When Chits Hit the fan

Our FLGS is doing a 40k doubles tournament coming up and people have been prepping by doing doubles matches.  We had one newcomer to Dropfleet so we decided to do a doubles match of dropfleet.   4x6 table.  Moon in the middle.  One civilian liner.  a few clusters and space stations.   Did activations normally by SR number.  A 4 player game is going to be longer by nature but the moon tend to split up the armies at times.  At those times we activated some players early if it wasn't going effect anything negatively.   A few notes.   Getting used to PHR. Ganymede, Bellerophon both worked well. Pandora group did their job. Ajax didn't end up doing anything, but that might have been the double-teaming from two manticores. Heracles's Dark Matter cannon was fun but his broadsides were disappointing.

Black Orchestra.  A semi-co-op game of trying to kill Hitler in Nazi Germany.   Terraforming Mars.  Private Corporations working over generations to terraform Mars into a habitual planet.   Putting all of our eggs in once basket, we killed Hitler as he returned to Berlin.   Final state of Mars, fully terraformed.  

Playing with the DSLR for the first time.  What do you think?

Bunker Assault The last mission I would face would also be my savior from ending up in last place.  My opponent brought a PHR demo force, however, in this mission the bunkers are indestructible.  This made his largest battlegroup (the demo battlegroup) with nothing to do. Also, the board was much more open that the other boards.  This worked out great for my Ocelot and Panther with their infinite ranged weapons. My opponent quickly took his quadrant's bunker with the demo battlegroup.  I had several buildings that separated that battlegroup from the rest of my army.  If he had destroyed those buildings then my army would have had a much worse time but he left them standing. Side Note.  His demo army did make me be more careful to my movements.  Typically you move behind and building for cover with no thought to being too close to the building.  But his demo group could easily down a building in one activation so I could easily lose a unit by a falling building. My op

Crucible The dreaded Crucible.  Four objectives, one Critical Location in the center.  This mission tends to favor the heavier armies with multiple Damage Points that can sit on the CL and survive.  Shaltari typically lack this unless you run a warstrider brick with a Dreamsnare.  Finding that brick too costly I opted to go with Shaltari infinite ranged weapons, the Ocelot and Panther.  My goal was to use these weapons to sit in the back and prevent anything from getting to or surviving on top of the CL. Interesting note.  My opponent blogged about this match as well  here .  It was definitely interesting hearing a post-match report from his perspective as it gives me a glimpse into his head that I never would have known.  For example, he speaks a lot about how he had to change his tactics due to my warspear, slowing down his approach and deploying his AA carefully.  I had no idea my warspear was so much on his mind. Awesome Power The match started well for me.  I got

Continuing  my repor t from  LVO 2017  here is my report for my first mission.   Survey and Control First time playing this mission.  It essentially comes down to hopping from building to building to gather as much intel as possible with a little randomness changing things up.   My opponent was also running Shaltari with a Leopard brick (2 leopards protected by a Dreamsnare).  My wife plays resistance and regularly curses my Shaltari shenanigans and this was the first time I got a taste of my own medicine.  Deployment and first round went ok.  I was able to score a Focal Point on a back building of mine.   Brave VS Brave The tides turned once my opponent moved a pair of Braves until CQB with my pair of Braves.  Given that infantry score all the points in this scenario I thought I would spend a turn quickly killing off his Braves and therefore prevent them from scoring anymore points.  I dematerialized four additional bases of Braves to bring the total CQB to my si

Report on LVO LVO 2017  would be my first Dropzone tournament.  Up until now my dropzone experience was casual play with only a couple different opponents.  I would typically play a different army and a different list each time I play.  Leading up to the tournament I wasn't sure which army to play but I had slightly more experience with Shaltari than any of the others. Given this was my first tournament with new opponents and that I didn't get a chance to practice my list beforehand I didn't hold out much hope for me winning the tournament.  My goal was essentially to not place last.  My tournament experience can be expressed per below: Scenarios Survey and Control Crucible Bunker Assault My biggest concern for the tournament was Crucible.  This was the only scenario I had played before against a PHR army with a Hades.  I tried to run a Jaguar brick with a dreamsnare.  I was able to control the Critical Location for the last half of the game but lost most of