So yesterday my friend and I met up for a 3000 point battle
in which I would be bringing approximately 2000 points of Night Lords and 1000
points of astra militarium against a significant force of daemons which I was
not confident about. We had exchanged army lists beforehand and I knew my
opponent would be bringing five flying monstrous creatures which is never going
to be easy to deal with.
To start off on arrival I pulled out my Night lords so I could
grab a couple of shots of them including the drop pods which were not going to
be fielded in this battle but which have been painted and here are those shots.
Sadly the terminator sergeant has suffered some issues with his power sword
which is going to have to be worked on carefully to reverse without damaging
the weapon if at all possible.
This is my opponent’s army, certainly not optimised but a
serious threat for my force. It is a somewhat intimidating force and very well
painted, my friend not being an expert painter tends to purchase his armies off
the web which gives the benefit for compensating for his lack of
aptitude/patience with painting. The only issue I tend to notice with this is
expanding his force is somewhat difficult since it is hard to get anything with
the same style of painting and basing.
The battlefield was the typical city ruins we tend to like
and had plenty of terrain.
The mission we rolled was another of the maelstrom of war
ones in which there are increasing numbers of objectives every turn. I won the
dice off for table edge, deployment and managed to avoid my opponent seizing
the initiative from me.
I am not going to do a turn by turn report but essentially
what happened was the Night lords got off to an early lead constantly getting
excellent objectives which were easily achievable and it looked like it was
going to be a cake walk but my I rapidly lost units and coming to the end of
turn 5 I was running out of units to block my opponent from scoring objectives
and he was able to score 5 different objectives and rack up 7 victory points in
one hit. This meant at the end of turn 5 he was a point ahead and the game
continued, at this stage I had my librarian with one wound remaining, one
terminator, a contemptor locked in close combat and two vendettas and while I was
able to take down fateweaver with concentrated lascannon fire (he only had one
wound left at this stage) to claim monster hunter and slay the warlord my
opponents turn 6 saw him draw 5 easily achievable objectives and the game was
called.
Realistically I was likely to be tabled in the next turn if
it continued and there was no real way I was going to be able to fight my way
back in to the game sadly.
Legion tactical squads churning out savage amounts of shots
was very effective as was the Knight Commander Pask in punisher squadron which I
have used in the past so effectively but the main thing for me was in one fight
where a tactical squad were desperately fighting some bloodletters and
bloodcrushers I managed to break my streak on artificer armour saves as the
sergeant managed to pass something like 15 2+ saves on the trot before finally
dropping, it was a truly epic achievement and while the sergeant was felled I think
he is armour is going to be salvaged and passed on to a new potential hero of
the legion.
I made a number of mistakes during the battle and as much
use as the battle was the analysis between me and my friend afterwards was
probably more useful and as always I think I learn something more about the
army every time I field them and eventually I will get them to the point where I
can field a proxy free army, and possibly I may even win with the night lords
but I am not expecting miracles.
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