Opponent: Dave (Blood Angels). Earnest, soft-spoken, and pretty talented with the strategery, Dave was one of the younger gamers in attendance, and a good friend of Tien,
my Tyranid opponent from the previous tournament. He was fielding a dual Land Raider assault army, which had the additional intriguing (terrifying!) twist of being Blood Angel flavored – meaning who knows what, as I still didn’t have a copy of the codex. But I was sure there would be any number of nasty surprises for me in the game, and I also knew that should either Land Raider get to my lines, the game was going to be over for my guys. I sure hoped my Railguns wouldn’t let me down!
Army: (1850 pts)
- Furioso Librarian with Assault and Jumping powers
- 2x Vindicators
- 5 Terminators & Librarian inside Standard Land Raider
- 5 Death Company inside Redeemer Land Raider
- 1x10 Tactical Marines with Lascannon & Flamer
- 1x7 Tactical Marines with Plasma Cannon
Mission: “Storm of Annihilation” special mission. Pitched Battle set-up (12” deployment), with night-fight rules in the first turn. Primary objective is kill points. Secondary objective is to capture (any unit may capture) the sole objective (the ‘vortex’), which moves 1d6” in a random direction at the start of each player’s turn. Tertiary objective is to get a scoring unit into your opponent’s deployment zone at any point in the game.
Terrain: Some high hills scattered around the table blocked LOS to smaller (standard infantry-sized) units, but between those hills and some blocks of trees, there was plenty of cover but very little place to actually hide out of LOS if you were larger than an infantry marine or Fire Warrior model.
