1250 Doubles Practice

Getting prepped for the May 1250 doubles tournament.  I didn't have my usual Tau partner, but Frosty subbed in with his Chaos Marines nicely.  He has a smattering of things that are cool, but not very optimized (as he is wisely holding off on spending bank before the new book comes out).  I'm planning on bringing the blood angels as usual.  The list is much closer to what I brought to the last 2000 tourney than any of the mech lists I have been running before.

It is not quite descent of angels, but pretty close.  Librarian, Plasma Honor Guard with Jump packs, 2 full assault squads, and 10 assault terminators.  We had a slow paced relaxing game, which is great coming off of a tournament, so that Frosty could pick up on the rules and tactics.  I spent a good deal of time outlining what I was trying to plan out.  By the half way point he had a good understanding of where I was going and was able to go along with it, without much instruction.  Definitely got the drift of each units roll and what to do next.

Capture and Control, pitched battle with the Tau and Vanilla marines going first.  They place the objective to our right.  We place straight across on our right as well.  We don't have the guns to match them so we figured we would keep the objectives close.

They then surprise us by putting both armies completely to our left as if it was spearhead.  I think they were trying to create some really open fire lanes.  IMO this really cost them the game.  We pushed a few key units towards them, Beserkers and the big terminator squad, keeping them hemmed into their corner.  The zerkers and TDA got chewed up by the railguns, plasma and Null Zone, but there were enough bodies to keep any units from getting by and getting close to our objectives for 5 turns.

It wasn't until turn 6 when Matt was able to Gate of Infinity over to contest the objective in our deployment zone, but we were holding the other one firmly.  Point to us for playing the scenario from the get go, it felt like we were robbing one!

Definitely, making changes to the list.  Going to cut out some wargear to add another priest.  I really need some more FNP and FC.  This comes at the cost of suits for the Tau, but we'll figure that out...stupid shared force org chart!