Winter League Reports

[grubnards]

The winter league has started this week and I plan on using the league as a springboard to test out and get a feel for the new chaos codex. My goal is to run my Chaos army throughout the year at the Millennium events and one-off games to get my army to the point where, hopefully, I will feel confident running them at the Da Boyz GT this coming fall. The league will give me a chance to try out new units, experiment with what works and what doesn't with my play style. However, I am also planning on setting limitations for myself that include:

1) I will only run fully painted units during all of my games.
2) No spamming of units other than basic Chaos Space Marine troop choices and Rhinos. (so no 9 man oblits, 3 hell drakes, etc...)
3) I will attempt to try different builds throughout the year. So some games may see raptors, others see bikers, and I will also try running allied lists with Chaos daemons (and if I am ambitious enough, traitor imperial guard allies.)
4) I will attempt to play all my lists as a Word Bearers Host, meaning that they will not be dedicated to one chaos god. So for example while I may apply a Mark of Nurgle to one unit, I will not mark another unit with the Mark of Nurgle unit I have placed a Mark of Tzeench, Khorne, or Slannesh on other units. The same goes for lists where I plan on running daemon allies.

My lists during the winter league will follow the exploits of Dark Apostle Sorac, leader of the 231st Host of the Word Bearers legion. When the Dark Apostle is not on the field, his Coryphaus, Kol Holak will be commanding the host in his place as the War Lord. I plan to document these games as they happen so that I can learn from each experience and hopefully entertain you folks along the way. I like to add narration to my reports to make it a bit more interesting but we will see how it goes over time. Let me know what you all think.

The format of the first two weeks of the league is to cap the points to 1000 pts and no allies are allowed. Other than that the type of games and missions are up to the two players to decide. After the first two weeks, all gloves are off and you can play any point sized game, any mission, or format.

My first game of the league was against Zack and his Deathwing list.

My 1000pt list
Chaos Lord - Black Mace, Mark of Tzeentch, Gift of Mutation
Hellbrute - Power Scourge
10 CSM - Asp with Powerfist, Veterans of the long war, 2x plasma guns
10 CSM - Asp with Powerfist, Veterans of the long war, plasma gun, melta gun
6 Havocs - Asp, 3 x autocannons, 1 missile launcher
3 Obliterators

Zack ran something like
Belial
6 Assault Terminators (Thunder hammers, lightning claws)
5-6 Terminators (Autocannons)
Dreadnaught with TL Las and Autocannons
Landraider with Las, Autocannons, heavy bolters

The battle for the hive city was nearly won. The Imperial guard defense forces were being slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands and the remnants should have been weeded out nearly two days ago but reports from the front lines indicated that a detachment of space marines was providing to be a thorn in Dark Apostle Sorac's plans. The remaining populace of the hive city had been enslaved and forced to working on converting the ecclesiarch spire into a debased monument to chaos that would soon open a warp rift of immense size above the planet and summon forth a daemonic hoard that would run unchecked in the sector. But the resilience of the marines was something unforeseen. He could not let them stop his plans of the great summoning so Dark Apostle Sorac ordered his Coryphaus, Kol Holak, to lead a detachment of the 231st Host into the ruins and hunt down the remnants. Unbeknown to the Dark Apostle, the remnants were none other that the 1st company of Dark Angels known as the Deathwing...

Mission: Purge the Alien
Deployment: Vanguard

My warlord trait was Flames of Spite, which gives my warlord and any unit he joins melee weapons the soul blaze special rule.

Zack won the roll off for sides and choose the corner to his right. We used the terrain formation that was already setup from a previous game.

We rolled to see who deploys first and Zack won. He deploys the land raider and dreadnought behind some 4+ ruins close to my short end of the triangle



Belial and Assault terminators go into the land raider and the auto cannon terminators go into reserve to auto come in on turn 1 via deepstrike.

I line up my obliterators and hellbrute as close as I can to the ruins with his land raider. To the left of them I stretch out the 2 plasma gun squad to act as a meat shield. The second squad and lord go behind the first squad. The havocs deploy in some cover near the end of the right flank of the strung out squad.



My thoughts: Kill point mission against a Deathwing list... yeah, I wasn't going to win a shooting contest so I made the decision that I was going to rush the raider and try to pop it and then tie the units up inside with the hellbrute until the lord could get over there. I was hoping that where ever he deepstuck the second unit I would be able to pin them down with the havocs and let them and the obliterators whittle them down. I've played Zack many times over the years and he is a pretty tough opponent. I know this game will not be any different.

I attempt to seize but fail.

The sound of bolter fire had slackened off in the last hour or so. The occasional staccato of an auto cannon and lost communication from his forward scouts were the only indication to Kol Holak that the dark angels were still in the area. The coryphaus ordered the first squad toward the ruins across the street while he and the 2nd squad would follow up. He ordered the havocs to hold in some nearby debris and cover their advance. He knew better than to try and issue orders to the obliterator squad and hellbrute assigned to his detachment. Their minds had long ago given in to the blessed insanity of the warp and their only thoughts were to get in close and kill. So he opted to leave them to do what they do best and hopefully draw the enemy out for his squads to eliminate. Where were those d**ned curs?

Turn 1:
Out of nowhere, a squad of terminators materialized about 100 yards up from the 1st squad and movement from the building in front of them revealed that a Land Raider and dreadnought had been concealed in the ruins. He had walked into a trap... A couple of battle brother dropped as they were caught in the crossfire. Kol Holak knew that sitting out in the open or trying to take cover would only see more of them killed so he gave the order for all units to move up and engage the enemy...

Zack deepstikes the auto cannon terminators into a clear section of the board with unobstructed line of fire into all my units except for the havocs. I was thinking that he was going to drop them near my havocs or behind my lines to force me to split my army into two.
The land raider and auto cannon terminators shoots at the 1st squad and after a handful if incredible saves I only lose 2 CSMs.

Since my havocs are not in a position to see anything I move them up to draw a line of fire on the terminators. Everything else moves up a little towards the ruins with the land raider. The obliterators and chaos marines in squad 1 fire at the auto cannon terminators and take one down. Havocs run to get into a good firing position.



Zack KPs: 0
Kevin KPS: 0

Turn 2:
Kol Halok grinned as he saw the remnants of the 1st squad hold their ground and return fire. No legion was more dedicated to the cause of bringing down the false emperor and the inferior whelps than his Host. Suddenly, a deranged howl filtered through their vox network. The hellbrute's arm that housed its melta gun was shorn off by a searing blast from the land raider. Howling in pain and anger, the hellbrute lumbered off towards the raider. Kol Holak took the opportunity and ordered the rest of his squads to open fire on the terminators and he cackled manically as he saw all but 1 get cut down by the mass of fire directed at them. This would be easier than he thought....

