Three Combat Patrols, Three Victories!

A couple of weeks ago I met up with three friends of mine to play some combat patrols. Each of their patrols met mine on the field of battle, and each time the orks were victorious!!

The combat patrol I was using was pretty simple. Just 30 boyz, three kans and plenty or rokkit launchas. I fielded each kan as a separate unit so that any enemy unit attacking them could only target one at a time.

30 Boyz
+ 3 Rokkit Launchas
+ 1 nob w/ power klaw and bosspole

3 Killer Kans
+ 3 Rokkit Launchas

Here’s a slideshow of photos from the games, diligently photographed, uploaded and commented by my friend, cawshis. This slideshow includes photos from the three battles I was involved in and also the three battles I was not involved in (we were running two games at a time).

Since it was two weeks ago, I don’t remember all the details, but here is a brief summary of what I do remember:

Game 1: Orks vs Tau

The Tau had two stealth squads and one skimmer loaded with troops. Also the skimmer had smart missiles, ie. it didn’t need line of site to shoot up my boyz. In the first round I got a few of my boyz to the top of the hill and blasted one of the stealth squads with rokkits. They failed their morale check and ran! Things got worse though, when the skimmer cleverly wedged itself between two pieces of terrain and deposited it’s troops. Nonetheless, my boyz made the long march around the skimmer and over the difficult terrain and assaulted the troops, slaying them utterly. The skimmer ran away only to be assaulted by my kans while the boyz finished off the remaining stealth squad. Waaagh!

Game 2: Orks vs Space Marines

My buddy falgrim is working on a custom Space Marine Chapter named “Sigmar’s Pride”. The combat patrol he brought with him was geared for assaulting: one unit with jump packs, the other with a rhino, both (if I remember correctly) with furious charge. It performed very well that day, but not against my Orks. On the very first round I popped his Rhino with a rokkit fired from one of my kans. His jump troops actually got the charge on my boyz, but were still no match. Meanwhile one of my kans tore up his other unit. Another victory for da greenskins. Waaagh!

Game 3: Orks vs Dark Angels

I’m afraid I don’t remember much about this game, because I’d been playing for three hours at this point and things start to blur together after a while. I do remember popping yet another Rhino in the first round (lots of lucky rokkit shots that day) and I remember that the Dark Angels advanced forward, putting themselves in range of my charge. I think a wise strategy against orks is to take cover and shoot them up as much as possible as they march forward. I also remember that I was accidentally cheating. I had forgotten that, in the new codex, kans are WS 2 rather than WS 4. So the Dark Angels that surrounded the kans with Krak Grenades should have been hitting the kans with 3+ rather than 4+. I think I would have been victorious regardless because I had plenty of boyz left over at the end, but I think this calls for a rematch. Waaagh!