Venue: Neutral Grounds Galleria
Attendees: Balian, Salubri, Kyuzo, Sigismund with special appearance of Justin, Mike Monroe and Adrian
A sudden gathering of the Regulars over at Neutral Grounds Galleria. First Regulars gathering in NG for the year 2007!
Game 1: Balian's 13th Company vs. Salubri's Deathwing
Scenario: 2000pts Seek and Destroy Level: Gamma
Salubri's Perspective:
I came lugging my compact Deathwing and half expecting Balian to bring his famed Steel Falcons only to realize he brought 13th Company instead. Battle strategy out the window! Shooting would not be so much a factor as the terrain was urban and the resulting randomization caused them to bunch up(not to mention all the cyclone launchers missed for 5 turns!!! ). The battle would later be decided in the assault phase.
Come deployment I spread the 3 units of tactical terminators( 1 assault cannon and 1 cyclone on each copy pasted thrice. :D ) on my deployment zone and held 3 units including the Grand Master in reserve. I figured it would prevent him from using his numbers against my tiny force and hopefully delay him long enough for the arrival of the 3 reserves via teleport homer. Balian, benefiting from playing too much Total War decided to strike at my left flank. Good tactic as the unit he commited were bikes and could easily move in and out while the rest of the termies from the battle line will be unable to catch up. His plans were interupted by the sudden arrival of two teleporting squads including the Grand Master. This caused him to engage in a protracted melee as the free terminator units had a field day in shooting the rest of his walking troops that were then trying to cross the table to where the assault was happening.
When the dust settled, only the Rune Priest and two stragglers from the bike squads were left. Both the Grand Master and the Wolf Lord sold their lives dearly for their respective chapters! Last minute moves weren't enough to cause a victory run as my teleporting Assault Terminators ended up deviating to my deployment zone. Kudos to Emcee for being "Rusty". ;)
Kyuzo's Account:Come deployment I spread the 3 units of tactical terminators( 1 assault cannon and 1 cyclone on each copy pasted thrice. :D ) on my deployment zone and held 3 units including the Grand Master in reserve. I figured it would prevent him from using his numbers against my tiny force and hopefully delay him long enough for the arrival of the 3 reserves via teleport homer. Balian, benefiting from playing too much Total War decided to strike at my left flank. Good tactic as the unit he commited were bikes and could easily move in and out while the rest of the termies from the battle line will be unable to catch up. His plans were interupted by the sudden arrival of two teleporting squads including the Grand Master. This caused him to engage in a protracted melee as the free terminator units had a field day in shooting the rest of his walking troops that were then trying to cross the table to where the assault was happening.
When the dust settled, only the Rune Priest and two stragglers from the bike squads were left. Both the Grand Master and the Wolf Lord sold their lives dearly for their respective chapters! Last minute moves weren't enough to cause a victory run as my teleporting Assault Terminators ended up deviating to my deployment zone. Kudos to Emcee for being "Rusty". ;)
As expected between these two, having known each other's strategies after months of playing against each other, the exchanges were equally exciting and bloody game-wise. Arrived to see the last turn of this game with Balian's bikers doing dangerous risks in getting into the Deathwing lines by crashing through cover to get into close combat.
Result: Draw (with Balian having a slight edge in VP about 110 pts. or so)
Game 2: Balian's 13th Company vs. Kyuzo's Emperor's Children
Scenario: Cleanse Level: Alpha
Highlights:
I got to choose this one after winning out on strategy rating. Suddenly realized I might have been a little hasty in choosing Cleanse as a scenario after remembering Balian normally fields two squads of bikes as well as a teleporting rune priest with melta gun toting Space Wolves.