Zack shuffles the dreadnought so that he can get a line on the obliterators and hellbrute. The land raider unloads on the hellbrute and strips off the multi melta and a hullpoint. The auto cannon terminators kill more chaos marines from squad 1.
In my movement phase I roll the crazed result and my hellbrute must move towards the unit that shot it, which was the land raider. This wasn't bad as it was what I wanted it to do anyway. My havocs, CSMs, and obliterators have some great shooting and combined they kill all but 1 terminator. Zack had some really bad saving rolls as most of those wounds came from hits that he had his AP2 saves. (So close to first blood). One of my plasma gunners in squad 1 rolled a gets hot and ended up failing his save.



Zack KPs: 0
Kevin KPS: 0

Turn 3:
What passed for a smile on Kol Holak’s mutilated and ritually scared face turned into a snarl as the remaining marines of his 1st squad were cut down by the blasted land raider and lone terminator. He ordered the havocs to finish off the terminator and the rest of his squad to advance toward the ruins with the land raider. As they advanced, the ground trembled and the nearby ruins shook as the land raider erupted into a swirling ball of flame. At least the obliterators had proven their worth. The Hellbrute, seeing the terminators pile out of the flaming wreckage, charges into the ruins to engage the marines and disembowels one of them before they strike back with their thunder hammers and lay him low....

Between the land raider and auto cannon terminator, Zack finishes off my meat shield squad and scores first blood. His dreadnought shoots at the obliterators but I make my saves.

The obliterators, hellbrute and the 2nd squad move up towards the ruins. The havocs finish off the last auto cannon terminator and the obliterator pops the land raider with their multi meltas. The Hellbrute charges in kills 1 assault terminator and then gets pasted.

Zack KPs: 2
Kevin KPS: 2

Turn 4:
All attention was on the hellbrute as he fell to the recently displaced terminators. A bright flash and then a cry of anger drew Kol Holaks attention over to the obliterators. One of their number had a gapping hole through its chest where a lascannon bolt had just passed through it. Seeing that they were distracted, the deathwing terminators barreled through the ruins to capitalize on the confusion to engage the obliterators. The obliterators, confused on who to shoot at, fired wildly over the heads of the terminators lumbering towards them. Kol Holak sees what he assumes must be their leader, detach from the terminators and scale the ruins. He orders his squad to move toward the lone marine while he moved towards the melee between the terminators and obliterators. As he advances he sees one of the obliterators punch a power fist through the chest of a marine before they are cut down in return by a series of blows from the marines. At least the obliterators saved some for him.....

Zack's terminators move up towards the obliterators thanks to a good bounce and move through terrain rolls. Surprisingly, he breaks Belial off from the terminators and moves him up on the second story of the ruins. The Dreadnought kills an obliterator with a lascannon shot.

The assault terminators charge my obliterators and over watch does nothing. My obliterators kill 1 terminator and then the remaining terminators kill the remaining obliterators.

I move my 2nd squad towards the ruins and break off my lord to head towards the terminators. Havocs fire on Belial and score a wound. 2nd squad fires on Belial and wound him as well, leaving him with one wound. (I can taste slay the warlord)



Zack KPs: 3
Kevin KPS: 2

Turn 5:
The havocs and word bearers from the 2nd squad appeared to have scored some hits on the captain, forcing him to seek cover. During the reprieve the remaining terminators advance onto the 2nd squad. 2nd squad cuts one down before they reach their lines. One of the terminators notices Mangar, the squad leader, and issues a challange. Mangar accepts and swiftly has his head shorn off from a well placed blow from a thunder hammer. Looks like 2nd squad needs a new leader Kol Halok thought as he rushed into the fray and strikes one of the terminators down with his black mace. Kol Holak gestures to his squad to lower their bolters. This last one is his...

Zack runs Belial to a section of the ruins where I cannot draw a line of sight. d**n! He also pulls the dreadnought back, taking a shot at my lord but he makes his invul save.
Zack assaults the 2nd squad and surprisingly I take one down one terminators with over watch, leaving only two terminators left. Zack declares a challenge with my aspiring champion, knowing that I must accept. The champion gets pasted but 2nd squad hangs in.
My havocs cannot see Belial and do not have range on the dreadnought so they sit still.

I run my Chaos lord into the combat and in the ensuing combat I kill a terminator, leaving 1 remaining.



Zack KPs: 3
Kevin KPS: 2

We roll and go onto turn 6

Turn 6:
Kol Holak raises his mace, ready to strike but the weapon momentarily rebels, almost as though it wants to taste his blood. Kol Holak, quite shaken, regains control and strikes down the last terminator. By this time the enemy dreadnought and captain fall back into the approaching darkness…

No shooting in 6 as the dreadnought could not see the havocs and the same for the havocs. In the assault I roll for my daemon weapon roll and get a 1. So I am striking at WS1. Despite that, the chaos lord ends up killing the last assault terminator.



Zack KPs: 3
Kevin KPS: 3

Nothing left to do, we roll for turn 7 but the game ends.

The swift and effective ambush of the Dark Angels had hurt his detachment but he had also inflicted a grave wound upon them by laying low the champions of the much vaunted deathwing. Taking in the scene, Kol Holak knows that the remaining Dark Angels will probably pull off of the planet, realizing that there was little hope in stopping the summoning. This sector is now truly lost to the imperium. As Kol Holak marched back toward his lines, he can hear the chants.... chants to Logar, chants to the dark gods! His blood rushed with excitement. Soon they would be moving on, defiling and claiming more worlds for the glory of Chaos!

Total points: Zack has 4pts to my 3pts. We tied on kill points but Zack had first blood. No one got line breaker or slay the warlord so the win goes to Zack.

Overall I can't complain as all the units performed as I intended. I was hoping that my hellbrute would have lasted one more turn but losing two hull points before getting into assault shortened his lifespan. I was thinking about adding either the MoN or MoT onto the obliterators to make them last longer but at 1k points you have to take what you can.

Zack played a stellar game and I do think that if his terminator saves were not so bad in the beginning that his auto cannon squad would have made light work of my 2nd squad and netted another kill point.

