Pick up game

Points: 1500
Mission: Take and hold, gamma
Opponent: Dave Richardson
Opposition: Orks

Minor Loss

Dave's Orks are a walking hoard which came second at last years second round qualifiers for the GT. So the army is pretty competent and Dave knows it inside out. Featuring lots and lots of boyz i had to be ruthless and efficient with my shooting and only enter assault on my terms- a lot easier said than done. My plan was pretty simple, flank the Orks and close in on the centre from both sides and not front on, meet in the middle and hopefully have enough stuff left. It seemed to be working early on with the devastators flying frag missiles into the boys, however a Predator Annihilator zapping two or so Grots a turn is a little disheartening. Mid game Dave hit the speeder squadron which brought up the abandoning crew point. One of the speeders with stunned the other shaken, with no returning shots and therefore another turn of shooting a had no choice but to hide the still mobile speeder effectively killing the other but keeping the squadron scoring (see the earlier post for the outcome) So the game came to the last turns and i hadn't done anywhere near enough damage but hadn't suffered to badly so i committed the Tacticals forward in the hope charging Orks has got to be better than being charged, it almost worked- if it wasn't for all the other Orks i couldn't get to. The end result, lots of dead Marines one of the most costly games yet.

Losses:
6 IV Company Assault Marines
9 IV Company Tactical Marines
1 IV Company Devastator Marine
2 VII Company Tornados
2 VII Company Dreadnoughts
4 VII Company Tactical marines

1 Codicier