Epic battle report
Wow. What a battle.
Mike and I were planning on trying out my new Ork army last night, and we had some friends show up interested in playing Epic. So we made it a 2 on 2 player game. It was the Black Sun Legion and Dark Angels against Orks and Ultramarines, in a 5,000 point battle.
We were battling over three objectives placed in the middle of the battlefield, with the rules being very simple: Whoever controlled 2 objectives at the end of any turn, won.
I had two 1,000 point Warbands that I parked on top of two objectives, while terminators and other support forces fought over the third objective. When the Dark Angels teleported three units of Terminators onto the third objective, we (Orks and Ultramarines) decided to move our forces toward the one truly contested objective, the one on our right flank. The other guys had managed to close combat and break the Warband on the right flank and chase them off. But they rallied (Orks get bonuses for rallying when they have more than 10 left in a unit, that's because that's more stands than they have fingers. Orks aren't very smart) and managed to make it back into the fray, contesting the objective. Using concentrated firepower from every source we had, we managed to break and drive off every Black Son Legion unit in the area, securing that objective and winning the game!
It was a hard fought battle, with fortunes going both ways at times. The Orks were surprisingly accurate with their fire, despite needing 7's and sometimes 8's to hit their target. How do you roll a 7 on a six sided die? Simple. Roll a 6 the first time around, then roll at least a 4. To hit an 8, you need a 6 then a 5.
Despite me having a 2700 point army of Orks, in order to "round them out" and have more of a combined arms force, I still have a lot left to paint. Once I have that done, I'll be able to field about 5,000 points, which is where I want to be. While you can, you don't want to field more than that, as the higher the point values go, the exponentially longer the games take and the more slogging you need to do. Kind of like "Are you smoking more and enjoying it less?"
That's about it, I promise to post pictures of my Boyz when I get the force done.