My Guard vs buddy’s AdMech, still playing 9th because 10th fucked both our factions, doing Tempest because fixed objectives suck. Also only 1k points. I brought a bit of a meme list because my guard have been undefeated in our play group (vanquisher russ w/ the reroll tank ace, deathstrike, ogryn instead of bullgryn, triple scout sentinels in a single unit with plasma cannons that I intended to charge with). The weird thing is that this objectively worse version of my list costs more points, thank you James Workshop.
Highlights:
- A deathstrike doing literally nothing all game because it’s so easy to avoid (I could have taken the lame missiles but it’s godslayer or nothing)
- The Vanquisher Russ needing to command reroll 2 wound rolls to do anything (though it did one-shot an onager and kill two breachers)
- The Datasmith just charging a plasma Russ and living the rest of his days in melee because I had nothing to charge him with and nothing with good enough shooting to justify falling back
- 3 sentinels living in melee with a tech priest all game while holding his deployment objective
- Only living models at end of game: deathstrike, 2 tech priests, 3 skitarii rangers
Final Score: Guard 67-AdMech 37
Actually Played a Game of 40k
Just massive amounts of fake news coming from Lemmygrad. No one ever plays DnD or 40k, it just doesn’t happen. This is unabashed propaganda and reason for defederation.
Comrade, I regret to inform you that the unabashed propaganda is coming from inside the house.
Very nice, very guard. All friendlies kia, objective accomplished. Excellently in-line with the lore. May I ask what list your friend had?
As I remember it:
1x Tech Priest Dominus
1x Tech Priest Manipulus
1x Cybernetica Datasmith w/ the teleport relic
15x Skitarii Rangers
5x Skitarii Vanguard
3x Kataphron Breachers (h arc rifles)
5x Fulgurite Electro-Priests
5x Pteraxi Sterilyzers (in deep strike)
2x Kastelan Robots (flamer, 1 fist, 1 gun)
2x Onager Dunecrawlers (neutron laser)
I think forge world was Lucius. One of the tech priests was the warlord but I totally forget WLT.
Nice list and thanks! I’m also running admech, but the one game I played (500 pts, 8th ed I think?), I got tabled by my friend’s TSons. But at least I got to zap Ahriman in the face with s volkite!
Good stuff, comrade
Good luck if you play any games in the future! AdMech are in a really rough spot right now.
Not to worry, I also have two whole squads of Deathwatch! They gotta be in good shape, right? They’re space marines, so they should be fine, r-right?!
At least competitively, Deathwatch is in a pretty good place, right around the top 5. As for casual play, well, you never know, but they clearly at least have some tools.
Maybe it’s a skill issue then
The only person with a skill issue is James Workshop, who cannot write a balanced set of rules to save his life.
fuck 10th all my comrades hate 10th
It’s true!