Prot Super Quick Batrep: Grey Knights vs Orks (pics)

[Prot]

So I have a few pics of some games this week. I have had a super busy week so excused the rushed report, but here are the short notes:

It was a 2K Maelstrom game.... it was pretty intense. More so than I thought it would be with Orks.

Basically here's what I brought, unfortunately since the new codex came out I haven't had the heart to rip arms off of my sword Strikes, (which hardly got used in 7th), and put on Falchions, but two of the squads were WYSIWYG and 2 were Falchion loaded.

One NDK is just a heavy, the other is a GMNDK. Razorback (missing turret) is an Assault Cannon.

2 Purgation squads are in there too. (Psilencers x2 and Psycannon x 2)

The rest is pretty vanilla... 4 Pals, 1 Apothecary w/Cuirass. Voldus, and Draigo.

The Orks army. I have to say it was not one of his stronger lists, but it had a good mix. He's played a lot of the massive body count armies... very annoying, but this was more trukks, more elites for him, and therefore less bodies, but he has been testing a Gorkanaut (I think it's called).

Anyway I do get first turn. He's lined up poorly in my opinion though and this could be where I get a huge advantage if I don't mess it up.

Beginning of the game:

My first turn I alpha the heck out of him to retain some slight advantage. He has lots in trucks and I see the limitations of my non-Lascannon oriented force immediately... here I was hoping to Stormbolter him to death.

The GMNDK comes down and Voldus launches Vortex. ! I love that about this edition... my Vortex is back baby! Take that dirty , green space mushrooms!

The Vortex is a big one! It doesn't get the extra mortal wounds, but it is bin in the way it hits 4 squads including a Dread, and the Gorkanaught.

I baby smite as much as typically can be done, and a well placed Purge Soul rips more off of the Gorkanaught.

I don't waste most of my shooting on the Gorkanaught... because I need to wittle down some units. And I do. I get first blood at this point on a truck, and I think I've got a huge advantage here with his deployment so I get the GMNDK into CC with Gorkanaught... oh they will write such great prose about this moment on Titan... won't they????

Yea, so .... Not really!

The Grandmaster waltz's in and hits but only does two D3 wounds!!! (Since I can only roll as low as a 3 that's as good as it gets for me)!!! That hammer needs batteries or something. I even blew a command point.

So as you can clearly see the Gorkanaught had it's way with the GMNDK!

The Gorkanaught pulled back and out of it's gut comes the Nobs with Heavy axes....But hey I remember this! In 7th I wiped these guys no problem.....

Well frag grenades aren't needed in 8th, and ANYTHING can adjust a Terminator (2+ save). So the Nobs come out, and they are.. shocking S6 with these axes, 2 wounds each, and -1 AP!!! When did this happen? They come out with a banner dude, and lay the beat down, and the Gorkanaught easily finishes off the GMNDK.

So now things have changed.

I move up everything and try to crack vehicles, but the Orks are now in the lead, and have Slay The Warlord.

The Paladins move in and do not let the image of their based in GM slow them down....

- My NDK (Heavy) does some good work here, we look really good now as the Paladins and Voldus start to take down boys, but they are cheap... dispensable.

- I have some points from this, but he's still leading. The weird thing is the game keeps swaying HUGELY back and forth. I finally have the tipping point I feel when I get the Morkanaught down BUT it explodes on the way down!!!

- The ensuing explosion causes 12 wounds on my stuff!! Insane. He's laughing now. Voldus took 2 (after killing the robot) and the Apothecary took a few.... very bad... Strikes went down... it was bad.

- I get some points around the board, his copters come in flanking and steal a few points... I have to react, and it looks like I'm going to have to table him.

- My Purgation squads are big in this game. I sit them in front of the Razorback and spew out Psilencer shots, and Psycannon shots (the Psycannons weren't worth it in my opinion. The Assault Cannon just does more for the buck).

- I gun down the Nobz with axes... they are incredibly good now and cheap (too cheap?) At this point the NDK hops across the board with Gate, and I am down to the Razorback about 2 squads of 3 model Strike squads.... Voldus, and one NDK.

I get the points I need literally in the last turn to pull off a crazy narrow victory!

Orks are a lot different. Anything affecting saves is hard, but one thing I forgot to mention in this battle was a squad of Rocket Boyz in a Truck.... after I got through an assault with my Paladins they just got VAPED by the Rockets! -AP plus each unsaved wound is 3 Damage! So every lost save is a dead Strike, or a dead Paladin. That was incredibly rough, and made me really doubt the continued use of Paladins.

But I have to hand it to my Ork opponent, this felt nothing like 7th edition Orks vs. GK.

[Charlo]

Very cool to see the Green Gitz back in a position of power even without a codex.

 

Nice report!

 

Multi-wound infantry seem to be the real losers this edition...? :/

[Prot]

Very cool to see the Green Gitz back in a position of power even without a codex.

 

Nice report!

 

Multi-wound infantry seem to be the real losers this edition...? :/

 

I gotta be honest, on first release I was all over Termies and the like of.... but now with a very high volume of -X AP, the armour doesn't feel as durable. (As in a heavy flamer, assault cannons, autocannon, missile launcher, etc, etc, could not alter the armour save of a Termie).... Add in the extra 'damage' value a lot of weapons have inherently or by chance (IE: roll a 6 to wound) and it's a challenge to justify the expense unless they perform some sort of mega-trick like Chaos Combi-Double shooting termies. (which are still extremely expensive). But yea, I'd have to agree with that assessment.

 

Those Rocket Boyz were absolutely brutal on Paladins though... one failed save 'poof'. (5 Up save I believe).