Salamanders leading the way!

Had two more games with my Salamanders today. I’m getting really close to finalizing my 1500pt list for Astro in June!

First game was against a buddy who’s coming to Astro as well. He is trying a list that has 5 scoring units:

• Librarian w/10 marines, Drop pod
• 10 Scouts w/Telion – Combat Squading into 3 snipers/Missile Launcher/Telion and 5 bolters.
• Blaylock with 5 shooty terminators
• 5 Thunderhammer termis
• Melta Dread in a Drop pod

The game was Capture and Control – Dawn of War. By the end of turn 5 I had just barely got rid of his Librarian that teleported to contest my objective, meaning it would have been a tie. But it went to 6 and I managed to make Telion and the remainder of his unit run off his objective and the game ended with me winning 1-0.

Second game was against a random dude at the store with an all Bike Marine army. I can’t remember exact unit sizes, but it was something like

• Commander (relic blade, Bike)
• Command Squad (Apoth, Powerfist, 2 meltaguns, Champion, Bikes)
• 8 or 9 bikes w/ 2xMelta, Attack Bike, Sgt w/Power fist
• 8 or 9 bikes w/ 2xMelta, Attack Bike, Sgt w/Power fist
• 8 or 9 bikes w/ 2xPlasma, Attack Bike, Sgt w/Power fist
• Librarian (attached to plasma squad)

Mission was Annihilation. With his list only having 6 KP to my 11 I was a little worried. But with using the terrain and drop pod placement to bottleneck him and a little luck on his armour saves, I tabled him by the end of 4 and won 6KP to his 2.

So between this and Winning all 3 games at a small Tournament last weekend, it’s been a good week for the Salamanders. I’m pretty happy with my list now so it’s time to buckle down and finish painting it.