Well I finally had a game with the Rogue Trader Fleet.
My list was as follows:
- RT Cruiser
Vet Rogue Trader
Advanced Shielding
- Murder Class Cruiser
Advanced Shielding
- Endeavor Light Cruiser
Advanced Shielding
- Endeavor Light Cruiser
Advanced Shielding
- 3 Armed Transports
TOTAL: 780pts
I only had 3 armed transports on stands or I would have used more.
Opponents fleet consisted of
- Hades Class Heavy Cruiser
Chaos Lord
Mark of Nurgle
- Devastation Class Cruiser
- Carnage Class Cruiser
- Carnage Class Cruiser
TOTAL: 835pts
Turn 1: The RT fleet advanced, with the endeavors firing torpedoes to force the chaos ships into maneuvering. The Chaos fleet advanced and launched bombers from the devastation.
Turn 2: Bombers flew towards the Rogue Trader cruiser, but were shot down by some lucky shots from the armed freighters. The torpedoes forced my opponent to split his fleet, leaving the heavy cruiser isolated. The Hades traded lance fire with my murder, but luckily the 3 shields of my cruiser absorbed all the hits.
Turn 3: The murder again opened fire on the hades, but only succeeded in taking down its shields. The Hades decided it had had enough from my murder, and unleashed all of its firepower on my murder, succeeding in crippling it, despite my brace for impact rolls. With only a few hits remaining there was little the murder could do. on the other flank the RT cruiser, transports and an endeavor were engaging the 3 chaos cruisers, this didnt look oood...
Turn 4: Since the RT Murder class was so heavily damaged it decided to disengage. The endeavor that had been escorting the murder decided to ram the hades. It succeeded on both its all ahead full and ramming leadership tests, causing 3 points of damage and destroying the shield generators on the hades. However in return the little endeavor took 2 points of damage, which combined with earlier damage crippled it.
Needless to say it didn't go well on the other side. I did significant damage to one of his cruisers but with 3 cruisers against a cruiser and a light cruiser I never expected it to go well.
* I think in the future I need to bulk out my fleet a bit more with armed freighters and see how that goes. May have to use some heavy freighters too, but I really don't like the fact that they only have 15cm batteries.