[chaoscraig]

nice battle report kevin. I had a lot of fun reading it. KPs vs deathwing in 100pt battle= rough. chaos has a lot of cool units right now.... i think your going to have fun experimenting.

[grubnards]

Craig,

Glad you liked the report. Now that I've shelved my Eldar for awhile I've been reading over the book and am pretty excited to try out some of the different units. But like I said in my first post I want to play to a fluff theme and have fun with it. That may mean that I lose more games than I win but as you know my track record, winning is not my number one goal. Building, converting, painting, and getting out every once in awhile to chuck dice is what I enjoy the most with this hobby.

Kevin

[grubnards]

I got in another 3 league games today but I did not have my camera on me so a written report will have to do. Since these are quick and dirty reports with no pictures, I am forgoing the narrative tales as well. I'll get back to pics and stories with the next report.

In these games my list was not much different from the first game except I switched out the Hellbrute for a terminator squad.

HQ:
Chaos Lord w/ Black Mace, Gift of Mutation, Veterans of the long war

Elites:
3 Terminators
Combi Melta/Power Axe, Combi Melta/Power Axe, Combi Bolter/Power Maul

10 CSM
Aspiring champ with fist, 2xPlasma Guns, Veterans of the long war

10 CSM
Aspiring champ with fist, Plasma Gun, Melta Gun, Veterans of the long war

6 Havocs
Aspiring Champion, 3xAuto Cannons, 1 Missile Launcher, Veterans of the long war

3 Obliterators
Veterans of the long war

Game 1 vs Lucko's Guard
Mission: Scouring
Map: Hammer and Anvil

Ben's list had a Psycher,2 squads of troops in chimeras, 1 Leman Russ, and a couple more vehicles that counted as fast attacks with meltas and flamers.

We placed the 6 objectives with three going in one half, 1 in the middle and two on the other half of the board.
I won for sides and choose a side that had the three objectives and it offered a little more cover in the form of woods and hills, leaving Ben more in the open. My havocs went into some woods in the far back. The two troop choices covered two of the objectives and the obiterators went in front of the woods with the havocs. Ben lined up most of his tanks opposite me and 1 of the fast choices on the other side to hopefully claim the one objective that was on my side but away from my troops. We flip the objectives and I'm holding a 4 and 2 right off of the bat. The 3 is in the middle and the other 2 and 1 is on ben's side. the other 3 is on my half but away from me.

Game highlights: My deep striking terminators come in on Ben's half and combi melta the Russ, exploding it and netting me first blood. Ben's fast vehicle on my right flank immobilizes itself in my flank but just outside of scoring the lone objective.
Turn 6, I hold 6 points worth of objectives and 1 point to first blood. Ben had 3 points worth of objectives. He opts to shoot everything at my squad holding the 4pt objective and wounds enough to cause a morale test and I fail and flee off of the objective. We roll to see if it goes onto turn 7 but the game ends.

I hold 2pts worth of objectives and 1 pt for first blood.
Ben holds 3pts worth of objectives.

No one got Slay the War lord and Ben had 1 unit it my deployment zone, which was a fast vehicle so it could have scored due to the scouring special rules but since it was immobilized it does not count... we draw.

Game 2 vs Smitty's Orks
Mission: The Emperor's Will
Map: Hammer and Anvil

Smitty's list had a Boss with 5 Mega Armored Nobs in a battle tank, 2 squads of big shootas? 27 boyz and another truck of some sort.

We each put an objective in our own zones. I win deployment and since this was the same board as my first game I choose the same side and but deploy on the opposite side. Smitty lines up a wall of orks and puts the battle wagon with the boss/nobs as far up as he can opposite me.

Highlights:
My shooting and saves in this game are pretty bad. Smitty's wagon gets immobilized but he is able to get the nobs/boss out and wreck havoc in my lines. We sweeps one squad of marines (first blood to smitty) and his shooting is able to take out the obliterators. The boss and remaining nobs charge the 2nd squad with the lord. My lord challenges the boss and ends up killing him (slay the warlord for me). The last two nobs also die, one to the black mace rule and the other to hits from the remaining marines. Smitty's saves on the nobs was pretty bad as well. My terminators do not appear until turn 3 and deep strike near his only troop squad and I am hoping they can drive them off or contest but they die real quick. At the bottom of turn 4 I only have my HQ and 1 troop choice left. Smitty has all of his orks but the shooty units would take too long to get over to my side and my troops were hiding behind terrain so he would have been unable to shoot at them so we call it.

We each hold an objective and he gets 1 point for First Blood and I get 1 point for Slay the Warlord... we draw.


Game 3 vs Zack's Chaos
Mission: The Relic
Battlefield: Vanguard

Zack has a daemon prince, 1 squad of chaos marines, rhino, 1 squad of cultists, maulerfiend, and a vindicator.

Objective goes in the center per mission rules. I go first.

Highlights:
My shooting was ineffective this game. My deep striking terminators do a gutsy placement near his vindicator and succeed in landing where I want but when I roll the 2 combi meltas, which are in the sweet spot, I get two 1's. Zack's daemon prince is able to cast a spell that reduces my WS/BS pretty much each turn and is pretty much able to dictate the game. My obliterators keep bouncing between the cultist and daemon prince. My havocs score first blood by taking out the rhino but that is about my only highpoint. By turn 5 I am... tabled.


After thoughts...
Whew, lots of good games today. In all three games my dice were not really that kind to me. I failed far too many to hit rolls, saving rolls, reserve rolls, etc... The only time my rolls were high were when I was forced to take morale tests. Even with Veterans of the long war I was still fleeing far more than I should have. If I would have dropped VoLW off all units except for my obliterators then I could have used the 31 points to add the MoN to the obliterators or more bodies on the board. So far foot slogging marines at the 1000 pt level is rough due to how much things cost for the chaos. I still have another week or so before the league bumps up to any point level, then I will start adding mobility to my list. I liked the list I ran more today as it is a little harder to give my opponent first blood as I have no vehicles. I think if my dice were kinder then this list would have performed better so I'll keep this list pretty much the same for my next games.

League Record:
0 wins | 2 loses | 2 draws

[grubnards]

I got in my first game with Whiplash3 (Rob). We agreed on 1500 points as that is roughly what whip has in his army to date.

