Played my first game last night. 1500pts maelstrom game. Deadlock mission, hammer and anvil deployment. I played with my mechanised guard against chaos marines
I had
Captain - plasma pistol and power fist
command squad - 3 melta in chimera
Commissar - plasma pistol and power sword
vet squad with 3 plasma in chimera
vet squad with 2 melta and HF in chimera
Primaris psyker
Leman russ
Leman Russ
Leman Russ vanquisher
SWS with sniper rifles
Vendetta
tech priest
He had
Fabius Bile
Sorcerer
2 x 10 marines in Rhinos
8 chosen in rhino
maulerfiend
5 terminators
5 raptors
I lost 14-12, game ending in turn 5.
I enjoyed it, it is much streamlined and played quickly, even with the various rules looking up. At the end I all three leman russ tanks undamaged, the snipers, my captain and tech priest and a couple of vets with a chimera. He only had 7 marines and a terminator.
lessons learned:
Flyers can't just fly down the middle of the board any more, they get shot up by basic ground fire.
3 TL las cannons will blast a rhino to pieces a turn
Snipers are okay and cheap at 30pts for the squad, mortal wounds on six to wound
Tech priests are good in combat, mine killed fabius bile and 4 marines easily without losing a wound with his omnissarian axe and servo arm.
Characters last longer, especially guard ones
You need infantry as this seems to die quicker, i was out numbered by marines
Tanks are expensive in points.
Vanquishers are rubbish. The -1 to hit on weapons other then turret means 5+ most of time and the guns are to many points. The multi meltas might be coming off for HB as you can split fire.
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just to prove it happened. Looking forward to another game, but need to paint more infantry. The mech guard approach isn't working. In the mean time i'm going with my elysians next game and Revilers the one after that.