Venue: Robinsons Galleria near Victory
Regulars Present: Salubri, Balian, Sigismund, Kyuzo
Other Players Present: Marty, Henri, with the other Marty and Naj passing through
Highlights:
The day has been agreed by everyone as a day of wastedness with a few Regulars a little under the weather, a couple under the effects of medication, yours truly just coming from the end of a toxic work week, or just plain spaced out. Perfect excuse to get together to play a couple of games of 40k was my reasoning, and the others agree. :D
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Game1: Salubri(Eldar, Sword of Light) vs. Balian(Space Marines, Steel Falcons)2000pts Secure and Control Alpha (4 counters)
Draw!
Saw this in its closing stages. Jetbiking Farseer with Runes of Warding and the Eldar Flying Circus was evenly matched against the Inquisitor and the Steel Falcon Light Show. Game ends with one counter secured by each army, with the other two counters contested.
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Game2: Marty(Tau Empire) vs. Henri(Space Wolves, Iron Wolves)2000pts Secure and Control Gamma
Marty Wins! via VP
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Game3: Kyuzo(CSM, Black Legion) vs. Sigismund(Space Marines, Blood Ravens)2000pts Take and Hold Gamma
Sigismund Wins! via VP
Sigis tweaked his Blood Raven list, using SM traits to convert his bikers to Troops and his Landspeeders taking up the rest of his Fast Attack slots. Who says Sigis does not know how to discover his own cheese? Hehe...
The mission and Sigis's revised config is supposed to bring his Blood Ravens out of hiding and make an aggressive move to the center and not just stand back and shoot from afar. Things looked promising for him with Landspeeders zooming on his left flank and Bikers on the other. Tried to neutralize both on the second turn with Terminators taking out the Landspeeders with combi-meltas and the Bikers with a Defiler. One squad of Bikers managed to get away and swamp one Defiler and eventually destroying it after three turns.
I made a serious error in marching my Terminators to chase a Librarian hiding in the corner after failing miserably on my saves from FOTA gayness. Lolz. In the end, Sigis won on VP and hopefully a few lessons learned to be carried in the next game.
Unless he brings Tau next session... :P
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Game4: Kyuzo(CSM, Black Legion) vs. Henri(Space Wolves, Iron Wolves)2000pts Take and Hold Gamma
Kyuzo Wins! via VP
Rolled up a similar mission on the same table against the Wolves now. Almost did a similar approach from my last game but had to take care of a different set of threats from the Iron Wolves, in the form of two Terminator Squads of Wolf Guard poised to sweep my right flank and a Venerable Dreadnaught taking the center. Tried to change my tactics in getting my Terminators more involved in taking the center and tried to make a suicide run on the Iron Wolves Termies with my Slaanesh Lord and Sorcerer on bikes. Almost pulled it off with my biker HQs by killing them off except they didnt last long enough to finish the game. VenDread was immobilized from meltagun fire with the rest of the Black Legion holding out the center for the last turn. What everyone found funny was the highlight of the game on the final turn with the Defiler rounding the center and "defile" a Rhino in the rear with "penetrating hits". Where's a digicam when you need one? Lolz.
Good game.
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Game5: Marty(Tau Empire) vs. Ryan(Eldar, Sword of Light)2000pts Take and Hold Alpha
Draw after 4 turns!
As we say, Marty's defense tactics are getting better by laying down a lot of withering mid-range firepower against The Sword of Light's dizzying guerilla tactics. Game had to be cut short by 4th turn with venue already in its closing stages with each side having one scoring unit each in the center. Wish there was more time to see how thia game would've shaped up.
Salubri's Take: Marty is getting a good grasp of Tau tactics. He played all his cards right from deployment till the later stages of the game with only one major mistake and some minor mistakes taking down targets of opportunity. He took full advantage of terrain for deployment and typical Tau shoot and hide approach. I on the other hand pressed my transports forward on his right flank and the gambit work as it forced him to pour most of his troops to that side... exposing a weak left flank. I was taking him down slowly from the left while he scrambled to wipe out the surviving aspect warriors. Committing to that right flank was his only mistake for the game. If we had played the full 6 turns I'd have pushed for the objective with the Hawks, Guardians and Wraithlord without opposition while the Spiders wrecked havoc on his surviving Tau units.
Good game nonetheless... and definitely an up and coming Veteran!
Good game nonetheless... and definitely an up and coming Veteran!
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Pack up time was around 8pm-ish.That leaves Kyuzo, Salubri, Balian and Henri to find dinner after good day of gaming. Quattro turned ou to be packed, so we ended up eating over at Shakey's instead. Had a bit of fun in ordering Bunch-of-Lunch for dinner... but other than that, we were already tired to think up anything else but eat and go home shortly after.
Session ends 10pm-ish.
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