Slaughter in Space II batreps!

I brought what I thought was a harder list than what I normally play. Why I say what I thought was harder I will go into at my next post.



My List:

HQ

Demon Prince w/MoT, Wings, Doombolt, Warptime

Demon Prince w/MoS, Wings, Lash

Greater Demon



Troops

7 Thousand Sons Marines

1 Aspiring Sorcerer w/Winds of Chaos

Rhino


9 Chaos Space Marines w/Lascannon, Plasma Gun

1 Aspiring Champion w/Powerfist

Rhino



9 Chaos Space Marines w/Lascannon, Plasma Gun

1 Aspiring Champion



8 Lesser Demons


Heavy Support

3 Obliterators

3 Obliterators

3 Obliterators



More about my list later

Game #1 vs Shep's Mech Guard

His army:

Mech Guard



Mission: 3 Objective evenly placed between the deployment zones

Deployment: 12" in from the table corners with Dawn of War style w/HQ and 2 Troops start on the board.

He starts with a Chimera and it's squad on the board and I start with my 2 troops and a DP.

Turn #1 his Chimera lights up one of my CSM squad that was going to go after the left objective and it dies when he fires his whole army at it.



My turn, darkness! I am not use to using searchlights, and I need to remember to start on the board with a rhino so I can use their searchlight.



Well, time for plan B. Now that holding the objective on the left is off of the table I am going to hold the right objective, and fight it out over the center objective.

We spend the rest of the game trading shots and moving forward.

Turn #5 he rushes the center objective with 3 chimeras. I counter with 3 monstrous creatures and a Thousand Sons squad. I end up killing one chimera.



The game ends on turn #5 in a draw. Not much either one of us could do to get the primary. Maybe if the game went to turn #7 my DPs could have killed everything, or his meltas could have killed my DPs, but otherwise it was going to be a tie.

Game #2 vs. Dash of Pepper's Dark Eldar

HQ

Leilith Hexperax

8 Wytches


Elite

5 Warriors w/Dark Lance

Raider w/Dark Lance



5 Warriors w/Dark Lance

Raider w/Dark Lance



5 Warriors w/Dark Lance

Raider w/Dark Lance


Troops

4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance



4 Wytch Elves

1 Succubus w/Agonizer

Raider w/Dark Lance


Heavy Support

Ravager

Ravager

Ravager

Mission: Whoever has the most kill points alive at the end of the game (dedicated transports do not count).

Ok, let me get this straight…I need to kill 5 units that are hiding in raiders and not lose any units to 13 Dark Lances and 9 Plasma Cannons? Um yeah.



What Dash could have done is just fly around in circles, and I would not have been able to kill enough to win this missions.


The game

I am sure he will write more about it, but he made a huge mistake that made it a game. He could have stayed back and shot me off of the board, but he played aggressive and assaulted me with his wytch elves. Normally wytch elves do a number on marines, and they were doing a good job with mine. He assaulted both of my CSM squads with 2 wytch squads each.



What this did was allow himself to be exposed to assault where I can kill the units I need to kill. The weakness of wytches is monstrous creatures. They halve your WS unless you have strength 6, and they take off the extra attack for 2 CCW. Demon Princes have strength 6, and all of their attacks are base attacks, and wytches can't hurt them with their puny strength of 3.



So just when I was assaulting them I pulled a bone head mistake. Now I have never played with lesser demons, and I will go on the record as saying that I will never use them again. So I assaulted the wytches with my DPs and my lesser demons, and the Wytches butchered my lesser demons and that cause a ton of fearless saves on my Demon Prince and my Greater Demon, and that almost killed them. I killed the wytches in the next round, but I was so crippled that they were easy pickings for Dark Lances.



I was tabled on round 4 or 5 and that was all she wrote. I ended up shooting down Leliths raider and in hindsight I should not have. I can kill her and pick up the secondary mission objective and that should have been my priority since there was no chance that I was going to the primary mission objective and I should have just tried to end the round trying with what points I could get.



Game #3 vs. Blood Angels

Mission: You had 2 objectives, and your opponent had 2 objectives and you were trying to keep yours, and destroy your opponent's by being within 3" at the end of the round.



This game is easy to describe. Mepheston came down one side and my Demon Prince came up the other and they both wiped out half of their opponents army. I had a chance to kill Mephiston when my aspiring sorcerer hit him with 2 attacks and was looking to end his life with a force weapon, but I could not roll a 6 to wound.



We both killed one of our opponent's objectives for a tie.



Game #4 vs Blood Angels

Mission: You get 3 points for each force category you destroy of your opponents. (Elite, troops, fast attack, heavy support)



Since I do not have any elites or fast attack my opponent starts out with 6 points.



He has Astorath and a lot of troops. He rolled and all of them got furious charge and fearlessness.

He started by running at me. I started by running at him since I think I can take him.



