Ok so I went to a one day tournament on saturday. It was a blast. I played three games. This was my second game and it was against a codex marine army. Frist game will have a battlerport as well, but it will be done by Fredmans.
My opponent had a hard time. He's quite new to the game had played less then 10 games and not a lot with Space marines and never against Tau.
Anywas this was deployment:
SM
Tau
SM 1. Thunderbolts go on CAP.
TAU 1. Sustain on scouts with FW on foot. all inf die. Rhinos brake.
SM2. AT Predators advance and break Tau recon.
Tau 2
?SM 3. Devestators March to houses near Tau obj 1.
Tau 3. FW with skyray dbl and place a BM on devestators.
SM 4. Tacticals doubl and take out a devilfish. (garden of palace counted as cover, "schrub")
Tau 4. FW with Pathfinders dbl and take out a tactical and a Rhino.
SM 5. Devestators advance and take out a devilfish.
Tau 5. Hammerheads dbl and take out all vehicles of the central Tacticals.
SM 6. AP Predators dbl and kill 1 FW.
Tau 6. Railheads advance and kill all Predators (I was lucky with 7 hits and not a lot of saves made). The lone vindicator breaks.
SM 7. Warhound dlb for some payback. Bad to hit rolls sees only one HH go one.
Tau 7. Sun Shark bombers tries to bomb the devestators (under friendly AA cover). Thunderbolts on CAP intercept.
Sun Shark dfensive AA + two skyrays can't produce a single hit. Thunderbolts produce 3 hits and my airplanes both go down (jinked).
SM 8. Supreme commander tacticals move up to central ruined palace and put a BM somewhere.
Tau 8. Crisis suits dbl towards Warhound and take both shields down and does 1 point of damage. My opponent had misstakingly put himself within markerlights and I was quite lucky with my rolls.
Thunderbolts 2. Tries to break my Railheads to ease turn two preasure on the Warhound. I intercept with Barracudas (which had apparently been put on CAP earlier).
1 Thunderbolt is downed the other produces 1 hit which is saved.
Riptides move up and hit markerlit SC Taciticals. My rolls were very good and MW came in very handy against the Tacticals 4+ save. 4 tactical units are taken out.
Warhound 2 comes tries to give back some hurt. A drone is killed for 2 BMs
On to the end phase.
Space marines rally everyone except for the rhinoless tacticals.
I rally all accept the broken recon.
Turn 2 in next post.
