Love for Arjac(A little focused battle report)

[Fenric]

Played a game last night and decided to give Arjac a try for the first time. We were three people wanting to play so we decided to let one guy play two armies and i got teamed up with grey knights and we played 1500p each. Sadly we faced off against Chaos marines of nurgle with tau gun line(nasty combo).

Anyways I ran Arjac with 10 Greyhunters in a Land raider redeemer that zoomed up 12" first round and weathered a few shots(deep striking termies and one of my drop pods took alot of shooting away from the landraider. Next turn my landraider burst through some ruins and flamed into packed units of zombies and fire warriors and dropped off Arjac's gang. They then charge into a big zombie group led by Typhus and of course it's challenge time. We started with that battle since it was the fight for the title.

 

I let him roll first since it didn't matter and his daemon weapon rolls a 6!! He then hits with 8 attacks since he has hatred and wounds with 7 I believe. Ok Arjac is dead I thought and rolled his +3 inv save and roll 6 saves!!! And eternal warrior means he can't force weapon me :P

Arjac then hits back and hits with everything but i roll 3 ones out of 5 wounds!! Luckily he failed one and Typhus goes down :D

 

My greyhunters then go ahead and kill 17 zombies with 2 surviving. Them being fearless made me stuck in combat for Nurgle/tau's round ;)

I wipe out the zombies in his combat phase and consolidated 6" to the right to set up for a multi charge(this was a 12" wide gunline basically so everything was really close).

In our turn we shoot at some of the many many tau fire warriors around since I knew the overwatch will be silly as it is. Arjac and his squad then charged in with his tau suit command squad as main target but also managed to multi assault two other tau fire warriors squads and one of them held his Ethereal. Arjac challenges his Commander which decided to accept(was on the board edge and combat results would prob force him off the table anyways and he wanted to try and knock off the last wound from Arjac). But no wounds on Arjac and Arjac kills off the puny blue guy in a suit of armor and i kill several fire warriors and win by 11.

His command squad runs off the table and so does another squad of fire warriors but his Ethereal who's all alone now rolls snake eyes and stays locking me in combat once more for the taus turn :P

 

Sadly all good things has to end and in his turn he charges me with 7 plague marines and 2 Obliterators and him rolling godly and me poorly he kills all but one greyhunter but not before Arjac auto kills another Oblit.

 

We ended up loosing the game sadly in the end since well tau had the dice gods on his side with saves all game long and never scattered with his Riptides when he did interceptor which meant death for my poor drop pod troops and a 600p termy hq from my Grey knights friend. But was a close one.

Arjac really is a beast and will be running him more after him taking out 400+points  on his own.

 

 

[Roma]

That sounded like you didn't use a wolf banner in every squad... Otherwise the turn you use it arjac would effectively have a 2+ invul, 2+ to hit, and pretty much auto wound (as he will be rerolling all ones for a round).

[Fenric]

That sounded like you didn't use a wolf banner in every squad... Otherwise the turn you use it arjac would effectively have a 2+ invul, 2+ to hit, and pretty much auto wound (as he will be rerolling all ones for a round).

I did use it that first turn vs Typhus but forgot that i had the rerolls and figured that out after but we decided it didn't matter anyways since Typhus died. I always use the standard in every squad as such since it's such a great item.

 

One thing I noticed is how extremely op taus overwatch is since seems it works even if i charge non tau. So charging his zombies gave him 72 overwatch shots or so vs me....and he had enough zombies to just stand infront of his other army.

[Rift Blade]

Sounds like you wrote a Saga to be proud of Brother. Well done. Question though on the Riptide & interceptor. It sounds like he destroyed your Drop pod with the pack inside it. As I understand it, he only gets to use interceptor shooting after your move so you should be down & deployed. Does the Riptide get that many shots? Or am I misunderstanding Interceptor?

[sigvals redfist]

With the tau over watch it only works if you are charging another tau unit, if you charged the zombies the tau couldn't do anything about it

[Fenric]

With the tau over watch it only works if you are charging another tau unit, if you charged the zombies the tau couldn't do anything about it

Rift no no we unloaded it first and I spread them out but it still hit like 4-5 marines due to limited space.

 

Sig vald is that faq'd? Since it says friendly models in the tau book and it hasn't come up before so I had no idea and haven't looked i up.

 

ANother rules question that took place was how it counts when his dragon crashes. I hit with a six and got a pen and then 6 again to blow it up but the dragon has a special rule that you replace the model with a blast and scatter it 2d6" and it hit my vindicator. He rolled and made a pen but the thing was my vindicator stood hugged next to a big ruin so the Dragon's blast would travel through the ruin to hit mine in the side. We claimed cover for it since it made sense but our opponent thought differently. He let it slide with a cover which I made but still an interesting question.

[sigvals redfist]

Usually when it says friendly models it means from the codex that the unit is using or if they are battle brothers and I am pretty sure that Tau and chaos are not battle brothers. Also with the heldrake falling down it is the vehicle falling to ground so no cover is allowed. I would quote the rulebook, but I dont have one with me right, but it says cover saves are not allowed from a flyer falling to the ground.