Sharing the Pain.

While we wait for 6th edition change everything we can dawdle a bit on a pain we suffered during 5th.

We all have stories how shattershard take most of paladin's unit, how multicharged on first turn and sent enemy to oblivion soon after, how single archon mulched face of half of the enemuies army. That thread is not about such stories .

Please share your pain with the rest of your commorites, like half your army get blown at turn 1 and or some spectacular rolls to hit to a single bloody enemy model.
Share what lessons did you bring out from this metaphorical holliday visit to a Haemounculus lab =).

Do not play against vendetta spam or tank spam ig.

A webway portal list is probably not best used against Chimera w/flamer spam IG when your list is primarily composed of wyches and bloodbrides.

Stay out of the blast radius when you kill tanks while using harlies, as they never get FNP.

If you're fighting a greater demon of nurgle, make sure Vect is in base to base with it, else it's probably gonna pulverize your talos, bloodbrides, and HQ...

when you multiassault tanks with wyches, actually roll a hit or two, and then a glance or two with your HWG's.

If you have a suicide squad, make sure it targets something worth targeting... like the greater demon instead of the demon prince...

WWP vs daemons = fail

WWP vs deepstrike army = always go second

WWP = lots of practice

Wracks + Venom > Warriors + Venom

Dais = LOLZ

Sliscus' shadowfield, is, in fact, for decoration. I found out because for my four and only games where he's taken a wound AT ALL (including before saves), he has failed the first save and been killed. Otherwise he hasn't even been looked at (what are the damn clothes for anyways!).

It is my sincere belief he has a deathly fear of shuriken cannons.

Wait...he died to those craftworld made in thaivan children's toys for Commorragh? LoL
And the shadowfield failing is why i use clonefields

Turn 2, against C:SM. His 4-plasma Command squad has Podded onto the field. My Incubi line up for assault, needing just 2 or more for their Fleet to make it.

I recall grinning with confidence as I threw the die.

Clone fields don't help against guns...

well yes. Thats why you have to keep'em in cc as meny times as you can. Sliscus...well he aint that much of a melee man as i find out. You dont put them with incubi, wyches, wracks, grotesques. You put them with cannonborn mostly or something similar. And since all other squads are better for wound alocation, than borns - eather larger in number against shooting or have better armor or fnp...

@ Raneth well...sometimes dice gods willing

IDK. I've never played with Sliscus but after he's passed his boon to the Dakkaborn I reckon he'd be best off among some Wyches.

That's what I do. Hop him form warriors to some bloodbrides. This works well.

Enemy has two units of Long Fangs in two towers. Two Razorwings come out of reserve. First Razorwing unloads: 3/4 missiles scatter off, Disintegrators roll 1's to wound, the frickin' Splinter Cannon barely manages to snag 1 Lascannon. Might as well target the other, intact squad with my second Razorwing, right? Beautiful missile hits, wonderful wounding, everything looks good.

Until he makes 15/16 of his saves. We should have our Incubi buy their power armor from wherever Logan Grimnar picks his up.

Oh, and 7 darklight weapons on the ground failed to ding any vehicles that turn. Feels bad, man.

Having vect join a squad of wyches charging into assault only to lose the combat by 1 and have the wyches flee carrying vect from the battlefield is embarrassing.

having Vect join wyches was the problem in the first place. Nothing personal, but that was just realy...iduno...
A nother thing: dont shoot 40+ poisoned shots in to a squad of Wraithguard with a conceal lock. It wont do any good, espechially if they have fortune. Have the incubi deal with it. Sadly, when i realised they are not falling fast enough, i was still with my shooty army. Tough luck.

Enfernux wrote:

having Vect join wyches was the problem in the first place. Nothing personal, but that was just realy...iduno...

agreed.

but it is worth noting that it is equally embarrassing when you dont join the wyches, win combat in one turn and then have vect peppered to death by rapid firing bolters whilst the wyches watch thinking 'that's gotta hurt'

don't get too ballsy with deepstriking a jetfighter, otherwise you'll end up somehow.. tripping over a marine and lawn-darting into a rock

This one just happened tonight.

When a battlewagon with a deffrolla tank shocks you, get the hell out of the way. You're going to take d6 str 10 hits regardless of whether or not you stop the tankshock. On top of that, if you DO death or glory and successfully stop the battlewagon, you STILL take an additional d6 str 10 hits (if you fail to move when tank shocked or death or glory, you take 2d6 str 10 hits, regardless of whether or not you stop the tanks shock.) It's kind of the dumbest rule I have ever read... Because I tried to let common sense dictate my actions, 8 members of a 10 member wych squad bit it.

Dont line up another template before your opponent removes EVERY SINGLE ONE of the casualties from the previous template. (he was being super slow)

Oh, that cannot happen. I the template rules it states you MUST hit as many models as possible, so if he removes the casualties, you have to make sure the template hits something if it can, as the rules state that you must.

I still hit like 8 models, but i could have hit 9 if he hadnt removed one of the models under the template... XD