His list had something like the following:
HQ
Archon with Shadowfield, Huskblade and probably some other stuff

Troops
9 Wytches in a Raider/Disintegrator/flicker fields (Archon was with this group)
Hekatrix w/agonizer, 1 with Hydra gauntlets
10 wytches in Raider/Dark Lance/flicker fields
Hekatrix other stuff
10 Warriors w/dark lance, shredder
14 warriors w/dark lance and splinter cannon

Fast Attack
6 reaver jetbikes (heatlance)

Heavy
Razorwing jet with 2/dark lances, splinter cannon, 2 monoscythe/2 necrotoxin missiles
Talos with twin link heat lances and ichor injector

I ran my Word Bearers

HQ
Chaos Lord w/Black Mace, GoM, Terminator armor
Chaos Sorcerer w/Burning Brand, GoM, Mastery Level 2

Elites
4 terminators, MoT, VoLW (Chaos Lord with this unit)
Champ- Combi melta/Power Axe, 2x combi meltas/Power mauls, Combi bolter/Power axe

Troops
10 CSM in Rhino
Champ w/Power fist, 2x plasma guns, VoLW
9 CSM in Rhino (Sorcerer with this unit)
Champ w/Power fist, 1 plasma gun, VoLW

Heavy
3 Obliterators
MoN, VoLW
7 Havocs
3xAuto Cannons, 1 Missile Launcher, IoV
Defiler
Battle Cannon, Hvy Flamer, Reaper auto cannon

Mission: Big Guns Never Tire
Deployment: Dawn of War

We roll 4 objectives. Whip puts one in his deployment zone behind some ruins. I put 1 in my deployment zone behind a hill. He puts the second near the center so to make it interesting I also put mine in the center.

Warlord Traits:
Whip rolls on Command Traits gets Inspiring Presence (Friendly units within 12" get to use the warlords leadership)
I roll on the chaos chart and get Exalted Champion (I can re-roll my Chaos Boons)

I roll my psychic powers on Biomancy. I get enfebble and warp speed which I swap for Smite.

Dawn was going to break shortly over the outpost city of Transir but due to the smoke from thousands of fires across the city you would hardly notice. A cermite armored boot came crashing down on the skull of a PDF trooper from Transir. Coryphaus Kol Holak made his way through the ruins of the local arbrites building, searching for the last defenders. Two companies of the 231st Host of the Word Bearers had made planet fall 2 weeks earlier, tasked by the Dark Apostle Sorac, to recover a relic that was buried in ancient ruins, located deep underneath the current city. Who constructed such a device has long passed from anyone's memory but what is know is that it was built well before mankind crawled out from the primordial seas on Terra. His orders were to secure the city and recover the relic at any cost. So far that cost consists of 250,000 dead residents of Transir and the remaining population of over 750,000 souls forced to dig for the relic.

A vox transmission came in from one of the squads tasked to watch the perimeter of the city. Sgt. Raen Torth was reporting that his auspex scanners picked up a signal heading towards the city at high speeds from the north. Visual confirmation was not possible yet. Kol Holak asked for confirmation but garbled shouts, a burst of bolt gun fire, and then hissing static was the only response he got. The enemy was on their way. He quickly issued orders to prepare for the inevitable assault. Whomever dared to defy the will of the Word Bears would soon pay for their transgressions.

Archon Bhor was not amused. For months he had planned a real-space raid on this back water planet to reap slaves for Commorraugh's slave pens. As the dark kin exited the web way portal they saw that the target of their raids was engulfed in flames. He could smell fear, blood, and death in the air. He also sensed something else, the sickly taint of the Dark Eldar's most dreaded foe... Chaos. This was certainly an unanticipated turn of events but maybe something could still be salvaged from it. Chaos forces large enough to do this much damage to a city of this size could only mean one thing, they were astartes. No other prize was more coveted in Commorraugh's arenas. It would be risky, he realizes, but to come out of this alive with his holds filled with astartes would increase his status and sway in the dark city. He silently nodded to his pilot to push forward towards the burning city.


I win the roll off to deploy. I put everything near my corner. The havocs (scoring) go on the objective. The defiler and Obliterators (both scoring) go to the right of them to slowly work their way up to grab the center objectives. I put the 2 rhinos behind the hill to react to his deployment. If anything, I am hoping to use them to grab objectives if my heavys get destroyed or make a run for his objective. The terminators and warlord go into reserve and I'll be deep striking them together.

My deployment

Whip deploys pretty much across from me. The two raiders go opposite of me but behind some ruins. The 10 man warrior squad also goes behind the ruins. The 14 man squad goes in the ruins near the center of the board with his objective. The Talos also starts behind the same ruins. The reavers go way out on his left flank. The Razorwing will come in on reserves.

Whip's deployment

Whip fails to grab the initiative and he rolls for night fight on turn 1 and gets it.

Turn 1: Kevin
I roll on the Boon table due to Gift of Mutations and get Fragment of Immortality (Eternal Warrior) for my Chaos Lord and Warp Claws (Shred) for my sorcerer.
Ok, knowing that Dark Eldar ignore night fight I just move my obliterators up. The defiler moves back a bit and the rhinos shuffle a little forward but I leave them obscured in case they come under fire. No shooting as I really can't see anything

End of my turn 1

Turn 1: Whip
He moves the two raiders from behind the ruins to get shots lined up on my rhinos. The 10 man squad also moves further into the ruins to get the dark lance and shredder closer to my lines. The reavers turbo boost up my right flank. The talos works its way around the ruins towards the center. Any shooting he does against my rhinos has no effect. Bad dice rolling on his behalf.

Whip's turn 1 move with Raiders/Warriors


Reavers turbo boost up the side

Kol Holak order a portion of his forces to concentrate around a hill near the outskirts of the city. There they would wait for the enemy to come to them. In the meantime, he would join his brothers of the word in reserve and teleport in the midst of the enemy's lines once they appeared to disrupt their plans. Movement was detected to the front but between the smoke and the fading darkness the chaos marines were unable to acquire a target lock on their foes. The obliterators, eager to engage and kill a more worthier opponent than what they faced in the past two weeks, fired off some rounds into the darkness but were greeted with silence. Moments later, two raiders came into view and fired on the two rhinos. Whether the fates of the gods played their hand or the Rhino drivers were that good, the lance shots from the raiders did no harm to the rhinos...

