2 murders
1 hades
2 devistations
1 acheron
1 repulsive ld 8 commander, mark of nurgle, fully upgraded.
From my perspective....
When he deployed his mars and light cruisers on the other side of the table, he made his fatal mistake, since he threw 330 delicate points along with a huge comittment of 270 points all together in an easily isolated target. As chaos, I had range and speed to cause some hurt, but only if he took the first round. To counter the emperor, I deployed my devistations and acherons at a 45 degree angle on the left side of the table, aiming inward, allowing me to use my long range to screw with his lunars and emperor. The repulsive was in the center, angled to the left at 45 to do the same.
The roll for first turn went to me, so I forced him to take it. 3 nova cannons are scary, but I took the risk and let him shoot without bracing, fortunately, he scattered and knocked shields down that round, allowing me to lock on with the murders and hades on direct approach. 8 locked on lances demolished his mars, removing it as a threat for the rest of the game. The other side of the table utterly failed their special orders (a trend we both suffered for most of the game). But my repulsive was able to knock down his st 8 bomber flight with its full firepower, while the devistations and acheron began poking at the emperor. Launched 2 squads of 4 assault boats, one directly in his path.
The next round went poorly for him. His nova cannons missed again, and the locked on lances from the dauntlesses were braced by the hades, only taking 2 points of damage in the end.
The emperor moved onto ordnance and had its prow and port weapons knocked out, the following ordnance phase resulted in the death of the firestorms from a- boats.
My turn came around, the murders locked on, same with the repulsive and acheron, the devs reloaded.
The murders laid waste to his dauntless squadron, and nearly killed the mars, the combined firepower of the other ships smacked his battleship and lunars for good damage.
Since most of his fleet was braced, his next round was going to be insignificant before the slaughter, he called it then.
Good game all around! Great time, and would totally play with him again!