[BFG] Chaos vs orks, englantia

[tneva82]

I just suffered biggest and worst defeat of my BFG career so far. Against orks top of that! Here's how it went:

My fleet was:

LD9 warmaster aboard Fiery Death - styx class heavy cruiser
chaos lord aboard Infident Destruction - Devastation class cruiser
chaos lord aboard Darkest Hour - Devastation class cruiser
Bloody Hand & Dark Star - Carnage class cruisers
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Chaos lords because I had 100 pts to spare. I thought I had ordnance heavy fleet...Untill I saw what opponent had:

SPACE HULK! with maniac gunners upgrade(with warlord of course)
2xterror ship
2 squadron of 3(or was it 4) onslaught
2 brutes

God damn...That's a frigging SPACE HULK! Celestial phenomeny was planet on my right with moon, warp rift on my left(but too close to me IMO. Should have chose other side) and 2 asteroid fields on his left and right.

So I put my fleet in close formation on my left(away from planet. That's area of space I DO NOT want to fight in!) while he puts on center and right. I won first turn and aproach launching 14 bombers. He comes and responses with something like 18 fighter bomberz...At this point I realised I was screwed but started to hope he fails reload orders. Torpedoes start to scream toward me as well.

Due to torpedoes styx and Dark Star split of to right while rest came from left. Casualties started with Darkest hour that got crippled by torpedo salvoes. Suffering over 10 torpedoes, even after turrets...Damn those orks fire torpedoes. I manage to cripple(and nearly destroy) one terror ship with bombers(got to love those vs ork capitals). However critically when I tried to concentrate whole fleet(including locked on dark star) on hulk nearly everything failed LD checks and had to fire at nearest target...Including dark star. So hulk was mostly safe and I had only got 2 ram ships...Bummer.

Game goes even less well with Darkest Hour blowing up and Styx being reduced to drifting hulk. Dark star got nearly destroyed(1 hit point remaining) but luckily at that point he was lone enough that terror ship couldn't destroy it anymore(helped by lousy rolling on his part). I started to chop at hulk(boy is hitting it easy. It just happens to have 40 hit points!). However waves after waves of torpedoes and assault boats(getting bloody lots of engine hits) came over me and with help of guns of hulk Infident destruction was nearly destroyed as well plus escort squadron(that had been particulary handy when they caused huge holes into hulk when they locked on).

Then dark star suffered few engine room damages so couldn't turn thus drifting out of arc to hulk. At that point I disengaged.

Bloody hand was causing major damage to hulk reducing it eventually to 3 hit point(got to love firepower 16 against hulk) despite insane amount of blast markers(we constantly had to move markers at pointless points to represent hits) but was crippled and with wave of something like 16 assault boats(pretty sure to suffer 2 engine hits which would blow the ship) I ordered it to go into AAF(thus pulling it out of reach for assault boats) and then disengaged after hulk hit into asteroids and passed with ease.

In the end I lost by over 1200 pts...Urgh.

Biggest reasons for defeat:

1) I concentrated too much on hulk. Plain and simple. I should have gone first for terror ships(reducing amount of ordnance + guns) and onslaughts(which are just brutal).
2) Should have split the ships a bit. Torpedoes were brutal.
3) His amazing LD rolling. His hulk and terror ship(LD5) were constantly passing LD checks. Especially the hulk who passed 3 LD6 checks in row(reload, asteroid, reload). They were rolling better than my fleet that had LD's of 8+'s with exception of dark star! What kind of ork crews does my friend hire anyway?

Pitty I couldn't try out the warp rift. I really, REALLY should have deployed on other side. Then I could have tried the stunt for fun of it.

[Zarathustrian]

Heh.., täytyy näköjään jatkaa tuota oman hulkin converttausta, jo sen saisi vaikka joskus peliinki. Olen vaan tässä ajatellut onko se 600 pojon arvoinen. Postittelen varmaan huomenna oman raporttini siitä miten itse pärjään örkeillä kaaokselle.(lista jo tuolta löytyykin)

[tneva82]

Heh.., täytyy näköjään jatkaa tuota oman hulkin converttausta, jo sen saisi vaikka joskus peliinki. Olen vaan tässä ajatellut onko se 600 pojon arvoinen.

Tiedä siitä onko väärtti jos vastustaja jättää sen huomioimatta kunnes aika on oikea. Jos tekee kuten minä ja alkaa jahtaamaan sitä alusta alkaen niin kyllä! Sanoisin että vastustajan LD heittojen lisäksi pääsyy tappiolle...