Another game today. 2k tempest of war. My salamanders against a friends blood angels.
His list was a recent tournament winner. 3 big blobs of sanguinary guard, two eradicator squads, bladeguard and some other fluff. Very potent.
I went with my standard battalion.
I managed to get first turn and he'd made the mistake of deploying his infiltrators on two forward objectives but with no support. Having no other targets in range for the majority of my army I unloaded in to them and wiped them out. This left both objectives under my control but with a lot more units on them and...importantly out of line of sight and range of most of his army, this also bagged me all 3 of my secondary objectives.
This then meant he moved and advanced resulting in very little fire coming my way on his turn.
He then made a lot of spicy charges in the centre. I chose to intervene with Adrax which worked well. He took a charge of 7 sanguinary guard for only 3 wounds killing one in return. His chapter master hit my chaplain putting 3 wounds on him for none in return. I also lost an aggressor to the sanguinary guard.
Turn 2 I found myself in range of a lot more of his army. Managed to delete a unit of sanguinary guard, his 5 man inceptor squad and a smattering of wounds elsewhere. My apothecary undid all the damage I'd taken.
Then it came to combat. My chaplain whiffed against his captain but my bladeguard absolutely minced him. One of my dreads did nothing against his sanguinary guard however adrax managed to batter another 2 in to a pulp. They then took a couple of wounds off the dread before the aggressors battered another couple. This meant they broke and that was it...gone. I held the central objective completely uncontested scoring another secondary and a load of primaries.
He again found himself in a position where he could reliably target very little of my force. He managed to wipe an aggressor squad with some incredibly lucky rolls from an eradicator squad and took out 2 intercessors on the opposite flank. He then realised he had nothing in charge range. Hadn't scored any secondaries. Had scored only one primary.
I got as far as completing my next movement phase. By the end of this I held all but one objective and had his entire force within firing range of my entire force. Not only that but charge range too (minus my intercessors sat on objectives at the back). He unfortunately capitulated.
I ran the dice anyway for my own curiosity and wiped out all of his remaining units on my right flank. My centre castle then took out his remaining eradicators and librarian. My left flank then left just 2 sanguinary guard and 1 bladeguard alive to take the charges.
The sanguinary died to my chaplain and aggressors. Failed all charges on his bladeguard but he was cooked by overwatch fire when he charged my aggressors.
Overall I think things were quite easy due to poor deployment from him and too little aggression on his first turn. Armour of contempt, cover and sanguinary guard make for massive firepower sinks. Took so much to kill them! He spread his characters out too thin and took them away from the units they should have been buffing. The only one I screwed up on was placement of my techmarine but didn't want to group all my characters together.
Chaplain, apothecary and Adrax together make for a re-roll fest and great longevity. Bounce out of one fight and in to the next on full health.