This weekend Soldado and I decided to take a trip out to Brea, CA for a 1850 point RTT. I really wanted to practice my potential 1750 list so I basically just moved some things around to get it to 1850. Here's what I played.
HQ
Coteaz
GM w/MC sword, incinerator, rad grenades
Elite
Purifiers x 8 w/D. Hammer, warding staff, 4 halberds, 2 psycannons
Ven Dread w/2 autocannons, psybolt
Vindicaire
Troops
4 squads of Warrior acolyte x 3
2w/ razorbacks w/psybolt, searchlight
FA
Stormraven w/TL multi-melta, TL Assault Cannon, Searchlight
Heavy
2 x Dreadknight w/Heavy incinerator, Personal Teleporter
Dreadnought w/2 autocannons, psybolt
Game 2
Dok V Soldado(playing IG) in the case of the exploded chimera
Game 2 was against my buddy and sometimes co-blogger Soldado! He just recently picked up a guard army and he wanted to take his spin on guard… out for a spin! This is the list he brought
HQ
Company Command Squad w/4 x plasma guns, Master of the Fleet w/plasma pistol, Chimera w/ heavy flamer
Company Command Squad w/4 x plasma guns, power weapon, Chimera w/ heavy flamer
Elite
Marbo
Troops
3 x Veterans w/lascannon & 3 x meltaguns - Chimera w/ heavy flamer
Veterans w/3 x flamers & demolition charge- Chimera w/ heavy flamer
Fast Attack
3 x Vendetta
Heavy Support
2 x Manticore Missile Launcher
Pretty standard as far as guard goes. No hydras as he didn’t have them in time and he decided to use lascannons in his veterans squad to give them a bit more oomph from their rides.
The second mission is modified KP. 2 points for everything with an AV, 2 points for hqs, and 2 points for any model with 4 or more wounds. Yikes, that’s a bad mission for guard under any conditions. Oh, also the deployment is dawn of war…
Looking at it before the game, Soldado has a total of 31 KPs to give, to my 24. So it’s not that lopsided, but chimeras are definitely easier to kill than most things in my army.
We roll to go first and Soldado wins the roll! I’m not sure why, but he gave me first turn and deployment. I roll grand strategy and get to pick two units. I choose hammer of righteousness one the dreadknights and forget to do my re-rolls all game! I pick my side and put two empty razorbacks in the middle of the table about 18” from each other so that I can push back anything he wants to deploy. He puts out two empty chimeras on his table edge. One on my left hand side and the other towards the middle.