Darrell Plays 40K Against Real People!
May 19, 2011 by beerogre
Darrell, who is forever googling his own name to find out how famous he is, stumbled across the record of one of the 40K battles he had during a recent trip to Warpcon in Cork.
Here's a snippet to whet your appetite...
I was willing to take the first turn of shooting and then ram all my Troops down his throat to grab the objective on my right. I was going to ignore Arjac and co as they were on foot and would be pinned in place by their objective so that left me with my army being able to focus all of its attention on the right-hand one defended by 2 Razors with 6 Wolf Guard and 6 Long Fangs. I figured I should be able to take that on and overwhelm it with Grey Hunters and the Lord as long as Logan and co don't move toward it to support it.
I rolled to seize the initiative.
Mistake - I rolled to seize the initiative.I got a 6 and took the first turn. Just after I rolled it I remembered that going first in an objective isn't always a good idea. In fact, going 2nd against a shooty army is usually a good thing to do (especially Mech Guard) as it denies them one of their main advantages - being able to bring all their firepower to bear against a variety of targets and reducing enemy mobility. I had set up to go 2nd after being shot for a turn and had now hamstrung myself by having 1/3 of my firepower out of range of my intended target: the objective on the right. Whoopee.
You can read the full battle report on the Touched by Greatness & Pressing Charges blog.
I'll not ruin the outcome for you, but why not drop us a comment below telling us what you think.
BoW Andy
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Can we see it , in a video I prefer it .
Not without time travel and a video camera… I’ll get the scientists onto that right away. 😀
You can read about it on the blog (link above). BoW didn’t write the report.
And While your back in time videoing the battle go and stop GW from Hiking the prices up AGAIN! Go! I Command ye Beer-of-Ogre.
Re Preventing GW price hike using time travel:
Despite the immense problems involved, there is a much greater possibility of someone inventing a time machine than preventing GW put up prices. lol
Wait what are scientists…? i thought we did this all by magic 🙂
BoW Justin
Science beats magic… FACT!
Clarke’s Third Law.
Do I see a Razorback cleverly converted into having plasma guns in the turret? I’d like to see a video about that!
When I first looked at the pictures of Darrel’s army I thought they were Ultramarines! 😀
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/StormbrowII/Warpcon%202011/Warpcon%20Game%203/DSC02814.jpg
BURN! lol
That is because secretly Darrel is a Ultrasmurf player.
Surely all sufficiently advanced science *is* magic?
No, technology only looks like magic to the less advanced.
That is the meaning of “indistinguishable” in the original quote from Arthur C. Clarke…
He didn’t mean magic and technology merge at some point, but that magic doesn’t really exist, and is just a false idea that people use to explain what they cannot understand, including advanced technology.
Which is, by the way, the very basis for all of the Space Marine/Imperium fluff out there.
But you knew that, of course !
BoW Romain
As if.
You guys will be telling me that elves and wizards don’t exist next.
Well let me tell you I have been to Liverpool and seen the fairies across the Mersey!
You have to give Darrell credit.
He talks a good game, which is easy for us all, but he does play a good game too, which is much harder.
(I seem to have morphed into Bruce Forsyth there)
Hey Guys, nice to finally see a bat rep from the “Primarch” himself. Keep em comming!
Now we just need some video battle reps. And I will sure be happy 😀
Nice to see the batrep. Next time, I demand a video report 🙂
Also would’a been nice to not see SW on SW, but I’ll take what I can get!
Darrell did well there – Merv is on Ireland’s ETC team. Although i came above him in that tournament 🙂
Above Darrell that is
“Do I see a Razorback cleverly converted into having plasma guns in the turret? I’d like to see a video about that!” “Nice to see the batrep. Next time, I demand a video report.” Hello all. Thanks for the free press). 😉 Feel free to add more useful stuff if you find anything. That was myself playing against Darrell back in January. I only got a link to it recently. I’ve got to ask though, what’s with the fetish for the videos lads? 😛 There’s obviously going to be no video of battle reports because they’re quite time-consuming (especially in… Read more »