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Game 1- Kill points vs Marines - Win
There was one other space marine with a LRC, and we got matched up. He drove his LRC at mine turn one. I backed up for more distance to play it safe, he wanted his LRC's MM to get a shot at mine, i wanted to see if my combi-melta or an Assault cannon round couldnt at least destroy the MM or stun it for a turn.
So, shot my assault cannon for 4hits, 2 rendings and a total of 2 15s to penetrate and kaboom. Chalk one up to luck, eh?

Game 2 - Kill points vs Ork - Win
a horde shooty ork list (LRC and razorback ran it over. Lost the razorback but managed to load the 5 man squad into the LRC for cover. the rhino took no fire so basically ran flamer-drive bys for 3 turns)

Game 3 - Kill points vs Tau - Win
His smart missile systems ravaged the razorback and he played defensively in a corner forcing me to come at him, or get loose kill points via smart missiles shooting over cover and popping my light transports. Managed to chase down his suits+ hammerhead, captain assaulted the suits, LRC assault cannons and MM destroy weapon and leave the hammerhead useless. His piranha came in from reserve with a fusion blaster, missed, and got shredded by the assault cannon. He had no more means of dealing with AV 14 Managed to move my LRC back and pick up my 10 man squad to save kill points. The next turn, i managed to pick up my captain and chase his devilfish around the board with a MM and Assault cannon.

Game 4 - Center Objective vs Demonhunters -Win
The only lascannon shot to be fired the entire game destroys my Landraider - aka almost half my force. Captain dies turn 3. 15 marines somehow clean house with a ML, flamer, and combi-melta. Felt like i was playing movie marines when a lone sergeant took out 2 rhinos and a leman russ between krak grenades and a combi-melta shot.

Game 5 - Capture and Control vs demons- Win
Did everything in my power to down his 2 MCs, he managed to catch my rhino and destroy it with his last MC. I managed to pick up the 10 man squad in the LRC and polish the last MC down. from there, it was pretty much a cake walk.









The best performance award goes to the LRC. Not just for the AV 14, but the extra carrying space i had came in handy. Power of the Machine spirit... is amazing for racking up kill points and polishing units off/taking random shots at tanks

So you had a good run this weekend.

Is there any marine player without a Land Raider in games under 1000 pts?

Good job Earthen,

And Fhad, i don't have a land raider

Good job dude, did you sweat at any point? Looks like the last 2 games could have had you concerned at the very least?

Its impossible to resist the awesomeness

You won't escape the "owner of LR club" that is space marines......

Haha thanks guys. Oddly enough there were only 2 SM players in the league (most people were starting new armies) and we both showed up with a LRC!

Was definitely most worried vs the tau, because the way the table was set up I was basically forced to come after him, and he was ripping my small transports up as I moved across the map, at one point i was strung out over a 36" straight line diagonally across the board. This worried me because he had kept his devilfish in reserve, so any of my squads not mounted were liable to be taken out by that damn pulse rifle fire. Luckily things worked out once i got into assault range with my captain, got some nice work done with power of the machine spirit, and managed to go back and pick up my other units to protect them from the devilfish entering the table.

That tau player actually beat the other SM player, who opted to not bring an HQ in favor of a dreadnought.


The game against the Demonhunters was seriously karma biting me in the @ss for taking a LRC at 750 points. The ONLY THING this kid had to take out my LR was a lascannon mounted on a leman russ with BS3 of all things. Not to mention i had a 4+ cover save, and the map was literally riddled with cover, so he wouldnt be getting a clear shot at my LRC for the entire game if i played it right.

He got 1st turn and blew my LRC sky high, my reply was a wimpy Krak missile @ side armor which made it immobile and easy prey for a krak grenade. He had a 5 man squad of GKs, and besides that, 3 units of storm troopers armed with flamers and grenade launchers - so i pretty much got to move around as i pleased.

It pretty much came down to

10 man squad /w Flamer and ML in rhino
5 man squad /w combi melta in Razorback

vs

5 man GK squad
~8ish man stormtrooper squad, flamer, grenade launcher, rhino
~8ish man stormtrooper squad, flamer, grenade launcher, rhino
~8ish man stormtrooper squad, flamer, grenade launcher, rhino


So between the ML and the combi melta, plus the heavy bolters actually immobilizing a rhino for a nice krak grenade , i had the better anti-tank. played keep away from the GKs, using my tanks to keep his knights from supporting his stormtroopers in close combat when i managed to crack open a rhino and get a charge on the passengers.

He should have mounted his grey knights in a rhino and tried to get an assault on my rhino or my razorback (which was only moving less than 6 a turn, giving up that easy 4+ to hit)
He eventually just moved/ran GKs to the center objective while waiting to fire stormbolter shots at rear rhino armor if i gave him the chance. actually managed to double-tank-shock them off the objective on turn 5.

I left a squad of GKs and 4 storm troopers alive, but the storm troopers had no way of getting to the objective in time.

The demons game just relied on if i could gun down his MCs quick enough. after that, thered be nothing to kill my AV 14. Once they were down it was alot less scary. Even less scary when i managed to make use of that extra carrying capacity and load my tactical squad into the LRC with my captain.