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[Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/09
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Author:  Dave [ Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:34 pm ]
Post subject:  [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/09

This was a 2-1 win for the Marine, with Blitz and DTF to BTS.

Tyranids

Code:
 475 - Dominatrix
 495 - Medium Mycetic Swarm
   2 Hive Tyrant, 8 Termagants, 4 Hormagaunts, 2 Carnifex
 250 - Small Mycetic Swarm
   2 Warriors, 4 Termagants, 2 Hormagaunts
 250 - Small Mycetic Swarm
   2 Warriors, 4 Termagants, 2 Hormagaunts
 250 - Small Mycetic Swarm
   2 Warriors, 4 Termagants, 2 Hormagaunts
 275 - Harridan
   4 Gargoyles
 300 - Dactylis
 300 - Trygons
 200 - Genestealers
 200 - Genestealers
2995/10


Marines

Code:
 250 - Bike
    Chaplain
 250 - Devastators
 200 - Land Speeders
 350 - Annihilators
    Hunter
 275 - Destructors
 175 - Scouts
    Sniper
 175 - Scouts
    Sniper
 475 - Tactical
    Supreme Commander, Hunter
 300 - Tactical
 250 - Vindicators
 300 - Whirlwinds
3000/11

Author:  Dave [ Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

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Start of Game

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Start of Game

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The Vindicators double up and take out two stealers.

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The Harridan advances and lays a BM on the Scouts.

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The Whirlwinds sustain and take out a stealer.

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The Dactyls hit all the Vindicators and one goes down.

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The Tacticals double and lay a BM on the stealers.

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The Dominatrix breaks the Vindicators.

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The Annihilators advance on the Dom and lay a BM.

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A Swarm touches down and engages the Tacticals.

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Two go down along with 2 brood and a Warrior.

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Two more brood are hacked downed and the marines stand firm.

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The Scouts remain on overwatch.

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The Stealers march to the center and the Supreme Commander doubles and hacks down a brood.

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The other stealers marshal.

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The Destructors double and lay a BM on the stealers.

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The Devastators do the same.

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The Bikes march.

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The Landspeeder march and ZoC the WEs.

Author:  Dave [ Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

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Turn 2

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Turn 2

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The Trygons surface.

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The Destructors engage the Stealers and take two out and hack the rest down.

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The Annihlators advance back and take out a Trygon.

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The Dactylis advance, fail a walker test and take out a bike.

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The Harridan advances on the Bikes and lays a BM.

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The Whirlwinds take out a Stealer.

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The BTS touches down and engages teh SC.

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All but the SC goes down along with 4 brood a fex and a tyrant.

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The SC is hacked down.

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The brood in cover doubles to screen the BTS, laying a BM.

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The Vindicators double and break the Trygons.

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The Dom advances out of ZoC and breaks the Speeders, taking three out.

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The Tacticals engage the Swarm and take a brood out.

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All but the Warrior are hacked down.

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The Genestealers march to the Blitz.

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The Scouts double on the BTS, lay a BM and ZoC it.

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The Bikes sneak around the Harridan and engage the Dactylis.

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They wipe them out.

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The Devastators catch the Harridan in a crossfire and take out 2 DC.

Author:  Dave [ Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

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Turn 3

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Turn 3

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The Whirlwinds sustain on the BTS and take out a bunch of brood.

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The Tacticals engage it.

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A brood and a fex go down.

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The Tyrant retreats.

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The stealers engage the Bikes.

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One bike lives but breaks.

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The Dom doubles and takes out a Rhino.

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The Speeders advance on the Trygons and lay a BM.

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The Harridan advances on the Devastators and takes two out.

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The Destructors double and break the Stealers, claiming Blitz.

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A Swarm comes down and engages the Tacticals.

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All but a Rhino and Tactical live.

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Another Swarm comes down and engages the Scouts.

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The Scouts stand firm and take down two Warriors and a brood for the loss of two.

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The broken swarm retreats to the Tyrant.

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The Vinidcators double to break the Trygons.

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End of Game

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End of Game

Author:  mattthemuppet [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

wow, sounds like the 'nids got outfoxed at every turn. I get the sense that the mycetic drop worked heavily against them here - the few fms on board got a pasting while the dropping swarms largely got picked off piecemeal. Any thoughts about that?

