Tread v Empty Ork v Ork (Pic Heavy) 1250

[treadiculous]

So me and Empty got to play another game against each other.

We decided to play 1250 (an addition of 250 per side) as we'd both finished painting new things and wanted to try them out - I had got a few Skorcha Trakks of ebay and Empty had a beautiful Deffkopta..



Tread's Red and Black Grimy Orks:

A notable change was that I swapped the Big Mek for another Warboss with big choppa.. this turned out to be a good idea.

Nobz Mob - 10 Nobz with Big Choppa, Waaargh Banner.
+ 2 Warboss with Big Choppa, One with Bosspole, One with Eavy Armour.

Boyz Mob - 19 Boys + Nob with Big Choppa
Boyz Mob - 19 Boys + Nob with Big Choppa

Rokkit Buggies x 3
Skorcha Trakks x 3

BoomWagon x 2




Empty's Very Yellow Bad Moon Orks:

Warboss Twin-linked shoota, power klaw, boss pole

5 Burna Boyz

7 Nobz 1 Painboy, 2 big choppas

20 Boyz (Shootas) Nob with power klaw and bosspole, 2 Big shootas

20 Boyz (Sluggas)

20 Boyz (Shootas) Nob with power klaw and bosspole, 2 Big shootas

Deff Dread with 4 CCWs, grot riggers

Killa Kan Skorcha

Killa Kan Skorcha

Deffkopta + TL Rokkitz

3 Shoota Buggies

1 Boomwagon (now where'd he get that idea from?).




We set up the table and decided to play capture and control over pitched battle deployment.

We set 4 objectives : the aircraft, the ammo crates, the fuel depot and the wrecked fuel transporter. We agreed that any part of terrain that loked like it was part of these objectives would count so we ended up with quite a large area of the table counting as scoring.

We also decided to play the 'ticker', so one point was scored for each objective held per full turn.

Once again Empty was able to deploy already in contact with 2 oobjectives - even though Tread had won the roll for first turn and deployment. (mainly because that was where we had put the models while getting ready!).




(note that Empty's dread was set up behind his looted wagon in the bottom right of the picture)





Treads Boyz gettin' ready to charge:





Empty's Dread Preparin' to Mince some Ork:






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Treads 1st Turn:

Tread advances, the rokkit buggies zooming under the wing of the aircraft and firing at Empty's Looted Wagon... and amazingly causing it to explode... (sorry)...





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Empty's 1st Turn:

The buggies and units at the top of the table advanced toward the ammo crates (in front of the 'metal bawkses')... meanwhile...



Empty moved his Deffkopta up to the Boom Wagon in the far left corner - having already scouted this meant he could fire at the side armour...



but was unable to hit, so the rest of his shooty mob opened up to show the pilot how its done:



and ripped into the Nobz mob hiding in the dust left by the rokkit buggies and the buggies themselves, and cheered when they blew up a rokkit buggy:



spurred on by thier success, the kopta pilot charges the wagon but fails to hurt it:






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Treads Turn 2, scoring 1 for the ammo crates and 1 for the aircraft



The boyz advance slowed on both flanks having reached the objectives, while the skorchas bravely moved to block the deff dread.



And with some more un-naturally accurate shooting a BoomWagon took out a KillaKan:






And to make matters worse, a deluge of pistol shots from the boyz camping the ammo crates took out the deffkopta... while the other boyz just got bored and decided to scramble about on top of the aircraft:






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Emptys Turn 2, Scoring 1 for the Fuel Depot, 1 for the Fuel Transport
Total 2


Advancing into shoota range Empty's boyz crept up the top flank toward the ammo crates, the slow but sure grind of attrition wearing down the mob that was spread across the objective, slowly reducing the number of the mob hiding in the ruins.



While in the centre his ladz hovered around the objective and tried to inflict damage on the rokkit buggies that were shooting up his deff dread:





Empty's Dread was frustrated and had a good few swings (6) at the Skorchas, unfortunately, (as was the case through out much of the first few turns), luck was against him.




But at the other end of the battlefield, Empty's killaKan had moved into range of the Boyz sitting by the ammo crates, and having set them alight with its skorcha charged them with a clanking roar...





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Treads 3rd Turn, 1 for the aircraft - ammo crates contested.
Total 3

Treads Nobz wasted no time in charging into the fray, hoping to rescue another of their Choppa Nobz from mechanised dissaster...





.. while the boys bt the aircraft just monkeyed about a bit more




and the skorchas took up position on empty's table edge - looking dangerously like they would skorch either the rear armour of the Dread or toast the Boys on the Fuel depot objective:




Empty's Shoota Buggies look over at the massed assault with itchy trigger fingers.. waiting for the fight to finish:




which it does in due coures, a smoking wreck is all that remains.. and the boys consolidate back into the ruins, while the nobs hold the objective.







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Empty's Turn 3, Scoring 1 for Fuel Wreck - Depot Contested
Total 3




With the Nobz in range of many guns it was time to give them a pasting and they were liberally sprayed with bullets, as were the surving Boys hiding in the ruins.. bit by bit whittling the numbers down... unfortunatly Treas Boom Shells had also been in effect, somewhat hampering the boys numbers along the top flank.


