Another Battle Report, Against Nob Bikers

Played again against the Nob Biker Army.  We played Objectives (2) and Dawn of War. 
I had:
Librarian with Warp Rift, Shrouding, Sanctuary, Might of Titans
Coteaz
2 Storm Ravens with MM and Assault Cannons
1 Psydread
1 Standard Dread with spotlight
1 Dread with MM, Heavy Psyflamer, spotlight
2 units of 8 Purifiers (5 halberds, 2 hammer, 1 Psycannon)
6 x Psybacks with 3 Warrior Acolytes each (1 Standard and 2 Meltaguns)

Orcs had 2 units of 5 nob bikers (all armed different), each one led by a boss on a bike, and each one with a medic.  He also had 1 unit of 30 hard boyz and 3 units of 10-11 lootas)

Orcs Deployed first, and put one unit of Bikes (1 with leader) on each objective.  I started with nothing on the board. I stole initiative thanks to Coteaz.

Turn 1, I Moved both Stormravens flat out to middle of board (near his bikers and 1 of the objectives) (Each raven had a dread and a team of purifiers - the librarian was with one of the purifier squads).  I shot a bike, and lit up the Boyz with my search light.  Everything in my army fired at the close unit of Bikers, and even though I only killed 1 or 2, every model now had a wound on it. 

Orc turn 1, his lootas had to march on, so all he had was a rocket launcher from the bike squad (he had 2, but that was the biker I had destroyed).  Shrouding caused his rocket to miss, and he assaulted.  Even though I moved flat out, he hit 1 of the stormravens several times (he charged both of them).  Then he rolled very poorly (his boss got 3 1's to penetrate armor).  In the end, he took off the assault cannon of one of the Stormravens.  His other unit of bikes turbo boosted toward my backfield (the other biker boss turbo boosted from off the board and joined them

Turn 2, I unloaded 1 of the stormravens to attack the biker boyz on the middle objective.  The other stormraven dropped a dread off in assault range of a group of lootas.  Shooting, I did 2 wounds to the unit that turbo-boosted, and killed a few lootas with one of the Ravens (not the unit I was about to assault, because the range was close.  I assaulted and wiped out the Bikers (although I lost 3 of them to the boss's power claw before my own hammer took him out), and the dread wiped out the lootas it charged.

The Orks should down the Raven that had dropped its Dread, and some lootas killed a few of the Purifiers that had to bail out.  His last unit of bikes charged 3 Razorbacks.  Again, because of some bad rolls, he failed to destroy any razorback (he immobilized all 3, and took the weapon off of one).

Turn 3.  I Bailed out of the immobilized Razorbacks, and between the meltas and all of the mother shooting, wiped out the bikes (he had really bad rolls for his cover saves)
At this point the Orks knew they were in trouble, and started concentrating all fire on the purifiers and dreadnought that were coming around, a group of lootas managed to take off his flamer.  He also managed a lucky hit to shoot down the Stormraven that had gone to pick that team of purifiers up (one of the hardboyz hit it with a missile and "immobilized" it after it moved flat out (and I failed the 3+ cover save the librarian gave me).

Turn 4 - I took middle objective, and started moving everything else at his objective.  He shot some stuff with his lootas, killed the closest dread, also picked off a few more purifers.

Turn 5 - I continued to move everything at his objective.  I was just out of range of his objective, but we didn't know if there was going to be another turn.  Since another turn would have put a dread and maybe a razorback in range of the objective, along with the purfiers, the orks decided to get aggressive, and charge the purifers with the hard boyz.  The librarian used sanctuary, and 7 orks died on the charge.  Then the purifers used their power and killed another 3.  After all the attacks, I had 1 purifier left, so he lost the combat and took additional wounds. 

The game ended on turn 5 and because he had taken so many wounds, his hardboys were no longer claiming his objective, so I won. 

Overall, I was very pleased with my list.  Last week we played this same game, and I almost got tabled by the same army I nearly tabled.  In both cases, it was terrible saves that tipped a close fight into a land-slide, so I guess that means that the armies were pretty well matched.  (note that pretty much all of the saves were from shooting, because we were both using almost all power weapons in melee)

We only got 1 game in, because some new people stopped by and we chatted with them, arranging some future games.  It looks like we are going to start playing some 1500 point games, so I will see if I can adapt my list to 1500, or maybe I'll do a new one, but there will be some 1500 battles.

Been a while, again

I have been trying different lists, using mostly proxies (which is party why there are still no pictures).  Although the game is starting to pick back up in my area, most of the players in the area are pretty new, and of the 3 people that are a good challenge, I only play one of them regularly.  He generally plays 2 armies, orks (3 squads of 'kans, 3 squads of loots, 2 HQ with force fields (to protect the 'kans) and the rest are all boyz (2-3 units of 30).  The other army is IG (2 big tanks - can't remember the names, 2 squads of 3 jets - 3 twin linked las cannons each, 2 devil dogs - in a squadron, 2 flack guns - in a squadron, 3 chimeras - each one has veterans with a las cannon, and maybe one other vehicle I can't think of).


I generally crush the orks, regardless of my list, but the same list against the IG usually escapes being tabled by one or two models, so I have been trying to find something that can handle both armies:

1 Librarian (warp rift, sanctuary, might of titans, and the stealth power)
1 Coteaz

6x Psybacks with 3 Acolytes, 2 Meltaguns


2x Stormravens with MM and Assault Cannons, with 8 purifiers each (5 halberds, 2 hammers, and a psycannon)


2x Dreadnaughts (1 with MM and Heavy psyflamer, 1 with MM and stormbolter)


1x Psyrifleman


Extra points are in searchlights.


The goal is to up my anti-tank power, while retaining the ability to deal with large amounts of weaker enemies.  I think this army will do it.  Coteaz will ride in a psyback, and the librarian will join one of the purifier squads - to give a 3+ cover save will moving flat out across the field (with the intention of dumping purifiers and dreads on appropriate targets).