Post by 3ff3ct on Mar 10, 2010 1:38:54 GMT -5
Si this was the first game I had on ly new board. I got my good friend Chris (fitness fanatic, Tai Kwon Do instructor and general nice guy) round to see how the board handled.
We went for a standard mission, rolling for Anihilation and Spearhead deployment. My favourites!
My set up:
Thoughts were for the furthermost unit of Hgaunts to go straight up the middle with tyrant and tryant guard, with Muchy fex (TL Devourers) and 2nd hgaunts flanking right, Bitey fex (2x Scything Talons) and Devourer Gaunts and warriors off to the left.
Chris stuck his Long Fangs waaaay back on the hill, grey hunters to protect flanks, blood claws with Logan Grimmnar and a wolfguard right in my face (damn him!) and deep striking droppod/Bjorn the fell handed in reserve
I got to go first. Everything moved full pelt towards the Space Wolves, with the first wave of Hormagaunts falling short of combat with Logan and the Blood Claws by 1"!!!!
Chris, no surprise, moved forward Logan, who shot at the approaching Hgaunts. Bjorn deepstuck in, perilously close to the table edge on my right flank, threatening Munchy and the Tyrant.
The Long Fangs and one squad of Grey Hunters turned their sights on the Hgaunts, dropping 9 of them, two of which were evaporated by Plasma cannon fire as they found an opportune moment to mate.
Bjorn also fired into the side of Munchy, inflicting a wound on the massive beast.
Shouting a battlecry, logan and the bloodclaws charged forward, only to fall short by 1"! what are the chances!
Again the swarm surged forward, with only the Tyranid warriors shooting their deathspitters into the stalling Blood Claws. 3 died to the fire.
Enraged by the wound it suffered, Muchy turned towards Bjorn and headed straight towards him.
The Hgaunts finally charged into combat with Logan and the Blood Claws, and despite recieving the best end on 33 attacks, only 3 of the Blood Claws died, leaving the rest of them to cleave through the remaining 11 hgaunts! The Wolf Guard with Wolf Claws had a field day, dropping 4 of them!
However, Logan and the survivors where now stuck between a rock and a hard place.....
Bjorn, however, was not so lucky. An enraged Munchy charged in, and inflicted one glance and 3 pens! One pen was turned aside by his mighty armour, however Munchy did what he did best, devouring the 10 millenia old squidge resting inside the armoured sarcophagus. Bjorn fell to the ground as a smoking wreak....
Chris's turn, and Logan fancied his chances against the Carnifex, so he and the blood claws moved after the lumbering beast.
And then..... The phone rang and it was the nursery. Baby Bear wasn't very well so he needed picking up. Game abandoned! Damn it!
Chris and I were gutted as it was looking like our usual epic clashes, although we both agreed that I'd smash him, and me being sporting called a draw as I wanted to thrash him fair and square.
Watch this space for the rematch!
We went for a standard mission, rolling for Anihilation and Spearhead deployment. My favourites!
My set up:
Thoughts were for the furthermost unit of Hgaunts to go straight up the middle with tyrant and tryant guard, with Muchy fex (TL Devourers) and 2nd hgaunts flanking right, Bitey fex (2x Scything Talons) and Devourer Gaunts and warriors off to the left.
Chris stuck his Long Fangs waaaay back on the hill, grey hunters to protect flanks, blood claws with Logan Grimmnar and a wolfguard right in my face (damn him!) and deep striking droppod/Bjorn the fell handed in reserve
I got to go first. Everything moved full pelt towards the Space Wolves, with the first wave of Hormagaunts falling short of combat with Logan and the Blood Claws by 1"!!!!
Chris, no surprise, moved forward Logan, who shot at the approaching Hgaunts. Bjorn deepstuck in, perilously close to the table edge on my right flank, threatening Munchy and the Tyrant.
The Long Fangs and one squad of Grey Hunters turned their sights on the Hgaunts, dropping 9 of them, two of which were evaporated by Plasma cannon fire as they found an opportune moment to mate.
Bjorn also fired into the side of Munchy, inflicting a wound on the massive beast.
Shouting a battlecry, logan and the bloodclaws charged forward, only to fall short by 1"! what are the chances!
Again the swarm surged forward, with only the Tyranid warriors shooting their deathspitters into the stalling Blood Claws. 3 died to the fire.
Enraged by the wound it suffered, Muchy turned towards Bjorn and headed straight towards him.
The Hgaunts finally charged into combat with Logan and the Blood Claws, and despite recieving the best end on 33 attacks, only 3 of the Blood Claws died, leaving the rest of them to cleave through the remaining 11 hgaunts! The Wolf Guard with Wolf Claws had a field day, dropping 4 of them!
However, Logan and the survivors where now stuck between a rock and a hard place.....
Bjorn, however, was not so lucky. An enraged Munchy charged in, and inflicted one glance and 3 pens! One pen was turned aside by his mighty armour, however Munchy did what he did best, devouring the 10 millenia old squidge resting inside the armoured sarcophagus. Bjorn fell to the ground as a smoking wreak....
Chris's turn, and Logan fancied his chances against the Carnifex, so he and the blood claws moved after the lumbering beast.
And then..... The phone rang and it was the nursery. Baby Bear wasn't very well so he needed picking up. Game abandoned! Damn it!
Chris and I were gutted as it was looking like our usual epic clashes, although we both agreed that I'd smash him, and me being sporting called a draw as I wanted to thrash him fair and square.
Watch this space for the rematch!
Much, much cheaper for Hgaunts, hence so many of them.