This weekend we saw a quick game featuring Jason’s Orks taking on Bo’s Death Guard, our first game this year since the big Yearhammer megabattle and Bo’s fourth game playing Warhammer! A really wacky game that came down to the very last dice roll, read on . . .
Game Setup
Points:
The game was ran using Power Levels.
Orks: 50 PL
Death Guard: 45 PL
Only War Mission:
We used the Open War cards to decide what the game type would be.
- The Objective: Invasion was the objective for the game. The players roll off; starting with the winner, they then take it in turns to set up one objective marker each, anywhere in their own deployment zone. A player wins immediately if they control both objective markers at the end of their opponent’s turn.
- The Twist: Set Piece Battle was drawn. Instead of setting up units one at ta time, the player that won the roll-off to see who sets up first must set up all of the units in their army. Their opponent then sets up all of the units in their army.
- The Ruse: Dug In! for the Death Guard. Any of your units that are not in cover count as being in cover as long at they remain stationary
Deployment:
Using the Open War cards, the teams deployed in opposite corners.
Armies
Jason’s Orks:
Battalion Detachment — Warboss, Weirdboy, Mob of 19 choppa/slugga boyz with a Boss Nob, Mob of 9 choppa/slugga boyz with a Boss Nob, Mob of 8 shoota boyz with a big shoota boy and Boss Nob, Mob of 5 burna boyz, Mob of 5 Tankbustas, unit of 3 Lobba Big Gunz, (2) Trukks
Bo’s Death Guard:
Unbound — Typhus, (2) units of Blightlord Terminators, Foetid-Blight Drone
Photos
Highlights and Score Breakdown
- The first turn saw Jason using Da Jump to toss a unit of 20 Boyz across the board and camp out in front of the building where Bo was holding his objective. He then spent his turn shooting the Foetid-Blight Drone, which tanked quite a few wounds.
- On Bo’s first turn, he deep struck in behind Jason’s line and unloaded mass firepower, taking out a unit of 10 boyz. He then decided to assault the Warboss, which survived the first round of fighting and took out a few Terminators!
- The following round, the Tankbustas in a trukk unleashed their rokkits on the Drone to blow it out of the skies.
- The Warboss got to fight first and he wiped out the rest of the Terminators!
- After that, turns 3&4 went REALLY fast with the Orks staging outside the building housing the Death Guard’s objective
- On turn 5, the Orks attacked! So much green blood spilled, but the Death Guard held on and controlled the Objective
- A dice was rolled to see if the game went on for another turn, it did!
- The Orks took out the rest of the Terminators and focused on Typhus, who held on but couldn’t kill off enough Orks by the end of his turn . . .
Final Score:
Jason: 1 VP
Bo: 0 VP
After six rounds and coming down to the final dice throws, the Orks steal the second objective from the Death Guard to claim victory for the Green Tide!