Game got underway with Balian's rune priest teleporting just a couple of inches right next to my leftmost defiler, which predictably blew later in the turn. This cleared the way for his two squads of bikes to get a chance of entering my home quarter. Luckily, my second squad of daemonettes coming in on the third turn was able to stop the bikes' advance and practically took out both squads except for one Lt on bike. My first squad of daemonettes was able to take out the Wolf Lord on bike which was locked in combat with my Lt on bike and was almost able to finish off one of the Long Fang squads if it weren't for a falling back squad of Space Wolves with flamers which targetted my Lt but took out more daemonettes by what I would best call "by strategic accident". Teleporting rune priest and squad took out the second defiler which also took with it some Space Wolves in the explosion as well as the third defiler in the succeeding turn. Mental note to remember to use smoke launchers next time. Remaining units on the table by 6th turn was a full squad of daemonettes taking one quarter, my Daemon Prince left with one wound, and a non-scoring noise marine squad while Balian was left with his Space Wolf Lt on bike.
Result: Win for Kyuzo (One scoring unit holding one quarter to none)
Other Highlights:
Apologies to Sigismund who was able to bring an army but was a little late in arriving so that we can possibly squeeze in one more game. We'll try to make it up to you next time Dude. Would help if you can come a little earlier next time. ;)
Some thoughts of playing WFB as early as March once 40k Gladiator and the 40k 1000pt tourney is done this month. The Dark Elves coming back out after a long hiatus? Abangan!
Mike Monroe also passed by so that I could trade some bitz with him. Too bad he was in a hurry and with no army so that he could've been able to play.
We left Galleria a little earlier than usual since Salubri needed to go home a little earlier than usual. We ended up having takeout pizza and mojos at his house with a small game of heads-up poker using dice as poker chips. Ended the evening with Kyuzo having the chip lead followed by Balian and Salubri.
Till next time.
8 comments:
Nice show of games! Keep on gaming ^_^
@gelo - regarding your comment in the chatbox about targeting a unit in close combat with a flamer:
Balian's primary target was the Lt, who's massacre move fell short of contacting another unit. The template extended to the daemonette squad (which is in contact with the Long Fang squad) but did not touch any of the Long Fangs, which I concurred to his interpretation as a valid target.
Checked the rulebook on this. Though I thought the ruling was similar to ordinance where the ordinance blast template can deviate into models locked in combat, actual ruling for template weapons goes like this:
"...Instead of rolling to hit, simply place the template so that its narrow end is touching the base of the model firing it and the rest of the template covers as many models as possible in the target unit without covering any friends."
One more thing - We also made a conscious effort in applying the daemon weapon rules. A friendly reminder to those who go up against Chaos armies with daemon weapons. When they cause a wound, always roll for your leadership checks to maintain control. This caused one wound on my DP which would've proved critical on a VP standpoint since that one wound spelled the difference between no points or half points. ;)
hehe... my advice to you sigis is that you come earlier. if you did then balian wouldn't have had to play twice and you could've gone up against kyuzo. :P ako sana kalaban nun kaso baka nga hindi matapos at umuwi ako mid game. at any rate it was nice having you guys come over after the games. mukha ngang magandang modus operandi yun after the saturday games. poker sa bahay with take out food. :D
unless you guys prefer skirt analysis while drowning in the aroma of multiregion coffee blends. :D
itong si meanderer naman did another indian guerrilla tactic on us. i now dread to hear his famous last words. "pupunta ako" lolz
@gelo again - of course he had to come to my office not just to get his army bag but to look for another ruling that would support his earlier case. here's what we found:
SHOOTING INTO AND OUT OF CLOSE COMBAT
".... While Blast markers and templates may not be placed such that they cover any models locked in close combat, they may end up there after scattering and will then affect friend or foe."
personally, i'd still agree to my earlier argument. using the above wording, the template still "ended up" on the daemonette models who were locked in close combat because the primary intention was to hit the unengaged Lt who was a valid target in the first place.
[sarcasm]: so what was the argument about again? lolz
[declaration]: i don't think anything illegal happened in that game. atleast not with regards to the "accidental" flaming of the sexy horny chicks from hell.
[friendly quip]: it's just a game. no need to get anal about the rules. :P
flaming maneuver perfectly legal and devastating :)
what the heck! nabuhay! apparently he posts atleast once every year. :P
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