A rousing 40K game was had by all on the eve of New Years Eve, or last Friday. Tom, our frittata or el cunado (he has been described as both) was here for the holidays. That meant I was going to get a 40K game and hopefully it was better than the last on so many months ago. Picked teams and Lew chose me, poor bastard he was going to have to carry the burden. We rolled for game and it was Capture/Control. There was a mild discussion of the hatred of that game, so we went with kill points. Mike/Tom vs. Lew/Me, it was another classic match-up the slower playing team vs. the faster playing team, well not really but trying to build hype here. We went with the standard 1000 points per guy for a 2000 point show down.
US
My Night Lords (Blood Angels)
HQ- Reclusiarch
Troop- Assault x5 melta gun
Troop- Assault x5 melta gun
Troop- Assault x5 melta gun
Troop- Assault x 8 rhino, melta gun, thunderhammer
Heavy-Predator- autocannon, heavy bolter sponsons
Heavy-Predator- autocannon, heavy bolter sponsons
Fast-Attack Bike x3 multi-meltax3
Lew’s “soon to be for sale” Imperial Guard
HQ- command squad chimera, missile launcher
Troop- Platoon 1 command, 10 man squad, 10 man squad- Heavy Weapon team lascannon x3
Troop- Platoon 2 command, 10 man squad, 10 man squad- Heavy Weapon team lascannon x3
Heavy- Basilisk
Heavy- Basilisk
Heavy- Hydra x2
Fast- Vendetta
THEM
Tom’s “afraid to deep strike without a pod” Blood Angels
HQ-Librarian, blood boil, fear o’ darkness
Troop- Assault Squad x? Drop pod, melta
Troop- Assault Sqaud x?
Elite- Furioso blood talons
Heavy- Dreadnaught twin heavy flamer, drop pod
Fast- Stormraven twin lascannon, multi-melta
Mike’s “we all know it by now” Chaos Space Marines
HQ- Prince nurgle, wings, warp time
Troop- Chaos x7 rhino, melta
Troop- Plague x7 rhino, melta
Heavy- Defiler
Heavy- Predator, possession, autocannon, lascannon sponsons
Heavy- Obliterator x2
They rolled to go first and deployed. The rhinos are filled as is the Stormraven and drop pods. We followed suit. I get Black Rage on a single assault squad and my attack bikes. Tom gets no kill crazy for his Blood Angles. My three 5 man squads are put in deep strike reserve. We hide the squishy guardsmen, who have been placed in combined squads to save kill points. Then the roll was made to seize initiative by me of all people. I rolled that magical and elusive 6. We go first. A sigh and grumble was heard from across the table.
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| Deployment them. The Stormraven is going to built to look like War Rocket Ajax from Flash Gordon |
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| Deployment us. We may be dusty, but it is battle dust! |
Top 1
We have little movement. I run my rhino behind cover from any Obliterator/ Predator shots. Lew gives “Bring it down!” orders to the lascannon teams. The targets…Stormraven and Defiler. Then the shooting! The Stormraven is hit 3 times and suffers a stun and weapon destroyed (lascannon). The Defiler is shaken. The Hydras destroy the Plague rhino +1 us. The Basilisk takes aim at the Plague Marines it scatters 1” and kills them all +1 us. The other Basilisk fires toward the Obliterators and hits, but does no damage. The Vendetta opens on the Stormraven and does no damage. The Predators both fire on the Chaos Marine rhino and wreck it +1 us. A quick lead for US.
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| end of us turn 1. the foam is rhino wreckage. |
The drop pod with Dreadnaught falls from the sky. The flamer Dreadnaught walks out and looks to toast some lascannon guard. The Chaos Marines start to trudge toward our lines. Then the shooting starts. The lascannons on the Predator aim at my Predator and immobilize it. The Obliterators explode the Vendetta with lascannon shots +1 them. The Dreadnaught engulfs 2/3 of the lascannon team with promethium.
Top 2
Two assault squads come available for deep strike. They gently alight behind the Predator and Defiler. There is no other movement. The Black Rage assault squad fires into the rear of the Defiler, hits and shakes it….which does nothing to the demon engine. The second assault squad fires into the rear of the Predator and misses. Attack bikes open up on flamer Dreadnaught and score 3 hits that are in the melta sweet spot. I roll for damage and get a shake and immobilize result on the big robut. A missile from the Command Squad punches into the Drop Pod and scores an immobilize result. Both of the Basilisks open up on the walking Chaos Marines and kill 5/7 of them. They decide to stay put instead of run. The single lascannon team was orders to bring down the Stormraven, although they hit, they do no damage. The other lascannon team was ordered to bring down the Nurgle Prince and put three wounds on the beast. The Hydras then fire away with their autocannons and do no damage to the big boil covered beast. The heavy bolters then open fire on the pus covered fiend and score many hits, but only one wound. Mike rolls and fails the armor save. The demon is sent back to warp along with a series of giggles from our team +1 us.
