League Game 4 (2-2-0)

This week I was pitted against Chaos w/ Demon Allies. 

My list
Dante -225
Honor Guard /w JP's and 4 Plasma Guns -225
10x Assault Squad w/2 Flamers and Power sword -215
10x Tactical Squad w/Plasma Gun and Mult-Melta -180
Sanguinary Guard w/2 Power Fists -220
Scouts w/4 Sniper Rifles and Missile Launcher and Camo Cloaks -100
10x Vanguard Veterans w/2 Melta Bombs and Glaive Encarmine -325
Aegis Defense Line w/ Quad Gun -100

Turn 1 went to my opponent, I didn't try to seize since I wanted him to move as close to me as possible before I got to go to give me a better opportunity to engage him and so I can get some last turn Objective grabbing.

Turn 1 Chaos -
He started moving all his stuff forward, His Demon Prince used Lash of Submission to move my Sanguinary Guard over and into a tight pack.  The Defiler fired his Battle Cannon at then luckily it scattered and landed on the Tactical marines behind the Aegis Defense Line, killed one marine.

Turn 1 Blood Angels

The Sanguinary Guard moved forward and got their charge off on the Blood Letters and Skull taker.  Skull Taker had a hard time landing a hit this game, which was lucky for me since he was WS5 and rends on a 4+ which also causes Instant Death.  I didn't have to worry about that though since if he hit he didn't wound.

I tried shooting at the Soul grinder some but couldn't dent it with the rest of my army.  Pretty Uneventful turn for me, just trying to slow him down until my reserves had a chance to come in.

Chaos Turn 2-
 Didn't get a picture of his turn but his Demon Prince used lash to move my Assault squad up and into a tight grp so his battle cannon on the defiler could shoot again, but it scattered over into teh tacticals again. 

Sanguinary Guard were tearing up the Blood Letters, 2+ save against their AP3 weapons is pretty nice.

The Demon Prince then assaults and the Flamers ending up scoring 5 hits and end up putting 2 wounds on him.  He ends up killing 2 marines though so its even.

Blood Angels Turn 2-

The Honor Guard w/Dante come down as well as the Vanguard Veterans.   The Honor Guard blow up the Rhino carrying Plague marines and gives me First Blood, the Vanguard then assault the Plague Marines.

The Sanguinary Guard combat is whittling down pretty quick and like 2 of my guys left and 1 Blood Letter and Skull Taker.

Chaos Turn 3-
My Sanguinary Guard finally die, Skull Taker figured out how to hit and wound.

Plague Marines shot into Dante and the HG, killing 3 guys.  and his Plague Bearers started moving towards the combat.  The Havocs rained missiles down on Dante and his squad, I made it out of that one pretty good.

The Thousand Sons all get out of their Rhino and also lay fire into Dante and his squad but they didnt hit very well and I managed to walk out of that one with 2 wounds on Dante.

Blood Angels Turn 3-

My Tactical Marines shoot the Plasma Gun and Multi melta at the Soul Grinder and the melta ends up scoring a  penetrating  hit but I roll a 1 to wound.   The scout with the missile launcher though shoots and rolls a 6 to hit, 6 to pen, and a 6 on the damage table.  This was really the turning point of the game for me.  I had nothing to really deal with that Soul Grinder once it hit my lines, I took it out at the perfect time.  If that didn't happen I wouldn't of had the scoring units necessary at the end of the game.

Assault Marines shoot Skull Taker in the face with their bolt pistols and he dies.

Chaos Turn 4
Thousand Sons shoot into my tacticals killing like 2 of them.

Vanguard Vets finally die after the defiler came in and assisted.

Dante got assaulted my plaguebearers, he killed 4 of them and didnt take a single wound. 

Blood Angels Turn 4

Assault Squad moves  into a Mysterious Forest and ends up being a Ironbark forest giving me a 3+ cover save.  Dante finally dies, giving my opponent Slay the Warlord

Game is 2-2.  First Blood and Slay the Warlord for me, Slay the Warlord and a Fast Attack kill for him.

Chaos Turn 5
 Thousand Sons shoot at my tacticals again as they hoofing it to the Objective and they lose 3 more.

Blood Angels Turn 5-6

This Picture is actually the bottom of turn 6.  I spent my turn running to secure Objectives, tactical's managed to kill like 2 Thousand Sons, but I was really banking on the game ending on turn 6 and it did.  I controlled 3 Objectives and he Controlled 2.

So I had First Blood, Slay the Warlord, a 3 point OBJ, 3 Point and 2 Point.

He had Slay the Warlord, Fast Attack Kill, 1 point OBJ and 4 Point OBJ.

Game ends 10-7 Blood Angels.

Then I also got 10 League Points for the Win so 20 League points for me.

League Game 3 (1-2-0)

Game 3 had me pitted against the Tau, of course I didn't take any pictures because of the fast pace of the game.  I need to try to get some for next game.

