Mike vs Justin 1500 points 5th ed battle report

Sorry, this won't be charismatic, just a list of does and don'ts for marines vs chaos and a short overview of hilarity.

Hilarious moments:

I lost 7 marines to plasma and dangerous terrain. Justin killed about 21 of my guys. That's 25% of my own guys lost to accidents.

The setup itself. There was a raging river that counted as dangerous down the middle of the table with a bridge across it. Justin chose a corner where he had a rhino just across it already while i had to go across the bridge or the river. My corner had so much terrain I was afraid to move at all.

My librarian was in 5 rounds of combat and did not kill a single plague marine, he also didn't kill anything in shooting. I had 4 attacks, 3s to hit, 5s to kill. Not one died. Though the plague marines killed a total of 3 guys in that unit during that same time. Not the most exciting combat to watch.

I had all 5 of my units starting in rhinos so Justin had to first kill the rhino, then the passengers. Justin had 2 of his units in rhinos which meant 7 rhinos on the table at once.

I wounded 2 of 6 plague marines from a plasma cannon, I needed 2s to wound. Justin then passed the coversaves.

Obliterators do not enjoy being assaulted by a guy with a powerfist or shot by lascannons but other than that are awesome.

Tactics:

-Basically I hid my troops inside rhinos and shot at Justin as he made his way to me. I started already sitting on 2 of the 4 objectives and Justin decided to send his guys to me instead of putting them next to the objective in his quarter.
-I sent my assault squads out to destroy Justin's troops and if they had a chance, which they did, kill any of his strong things, obliterators.
-I also sent a unit of guys out to try and capture the objective Justin left behind but they were being stalled by a rather intimidating but poor shooting Defiler.
-Another tactic I had was every unit I had was a troop choice, 5 men big, and in a Rhino.

-Putting Obliterators on the top floor of buildings is good. You can't shoot them through the floor as you assault them as before and you have to make a difficult terrain check.
-Noise marines are gross, the extra initiative does wonders in combat now.
-I think Justin learned the value of taking a power weapon/fist in his squads. I kept making a lot of armour saves that I could have been denied.
-Having a transport is awesome to move multiple units if the first one dies. Also good for contesting ground and blocking roadways to other transports.
-After seeing my plasma overheat at least 1/3 times Justin decided to abstain from using the volatile weaponry. I would too but it's kinda funny seeing that many of your own guys die to their own guns.

Fun:

Overall it was a hilariously fun game. The dice rolling seemed to have an odd amount of 1s making most things live till the last turn. Actually I think only 5 units died that whole game, 2 3man oblit squads, a rhino, a 10man assault squad, and a 10man chaos marine squad.
Justin immobilized my rhinos even though I wasn't going to use them to move, lol.
I immobilized his defiler but it just kept shooting at the rhino heading for his objective.