1st 8th edition game

[Raven1]

So i had my first 8th edition game tonight. It was 1000 points and a patrol mission. Victory points were per unit destroyed. The deployment rules were 3 units deployed one must be troops everything else in reserve, and he won the roll off to start the game.

 

I dont have pictures my opponent took some so ill try and get them and post them.

I ran a battalion with

Ahriman

Exalted Sorcerer

Two units of Rubrics one of 5 with flamers in a rhino and another with a soul reaper cannon. Plus a squad of nearly maxed out Tzaangors.

Helbrute with Twin Lascannon and missile launcher.

 

He played Blood Angels

Dante

Astorath

1 Sanguinary Guard (5)

2 Death Company (5)

1 jump marines (5)

1 tact marines (5)

 

I deployed helbrute, Tzaangors, and exalted sorcerer while he deployed Dante, assault marines, and tac squad.

Turn one was fairly anti climactic my helbrute vaporized one tac marine with the Lascannon

 

Turn two all his reserves come on the board surrounding my Tzaangors, but he fails all his charge rolls. I think i lose one tzaangor.

I get one from reserve and its the rubrics with the SRC. More stuff gets shot with helbrute and the Sanguinary guard with Astroth gets charged by my Tzaangors and Exalted Sorcerer. In the ensuing melee the Sanguinary guard are wiped by my birdmen, but Astrorath is relatively unhurt.

 

Turn 3

Assault marines and 1 death company squad assault my helbrute duing 3 wounds, and in return his stubby legs do nothing. Dante in between shooting and assault wipes the rubric squad(who did nothing at all). I roll crazed on my helbrute and he stomps a death company marine to death.

 

Turn 4

I get my last reserve which is the rhino with Ahriman and warpflamer rubric sqaud. Between Ahrimans Smite and the warpflamer i chare Dante to a crisp although Ahriman perils and takes one wound in the psychic phase. More melee Astroth stays in CC. The Tzaangors do little to hurt him and there are too many for him to chew through in a reasonable time. The lone exalted sorcerer turned his attention to the 2nd death comply squad after the Sanguinary guard were killed. He gets up close and between his inferno bolt pistol, smite and force stave kills the squad. Ahriman and the 2nd squad of rubrics join the fray with the helbrute.

 

Thats not everything but the game in a nut ahell. The store was closing so we called it had i had a comfortable lead in points like 3 to 1.

 

Thoughts, i bought a demon prince to swap with the exalted sorcerer. I think thw synergy will be better with the Tzaangors.

 

I like the lascannon/missile launcher helbrute but not deadly enough in melee. Ahriman and the warpflamers did some good work. Ahriman feels like almost an auto- include, but thw warpflamers wouls not have beem as useful if my opponet was so CC centric. Im still a big fan of Tzaangors, but the chainsword and autopistol variant just couldnt keep up.