End of turn 1
Kevin: 3 (1 objective)
Whip: 3 (1 objective)

Turn 2: Kevin
I roll for my terminators and they decide to come in early. I figure I'll drop them in front of the ruins with the 10 man squad. I'm hoping that he'll pull the raiders towards this threat and give my rhino's some space. But, I roll a scatter and 11" back towards the hill with my objective and I pass my dangerous terrain tests. The obliterators move up a little as does the defiler. My rhinos also move up a little, hoping that I can pop the raiders with plasma guys inside. The obliterators shoot plasma cannons at the 10 man squad in the ruins. I roll 2 get hot results and 1 of them fails a save and takes a wound. The lone plasma shot ends up taking out 2 warriors. Firing between the havocs and terminators bring down the closest raider with the archon. (first blood to me.) He passes his pinning test. The defiler drops a large blast on the now exposed wytches and kills 4. The rhinos shoot at the other raider but he makes his flicker field saves.

My turn 2 showing deep strike result


Raider down, first blood to me

Turn 2: Whip
The razor wing comes on and he moves it 18" between the ruins and towards the bulk of my army. The raider moves towards my rhinos and the wytches head towards my terminators. The reavers swoop around the corner to set up for a clear shot down my exposed right flank. The raider with the lance shoots at my rhino but he rolls a 1. The warriors in the ruins, the razor wing and the wytches all shoot at my terminators and I lose 2 terminators. The 14 man warrior squad in the center shoots a dark lance at the obliterators but fails to do anything. The wytches and the archon assault. I declare a challenge with my lord and he accepts with the archon. He goes first and lands 2 hits but I make my saves. I roll my for my extra daemon weapons attacks and get... a 1. He makes his shadow field save. The wytches hit my terminators but they make their saves. I kill 1 wytch in return but they pass their leadership. ** Note, this game was played a day before the new FAQs came out. The Huskblade is now an AP2 weapon and would have screwed me hard.

Whip's turn 2

Meager daylight began to appear, giving Kol Holak's troops a better idea of who they were up against. Eldar! Those slippery bastards never gave a fair fight but at least they put up a stronger fight, unlike the PDF army they just slaughtered in the last couple of weeks. Kol Holak's squad teleported into the fray but due a shift in the warp they were moved off course. As they materialized, Kol Holak sees that his Havocs have brought down one of the raiders. Off in the distance the defiler and obliterators were raining fire into the ruins ahead of him. He grins as he sees the remnants of the eldar squad pick themselves out of their burning craft and leap towards him. At last, a real fight! Suddenly his squad is hit by a mass of shooting and he sees two of his brothers drop. As the eldar reach his men, he sees one that is shimmering in a pale light and more richly clad than the rest. This must be their leader he guesses. With an loud roar he issues a challenge to the eldar lord and the shimmering figure responds by leaping towards him. Kol Holak raises his mace to strike but the daemon bound within rebels for a moment, causing Kol Holak to miss his foe's head by mere inches...

End of Turn 2
Kevin: 4 (1 objective, first blood)
Whip: 3 (1 objective)

Turn 3: Kevin
I move the rhinos around the side of the hill, hoping to take down the raider and then assist the termies. The obliterators move forward a little more. The 2 plasma guys in the rhino and the rhinos themselves hit the raider but I fail to wound with most shots and he saves the few that do hit. The long range auto cannons and missile launchers take down 3 of the reavers heading up my flank. The defiler kills 4 of the warriors in the ruins, leaving 4 left. They pass their break test due to being in range of the warlord. The Obliterators take out the other raider. In close combat the archon hits me once but I pass my save. I roll a 5 for my extra attacks and cause a few hits. While saving, he fails one of his shadow field saves and takes a wound and loses the shadow field and passes his toughness test that he must take from the Black Mace. The fight between the wytches and terminators does nothing.

Second raider down


Warlord challenge

Turn 3: Whip
The razor wing moves up towards my defiler. The bikes move closer but he does not turbo boost, hoping to get a heat lance shot on my defiler. The wytches from the second raider are angling toward my havocs and the talos moves up the center towards my obliterators. The 4 warriors left in the ruins reposition to come out of the building. The razor wing unloads onto the defiler and strips off 2 hull points. The heatlance on the bike is just out of range. The two warrior squads and the talos all shoot at my Obliterators and score 1 wound. In close combat the Archon scores a wound on my chaos lord but in my return strikes I take him out (slay the warlord). I roll on my boon table and get no effect. (Afterwards I realized that my warlord trait would have allowed me to reroll the effect, oh well). The terminators and wytches again fail to do anything.

Razor wing on the move

The havocs catch site of movement coming up along their flank. They fire a controlled burst towards the area and are rewarded by seeing three jet bikes corkscrew through the air into nearby ruins. The obliterators score a strike on the other raider but it looks as all the occupants are able to extract themselves quickly. A loud painful wail erupts from the daemon engine as the eldar jet craft fires into the metal monstrosity. But all of this is ignored by Kol Holak as he circles his foe. He sees an opening and strikes. The shimmering fields defects most of his blows until suddenly there is a loud bang and then the halo is gone. Fear enters his foe's eye and in a desperate strike he pierces Kol Holak in the side with a wicked looking blade. As his augmented healing kicks in, Kol Holak smashes his mace down onto the skull of his opponent and the daemon weapon in his hand quivers in excitement as it feeds on the eldar's soul. He turns to join the fight with his brothers...

End of Turn 3
Kevin: 5 (1 objective, first blood, slay the warlord)
Whip: 3 (1 objective)

Turn 4: Kevin
My sorcerer casts enfebble on the full wytch squad. I move the obliterators up on the middle objective. One of the rhino moves flat out behind the ruins to head towards the objective in his deployment zone. The sorcerer and marines in the other rhino pile out so that they can shoot the other wytch squad headed towards my havocs. Defiler shuffles up a little. The obliterators fire on the talos but do not do anything. The Havocs wipe out the reavers and the sorcerer and his squad shoot up the wytch squad and kill all but 1. She makes her save. In close combat the chaos lord kills 2 wytches and they flee.

My turn 4

Turn 4: Whip
He moves the talos up towards my obliterators and the razor wing moves off the table. The fleeing wytches keep fleeing and the lone wytch heads towards my marines. The 4 remaining warriors and the 14 man squad unloads on the terminators, killing 2 and stripping a wound off of the lord, leaving him with one wound left. The talos shoots at the obliterators and strips a wound of the last one with 2 wounds. They all have one now. The lone wytch assaults the marines and dies in over watch. The talos charges the obliterators. I over watch with twin linked plasma but fail to hit. He kills 2 of the obliterators and my lone obliterator puts two wounds on him. Combat is drawn and we are both contesting the objective.

