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Posts older than 180 days will be automatically deletedWednesday 24th July
Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:25 am
Will be down as usual, open to suggestions, plan is SAGA/DBA unless anything else is desired
40k?
40k?
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:47 pm
Prob only manage to pop in to say hi
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:57 pm
I will be in tarn tomorrow, got a game with Philburn in the afternoon, could bring some 40k with me.
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:53 pm
Sorry have a game of flames organised 
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:23 pm
Dropshort wrote:I will be in tarn tomorrow, got a game with Philburn in the afternoon, could bring some 40k with me.
No probs, will bring something down can sort of what tomorrow night
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:23 pm
GuEsTy wrote:Sorry have a game of flames organised
*cries*
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:33 pm
Don't be upset, I'll let you know how it goes
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:58 pm
Always happy to read a good battle report.
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Wed Jul 24, 2019 6:50 am
Baldie wrote:Always happy to read a good battle report.
Oh now theres a challenge
Re: Wednesday 24th July
Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:08 am
Well... suffice it to say this was "one of those games", Called it on turn three as the outcome was obvious by that point
My dice were, well my dice, nothing unusual there, James's however were truly shocking.
To give a flavour, two 1,500 point armies, the first turn saw a grand total of five wounds on a Rhino, my army unable to inflict even a single wound and James unable to inflict more than the five, turn two was similar and then a lot of squads were just very slowly battering each other down - my lot getting the better due to my dice being slightly less rubbish.
Hard to draw any conclusions other than Deathwatch are way over specialised and pay too many points for fancy tricks on models who are no more survivable than normal marines.
Have to wonder what to do about it, I find myself wondering if they need some sort of rule like "Crazy Prepared" where a bit like how chaos armies can "summon" things they can bring in as reserves (so T2 onward) other units from a pool of points, so they essentially spend T1 as a small pilot force then bring in exactly whats needed in the right place - balanced by the lack of punch T1 and the generally high cost of the units they do have. Seems fitting for a faction thats meant to be elite special forces but ends up a bit closer to short bus window lickers due to having to try and cover all bases and ending up covering none.
Did wonder if using the Cities of Death terrain rules would have helped, but probably not since basically shooting killed zip all game on either side with just about every casualty being in close combat
My dice were, well my dice, nothing unusual there, James's however were truly shocking.
To give a flavour, two 1,500 point armies, the first turn saw a grand total of five wounds on a Rhino, my army unable to inflict even a single wound and James unable to inflict more than the five, turn two was similar and then a lot of squads were just very slowly battering each other down - my lot getting the better due to my dice being slightly less rubbish.
Hard to draw any conclusions other than Deathwatch are way over specialised and pay too many points for fancy tricks on models who are no more survivable than normal marines.
Have to wonder what to do about it, I find myself wondering if they need some sort of rule like "Crazy Prepared" where a bit like how chaos armies can "summon" things they can bring in as reserves (so T2 onward) other units from a pool of points, so they essentially spend T1 as a small pilot force then bring in exactly whats needed in the right place - balanced by the lack of punch T1 and the generally high cost of the units they do have. Seems fitting for a faction thats meant to be elite special forces but ends up a bit closer to short bus window lickers due to having to try and cover all bases and ending up covering none.
Did wonder if using the Cities of Death terrain rules would have helped, but probably not since basically shooting killed zip all game on either side with just about every casualty being in close combat