Micah wrote:
Reply:Batrep 'Ard Boyz Prelims Wichita, KS Wichita, Kansas at Agents of Comics.
Our field had about 16 players, the only armies without representation were DH, Dark Eldar, and Necrons.
My list “Boring Chaos”:
2x Lash Princes, Wings
3x CSM squadsx10, 2x melta, icon of chaos glory, Rhino
2x Plaguemarine squadsx6, 2x melta, personal icon, Rhino
3x Terminatorx4, Chainfist, 3x combi melta, heavy flamer
3x Obliteratorx3
Round 1 I played a mishmash of Orks. He had two big individualized Nob squads in Trukks with Warbosses, a Deff Dread, 90 Boyz in 30-man squads, a big unit of Stormboyz and Snikrot. He won the roll for 1st/2nd turn and opted to go first. He deployed across the board in a typical battle line with his Nob Trukks in the center. I deployed in a Refused Flank on my far left to the opposite side of his Stormboyz with all my deep strikers in reserve.
His first turn he sort of just rushes forward. His Trukk zooms 13” to settle about 15” away from my nearest rhino. Everything that can run, runs. I drive forward 6-12” in a sideways ‘L’ formation with the DPs in the pocket and keep almost everything inside. I don’t want Snikrot mucking up my DPs so I disembark a squad of PMs on the corner of the ‘L’ as bait for the charge. I lash two Boyz squads back to their starting line after I pop the near Trukk with meltagun fire.
Turn 2 Snikrot assaults the bait Plague Marine squads and everything runs forward again. For some reason he doesn’t commit his 2nd squad of Trukk Nobz, so his first squad is unsupported when they run in and assault some rhinos, exploding one and immobilizing the other. And then the dying starts. I get in some Oblits and Terms, combi melta fire blows the Deff Dred and combined plasma cannons kill more than half the Nobz and leave a Warboss alive. Bolter and meltagun fire finishes them off and the plague marines sitting in the immobile rhino blows the trukk. I’ve flown 1 DP forward to screen my Marines from the Boyz in case they Waaagh into range of my exposed CSM squads. He took the bait with Snikrot and I figure he’ll do the same with the DP.
Turn 3 his Nobz drive forward and disembark into terrain. My gunline is in a rough ‘C’ with the open end facing his Nobz. He burns his Waaagh and gets a total assault move of 7 inches, which is still 2 inches short of my nearest unit. His Boyz charge the Daemon Prince while a 3rd squad takes the central objective. His Stormboyz “claim” an objective on my far edge. No idea why he disembarked into terrain like that, but I’m not complaining. Lash and gunfire blows the Nobz apart and an assault finishes them off in subsequent turns. The rest of the game is me killing my way through 60-odd Boyz. Massacre.
Round 2 is against Shrike Marines with 1 max Sniper Scout squad, 3 Tac squads with 2 Rhinos, 2 Assault squads with PF, 1 Vindicator, 1 Dreadnought, and Shrike+AssTerms.
He wins the roll for 1st/2nd turn and opts to go first, deploying across the table in a gunline. Dunno why. Again I set up the armored ‘L’ with DPs and Rhinos, keeping Oblits and Terms in reserve. He drives forward and fleets AssMarines. I drive forward and pop smoke. T2 his shooting is largely ineffective and I’m able to drive into his center and start blowing vehicles while embarked. He gets a couple assaults that are largely ineffective against the 2+ armor of my oblits and Terms. He’s whittling my guys down but his AssMarines are bogged in combat. T3 Shrike shows up and I promptly lash him back to the table edge. Two squads of Oblits pour Pcannon fire into the Assterms while the rest of his vehicles get wiped. In a notably unfabulous assault my DP dies to an immobilized Dreadnought, so he gets 5 KP. Bleh. Otherwise it’s firmly in my favor as CSMs launch into his AssMarines and butcher them in CC. He’s run out of units, his assaults are ineffective, and Shrike and the AssTerms get shot off the table. He’s wiped, massacre.
Round 3 is against Calgar Superfriends Marines. This guy showed up with a NoobHammer list; Calgar+Lysander+12 AssTerms in 2 LRCs, 2 Vindicators, 3 Rhinos with Tac squads. He’d been simply driving forward and face humping with his Terminators and it got him enough points for first place. I win the roll for 1st turn and opt to deploy. I break my deployment into 3 Rhinos with DPs at center table, 2 Rhinos along the edge at center. He deploys in an armored spearhead and fails to seize initiative. I drive forward 12” and pop smoke on the leading Rhino with PMs. He drives forward 12” and uses PotMS to AssCannon my DPs. WTF? I make all the relevant saves. Because I moved forward aggressively he’s close enough to assault, so he dumps his squads and charge my rhinos. Two explode; 1 with PMs, 1 with CSM.
I’m delighted. I get a squad of Oblits and Termicides on my reserves and drop one next to each LRC. Combined melta fire manages to stun both. ‘whoo’. I double lash the Marneus squad 9” away through terrain, so I’m pretty confident he can’t reach me next turn. The other prince melts his own head, so Lysander is sitting put. I dump bolters into his Termis and kill 4. Next turn he fires his vindicator at my exposed CSM squads, scatters onto Lysander and kills 1 more Termie. His rhinos shoot at my 2 flanking rhinos but fail to do much due to cover. He assaults Lysander into my head-melted DP and the Assterms into a CSM squad. Marneus looms closer.
