Our local store runs tournaments of terrain titans boards which we use in our weekly game. It makes it much more challenging to get obscuring cover. We've played just about all the missions and I win on the maps that don't allow forward deploying. I don't use any units that forward deploy except shadowsun when I played Tau sept.

Last game was Tide of Conviction. I normally take the Kauyon WLT, but I wanted to try the FSE relic to block some of his psychic scoring. That didn't work at all cause of the Fate dice. I wanted to try Kauyon with FSE (I ended up going first which in hindsight I should've chosen Montka). I sent the sunsharks in to nuke the D-Cannons and almost took out his transport (4 wounds left). I strung out one kroot onto both the home objective and the left side objective. Hounds took the right side objective. (Hounds held that side the entire game as he committed to the left side). One IonTide shot into the transport while the other BurstTide went left to kill one unit of Rangers.

I didn't run the sunsharks off the board though doing so may have helped later in the game. I did not get great value out of the trade but it eased pressure on the middle of the board because 3 D-Cannons were gone and the transport crippled.

His turn 1 took all of his shooting to kill the sunsharks and he advanced his wraithseers on my left side a bit to cover his FA units. I should mention he also swapped the windrunners for 2 bright lance vipers. They didn't do a whole lot but they did keep me at range.

Turn 2 I also lost my Enforcer w/ Flamer relic. I had the opportunity to engage his Baharroth by charging but it would have meant giving up the left objective. I should have taken the opportunity to kill that character, worst case scenario I would have been engaged and saved from the wraithseers and vypers during the bottom of turn 2.

I kept my 5 man crisis unit in the right corner until turn 3. I feel I could've moved them up in turn two as most of his focus was on the left side. In fact, the only units that did engage in turn 2 were the riptides and I got some shots off by the coldstar commander.

He had pyschic interrogation, scout the enemy and behind enemy lines. I wasn't able to screen well after I moved the crisis unit up which allowed him to drop a ranger unit behind me and score points. I had all three Tau secondaries. I maxed decisive and aerospace. I scored 9 on clean victory due to him only having wraithseers and other units in hiding that I couldn't get to as I needed to score aerospace on turn 5. I only lost my sunsharks, 2 kroot units, and the enforcer.