Legions Imperialis 3000 Point Battle Report - Raven Guard vs Traitor Militia (Solar Aux) 

Hey gents, don’t forget buildings are +1 to hit. Apoc launchers hit buildings on 3+. Great batrep!

Lovely game, keep them coming please. The game system is rough in places, but the tables are spectacular and there's carnage and that's most important! +1 that smaller battles play better. After a certain size it just becomes more of the same.

The additional foot making a battlefield 4x6 also helps spread the game out a bit.

I love what you did with the fortifications up the middle, that was a really nice idea, having buildings in linked sections. Bad luck on the Baneblades though!

Great battle report! You guys do a splendid job of showing the battlefield movement and explaining your resoning behind it! Keep up the good content!

Awesome batrep! I've found that 2000p for infantry/tanks/flyers and then however many points you want to agree on titans is the sweet spot for me. If you spend much more on regular troops it just bogs the game down a bit too much... and when each player only has 1 titan, it kinda tends to be the player who takes the others titan out first who wins. More titan points makes a more interesting game imo. I've done 4000p with 2000p titans a few times now and that feels pretty good to me.

The ravenguard look great. The warlord looks amazing. Great painting Steve

Great batrep!! Super cool looking armies and scenery.

God-Engine does God-Engine things. Great report guys, it would be interesting to see the TraitorMil bring a pair of Reavers or more Air Support to counter the Warlord and Astarte Numbers. But i agree that LI normally rewards aggression in players. But i think the Astarte had the advantage in mobility and CAF that the TraitorMil would gave always struggled with anyway. Now we're getting Artillery it gives Aux based armies another tool to counter astarte mobility

Armies and terrain look spot one as always!

Keep it up lads, great inspiration while I’m paining my own army up 👌

I only model Games Workshop products, and have been building a large Legions Imperialis collection, after watching you guys I will be studying the rules.

This was superb to listen to, v v cool.

Finally a warlord. Great video

Love this. Please keep them coming, but please let flyers jink and use their armour!

For the record rulebook recommemds forest as obstructing(so difficult terrain that blocks los). I find good as well to reduce carnage

Ooof that went quick at 3K! Good Bat rep 👍

Love the battle report. Quick, clear and entertaining. I love the look of the baneblades I have 4. Unfortunately I will not field them. I find that there weapons are too varied to get the most of them. Wildly different ranges and preferred targets for the 6 (?) different weapon types in means they can never really fire effectively. The two wounds for a hundred point tank? I found that mine died about as fast as yours. If it was 3 wounds I would take em. Baneblades look cool but you’re better off getting more Russ’s. The Great Slaughter has rules for a very interesting variant whose name I can’t recall. 105 pts for 4 lascannons, 2 battle cannons and two shred main gun shots? Still only two wounds but it’s weapon load out is a lot more focused and has more shots

hi guys, love the reports. I just have a question from one of the previous battle reports. Where did you get the models and rules for some of the legion super heavy tanks or were they just for epic?

Thank you for doing the 3k report, good to get a sense of what the “optimum” game should look like. Given that you have now played 6-7 games, and you’ve had a chance to reflect on this game, what are your thoughts on the game system? I’m still struggling to get really excited for the game, but looking forward to seeing it played in the flesh at an event in the next 3 weeks. Just feels like a lot of models get removed before they’ve had even a chance of shooting. This could be down to good tactics on Steve’s part, or it could just mean that the overall mechanic just causes this. It’s possible you guys had a lot of fun playing however which offsets the fact that it was a very one sided game? Would love to get your thoughts. Many thanks

that oneshot on the warhound was painful to watch. how did he ,manage to have a warlord and still have more units than u? lol

Great battle report, thanks. Where did you get the flyer’s stands please?

Great report, 1 hr run time is good, 3k is a ridiculous points total unless maybe you feed in 1k to the battle at a time or something. This game is great fun but its way too lethal

Great video! Will there be more epic 40k?

