So starting this game, Wonna brings :
2 Russes (not as a squadron)
Manticore
CCS with lascannon & Master of the Fleet
5 infantry platoons in Chimeras
Valk + Melta Vets
Blog squad with Commisar (and missile launchers, and 2 power weapons)
And god knows what I have forgotten.
So we roll for mission:
Pitched Battle
and ... and ... and ...
Crap. Annihilation
Sigh!
Oh well. Roll for deployment and Wonna goes first.
Deployment
I don't reserve anything and just try to fit my army on the board, focusing my heavy stuff against his static side.
Turn 1
After scouting the Valk (and me not getting the initiative) Wonna plays the "kill da Ork" game... and wins.
Manticore - 3 shots. You will note the large hole in my horde! 11 from one squad, 4 from the other (or something similar.
Russ into a Dread, BANG, thankfully the only nearby targets were Kans which laughed it off.
Both missile pods on the Valk hit, and kill some more boyz. His Vets, however, roll 4 MG hits < 6 inches and only land one!. Pen. Immobilised!
Phew. At least I have a chance with the Wagon now.
The Chimera horde rolls up and smokes. This was his mistake, and something I pointed out at the end of the game : don't go to Orks. Use your range and mobility and I wouldn't have ever caught you.
I decide to be creative and use tactics... and rush mindlessly at his lines.
A dread finally kills something (took 3 games!) and put 13 HF wounds on a vet squad, which quickly evaporated. Then I roll up, err, sit still, with the Wagon, light up the Valk with Missiles and bang, wrecked!
ORK SHOOTING PREVAILS!
Repair roll: 3. Crap. Need to buy that mek a new wrench or something.
One last important highlight, through sneaky manouvering I managed to stun and shake the CCS Chimera, delaying the flamers for a turn!
Turn 2
Here comes the cavalry.
Wonna pushes the Chimeras that he can into my lines, and plays the Heavy Flamer game, which, inevitably, I lose. He almost breaks a squad, but I survive. He pings a Kan, or at least stuns it, and doesn't do much more than that.
Time for some revenge, served the best way: Green.
Charge into 3 Chimeras, wreck one, stun the hell out of another two and rip the flamer off them. Excellent!
Turn 3
The tide turns for me, in Wonna's shooting phase.
He rolls up the CCS Flamer squad, and toasts the blue squad after pulling a shaken chimera out of the way.
RIP Blue.
He notices Red are nicely clumped up for a Manticore blast, rolls a 6 - 3 shots. Scatter. Straight onto his own guys.
Blast 1: 9 Die.
Blast 2: scatters safely.
Blast 3: Direct hit on the CCS's chimera. Pen. Weapon Destroyed. "The attacker chooses" and picks the Multi-Laser.
The other Chimera lays some shots into White Squad taking them below fearless.
I move up, shoot 1 squad of Kan's grotzookas into the blog squad (it has eaten some shots over the last turn or 2, and now looks like this:)
30 hits.
25 wounds.
I pull back White squad to get my FC again and wreck the chimera.
Turn 4
Err, cough.
He was then charged, and didn't survive. Commisar 1, Warboss 0.
In my Turn 4, I ate the CCS's Chimera with my Red Squad, it exploded and killed the contents.
I shot the Manticore with my Kans, ripped off both the HF and the missile rack (though empty).
At that point, we called the game as over, it was 11:00pm and the rest would have been me cleaning up his forces and going for the wipeout - relevant in a tourney, not relevant in a training match.
Result: Victory
Me: Lost 4 KP (dread, Blue squad, Warboss, Nob Squad)
Wonna: Lost 11-12 KP (CCS x 2, Chimera x 4, Russ, Valk, Vets, Platoon x 2/3).
Afterthoughts:
This is what the army is capable of if you don't manage to stop it or outrun it. Yay!
