Astra Militarum vs Leagues of Votann | Season 2 Ep 4 Warhammer 40,000 League Report

Avatar The Chef March 25, 202398  69 98 Likes

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It’s the battle of the big dogs today as Bard gets his first runout in the League with the Astra Militarum, facing off against Beard and the Leagues of Votann.

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Dtmurr@gmail.com
Dtmurr@gmail.com
1 year ago

Hey guys, fantastic fun once again. Love all the content. Wait to keep the fun in wargaming. But since it’s the League, I gotta be a rules guy: Beard, I think you’ve given the Sagitaurs too many guns. I’m pretty sure the L7 launcher and the Sagitaur missile launcher is one or the other not both. I think you used both weapons in the first game as well? Maybe you’ve already caught this moving forward, and I’m just behind on my videos.
Can’t wait to keep watching and see how season two unfolds!

Matt Hucker
1 year ago

What a game. Absolutely loved watching that. Who knew this game we all love could be so much fun to watch. Great game gents looking forward to the rest of the league!

John Wrightson
John Wrightson
1 year ago

Beard, I’m beginning to think you’re not using HunTRs Mark on purpose here. Everytime you missed with the Magna Rail I nearly had a heart attack!
Please use it….
Please
Please for the the love of god man use it.

John Wrightson
John Wrightson
1 year ago

I’m going to be sick…. Out my butt…. Classy!

40k.nomad
1 year ago

That was an absolutely excellent game! A proper nail biter! Great job all.

SchnitzelHip
Lifetime Member
1 year ago

Great game – love watching the pair of you. Bard – you have come so far since your tentative first steps with the T’au intro fight. You’ve really settled into the team. The grenade launcher shenannigans at 47m just highlights what I dislike about Votann. Are they OP? Individually, not really (though a pack of indestructible berserkers would like to disagree) but skipping a step or overriding your rules just feels so bad. Toughness ceases to matter as they skip the wound step, many weapons have high damage (I loved the “6 damage? Yeah, sounds right” comment from the forge… Read more »

SlipperyWeasel
Lodge Member
1 year ago

Is it just me or is the resolution poor on mobile phones? There used to be settings to adjust the resolution but it’s no longer there…

SETH DUNAVANT
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SETH DUNAVANT
1 year ago

BRUTAL

Michael Whiffin
Lodge Member
Michael Whiffin
1 year ago

Wow! Just wow. That was a cracking game and James finally got to roll some 6s! Whoop! Was curious as to all the minuses to hit, doesn’t it cap at minus 1 or am I getting very confused? Thanks for another nail biter!

SLaaNeShi1
SLaaNeShi1
1 year ago

Congrats Bard! Very happy for you!

Beard – my heart still has you blacklisted #JustSayNoToVotann

Justin Prato
Lifetime Member
1 year ago

That was a great game. Both those lists are brutal. This game just shows how much the “auto wound on X to hit” army wide is such as BAD rule. I hope 10th buries that for good. Not sure what list that remains is going to match well against that guard list. Tanks-away!!

Graham Bennett
Graham Bennett
1 year ago

Loving the subtle changes to the league format!

Bryan
Lodge Warrior Member
Bryan
1 year ago

Well done Bard/James! That was a very entertaining game!

Asprueloose
1 year ago

Bard has realised that while he can’t do anything about his luck (which presumably is the result of some sort of generational curse or faustian bargain gone wrong) he can write a list that needs no luck to win.

Zaius
Lifetime Member
1 year ago

What a great game!! Congrats Bard! I think it would’ve been better for you if you had held that Dorn back for that first turn. Now I’m just waiting waiting for my dusty boyz to lay some psychic smack down! Go Chef ! I got you in my bracket Chef! for my gaming group bet! There’s a 6 pack of Guinness and a cigar riding on you buddy! “We did nothing wrong!”
No pressure 🤣

Rai
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Rai
1 year ago

What a nailbiter! Love the league games!

David Edwards
David Edwards
1 year ago

The guard fire power is brutal. The pioneers will probably hurt most of the other armies in the league. Just evaporated here.

Ashley Willson
Ashley Willson
1 year ago

I love the league games. Will we be seeing an AoS league? I sure hope so….

GREGORY AINSBOROUGH
GREGORY AINSBOROUGH
1 year ago

Excellent Batrep! This is going to be a close league! When is Spider going to start? Can’t wait to see the Orks in action!

Sven Hegenbart
Lifetime Member
1 year ago

thanks for this battlerep – this was insane to watch.
Congrats to both side well played

AH
AH
1 year ago

Couldnt have been a more tense game, highly enjoyable. So happy for mr Tank Commander Bard, congrats!
This game was mostly decided in the lists. All of AM army was geared to eliminate heavily armoured opponents, and thats what happened. Special mention goes to Rough Riders i guess? Those little 100p units wiped the bikes and by all means should have wiped that Sagitaur too.
Well im sure everyones back to their corners now, practicing railgun hitting and not spending CP on ablative armour, and we will be back to even more close matches in the near future!

