Ok lets see.. batrep.- vague recollections..I welcome hearing LHs view, as its probably more coherant and radically different- he learnt stuff
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Quarters killpoints...ljundhammer won the roll off.
Ljundhammer took a proxy heavy version of a list he's been building (I pushed him into it), I think its a variant of this one
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3976&hilit=tau4 sets of suits, 3 all comers, 1 missiles. 2 railgunners with sheilds.. HQ suit had missiles and gun drones.. 2x pathfinders, 3x firewarriors, enough fish for all the fire warriors.
He setup his dual railguns (with shields)with his HQ (wound absorber with gun shields) at the back in good cover but cramped up.
Fire warriors behind 3 fishy things that had some nice stuff (bought for the pathfinders)..turn one they jumped into them.
Suits were all on in a spread far back arc.
I setup as close to centre as possible, spawn giving cover to a enchanced marine rhino, possessed rhino near front with HQs in, I used vindies to cover fire arcs where I could..
I got really lucky with my random rolls, stable mutation for both enhanced squads (neither of the auto die options) and I got feel no pain on my possessed.It really couldn't have been any better.
I forgot to attempt to steal the initiave.
Lh killed the spawn with a very large amount of str6,7
Immobilised and took combi weapon off the possessed rhino. but didn't succeed in doing much else, despite 9 successful markerlights flashing up things.
My turn..I zoomed my 2 troop rhinos up,disembarked...Possessed climb down ran across river bed to try to lash stuff (from sneaky angle around rhino), but failed epicly. Vindies managed to get good shots on 2 suit teams but they passed all their cover saves. My troops choices lit the sky with 2 melta and 2 combi melta and failed to do anything to the fish in front of me (sad panda
) Obliterator plasma cannoned his squashed up HQ/heavy but they made cover.(probably for the best as I was a bit optimistic with my measuremnet on that one)
2)His turn JSJ got suits killed 14 marines, yikes. but only 3 possessed (5++ and FNP and sorceror).
My turn- absowutwe nothing happens..I jump remaining squads into rhinos and zoom again (I forget to pop smoke).plasma cannon hits all the hq/heavy he passes all cover.(i think 1 suit took 1 wound) Vindies hit battlesuit squads.. and he passes all cover save.
3)His turn a bit of vengance, he gets almost no rolls to hit, those that do don't penetrate, well 2 do but they only get stunneds on vindicators who have possesssion.
My turn fabius gets out (and beats the crap out of some firewarriors), remainder troop takes out a fish, lash moves a battlesuit squad into tight base to base with another one.. vindie shoots.. he makes all cover. Plasma cannon at all HQ+ heavy, he loses a gun drone.
4)his turn twin railguns light up my obliterator..and then roll ones to wound (LH feels the sting)
missiles do not much (takes out a rhino, kills a man or two)
(If you haven't spotted thats 2 really boring turns.. I was stamping my feet in fury.. I should have totally outshot the crap out of him.. and he passed 17 out of 19 cover saves)
My turn..I lash hq forwards into my csm squad and eat it.. fabius takes out a vehicle (7 str 5 yummy) vindies kill a jump suit squad each.Obliterator starts battering a fish.
his pathfinders finally kill a vindicator, everyone opens up on tiny remnant CSM..but I put fabius between him and them..I lose the fist but lone gribbly csm howls in ragfull fury, passing all saves inc 2 cover saves granted by fabius extending his wings of steel.
My turn lash possessed take out a suit unit, mobile vindicator gets a (rather lucky) shot on some retreating suits.. obliterator takes out fish.and kills contents.
His turn he has a drone (dunning off the table, as I finally remember my immobilised and weapon destroyed rhino from turn 1 still has a combi bolter), 2 pathfinder squads (I'm trying to dakka the snot out of them (inc with the xyclocs needler) and a fish we play cat and mouse until the end of turn 7..I won by approximately 4 killpoints.
basically how cross was I turn 2-4 (grinding my teeth), and how bloody was turn 4-5. I still reckon it wasn't a "when you reach me I'm dead"..I still think that tau shouldn't assume to pass that many cover saves.Its just really odd that it ended up a true statement..it did take me getting to him for any damage to occur...weird
but awesome game..I only have a beef with the dice
Man of the match- fabius- killed 2 firewarrior squads.. and took down two fish all by his onesees. (probably missed that in the narration above.)