Another first.

[Ahzek451]

Had to share the experience because it was a nice lesson for myself and the result was so amazing:

 

Had my first game with the sons. Sorry no pics. VS. Death Guard 1500 pts.

 

Took Ahriman as warlord, d.prince, one rubric squads of 10 with soulreaper, scarab occult of 5 with reaper and missile rack,  a mutalith, shaman,  and two squads of 20 tzaangors and a squad of  9 spear enlightened.

 

Faced off against Morty and balanced list of plague marines, artillery plague tank, zombies, etc.I don't recall his list in detail but with morty it was pretty limited.

 

The best part of the whole game that I have to share.....Ahriman with death hex, diabolic strength, and boon of mutation. 

Walked up and faced morty. I had about 2 turns of casting boon of mutation on myself, I found it is incredibly easy to roll a power you already have or a 7 thus allowing you to pick the abilities you want. By turn 6 you can have almost the entire table. I rolled the +1 to psy tests and rolled it again so picked +1 to damage on melee weapons. Morty rolls up, fails the charge against some tzaangors, but next turn Ahriman has +2 to cast and easily rolls a smite D6 and does 4 wounds on Morty. Ahriman decides to sorcerer up and charges morty. With diabolic strength up and a 4 damage weapon...he brings morty down to 8 wounds. Morty does his attacks back and Ahriman's 3++ with one re-roll passes all saves. Next Turn ahriman saves again but takes 2 wounds. He swings back at Morty and kills him. The death guard just fell apart after that.

 

It was just incredibly awesome to see a non-primarch use his psychic might to bring (not only a rival) a daemon primarch down in two fight phases. What I took away from it....I think I'm going to keep using boon on Ahriman. In just a couple turns, maybe three...you have a decent chance to get an extra +1 to cast. Bringing you to magnus status without having to lose the bonus to cast due to wound loss. By turn 6 Ahriman had +1 to psy tests, +1 toughness, -1 to hit him in cc, +1 damage to melee, +1 wound, and ignore wounds on a 6. 

Edited February 17, 2018 by Ahzek451

[Raven1]

I take it since you were casting boon of mutation you didn't here him on a disk. How did you get him up the board or did Morty come to you? Also the black staff is D3 not 4.

[Ahzek451]

I take it since you were casting boon of mutation you didn't here him on a disk. How did you get him up the board or did Morty come to you? Also the black staff is D3 not 4.

Might want to read it again. I said I rolled +1 damage on melee. D3 +1 from the boon roll. Total damage is 4. 

 

No disk. I had him close to the front with a tzaangor squad and morty came to me. Like I said, he would have charged my Tzaangors but he failed and I moved up and charged him. 

Edited February 18, 2018 by Ahzek451

[Raven1]

Oh my apologies

[Panzer]

Can a psyker cast the boon of mutation on himself? I thought it read a psyker within 3”.

Every model is within its own range. As long as it doesn't say "another" it's totally fine.

[WarriorFish]

Sounds like a good result, Ahriman perhaps should be renamed Ahri-the-man? :P

[bozo69pd]

Ahriman on foot seems like the way to go to me. I don't have any Tzangors yet (just the handful from silver tower) and wonder how decent my list could be doing the same thing but with cultists. Maybe the cheaper models (therefore bigger blobs) could make up for their weakness?

Edited February 19, 2018 by bozo69pd