Saturday, June 12, 2010

Battle report #5a - Nurgle Wiped Out!

This will actually be 2 reports in one. Went head-to-head against a marine force in a 2 game showdown. First game resulted in Nurgle's total annihilation due to several tactical errors, but I managed to squeeze out a draw from the second despite the worst possible dice rolls imaginable. My opponent was a pleasure to play against as he was an excellent tactician. This made for two very challenging games.
Ça va être 2 rapports en un. J'ai affronté un force de marine dans un match de deux parties. J'ai été anéantir durant le premier partie mais J'ai réussi à faire un nul au deuxième. Mon adversiare m'a donné un bon défi dû à il est un trés bon tacticien.

The 1st game was Annihilation/Spearhead. Here was the initial setup for both sides:
Le premier partie étais Annihilation/Spearhead. Voici le setup pour les deux adversaires:



Marine Setup


Nurgle Setup


My main mistake was to focus all my heavy firepower on my opponent's land raider, a largely futile effort that wasted 4 lascannon shots a round. Had I succeeded, I would have received 1 point when there were far easier targets on the table.

Mon erreur majeur étais mon gaspillage de la fortitude des armes de mon Land Raider et Obliterators en éssais de fracassé son Land Raider. Il existe des objectifs plus faciles.

Tempting Target
Tentation

My second mistake was to split my forces up and spread them all over the table again. My opponent had his firepower concentrated and so he was clearing a unit a turn.

Mon deuxième erreur étais que j'ai trop separés mes unités. Mon adversaire a détruit un par tour avec sa puissance de feu concentré.



Chosen taking a pounding
Les Chosen battu

My third mistake was to take my plague marines out too early. I gambled the land raider and the obliterators could pop the bunker and then my PMs could flame the survivors. It didn't happen and I was left with the desperate gambit of assaulting a bunker with a lone survivor (which actually went pretty well, all things considered). A full squad would have done some serious damage.

Ma troisième erreur étais que j'ai sorti trop tôt de mon rhino avec les plague marines. J'ai risqué que mon LR et Oblits peu fassent tombé le bunker pour que mes PM peu fassent un SM barbecue avec leurs flamers. Mais ça se ne produit pas. Finalement j'ai étais laisser avec un PM qui a affronté les SM tout seule. Un squad au complet réussiraient plus facilement.


Plague Marines are buttkickers in close combat even when they go solo
Les PMs: pas pire, même solo

My final mistake was to send in the deepstrikers (Plague princess & Termies) into the thick of it where they received the full wrath of a vindicator, predator and squad of tacticals. I hate the 'sit-and-wait-to-be-annihilated' rule for deepstrikers. To be fair to myself, it was a gamble that the termies would be able to dust the vindicator with their plasma. Unfortunately my rolls were abysmal.

Mon dernier erreur fatale étais de l'envoyé mes deepstrikers en face de trop des fusils peu amical (un Vindicator, un Predator, et un escouade tactique). Je déteste le réglement que les deepstrikers dois attendre un tour. J'ai risqué que mon squad de Termies peu détruise le Vindicator mais ça n'a pas marché dû à mes jeté de dés misérables.

Bad landing
Mal placé

Things that went well were few and far between. I kept my 2nd Chosen squad alive until the final turn by hiding them in the bunker. They took severe punishment from the vindicator, turn after turn but didn't die until I took them out.

Il n'y a pas tellement de bonnes nouvelles de Nurgle. Malgré, j'ai gardé ma deuxième escouade Chosen vivant en se cacher dans le bunker. Le vindicator a se secoué quelque fois mais les Chosen n'étais pas endommagé de que je les sortent.

Another shaken/stunned roll? Where's the aceteminophen?
Secoué encore? C'est ou l'acetiminophen?


Also, my cheapie marine squad took down a dreadnought with their meltas. They were very effective in both games.

Comme bonus, mes CSM pas cher a planté un dread avec leurs Meltas. Je l'ai trouvé efficace dans les deux parties.

My 'expendable' squad was the most effective
Dread planté

The end result, Nurgle wipeout.

Résultat: Nurgle anéanti!

Game 2

Retrospective


Scratchbuilding and painting:

Warhound

Plague Reaper

Warhound's Necrotic Companions

Fellios the Fallen and cohorts

New table

Chaos Lord

Chosen squad

Scratchbuilt Greater Daemon

Scratchbuilt Rhino

Epic Titans

Team game battle reports

Heretics of the Broken Dawn 2 x2

Lady Pestilence’s' 1st Outing

Regular Battle reports

Scrapyard Blues

Making Don’s BA sweat

First time facing pure Necrons

Christmas with the Greenskins

Don’s IG on a new board

Nurgle Annihilated by Blood Angels

1st time versus Tarkand

Mexican standoff: 2nd Game vs. Tarkand

Nurgle Downs the Sisters

Faceoff with the Lions of Achaea on a brand new board

Tight match against Corbeau’s Nids

The death of Pedro Kantor

Apocalypse battle reports

La Chute de Dominus Org (Fr.)

Fall of Dominus Org (Eng.)

The betrayal of Fellios and the fall of Engel Sarg

Chester’s first outing and first time going Nuclear!

Chester gets schooled by the Eldar!

Experimental Games

NERFed Battle with the Tau

Convergence

Easter Egg hunt

Super Heavy Scrum

1st Spearhead Match

A tenuous alliance

Events

Chaos Ludik 2011!

Storms Cityfight Tournament: part 2

Storms Cityfight Tournament: part 1

’Ard Boyz Practice Match against Valkom’s IG

Game Summit

Random stuff

Gorillapod tripod test with remote

Warhammer in a nutshell

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