Yann
Lodge Member
1 year ago

OMG that was amazing!! well done Bard, great to see you with a win 🙂

Christopher Curtis
1 year ago

There are a couple of games I have book marked as most watches on TT when having some paint and chill time with other enthusiasts. This is getting added to the list. What a game. Brutal and clever, 40K at its best.

Tyler Horne
Tyler Horne
1 year ago

Great close game on both sides! Tally -ho 🫡

Tom Clark
Lodge Member
Tom Clark
1 year ago

Beard. hey bud, so something to consider if you haven’t, I run almost exclusively beam weapons and it has paid off better than the rail weapons, except on the sagitaur, i also run 2 pioneer squads of 4 bodies, and a small 3 man, also a grymnir has been a bigger boon than the other characters for me especially with both the ancestral power and the murmuring stave and interface echo. just things to consider. awesome game guys as always!

Last edited 1 year ago by Tom Clark
Shawn Chenoweth
Lifetime Member
1 year ago

It would be nice to be able to download these as well. It’s great on international flights to get caught up on all things TTT, but you can’t stream so download is the only way.

Adam Stewart
Adam Stewart
1 year ago

Phew! Now that was a match up.

James Thistleton
Lodge Member
1 year ago

Absolutely BRUTAL!!! 🤘🤘🤘 awesome to watch! Live you both, we’ll done dudes!

Kenan Vanecek
Kenan Vanecek
1 year ago

Early game spoilers:

Disappointed with what happened with the Dorn but honestly not surprised.

Daniel Sandsjö
Lifetime Member
Daniel Sandsjö
1 year ago

Fantastic game! Really interesting matchup! =D

Michael Connor
Michael Connor
1 year ago

Cadia stands!! Well done Bard. Tough one but you pulled through even with those dice rolls.

Jonathan Haynes
Lodge Member
Jonathan Haynes
1 year ago

Go guard

Rus’el
Lodge Member
1 year ago

Great game, and the League is such a great format!

Loved it when the Leman Russ went ‘POP’ 💥 haha

Ash278
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Ash278
1 year ago

Grudgibles…now contain 20% more corpstarch! So you can keep grudging for longer!

Christopher Krueger
Lodge Member
Christopher Krueger
1 year ago

Beard, you think not rerolling those first two misses with the rail gun might have been a mistake?

Jeremy Sutton
Jeremy Sutton
1 year ago

LETS GO BARD!!! TALLY-HOOOOO!!!

Archmike
Lodge Warrior Member
1 year ago

Behold! This beautiful Beard/Bard batrep behoves beholding because both brilliant boys benefit from broken battalions of big bombardments bemoaning balance of Beards bantam bogeymen and both boy’s below brilliant…er…rolling…

Archmike
Lodge Warrior Member
1 year ago

Pan Spectral Spanner in the same toolbox as the Sonic Screwdriver ☺️

Alistair Crockford
Alistair Crockford
1 year ago

I have to say I’ve thoroughly enjoyed an entire week of Bard. Relentlessly positive and entertaining in the face of being stomped by big stompy things, covered in poo by rats, chased by the undying legions and finally assaulted by a bunch of short angry shirtless men. Time for a lie down young Jiminy!

Martin Wernecke
Martin Wernecke
1 year ago

Tally Ho! Finally the Guard arrived in the League, but for the love of the God Emperor: purge those cursed dice Bard!

Brett Pettitt
Lodge Member
1 year ago

Spoilers in here so please don’t read until finished – you are forewarned.

James, I really like you but Dwarves need to stubbornly win, even if only by a little every game.

There was a bit in there turn 1 ‘Destroyed by 5 miners’ and I just thought ‘Yeah they are pretty small.’ ‘Miners not Minors!!’

Richard Crichton
Richard Crichton
1 year ago

Dwarves v lots of massive guns how will this go? Should be one way traffic but I bet it isn’t (mostly because of bard’s skill in rolling 1’s) 🙂

Peter Mannion
Peter Mannion
1 year ago

Beards Vs moustaches, Scottish accents Vs English accents, a movie series with Sean Bean Vs a TV series with Sean Bean.

Tanks so much.

Šimon Procházka
Šimon Procházka
1 year ago

Seems Vashtor has come to attack the audio.

Terra Luna-Mae
1 year ago

Oh noooo, I wanna watch this but I have a knights on knights game in an hour! No fair xD

Stuart Hargreaves
Lodge Member
Stuart Hargreaves
1 year ago

Please James just this once can you not roll like utter toss lol

Connor Guy
Connor Guy
1 year ago

Well, this is guna be a slugfest. Happy Saturday TTT

Mortz82
Lodge Warrior Member
Mortz82
1 year ago

Rock and stone!