So kenshin620 and I had our first battle today. Being our first game, we forgot and misunderstood a few rules and steps, but we corrected it as we went along. He used his SM and karskin allies, and I used my chaos. We used the army lists from the topics we already put up if you want to look. So we started each on one side of a table and played an annilation match.
A small lookout on the steup.
Another look at kenshin’s forces.
And about then, I forgot to take more pictures for awhile, but here’s about the gist of what happened: Kenshin used his krak missiles and sniper scouts to kill off some of my berserkers, chosens, and marines. I was busy trying to get my forces near to shoot, save for one shot of the battlecannon defiler, killing three assault marines (he had them kinda close…like base touching close). Then he came forth with his chimera and assault marines and jump pack chaplain to attack my berserkers and marines, killing off quite a few. Then he destroyed my defiler, taking out my vehicle while also blocking a passage, forcing my berserkers to have to go around it. Then my chaos lord advanced…to allow my terminators to deepstrike 6” from him (he had a personal icon). That’s about when the battle turned around into my favor. So a few losses of marines on both sides, assault marines, a few termies gone, and we had this:
Everyone was starting to get into CC.
A closer look at kenshin’s surrounded chaplain.
I hid my berserkers behind my defiler to protect them from further missile and sniper attacks, but hindering their usefulness.
kenshin’s annoying snipers. They lost their strength though in the later stages when I began to advance on them.
in about two more turns or so, I had decimated kenshin’s SM and then advanced on his chimera with my termies. Only one could hurt it, termie with a chainfist.
Now this is about what we had then. Kenshin then began to retreat his last squad of marines (offscreen) and karskin to try and regroup, but my berserkers were on their tail and assaulting and pretty much this is when kenshin saw that his karskins are crap. Termies are still trying to take care of the chimera, just stunned it so it couldn’t attack my berserkers. My last chosen and chaos lord are attempting to assault his sniper scouts, which started to hit less and less. Chaos SM are supporting with a heavy bolter.
My berserkers chasing kenshin’s kasrkins. They assaulted and drove them into a retreat.
About that time, Kenshin gave up. It was inevitable anyway. First battle though, so it doesn’t really count too much…cept he now knows he needs to get something to counter my termies.
In case your wondering, concepts we got confused on or forgot were:
-morale checks
-armor piercing and invulnerable saves
-assaulting vehicles
-pinning
-cover save
-moving and shooting