Also, why did you bring on your Trygons so far back (by the looks of it anyway)? Why not go for the blitz and those lovely soft Whirlwinds?

Author:  Dave [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

Matt took the 'nids for this one. I can't speak for him but I've been holding off on tunneling the Trygons in on the third turn because there's usually something for them to mess with on the second. Also, if they're coming in on the third it's very likely they're going for the blitz, so we've seen a lot of Scout formations being pulled back at the end of the second to cover that angle of attack.

Author:  captPiett [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

mattthemuppet wrote:
wow, sounds like the 'nids got outfoxed at every turn. I get the sense that the mycetic drop worked heavily against them here - the few fms on board got a pasting while the dropping swarms largely got picked off piecemeal. Any thoughts about that?

Also, why did you bring on your Trygons so far back (by the looks of it anyway)? Why not go for the blitz and those lovely soft Whirlwinds?


I'm not sure I'd use the word "outfoxed", but yeah after my BTS ate Dave's BTS, it was all downhill in the dropping swarm department. I tried three times to drop on top of his blitz and those "soft" Whirlwinds, and was boned every time by inordinately unlucky scattering. Not once did a scatter arrow point towards Dave's board edge, with the result that I ended up on top of one of his more expendable units, rather than the blitz.

As for the trygons, I had them come up as far as the could in turn 2, just short of mid-board. I had gone for the blitz with them in the past, and thought the tunnelers would be more useful in eating something in the middle of the board near mine and Dave's TNH objectives. Little did I know that 1) the trygons would surface and do little more than fail saves and die; and 2) the gobs of points I aimed for his blitz would fail to meet even pessimistic expectations.

Author:  mattthemuppet [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

hmm, thought I recognised Dave's irritating use of Land Speeders there. Sounds like the drop mechanic is even more random than anyone realised :)

Author:  Moscovian [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

mattthemuppet wrote:
hmm, thought I recognised Dave's irritating use of Land Speeders there. Sounds like the drop mechanic is even more random than anyone realised :)


Good. The question is do we want to keep that as a special rule or just make it scenario specific. Time will tell I suppose.

Author:  mattthemuppet [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

Moscovian wrote:
mattthemuppet wrote:
hmm, thought I recognised Dave's irritating use of Land Speeders there. Sounds like the drop mechanic is even more random than anyone realised :)


Good. The question is do we want to keep that as a special rule or just make it scenario specific. Time will tell I suppose.


What? Dave's irritating use of Land Speeders? I think that should be banned outright :)

As for the drop rules, I like how random they are, but there's the question of randomness accurately representing an event and randomness deciding who wins the game. The first is obviously fun and I'm guessing what Dave's striving for, the latter would just be irritating.

Author:  Dwarf Supreme [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

Moscovian wrote:
mattthemuppet wrote:
hmm, thought I recognised Dave's irritating use of Land Speeders there. Sounds like the drop mechanic is even more random than anyone realised :)


Good. The question is do we want to keep that as a special rule or just make it scenario specific. Time will tell I suppose.


Granted I've played against Onachus only once, but I like the drop rules far better than the old Phase III list. The randomness is a good balance for being able to drop units anywhere on the board. However, I can see how bad luck would make it difficult for the Tyranids to win.

Author:  captPiett [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

Dave and I had another battle last night, this time with the new stats but also trying out the drop army. I'm sure a batrep will be up soon, but suffice it to say that I was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I played IG and Dave took tyranids. He failed to bring in two of his swarms on turn 3, but I was unable to finish off his BTS's lone carnifex for a 2-0 win. It went to turn 4, both swarms came in, and it eventually went to points. This was the 3rd time (I believe) that swarms failed to arrive before "overtime", but the 'nids still hung around for the win/draw. Even when it's over, it's not over ;)

Author:  mattthemuppet [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

captPiett wrote:
but suffice it to say that I was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.


that's the spirit!

Author:  Dave [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Epic: Xenos] 3k Onachus v0.2.1 vs SM (NetEA) - 2011/02/

Heh, ya that rep will be up soon. It started off with poor 'nid luck and ended with poor guard luck, a very quirky game.

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