Wins and losses

I'm exhausted, so I won't write a full battle report. But basically I tried playing against two opponents yesterday with my Imperial Guard list. Since I had gotten two new Wyverns, I tried them out against the pro Tau opponent.

I lost. For some reason I can't beat the guy. I don't know why. Perhaps the dice gods don't favor me. Perhaps it's my deployment. I'm not sure. But I really, really want to win against him. I'll challenge him again next week. The good news is that it was a very close battle. I think you all know, but this is the guy with the Stormsurge, 3 Fire Breacher teams, 2 teams of 10 Pathfinders, 2 Crisis Commanders with 4 fusion blasters, Farsight, 3 squads of 3 Crisis suits (2 of them with 3 plasma rifles each, 1 of them with 2 ion cyclic blasters each), and a whole bunch of Drones.

I brought my Shadowsword, 2 Leman Russ Executioner tanks (one of them is my tank commander), a Leman Russ Annihilator, 2 Wyverns, 2 Primaris Psykers, 1 Company Commander, 2 Tempestors Prime, 2 Tempestus command squads - 1 with 4 plasma guns and 1 with 4 hot-shot volley guns, a Valkyrie, a 10-men Kasrkin squad and a Tech-priest Enginseer.

They still weren't enough. The good news was that I wiped out his Stormsurge, all his Pathfinder teams and 1 Fire Breacher team in the first turn. The bad news was that his Crisis Suits alone were enough to wipe out my army. They Deep Struck, killed my Kasrkins and my Shadowsword, and the plasma command squad. I managed to take out the rest of the Fire Breachers with my remaining Kamikaze Troopers with hot-shot volley guns (who lost 1 guy), and my Wyverns killed a bunch of drones and wounded 1 Crisis suit, but it wasn't enough. He kept on coming, blew up another 2 Leman Russ tanks in 1 turn. I managed to wipe out a single Crisis suit squad and all the drones, and by the end of the battle, he had killed all my Leman Russ tanks and Wyverns, as well as my hot-shot volley command squad, but I reduced him to 1 plasma-rifle team of 3 Crisis suits, his 2 Crisis Commanders, Farsight and a single Crisis suit. I still had a Primaris Psyker, 1 Tempestor Prime and a Company Commander left, but that was all. I had nothing that could hold objectives, nothing that coould kill the remaining Crisis suits.

It was a hard loss to take, especially after I jumped to a lead by taking out his Stormsurge and Pathfinder teams. But his Crisis suits and drones were way too strong. I have no idea how to win against him. I don't think anyone will offer me advice (I doubt anyone reads this blog), but I'm open to ideas.

The second game was one-sided. This time I played against a kid who used Primaris Marines, and I swapped my Wyverns and Kasrkins out for a mortar heavy weapons squad, a lascannon heavy weapons squad, a 2nd Company Commander and 2 plasma command squads. I swapped the hot-shot volley guns for plasma guns. We played Maelstrom, and in the end I won 17 (or was it 18?) points to 8 and tabled the poor kid by turn 3 or 4. Without losing any of my tanks. Yeah.

Ouch.

Just to put into perspective, the kid brought a fairly strong list - a Captain in Gravis Armor who he spent 3 Command Points to upgrade into a Chapter Master, a Librarian, 3 tactical squads, 2 Inceptor squad (1 of them with plasma inferno pistols or something), a Devastator team with plasma cannons (really?), a Predator, a Repulsor and a Redemptor Dreadnought with the macro-plasma incinerator. And Hellblasters, who were inside the Repulsor.

I don't think it's my team that's weak. I still don't know how to beat the Tau guy, but he's literally the only one I can't win against. I somehow manage to win against everyone else, but this guy (who has participated in tournaments) is on a totally different level. Someone, please teach me how to beat him.