Purple Haze Version 5 in Action

Tonight I did my first battle with my most recent army list. It's the 5th iteration of this army (version 4 never even saw the table). We played a 2 on 2 objective game where you start with an objective in your deployment zone. Thom and his Tau were teamed with me and Kyle and his 1000 Son's Chaos Space Marines were teamed with Marc and his Imperial Guard.

Marc and Kyle set up first and lined up on center line of the table. The rules were each side deploys an HQ and two troops and the first turn is night. Thom and I are forced to line up on the edge in order to deploy 18 inches from them.

The battle appeared to be going in favor of Kyle and Marc. Marc had parked a tank in the opening between two building, one of which contained his marker, in order to force me to take the long way around to him. Kyle had a troop planted on his marker and used the rest of his army to advance on Thom.

Thom and I had to spread our guys out so much on the second turn that I had to deploy one of my termaguant troops clear over on his side of the table. They took a wound and promptly failed their leadership test (no synapse creature even remotely close) and disappeared off the table edge. In the mean time two of my hormaguant troops ripped through Marc's men, but took about 25% casualties from shots.

By turn 4 I was down to two hormaguant models from a single troop, one carnifex, my hive tyrant, and a troop of termaguants. I was trying to get my hive tyrant in range of my termagaunts in order to get them to stop lurking and move to the scoring marker. Marc sent a missle barage in their direction though and wiped them out.

Thom destroyed Kyle's Space Marines near his marker, but lost his ethreal to Kyle's 1000 Sons troop. He had one troop left. It looked like it would end in a tie. Thom had Kyle's defiler and two 1000 Sons staring him down. I had a squad of snipers moving in on my last two guants. I was able to take my hive tyrant and shoot some of the snipers then have it any my two guants wipe them out in hand to hand. The consolidation made the two guys a scoring unit.

Thom concentrated his fire on Kyle's defiler and wiped it out, then he used his drones to take down Kyle's last 1000 Son. Even his plus 4 invulnerable save couldn't save him. Thom took the second objective with the guys on his Devilfish.

All in all it was a fun game and Thom and I won too. My army and Kyle's played a lot better than before. I can't wait to play again. :)