Round 2 Daemons vs Ultramarines

Round 2 Daemons vs Ultramarines

Mission:
Primary- Emperors Will (14 pts)
Secondary- Big Guns Never Tire 3obj. (10 pts)
Slay the Warlord, First Blood, Linebreaker (2 pts each)

Deployment: Vanguard Strike

Here's my list.
Fateweaver
(Forewarning, Combustion, Life Leech, Puppet Master)

Herald of Tzeentch on Disk Grimoire
(Prescience , Forewarning, Flickering Fire)

Herald of Tzeentch on Disk Portalglyth
(Scryer's Gaze, Forewarning, FF)

Herald of Tzeentch on Disc Locus
(Scryer's Gaze, Perfect Timing, Precognition)

Herald of Tzeentch on Disk
(Prescience , Perfect Timing, FF)

Plaguebearers
Plaguebearers
Plaguebearers

Screamers x5
Flesh Hounds x10
Daemon Prince of Tzeentch
Wings, Armour, Greater x2. Lesser
(Warp Speed, Iron Arm)
(4+ Feel no Pain, Reroll Invul Saves, Staff)

Round 2 I was matched up with Ian Bethel, a local guy, who also won his first game with a minor victory. He told me hes been playing for two years. So he has some experience behind him.

His List
Space Marines
Ultramarines Chapter Doctrine

HQ:
Marneus Calgar- Armour of Antilocous
Cato Sicarius

Command Squad
Drop Pod

Troops:
Tactical Squad- PlasmaCannon. PlasmaGun

Tactical Squad- Meltagun, Multimelta
Rhino

Scout Squad- sniper rifles

Elites:
Terminator Squad- 4x Lighting Claws, 1x Thunder Hammer

Land Raider Crusader

Heavy Support:
Devastator Squad- 2x LasCannon, 2x PlasmaCannon

I knew if I could maneuver to where I could control where his Land Raider would go and concentrate on killing his 3 troop units, this being a 5obj game, I could win this game.

Terrain Placement

I win the roll to go first and deploy as follows. 
Hounds on the right flank. 
Daemon prince in the middle. 
Fateweaver hides behind blos cover. screamerstar on the left side. 

He has a tactical squad inside the fort on the left. they are on top of his emperors will obj. 
He deploys scouts on the doorway top level. 
In the middle he deploys his land raider with calgar and termies inside. dev squad goes on a terrain piece with good los to everything. he deploys his rhino full of tactical marines on his left. drop pod with cato and command squad in reserves.




I scout up my hounds 12 inches. 
my plaguebearers are all reserved.


Then he proceeds to seize the initiative. 
Drop pod lands behind my prince.
He shoots into the prince with command squad and devs but i pass my saves. 
He rapid fires into my hounds and kills one.
Land raider moves up.

Bottom Turn 1- 
I pass Forewarning, prescience and scryer's gaze on my heralds. 

I cast iron arm on my prince. 

I pass my grimoire test on my star. 

I move my star to the left 12 inches. prince flies into the middle of the board.

Fateweaver flies forward. 
Shooting- warp storm table roll is rot glorious rot. it hits into the scouts. with str4 ap3 ignores cover it kills 4 scouts. 

I then proceed to shoot the last scout with flickering fire, he dies and i land first blood.

This picture is after about 3 rounds of combat. i lost about 1 hound and he was down to his sergeant and 1 marine. on turn 1 i multicharged into the rhino and tactical squad. rhino was wrecked on turn 2.

On turn 2 he deals a wound to my daemon prince. his command squad runs to my left. 

Bottom turn 2- i pass forewarning, scryers gaze and prescience. iron arm on my prince t7. none of my plaguebearers come in due to scryers. i pass grimoire. 

warp storm table- plus 1 to my invuls. 
shooting- i shoot at the dev squad with fateweaver's flickering fire and kill 4. the warp flame kills the sergeant.

mMy heralds shoot his command squad dealing an incredible amount of wounds.
Flickering fire burns the command squad and it only leaves cato by himself. he took 1 wound but then passes warp flame and receives a 6up fnp.

I glide and land ready to charge his last scoring unit. i make it in combat and kill 4 marines. he decides to make them stay.

Top turn 3- his terminators with calgar move out and get ready to charge my prince. cato keeps moving to the middle. 

Shooting- his land raider shoots into my screamers and actually kills 1 with the multimelta.
Assault- he charges in and challenges with calgar, i accept, they deal 2 wounds with eachother.at this point i finish off his other tac squad with my hounds.

Bottom turn 3- i pass forewarning and prescience on my heralds. i pass iron arm on my prince t8. i pass grimoire.


Warp Storm table- 5 storm of fire. nothing happens.


Shooting- Fateweaver deals enough wounds to take down 
Cato with flickering fire. 

Assault- I charge the land raider with my
screamers. i hit 3 times, deal 2 penetration results and on 1 i roll a 5 to explode it. 
Boom goes the raider.
In combat i beat up on calgar dealing his
last two wounds. slay the warlord is mine. 
 

Top turn 4- he doesnt have any shooting
so we go straight to assault. i finish off his tacticals and in return he takes down my prince.
on my turn 4 i move my screamers to his
emperors will to contest in case i didnt kill his troop unit. i actually killed the tac squad on bottom 4 assault phase and lost also my prince this phase.

My plaguebearer squads come in and land on objectives. 
I move my heralds, hounds and fateweaver into his deployment zone for linebreaker.

Another shot at the hounds moving up.

Here it shows me holding another objective by the drop pod and at the bottom there is my emperor's will being held. 

At this point he calls it since there is nothing he can do to change the score.
I end up with a major victory 30-0. 

in this game i did what i intended to do. leave my troops in reserve to keep them from getting destroyed. i took out his 3 troop units so that there was no way he could held his emperors will obj. i then took out things that could hurt me like his devastator squad and once he got out of his land raider to charge my prince, my screamer star was safe from a counter and i was able to go after the raider with my screamers. 


Ian was a fun opponent, he told me he had a good time and learned alot from daemons.


At this point im 2-0 with 46pts and i await to see i face off against at the top tables.