3,000 points
Skitarii 2.05 vs. Knightworld (TP site)
Skitarii:
SKITARII DEMI-CENTURY [525]
Magos Character, 2 Secutor units, 8 Hypaspist units, Minorus with Support Missile (barrage)
SAGITARII DEMI-CENTURY [300]
5 Sagitarii units, 5 Rapier Laser Destroyer Unit
SAGITARII DEMI-CENTURY [300]
5 Sagitarii units, 5 Rapier Laser Destroyer Unit
PRAETORIAN SERVITOR MANIPLE [375]
5 Praetorian Combat Servitor units, Minorus with Corvus Assault Pod
COLOSSUS ASSAULT MANIPLE [250]
4 Colossus Robots
COLOSSUS ASSAULT MANIPLE [250]
4 Colossus Robots
CRUSADER SCOUT MANIPLE [150]
4 Crusader Robots
AVENGER SQUADRON [225]
2 Avenger Strike Fighters
REAVER TITAN [625]
Plasma Cannon, Gatling Blaster, Apocalypse Missile Launcher
Knightworld
KNIGHT HOUSEHOLD [500]
Baron, 3 Knight Paladin
KNIGHT HOUSEHOLD [415]
4 Knight Paladin, Seneschal
KNIGHT HOUSEHOLD [455]
4 Knight Errant, Seneschal
LANCER HOUSEHOLD [415]
Seneschal, 4 Knight Lancer
LANCER HOUSEHOLD [415]
4 Knight Lancer, Seneschal
CUSTODIAN HOUSEHOLD [400]
Knight Castellan, 2 Knight Crusader, Seneschal
AA GUN BATTERY [125]
3 AA Guns, Emplacements
AA GUN BATTERY [125]
3 AA Guns, Emplacements
THUNDERBOLT SQUADRON [175]
2 Thunderbolt Fighters
Skitarii won the roll for deployment and chose long edges of the table. After objective placement, Knightworld garrisoned the blitz and the objective in the forest.
Turn One:
Skitarii won Initiative and set the Demi-century on Overwatch
Knights move Paladins up toward the center T&H objective
Skitarii set the Avengers to CAP
Knights advanced the Lancers to the ruins
Skitarii advanced the Crusaders on the top DTF objective.
Knights moved the Baron formation into the woods
Skitarii doubled the center Sagitarii
Knights advanced the Errants into the woods.
Skitarii doubled the center colossus
Knights stall and put the AA on overwatch again
Skitarii double lower sagitarii into the ruins
Knights stall and put second AA on overwatch again
Skitarii advance the Praetorians between the sagitarii
Knights set T-bolts on cap
Skitarii move lower colossus to block Lancers
Knights activate upper Lancers and move slightly forward and pepper the center Sagitarii killing 2 units.
Skitarii finally activate Reaver moving forward and unloading on the paladins killing one.
Knights activate Custodians and pepper the Reaver dropping three shields.
End Turn:
All formations rally.
Turn 2:
Skitarii win Initiative
Skitarii activate Reaver which advances and targets the center paladins, killing one and breaking the formation which retreats to the Knight Blitz
Knights activate Lancers advancing them further into the ruins and stripping shields from Reaver
Skitarii activate the Crusaders and set them on Overwatch
Knights fail to activate the lower AA and gets a BM but gives one to the Reaver.
Skitarii advance the center Sagitarii toward the center DTF.
Knights put Tbolts on CAP
Skitarii double the lower colossus and place a BM on the Lancers
Knights activate upper AA and put them on overwatch
Skitarii put Avengers on CAP
Knights activate Upper Lancers and shoot the Reaver which strips the remaining shield. Reaver breaks toward the hill.
Skitarii advance the lower Sagitarii toward center of board
Knights activate Baron and sustain on the Reaver
Knights retain with the Errants who move to the edge of the woods but are only partially in range of the Reaver, but combined fire from the Baron and Errants still reduce the Reaver to 2DC
Skitarii activate the Praetorians and double forward to screen the Reaver from assault.
Knights activate Custodians leaving the Reaver with a single DC.
Skitarii activate the demi-century and put them back on overwatch.
Skitarii activate the Colossus and advance past the centerline and give the Errants a BM for their trouble.
Skitarii activate the demi-century and put them back on overwatch.
End turn:
All skitarii formations rally, all Knight formations fail to rally.
Turn 3:
Skitaii win Initiative
Skitarii Activate Reaver and Marshal. Three shields raised and two BM removed. Fire at the Errants causing 1 DC
Skitarii Retain with Praetorians and engage the Errants. Praetorians win combat and wipe out the Errants but lose the minorus.
Knights activate the upper lancer and advance, firing on the Reaver and stripping three shields
Skitarii activate the Crusaders putting them back on overwatch
Knights activate the Custodians, double and fire on the Reaver destroying the titan and gaining BTS.
Skitarii Sustain on the Custodians with the Colossus and cause 1DC?
Knights activate the lower Lancers and move back toward the Praetorians and shoot at them for 1 bm.
Skitarii activate lower colossus and move up targeting the Lancers for a BM.
Knights Activate the baron and move into the ruins.
Skitarii activate the upper Sagitarii and target the Custodians doing 3dc and breaking the formation.
Custodians retreat behind the hill toward the crusaders.
Knights activate the Thunderbolts and strafe the Praetorians killing one and breaking the formation
Skitarii sustain with the demi-century and fire the barrage missile at the broken knight formation by the knight’s blitz objective destroying it and two AA guns.
Skitarii activate the lower Sagitarii and fire at the lower AA guns killing one.
Skitarii Avengers stand down.
End Turn:
All formations rally except for the upper AA guns and the Praetorians.
Turn 4:
Knights use the scheneshal to activate the baron and lancer to attack both the lower Sagitarii and broken Praetorians. The Lancers take 3dc damage, wipe out the praetorians and assault resolution reduces the Sagitarii to 2 rapiers.
We called the game since my only hope of winning was to kill his BTS and I just didn’t have enough firepower to pull it off.
Knights win with BTS and DTF to Skitarii’s DTF
Thoughts - Skitarii:
This was a very weird game for me. I took a very slow, mostly unmounted Skitarii force to see how it would go using the Reaver as support. Objective placement almost split my two objectives to the far sides of the map but there was JUST enough space to get things in. However, no cover at all on the first DTF objective and the second being way outside the main area meant my intention to garrison the sagitarii wasn't viable and I had to march them up which kept them from being used as buffers against knight engagements. I had generally abysmal rolls on the Reaver for armor saves (it failed 3 RA saves in one turn) so it ended up getting killed off much earlier than I anticipated which left me on the defensive. Had my opponent played knights more aggressively I think the results would have been quite different.
Thoughts - Knights:
Objective placement favored Knights but the Knights failed to fully capitalize on their advantage due to cautious play. Even so, although Skitarii still managed to kill more points worth of models, low mobility coupled with the necessity to guard backfield objectives in order to deny knights easy points meant Skitarii were unable shut down the Knight’s objective game once the Reaver, Praetorians, and Sagitarii were neutralized in the center.