Talos contesting the middle objective

Looks like the eldar are not going to put up much of a fight thinks Kol Holak. The havocs behind him finish off the rest of the jetbikes and the sorcerer and his squad cut down most of the wytches. Kol Holak joins the fray with is brothers and the wytches suffer a similar fate as their warlord. Up ahead he sees a monstrous creature assaulting the obliterators. It impales and crushes two of their numbers. He directs the remaining terminators to head towards the beast but concentrated fire from the eldar in the ruins drops the last of the terminators and Kol Holak feels sharp pain in a few areas as he is struck. His blood starts to boil as his metabolism kicks in to counteract the poison...

End of Turn 4
Kevin: 5 (1 objective, first blood, slay the warlord)
Whip: 3 (1 objective)

Turn 5: Kevin
I move the rhino up towards his back line. The other marines head towards the center on foot while the empty rhino tries to take out the warriors in the ruins. I move the defiler up toward the middle objective in case I lose the obliterators. I also move the chaos lord toward the talos as well. The defiler drops a plate on the 14 man squad in the building and takes out a few but they hold. The rhino whiffs at shooting at the 4 warriors. The havocs try to shoot down the razor wing but fail to hit. I charge into combat with my lord. I forgot that when I gave him terminator armor he lost his krak grenades. I'd need 6's to wound him. I fail to wound and he kills the last obliterator, giving him a point for killing a heavy.

Turn 5: Whip
The razor wing comes back on and comes straight down the line towards my defiler. The warrior squad in the ruins stay still and the 4 man squad moves out of the ruins to head towards the objective. The wytches continue to flee. The razor wing strips off another hull point from the defiler. Just one more glance and that is another point for him. Luckily, the dark lances from his warriors fail to hit. My chaos lord hits the Talos but he makes his save. I get pasted in return. (Slay the warlord for whip) The talos is now holding the middle objective with 1 wound remaining.

Say goodbye to my warlord

Kol Holak charges towards the beast but before he can reach it the monster cuts down the last obliterator. Kol Holak jumps in and strikes it with his mace but it does little damage. The creature grabs Kol Holak in it's grasp and stabs a large drill down into his chest. As Kol Holak's vision slowly fades he can hear the howls of the daemons in the warp as they prepare to devour his soul. The sorcerer Drak'lar quickly gets word that Kol Holak is down. By this time most of the fight is out of the eldar. The last few enemy warriors are cut down and the havocs bring down the metal monster that just recently brought down their leader. Drak'lar orders the other marine squad to cut off the retreat of the warriors in the ruins to their front and the daemon engine vomits forth munitions on the ruins. Most of the eldar there do not survive...

End of Turn 5
Kevin: 5 (objective, first blood, slay the warlord)
Whip: 8 (2 objectives, slay the warlord, 1 heavy killed)

At this point whip wants the game to end but we roll and the game continues.

Turn 6: Kevin
I roll for my "It will not die" on my defiler and it gains a hull point back (whew). The rhino in the back moves up 6 and the squad jumps out in rapid fire range of the warriors in the ruins. The defiler moves up near the talos in order to either kill the talos or contest the objective. The other marine squad moves towards the center. In shooting the havocs take off the remaining wound on the talos, giving me the objective back and a point for killing a heavy unit. The sorcerer and his squad finish off the remaining warriors that came out of the ruins. The marine squad in the back and the defiler shoot at the squad holding the objective, leaving 1 warrior that no one could see. That warrior passes his break test. That's all I can do for my turn.

Turn 6: Whip
The Razor wing moves past the defiler towards the havocs and the last warrior stays hidden but still within 3" of the objective. The razor wing kills the havoc holding the Iov and the aspiring champion but they pass their leadership and hold.

Mid way through turn 6

The eldar are routed and Drak'lar orders the two sqauds of marines to hunt down the survivors and bring back their heads. He makes his way over to Kol Holak's body and as surprised to hear a weak chuckle come from the Coryphaus. "So you still have some fight left in you Kol Holak? Your hatred must be strong." Kol Holak grimaces in pain but embraces the sensation because it means he is still alive. The gods must have something planned for this one thought Drak'lar, something great indeed...

End of Turn 6
Kevin: 10 (2 objectives, first blood, slay the warlord, 1 heavy killed, Linebreaker)
Whip: 5 (1 objectives, slay the warlord, 1 heavy killed)

Game ends there. Wow, that game was much tougher than I thought it was going to be. We both had dice that just did not want to cooperate. Whip played a great game and definitely made me worry on turn 5. I did a bone-headed move by moving my warlord up to fight the talos. I should have pulled him back and let the defiler and havocs deal with it. I probably should have been a bit more aggressive with the marines in the rhino and put them towards the center rather than skirting around the long way. I pretty much ignored the razor wing and would probably do so again as it really did not have much impact in the game. The one thing I was surprised about was whip putting the reavers way out in no man's land. It took him three turns just to get them near me and by that time my havocs made short work of them. If he ran them up near the center then I would have been forced to deal with them right away and redirect shots away from the raiders.

The unit of the game for me again was my havocs. Having 3 (and soon a 4th) auto cannons with 48" range and an icon to make them fearless is just plain bad-ass. My sorcerer did not get to do much and I was really hoping to try out the Burning Brand. I was only able to cast enfebble once on the wytches which made them T2 and all but 1 died in the following shooting phase so I'll keep trying him until I get my warp smith completed.

Again, great game Rob and I can't wait until our next rematch. You played your Dark Eldar very well and I think with the advice others are giving you will help you forge a strong army. Let me know when you are up for another game.

League Record: 1 wins | 2 loses | 2 draws

[sinistermind]

nice report!
yea having those bikes to maybe jump in on the termy brawl might of helped the wytches, but also an ap2 husk would of helped more ;D
close game and well played on both sides!!!

[grubnards]

Doh, i was rereading the chaos dex and forgot the black mace has fleshbane. I should have been wounding the talos on +2 instead of+6. Oh well...

[professor]

Good reports, have you considered allying in any Daemons for a more Word Bearer feel to the army?

I also like to run the Sorcerer unmarked with ML 3 and a spell familiar. From there he rolls on telepathy, which has some awesome powers. I think Biomancy is better for CC monsters to put them over the top rather than for 2 wound MEQ sorcerers.

[grubnards]

Erich, I definitely will run daemon allies in the future but right now there are too many things I want to try with this codex right now. I'm in the process of painting my raptors and bikes up and i want to get some of the daemon engines as well. Once I get comfortable enough with the army on its own then i'll start toying with the daemons.

Thank for the feedback.

