{"id":2452,"date":"2014-10-19T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2014-10-19T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T15:16:29","slug":"40k-1500-pts-versus-mechanicum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/10\/40k-1500-pts-versus-mechanicum\/","title":{"rendered":"40k: 1500 pts versus Mechanicum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kingbreakers-icon\"John O and I got in a game Friday evening pitting his 30k Mechanicum<\/a> against the Kingbreakers. We played 1500\u00a0pts to match with the\u00a0Berks Team Tournament the next day, though I already knew I would be changing my list\u00a0quite a bit. Some photos are in the Flickr gallery<\/a>.\u00a0I wasn’t\u00a0particularly sold on the robots from Forge World’s pictures, but he’s made them look really good. Definitely a nice looking army to play against. I particularly like\u00a0how the metallic, corroded paint job has made the Scions work really well as Tech Thralls.<\/p>\n

\"Castellax<\/a>

Castellax on the move!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"These<\/a>

These Scions must have angered somebody in charge of the Tech Thrall lobotomy admissions…<\/p><\/div>\n

Battle<\/h2>\n

My army was more purely\u00a0aggressive than\u00a0my larger battles of late: Captain Angholan (Vulkan), Sternguard\u00a0Pod, Tactical Pod, Tactical Pod, Tactical Rhino, Scouts, Predator, Knight.\u00a0A Combat Squad and the Scouts hung back, but otherwise everybody went forward to pen the apparently untrustworthy\u00a0Mechanicum into a\u00a0corner. Sternguard\u00a0slagged a Krios Venator<\/a> on the drop, then were ambushed and\u00a0engaged in an interminable combat with a Dark Angels Dreadnought creeping in the shadows. Angholan slew the opposing Magos<\/a> but\u00a0was then crumped by a\u00a0Castellax Maniple<\/a>. Sgt Harbinger dropped to try and save his ailing leader, but his squad was flattened by\u00a0a deluge of Mechanicum shooting. Meanwhile, yet more treacherous Dark Angels arrived, rushing up to assault the Tacticals controlling\u00a0the center of the battlefield. At this the Knight Errant Greenheart finally had enough and went rampaging, kicking the Dark Angels into the rocks, shattering the\u00a0Castellax automatons, stomping the remaining Tech Thralls, and smiting a Thanatar<\/a>\u00a0to clear the battlefield.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Thanatar, bombarding poor little Tacticals across the board.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thoughts<\/h2>\n

My current take\u00a0on the Mechanicum in 40k is that it’s well equipped to fight fairly standard\u00a0Marine-ish armies. There’s a lot of big dudes with high toughness and many wounds that kind of shrug off small arms fire and chainswords. Ditto on light tanks and hordes, it has a fair amount of high strength shooting and access to large blast shots. But the crazier stuff it’s not really prepared for on its own.\u00a0Those high wound, high toughness robots are basically exactly the kind of thing a Knight\u00a0and similar D-weapon equipped\u00a0units are designed\u00a0to\u00a0engage in combat. That makes some sense given how 30k is mostly Marines fighting Marines.<\/p>\n

More generally, this kind of thing highlights the Imperial Knight as a unit with definite phase shifts in effectiveness: If you’re not really prepared to fight one, it’s devastating. If you are prepared, it’s pretty manageable. On the far right of that spectrum, you can definitely bring units that will almost completely nullify a Knight. Between each of those three there isn’t much of a continuum, you can’t just ignore it and weather the effects, nor will it hold up long\u00a0against units chosen\u00a0to take it down. \u00a0Against a large spectrum\u00a0of opponents it’s either\u00a0crushing face or getting crushed, and in the middle of the spectrum it’s probably fighting another solitary Knight.<\/p>\n

Again, more photos are in the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"No,<\/a>

No, my little friend, today is not your day.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John O and I got in a game Friday evening pitting his 30k Mechanicum against the Kingbreakers. We played 1500\u00a0pts to match with the\u00a0Berks Team Tournament the next day, though I already knew I would be changing my list\u00a0quite a bit. Some photos are in the Flickr gallery.\u00a0I wasn’t\u00a0particularly sold on the robots from Forge … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[272,85,238,17,251,274,29,45,24],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-reports","tag-40k","tag-dark-angels","tag-imperial-knights","tag-kingbreakers","tag-mechanicum","tag-miniatures","tag-page","tag-redcaps","tag-space-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}