tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818493363650318866.post5570888136632791941..comments2023-09-05T10:46:40.430-04:00Comments on Khepri's Eternal Legion: Thousand Sons Terminators Part 4Dameon Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04510724407542214221noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818493363650318866.post-6941189957440989482010-02-25T15:27:15.988-05:002010-02-25T15:27:15.988-05:00The point was, I should not have engaged the Dread...The point was, I should not have engaged the Dread at all.<br /><br />Whether by hook or crook, you convinced me to go after the Dread not b/c I couldn't, but b/c you swore he was w/in 3" of the objective. While super critical if I was trying to capture it, I wasn't, and forgot that, so swung straken out to punch the dread instead of just chomping more 1k sons. So, take Straken's 4 power weapon wounds inflicted into the squad, and take away the dread's 2 kills + 1 explosion kill (on strak's squad), and you've got a 5 swing on the combat res.<br /><br />Actually, to be fair, straken's results on a WS vehicle would have come into play, so it would have been less of a swing - forgot those counted for res. It simply would have been one more for his wound (the one that 2 x 2'ed and so didn't do anything to the dread), and 3 more for the ones taht wouldn't have died, still enough of a swing for a statistical clear.<br /><br />In any event, truths abound.Mike Brandt; mvbrandt@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00818846784767602047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818493363650318866.post-64709011385753062032010-02-25T15:15:04.395-05:002010-02-25T15:15:04.395-05:00@ MVB
Wow, well said!
I think your right I was ...@ MVB<br /><br />Wow, well said! <br /><br />I think your right I was way to cautious with my oblits and Defilers, hell I should have used them to draw fire from my 1ksons if nothing else..<br /><br />Only question I have in your straken breakdown since he hit on init 4, and at that point I still had 4 1k sons and the dread wouldn't that still have worked out close to the same? <br /><br />I think we both made some gambles in the vain hope of a quick clean victory..Dameon Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04510724407542214221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818493363650318866.post-47560891871065468322010-02-25T14:56:12.798-05:002010-02-25T14:56:12.798-05:00Ps - You know it's a good game when you win it...Ps - You know it's a good game when you win it, win the tournament going 3-0, and still are annoyed and up thinking about your mistakes later that evening. I don't typically gamble in 40k, and attacking dreadnaught, scouting so far forward, and moving those 2 vendettas into the line of fire on turn 4 bottom ALL were gambles that I didn't need to take.Mike Brandt; mvbrandt@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00818846784767602047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818493363650318866.post-31381285595330789612010-02-25T14:50:25.178-05:002010-02-25T14:50:25.178-05:00The only one I would add is that you probably shou...The only one I would add is that you probably should have moved your oblits up with your defilers. Trying to angle "no cover" shots on my vendettas as they skittered around behind SUPER EVIL TERRAIN PIECE FROM HELL was not as potent as it would have been to see an oblit squad and 2 nasty defilers rounding the bend to support the troubles I was having trying to angle on the princes and dreads.<br /><br />For my own part, the mistakes I made were as follows ...<br /><br />1) Not just putting those last 2 vendettas behind the big thing and using them to concentrate on the turn 5 snipe of the 1k sons.<br />2) Scouting unnecessarily far forward w/ my 5 vendettas on turn 1, and therefore giving you charges due to initiative steal. I wasn't going to be "rushing" you either way, so it was stupid of me to move so far up on the scout move.<br />3) Charging your dreadnaught with Straken. 2 1k sons and the sorceror survived our combat, and that's accounting for the fact that your dread added 2 to the combat res in your favor. I wasn't looking to capture that objective on turn 5, just pull you off yours. If I had ignored the dreadnaught with the multicharge (which I could have sans worry, given straken is just a sarge) and thrown the 4 wounds straken inflicted (4 hits, no 1's on pen rolls) into your squad, that's another statistical 2 dead, and 2 less dead for me from the dread. This swings the combat res from 1 in my favor to 5 in my favor (2 less dead, 2 more killed), so 5 armor saves on your lone surviving sorceror instead of 1 on your sorc + 2. This clears the 1k sons, and if the game DOES go to turn 6, I've got a troops squad + 2 vendettas + straken's squad + 2 other troops squads and a chimera or two all right there to nuke that lone surviving dreadnaught. He also doesn't explode, which killed another of straken's squad and that lone sarge from the blue-cap catachans.<br /><br />Those were my big mistakes.Mike Brandt; mvbrandt@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00818846784767602047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818493363650318866.post-72832256939450528242010-02-25T14:31:31.904-05:002010-02-25T14:31:31.904-05:00@ MikeB
Thanks, was a good game!
A great game is...@ MikeB<br /><br />Thanks, was a good game!<br /><br />A great game is one afterwards you see the mistakes you made, and learn from them. <br /><br />I think mine were..<br /><br />1) Mistook a lone valk for a squad<br />2) Missmeasured the rhino from the objective<br />3) Took the extra shots w/ the CSM Squad vs disembarking and moving on the objective<br />4) Banked on a turn 6=-)<br /><br />Any other mistakes you think I overlooked?Dameon Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04510724407542214221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818493363650318866.post-12386904801904435372010-02-25T14:18:20.375-05:002010-02-25T14:18:20.375-05:00Thanks for the game on final table on Saturday. M...Thanks for the game on final table on Saturday. Made a few mistakes of my own!<br /><br /> - Mike Brandt, http://whiskey40k.blogspot.comMike Brandt; mvbrandt@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00818846784767602047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818493363650318866.post-60155158326867631192010-02-23T14:51:32.207-05:002010-02-23T14:51:32.207-05:00Nice shields! I can't wait to see this unit on...Nice shields! I can't wait to see this unit on the tabletop. Should be a great addition to your army.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11680110160882762433noreply@blogger.com