Game 1: Dan (Chaos Troopzilla) vs. Zach (Battlewagon Orks)

My first opponent was Zach, a fellow Dakka-ite, who was running Battlewagon Orks led by Ghazghkull using a fairly standard configuration. His army was roughly as follows:

Ghazghkull (in Battlewagon with Nobs)
Mekboy – KFF (in Battlewagon with Nobs)

12 Lootas (in Battlewagon)
12 Lootas (in Battlewagon)
Nob Squad – Mega armor, kombi-flamers, power klaws, Trukk

Nob Squad (Troops) – Heavy armor, Painboy, Battlewagon w/ boarding plank, big shoota x2
20 Slugga Boyz – Nob w/ klaw (in Battlewagon)
12 Shoota Boyz – Nob w/ klaw, Trukk
12 Slugga Boyz – Nob w/ klaw, Trukk

Deffkopta – TL rockets
Deffkopta – TL rockets
Deffkota – TL rocket, buzzsaw

Battlewagon – Boarding plank, big shoota x2
Battlewagon – Boarding plank, big shoota x2
Battlewagon – Boarding plank, big shoota x2

We used the round 1 scenario, Land Grab (modified Capture and Control + Annihilation), and deployed directly across from one another on the left half of the board. I kept my objectives as close together as possible, knowing that I could easily castle them with the huge volume of vehicles I was fielding. Zach set one objective across from me and the other on the opposite side of the board.

I won the roll and gave Zach first turn. As in my practice games, I tried to steal the initiative but failed to do so. He came straight at me with everything while the Lootas blasted away at my Defilers, destroying a weapon. A Trukk full of Ork Boyz immobilized itself immediately on some difficult terrain, but the others made it through.

I responded by turbo-boosting one squad of melta bikes towards the Loota Battlewagons, which were adjacent to one another on the right side of the left half of the board at his board edge. The other unit went after Ghazghkull’s wagon, but failed to do anything. I exploded the other Trukk full of boyz with a battlecannon shell, causing it to move into Defiler charge range with the ramshackle rule. The surviving boyz were easily beaten in close combat and then swept and the Defilers consolidated back to where they were at the beginning of the turn.

Zach began turn 2 by disembarking his Nobs + Ghazghkull from the wagon and shooting at the bikes. This ended up being a huge mistake seeing as I failed 3/5 armor saves, eliminating the squad and leaving the super unit with nothing to charge. The Meganob Trukk zoomed around my left flank, though I was successful in creating a traffic jam that would prevent the unit from getting within charge range.

My second turn was huge, starting with the destruction of a Loota wagon with my bikes. I lashed Ghazghkull’s unit forward, creating a wall of Nobs in front of Ghaz within a narrow corridor created by vehicles, which prevented his character from being able to get into base contact during the assault, unless he was willing to pile wounds onto all of his power klaw nobs (he wasn’t). The other wagon filled with boyz was destroyed by meltaguns from Plague Marines, and the boyz who fell out got smashed by ordnance.

The assault phase was huge for me, as I charged both units of Berserkers into the Nob squad and linked the combat to the boyz using 2 Defilers and a Dreadnought. I won combat handily, killing almost all of the Nobs and several boyz, the rest of which were killed by combat resolution (thanks to Fearlessness being conveyed by their Waaargh!).

To add to the fun, I charged my biker unit into the 7 Lootas who survived the exploding wagon. They beat the hell out of me, winning combat and making me fall back. Smooth move, playa.

Zach kept at me with his Meganobs, getting the charge on my Plague Marines and Sorcerer who had to disembark in order to get melta range on the Battlewagon in the preceeding turn. He killed 4/5 marines and my Sorcerer was unscathed. The other combat saw the demise of everything but Ghazghkull, who made 4/4 5+ saves.

Details after this are a little fuzzy, but I managed to kill Ghazghkull and then beat the Meganobs in combat without losing my Sorcerer, then kill them in the sweeping advance. The Deffkoptas outflanked but didn’t really do much. My opponent conceded at the end of Turn 4, giving me the massacre. We abbreviated the next two turns to see if I would have been able to claim extra battle points, and I was able to get 23 of a possible 24.