Before I begin let me just say that I am in no means experieced with the game system and what not (he says with 7 years setting experience and 4+ years hobby experience) so I basically don’t know what I’m doing.
That said I have played games in the past although that was all the way back in 8th. And most of the other games were with my friend’s homebrew system sooooo yeah, I ain’t a guru.
That said last Saturday we played an online game of 10th ed, 1,000pts of Dark Angels (me) vs T’au (him). And anybody who’s anybody knows that the T’au have some funky toys and bs rules. (Yes I know DA have some good stuff as well however just remember the experience gap between us)
I won’t go over the lists however just know that mine was VERY much not well put together and his was.
So come first turn and I basically just keep all my units except Deathwing Command Squad (with Chaplain attached) which I moved behind some cover. When the shooting came I pretty much had nothing to shoot at except his Kroot which I think I managed to kill about 2 with a 5 man squad of Sternguard (with Primaris Ancient), which was poor.
Also it should be stated that my rolling is UNIVERSALLY horrible, like unnaturally so.
I DID however manage to get like one hit on his RipTide with an Assault Cannon however that was barely notable. I also put the Oath of Moment onto a target my units couldn’t actually see (you can thank the camera angle for that) which basically went as well as you can expect.
Now later on in turn 3 I think I decided to bring my Deathwing Knights out of reserve and plop them near his XV-88 Battlesuit (which are scary to go against) and basically annihilated it. Seriously I HIGHLY recommend Deathwing Knights even a squad of 5 can do HELLA damage. Our next game I think I’m taking 15 just to spite him lol.
Also we basically called it a game when I was reduced to 25% of my models and he still had well over 75%. So yeah that didn’t end well.
However after sifting through rules and other people’s lists I think I have a good run coming up with our rematch.
But yeah all in all I absolutely appreciate the new army building system, being able to take whatever you want is in my opinion one of the best changes. Also our next game will be 2,000pts so I’m looking forward to hopefully kicking his ass.
