I played in an RTT last weekend with my new Khornate daemons army (KDA) and fell just short of winning the whole thing due to a terrible scatter roll losing my entire Blood Crusher death star to a deep strike mishap. It bothered me the whole week and yesterday evening just before going to bed I happened to check the forums for a local shop here in Tampa Bay and saw that they would be running a 1500 point RTT. I took it upon myself to use this as opportunity to take revenge for our Lord Khorne.

Here is my abbreviated list:

Bloodthirster/Unholy Might, Blessing of the Blood God
2x Herald of Khorne/Juggernaught,UInholy Might, Fury, Blessing of the Blood God

2x Soul Grinder/Phleghm & Tongue

12x Bloodletter/Icon
11x Bloodletter

We were using the missions from this year's Ard Boyz semifinals which I know very well. The first mission was against the new Space Wolves:

Wolf Priest/Saga of the Hunter, meltabombs
Rune Priest/Chain Lightning

Wolfguard/terminator armor, cyclone missile launcher, power fist
Venerable Dreadnaught/assault cannon

2x 5x Grey Hunter/meltagun, power fist - razorback w. twin linked assault cannon
7x Blood Claws/meltagun, power fist

5x Long Fangs/2x lascannon, 2x missile launcher, heavy bolter

The mission was pitched battle deployment. Killpoints plus troop choices was 3 points per troop choice, 2 killpoints for elites and 1 killpoint for all other units. I won the roll for deployment and chose to go second. My opponent started with everything on the table except for the Wolf Priest and his Blood Claws. First turn his  Long Fangs are on the second level of ruins and move/run forward. One of his GH razorbacks has the Rune Priest and they move six inches up towards the center of the table. The other razorback moves over to the other side of the center beside the dreadnaught. Should mention the lone Wolfguard is joined to the Long Fangs.

My preferred wave is both Heralds joined with the Crushers, one Grinder and the Bloodthirster plus the Bloodletters with the icon. I get my preferred wave. The Crushers come in first and land beside the Long Fangs. Greater Daemon lands on my left flank with the first Grinder. Grinder fires big blast template on the Long Fangs but it drifts off.

Second turn the SW player tries to outflank with the Wolf Priest joined to the Blood Claws. We spend around 20 minutes going over the rules... Can't do that and finally the judge comes over, reads all the rules and says no he can't do it. We only 1.5 hours per game so I am not happy about all the time wasted. So Blood Claws come in from their long table edge as is normal and Wolf Priest outflanks alone coming in on the short table edge beside my Bloodthirster and lone Grinder. Long Fangs attempt to shoot at Crushers but can't see them as they are right up against the side of the ruin. One razorback fires at the Bloodthirster and whifs. The Venerable dreadnaught moves and runs toward the greater daemon and lone Grinder.

My turn in comes all my reserves. One squad of Bloodletters come using the Crusher icon to land beside them. Second squad comes in towards the center of the table and runs into cover. Second Grinder lands beside first squad of Bloodletters. First Grinder fires railgun into razorback with Rune Priest and destroys it... one Grey Hunter dies from the explosion. Second Grinder fires railgun into the other razorback and destroys it. Crushers charge Long Fangs and destroys them all including the Wolfguard. Bloodthirster charges Rune Priest with Grey Hunters and destroys them all.

There is only enough time left for one more full turn... sigh... this happened to me the last time I played there. Dreadnaught moves up to shoot and charge Bloodthirster. Blood Claws and Grey Hunters move up to assault Crushers. Dreadnaught does three wounds to my greater daemon, survives the charge and kills the Bloodthirster in close combat. Crushers kill all the Blood Claws and second squad of Grey Hunters. Wolf Priest charges lone Grinder and is splattered hard.

My turn... all the Space Wolf player has left is the Venerable dreadnaught which I double railgun and immobilize it.

Game over and I win by a massacre with two out of four bonus points. The tournament is just battlepoints which is okay by me and I am in first place.

Next up... versus reigning store champion with his dakka Nidz. It will be a very hard fought battle.

