The Stormraven arrives

On turn two, the blood angel air support arrives and takes aim at the koptas. Lucky saves on my part meant I had one Kopta left in the unit when the guns fell silent, but he was falling back.

Who's that over there? Never mind , just shoot em!

My first mob of lootas took aim at the distant devastator squad and cut loose. Unfortunately, the bullets all bounced.

Turn 1

After losing a few boys to fire from the predator, the Shoota boys advanced on the central objective and the objective located in other quarter on my table edge. The predator was first immobilized by rokkit fire from the shootas, then polished off by a buzzsaw kopter.

Koptas racing in...

Closing in...

Scout Moves...

The marines set up a all plasma cannon dev squad in the far corner along with a scouting predator. His assault squads in razorbacks were left in reserve.

The he rushed the tank on my right flank in the scout move and I turbo boosted my kopta units to get a jump on the predator and a rifleman dreadnought in his backfield.

Deployment

We were playing a Nova Open scenario with spearhead deployment. I won the die roll and set up first. I set up the buzzsaw koptas as far forward as possible in order to maximize my chances of a first turn assault on enemy transports. Little did I know that a 6 on the seize roll by my opponent would change my plans...