The weekend was also full with some Kill Team missions amongst a number of my friends and armies. The first was my BA vs some Tau fielded by a friend who hasn't played since 3rd Edition. I brought my Death Company as usual and he took a number of Warriors and a single Crisis Suit with plasmas and a Marker Light Drone. One of my guys was equipped with a power fist and fleet, who was singling out his suit. I was able to fleet and get that suit, which saved me a big headache, but it still wasn't a cake walk. Since everyone has to slog it to assault the Warriors and his drone consistently got a marker light on one of my guys, increasing a shot to BS 4 each turn. He got me to half strength before I got him and I failed my first leadership test (8) but we continued playing, at which point I was able to wipe him from the table, but he still got the official victory.
I also got a friend that has never played before to play against a different 3rd Edition friend to play another Kill Team game of my Necron Warriors vs Space Marine scouts and a Dread w/ MM. The scouts stayed in cover and took pot shots all game while the Dread advanced. The new guy, Jason, pulled off the incredible rolling a single to-hit, a six to glance, and then a 6 to immobilize the Dread in the middle of the board. With it relegated to a stationary turret, the main threat of assault was gone and he preceded to shoot out the scouts for a victory! Finally, on Sunday those two guys teamed up on me for a 2 on 1, 400pt Kill Team battle royale, where I also got double the Force Organization to be fair.
The SM player took normal Termies at an even 200pts and the other repeated his 10 Warriors. I took a Furioso with Frag Cannon (mostly to test this baby out) with fleet, a 5-man Sternguard all with a combi-melta and one being relentless, and 4 Death Company with 3 power weapons, one being preferred enemy. They won roll off and gave me first turn, so I deploy closest to the edge of the deployment zone, ready to open fire and assault. And again, Jason pulls it off with a '1' roll, which steals initiative in Kill Team. This leads the Termies to assault me first instead of the other way around. I lose FC and one attack in this case, but I still strike first in combat, so not all was lost. He charged a Sternguard and two assaulted a DC in range, the others did not make range or specifically avoided my preferred enemy DC. He cut down the Stern, but I took out one of the Termies with the other DC before he was punched to death. My PE DC fell back for a turn or so but then got assaulted by two termies. I split my attacks between them, and was able to cut down both! He then assaulted the Termie Sgt that carried a power sword and FC to gain the upper hand. Since I still got to go first with an extra attack and strength, I cut him down as well, making that DC my MVP. My Furioso Frag Cannon also proved to be valuable, taking down 3 Necron in one blast and then another 2 a turn later. No AP and I never rended, but putting two wounds per model is a sweet deal. The only other thing of note was using the Vengeance rounds on my Sternguard that resulted in blowing away a Necron and then failing a save for Gets Hot and killing myself. Oh well, the price of AP 3 weaponry. And I actually whiffed in assault against a single Necron with a DC, letting him attack back with 1 shot, and Jason actually hitting and wounding me! I failed my armor, but then was saved by FNP; a very close call to embarrassment on my part.
I've interested these guys to play a bit more often, especially Kill Team for it's small scale and ease of use. After they get used to 5th Edition more, I'll try some other Battle Missions and then get them up to 1500pt battles again. Overall a good time was had by all.
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I'm anxious to get my hands on one of the new Baal Preds too. I can't afford the cash now, but it is a kit I definately want to buy.
The kill team miissions seem like fun, where do you find the rules for that? It would be nice to get multiple small games in, rather than trying to get one big one in.
Kill Team is detailed in the Battle Missions expansion book for 4k. The book outlines missions for each race for flavor, like wave attacks for horde armies or line-breaker ones for Guard tanks, etc. Kill Team is a generalized mission type for all armies, tho I'd prolly house rule some stuff. Like maybe one troop choice takes you to 170 points (making a point, not stating an actual example) but now maybe there's no possible way to take advantage of the remaining 30 points because minimum squad elite or fast attack will not fit, so now you're boned. But other than that, it's rather simple and quick.
Sounds a lot of fun, but I'b drop the USR thing I reckon. too easy to abuse.
Yeah, adding the 3-specialist rule can be crazy. Especially when something like a DC already has Relentless, FC, and FNP. Then like I did, add Preferred Enemy or Fleet, and you have a CC god. Same can be turned around and give ranged armies Relentless to some heavy weapons guy, stealth to increase cover saves for a shooter, or counter-attack to help keep someone alive (a Sternguard could use it say, since he is still good in CC, he just won't be making the attack usually since he's dedicated to shooting).
Something else in question is something like Red Thirst. Do I check all guys of a FoC at the same time, or do i check each model, since it says each one is considered it's own individual unit? Or Dedicated Transports can only hold one unit, so can only one guy embark on a rhino that you bought for the force choice? Just little things I'm not 100% on.
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