As I packed my CSM up last night to head to the game store, I thought about how much I just wanted to try something a little different. I had seen the internet theory hammer out there regarding Chaoszilla and already knew it would perform horribly, but I figured it would be fun just to say I did it, so I did. I ended up playing against Erik "the Homeless"'s Death Guard CSM.
.
Now before you come with your pitchforks and torches, I remind you that I have no delusions about this being a viable army in a competitve enviroment, but it was a TON of fun to play!
.
The list at 1750 looked something like this:
.
Lash Prince
.
Lash Prince
.
They were all I could afford for DPs and they actually only got one lash off between the two of them. One actually failed a dangerous terrain test and took a wound, then took a wound from Perils of the Warp and then managed to get punked by a squad of lesser daemons. In the end the second DP also died to lesser daemons!
.
3x Chaos Dreadnoughts with 2x DCC weapons a peice and each has a heavy flamer.
.
These guys were superstars in this game. I didn't roll a single 1 for them on the crazed chart either! They managed to kill quite a bit and not get themselves killed (except for the one that died turn 1.), although, 1 dreadnought somehow got into a tickle fight against a single lesser daemon for a few turns.
.
3x Defilers with 4x DCC weapons a peice.
.
One got popped turn one and the others got immobilised in CC. The big dissapointment I had with them was the fact that they were locked in CC for so long and barely killed anything a turn. They just needed other units to come and help the out, but they did manage to pop a vindi and kill two units of Lesser Daemons and a squad of Plague Marines with assistance.
.
The remainder of my list involved two tool-up small squads of Plague Marines in Rhinos and two minimal squads of Lesser Daemons.
.
Unlike Erik's Lesser Daemons mine managed to kill themselves pretty quickly against a squad of Chosen.
.
I know this isn't a very good report of the battle, but I just wanted to get what I ran out there. I took the lesser daemons instead of the Greater Daemon becasue I thought I might need them in an objective mission, but we ended up playing anhililation in a spearhead deployment. While I normally always form up in a spearhead when I can, this army really gets in its own way when forced to move from this set up. Even with the fleeting defilers and the DPs, this army moved pretty slow.
.
The funny thing is that I still pulled off a win 9-7 KPS with all the bad luck I mentioned above. This really is a testament to the incredibly bad luck Erik had with rolling. He would penetrate a defiler and then get a 1 or 2 ... or after multiple attacks, would immobilize it. He fired a Las-cannon pred at a rhino and only immobilized it. He would shoot dreadnoughts and only get glancing hits and then would roll less than a 3. Between those bad rolls and my dreadnought tickling a single lesser daemon for three turns, It was a good game for laughs on both sides!
.
All in all, my final thoughts are that Chaoszilla is NOT competitive and had the dice even gone slightly better, I would have been close to tabled in that game. With all the anti-mech out there these days, there is more than enough to available to most armies to kill this one dead before it even hits their lines, but I will continue to play it for fun, butI don't see me fighting any Nidzilla lists anytime soon!
No comments:
Post a Comment