GG - I'm firmly in the 'Baneblades need 3 wounds' camp. I have 4 of them, but I'm not at all convinced they are worth running. P.S. did you miss the +1 CAF Solar Aux infantry getting for being in base contact in the fortification fights?

That's what should marines do "standard armies", by the lore of course)

Great batrep guys. I'm super hyped for this game, but I get so dismayed when I see the super-heavies like the Baneblades just get ripped up in a round of shooting. Feels like 2 wounds even with a 2+ save is vulnerable, and sadly makes the game feel like a crapshoot at times. It feels bad because I am sure GW wanted to have a high model count game to sell more things and so "balanced" the speed of the game by just making everything super killable. Wish everything had more wounds and there wasn't so much high AP stuff.

Great effort, good to see you game as always. Spectacular armies and table. Enjoyable commentary and great presentation. That being said, this is perhaps the first batrep on this channel I’ve seen that didn’t really make me keen to play the game on display myself… I realise the 5x4 table and refused flank didn’t help, but the tank carpark is unattractive in any game. It seemed like a dice-rolling meatgrinder without any flow to the battle, just pushing more units forward or pulling them back without any proper opportunity to maneuver. This game at 3k looks… Ugly. Sorry for the negativity, I must admit I’m getting more and more dubious about their claim that the game is balanced for 3k points. Again, great video, superb production by you guys, thanks a bundle. Would REALLY like to see even an early days compare and contrast vid by you of the LIMP vs Epic Armageddon 30k rules, as you’ve now been exposed to both.

Burn those bloody dice 😂

Might be a weird and overly specific question, but where are all the trees on the terrain from?

Had a similar experience with my SA last game. I have a feeling the point value of their armour is too high.

It seems like the way it win is with a kind of staged, controlled aggression. Like moving a bunch of stuff forward, Tercios first to soak PD, followed by Ogryns, followed by tanks. Or something like that maybe. I'm seeing the beginning of a pattern but I haven't quite figured it out yet.

Okay I'm two weeks late to the party but where the heck did those landspeeders and jetbikes come from? They are probably months from coming out.

Are those Mkhand pattern Leman Russes?

Nice table and armies , some rules i think you did wrong, you remember that flyers can only use one save? Armor save OR jink not both. I see a mixed formation of land raider and Rhino which transport some tactical and the commander i think you cannot merge the transport because they are two different detachment but don t have the same rule of the marine Commander, so i don t think you can purchase for them both land raider and Rhino i think you can buy one transport detachment and put all the infantry inside, so all Rhino or all land Raider. But Maybe i forgot something that allow it . Another question, how did you use the Area terrain like the woods? You remember they completely block Los? Give -1 to hit and give 5+ cover to stuff inside?

That solar army looks like it’s only 2k points!

38:47 probably already said but Ogyrns have Furious Charge so +2 not +1

Hats off to you. 3000 points. Most I have done is 1500 and they were big

More L Imp please!

Aftes seeing list and scenario predicting rg win, let's see if i guessed right :)

Where did you get jetbikes?

Those orange dice were terrible!

I believe you are assigning combats incorrectly, for example at @40:00, fights are paired and assigned at the start of combat, you mention multiple times that the last guy will have to fight twice, then he dies in the first fight he does, the last Sol Aux Ogryn now does not fight because what he was 2 vs 1 is dead, you do not just find him a new opponent to fight even though in a building everything is considered engaged.

It is an infantry game, I'm afraid. Armor may pave the way for victory, but the infantry secure it.

If it's of consolidiation to loser can't have been perfect 100 point game :D For one the maximum for the scenario is 90(5 times 3 objectives each 5 pts=5*15=75 pts and 15 for secondary). Also RG had only 10 pts from turn 1 so maximum 85 :) (no 10 pts painted army rule like 40k luckily)

the game doesnt seem very balanced....