My Guard vs buddy’s AdMech, still playing 9th because 10th fucked both our factions, doing Tempest because fixed objectives suck. Also only 1k points. I brought a bit of a meme list because my guard have been undefeated in our play group (vanquisher russ w/ the reroll tank ace, deathstrike, ogryn instead of bullgryn, triple scout sentinels in a single unit with plasma cannons that I intended to charge with). The weird thing is that this objectively worse version of my list costs more points, thank you James Workshop.
Highlights:
- A deathstrike doing literally nothing all game because it’s so easy to avoid (I could have taken the lame missiles but it’s godslayer or nothing)
- The Vanquisher Russ needing to command reroll 2 wound rolls to do anything (though it did one-shot an onager and kill two breachers)
- The Datasmith just charging a plasma Russ and living the rest of his days in melee because I had nothing to charge him with and nothing with good enough shooting to justify falling back
- 3 sentinels living in melee with a tech priest all game while holding his deployment objective
- Only living models at end of game: deathstrike, 2 tech priests, 3 skitarii rangers
Final Score: Guard 67-AdMech 37
Very nice, very guard. All friendlies kia, objective accomplished. Excellently in-line with the lore. May I ask what list your friend had?
As I remember it:
1x Tech Priest Dominus
1x Tech Priest Manipulus
1x Cybernetica Datasmith w/ the teleport relic
15x Skitarii Rangers
5x Skitarii Vanguard
3x Kataphron Breachers (h arc rifles)
5x Fulgurite Electro-Priests
5x Pteraxi Sterilyzers (in deep strike)
2x Kastelan Robots (flamer, 1 fist, 1 gun)
2x Onager Dunecrawlers (neutron laser)
I think forge world was Lucius. One of the tech priests was the warlord but I totally forget WLT.
Nice list and thanks! I’m also running admech, but the one game I played (500 pts, 8th ed I think?), I got tabled by my friend’s TSons. But at least I got to zap Ahriman in the face with s volkite!
Good stuff, comrade
Good luck if you play any games in the future! AdMech are in a really rough spot right now.
Not to worry, I also have two whole squads of Deathwatch! They gotta be in good shape, right? They’re space marines, so they should be fine, r-right?!
At least competitively, Deathwatch is in a pretty good place, right around the top 5. As for casual play, well, you never know, but they clearly at least have some tools.
Maybe it’s a skill issue then
The only person with a skill issue is James Workshop, who cannot write a balanced set of rules to save his life.
that is a feature. if you designed a good edition you wouldn’t be able to sell another