[whiplash3]

faq shoulda came out a day earlier. darn but its okay it was a great game and i cant wait to play again i am debateing on a five man or ten man scouge squad.... any sugetions. of course staying to my mobile fee for fast strimke de forece.

great game kevin and love the narritive i maybe even keep the archon name. BHOR!!! +++++++++

[grubnards]

Played my first 1850pt game last night using the new Chaos dex against Courtney and his Crons. Should have the report up later tonight.

[grubnards]

As promised... a battle report on my game with Courtney and his Necrons on Tuesday night. Sorry about the lack of pictures. My wife needed the camera over the weekend and I forgot to get it back.

Chris's List (rough guess)
Lord in Command Barge
Triarch Stalker
5 Immortals in Night Scythe
10 Warriors on foot with Cryptic
9 or 10 warriors in Ark with Cryptic
Ghost Ark
6 Wraiths
8 or so swarms
3 Spyders
Annihilation Barge
Doom Scythe

My list
Chaos Lord, Terminator armor, Black Mace, GoM, MoT, Melta Grenades
Sorcerer, GoM, Burning Brand, Mastery Lvl 3
4 Terminators (MoT)
9 Possessed Marines (MoK)
10 Marines (Champ with fist, 2 with plasma guns)
Rhino
9 Marines (Champ with fist, 1 melta)
Rhino
Land Raider
7 Havocs, IoV, 4 Auto Cannons
3 Obliterators (MoN)

Mission: Emperor's Will (1 objective each)
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

My Warlord Trait is Preferred Enemy Space Marine
Chris gets the redeploy option

My Psychic powers:
Life Leech, Smite, Endurance

Chris deploys 1st, Spreads along units up front at or near the 24 inch mark. He puts the objective in the middle of the woods.

I castle most of my units in the back corner near some ruins. My objective goes at the bottom of a 3 tiered ruin. We roll for night fight and it will happen on turn 1. I fail to seize.

Deployment

Turn 1: Chris
Chris uses the solar pulse to remove night fighting for his turn 1. The wraiths and stalker move up. He spawns 3 scarabs and moves them and the spyders up as well. The stalker shoots at the land raider, hits but does not wound. The warriors on foot also shoot and due to the stalker hitting, are able to glance it once.

Turn 1: Kevin
Not much to do due to night fight so I advance the land raider with possessed up 6" towards the wraiths. The rhino also moves up 6. The land raider and the 2 plasma guys take shots at the stalker but fail to wound. The havocs take down a wraith and add a wound to another. The oblits shoot lascannons at the wraiths but chris makes his saves.


End of turn 1

Chris: 3 pts (objective)
Kevin: 3 pts (objective)

Turn 2: Chris
The Doom Scythe comes on and goes straight up the middle to support the wraiths and stalker. The wraiths and stalker move up into the ruins between us. In the center the warriors and ghost arc meander up a little. The spyders spawn more scarabs and move towards the center line while the scarabs move into the ruins on his right flank. The two barges also move up the right flank a bit.
Shooting: The stalker strips the raider of a lascannon. The doom scythe hits the raider and draws a line onto the oblits. He immobilizes the raider (now 1 hull point left) and kills two oblits. (The mark of nurgle and T5 don't matter against the death ray.) The barges and warriors keep shooting at the last oblit but he makes his saves. One of the cryptics hits the raider with entropic strike and reduces it's armor to 13 but fails to cause damage. After all of the shooting, my oblit, ld9, fails his test and falls back.

Turn 2: Kevin
Seeing that the land raider is near death, I unload the possessed and move them towards the wraiths. I move the 2 plasma rhino up near the stalker. The last oblit fails to recover and keeps falling back. My lord and termies deepstrike in behind the command barge.
Shooting: The oblit snap fires at a scarab base (only target in range) and kills one. The havocs shoot at the wraiths but he makes his saves. The 2 plasma guys in the rhino shoot at the stalker but yet again fail to wound.The raider, now immobilized and down to 1 las cannon and heavy bolter, decides to snap fire into the doom sycthe. The las cannon and 1 heavy bolter hit. Chris fails to jink against the las cannon and I explode it. (first blood). The resulting crash takes out 2 warriors.
The termie squad behind the command barge shoots with 3 combi-meltas... and lets just say my dice hated me from this point on.
My possessed charge into the wraiths and I roll the possessed ability that grants them the reroll failed to wounds. With the Mok they get +2 attacks on the charge. I take down 3 more wraiths. He kills 1. Both units are fearless so we are locked.


End of Turn 2

Chris: 3 pts (objective)
Kevin: 4 pts (objective, first blood)

Turn 3: Chris
The Night Scythe comes on and moves towards my termies. The lord jumps out of the barge and heads towards the termies. The Annihilation barge, warriors, ghost arc all re-postion to face the termies. The scarabs and the spyders angle towards the possessed fight the wraiths. The Stalker heads towards the wounded raider.
Shooting: EVERYTHING unloads onto the termie squad with the lord and when all was said and done my +2/++4 saves failed me miserably. The stalker assaults the raider and wrecks it. The spyders fail to charge into the possessed but the scarabs make it. In the ensuing combat the possessed take out a wraith, leaving 1 and add some wounds to the scarabs. The scarabs end up killing 2 more possessed.

Turn 3: Kevin
I move the rhino up behind the stalker. Everything else stays put. The plasma guns take out the stalker. The havocs shoot at the spyders but fail to do anything. I roll for the possessed and get the +1A/+1I. I put a wound on the last wraith and do more scarab damage. In return I get reduced to 1 possessed left.


End of Turn 3

Chris: 4 pts (objective, slay the warlord)
Kevin: 4 pts (objective, first blood)

Turn 4: Chris
With nothing to threaten the rear, he moves everything up.
The ghost ark shoot at the rhino in the center and explode it. I lose 2 guys. The necron warriors unload into the exposed marines and kill one of the plasma guys. The annihilation barge kills 2 or three havocs, leaving three but they still have the fearless icon. The last possessed gets pasted.

Turn 4: Kevin
I move the last rhino up a little and unload the sorcerer and his squad. The sorcerer breaks off onto his own. HE shoots the burning brand at the scarabs and ends up killing 8 bases (i think). The Melta gunner lines up on the command barge and... fails to hit.The havocs shoot into the barge but fail to do anything.


