Jason and I got in a 2500 pt ‘Ard Boyz practice game on Wednesday, pitting his Deathwing against my Kingbreakers in Scenario 1. He pulled out a victory by tieing on objectives but having more kill points than I. One of my Tactical Squads almost contested his second objective in the very last assault phase of the game to swing it to a victory for me, but they got bounced off by his Terminators.

Lessons

His Deathwing really doesn’t offer up many kill points, and Terminators are hard as nails. Having them as Troops sitting on an objective is huge. However, I made things worse for myself but getting stuck into a drawn out battle trying to eliminate his commander and friends. I should have perhaps ignored them, but I was trying to keep them from rushing my main group and two home objectives. There also wasn’t much space to come down any closer to his home objectives. I’m not too sold on the usefulness of my Librarian. On the one hand, he did effectively counter Jason’s Librarian. But he’s weak in close combat and doesn’t bring home many points.