Last night I allied with Chad's Imperial Guard. To celebrate the fact that I completed a second squad, my 1000 pts represented a "pure" Thousand Sons force: Two units of Sons, one unit of lesser summoned daemons, a spawn, and a chaos sorcerer HQ.
Nick and Eric both played Dark Angels (technically, Nick played Angels of Absolution).
Here are some picks plus a short recap:
Here's the board set-up. The mission was from the team tournament primer. Dawn of War deployment with a modified Command and Control objective (We team had two objectives in their deployment zones).
Chad's Varrian 10th holding an objective with my Sorcerer. Note: it's not that my sorcerer isn't painted, he's using his powers to conceal himself.
Corrcal's squad disembarks...
... and Rohm Dutts squad takes a demolisher shell to the face.
Some of Nick's troops skulking around the backfield.
More skulking.
By far the most heroic moment of the game. Chad's HQ takes on three terminators at the peak of this ruin. Truly a contest for the ages.In the end, the angels would be victorious; breaking Nick's non-winning streak, but continuing mine.
I try to learn something with every game I play in hopes that I can improve my playing skill. My biggest mistake in this game was that I worried way too much about Eric's Vindicator on the left flank. I sent Corrcal's quad (a.k.a. Squad #1), to shoot a bolt of change at it. If I had instead spent that turn motoring over to the right flank (which was getting hammered by Nick and Eric's double-wing combo), I probably would have had a better chance of turning the tide of the game.
One tactic that Eric employed to my annoyance was going to ground whenever I rapid-fired my AP3 bolters at him. An odd move for a marine player, but one that kept his troops on the objective.
2 comments:
Very nice battle report. I love the paint scheme on the Dark Angel models.
You can see more of the angels of absolution at http://redemptorsofgolinar.blogspot.com/
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