Battle Report Battle Report Triple play on the Mall
Lebanon, NH
Penned by Zorbag - Pictures courtesy of Zorbag
OOOOKay.. Me and Scarp agreed to play a game tonight. Scarpia is still digging his stuff out from his move, so the game was only 1000 pts.
Mission: Omega, Take and Hold
Lists
Zorbag
Warboss Zorbag , PK , Choppa, , 3+, 5+, Trukk
2x Trukkers, Burnas, Choppa, Klaws
10 ard boyz, 4 Big shootas, PK, Trukk
3 x Skorcha buggies
Russ
Scarp'
5 tankbuster, rokkits
Warboss Bob , choppa, pk, 3+, 5+
20 sluggas, Big shootas, PK , choppa, nob
15 shootas, big shootas, choppa nob
20 grots, slaver, squighound, Big shoota on slaver
6 kans, 3 rokkits, 3 big shootas
Scarp chose to go first. I had nothing on the table as escalation was in effect. He was waiting for his kans , everything else was out. Here's the board before models were placed.
Scarpia stomped towards the objective.
Grots as wide as possible, and screening nicely.
I was very lucky on my reserves. And, for those who don't know KoS can start
rolling on turn one. Got my Russ, some skorcha love, Zorbag, and a trukker mob.
I holed behind some cover up and just left the Russ out to fire, as he had nothing
even close to it's range. I aimed for Bob and killed a couple boyz and a grot
instead.
Turn 2
The Kans stomped on. I fired away again with the Russ and blasted a few more boyz , and some grotz away. got another buggy with my reserves. Stayed well hidden , and close to the objective.
I had my reasons for this. In all my games with scarpia, I always rush into early and the rest of his army catches me and eats me when I become mired. ie grots. Since I had last turn I was putting combat off for a bit.
Turn 3.
I got no reserves.Shot up the grots again. And moved up just enough to flame the crap outta them with 2 of my skorcha buggies. Also Zorbag assaulted em and killed 4 of em with his choppa. They failed their leadership but their squighound saved em. The reason I assaulted with only Zorbag was I knew he would be surronded in the scrum in and thus safe from assault. Or at the very least would lure an assualt out from the objective so I could counter charge.
My lucky grot (my son) rolls for me! Thought I would let him have a go at it once. He wouldn't let go of the freakin dice it was hilarious. I had to shake his arm for almost a minute to get him to drop the dice. He's good at shootin big shootas , rolls 5's 75% of the time.
Scarp moved up with his kans , crunched up into the ruined objective a bit more
blasted one of my skorchas apart with big shoota fire from the shoota boyz,
and missed his kan rokkits on my trukk.
A Russ point of view
Turn 4.
The konvict advance continued.
Kan rokkits klang off the russ hull.
The rest of zorbag's boyz hang tight near the objective. No reserves. Zorbag kills more grots... 5 to be exact. They hold. But what's this ... Out of the shadows of the ruin , sneaking up on Zorbag...... His nemesis and greatest foe!
Turn 5
Zorbag remains stuck with the blasted grots! More Russ fire blows away a few more boyz. The ard boyz come in and the last skorcha and trukkers. Everything postions to pile on the objective. The ard boyz jump out in the ruin near the objective and pump big shoota fire into the objective killing one. Russ also fires there killing a couple more. They are still 2 boyz over half. BLAST!
Scarp returns fire to no effect, then assaults Zorbag with Bob!!! WOOHOO Warboss on Warboss. We both opt to powerklaw. He swings , causes four wounds! I save 3 out of 4 with my 5+. I swing back and cause 2 wounds. He fails both saves. 2 Dead Warbosses.
Turn 6.
He backs up when he realizes that the game is variable turn length. He is still within 12 inches of the objective with all units.
I count up and realize I have 6 scoring units to his 5. Everything seems ok..... I run my buggies up to the objective. And try and plink a bit more with the russ just for the hell of it. We roll score was a 3 .. Game over. I WIN!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!
But wait...... upon checking the mission we find that in order to gain VP's the units have to be entirely inside the 12 inch area around the objective. All my units are half in. I thought that would be good enough. In the alpha version it is. Not the omega. Of course all scarpia's were. He didn't know either. I swore a blue streak when I realized this. Dammit all...... Oh well... Laughing now.
Remember ladies and grots read all the mission rules. I had this game in the palm of my hand and let it go due to stupidity.
Konviktz Win!
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