GLADIATOR WH40K - 2011 - Games 4 to 7

Game 4 vs Jessie and his Mech Blood Angels.

Jessie deployed in just one corner and it looked like we were fighting on a 4x4 :P. This was my first attempt at a Video Batrep (you can tell from the video :P )



The game was kill both HQs but only an opposing HQ can kill another HQ in close combat. Anything else and they become invulnerable to anything. See the video for yourself. But I was facing a very mechanized list with a very strong counterattack unit.

He managed to kill off the Warboss with Snikrot but not before they managed to destroy the dakka preds..

The death of the Warboss and Snikrot once again cost me 310 points but without that I probably wouldn't have been able to at least kill his Predator Destructors..

Game 5 vs Obi and 4th Ed Dark Angels

Game 5 was up against OBI and his Dark angels using the 4th edition ruleset (which was legal for Gladiator -- perhaps I should have just used my Lost and the Damned list) .. He had Tank Hunter Dev squads and Vindicator with Land Raider combo and more shoota units.. The scenario had meteors dropping at us each player turn causing massive casualties..

The most important shot was the Vindicator losing its Siege gun at the very start of the turn.. With snikrot and the Warboss appearing behind the vindicator and near the Predator and Dev Squad. I managed to gut them all and Obi proceeded to backpedal away and towards his Land Raider on his far left flank.

I actually had it in the bag with the Warboss and Snikrot managing to survive this mess until the last turn.. and despite me not making any single KFF save again like what happened last game

Game 6 vs Felix and Hestan

Game 6 was against Felix and his Vulcan Hestan list.. We had to deploy from the short table edge and had to walk on towards the middle .. there were 5 objectives in the middle of the field with 2 death rays moving to obliterate any model that it touches.

Felix had 2 dreads in drop pods and a teleporting 8 man thunderhammer squad.. he then had 2 tac squads and 2 multimelta land speeders. He decided to drop his first dreadnought near my lines and then tried to flame wipe out my boy squads.. I manage to hold on and manage to Powerklaw one dread... then his thunderhammer units teleport in. Instead of being more aggressive with it though he starts to back pedal with them.

This gives time for my Grotzooka Kans to hit them with pie plates and I manage to kill 5 of them in one go with a bit of bad luck from Felix.. still those 3 last Terminators manage to wipe out an assaulting Burna mob and to clump up another Boyz mob so they get beamed by the lasers..

I get some good luck and some bad luck as well. I manage to destroy his other dreadnought with nothing but bigshoota fire at the rear but I fail to dislodge the rhino in the middle objective and the Land speeder on the side that cost me the game.. oh well.



Game 7 vs Henri Tecson and his Space Wolves

Game 7 was against Henri and his Wolf-Priest Led Space Wolves army. He had the usual 2 Missile Launcher Long Fang list with 3 Wolf scouts and a GreyHunter with 2 Blood Claw units with rhinos and Razorbacks galore.

I had forgotten that the Deft Koptas have HIT and RUN.. a small chance to pull it off with my initiative.. but still .. that would have kept them alive against the assaulting blood claws. The mission had us randomly be deployed from left center or right of our deployment zone. I had my KFF mec at the very left flank and would not help with providing cover for the rest of the unit.

I experienced first hand how preferred enemy on a wolf priest and blood claws can get in close combat. The squad managed to wipe out my 20 ork boy unit and the gretchin squad. The other Blood claw unit managed to wipe out the other one as well. This was the only game were all of my troops got eliminated in the carnage.

Fortunately though my troops got wiped out, I manage to wipe out most of his other units except for the hiding Blood claw unit in the rhino. Well another phyrric victory for me.

CONCLUSION
So there goes the entire series for me. It had its ups and downs and I manage to actually at least be decent in some of those games.. Here's to the next series of games..