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| Curiously, this combat proved to be much more of a fair fight than it would seem... |
The Silver Drakes, and their kill team named 'We're not the Alpha Legion, really!' made their league debut and it wasn't anymore inspiring than was their original battlefield debut. What's worrisome is that bad things come in threes, and this was just round two...
I challenged Screech as he was fielding Tyranids, the arch enemy of my Silver Drakes. We fought the Terror Tactics scenario (in a nutshell, we needed to get our models off of the enemy's table edge). As we set up our forces in the ruins, I was as yet unaware that we were on the planet Neverness, it was only later as I began to roll an inordinate amount of 1's in every shooting phase that our locale became clear...
The Silver Drakes deploy but their enemy is mysteriously absent...not even the sound of crickets!
Aha! There they are! Skulking behind terrain!
What treachery is this? The Hive fleet has developed cell phone cameras to determine actual lines of sight!?!
Two Termagants vs. 2 primaris marines with bolt rifles, easy peasy right? Not when you're rolling ones...hell, the hitting on a 4+ normally wasn't even handicap I was rolling so badly!
Here ya go, the Silver Drakes chapter in a nutshell.
Due to my woefully in adequate shooting, the Tyranids have closed the gap and engaged in HTH all over the place with essentially no losses! Just a few flesh wounds here and there...
Luckily Screech's die rolling was mediocre, and at the very least I could make armor saves consistently! Meaning this grunt held out for 2 turns or so before coming to his inevitable conclusion...
With the marine on the ground engaged in HTH with a termagant, Demotion tossed a frag grenade on the other two below (with 5 'shots' no less!), the Termagants in turn returned fire!
Many shrubberies perished in this vicious exchange...
My sergeant is swarmed from all directions whilst the grunt above him valiantly flees...advances towards the objective!
Still going... It should be noted that by this point, that fucker with the black chitinous armor had made three, or possibly even four fucking 6+ saves!! What the hell!?! Despite the long drawn out combat, the bugs would eventually be victorious.
My auxiliary grenade launcher gunner, who (1) was able to reroll ones in the shooting phase due to his specialist ability, (2) but never did so as I hadn't bothered to ever actually read that bit despite writing it down 2 weeks before and, (3) despite the above nightmarish situation pictured here, he was the only marine to finished the game completely unscathed.
Somehow, or rather miraculously at game's end (following turn 5 as we forgot to roll for it at the end of turn 4), no models had made it off of either table edge, and we were down 3 models a piece. It was a dead tie. We were even tied on points - 92 each. As bad as I rolled all game, I'm claiming that as a win! Hell, GLORIOUS VICTORY!! is actually more appropriate if I'm honest.
In the games' aftermath, XP was meagerly doled out, one grunt found his way to the convalescent home where he'll miss the next round. I added a (literally green) new recruit to fill his spot in my roster for said game.
Also and again somehow...due to our tie, which resulted in the loss of no resources, Screech and I are now tied for 1st place in the league! Because that seems fair...
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| da fuk? |
On a different note, has anyone figured out what a 7+ save is exactly? This came up at another table, and was ruled a 6+ for expediency. Speaking of, here are a few pics from a few other games:
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| The Deathguard squaring off vs. the Adeptus Mechanicus, lurking in the distance. |
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| The Dark Angels lead by Captain Caliban (?) vs. the Genestealer cult. |
And some new models on display in the cases which serve no other purpose than as eye candy:
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| Painted no doubt in honor of the F-22 wing that got mauled by Hurricane Micheal. |
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| Screech commented that the uniforms weren't historically accurate, as they lacked coffee stains. However as a reservist with no combat experience, I'm figuring that he's not been much closer to a tank than I have. |