Mission:
Crusade, five objectives
Deployment:
Vanguard strike
Terrain:
A big ruin on left (objective) and right of our table edge, a ruin in the top
right corner (objective), big hill in the centre from realm of battle, two
forests on the other side, top left and top centre (objective). Wreckage middle
left (objective) and wreckage central right (objective)
Warlord
trait Tau: Exemplar of the Selfless Cause
Warlord
trait Tau and orks: Not sure
Night
fight: no
Psychic
powers
Eldar:
guide, perfect timing, presience
Opponents:
Tau
and Orks
Fireblade,
shield drone
3
squads of firewarriors
2
railgun hammerheads with submunitions
Boss,
2+ save and 5++, power klaw
10
Nobs, 5++, feel no pain, a few power claws
Dakkajet
20
boyz, Nob, power klaw
Deployment
We
deployed first, hiding the fire warriors behind the hill claiming an objective.
The Bikes parked up next to them on their left. The farseer and riptide joined
together, and stood next to the skyray in the centre of our board edge, with
the hammerhead cowering behind some ruins which the pathfinders were ready to
scout into.
They
deployed the nobs facing the pathfinder ruin with the boyz to the left and the
fire blade and a unit of fire warriors left of them. Two fire warrior squads
took up residence in the big ruin in their deployment zone, with a hammerhead
hiding behind each corner of that building. The dakkajet was in reserves.
They
failed to seize.
We
kicked off with the riptide leaping forward to take on the fire warriors with
the hammerhead in tow. The skyray swivelled to have a go at the nobs. The
jetbikes moved up to blast the fire warriors. Several fire warriors were downed
but not enough to wipe the squad. A big chunk of boyz were submunitioned into
Mork’s (or possibly Gork’s) embrace. Some of the nobz took wounds.
The
warboss and co advanced on the poor pathfinders. The hammerheads moved up.
There was the characteristic whip crack of railguns but they either failed to
find their mark or were negated by cover saves. The boyz and nobz ran forwards
and the fire warriors killed a couple of jetbikes.
The
pathfinders scampered further up the ruins to avoid being assaulted as the
hammerhead lined up to pie plate the fire warrior team. The riptide rolled
around the corner to gun down some of the nobz or the fire warriors depending.
Our fire warriors moved up to secure the forest objective as the bikes closed
in for the kill. The first of our crisis suits arrived ready to try and blow
holes in a hammerhead. Through various large blasts and shuriken blades the
fire warriors were slain but the fireblade survived (first blood). The crisis
suit tried to silence the hammerhead but was denied by jink. The riptide put
wounds on some of the nobz but most were denied by the boss’s 2+ save and feel
no pain.
The
dakkajet failed to show up. The nobz couldn’t decide whether to assault the pathfinders
or not so stayed put. The boys moved up to put the hurt on the bikes as the
hammerheads and fire warriors prepared to hit my deep striking crisis suit.
Most of the shooting was ineffective with the crisis suit losing a drone and a
wound. The jetbikes were shot down to three models. The hammerhead took a
glancing hit.
The
crimson hunter swooped in and promptly failed to hurt a hammerhead at all. The
other crisis suit landed and with his friend, they were able to stun the other
hammerhead which was bearing down on them. Our hammerhead submunitioned a bunch
of boyz catching the fireblade in the blast and instant deathing him for good
measure (slay the warlord). The blue jetbikes shot across the field to hide in
the ruin in our deployment zone, and the fire warriors moved into the trees.
The riptide finally downed the painboy and swiftly removed most of the other
nobz bar one and the warboss on two wounds.
The
dakkajet soared on, a waaagh was declared, and the orks rushed forwards, the
warboss gunning for the hammerhead. The fire warriors lined up on my suits and
the dakkajet aimed at our backfield squad of fire warriors with the fireblade
attached. Despite an insane number of shots, the dakkajet was denied its kill
by the fire warriors diving for cover, leaving only two dead. The boss charged
and made short work of the hammerhead, but the fire warriors couldn’t remove
the crisis suits. In the assault phase, the dakkajet attempted to ram the
crimson hunter (we weren’t convinced you could do this in normal 40k, but gave
it to them as it was in the death from the skies rules) but failed its
toughness test.
The
crisis suits gave up on the hammerhead and went for the fire warriors who are
troops after all. The skyray prepared to be smashed into tiny pieces by the
warboss. The skyray fired missiles at the dakkajet, successfully velocity
locking it, but it jinked any other damage. The riptide and jetbikes removed
the last of the orks from the central objective. The fire warriors killed the
last nob but couldn’t stop the warboss.
The
dakkajet flew across the field. The warboss smashed the skyray to bits, and the
fire warriors mercilessly gunned down my battlesuits. The opposition
hammerheads tried to shoot down my fireblade’s unit but where unsuccessful. The
dakkajet assaulted the crimson hunter and downed the flier.
Everything
shot the warboss. The guy was rolling like a champ with his 2+ save but the
forest fire warriors eventually downed the roaring xeno. The riptide and bikes
advanced on the central objective, claiming it for the Taudar Empire.
Their
last turn consisted of them trying to remove the jetbikes from the objective,
but bolstered by the farseer joining the unit they held.
Final
score: Taudar 15 (four objectives, slay the warlord, line breaker, first blood)
Tau Orks 3 (one objective)
After
game thoughts
This
was an odd game. We had some difficulty with luck at times but then again so
did our opponents. I think our deployment was quite poor, we deployed too
heavily on the right, and got ourselves trapped in a corner because of it. In
the end we pulled through though.
Unit
of the match: jetbikes. Jumping around, picking off units, claiming objectives
and even a threat to light tanks, jetbikes are awesome.
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