The Galahadain had had a difficult beginning to the tournament. Their force consisted of the following units from Codex: Space Marines:
Librarian w/ Terminator Armor, Storm Shield, Null Zone and Vortex of Doom
3x Tactical Squads wi/
7x Bolters
1x Melta Gun
1x Multi-Melta
1x Sergeant with Powerfist and Combi-Weapon (Flamers x2, Melta Gun x1)
1x Rhino
Terminator Assault Squad w/
6x Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield
4x Pair of Lightning Claws
1x Dedicated Transport, Land Raider Crusader w/ Multi-Melta
Terminator Squad w/
3x Storm Bolter & Powerfist
1x Heavy Flamer & Powerfist
1x Sergeant w/ Storm Bolter & Power Weapon
1x Dedicated Transport, Land Raider Crusader w/ Multi-Melta
Land Raider Crusader w/ Multi-Melta
2x Vindicators w/ Dozer Blades
The second scenario was Night Fight the entire battle. This time I was up against an Ork hord that looked like this:
Ghazghkull Thraka (in BW)
Warboss on a bike w/ PK
Meganobz x10 w/ PKs and 3x Rokkit Launchas, Kombi-Skorchas, & T-L Shootas each (in BW)
Battlewagon w/ Armor Plates, Big Shoota, & Deff Rolla
Nob Squad on Warbikes w/ various weaponry and Cybork Bodies plus Painboy
2x Slugga Boyz Squads each w/ 30 Boyz including PK Nob
2x Shoota Boyz Squads each w/ 30 Boyz including PK Nob
This scenario was a Pitched battle deployment with six Objectives, only three of which were 'real', but which ones those were was only made clear randomly on Turns 2, 4, and 6 (or whatever the last turn of the game was if six turns weren't able to be played).
I deployed first with two Combat Squaded Tactical Squads and their Rhinos. He then deployed his entire force spread out back near his own table edge.
On my first turn, I brought everything in. I rolled well enough to see his Shoota unit on my far left and killed a single Boy. It brought images of The Two Towers to mind, when the old man in Helms Deep couldn't hold his bowstring taught until the order to fire was given. His early shot killed a single Uruk Hai and, after an initial moment of shock, enraged the rest of the hord.
Over the course of the first few Turns, he advanced his forces slowly and I advanced a bit to get range, then retreated a little to stay out of his Waagh plus charge range. I managed a beautiful couple of hits with the Demolisher Cannon on his Warbiker squad and destroyed his Battlewagon with a sortie by a Combat Squad in a Rhino with a Melta Gun and a Combi-Melta. He blew up one of my Vindicators with a lucky Rokkit shot, but things looked good for me at this point. I held the first valid objective with three of my Combat Squads on my own right flank.
Unfortunately for me, his Warbikers and his Nobs w/ Ghazghkull proved largely impervious to any more of my shooting. They made it to my line of Combat Squads claiming the valid objective in the center of the table and also to the unknown objective in the center of the table which I had three other Combat Squads trying desperately to protect.
He assaulted one of my LRCs and the Boyz were too much for my Assault Terminators inside. His Warbikers also beat my other Assault Terminator Combat Squad. Edit: Now that I think about it, I don't ever recall disembarking that second squad of Assault Terminators. I think I may have royally messed up as they could have held up those Warbikers for a Turn at the very least. Ahh! :'( I made a desperate assault in the fourth, and final, Turn with my third LRC, Librarian, and Terminator Squad onto the Objective claimed by his Boyz back on his own right flank. I hoped that I could do enough damage to them to cause them to break and run, but had no such luck. I also raced a single Rhino onto the objective in the center near his own table edge, and the other two Rhinos up the hill to the objective on his left flank.
I also tried to Run one of my Tactical Combat Squads around the LRC to within claiming range of the sixth objective unseen behind the LRC's left rear corner in the last picture below.
The final valid Objective turned out to be the one my two Rhinos were contesting on top of the hill in the NE corner of the table. Since all three valid Objectives were contested, it came down to Kill Points. In that area, he claimed a Minor Victory.
I should have used my Combat Squads as speed bumps more effectively. If I had done that, I could have kept both of his Nobs Squads away from two of the valid Objectives and won a Massacre for myself.
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