The Boys by the Depot charged the Skorha Trakks, even remembering to fire thier pistols at them first, but to no avail, lady luck / Gork / Mork was not favouring Empty at all...





Meanwhile the Dread was finally in charge range of its most irritating opponent on the battlefield..




And his Nob eyed up the opposing Warboss and gave a mighty Below.. and charged... hopelessly outnumbered and praying that Gork would finally respond to his calls...








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Meanwhile, there was more shooting through ruins, pinging of the Metal Bawkses and sending up puffs of smoke in the debris...




Peering through the windows, Empty's boys got ready to charge.. this would be a turn to tip the balance..






WAAAAAAARGH











all the while, a BoomWagon sat watching, its crew taking bets on who would hit who first...




..and, not forgetting the dread:




...or the ladz by the Skorcha Trakks....






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to be finished later...

[treadiculous]

much ferocious charging, waargh screaming, gork praying, chopping, stomping later...


and after a little bit of sneaking by the Warboss, creeping up to the aircraft while everyone was busy fightin'




... all the combats finally came to a close...



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Treads Turn 4, Scoring 1 for the Ammo - Aircraft contested
Total 4


The Skorchas pulled away from the enraged Mob, and with an evil grin realised they had emeged unscathed.. looking at Emptys ladz who were standing on top of their still smoldering fallen comrades they decided to let rip once again, washing the area in flaming fungus fuel until none of Empty's boys were still standing...




The Rokkit Buggies had also come through a fierce round of combat unharmed and set themselves in position to exploit the weak rear armour of the dread.




At the top of the battlefield Empty's Warboss and Shoota Buggies looked over to where his ladz had fallen en masse to the Big Choppa Nobz.. barely managing to wound them..

Empty's Warboss did notice that in the further ruins all he could see was Yellow, so at least he'd won one of the assaults.. and with the remaing byrna boy sneaking up on Treads Choppa Nobz, maybe there was a chance..




Unfortunatly, it was Treads go still, his Warboss Posse surrounded Empty's lads in the ruins and managed to include the burna boy in the multiple charge...







...and over by the aircraft Treadz Boyz noticed that they finally had a target upon which to vent their pent up frustrations, blasting away with pistols before charging Empty's Warboss and Nobz






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Empty Turn 4, Scoring 0, Contesting Aircraft.
Total 3


Moving his Skorchas up to contest the Ammo dump and shoot up the Choppa Nobz which had consolidated back onto the objective, he ensured Tread would be unlikely to score next turn



The fight for the aircraft quickly swung in Empty's favour, mercilessly cutting down swathes of Treadz boyz in a frenzy of blows before they broke and fled the battle



... but things were looking bleak for empty as he had very few units left:





He was able to employ his Grot Riggers and repair the damage caused by te Rokkit Buggies in the previous turn, enabling the Dread to Stomp into them once again, this time managing to inflict significant damage to one of them, turnin it into a smoldering wreck.




With his Warboss and Nobz counting as Troops, He was in control of the Aircraft, and Tread was looking at a difficult fight to clear the Shoota Buggies in order to score a point... Empty found a smile creeping across his face for the first time in a game which had been long uphill struggle...




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Treads Turn 5, Scoring 0 Contesting Ammo Dump
Total 4


Treadz Boyz got ready to charge the Shoota Buggies, but remembering they had pistols decided to fire a few shots first... at which point His Warboss realised he hadn't heard a Boom gun in a while and order bothe Looted Wagons to fire at the Nobz and Warboss over by the Aircraft, amazingly scoring hits and removing all the Nobz of the battlefield in a noisy mist of red and green gore...

...This left Empty with no scoring units left...

.. and Tread with an almost entirely intact unit of Nobz (counting as scoring) on an objective and 2 Warboss trying to hammer the Shoota Buggies into submission.




The end was nigh, as Tread had 2 BoomWagons and was facing a Dread, 3 shoota buggies and a Warboss.. maybe there was a chance but it was slim.

We brought the game to a close at this point an let fiction carry the narrative of the last turn, thus enabling both of us a grand victory in which we thoughoughly defeated the other player!

Final score: Empty 3, Tread 4


I'll post thoughts on tactics and army choice later..

[3ff3ct]

That looks like a great game!

Tactics? Like 'bash the shooty stuff, shoot the bashy stuff'?

[Major Downer]

Treads I have to say I really enjoy your batle reports, I don't normally go onto this part of the forum at all.

I think it's the way you lay out, the turns with the pictures alongside with whats going down.

I love the board too, good sizes I want a game on it when I'm up to scratch

More games!

Major Downer

[emptyhat]

As a result of Tread's Orks capturing that plane it got painted up by his salvage boyz and used in the big Apocalypse game. My Big Mek ended up working for his Warboss and provided him with a dreadmob of Kanz and a couple of other toys to guard his Stompas in the battle.

I think there might be a report for that too around somewhere.