Sunday, September 14, 2008

Ardboyz Round #1 Game #1

Round #1 Mech Sisters vs. Marines with friends
This was a very odd list. It was a younger gentleman and I think he just put in everything he had. It was something like the following
HQ
1 Chaplain on bike
Priest

Elites
Dreadnaught
Assault Terminators
6 Arco-flagellents
Troops
10 Storm Trooper(flamer, grenade launcher, attatched priest)
16 Sisters (heavy flamer, flamer, vss w/ plasma pistol)
10 Marines (heavy bolter, plasma gun)
10 Marines (multi-melta, plasma gun)

Fast Attack
3 bikes (1 power weapon, 1 plasma gun, 1 melta gun), 1 attack bike w/ heavy bolter
3 bikes (1 power weapon, 1 plasma gun, 1 melta gun), 1 attack bike w/ heavy bolter
3 bikes (1 power weapon, 1 plasma gun, 1 melta gun), 1 attack bike w/ heavy bolter

Heavy Support
Land Raider

My opponent wins the roll for deployment/going first. I don't know why but he decides to have me go first. I line up all of my immolators and rhinos 12 inch's from the center in a big cluster and hang back the exorcists since he has no range on anything.

Pre-game thoughts.
From looking at the list I don't really have anything to worry about. I can tell that my opponent is fairly new to the game it should be a fairly unexciting match.

Turn #1
I pincer out my forces into the 2 un-deployed quadrants. I send 2 immolators up each side and the rhino's push up the middle. Exorcists manage to take out the dreadnaught. His turn #1 he moves the land raider and chaplain with bikers up the middle. The terminators assault one of the immolators stunning it and the chaplain and team manage to stun a rhino. His shooting manages to immobilize one of the immolators. He moves one squad of marines along his table edge towards one of the objectives and his bikes turbo-boost towards my table edge.

Turn #2
I deploy the majority of the squads out of the rhino's. I have 2 squads of sisters point at the chaplain and his bikers, and 2 squads pointing at the terminators. I deploy 1 hq and another celestian squad within striking range of either a squad of marines or the terminators. With concentrated firepower from the sisters I kill the chaplain and the bike squad ( I ended up having to have the exorcists provide an assist). I also kill off all of the terminators. I shoot down 4 marines and assault into the squad with the hq squad and the celestians. I unload a sisters squad and shoot up the arco-flagellents (all of them die). His turn #2 land raider moves forward and blows off the gun from an exorcist. A bike squad charges into one of my sisters squads after they take a pounding from shooting. Another bike squad shoots and then charges into one of my immolators but fails to damage it. Sisters and bikers are locked in combat. On the other side of the table I kill a few more marines and wipe out the unit. He unloads his storm troopers and flames my sisters squad that flamed his storm troopers. He only manages to kill 3 sisters.

Turn #3
My two celestians squads plus canoness get out of their immolators and move towards the only uncommitted bike squad. The inquisitor charges into the biker/sister combat. All the sister squads get back in there rhino's. My melta guns both miss the land raider, all 3 exorcists launch missiles at the land raider nothing hurts the beast. On the other side i shoot down and then assault the last biker with the two celestian squads. My mounted sisters squads move into his side of the table. The dismounted squad returns fire on the storm troopers killing all but 2. His turn 3 he blows up a rhino pinning the sisters squad that was in it.

Turn #4
On my turn I move up and flame the huge sisters squad with 2 squads of sisters and 2 immolators, killing about 2/3. 4 melta guns into the land raider manage to rip off a lascannon and stun it. Canoness and retiune assault the other unit of marines (after they were whittled down by exorcist fire) and finish them off. The bikers finish killing off the sisters and the inquisitor. His turn 4 he charges his bikes at my cannoness retinue, the canoness polishes them off and mvoes towards the sisters squad. His sisters squad returns fire and whittles down one of my squads.

Turn #5
I finally blow up the land raider and the chimera and polish off the last squad. I hold 4 objectives and he holds none.

Everything worked according to plan. Eviscerators dont do so well against land raiders. That thing was a beast to take out.

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