Ork finalists and Christmas goodies

My Orks made it to the final of our Tale of Gamers, where they were on the back foot from the start against Henry's White Scars list with added FW Sicaran. Once the Centurions had whittled down my Stormboyz, the Battlewagon was immobilised and I lost the Trukk things got even harder.  I almost managed to claim the D3+3 maelstrom VP card for controlling every objective, but those dev cents actually won combat against my depleted burnas and meks and consolidated onto the last objective I needed.  It was game over from then on, with the final score 9-19.

My horde got a good number of reinforcements under the Christmas tree, including 30 Boyz, 5 Warbikers and 5 more Stormboyz - one box from Tim in the store as past of Matt's gift box idea.  The highlight however was a Morkanaut from an anonymous donor!  (I have a good idea who it was though.)  I was very happy with that haul, as I'm normally lucky to get one box.

I started building the Stormboyz from my daughter, so I was able to field 'Da Vulcha Skwad' from the Ghaz supplement in a doubles game yesterday.  We rolled for random pairings and my partner was George with his drop pod marines against Nick's guard and Oli's DE raiders.  My Trukk got immobilised first turn, which meant my Warboss and Nobz had to footslog across the board.  However, all of our reserves came in on time with minimal scatter, so our opponents were pretty much forced back into their corner.  They also had terrible luck with their reserve rolls, with the Valkyrie and Scions not arriving until turn 3, when the Scions mishapped and we got to place them in the corner.  Also, the Raider with 4 flamer weapons (I forget the name of the unit) on board stayed away until turn 4.

Who needs a 6x4 board anyway?

We threw everything into assault with the Talos / Cronos / Haemonculus formation, starting with a Chapter Master and Tac Squad, backed up by the Warboss and Nobz, the last few Stormboyz and Warbikers and killed the engines in combat for the first time ever.

The game ended with us holding all the objectives.  Drop pod marines seem to complement orks very well.  Although they are Come the Apocalypse allies, we ignored the allies matrix for both sides in this game.  I had been considering some Tyranid allies for my ork army, as that was always in their fluff, but I may work out my own list using an allied SM detachment in a drop pod or two to keep the opponent busy while the greenskins move up the board.  I have plenty of Howling Griffons already and wouldn't need to worry about the restrictions on deployment.

I wonder if I would be accused of abusing the allies rules...?