So I don't have my opponents list for this round either. My list can be found here...
He was basically running a ton of terminators with a large variety of weapons. TH/SS, lightning claws, bolts, auto-cannons etc.. He also had 3 dreadnoughts and had lots of Missile Launcher shots amongst other things. He formed a pretty strong gun line and his plan was to blast away.
So he won the roll, went first and plopped a large unit of termies in the dead center of the map with both of his HQ's in it. He put another unit of termies in a building next to that in the center of the map with heavy cover.
He thought he was going to hinder my deployment since it was Dawn of War, I would have to deploy 18" away from his units. Instead I held my entire army off the board and brought them all up on my turn. So his turn 1 he didn't do anything except move units on the board and pushed them up. He had no idea where I was going to pop out of so he just held fast in the center of the board.
On my turn 1, I moved everything on the board except my two termies who would later deepstrike in. It was night fighting so I put all 9 oblits in the center around assorted amounts of cover and blasted his large termie HQ unit. I got a few kills, but was slightly hindered by the night fighting. I formed a strong gunline, as did he and we blasted away at each other over the following rounds.
Round 2-4 was lots of shooting. I moved my plague marines up to absorb some damage off my oblits and get in those killer plasma gun shots. He destroyed several rhinos, but the plague marines were able to easily hop into cover and continue laying down the pain.
Round 4-5 He had two squads of bikes come in on my left table edge and start popping shots at my DP. The DP flew over there managing to take out both squads, but was at 1 remaining wound after the exchange. He was finished off by some terminators that were fleeing from my center line.
My other DP was on the right side of the map trying to work down the 3 Dreadnoughts, with the help of my 2 termicide units (1 of which misshaped and died) and a few oblits shooting from the backfield. Despite an overwhelming # of attacks, I didn't manage to kill (only disable) any dreadnoughts and that DP died as well.
The game ended with a major victory in my favor giving me 18 points for a total of 55.
First place had 58 points and 3rd place had 52 points. Overall a great tournament! Can't wait to play in the semi-finals so get ready for some awesome battle reports complete with lists, pictures and more! I'll actually be prepared to gather all that up in preparation for the site.
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