5 termie squad and logan with 2 termies charge his hormagaunts, wiping them out.

 

Fourth turn.

his gaunts lurk and shoot the nearest target, my twc lord, who dies. his remaning genie squad charges arjac and logan, putting a few wounds on logan but getting wiped out in the bargain. his zoanthropes kill the single twc. My footsloggin squad kills the mycetic spore on my objective, and logan and 2 termies charge his gaunts on his objective, forcing them to flee. I charge his zoanthropes and kill 1.

 

Fifth turn.

He concedes, he has 2 units left, 1 which cant fight at all in combat with 2 twc, and a mycetic spore, while I have his home objective and will claim mine in this turn.

 

Was a great game, shame I forgot to get him to take pictures, but we were in a hurry to play heh. Next time, next time....