R3 I get a bunch of deep strikers in and blow both LRC and a Vindicator. I screen Marneus with a squad of PMarines. I charge my ‘fresh’ DP into Lysander and kill him but my other CSM squad is getting whomped at 2 guys/turn against his single remaining AssTerm. My other rhinos keep rushing the far objective. His shooting immobilizes one remaining rhino and his Vindicator does dick. Marneus gets a combi charge against a Termicide squad and the Pmarines and gets bogged. His lone AssTerm finally dies. My 4 is spent positioning my units; Obliterators kill the vindicator and remaining rhino while the surviving CSM squad hops onto the near objective. The three guys left after the AssTerm stomping move up with my DPs towards his northernmost rhino. He spends his turn bogged in assault against Pmarines and Terms or shooting out of rhinos, which does nothing. Finally Calgar kills off all the Pmarines and the Termis break so he rushes my objective. I simply lash him into a ball and dump Pcannon and bolter fire into him. By now I’ve got the near objective completely secured with 4 Termis and 3 Oblits +2 squads of Marines humping the far one. Calgar and 1 Termi survive and they charge an oblit squad, crushing it, but I wipe them off with shooting. His exposed Marines get shot off the table and he makes a run for the objective to contest, but I simply lash him off. Massacre, and 1st place overall.
2nd place was Khorne Horde Marines
3rd place was the Calgar Superfriends guy who tied with a mixed Marines player.
Another nice bat rep, thanks Micah! =)
12 comments:
Round 1 you cheated the Ork player out of movement by claiming the entire base of his models had to be within the 2 inches of the disembark, hence his failing assault by about 2 inches. Odd that.
And your comments about the lists of the players from out of town do not speak kindly to the type of person you are.
Makes me glad I did not play.
N00Bhammer and you are running Dual Lash 9 Obliterator with Plauge Marines?
Pot meet Kettle
"Round 1 you cheated the Ork player out of movement by claiming the entire base of his models had to be within the 2 inches of the disembark, hence his failing assault by about 2 inches. Odd that."
I didn't see that anywhere in the batrep.
Were you actually there?
Ummmm, even if he had almost the entire base outside of the 2" inch embark, that's still not an extra two inches.
Maybe big bases, i can't find my Termie bases to measure. But otherwise, the point is moot.
If true, that IS cheating, as noly the back of the base is required to be 'within' 2", ie, 2" away, as shown by several examples in the BRB. cheated him out two inches easy, a base is one inch, but he lost it's distance from the vehicle twice. Again IF true.
Anyway, I think that was a mediocre Chaos list. Better than your opponents, sure, but the second guy kept Shrike in Reserve (WTF?) and the first ran Orks. Oh, and the last played Superfriends. Hardly a stirring tale of success.
I checked to make sure that his bases were all within 2" of the Trukk. I have no idea where you got the idea that I insisted that they be fully within 2" of the Trukk, as that's not even possible without making a conga-line around the vehicle. He had several models staggered 2 deep in front of the Trukk, so even if I did insist then he didn't listen to me.
His Nobz didn't get far enough and got shot up as a result. That's it. If you didn't play, I have no idea how you could have seen the game because the only guys watching was the judge and other players who finished before us. Post a name and we can talk.
Didn't intend Noobhammer as some denigration of the list simply that the play style was to drive forward and hammer noobs with his super friends.
My list is also Noobhammer, although based around shooting rather than assault. I even admit that I'm playing NetDeck Chaos, and a good [Dark] Eldar player would probably spank me. Thankfully for me there weren't any and I stomped face with my Noobhammer list.
Lrn 2 Waagh.
Point conceeded on the last part if that was your intention I believe you.
As for the first 2 deep is only 1.96 inches. A base is 1 inch deep and and close to 2 inches for a warboss, and since only .000000000000000001 of that base has to clip 2 inches...
Not saying the assault would have happened (though it was closer than a 2 inch difference) and I'm not excusing sloppy play on his end, as everyone makes mistakes.
Cheating might have been harsh I meant did not mean to imply you did anything intentionally, though who am I to judge.
Also as an aside I wish more Batreps on here had pictures, no offence to Micah, but simply having a I crush your face, and a he messed up here, doesn't help at all with the visualization of the matches.
It sounds like you're talking as if you were there. To cut down on the Net drama and web RAEG mind just telling us who you are?
This might be a misunderstanding on my part, but I always understood noobhammer to mean that it is an army that crushes inexperienced players, but is not necessarily unbeatable. NOT that the army is "beardy." Although the two are not mutually exclusive I guess.
Twin Land Raider with TH/SS Termies is noobhammer because many noobs don't have the list/skills to ensure that they can stop the raiders and make the termies footslog across the board getting shot up the whole way.
I have defeated raider rush many times, and drawn a couple. Having the ability to stop raiders early is important in a take-all-comers list.
And 2+ saves will not keep 5 or 6 models alive against 3 turns of shooting. They just don't.
I love popping a raider from a dreadnought set up behind, and then getting the opponent to assault BACKWARDS into my dreadnought 8" behind his raider. Oh noes, I lost my dread and my drop pod. You just took half your army out of the game.
Thanks Micah for a very entertaining series of battle reports! I, too, wish there were more pictures but that's hardly a knock. The meat was there.
As they say in San Francisco.
A comment or two. The list was hardly mediocre; that said, what is a 'netdeck?'
I've not heard the term Noobhammer before, but that's a keeper.
Take care - Brent
Thanks Brent.
A 'NetDeck' list is one that is shamelessly ripped off of the internet, typically a more competitive list but also a 'cheese build' or gimmick list that someone else thought of and posted. Nob Bikers is a very common NetDeck list.
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