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| great and safe deep strike, too bad for missed shots! |
Bottom 2
The second Blood Angel drop pod arrives near my rhino, but decides to scatter away from it instead. The Furioso and Librarian gang disembark to prepare an assault on my inaccurate melta teams. The pod Marines fire a melta gun at my rhino and miss. The lascannons on Mike’s Predator destroy my immobile Predator +1 them. The now active Stormraven fires all 4 missiles at a Basilisk and destroy the Earthshaker cannon. The Furioso assaults my 5 guys. I pick them up as the blood talons will easily cut through them. Tom rolls at see if he would have killed them. He rolls and gets three kills and rolls for the extra generated attacks and gets zero hits. I place two guys back in base with the robut. The most infantry killy weapon ever and Tom wiffs with the bonus attacks. The Librarian assault kills two guys and I drag one down. The Black Rage keeps my squad fearless and in combat.
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| Melta miss! At least it is both armies. |
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| Here comes the pain! |
The last assault squad I have arrives and lands safely behind the Predator. My rhino moves away from melta gun range. That is all the movement. The newest Night Lords take aim and fire into the rear of the Predator. They happily miss. The attack bikes score two more hits and damage rolls on the Dreadnaught. The heavy flamer weapon arm is removed. The Command Squad fires a missile into the Dreadnaught and immobilizes it again, thus removing the other arm. Damn unkillable robut! The single lascannon follows orders and brings down the Stormraven +1 us. The second lascannon team also follows orders to bring down the Defiler and they do +1 us. The Hydras open up on the Obliterators and kill one of them. The Furioso decides it is time to end my squad and attacks! Tom rolls and misses with all the attacks. The squad cannot hurt the damn thing and so the battle continues. The Librarian squad eats my Black Rage squad +1 them and then consolidates towards the unengaged Night Lord assault squad.
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| melta miss and ineffective blood talons |
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| oh crap more pain incoming beside the remains of War Rocket Ajax |
Bottom 3
The remaining Chaos Marines move forward to get within firing range of the single lascannon team. The Predator misses the command Chimera. The Chaos Marines shoot and kill the last lascannon team +1 them. The Furioso finally kills the last two Night Lords +1 them. The Librarian gang assaults and kills the last Night Lord assault squad +1 them. A very good round for Mike/Tom.
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| We have pretty much held this corner and finally cleared it |
Top 4
The order is given to bring down the Drop Pod, the lascannon team does it +1 us. The Attack Bikes hit three times on the weaponless immobile Dreadnaught. I roll for damage get two nothings and another immobilize result. That really sucks, but it does finally destroy the damn thing +1 us. The Command Squad missile launcher and Chimera avenge their fallen brothers. They kill the remaining Chaos Marines +1 us. My remaining Predator fires into the Blood Angel’s that drop podded in last turn. The autocannon drops one Marine. The Hydras open on the remaining Obliterator and it survives the fusillade.
Bottom 4
Tom moves his remaining Dreadnaught and Marines behind cover, what a coward! The lascannons on the Predator both hit and destroy my rhino +1 them.
Top 5
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| "Walk across the field toward that mess?! Screw that! lets hide here." |
The order is given to bring down the second drop pod. The lascannon team obliges and destroys it with a weapon destroyed and immobilized results +1 us. The Hydras fire at the Chaos Predator and do nothing. I fire my Predator at the Blood Angles that were in the pod. They make saves this time.
Bottom 5
The lascannons on the Predator stun the Command Chimera. Then………..yeah nothing else is happening. We roll for the end of game. We all hope the hurting will stop. It doesn’t. We play another turn for some reason.
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| "Live to fight another day boys!" |
The remaining Obliterator is killed by the lascannon team +1 us. The Hydras fire into the Chaos Predator and do nothing.
Bottom 6
Chaos Predator turns the lascannons on the Chimera again and does no damage. Another roll for the game and thankfully it does.
Thanks more to Lew than me we win with a score of 11 to 7.
Annotations
Melta guns x3 + rear armor x3 = no damage. Melta x3 + ½ range x3 + 3 turns of shooting = destroyed Dreadnaught. These are two situations that make me a complete non-believer in wargaming mathematics.
Hydra Flak tanks are still very good.
Mike firing any armor at my stuff is always deadly and accurate. He hit everything vehicle of mine that his Predator shot at. Damn accurate Mike!
The initiative seize was pretty cool. I have never done that or really cared. It gave us a jump on kill points going first.
Thankfully Lew did a better job rolling to hit and to wound/damage than me since his army killed most of the enemy.
I did my best to make the game closer by deep striking so close to a Stormraven full of Blood Angels. Still think it was a risk worht taking with a kill point lead.
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