Night Lords vs Solar Auxilia - Zone Mortalis - Horus Heresy Battle Report - Age of Darkness

[@tabe8850]

I just wanted to say that I very much enjoy your channel. I’ve been a subscriber for almost a year and you make great content. Thank you!

[@BearfootMiniatures]

Thanks mate! Really glad to hear your enjoying it!

[@Kiickman]

The Night Lords just wanna hug your army!

[@lloydmitchellnineone]

Just cap the Artificer Armour at the initiative characteristic. Tanking loads of shots on one guy is feel bad

[@BearfootMiniatures]

Eeeh not a bad shout tbh!

[@abbadonslostarms-kbd1393]

Nail on head. The game system is generally spot on. Just need some points adjustments/ faq on some of the more frustrating units

[@Kilo6Charlie]

IDK if ZM is done different in this manner, since a lot is different from base HH2.0. but as I recall, you can only remove eligible targets, so you sometimes can't remove from the back

[@yagsipcc287]

OH yes I cant wait for this one lads :-)

[@toms4079]

Great game. That first charge from the terror squad should have succeeded due to bloody murder. Extra 1" to the charge result if the target is running away.

[@lonelysandbar]

I legit sometimes sing "Playing with the boys" when going to the FLGS.

[@Khurzan72]

Easy. I see Night Lords, I hit like.

[@redcorsair14]

Night Lord theme song : Len- "Steal my sunshine"

[@RedHarbinger]

Hey team, just wanted to note that the Apothecary joining the Heavy Support squad would mean they couldn't re-roll their saves against blasts/templates. The whole unit needs to have the Heavy rule to get the re-roll, and the Apothecary doesn't have it.

[@BearfootMiniatures]

Hey mate! The legion apothecarian rule means you gain the subtypes of the units you join, so you don’t actually lose the benefits of heavy (it’s in the last paragraph of the rule)

[@RedHarbinger]

@BearfootMiniatures huh, you're absolutely right. Somehow, my eyes completely glanced over the sub-types part. Good to know I can chuck one in my Suzerains without fear. Carry on then 🫡

[@DaddyWarCrimes78]

I may have missed it, but how did you house rule ZM Reinforcements to make it possible to actually deploy a Solar Auxilia army?

[@BearfootMiniatures]

We didn’t in any way I’m aware of mate, maybe I’ve missed how they can’t be deployed! What prevents solar from being deployed?!

[@DaddyWarCrimes78]

You pay Reinforcement points per unit, not per Tercio. So putting your Legate and command squad on the board costs you your initial 6 RP and each additional companion squad costs you 4RP so you can't bring it on until the 3nd turn and then you get 4 more to bring the second companion squad in the 5th turn. If you skip bringing the Warlord on to bring 6 Veletaris squads, you lose the 2 point discount for your warlord so it's 8 to deploy him and the command section with the command vox. In short, because Solar Auxilia have so many units and your hard hitting infantry are HQ slots, you struggle to have anywhere near enough RP to deploy more than a fraction of your army. Conversely, a Pride of the Legion list will spend 5 or 6 RP to deploy their whole force since the retinue squad is free when attached to the 2RP warlord.

[@newtpondskipper]

Great game! I really miss taking causalities from the nearest models. It just feels gamey taking them from the back. SA definitely need their heavy weapons against marines although those melta were great!

[@BearfootMiniatures]

100% on all points mate; thinking of doing a storm axe list for ZM with the solar in the new year, just tons of blokes with a need to chop marines to pieces

[@jovenlawrence4977]

Can you list a page number that says you can chose to snap shoot? I didn't know you could do that and my friend group uses a lot of flamers so it would be a nice boon to us if that is ture

[@BearfootMiniatures]

Hey mate, sure! So we’ve got it from p248 of the main rulebook (USRs, under templates - wall of death) “Template weapons can fire snapshots at any none flyer. If a template weapon fires… etc” So can fire snapshots at infantry being none flyers and then following the rules below!

[@PrimeSniper7]

​@BearfootMiniatures Template weapons can't choose to snap shoot, that rule is just saying that you can't fire snap shots at flyers with template weapons.

[@abbadonslostarms-kbd1393]

How expensive are the terror squads ?. They seem to be the big thing in the list fir w1 marines

[@BearfootMiniatures]

Ye mate: they end up super expensive tbh, a 15dude squad with 5 rotors, 10 chargers, artificer and 3 chain weapons comes to 380! It’s the WS4 that hurts for that price imo, could do with a boost to WS5 for how many points they are

[@abbadonslostarms-kbd1393]

@@BearfootMiniatures yeah deffo

[@crwarren]

Where is the rule that allows units to choose to snapshoot. That's a game changer for flame units

[@BearfootMiniatures]

Hey mate, sure! So we’ve got it from p248 of the main rulebook (USRs, under templates - wall of death) “Template weapons can fire snapshots at any none flyer. If a template weapon fires… etc” So can fire snapshots at infantry being none flyers and then following the rules below!

[@crwarren]

@@BearfootMiniatures but does that mean the can if they are snap firing, or they can choose to?