At last I got a chance to verse the renewed Tau. The mission was Relic and we opted to just spread the buildings out as Haydn didn't have a lot of time to play. By the way I strongly recommend you click on the images if you want a bit of a bigger view.
And so my Daemons appeared, choosing not to deep strike but come on as a fully fledged wave. Maybe not the most effective or tactical way to come onto the field but I prefer to do little to no deep striking. A note about the icons on the models - I have purchased none for this army, especially hence the multiple icons in one of the Plaguebearer units (they just look so good!).
The Tau Empire stood resolute, preparing to repel the Daemonic invasion. This photo was cropped because a dude's hairy legs were in the background somewhere. I don't think he would have liked them featured in this blog. Deep striking the Skull Cannon might be an idea to try in the future, as it got destroyed before I had a chance to use it owing to a lot of reasonable to high-strength firepower poured into it.
Lechetern (my Great Unclean One) got Warp Speed, Life Leech and Hemorrhage. His Warlord Trait was Lord of Unreality and his gifts afforded him +1 Wound, It Will Not Die, Armourbane and Fleshbane. Not bad but he was slain a bit earlier than I wanted (ie. not at all. *chuckle*) I may need to go back to deep striking the big fella (with an icon of chaos for Plague Drones) and try getting him closer because as much of a beating he can take, he's very slow.
The Herald of Nurgle (Disemboweled Hal) stuck to the role of providing his Plaguebearer unit with Feel No Pain. The shot could have been better and a bit less blurry in the distance, the 'bearers can't be that blind and ocularly corrupted.
Commander Haydn moves a drone with his Ethereal hand and his brave Firewarriors (some even braver considering their arms disappeared owing to the Warp Storm) prepare to seize the relic and to blast my Plaguebearers.
The armless Firewarriors were panicking, wondering what to do with no rifles or the limbs required to bear them. Their leaders were quick to restore discipline, ordering them to use their backup Pulse Goggles. Thus, their armlessness kept them far from harmless.
The mighty titanic Riptide. He wasn't my number one problem but he did his part - pouring devastating shots and withdrawing to safety with his Baneblade-sized jetpack.
Lechetern's favourite Daemonic subjects - the Plaguedrones. The Plaguebringer got Dark Blessing, enabling him to re-roll failed Invulnerable Saves. This may have made him last a little longer when the Command Squad blasted the unit to pieces later on but alas the bugs were morteinized and banished to De 'Balius, Lechetern's Plague World. They had charged a Firewarrior Squad and their Rot Flies swallowed a handful of the warriors. Not a lot of Firewarriors died but they fled (but not off the table).
The Bloodcrushers and Plaguebearers charged successfully (the Plaguebearers rolled a 9, owing to their sudden necrotic wind of energy), despite weathering a lot of Overwatch fire. I really should have gotten the Bloodcrushers to charge a different unit - maybe the battlesuits nearby? Nonetheless I'm happy that my tactic of "sharing the Overwatch pain" worked and my minions weren't too bruised. I had snuck the Bloodcrushers around a little bit beforehand, minimizing the opposition that could see and shoot them.
I think I played alright but my opponent Haydn wiped out all of my Daemons (killing my remnants from Overwatch as my last Plaguebearer squad attempted to charge the Command Squad). No one had possession of the relic at the end of the game but of course, wiping out my army meant an automatic victory to the Tau Empire. It was a very fun game and I enjoyed the challenge. What transpired in this match was very much what I had been expecting (aside from the Through Boldness, Victory Deep Strike) and I knew taking on the Tau would be no easy task. I think I have learned what I should try next time. I can always hope for Lechetern to shine with a bit more necrosity next time.
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