Yesterday we played a blockade run.
Me the Imperial Navy (750) vs Ork clanz (1500)
Mainly as a try out for Clanz, and let me tell you, big clanz squadrons backed up by a Hulk is a really cool thing for Orks. Even wihout a Hulk and regular Terror the big squads are great.
Ork Ravagers, 6 of em backed up by some brutes (he likes mixing squadrons in Ork fashion), with looted torpedoes is effective. His average size for a torp marker per ship was about 5. So per turn they dished out ~30torpedoes. For ~300pts squadron. Nice. The re-roll is great.
Ork Leadership was per average higher then my IN leadership.
In the end my Dictator made it, I failed to cripple an escort squadron, big squads are nasty in scenarios like this.
One Lunar got unlucky as my BFI rolls where pretty poor with this one (failing every single BFI roll on this ship), where as the Dictator saved 6 BFI's with 6 rolls (4 lances from hulk hit, 4 saved). Average.
Other Lunar failed every single Ld check except the first. No BFI, no disengage. Then having 12 escorts in your rear does the trick.
Fun battle. I failed but getting the Dictator there was rewarding, I had two hits left, I receive 2 hits from last torpedo salvo and brace both. fewiee...
In a normal game perhaps things would be differently due the IN having more guns, now I just had to little to make a decent impact. (Dictator, 2x Lunar, 2x Sword, 3x Cobra).
He had Hulk, Terror, and a whole mix of escorts.