As I mentioned above, this weekend was my first tournament outing with the Orks. Took part in the 1000pts Exeter Legionary, the format was three games with various scenarios all based around the standard missions. I'm not one for writting in depth battle reports, so i'll give a brief overview of each game.
Game 1 - annihilation, dawn of war.
Opponent - Imperial guard, lots of troops, a leman russ and a demolisher. I won the roll off and elected to go first. I deployed 60 boyz and my big mek half way up the board, he deployed as many infantary as he could. I ran my boyz forward first turn (the the rest of my armyrunning on to the board), he wipped out about 25 boyz from his shooting, the leman russ and demolisher doing particularly well. Second turn I called my waagh and managed to multiple assault and wipe
out four guard unit. This then only really left the two tanks as the major threats. He rolled the tanks forward and attempted to kill my kanz as they were charging across the battle field. He managed to wipe out one of the boy units with his last remaing guard unit. My kanz then got in range of demolisher, assaulting and wrecking it, with my lootas immbolising other russ that was wrecked after an assault by the remaining boyz. The the grotzooka unit then shelled and assault the final guard unit wipping it out. All over in 4 turns with a win to the orks.
Game 2- three objects spread across the board diagonally, pitched battle.
Opponent: Space wolfs
This game I made some really stupid mistakes, the biggest of which was not keeping my big mek in range of the kan units from the second turn, allowing my opponent to detroy 4 kanz on the second turn, and getting a 30 man boy unit tied in combat with a dreadnaught for 4 turns, and
allowing the other 30 boyz to be wipped out my long fangs with 5 rokkits launchers. However the resilience of the army paid off and I in the fifth turn the second boy unit managed to finally kill the dread, turn around and wipe out the his two of his troop units sat on nearby objectives. The gretchin came on in the fifth and claimed objective in my deployment zone, and the severly depleted boy unit managed to survive a turn of 5 frag missiles and claim the centre objective, as the lootas blew up the rhino parked next to it. The game went to 7 turns and I won with two objectives to one - it was a very close game, partly caused by the stupid errors made early one,
but it did prove again that the army can be very resilient and has massive strength in numbers.
Games 3 - single objective in the center of the board - pitched battle.
Opponent - imperial guard, 2 vendetta, 1 valk, veteren squads. I ran the same tactic as above with the boyz deployed behind a wall of kanz. I won the roll off, and basically ran the bulk of the army forward, leaving the gretchin in reserve, and the lootas deployed in some woods. The lootas managed down the valk in the first turn, remove the nasty missle pods, he decided to concentrate on killing off the kanz first and managed to whip out 4 in the first turn. I hit his lines on turn three with the help decent waagh rolls and massacred the bulk of the infantary. This left one boy unit at almost full strength and the other about about a fifth strong. I then made my way back to the centre objective. The gretchin also making their move for the objective turn 4. Both of the vendettas were imbolised by the lootas (one unfortunatly on the obective), this was assaulted by the small boy unit blowing up and killing and them and also the three gretchin,
forcing them to take a test (they held). The full boy unit then reached the objective and there was nothing the reminent of his army could do to clear them. The game ended with a win to me
I ended the tournament in second place (out of about 20 odd people), picking up a £30 voucher, but unfortunatly no trophy! I finshed on the same points as the winner, but was edged out as he had a slightly better painting score. The winner is good mate of mine, and we both agreed that it was funny, but my army is much better painted!
Good tournament though and I was happy to come second, and very impressed with the orks first outing. Didn't actually get any pictures from the tournament, but I did take some full army picture which I'll post up this afternoon.
