Utter failure

I don't know if it's because I have a cold and was not thinking straight, but I got crushed today. I should go and rest early, but just to take note: not a good idea to put Kastelan Robots out in the open.

Basically I brought a Mars Adeptus Mechanicus list against my Tau friend, and I failed. It was Belisarius Cawl, a Tech-priest Dominus, a Tech-priest Enginseer, 2 Skitarii Vanguard squads with 2 plasma calivers and 5 men each, a squad of 3 Kataphron Destroyers with plasma calivers and cognis flamers, 4 Kastelan Robots, 2 Onager Dunecrawlers with Icarus array, and a Knight Errant with Stormspear rocket pod.

Long story short, I started second, lost all my Kastelan Robots to my opponent's Deep-Striking Crisis Suits and Crisis Commanders' barrage of ion cyclic blasters and fusion blasters, and a bunch of plasma rifle shots, lost a Kataphron Destroyer to more plasma rifle shots, a Skitarii Vanguard squad to the Stormsurge and Breachers, and then it went downhill for there. I took out a bunch of Drones and 2 Crisis Suits with my Onager Dunecrawlers and 2 Kataphron Destroyers, one who slew himself with overcharge despite Belisarius giving him re-rolls, and killed a Breacher squad with the rest. The Knight Errant killed a second Breacher squad in melee and put 5 wounds on the Stormsurge with his Stormspear rocket pod, while the thermal cannon, true to form, did absolutely nothing.

Next turn, I lost my Knight Errant, Belisarius took 7 wounds and had one left, my Kataphron Destroyers were wiped out, and I lost 1 Skitarii Vanguard. I retaliated by wiping out even more Drones and 3 Crisis suits with plasma rifles, and then engaged Belisarius and my 4 Skitarii Vanguard in combat. I lost 1 of the latter to overwatch, and another 2 in combat while doing absolutely nothing. Belisarius himself only killed one or two drones and did nothing to Farsight, who slew him back despite Belisarius regaining 4 wounds back to 5 during the repair phase.

Ouch. I lost my Tech-priest Enginseer, Tech-priest Dominus, the last surviving Skitarii Vanguard and one Onager Dunecrawler, and only had one Dunecrawler left. He was a hero, because I used Wrath of Mars Stratagem and put a bunch of mortal wounds on Farsight to kill him and slay my opponent's Warlord. It was a crushing defeat, but at least I had some form of moral justice. Heh.

I played poorly, either because I was sick and not thinking straight, or because I made stupid mistakes. For now I'm going to rest early and hope I recover from this terrible cold, and try this list again next week.

For the Omnissiah!