Anyway, he ended up going the
same list. I wanted to play my 1750
Dark Angels Hawk Lords that had lots of Bikes and Captain Falcon in a Land Speeder, and Assault Terminators with Heavy Flamers. But, he was adamant in playing 1000 points.
I don't know why, perhaps he knows that his bulls* list doesn't work over 1000 points? Anyway, the fact that he was playing the exact same list, for friendly games (rather than changing it every week to try out new things like normal people), maybe he probably wasn't a good player? Or hadn't yet found a good 'internet list' that he could copy for 1750. :smallwink:
Anyway, if he was a normal person, he would've changed his list so I don't know what his exact tactics are.
Anyway, we rolled up for Mission and Deployment. Annhilation. Again. He seemed happy about that. Deployment was Spearhead. Again. Apparently the Emperor wants the rematch to actually count. I rolled for first deployment. I chose to deploy in the corner that gave my opponent the least amount of cover. Common mistake in Spearhead is that a lot of people choose the quarter that has the most amount of cover for themselves.
Due to being a bastard, that meant that his side of the board had no LoS blockers and a small block of rocks. I deployed Ultionis right the corner, and I put his Chooser of the Slain slightly off-centre of the board in a building where it could see pretty much the entire battlefield. The Long Fangs went just in front of Ultionis. Keep in mind that I was away from terrain of any sort.
I then explained that I was attaching my Wolf Guard to units (this takes like, ten minutes if you have more than say, five), he didn't seem particularly interested.
"Where's your Vindicator? No Thunderfire? I beat your Scouts already. This will be so easy."
"...I don't have Scouts."
"Wait...What?"
"This is the part where I declare my other three units in Reserves in Drop Pods."
"Hah! Three units in Reserve? Do you even have a guy who gives you bonuses like Swarmlord?"
"No."
"Hah! That's dumb. You're never going to get your units in."
"Okay."
Because there was no cover to be had, he pushed his deployment with Swarmlord and a unit of Hormagaunts, and he deployed his other Hormagaunt unit in the rocks for cover. So, he failed the Seize the Initiative roll, and he couldn't read my p-p-p-poker face.
So, my first turn, because I have an odd number of Drop Pods like a clever person, I brought down both units with the Flamers in. What he didn't realise was that by pushing his Deployment Zone (DZ), he left his whole rear empty. Enter a Drop Pod each right next to both of his units Hormagaunts.
The Long Fangs opened fire on Swarmlord. 5 Krak Rockets = 4 Wounds to Swarmlord. Ultionis began a'charging his laser. Swarmlord tried to cloud his mind with Shadow, except Ultionis had been fighting Swarmlord for a whole week (the Sergeant said Ultionis had been gone for months, but, either time goes differently in the Warp, or Time Flies when you're having fun :smallwink:), and Ultionis had developed his Avenger attack to streak across kilometres because closing with Swarmlord hadn't ended well the last time.
Swarmlord had to check is psi-tracker...Ultionis' power level was breaking through the Shadow of the Warp, delving straight for the source. Swarmlord must have been retarded or something, didn't he know that he was dealing with a Chaneller of the G*d Damn Emperor?
What does the psi-tracker say? 9001.
Ka...Me...Ha...Me....Ultionis rolls a '6' for his 'Assault D6' roll...HA! The Chooser of the Slain gives Ultionis a Ballistic Skill of 5. Saga of the Beastslayer gives him re-rolls to hit vs. Monstrous Creatures. 6 hits. Captain Falcon in a Land Speeder would be proud. At S7, Ultionis was wounding Swarmlord on 3s. 5 Wounds.
Swarmlord fails four 3+ saves that even the Space Marines are embarrassed for him.
(Seriously, that was all luck {because Statistics aren't real}. Not that my opponent saw it that way).
Swarmlord is downed in the first turn. Kill Point the first.
From there, the Grey Hunters open up Rapid Fire Bolters and Flamers into the units of Hormagaunts. Both units break on Ld 6 and run.
On his first turn, the Hormagaunts can't rally because there's Drop Pods within 6" and they keep running.
My second turn. The Grey Hunters chase down the Hormagaunts and put more Bolters and Flamers into the Hormagaunts. The other unit isn't even in cover anymore and doesn't get cover saves from the Bolters anymore.
Kill Points the second and third.
I didn't even get to put Large Blast Deathwind Launchers into his Hormagaunts. :smallfrown:
His second turn, he rolled a 3 and 4 for his Reserves. He got happy, until I pointed out that Swarmlord wasn't a b0rked Space Marine Unique, and his abilities don't work if he's dead. So, his Wrahgl Genestealers came onto the board fairly far away because I'd put my Long Fangs and Ultionis in the corner away from terrain.
My third turn. My third squad of Grey Hunters Dropped down near terrain. And at least tried to put in a few Bolter rounds into the 'Stealers. The Grey Hunters had moved towards my deployment zone to rendezvous with Ultionis, the lost Librarian.
The Long Fangs put Frag Missiles into the 'Stealers killing another couple. Then Ultionis let off an Earthquake to screw with the Genestealers killing the rest bar two. To their credit, they're Ld10.
His third turn, the Zoanthropes came down next to the Long Fangs and Ultionis. They tried to use their psychic powers. Ultionis blocked one with his hat, and failed the other (50:50 is the only reliable statistic), however, the AP3 Blast went wide and hit Ultionis instead of the Long Fangs. But, with a Power Level of over Nine Thousand, Ultionis can simply bat away crap fireballs like that, well, that or Terminator Armour is awesome. I vote both.
The Genestealers tried to move to Assault the Melta-Hunters, one died due to Ultionis' Earthquake screwing them royally. The 'Stealer barely made it into Assault. He killed one.
The Grey Hunters, having an ex-Deathwatch member (those who remember, I represent Mark of the Wulfen with a Deathwatch pad on the right shoulder), who had fought xenos all over the place, showed the Genestealer how it was really done, by rolling a '4' for his attacks. And killing it.
Kill Point the fourth.
On my fourth turn, the Grey Hunters moved towards the Zoanthropes letting off some Melta shots, killing one. The Long Fangs split their fire, two Krak rockets going to the Spore, and three going to the Zoanthropes.
The Zoanthrope died, and the Spore, being a T4 Monstrous Creature is secretly a joke. Kill Points the fifth and sixth.
End.
