Orks vs Tau! Last Battle Report at 500 points.

Good morning readers.

 

Today I have the final 500 point game I was to play in the league.  For this mission my opponent was the very friendly Tau player Chase. 

 

 

 

Chase's Tau Army.  Two squads of Fire Warriors, a Broadside Battlesuit, two Crisis Battlesuits, and one Tau Commander

 

 

My Bad Moonz Boyz.  Two squads of 20 boyz and a Warboss.

 

 

A Tau Recon Element finds a chance encounter with an Ork Warband.

 

 

 

The mission was "The Relic".  I brought an objective marker so we used my Ork Totem as "The Relic".  Chase was lucky enough to steal the intiative from me so he took the first turn.



 

 

Chase and the magic hands rolling some amazing dice rolls.

 

 

I made the rookie mistake of not attaching my warboss to one of the Boyz squads.  His Broadside took advantage by Instant Killing him with a rail gun shot right in the face. 

 

 

*BOOM! HEADSHOT*

 

 

The Ork Boyz decide that rail gun rounds and heads don't mix well, so they sprint to cover

 

 

After losing my Warboss my plan is to simply focus on capturing the relic and keeping it in cover with my other squad of boyz to charge if he got too close.  I took some light fire and sustained small loses but primed myself to get into better position.

 

 

Chase continues to punish my boyz by having his Crisis suits hop in and out of cover to fire on my boyz.  Very true to Tau nature.





 

 

 

 

Ork Boyz capture the relic!

 

 

I had a feeling I was going to take some losses, but I had enough to buffer the damage.  I planned on relocating the relic to the safety of cover, but Chase had other plans.  His Fire Warriors ate their wheaties that day and killed about 6 boyz each squad, and his battle suits grinded down the Relic holding squad to about half!!!  Real good dice rolls.  I was counting on him to retreat and hoping he would roll low, but of course he didn't.  If he did, he would have been in charge range and the bodies would have stacked. 

 

 

By this time I realized I sustained too many loses to successfully win the game, so I concede by top of turn 4.

 

 

Lesson of the game- PUT YOUR WARLORD IN A SQUAD!!!!!

 

 

Very fun game despite being one sided.  Chase was a great opponent and I am having a blast in the league.  

500 Pt 6th edition battle

Good morning fans!

 

Today I am posting a battle report.  A few weeks old, but this is my first 6th edition game and my first game in the league! I was super excited because on paper sixth edition looks to be the BEST edition of the rules yet!  Without further adeu...

 

 

Below pictured is my army.. 500 points.  

 

 

 

 

 

Below pictured is my opponents army.  The Salamanders.  Lots of respect for my opponent.  Both of our first games of 6th edition.

 



 

 

 

 

Below is my squad of boyz charging a tactical squad of Space Marines Salamanders.  It is turn two and I declared my WAAAGH on him.  Fleet of foot is really nice for re rolling charge distance. 

 

 

 

 

Turn two, charing against his dreadnaught.  I didn't want him to keep popping round off me.  Unfortunately this brute didn't want to go down without a fight so he held me off for 3 turns while I glanced him to death.

 

 

 

 

Turn three- His Sergeant challenged me to single combat and lost.  After my boyz killed a few of his marines he used "and they shall know no fear" and retreated.  Next turn his marines opened fire on mine and rapid fired their bolters rather than deny me the charge.

 

 

 

My Warboss finally enters the fray.  He single handedly destroyed this entire squad over the course of two turns.



 

 

 

 

After the tactical marines defeat my first squad of boyz, my survivors killed the dreadnaught and regroup on my warboss.  This is the final turn of the game (turn 4) and my opponents last space marine left standing.  Obviously, he stood no chance and in this capture points mission, I killed his army to the last man.  At least he had honor.  

 

 

 

 

And there you have it ladies and gentlemen!  6th edition is wonderful!  Random charge works EXCELLENT with WAAAGH and fleet of foot.  I closed the distance quickly with it and was engaged in close combat by turn two.  I am going to continue to run a horde army list in the 1000 points that is to come.  But I am going to run a Big Mek to give a cover save!!!!  This would help greatly.  The mission called for night fighting which saved my ass. 

 

 

Thank you again for viewing.  Hope you enjoyed it.  I will be a lot more in depth for the 1000 point battle.  So far I have an undefeated streak with my army.  More pictures coming tomorrow.  I am almost done painting the army.