Fun time at Battle Bunker

Yesterday I and another Powers of the North club member Antony went to Battle Bunker games in Antioch for a 40K tournament.

This tournament was run using the missions for the Bay Area Open so it was a good opportunity to test out new ideas and get a handle on the best way to fight them.

I took my new Black Templar army, this is not the one I will be taking to the Bay Area Open but I really wanted to give them a spin.

Army:
HQ:
Emperors Champion: Accept any Challenge
Marshal: Holy Orb, Iron Halo, Power Weapon
Elite:
2x Sword Brethren Terminator Assault Squad: 7 Lightning Claws, Land Raider Crusader with Blessed Hull
Troops:
3x Crusader Squad: 5 Initiates with Pistol & CCW, + Lascannon
1750

Game #1 vs. Fate weaver Daemons, Dan

I’ve never faced Fate Weaver before but I’ve read a lot about how to deal with it and to tell the truth I didn’t think my army could. That being said I kept all my units close to each other and awaited that round 1 drop with FW and 4 other Daemon Princes. My opponents scatter dice were very, very unkind to him as FW and the others scatter very far apart. This left me the great opportunity to charger FW with one of my Lightning Claw units and not worry about getting hit in the next round by 2 or the other monstrous creatures. In the round I charged I managed to get two wounds on the FW and took it out on the 2nd round of combat. The two LRC did their job by taking out a DP each while the Lascannons took pot shots at the others.
After that as the daemons came in, again my opponent was having bad luck with his scatter, I was able to take out unit after unit with my LRC shooting and Lightning Claw attacks.
We went to round 6 before but the game was done and I took the 3-0 victory. My opponent was very good natured and I hope I gave him a good game.

Game #2 vs. Necrons, Nick (Tasty Taste)

Nick had 3 Monoliths, 2 eight bug swarm units, 3 ten man Immortal unit and the StormLord with a bunch of other lords & crypt’s to put into the Immortal Units.
The first thing I made clear to myself is that Malta Weapons still do 2 dice penetration if close enough to the Monoliths.
This game saw lots and lots of necron shooting at my LRC and the weathered the onslaught incredible well. Both tanks absorbed dozens of hits taking the pressure off the terminators. Also nick’s army really didn’t have an answer to killing terminators except mass shots. In the end I managed to take out all his ground units and immobilize 2 Monoliths and destroy the third one. My EC beat the Stormlord in HTH combat twice. Win 3-0

Game #3 vs. Imperial Guard, Jeremy

Jeremy’s army had a command squad and 4 veteran squads in chimeras, 2 hell hounds in a squad, 2 vendettas and a LR battle tank. (I feel as if I’m missing something there, but that is what I recall at this time)

This was not going to be an easy fight and it wasn’t. We slugged this one out back and forth and Jeremy kept the pressure up with multiple Lascannons and Melti guns, Flamers and Scatter Lasers. I lose one of my LRC in round 2 and the other was immobilized in round 4. Both terminator units took out a unit each but paid the untimit price by round 3. My EC was unable to charge through cover to the Psyker squad (ah that was the unit I was forgetting) and got shot down in round 4.

At the end of round 5 I was beat as Jeremy had 1 of his camps and an objective and my camp & objective was being contested by a hell hound tank. I was also down by 1 kill point. We rolled and a round 6 was in play. Jeremy was unable to kill another unit in his part of round 6 but my Marshal finished off a unit in HTH (2nd round of combat) and headed for my opponents camp. In my turn I tried to destroy the Hell Hound by Lascannon and Krak grenades but was only able to stun it.

I made the error of shooting with my LRC at the unit my Marshal was going to charge killing enough models so I needed a 6 on the move through cover roll and I only got a 5.

The game ended and Jeremy wins 2-0 and takes the tournament. I did come in 2nd.

We had 8 players and I was a very fun day.

Next up is the Storm the Kastler GT in Santa Clara.

Game on!