Desolation of Delta Tao

Hi guys,
just thought I'd share this one with you. Mods if you think this post should be elsewhere then please move it.

I tend to be the guy that organises things at my club, and the campaign currently running is a 6-player escalation campaign. There's a quick explanation in my blog here and a more detailed run-through here

The first three games took place last night (well, one of the 750pt games is still to be played) and I'm pleased to say that yours truly is currently leading things (it won't last I'm sure).

First game was a kill team where my bike squad (6 bikes and a multimelta attack bike) took on a 10 man chaos marine squad in a rhino.

It started well, with the rhino getting blown up on turn 1 by the attack bike. I followed that up though by only killing one model with the rest of my shooting.

In response I lost two of my three specialists (one to overwatch fire!) and I thought my number was up. Thankfully we got some combats going and the toughness of my bikers told in the end, I managed to kill the enemy leader and all three specialists, plus breaking my enemy and linebreaker to win the game 8-7


Second game was against a footslogging wolf list with a nasty battle leader on thunderwolf. Having secured the starport territory i could modify all reserve rolls by one, but that didn't help my storm talon arrive. I rolled the dice to see what damage he would have done and we're looking at 6 wounds on the battle leader.

It was a very one-sided game and my opponent only had four models on the table at the end. Sadly one of them was holding an objective and the others were claiming linebreaker whilst my razorback was 1" short of holding another objective. We both got slay the warlord and I held an objective in my opponent's deployment so we both had linebreaker. He got first blood.

I made three massive mistakes here, the first was that i forgot to activate force and iron arm in my second turn, which (again, rolling in retropsect) meant my libby would have killed the battle leader outright. Second was not making sure that the razorback had the objective on turn 5 (i went round the terrain rather than through it, not wanting to risk immobilising myself). A third and possibly the most significant was shooting a combat squad at the solitary wolf guard instead of running over to the objective. I figured 8 bolter shots and a plasma cannon blast should do it. It didn't.

a 6-5 loss

Final game was ridiculously one-sided as I left my opponent with just a single grey hunter (different player, using an unbound space wolf/guard list) and claiming maximum points (2 objectives, first blood, slay the warlord and linebreaker)

Man of the match was my landspeeder, which accounted for general grizmund, a blizzard shield dread and claiming an objective and linebreaker (5 VPs right there) but moment of the match had to be my stalker, which, lacking any airborne targets, snap fired at his manticore, hitting first time with all four shots and destroying it.

his only other units were two combat squads of grey hunters that fell to combo fire from vindicator, whirlwind and two razorbacks.

next up - 1000pts against a wraith list. My pre-written list is bikes - erm, help! At least I'll get jink saves!