Video Battle Report -Tau Vs. CSM

Tau Vs CSM 1850 Dawn of War / Annihilation from paul mehaffey on Vimeo.


My brothers have been getting in quite a few games lately since moving in with me. Having a basement full of 40k most likely helps to support this growing trend.  Jon has been giving his Chaos Space Marines another try while Jordan is trying out his long lost Tau once more.  Jordan has never had much luck with his tau in the past. He's won here and there but mostly hes just gotten his army wiped. Lately after Jon gets done wiping the floor with him I've been taking his list and playing a second game with Jon so he can see a different tactical point of view. So far, in every game Jordan has lost I have managed to pull out a draw. This is one of those games. Jordan doesn't exactly have the best list set up, but I think playing with lots of different unit types will give him a greater appreciation of what he can later do tactically when we run our escalation league.

As always, comments or tips are appreciated. None of us have any major Tau experience under our belts. We have one Tau player in out group but until recently he hasn't been around for months.

Battle Report: Tau Vs Orks

Tau Vs Orks 1500 points DoW / Annihilation from paul mehaffey on Vimeo.

It's a little late, but here is the featured battle from our Planetary Empires campaign. Tau Dan vs Warboss Jorkfist in Dawn of War with kill points. I think this may be the first battle report I have posted with two fully painted armies!

Most of the players are about five battles into the war and the major contenders are really starting to stand out. Tyranids are dominating in the majority of their games and the undefeated Joey V is way ahead of the pack with seven tiles on the map already. Speaking of the map, I am having mixed feelings about it for our campaign tracking. My biggest beef is that it just sits around taking up space. I think it looks nice and all but I could do the same thing with a piece of paper or a picture on the computer.

In other news, we submitted an application to run a table at Games Day. Our plan is to make a few small arenas no bigger than 2'x2' and have gladiatorial battles with independent characters of 200 points or less. The winner will stay to face the next challenger and those with the longest winning streaks will get some kind of prizes at the end of the day. We have done some testing with the idea and there were some truly epic battles. The games are short and sweet, so people won't be stuck at our table all day. You only need to bring one model so setup time is no issue and lots of people should be able to move through quickly. Hopefully we get selected and it will be a hit!

Next month half of our players are attending an anime convention, so the remainder are considering putting together a team apocalypse game. The only other time we tried apocalypse was on the new years eve after the book was first released and that was a major disaster. Hopefully by now we've all got enough experience under our belts to make it work without all of the problems that plagued our first attempt.

That's it for now. I hope you enjoy the video and if you have any tips for a four to six man apocalypse game let us know!