This week I face off against my Deathwings arch nemesis Adam and his Chaos deamon army. Also had the honor of faceing the Kommisar and his IG tourney army.
heres some shots of the Deamons.
The game against the deamons was a nail biter. It seemed like I forgot to consecrate the ammunition and he was just not failing inv saves. He got the corrct wave in and I had my shooty squads down. Assault cannon and storm bolter rounds seemed to just be absorbed into the squishy flesh of the rotten things. His Greater Deamon of Nurgle took 3 rounds of fire from 3 assault cannon squads and I still had to kill it in close combat with a power fist.
His second wave had 3 sould grinders (proxied by the deamon princes, not to scale I know but I made him up the points to 2k at the last second) A blood thirster and 2 squads of blood letters. Lemmie tell ya, blood letters are a terminators worst fracking nightmare. Thank got I was able to whittle them down with fire before chargeing them so they did not get their furious charge bonuses cause if 10 of those hits any marine squad terminator or not they are in for a world of hurt.
It came down to a draw of the 3 objective it was 1/1/1 all because his blood thirster is a massive CC beast. He was stuck in the middle of the slop from the turn he hit the ground. Looking back thats probably where half my army went. got it down to 1 wound and could not kill it.... oh well such is life.
Game 2 Was against the Kommisar and his "fishing with dynamite" Imperial guard.
Sorry for the crap tastic pictures Im still getting the hang of this cheap crap camera. A camera on my phone would have probably been better...
Not pictured are the 3 leman russ variants (Vanquisher w/Pask, executuioner and a stripped down vanillia russ 1 valkarie 1 vandetta and a rhino that had an identity chrisis and was standing in for a chimera and about 20 heavy weapon teams)
We rolled 5 objective and dawn of war. Now I screwed up here sinee I thought I was "required" to have 2 troops and a HQ on the board at the start. I should have RTFR (read the fracking rules) and deep struck everything.
He started the board with 2 sauads a lascannon team and his command team on. In turn 1 I shot the lascannon team blasting one gun off the board and my other 2 squads decided that they couldnt see anything.
He moved on with the rest of his army on turn 2. I decided that I was going to charge Belial and his squad of choppy choppy death into his other flank to deny him some of the objective but boy was I wrong. And I got in all the rest of my squads on turn 2. Now onto the main flub of the entire day.
Demo charges..... fracking demo charges......
I usualy run an ork army of the horde variety it has 207 models in 1850 pts. Since I wanted to keep my sanity and spare my back from hunching over a tbale all day at the tournoment I am building this army for (bolter beach indy tournoment BTW) I decided to go with the deathwing. Have I got some learning to do. Against my orks demo cahrges dont matter squat. Wow you killed 8 orks, ok, as I throw them into the rapidly expanding pile of dead orks I dont bat an eye over it. In this game however he had 3 demo charges. "He'll scatter on some of those" I said. Nope dead on. Three bulls eyes on my terminators heads all nice and bunched up from deep strikeing. Three charges 15 terminators dead. The emporor turned a blind eye to this one no inv saves for me today. To make it worse one of those squads was belials tooled up close combat squad. The apothicary was able to save Belial before he succuming to blast induced trauma but then the 3 meltas in the squad made sure he didnt make it back to the rock today.
So leason leared for the day STAY AWAY FROM THE DAMN VETERAN TEAMS!!!!
Ok the wing was in ruin after that. The bright note was that my contingency plan, the chaplin led assault termy squad was able to wipe all the infantry off the other side of the board. An assault cannon lighting up a vandetta and jumping out of the second story window the next turn to chainfist his valkary to death. (then he hit the ground and pask rewarded him with a vanquisher shell that I of course failed the save on.)
It was closer than it should have been at the end on turn 5 it was a solid draw with a possibility for a deathwing win if we measured the objectives. he rolled the dice and we went to 6. On 6 it was a draw with no possibility for a win for me. I rolled the dice and sure enough here comes turn 7. I got tabled. Well except a chaplin with 1 wound left screaming into his vox feed to get beamed out, close enough I say.
All in all it was a good day of 40k Im learning my lessons with the wing and my sensai on the mountain top Tim the king of the deathwing in the local ara granted me 5 AOBR terminators that are currently suffocateing in a vat of simple green. Its coming together and Ill have this army built, sculpted, and painted long before the tourney in june so I might just have a chance to win a game.
Final thought of the day. One of my buddies is building a necron army, he said this this and I just cant shake the idea....
WAAAAAGHOLITH
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