Saturday, October 11, 2008

HGR Journal Entry No. 071

The guys gathered at Midnight's place to continue more 5th ed "playtesting"...

Venue: Somewhere in the Quezon City Area
Regulars Present: Midnight, Salubri, Kyuzo, Joel & Henri

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Game 1
Midnight's Space Wolves vs Henri's Iron Wolves (SW)
2000 pts. Seize Ground in Spear Head deployment
Henri wins!

Major upset as Midnight stays on top of the game from the early turns but loses due to mojo! One squad ran away from the objective leaving Henri to claim 2 objectives to Midnight's 1.

Game 2
Salubri's Sword of Light vs Joel's Space Marines
2000 pts. Seize Ground in Dawn of War deployment
Joel wins!

2nd Game where Salubri's Falcon goes down on a 5&6 damage roll! Wraithlord is gunned down by Vanguard Veterans(is this the one with bolters?) wounding on a 2+ and causing too many wounds to count(lol) ! The game ends early (again!? lol) with Joel in position to take 2 counters while Salubri's Eldar was loitering on the table (kamote!) .

Game 3
(the game that shouldn't have happened coz Kyuzo was forced to play lol)
Kyuzo's Black Legion vs Salubri's Sword of Light
2000 pts. Annihilation in Spearhead deployment
Salubri wins!

Kyuzo was not at his best as he was "forced to play". The game began with Kyuzo's Land Raider immediately going up in flames! His princi(new word. plural for prince. ;) ) looked scary but went down too early before the Farseer even had a chance to block their psychic mumbo jumbo. One prince fell to a hail of shurkens and the other to Fire Dragons and Wraithlord combo. Shining spears have a field day taking out 3( possibly more ) kill points. Scorpions assaulted a tac squad and failed miserably, dropping their weapons and running away like scared little girls ( damned Eldar! ). The dust settles after 7 gruelling turns ( for Kyuzo who was "forced to play" ) with Salubri taking 12 kill points vs Kyuzo's 6.

2 comments:

Kyuzo said...

Taking nothing away from the author, im not making excuses of being "forced to play" mind you. Salubri's Eldar tactics running rings around the Black Legion was sound and well played. I was even looking forward to using the Princes (grammar sicko :P) despite the Farseer mumbo jumbo. Too bad they didn't last long enough for me to find out how they would fare. :D

Salubri said...

next time don't be afraid to charge with your Princes. kahit one wound na lang sya. don't use a unit built for aggression defensively. :P