Invenothial

Turn 1 was mostly just staging on both ends, he killed my land raider in melee with his heavy intercessors after it took a shot from a lancer. After which in turn 2 my own heavy ints reduced his to half and the BGV coming out of the land raider took care of the rest.

I then dropped Caanok Var’s big blog of horrible death (tm) on the middle objective to sticky it and move up into his backline to wreak havoc.

Then in his turn 2 he made the mistake which we both agreed probably cost him the game, by dropping 3 inceptors, 6 aggressors with Tor Garadon, and 5 assault terminators with Lysander on one side of the board where I only had two dreadnoughts.

He obliterated the first in shooting meaning his aggressors couldn’t charge and were stuck there and I could just ignore them. Then an unlucky secondary draw meant he had to have his inceptors move back to his DZ to recover, and I just whittled down the termies with my lancer.

Him way overcommitting to that half of the board meant I racked up a lot of points by just holding my half and forcing him to walk over to me 5” plus advance a turn. My list really likes it when you focus too hard on one area, if you push one side too hard the other rolls forward and gains too much of a foothold to easily break me out of.

It was a very close game with us both basically tied the whole time, ended up being a loss for me due to failing an important charge and keeping a secondary longer than I should have.

Some notable moments:

In turn 2 he deep struck his terminators in my back line, to which I responded by rapid ingressing my terminators next to his, mine proceeded to chase his the whole game, only catching them in turn 5 where I killed all but one of them with only 15 of my 30 hammer swings

Neither of my redemptor dreadnoughts rolled above 3 shots on their plasma incinerators the whole game, which led to Huron's unit living through multiple shooting phases.

I got to play against tyranids and was swarmed turn 1 by twenty genestealers who luckily failed their charge into my sternguard but made it to the land raider and brought it down to one wound. After which the bladeguard inside hopped out and proceeded to single-handedly wipe one of the units plus their brood lord.

Turn 2 was much of the same but now it was raveners and melee warriors trying to eat my land raider and one of my dreads, the raveners failed fortunately and the bladeguard charged in. At which point my opponent used a nearby lictor to heroically intervene to try and precision out my chaplain who I did not expect to live.

My chaplain then proceeded to defy the odds and make 5 4+ invulns and killed the lictor by himself on the return swing.

The rest of the game was just a mad dash for me to get out of my DZ (and also stop the tyranid warrior unit trying to eat my home objective) but I wasn’t able to claw back my opponents early lead in the end.