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200 point murder

by Ben Lehman » July 20th, 2014, 7:45 am

So Jake and I were tired of doing 300 point ITS and decided to play a round of 200 points, straight up murder. I really like 200 points, particularly for game types that don't require you to bring specialists. 200 points means every bad-ass you take is a compromise somewhere else. Also, it generally stays to one combat group which I prefer.

I was running this list. Haqq is my second army, so I have a limited selection. Since Haqq snipers are super-beautiful, it's mostly snipers.

Image HAQQISLAM
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GROUP 1 ImageImageImage8 Image1 Image0

ImageNAFFATÛN Rifle + Light Flamethrower / Pistol, Knife. (10)
ImageGHULAM Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (13)
ImageGHULAM Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (13)
ImageGHULAM Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (13)
ImageLASIQ Viral Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 29)
ImageHUNZAKUT (Deployable Repeater) Sniper Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)
ImageTUAREG Sniper Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 35)
ImageFIDAY Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (33)
ImageHAWWA' Sniper Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 29)

3 SWC | 200 Points

Open with Army 4

Jake's army, and I am constructing this from memory, was something like:

Image MORAT AGGRESSION FORCE
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GROUP 1 ImageImageImage8 Image0 Image2

ImageMORAT Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (16)
ImageMORAT HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 25)
ImageANYAT K1 Combi Rifle, Chain-colt, Smoke Grenades, E/M Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (25)
ImageYAOGAT Spitfire / Pistol, CCW. (1.5 | 35)
ImageDĀTURAZI Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Shock CCW. (14)
ImageDĀTURAZI Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Shock CCW. (14)
ImageZERAT Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (23)
ImageSURYAT Lieutenant HMG / Pistol, Knife. (2 | 47)

4.5 SWC | 199 Points

Open with Army 4

Which ... huh. Maybe it was over by .5 SWC?

The board is a bunch of fairly tall buildings and cliffs, with not much in the way of low-lying terrain but a lot of shrubbery and fences that give low visibility. I win the initiative and choose to go first. I set up with my Tuareg (hidden) and Lasiq on top of tall buildings, my Hunzakut and Hawwa on the ground covering long fire lines as camo markers, and all of my cheerleaders in the back, covering the backfield in case of Morat diplomacy.

Jake deploys his link team to a roof, one of his Dats taking cover prone behind a shrubbery, and his other guys tucked away behind buildings. I deploy my Fiday at the edge of his DZ around a corner from the Yaogat (with all my camo that is by far his scariest model.) He counter-deploys his Zerat in cover, watching my Fiday and blocking his path.

TURN ONE: BEN

Fiday first, of course. I take an out-of-impersonation shot at the Zerat, killing her before she can strike back. I advance to the corner, lay a mine, re-impersonate, and then step around the corner to take another surprise shot at the Yaogat. I miss all my shots, his ARO kills me, and he resists the mine without incident. Oh well! At least I effectively neutralized the Zerat.

After determining that my Tuareg can see his prone linkteam (although through cover), I reveal her and take a shot each at the Vanguards Combi and HMG (I figure, wrongly, that the Vanguard Combi is his LT.) Jake AROs with the link, plus a hail-mary pistol shot from a Dat that it turns out is impossible. The Tuareg downs the HMG and thanks to her TO bonuses lives to shoot again. She takes out Anyat in Face-to-Face.

At this point I only have one regular order left, so I have my Hunzakut lay a mine and recamo him.

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TURN ONE: JAKE

Jake advances his Dats under cover of smoke, avoiding fire from the Tuareg. Covered by smoke, he advanced his Yaogat, who survives an extraordinary number of surprise assaults through the smoke, but finally goes down. The Yaogat then spots and eliminates the Hunzakut. With only two orders (including LT order) remaining, he moved his Suryat into firing range of the Lasiq. He was rolling four shots at target 13, I was rolling one at target 15. I critted, killing the Suryat. This was the turning point of the game.

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TURN TWO: BEN

I moved my Lasiq in an attempt to get a clear line of site on his Daturazi, and failed. I then moved up my Al-Hawwa, using most of my orders, laying a mine and then shooting around the corner at the Yaogat. My shots didn't hit but the mine killed him. Taking fire, the Hawwa dodged back behind cover.

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TURN TWO: JAKE

At this point the once-proud Aggression Force had been whittled down to two Daturazi and a Vanguard. In Loss of LT, he still managed to generate an impressive seven orders. However, he spent almost all of them unsuccessfully attempting to approach and kill the Al-Hawwa, whose tricky mine AROs eventually ended up killing both of the Daturazi by the time they took her out.. The remaining Vanguard, stuck on a roof, decided to attempt to jump down and get into the action, and died from the fall.

Haqqislam victory.

There were some things I could do better (I need to get better both at judging the inner range bands of Haqq weapons and the mine-around-the-corner trick, and my Lasiq placement was deeply flawed). Really, the crux of the game was my lucky crit on the Suryat -- if that had gone the other way it would have been a very different game. That said, it was a fairly risky shot.

Any questions or thoughts?

Jake? Do you have some photos?

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Re: 200 point murder

by Ben Lehman » July 20th, 2014, 7:49 am

In an O'Henry-like twist Jake did a write-up of his own at the same time I was typing mine.
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Re: 200 point murder

by jake » July 20th, 2014, 8:09 am

No photos. This is the first time i haven't taken photos of a game in awhile.
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Re: 200 point murder

by Arachas » July 23rd, 2014, 12:10 pm

jake wrote:No photos. This is the first time i haven't taken photos of a game in awhile.


No pics? :ohdear:
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Re: 200 point murder

by Ben Lehman » July 23rd, 2014, 11:09 pm

Next time!
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Re: 200 point murder

by Lone_Pathfinder » August 28th, 2014, 1:26 am

Just a quick note:
"At this point I only have one regular order left, so I have my Hunzakut lay a mine and recamo him."

Recamo is a long order.
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Re: 200 point murder

by Gwydion » August 28th, 2014, 1:08 pm

A question, because I think I have this right, but I'm not sure: can't a Fiday not use Impersonation when playing against Morat? I believe they have Impersonation lvl 1, which does not allow for posing as an alien model.
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