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minitroll,
glad to see your bat-rep. It looked like a fun game regardless of the outcome.
as far as your notes here is my take on your observations.
1. the left/right arc are core rules for WE fire arcs. A Overlord's AA fire arc is 180* along its spine to the left or the right. If your opponent attacked directly down the spine of an Overlord (highly unlikely), you would get 4 shots at the incoming. Regardless you can only fire AA once (approach or disengage) from each unit, so you will normally only get 2 shots, even if the aircraft overflew both arcs (from left to right, or right to left).
Fire arcs for the MCF are similar meaing that you will only rarely get to fire all of you flank weapons.
2. for Break their Spirit you would have to wipe out the entire train, even if the train engine is destroyed, the remaining battle cars act as a formation, admittedly very slow, but still a formation.
3. like drop armies tunellers are a gamble, great fun and great sorrow as many a SM player can testify to.
4. AA...the thunderfires have great range, the overlords are tough and have decent range and the Iron eagle are short range but very mobile.
Overlords are the best all-around, but cut into your WE allowance. that's part of the list formula.
Goliaths tend to frighten opponents, so they tend to attract aircraft and artillery. Thunderfire tend to be ignored due to their specialized role.
In smaller games (3000 points and under) the thunderfire are more likely to be under utilized, so try Iron Eagles, combined with a double move each one can cover a 75cm x 30cm area (quite useful in application), plus they have a battlecannon shot!
5. The cyclops....yess this needs work...still have not figured this one out yet...Demiurg V2 is almost wrapped up so stay tuned and keep up the gaming. Demiurg are a tough army for opponents, because you can develop many different deployment strategies for them.
great report, thanks again for the notes!
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Squat/Demiurg Army Co-Champion (in cahoots with Jaldon)
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using the imagination for the hills. We placed objectives pretty much where you'd expect. My Blitz on the far right corner, IG in the middle and the rest scattered around the centre region.
. Yes, those are pencil sharpeners.
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. That mini treasure chest is in fact a deathstrike proxy, honest.
The cycplos retained to hit the HQ causing minor damage.
. Feeling no immediate threat I then attempted to launch my tunnellers - they required a pay rise from to get going; the second lot of thunderbolts seemed equally unresponsive and failed to appear.
causing no damage. The stormtroopers failed to pass their double, and instead made a single move 
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, 2 made it within 15cm, I had to kill them, replying with two 5+ and two 6+ - obviously it didn't happen allowing the Inf Comp to lend supporting fire. Alas, it got worse - in the roll of there was a draw. My counter charge pulled the Inf into the engage, I checked my balance sheets, and this was looking bad. 
. My middle disappeared 
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. In response they sustain fire the stormtroopers - well they would have if they hadn't failed their roll and the re-roll.
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