Well, school has kept me busy so I am a bit behind on Bat Reps. But Kirby's "sickness" has given me motivation. Plus, I can post my new Belial conversion shown at the left (he has a cape that you can't see here. It is my first big conversion, so I am pretty happy with it. I'll be using it this weekend at the Blobs Park GT.
Anyway, on to round 3 bat rep.
Yet again, difficult terrain was a huge issue, but not just because of the terrain. His Night Spinners proved to be a tremendous annoyance to my already slow army (Night Spinners shoot a weapon that forces difficult/dangerous terrain checks on any unit it hits).
Round 3 vs Bill S. Eldar
Mission: KP, Table Quarters, Objectives
DOW
His list:
Eldrad
Yriel
2 x 6 Fire Dragons in Wave Serpent
3 x 6 Dire Avengers in Wave Serpent
2 x 6 Pathfinders
3 x Night Spinner
The kill power of night spinners is a bit lost against my army, but the ability to slow me down really determined how I would play and ultimately limited my killing ability to zilch. Of course, this is my first time playing against Night spinners, so I did not learn this until after deployment.
He won first turn, deployed Pathfinders and Eldrad. I deployed nothing.
Deployment
His turn 1: He brings his stuff on and moves.My turn 1: I bring on everything in the middle/right side of the table, and Deep strike Belial and 3 squads into the middle/right of the table. most stuff runs, I shoot a little at tanks, but nothing pens.
End of Turn 1
My Turn 2: My remaining predator kills a wave serpent and take the TL catapult off a another. I manage to get to the pathfinders and kill them in assault with Belial's squad. My middle terminator squad makes it to a wave serpent on the right and immobilize it.
End of Turn 2
His Turn 3: He dooms Belial's squad and kills 4 terms, 1 wound on Belial. He shakes a speeder, kills 4 more terms in the left most squad with fire dragons (my storm shields failed here). Not a good turn for me. More things have difficult/dangerous terrain from night spinners.
My Turn 3: No real shooting. I kill 2 fire dragons in combat, but Belial dies in another assault.
My Turn 4: I make moves for objectives, as I think that is the objectives. Not much else happens. I'm kind of just moving and praying for saves to get me through.
End of Turn 4
My Turn 5: I turbo boost my speeder to contest the objective in the top right that he now controls. I move to secure the middle and right objective near me a little more. I get two Krak missile shots off at his fire dragon/Prince squad in the top right (i can't remember how I got him down to 1 fire dragon). Anyhow, he failed both of his saves and the Prince dies to instant death as does the fire dragon. 2 KPs right there.
End of Turn 5
Turn 6 and 7. Sadly, no pictures as time was short. However, the only difference between turn 5, 6, and 7 pictures is that we both lost a few more guys. Specifically, I lost 1 more from the middle terminator squad, leaving me with just 2.
For some reason, we played the whole game thinking Objectives was the secondary mission, but it was really table quarters. As we are adding the results up, we recognize this and have to adjust. We were tied on KP, with him having 6 and me having 5, but I had Objectives 3-2. So, as we realize Table Quarters is secondary, we have to add those up. At first, it looks like we are split on those 2-2, but my middle terminator squad is straddling the line, with 1 terminator in each quarter. Being troops, tournament rules say that the squad counts for full VPs for table quarter scenarios. Also, per rules, if a majority of the unit is not in one table quarter, randomize to see which quarter it ends up in. This means the last 2 hour 15 minute game is coming down to a 50/50 dice roll, as the terminator squad was worth more VPs then what he had in the quarter. So, 123 he wins, 456 I win. I roll my dice and it comes up smiley face, which are 6's on my dice. Great game, but a crappy way for it end.
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hyv3mynd · 711 weeks ago
The VP/quarters scoring system is one thing that bothered me about the NOVA packet. If I have a unit of 30 orks with upgrades and you manage to kill 29 of them and the survivor doesn't flee, he's worth 200pts towards a table quarter? How is that balanced?
MVB · 711 weeks ago
Capture and Control orients largely around controlling two "halves" of the board, defending your own while making a push to contest or control your opponent's. Quarters reflects this in a lot of ways, in that it's generally easy enough to play for a tie by controlling "half," but the trick is to snag one of your opponent's in a close match near the end-game (in a similar way to contesting in C&C near end-game) ... whereas controlling 4 quarters usually means you're just plain winning (as in controlling 2 objectives in C&C). That said, there was some reflection that C&C is still troop-oriented, in that a single surviving ork boy from a squad of 30 can hide behind a pillar and control an objective. This is why we went for this year with full value on scoring units when under half.
As far as the "sense" of why 1 ork should be worth even 50% of a mob's value ... well, the only thing that would make pure sense would be that each ork is worth exactly what it's worth ... so let's suspend disbelief a little and focus on the mechanics of the game ... and we'll continue to do that ... we may go back to regular VP for scoring units in Quarters next year; don't know yet.
Mannahnin · 711 weeks ago