[NetEpic ML] Re: Tempest Companies

From: Brian Dean <Morachnyion_at_...>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:28:41 -0000

actually,, it was not a blood axe mob,, it was goffs, but my great
gargant was painted well in blood axe colors.. lol

--- In netepic_at_yahoogroups.com, "Brian Dean" <Morachnyion_at_h...>
wrote:
>
> Well, i was feilding an Ork army with a blood axe card and a evil
> suns card,, mixed with a bad boys speedsta unit card. I basicaly
> had speedstas, a Great gargant, a brain crusher card and my new
> favorite unit,,, mekboys with Shokk attack guns.
> they had an unexpected effect on the battlefield much to my
> opponents chargrin. They single handedly took out two phantoms in
> the second and third rounds.
> but my other orks were trying to get across the field and being
> blown apart from teh tempests, and falcon hosts, meanwhile T'oma
> was using a khorn army that was equipped for blowing apart
infantry
> via his titans, and of course close combat. But he didnt get into
> much close combat.
> so the game was effectivly moot but we gained the moral high
ground
> and the frustration factor due to his titans dying to a 50 point
> unit. But we vowed to never play with him again. When somebody
does
> something soo beardy we call it being Gaddized
> Brian
>
>
> --- In netepic_at_yahoogroups.com, Peter Ramos <primarch_at_c...> wrote:
> > Brian Dean wrote:
> >
> > >I and T'oma both played this person, and there were no less
than
> 3
> > >tempest companies. It was sick, you coulndt easily touch him
and
> > >not to mention, 3 phantoms, a warlock and a pair of revanants,
> and a
> > >little bit of normal "conventional support" . And what got my
> > >proverbial goat was no infantry at all.
> > >Sorry about the diatribe, but in an openion,, it was a broken
> army
> > >to our respects. Blatently using the rules in such an
advantage
> > >that he was terrible hard to beat.
> > >I agree with T'oma, or add this,, only one company card of
> tempests
> > >to be fielded by the player, but still adding normal support
> cards.
> > >This represents that tempests are still kind of rare and a
> valuable
> > >resource for the eldar.
> > >just an idea,,,, Brian
> > >
> > >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've faced this army before, it is simple to be though,
depending
> on the
> > army.
> >
> > The easiest is with SM, you can select the balanced for of your
> choice,
> > just use T-hawks or drop pods to place the infantry in his
> baseline of
> > the first turn. The most original use of this was a player who t-
> hawked
> > a couple of devastator detachments to the eldar players baseline
> and
> > shoot at the tempests from behind, remember the -2 rear armor
> penalty,
> > add its normal -1 and you have a -3 modifier!
> >
> > Squats - just use a biker company to stike deeply and fast, not
to
> > mention thunderers on first fire, with 3 die per stand odds are
> you get
> > quite a few of them before they duck back in cover.
> >
> > Tyranids, a couple of detachments of biovores will make the
eldar
> player
> > either move those tempest (thus losing the pop-up advantage) or
> suffer
> > its high save modifier, not to mention using one or two
> detachments of
> > lictors who with their infiltration ability (and not being able
to
> fire
> > at them when more than 25cms away) will reek havoc on those
> tempests.
> >
> > IG, a roughrider company should do it, then again, for every
> tempest
> > company you can bring MORE shadow swords and pick him off with
> that
> > lovely -4 modifier.
> >
> > I have to agree with Jar. How is this different from all
> bloodletter
> > chaos armies, all thunderer squat armies, full drop pod t-hawk
> supported
> > SM armies?
> >
> > I know how to beat all these armies with balanced forces from
any
> army.
> > His Tempest army is pretty brittle with no infantry and my
tactics
> > outlined above would be EXTREMELY easy to do successfully
against
> him.
> >
> > So the question is, is it REALLY unbalance (its worth 900
points),
> or is
> > it a matter of not having thought on how to handle this army
> through
> > conventional means?
> >
> > Could you guys discuss more in depth exactly what this person
> fielded,
> > what you guys fielded and what was done during the battle?
> >
> > From my personal experience I find such eldar armies very
brittle
> > against balanced well played armies.
> >
> > Lets talk about this more, since its a very interesting topic!
> >
> > Peter
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