Last friday I lost my first battle
. I made some stupid rokie mistakes in this batlle and learned a lot
.
I played against the folowing chaos fleet:
150p - Warmaster Ld 9 / Extra re-roll / Mark of Tzeentch
035p - Chaos Space Marines
260p - Styx Heavy Cruiser
190p - Acheron Heavy Cruiser
190p - Devastation Cruiser
180p - Inferno Cruiser
180p - Inferno Cruiser
165p - Slaughter Cruiser
150p - Iconoclast Escort x 5
On the field there was one little astroid field (15cm by 5cm) on the battle field near my deployment area.
The battle (short version):
In the first round I one of my nighshade sq was crippeled by lances. Then I got my oponent to split up his fleet (because I tried to get one sq of nightshades and one sq of hemlocks behind him) and attacked the two carriers with half my fleet (Void stalker + hemlocks with aconite), but could not destroy them before they disengaged due to stupid mistakes. On the other side of the table I decided to attack a cruiser as a distraction. I tried to lure him away from the carriers even more but I pushed this attack to much and I lost a whole squadron of nightshades and my sq of hemlocks, and my eclipse were crippled. In the end I could only cripple the styx, devastation and his iconoclast squadron ( I could not destroy the last escort). I did not have sufficient fire power left on the table to fight four cruisers and disengaged.
Next battle vs ImperialsThe imperial fleet:
50 Captain (Ld8)
345 Victory Class Battleship
260 Dominion Class Battlecruiser
220 Dictator Class Cruiser
195 Dominator Class Cruiser (+Turret)
195 Dominator Class Cruiser (+Turret)
210 6x Viper Class Destroyer
25 1 Reroll
Thoughts on how to fight this army? I know this guy and he won't split up his fleet so the tactics used vs chaos won't work