Tau Empire vs Kdawg's Orks

[Catachan Colonel]

Battle Report : Tau Empire vs Orks
Points : 1999
Setup : Dawn of War
Mission : Crusade

Tau Empire Force

Shas'el Crisis Commander : Burst cannon, Air Bursting Frag Launcher, HW Multitracker, Vectored Retro Thrusters.
Ethereal : Honor blade, HW Blacksun Filter, HW Drone Controller, EMP Grenade, 2 Shield Drones.
Crisis Team : 2 Crisis Suits - Burst Cannon, Plasma Gun, Multitracker, & Team leader Burst Cannon, Plasma Gun, Multitracker HW Drone Controller, 2 Gun drones.
Crisis Team : 1 Crisis Suits TL Missile Pod, Blacksun Filter & 1 Crisis Suits TL Missile Pod, Flamer
Stealthsuits : 4 Stealthsuits Burst Cannon, Drone Controller, 4 Gun Drones, & Team Leader Burst Cannon, Drone Controller, 1 more Gun Drone.
Fire Warriors : 11 Fire Warriors Pulse Rifle, Photon Grenades & Shas'ui Pulse Rifle, Photon Grenade , HW Drone Controller, 2 Gun Drones.
Fire Warriors : 11 Fire Warriors Pulse Rifle, & Shas'ui Pulse Rifle, HW Drone Controller, 2 Gun Drones.
Fire Warriors : 12 Fire Warriors Pulse Rifle
Kroot Carnivores : 16 Kroot Carnivores with Kroot Rifles & 2 Kroot Ox with Kroot Gun, & 1 Kroot Hound.
Path Finders : 5 Path Finders with Pulse Carbine, Marker Light & Devilfish with Burst cannon, Marker Beacon, 2 Gun Drones, 1 Seeker Missile.
Sniper Drone Team : 1 Spotter Networked Marker Light, Pulse Pistol, Stealth Field Generator & 3 Sniper Drones with Rail Rifle, Stealth Field Generator.
Broadsides : 1 Broadside with TL Rail Gun, Smart Missiles, Black Sun Filter & 1 Broadside with TL Rail Gun, Smart Missiles, Drone Controller, 2 Shield Drones.
Sky Ray : 1 Sky Ray with 2 Networked Marker Lights, 2 Burst Cannons, 6 Seeker Missiles, Multitracker, Target Lock, Targeting Array.
Fortification: Bastion with 4 Heavy Bolters.

Ork Force.

Warboss : TL Shoota, Power Klaw, Stick Bombs, 'Eavy Armor, Attack Squig, Boss Pole, Cybork Body.
Big Mek : Burna, Kuston Force Field.
Nobz : 1 Painboy Doks Tools, 'Urty Syringe & 3 Nobz Slugga, Big Choppa & 2 Nobz Choppa, Shoota Skorcha & 2 Nobz Slugga, Power Klaw & Trukk with Big Shoota (Upgraded to Troops)
Meganobz : 3 Meganobz with Mega armour, TL Shoota, Power Klaw
Tankbustas : 9 Tankbustas with Tankbusta bombs, Rokkit Launcha & 1 Tankbusta with Tankbusta bombs, Tank Hammer & 2 Bomb squigs & Tankbusta Nob with Tankbusta bombs, Rokkit Launcha.
Boyz : 10 Boyz Choppa, Slugga & 1 Boy with Big Shoota & 1 Nob with Power Klaw, Slugga & Trukk with Big Shoota
Boyz : 10 Boyz Choppa, Slugga & 1 Boy with Big Shoota & 1 Nob with Big Choppa, Slugga & Trukk with Big Shoota
Boyz : 10 Boyz Shoota & 1 Boy with Big Shoota & 1 Nob with Big Choppa, Slugga & Trukk with Big Shoota
'Ard Boyz : 17 'Ard Boyz Choppa, Slugga 'Eavy Armor & 2 'Ard Boy Big Shoota, 'Eavy Armor & 1 'Ard Nob with 'Eavy Armor, Power Klaw, Slugga
Deffkoptas : 2 Deffkoptas with Choppa, TL Rokkit Launcha & 1 Deffkopta with Choppa, TL Rokkit Launcha, Buzzsaw
Warbuggies : 1 Warbuggie with Skorcha.
Big Gunz : 1 Kannon & 4 Gretchin & 1 Ammo Runt & 1 RuntHerd with Slugga, Grabba Stick.
Killer Kans : 3 Killer Kans with Dreadnought CCW, Rokkit Launcha
Battlewagon : Deff Rolla, Grot Rigger, Red Paint Job


There were four objectves placed evenly across the field. Tau won table side and set up first. My Etheral granted Furious Charge to whatever unit he joined, so he joined the Kroot making them fearless as well. The Tau deployed a Crisis suit team with missile pods inside and a Sniper team on top of the Bastion. (I forgot a lot to shoot the heavy bolters.) Stealth suits set up far to one flank and a unit of crisis suits set up far to the other.

The Orks Deployed with a walking flank and a mobile flank. Placing Tankbustas in the Battlewagon with the Big Mek, and the Warboss joined the Nobz in a truck lined up next to the battlewagon. The Meganobs followed the Trukks and the Big Gun deployed on a Ruin. The large 'Ard Boyz squad followed behind the Killa Kans. Deffkoptas decided to outflank.



More Soon

[jhobin]

I thought the ethereal only provided fearlessness to Tau units only?

[Catachan Colonel]

The reroll moral checks says not vespid or drones or kroot, the fearless part of inspiring presence lists no such limitation.

In any case The Ethereal himself is a Tau unit, so he should make himself fearless. (Or his two drones.) And if one model in the unit is fearless they all are. So he would make them fearless that way anyway.

[Catachan Colonel]

TURN 1

The Orks failed to steal the initiave and Night fighting was not used on turn one.

On the first turn most tau units looked across the field and began to move forward.



The Kroot discovered the forest they deployed in was pleasant. And that they guarded a Grav Wave Generator. Fire warriors advanced to a Skyfire Nexus next to a gun emplacement. In the shooting phase the tau had a very productive all three of the trukks carrying Boyz squads were destroyed. as was the warbuggy by Krootox fire. Ork casualties were additionally high from the results of vehicle explosions. Tau with jet packs all retreated a respectable distance keeping them from charge range.





Orks moved up across the board. The Meganobz found their armor quite heavy. and moved ahead at a snail's pace. The Nobz trukk moved into the woods and the battlewagon slowly advanced. Ork shooting was small but potent. destroying both the Piranha and Devilfish and well as a few casualties to some of the fire warriors.



More later.

[shaun]

So I see a couple of my ork trukks and kustom made battlewagon are making a showing.