A fight to Remeber

[Deleted]

My Friend and i decided to have a Mass fight, he was going to fit as many orks on the field as possible with out going over the force organisation. with unlimited points availabel. he got around 250 boys on the table. i challenged him to a fight using my imperial guard same rules applied. i managed to get 490 guard on the field. niether of us used any upgrades whatsoever. he had first turn he waaaaaged but had bad rolls. he couldnt manage to get into CC. so i took the initiative and fired 490 las shots into the boys, took out a dang pretty good chunk of em too. then. i charged and i heard something i never expected to hear from an ork player. they overwhelmed me in CC. i was laughing so hard. . o and sorry if this is in the wrong section i couldnt find the battle reports section.

[Turtleboy(AWOL)]

I'll move it there for you, but awesome tale! so I take it you won?

[angelusmortis]

And to think someone here had a thread stating a concern with what to do with Orks. Answer is simply really. Do what the IG always have done. Jam bodies down his throat till he chokes on them. ;D

[Deleted]

lol, yep. prolly on of the funniest victories ive ever had. thank you.

[Deleted]

Very good. When fighting Orks apply the basic tactic of beat 'em at their own game. Good grief, 490 guard - it must have taken you a week to make the rapid fire rolls and then another to resolve the charge attack. Over that sort of numbers we have to assume exactly 50%, so you killed 82 men on the charge and 82 in close combat. What damage would the overwhelm add ... errrr ... [brain fused]

[Rolling Thunder]

Actually, a footslogging IG army has a distinct advantage over an ork army.

A) your opponent will take transports, in which case you will seriously outnumber him.

B) Your opponent will attempt to footslog across the board, thus giving you masses of time to shoot his army into bitesize pieces.

C) Your opponent will attempt to charge quickly, footslog AND shoot at you. In which case, you trash the transports, trash the guns and then wipe out his footsloggers. in that order.

D) Your opponent will sink so many points into 'elite' units in the hope of reaching your lines. You smile, nod, and flatten him with a half-dozen ordanance blasts. And mop up with the ol' flashlight.

[Deleted]

I'm planning on slowly building up an all-Infantry IG army, built around stationary Fire Support squads and mobile platoons with Missile Launchers and Grenade Launchers.

[Woz]

I didn't think you could charge into CC after firing a rapid fire weapon?

[cathedralsquares]

Only against the target you rapid-fire on.

[Woz]

May 17, 2008 2:16:30 GMT -5 cathedralsquares said:

Only against the target you rapid-fire on.

Re read the rules on Rapid fire weapons (pg 29 in the rule book) third paragraph.

[Deleted]

you cannot rapid fire and assault, its one or the other

[Deleted]

You can fire assault weapons and then assault - it's the one advantage of the shotgun (otherwise a bit rubbish).

[Woz]

But you can't fire "rapid fire" weapons (las guns, bolters etc) then assault.

[Rolling Thunder]

Which is a good thing for us.

[lordcastellenjon]

or you jsut fire a single shot witch then makes it a assult class weapon (at least thats my understanding of it)

[GuardsmanPatch]

Errr, in a word, no. Rapid fire weapons are rapid fire weapons. Assault weapons are assault weapons.
But nice idea though