We end of in a big fight in the middle of the table. It was a good fight since CSMs have more attacks than his tac squads, but he has FNP. The problem was that the Demon Princes don't care about all of the Feel No Pain, and started butchering them.



At the end of the game I wiped him and he saw the writing on the wall so he jumped his last tac squad with a sanguinary high priest into a rhino and drove across the table to hide with an attack bike that I rolled a 1 to wound with a lascannon and it lived.



So he had an elite with the SHP, a troop with the tac squad and a fast attack with the attack bike. I had lost the greater demon to the Death Company.



I nearly tabled him and it was a tie.

Game #5 vs Foot Eldar

How dare someone try to beat with my specialty!!!!

Mission: Kill points.


I nearly table him and I win the game.



The secondary objective was to get 2 points for each table quarter you hold, and I only had 2 troops left so I only got 4 points. The only ones who got max points where IG who have a ton of scoring units.

What army should I play at Adepticon?

So the time draws neigh for Adepticon!


With only three weeks to go, I am torn about what army to play in the 40k championships. So I turn to the Dakka Dakka members for guidance.



I have the choices of 3 1850 point armies to play:



Army #1. Foot Eldar



Reecius put up an article in BoLS about how good foot Eldar is, and everyone attacked him for it.

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/03/40k-tactics-winning-with-eldar-foot.html

Even though the army he posted would not be an army that I would play, the idea that you can win with any foot elder army was viciously attacked by the denizens of BoLS and YTTH. How much winning do I have to do for people to think it is a viable 5^th edition army? I do well at tournaments, and several other people like Darth Diggler, and Inquisitor Malice do as well, but still the army gets no respect. I am getting burned out of playing the army though and even if I keep winning with it, unless I play the doubters and whip them like they owed me money, then they will just remain ignorant of the strength of the foot eldar. I guess until you eat 60, strength-6 shots, you just will not know how good the army is.



HQ

Avatar



Farseer w/Spirit Stones, Stones of Warding, Stones of Witnessing, Doom, Guide, Fortune



Elites

6 Harlequins w/Kisses

1 Shadowseer w/Kiss, Fusion Pistol

1 Troupe Leader w/Power Weapon and Fusion Pistol



Troops

10 Guardians w/Brightlance

10 Guardians w/Brightlance

10 Guardians w/Brightlance



9 Dire Avengers

1 Exarch w/2 S. Catapult, Bladestorm



3 Jetbikes w/Shuriken Cannon

1 Warlock w/Singing Spear, Destructor



Fast attack

7 Warp Spyders

1 Warp Spyder Exarch w/dual spinners


Heavy Support

3 War Walkers w/Scatter Lasers



Wraithlord w/Brightlance, Missile Launcher

Wraithlord w/Brightlance, Missile Launcher



Army #2 Chaos Space Marines



I am thinking about playing this army because over the summer I am going to build a pre-heresy Thousand Sons army. Although this army will not be pre-heresy, it will mirror the build. It is also my best painted army, so in a tournament with a lot of soft scores it will do well. The downside is that I have not played it since I won a 3 game RTT in Aug, so I might be a bit rusty.



Army List



HQ

Ahriman



Demon Prince w/MoT, Warptime, Winds of Chaos, Wings



Elite

Dreadnought w/TL Autocannons



Troops

9 Chaos Space Marines w/Lascannon, Plasma Gun

Aspiring Champion



9 Chaos Space Marines w/Lascannon, Plasma Gun

Aspiring Champion w/Powerfist

Rhino



8 Thousand Sons Marines

1 Aspiring Sorcerer w/Bolt of Change

Rhino



Heavy Support

2 Obliterators

2 Obliterators



Land Raider



Army #3 Demonhunters

I am thinking about playing this army because everyone says that Demonhunters can't win in a competitive tournament. They were lumping this army in with the Tau and Necrons as being unwinnable. I think you can win a tournament with any army, and it is the player skill and not the codex that determines if you can win or not, or basically what I am saying is that you can make a winning build out of every codex. So to put my money where my mouth is, I need to step up to the challenge.



Army List



HQ

Inquisitor Lord w/Emperor's Tarot, Psycannon, Psychic Hood, Null Rod.

3 Mystics

1 Familiar

2 Sages

Gun Servitor w/Heavy Bolter

Gun Servitor w/Heavy Bolter

Gun Servitor w/Plasma Cannon

Land Raider



Troops

5 Grey Knights w/2 Psycannons

1 Grey Knight Justicar



5 Grey Knights w/2 Psycannons

1 Grey Knight Justicar



5 Stormtroopers w/2 Plasma Guns

Chimera



5 Stormtroopers w/2 Melta Guns

Chimera



Heavy Support

Land Raider



Dreadnought w/TL Lascannons

Dreadnought w/TL Lascannons, Missile Launcher