'Ard Boyz Round 3 CSM Vrs Dark Angels: Deathwing

  So I don't have my opponents list for this round either.  My list can be found here...

http://the40kway.blogspot.com/2011/08/2012-ard-boyz-list.html

  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. 

'Ard Boyz Rnd 2 Bat Rep CSM Vs Blood Angels

So round 2 went well for me, very well.  I won the roll and decided to go first so I could pick the good table quarter that had a two tier tall tower.  The opposite corner just so happened to be very limited on terrain with a big bulky hill that really limited his deployment.  I set up 6 oblits on the tower and 3 more in cover nearby.  Put my rhinos out front, DP's stayed out of LOS and my noise marines sat in cover at the base of the tower. 

I don't actually have my round 2 opponents list, but he was running a footslogging jump pack BA troop list with no vehicles or dreadnoughts.  Lots of deepstrikers and jump infantry. 

Round 1 I turned up the heat and laid down some pain, with assorted lascannon, plasma cannon and a blastmaster shot I took out 4-5 mEQs and shook him up a bit.  He was clearly concerned by his positioning and my heavily fortified tower and he had no clue what to do, stating "I have no clue what to do".  So he flew a unit of 10 guys towards me to try and get to my oblits in cover.  I don't think he was thinking clearly because he put them in the middle of nowhere. Needless to say that unit was completely destroyed in the following round.

Round 2-3 So I destroy about 12 more guys as he continues to deepstrike guys, not around me, but in midfield in cover.  They came in 1 by 1 and slowly got picked off.   By the end of round 3, I had destroyed over 20 guys and had only lost 1 obliterator and 2 plague marines to do plasma over-heats. I had a very significant lead and he was still positioned terribly.

Round 4-5 I continued to blast away entire groups of units with plasma cannons and deepstriked 2 squads of termicides in his back field(which were promptly destroyed by his HQ unit, which worked in my favor because he split his army more and the melta termicides were almost useless since he had zero vehicles to explode.)  I started moving my plagues and daemon princes in position to gain control of the objectives.  I ended the game holding 3/5 objectives including the center, my own and the one to my right.  My opponent held zero objectives give me 7 points to his zero resulting in a massacre and a cool 22 points for 37 total.  At this point I was in around 1-3rd place.  More to come! Round 3 versus Dark Angels: Deathwing! My toughest match!!

2012 'Ard Boyz List

So I took 2nd place at 'Ard Boyz with my Chaos Space Marines Army.  Here is my list...

HQ:
Daemon Prince
 Wings
 Mark of Nurgle
 Warptime

Daemon Prince
 Wings
 Mark of Nurgle
 Warptime

Heavy Support:
3x Obliterators
3x Obliterators
3x Obliterators

Elites:
3x Terminators
 3x Combi-Melta

3x Terminators
 3x Combi-Melta

Troops:
7x Plague Marines
 Plague Champion
  Powerfist
 2x Plasma Gun
 Rhino W/Extra Armor

7x Plague Marines
 Plague Champion
  Powerfist
 2x Plasma Gun
 Rhino W/Extra Armor

7x Plague Marines
 Plague Champion
  Powerfist
 2x Plasma Gun
 Rhino W/Extra Armor

7x Plague Marines
 Plague Champion
  Powerfist
 2x Melta Gun
 Rhino W/Extra Armor

5x Noise Marines
 Blastmaster

Total: 2489

So thats the list, it worked like a charm. I briefly contemplated running the infamous Lash Princes, which really works great and would have been very good in certain situations, but I ended up going with nurgle/warptime for the extra survivability and the ability to deal with the large amount of vehicles that are usually at these tournaments. 

The list is fairly standard DP, Oblits, Plagues.  I ran 3x plague units with plasma guns which are simply amazing.  Never under-estimate 12x str 7 ap2 shots a turn.   The one unit with 2x meltagun was just about worthless, the 12" range on the melta really sucks, by the time you get that close your getting assaulted or blown up, going to leave the melta guns at home next time and run 4 units of plagues all with plasma guns.  For anti-AV I have 2x3 suicide termies with combi-meltas and 9 oblits, thats good enough for most lists.  I may try to put a combi-melta on each rhino instead of the extra-armor to make up a little more anti-av.

Whats that random noise marines squad doing?? Meh, point filler and objective camper with a 48" range good ap blast to take down mEQs.  I just keep him at my home base or get him to the closest objective possible.  This guy really didn't do much killing, but having that cheap unit sitting on my objective to score those points in round two was great. It freed up all 4 plague squads to move out, do some damage and get the other objectives. 

I ended up with a total score of 55 points, 1st place had 58 points and 3rd place had 52 points.  Pretty close top 3 overall...

I'll go over a very brief synapses of each round and later on tonight/tomorrow I'll post a breakdown of each round and opponent.

My first round I had a minor victory racking up 15 points against Eldar.  He was running a modified Mechdar list. He killed my traitor and kept his zooming around the battlefield, I just could not hit/kill/stun those transports! Luckily I did extremely will on kill points taking out almost his entire army, whereas he killed very little of mine. 

Second round was Jumppack/Deepstriking Blood Angels with tons of troops and no vehicles.  Needless to say 9 plasma cannons and 12 plasma guns pretty much obliterated this army giving me a massacre and racking up a cool 22 points giving me 37 total and putting me around 2nd or 3rd overall after 2nd round.

Third round was Dark Angels: Deathwing with 3 dreadnoughts and so many terminators!! Good thing termies hate plasma, this was my toughest round by far.  I didn't really have a plan going into the match because I was concerned about all the massive armor and storm shields, and a stranger walked up saying "Just remember, when you miss, just shoot again". A simple statement, but for some reason that stuck with me throughout the match, I stayed dilligent and really focused fired at only 1-2 units at a time, finishing them off and then moving on to the next.  Gotta say it really worked out... greater details of this awesome match to come.  Oh, Major victory 18 points. 

Stay tuned for details of each match!!