Started a crusade force with the new codex and I ran this list against my buddies Death Guard on Saturday. It was a blast and I am so looking forward to more games with my Orks.
BigMek Skraphide's Klankas
Combat Patrol - 50 PL
BigMek in Mega Armour - 6 PL
- Kustom Mega-Blasta
- Power Klaw
- Kustom Force Field
Knarg's Boyz - 5 PL
Boss Nob
- Power Klaw
9 Slugga Boyz
Scrak's Boyz - 5 PL
Beast Sangga Nob
9 Beastsnaga Boyz
Da Grots - 2 PL
10 Grots
Skraphide's Dread Mob - 18 PL
3 x Deff Dreads
-2 x Dread Klaw
-2 x Skorcha
Brika's Kanz - 7
3 x Killa Kans
-Rokkit Launcha
Braka's Kanz - 7
3 x Killa Kans
-Rokkit Launcha
Put the Dreads in the Tellyporta so I could drop them in on Turn 2.
He was running:
Lord of Contagion
Malignant Plaguecaster
9 Plague Marines
20 Poxwalkers
10 Cultists
3 Bloat Drones
He kept his Drones in Reserve as well.
Was a recon mission, First round was uneventful as we had dense enough terrain that we were both able to move forward and stay mostly in cover. I advanced Brika's kanz up to the middle of the board and got the Boyz and Beast Snaggas on some objectives to score the following round. Grots followed one set of boyz to hold the objective once they moved on. He moved his warlord and psyker forward wrapped in a blob of poxwalkers on to an objective. His plague marines and cultits moved did the same to another objectic, essentially mirroring my boyz and grots.
Round 2 the fireworks started. I moved Brika's Kanz forward and then dropped the Dreads into his backfield. Between the Dreads skorchas and the Rokkits from the Kanz, I wipped the Pox Walkers off the board, and then charged in with the Dreads, 1 of them making it to engagement range. Took out his Lord of Contagion with a flurry of Dread Klaws. He followed that by smiting one Dread and nearly killing it in shooting from the Marines. They finished it off on the charge that followed.
Round Three I started moving boyz foward, leaving grots to babysit an objective, with the terrain they were nearly completely hidden from site by the terrain. Got the second 2 Dreads into combat, and whiffed his attacks badly. He killed the second Dread in combat, but I managed to kill 4 marines as well. Then he dropped the 2 Drones into my backfield and thankfully failed most of the shots at my boyz and Big Mek, thanks to that handy dandy KFF. The third drone dropped near the Dread/Marine fight.
Round Four the boyz and beast snaggas turned around and went for the Drones, pistols got lucky and did a wound each. And Braka's Kanz nearly wipped one Drone. Then Brika's Kanz charged into the Marines fight, the boyz the Snaggas charged a Drone each, and the kanz tried by failed their charge. I ended up losing the third Dread and two Kanz, but also wiped the Marines, The Beast Snaggas knocked their drone down to 1 wound, the boyz didn't do as good, but the Nob put some wounds on. When he turned around to fight he managed to slaughter the boyz, but the Beast Snaggas killed their drone and consolidated onto the second.
Round Five saw the Beast SNaggas and Braka's Kanz wipe the second drone, and the last of Bricka's Kanz got locked into a fight with the third Drone, doing some serious damage to it.
Game ended 40-25 in the Boyz favor.
Ramshackle, the boost to toughness 5 on the boyz, and the Str 5 and invul on Snaggas all played a part in winning this for me as my guys stayed around long enough to get things done. I also had some lucky roles and dropping three Dreads into his backfield as the Kanz moved up was like a hammer and anvil that allowed me to do some crippling damage to his army very early in the match and then contested an objective the entire game. Da Grots did their job and held an objective the whole game, while my Big Mek didn't do much other then offer the protection of his KFF for a single round and sit on another objective.
All in all it was a fairly close and really fun games. With the orks actually proving to be pretty scary and surprisingly killy against and army that is notoriously hard to kill. Next match will likely be against Sisters with Celestine and lots of flamers. So we will see how that goes for me.
Edited by tentagil, 02 August 2021 - 07:18 PM.