Things that went poorly for me this game was my Vanguard Vets failing to come in on turn 2.  Rolled a 1 then with the reroll from DoA I rolled a 1 again.  My Honor Guard did come in though so I deepstriked them into a ruin in my opponents deployment.  He had railgun broadsides in there as well as a squad of 3 crisis suits with plasma.

Dante with the HG lost 1 from failing his dangerous terrain test....broke both his legs coming in.  I rapid fired their plasma guns and the tau made every cover save.  The main reason I sent dante here though was to take care of the biggest threat on the table but the obj they were sitting on also granted skyfire......so I needed to take care of those rail gun broadsides before my flyers came on.

Vanguard came in on turn 3, and landed 5 inches away from their target they were planning on assaulting.  Course I rolled snake eyes for the charge and in my opponents shooting phase rapid fired plasma from Commander farsight and his complete retinue full of plasma and missiles that just came in from reserves.  Needless to say my vanguard were pretty much wiped out to the man.

My opponent got first blood, slay the warlord, 1 heavy support kill during the game.

I got 1 Heavy support kill, 2 Objectives. (My Storm raven flew away and went into hover mode to claim an objective and my assault squad I kept back was holding the other in my deployment.  At the end that storm raven had 1 hull point left so it was close)

League Game 2 (0-2-0)

My List
Dante -225
Honor Guard w/JP's and 4 Plasma Gun's -225
8x Assault Squad w/ 1 Melta and Powerfist
8x Assault Squad w/1 Melta and Powerfist
9x Death Company w/ Bolters and Power Sword
10x Vanguard Veteran Squad w/4 Power Fists and 4 Storm Shields, 1 Melta Bomb -485
2x Sanguinary Priests -150

I believe that was everything, I paired up against an IG player with BA Allies.  I don't remember the whole list but I remember the Thunderbolt and Cestus Assault Ram.  The Cestus killed Dante and his entire Honor Guard in 1 Melta Blast.

There were like 5 Fliers which in itself wasnt so bad, I thought I was doing pretty well.

This is a picture at the start of my turn 2, the mission was purge the alien and Hammer and Anvil deployment.  I started my troops right on the 24 in line and tried to move forward as fast as I could.

Turn 2 he had 3 fliers come in, at this point you can see my DC already took 3 casualties.....from the Leman Russ Executioner.  The good news is I combat squaded the Vanguard Vets 1 set came down and took out the Leman Russ, the other drifted 6 inches into his squad and got a mishap and went right back into reserves.

Dante and the HG came down and Rapid Fired Plasma into the back of one of his flyers and it exploded with the 1 six to hit I got.  He had a veteran guardsman team inside and they all died but 1 guy who plummeted to the ground unharmed.  At this point I got first blood.

Then as you can see from the picture above the Cestus dropped off a ten man BA assault squad right in front of mine (painted as GK's) then the Cestus turned around in Hover mode and wanted Dante dead.

Then the Melta blast happened from the Cestus and killed Dante and the HG.  I will remember this, that things weapon is brutal...didn't help it didn't scatter at all.

Vanguard vets tried to come down again in turn 3 but again scattered 6 inches towards his troops and again got a Mishap and went back into reserves.

Those are all the pictures I have but the game ended on turn 5, never got night fighthing.

I was trying to recover from facing all terminators with Draigo last game and I go right into a heavy flyer list.  Hard trying to figure out a list and maintain my assault theme I want.

I believe next week is Big Guns Never Tire.....oh boy.

League game 1 (0-1-0)

Well the League started Wednesday Aug 1st.  I didnt really take a lot of pictures...just 2 in fact.

This was the first mission played, I was paired against a GK player. 

His list was
Draigo -275
10x Terminators (Justicar w/Force Sword, 1 Daemon Hammer, 6 Halberds, 2 Psycannons) -470
10x Terminators (Justicar w/Force Sword, 1 Daemon Hammer, 6 Halberds, 2 Psycannons) -470
 Dread Knight w/Heavy Incinerator, Heavy Psycannon and Greatsword -225
 Dread Knight w/Heavy Incinerator, Heavy Psycannon and Greatsword -225
-1665

The game was already poorly in my favor since I knew I couldn't deal with terminators very well.  Let alone a whole army of them.  You know what though, I had 2 Storm Ravens and he couldn't really deal with those very well.  So I thought I had a chance.....then they announced that all objectives on all tables grant skyfire for this mission. 

I  don't think I even got a single Kill point, I managed to get one of his combat squaded terminator squads down to 1 guy left and another to 2 guys left.  I managed to inflict 2 wounds on a DK and I had 1 lone sniper manage to inflict 2 wounds on Draigo.....that poor guy was riddled with gun fire soon after. 

I walked away from that game with 0 points and he walked away with 25 points since he tabled me, He was a great opponent though and it was a fun game regardless.  Next game I am upping the aggression factor by 12 and will be really in my opponent's face.....or lose by turn 3, we will see.