The scenario is set for Tau vs. Black Templar
It's actually an "educational" game, where the poster is drawing tactics from the B&C community and implementing the best of them in this mock match. He's done a nice job of illustrating the game with his battle maps and notes that "actual dice rolls will be used", but he may "adjust dice rolls that make the game more educational."
I've barely touched on the meat of the thread, but if you skip around to the battle maps and the brief summaries under them, you can get the gist of what's going on.
Black Templars are quite divergent from a typical Space Marine army with only a precursory glance, but they are Marine's in the end and use similar units and mostly identical vehicles, so this should be good considering the amount of SM players we have. I thought it might also lend some insight for Billy as Tau, or at the very least maybe another interesting army list to consider. I imagine it could be valuable to everyone else as well to see how these two armies could handle particular situations.
lol the guy went like all Missile Pods/Burst Cannons against Space Marines. Only 2 plasma rifles and a Cyclic Ion Blaster (yay for Str. 3)
ReplyDelete"I like your shiny Power Armor, so I'll make sure I give you all your saves"
Doesn't "Fireknife" actually have 3 plasma rifles? And those Pathfinders have a Rail Rifle along with the broadside team leader with his twin-linked plasma rifle.
ReplyDeleteBut I do see your point.
if ur Broadsides are that close then ur in trouble. Nothing wrong with railrifles on the Pfinders! No idea what makes the Black Temps different, but seems like there should be much more Plasma
ReplyDeleteI agree. It's not the armor that makes them different, that's for sure - suppose maybe it's a little skewed to the BT's benefit of learning.
ReplyDeleteAnd Tau don't suffer from "Gets Hot!", right?
Bastards.