The lists were well balanced (yours was better in that regard though) and the game flowed very nicely. This was a great example of how to play tactically, efficiently and competitively without going all out and making it a harsh experience. I'm all for smaller games now, especially when there isn't cutthroat play. Hey OSH, great battle report and very interesting to hear your thoughts. Tactical marines and scouts gave me scoring, the sternguard are just fun and I haven't played them in a while, and the dreadnought was there to crack open tanks and cause trouble for OSH. For the rest of the army I kept it simple. I decided to fork out the points to add his terminator armour just to make it harder for OSH to torrent him to death. Eternal warrior (hah, railgun-schmailgun), God of war (morale? Not here), Titanic might (rerolled wounds) twin power fists, a power sword, AP2 bolters and an orbital bombardment.nice. Then inspiration struck and I decided that I would use those oft-abused (IMHO) counts-as rules to bring Marneus Calgar himself. Partway through this I realised it wasn't ideal as he would be facing a railgun and fusion blaster that could ID him and he wouldn't hit hard enough to justify the points.

I wanted to use my recently painted Calgar model and so I started pointing up a captain with two power fists. I considered running 2 squads of tactical marines but the points investment along with an obligatory 100+pt HQ choice was bugging me. Facing off against Old Shatter Hands at 750 I knew that I would be outnumbered as the Tau can really put out a decent model count for low points (plus I'd seen his list).

Space marine vs tau