Post by rpf on Jun 10, 2014 7:29:33 GMT -5
My wife and I finally took her DE army out for a spin against the CSM. Took 18 reavers in 3 groups of 6 each with 2 blasters and a caltrop, 3 warrior squads on raiders with racks and such, 3 haemonci as token carriers and the Duke, 1 ravager and 2 void ravens.
We squared off against 2 predators, a rhino full of marines, two groups of spawn, a demon prince, and I forget the rest.
She took over command of the army after I built the list. She won table side and deployed first and took first turn. We played Maelstrom mission 2 which seems to avoid a lot of the benny hill objective grabbing issues. She managed to pull City Fighter for her warlord trait giving the army move through cover (ruins) and stealth (ruins) which worked out well with two ruins to the left of the deployment zone.
After an opening round of dark lance fire that did nothing, I knew things were going to go bad. The reavers had nowhere to land after their bladevane attacks so werent' able to do much. I think in total first turn her shooting killed a model.
The predators opened up and that took out one of the raiders, the ravager spent the game tucked into the ruin making far too many cover saves until near the end but being unable to land a kill shot.
the chaos spawn basically ate the army.
The list has been reworked, dropped the blasters, added a second caltrop after reading the codex more carefully. swapped a voidraven for a ravager to put more lances on table on turn one and left out the haemonculi. we'll see how things go next time.
We squared off against 2 predators, a rhino full of marines, two groups of spawn, a demon prince, and I forget the rest.
She took over command of the army after I built the list. She won table side and deployed first and took first turn. We played Maelstrom mission 2 which seems to avoid a lot of the benny hill objective grabbing issues. She managed to pull City Fighter for her warlord trait giving the army move through cover (ruins) and stealth (ruins) which worked out well with two ruins to the left of the deployment zone.
After an opening round of dark lance fire that did nothing, I knew things were going to go bad. The reavers had nowhere to land after their bladevane attacks so werent' able to do much. I think in total first turn her shooting killed a model.
The predators opened up and that took out one of the raiders, the ravager spent the game tucked into the ruin making far too many cover saves until near the end but being unable to land a kill shot.
the chaos spawn basically ate the army.
The list has been reworked, dropped the blasters, added a second caltrop after reading the codex more carefully. swapped a voidraven for a ravager to put more lances on table on turn one and left out the haemonculi. we'll see how things go next time.