G

I am going to post the third batrep prior to the second one since the midgame was the deciding mission. The third game was versus Chaos and my opponent was really fun to play. He also had a neat list without Lash Princes, Oblits or Noise Marines. Here is his list:

Lucius the Eternal
Summoned Greater Daemon

9x Berzerker/power fist - rhino/combi melta (Lucius rides with them... Heh!)
9x Thousand Sons - rhino/combi melta
10x CSM/power fist, meltagun - rhino/Havoc missile launcher

10x Chosen/power fist, 2x plasmagun - rhino

5x Havocs/lascannon, missile launcher, heavy bolter, autocannon


The primary was to control a central objective located at the exact middle of the table. Deployment was spearhead. My opponent won the roll and decided to go first. He held his Chosen in reserve so they could outflank and put the other three rhinos side by side right at the 12" boundary from table center. There was a big ruin in the center of the table. My oponent didn't move anything the first turn and popped smoke on his three rhinos. Again I got my preferred wave landing the Crushers right on top of the objective in the ruins and they did not drift. Bloodthirster comes in behind them and drifts back a bit then runs forward. Lone Grinder comes in beside greater daemon. So I'm contesting the objective with my mini deathstar... A great start for the first wave. Grinder fires blast at Havocs but it drifts off.

Second turn in comes the CSM summoned greater daemon. The two rhinos with combi meltas move around to either side of the ruin. None of the rhinos disembark. The rhinos and embarked squads fire into the Crushers along with the Havocs but I make all my saves. Summoned greater daemon then charges the Crushers and is ripped apart before he can swing back.

My turn in comes both squads of Bloodletters plus the second Grinder. I bring them all in using the Crusher icon. Crushers surround the CSM rhino. Bloodletters use run to spread out and move towards central objective. Bloodthirster flies up in front of Berzerker rhino. First railgun destroyz the Zerker rhino and three die on the explosion. Second Grinder drops blast on the Zerkers... All but Lucius and power fist Berzerker are left. Bloodthirster charges them and squishes both. Crushers charge CSM rhino and wreck it. CSM must use emergency disembarkation out the front of the wreck and are pinned.

Third turn in comes Chosen outflanking on the short table closest to my Grinders but still out of shooting range. Thousand Sons disembark and rapid fire into one squad of Bloodletters. He rolls poorly and I only lose a couple.

My turn one squad of Bloodletters move onto central ruin to claim objective. Other squad of Bloodletters charge Thousand Sons, destroying them all. Crushers eat the CSM that had to disembark out the front of their wrecked rhino. Bloodthirster charges kSons' rhino and explodes it. Grinders fire railguns at Chosen rhino and immobilize it.

At this point my opponent concedes the game, I massacre with three of four bonus points. The other player in contention for first place (dakka Nidz) is playing on the second table against another CSM army. He also massacres but is only able to get one bonus point... so 1st place will come down to the result of our second game which I'll post next.

G

Do not read the below if you don't want a spoiler to Steve's Bat Reps!!










































Congrats again on the 1st Place! It's been too long in comin!  

--Last edited by WhiteDevil on 2009-10-26 12:01:32 --

Should have been back-to-back except for two evil dice... both of which have been summarily executed.



G

Congrats on that!

Way to go Steve.....

Carry that into the weekend of the 5th!

Long time reader, first time poster.

Well done on the win, I have a question though, your list in OP doesn't have the crushers included, could you show the full 1500 list please!

Thanks x

Here is the 1500 point list to the best of my recollection:

HQ
Bloodthirster/Unholy Might, Blessing of the Blood God
Herald/Juggernaught, Unholy Might, Blessing of the Blood God
Herald/Juggernaught, Unholy Might, Blessing of the Blood God

Elites
4x Crusher/Icon, Fury, Instrument

Troops
12x Bloodletter/Icon
11x Bloodletter

Heavy Support
Soul Grinder/Phelghm, Tongue
Soul Grinder/Phelghm, Tongue

One of the heralds might have had fury as well.

G