Strangely I had played the same guy using the same mission and the same set up only 5 days previous at pit local gaming club, BattleUX (shameless plug) so the game was a bit of a grudge match and also we knew what armies were being used and what tactics we would employ.
I faced a Salamanders drop pod list with Vulkan Hestan (bloomenthal) Vulkan is left over cheese from the days of Matt ward OTTness. Re rolling that many heavy flamers, meltas and even thunder hammers is ridiculous. I'm not bitter at all.
My enemies list also included a cestus assault ram. Again ridiculous. But to be honest was little impact on the game. The most notable action is saw was trying to ram my dreadnought who simply nutter it to a halt!
I claimed first blood by taking out a dreadnought from the rear with my sternguard but after that they failed to have any real impact on the game. Lysander spent most of the game running to reach a combat. I think he managed to kill 2 marines by the end of then game.
Catastrophic bad luck hit me when I only managed to wreck a drop pod which then blocked line of sight to the relic and the 2 tactical squads defending it. This put a seizable portion of my firepower out of line of sight for half the game.
This time I was on the back foot and was unable to turn things around.
Result: crushing defeat
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