Battle Report: Conflict GT game 3 BA vs Orks

This is not much of a battle report. Not because I lost, but because Anthony and I both agreed that the game out right sucked.

Kill Points
Blah.

When I saw Anthony at the start of the day I was excited for the possible epic battle between my dreads and his ork mechs. He had 3 squads of 3 Kans, and 2 ork dreadnoughts. His army was rounded out by 3 squads of boys and 2 mech orks with shields. Pretty damn tough. I was excited at the thought of a slugfest in the middle of the table with our dreads going at each other.

Instead we had table corners and kill points.

Here is how the game went.

He deploys in his corner. I deploy in my corner.

Turn One: He does not move for fear of getting close to my stuff and giving up a KP. On my turn, I do not move for fear of getting close to his stuff and giving up a KP. See the trend?

Turn Two:
He does not move for fear of cloes to my stuff and giving up a KP.

One of my pods comes down. Out of boredom, I drop it on his back table edge to stir things up. It scatters off the table. Back into reserves.

Turn Three:
He brings on commandos at my base. They outflank but cannot assault. Nothing else moves for him.

On my turn, I had to make a decision. Slaughter the commandos then sit on that KP the rest of the game like Fritz would do, or have some fun and drop a pod into his boys. I decide to play. I drop a pod into his boys, lay down some flame, kill some boys. Game on. I dropped another pod near his dreads to get them into combat.

Turn Four:
He moves and kills a dread with a lucky nob and assaults another with a dread and kans. Arms are torn off, combat ties. Etc. etc.

Without typing out the rest of this snore fest, I go down 5 to 3 KP in his favor. Dropping dreadnoughts into the thick of it is cool, but Drop Pods being instant kill points sucks bad. But thems the breaks. Anthony knew it and so did I. We agreed that Kill Points robbed us of what would have otherwise been a great game. We should have just played objectives instead. :)

What should I have done for victory? Sit on that one commando squad KP. I should have just dropped my pods safely into my own zone. It was obvious. He would have had to march his kans into my fire power, during which time I would have had a few rounds to open up with preds then charge with dreads.

Hopefully next time I will get to face his orks again in a real game!

More to come...

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