I got my arse well and truly whooped!
I made a few significant errors during the game which lead to my army being destroyed by what I still think is an inferior force.
Error 1)
I got entirely fixated by a Land Raider Redeemer, throwing unit after unit against it when if I had kept my distance it would have posed very little threat.
Error 2)
Not understanding the rules made me ignorant of how dangerous flamestorm cannons are to even power armoured infantry. I also underestimated how hard it was to crack the armour of a Land Raider or Ironclad Dreadnought. wasting precious troops in assaults they had no chance of winning.
Error 3)
Well to be honest there isn't an error 3 as the first two mistakes lost me the game. If I had concentrated on getting troops on objectives instead of charging down the barrel of a flamestorm cannon it would have been a more even fight. I also think that some more anti armour units would be a good idea as I had real trouble with the aforementioned Land Raider and an Ironclad Dreadnought, I have already got a bike squadron on its way from ebay (it's going to need some TLC though judging by the pictures), fitting them out with melta guns is the way I'm going with them maybe add an attack bike at a later date.
As a whole it was an enjoyable battle and I will take away a number of hard learnt lessons from it but hey you can't win them all right?
Who are you calling inferior?!? >:(
ReplyDeleteHaha, seriously though, I agree with this post. My force was pretty slap dash (having been chosen due to being painted). My big advantage was target familiarity. I knew which parts of your force were the most dangerous to mine and sent the appropriate units after them.
You'll forever be tweaking your list, but I think the basic tools are all there. You just need more games really!
Although more anti tank is always advised. I'm pretty paranoid about that tho, seeing as my main opponents are guard.