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Alright so this guy at the local GW shop runs something like 6 transports and two of the heavy support skimmers, each of which has at least 1 dark lance. I had a LR Redeemer, autolas predator, 2 tac squads in rhinos, thunderfire, land speeder, dread in drop pod and 5 assault termies with vulkan. I went second. First round went something like 3 lances into the Redeemer and Predator, each exploding. Then I dropped the Dread and rolled double 1s for ap.....
After that I disembarked the marines, thinking "Oh man I'm gonna rapid fire your fing open topped 10 armor vehicles to shit." Well I got 2 of his transports with the speeder and tac marines. Killed all the troops in both with the thunderfire. Well little did I know he had this unit that shoots a small blast, forcing a pinning test at Ld minus the number of models under the template. My 2 tac squads were pinned the next 3 rounds. I killed another vehicle with the termies, but he wiped the squad.
WTF was I supposed to do to that? I have had some minor successes against this same guy (minus the super imba 2 wound pinning bs units). I guess it's rock v. scissors? I can't possibly kill all of his vehicles in the first round. Should I just resign myself to the fact that vs. lances, I will lose if I go second? Or was I just EXTREMELY unlucky today?
After that I disembarked the marines, thinking "Oh man I'm gonna rapid fire your fing open topped 10 armor vehicles to shit." Well I got 2 of his transports with the speeder and tac marines. Killed all the troops in both with the thunderfire. Well little did I know he had this unit that shoots a small blast, forcing a pinning test at Ld minus the number of models under the template. My 2 tac squads were pinned the next 3 rounds. I killed another vehicle with the termies, but he wiped the squad.
WTF was I supposed to do to that? I have had some minor successes against this same guy (minus the super imba 2 wound pinning bs units). I guess it's rock v. scissors? I can't possibly kill all of his vehicles in the first round. Should I just resign myself to the fact that vs. lances, I will lose if I go second? Or was I just EXTREMELY unlucky today?