End of Turn 4

Chris: 4 pts (objective, slay the warlord)
Kevin: 4 pts (objective, first blood)

Turn 5: Chris
He moves everything up. The transport with the immortals lands near my objective and dumps the immortals. The lord jumps out of the command barge and goes near the sorcerer. The scarabs race towards the squad outside of the rhino.
Shooting: The ghost ark and the squad of warriors reduce the remaining marines near the center. The ships all fire at the sorcerer, killing him. The scarabs and lord assault the remaining marines. The scarabs take out a few and the lord kills the champion in a challenge.

Turn 5: Kevin
My rhino moves to near my objective. The rhino and havocs shoot at the immortals on my objective. Downing 2. The rest of my marines dies in CC due to the scarabs. The havocs will prevent the immortals from claiming my objective as they are a denial unit.


End of Turn 5

At this point we call it a game.

Chris: 5 pts (objective, slay the warlord, line breaker)
Kevin: 1 pts (first blood)


Necrons are always a tough army for me to play and Chris is just insane with the amount of hits, wounds, saves that he rolls in every game I play him. I liked my possessed unit with the MOK but they were tar pitted by the scarabs. Losing the obits early on really sucked and I should have moved the sorcerer to join them on turn 1. Being in a rhino severely limits what he can do as far as casting psychic powers. If I had him with the oblits I could have cast Endurance on the obliterators, giving them FNP, It will not die, and relentless. Plus I could have been casting other abilities as well. I think I've learned from the past two games that psychers need to remain out of a vehicle.

Anyway, great game Chris!

I have another game lined up soon at 2000 pts. Should be interesting!

League record:
1 win | 3 losses | 2 draw

[grubnards]

Pretty slow morning so I just added maps to the most recent report. I was going from memory so not everything is 100% accurate in regards to numbers of models but at least it's easier to follow. Enjoy!

[grubnards]

I played my first 2000 point game in 6th edition vs Hyv3mynd. Even though we were bringing 2000 points we decided to keep it limited to just 1 FOC. Hyv3 brought his bugs and I tested out my first Chaos Marines/Chaos Daemons allies list.

Hyv3's list looked something like:
Tyranid Prime (warlord) + bonesword/lashwhip, toxin sacs
Hive Tyrant + wings, devourers x1, bonesword/lashwhip, hive commander, old adversary, 2 powers swapped to telepathy
Hive Guard x3
Ymgarl Genestealers x10
Termagants x19
Termagants x20 + mycetic spore
Tervigon + crushing claws, toxin sacs, adrenal glands, cluster spines, 2 power swapped to biomancy
Genstealers x8 + broodlord w/ scytals, 2 powers swapped to biomancy, + mycetic spore
Trygon
Tyrannofex + rupture cannon, cluster spines, desiccator larvae

My list
Chaos Lord (warlord) + Terminator armor, Black mace, GoM, MoT
Chaos Sorcerer + Mastery Lvl 3, GoM, Burning Brand, Jump Pack
Hellbrute + Multimelta, Power Scourge
10 CSM + Champ w/Fist, 2xPlasma Guns, VoLW, Rhino w/Havoc Launcher
8 CSM + Champ with fist, Melta, VoLW
9 Raptors + MoK, Flamer, Melta
3 Obliterators + MoN, VoLW
6 Havocs + Champ, 4 auto cannons
Herald of Khorne + Iron hide
10 Bloodletters
10 Pink Horrors
Soul Grinder + Phlegm upgrade

Mission: Big Guns Never Tire
Deployment: Vanguard

We opted to do randomized terrain placement using Hyv3's awesome jungle terrain. We rolled for objectives and ended up with 4.
Hyv3 placed the first one near his back corner and then I placed likewise on the opposite end. He then placed the second one somewhat near the center and again I did the same so that one objective would be guaranteed in each of our deployment zones and the other two would be in between, setting up for a good match.

We roll for Warlord traits
Me: Lord of Terror (cause fear) ok... aren't bugs fearless?
Hyv3: Reroll reserve rolls

My Psychic Powers:
Endurance, Smite, Life leech
Hvy3's:Not to sure but I do know that two of his units both rolled powers that require a BS and his psykers do not have a BS skill.

I roll on my Gift of Mutation and get the FNP ability. Nice!

Deployment:
I win the roll for deployment and I defer to Hyv3. He puts the Prime and 19 termagants on the objective in the back corner of his board and spreads them out to deny me a good landing space for my daemons and to prevent me from dropping a phlegm template on them. The 3 hive guard go in front of them, behind some terrain. The tyrannofex goes into the only 4+ ruins on the board back in his corner and the flyrant goes to the left of the tyrannofex behind a big piece of impassible terrain. The ygmarls are hidden in terrain and everything else in his army will be in reserve.




I deploy my havocs and lord together on the objective in my corner. The Raptors and sorcerer deploy together to the right of them. The rhino with the 10 man squad go to the left of the lord and the 8 man foot squad deploy behind the rhino for mobile cover. The Obliterators line up to the left of the rhino and the hellbrute goes behind them.


My right flank


My left flank


With Big Guns being the mission this gives me 7 scoring units to hyv3's 5 scoring units. I'm hoping to hold onto my two with my marines and havocs and hopefully one of the daemon units will hold or contest units in his board. I roll to seize initiative and fail. We roll for night fight but it does not happen. Hyv3 goes first.

Turn 1: Hvy3
Hyv3 moves the flyrant up towards the center of the board and shoots at the obliterators but cause no damage. The hive guard shoot at the rhino and glance, stripping a hull point from it.




Turn 1: Kevin
My sorcerer starts the game by casting Endurance on the raptors but I roll an 11… perils. 1 wound without Hvy3 taking a shot.


I need Eldrad

I roll to see what wave of daemons come in. My preferred wave is the Soul Grinder and Pink horrors. The bloodletters and herald would be my secondary wave. I roll a 4 and my preferred wave comes in. I place the Soul Grinder over near Hvy3's corner to start dropping templates on the termagants. I scatter closer to his line into terrain. (Actually worked out better as I could start assaulting next turn) The pink horrors come on in front of the obliterators near one of the middle objectives.


My daemons arrive on target


My raptors then jump over some area terrain. I was thinking that the ygmarls were in there but it was a huge piece of terrain and I did not want to bog down my raptors plus the havocs were nearby with the lord. I figured they could handle them if they were indeed in the terrain. The havocs and lord stay put and the rhino moves up 6 as does the foot squad behind it. The pink horrors run towards the center but I string them a bit so that one is claiming the second objective. The Obliterators also move up 6” as well as the hellbrute.
Shooting: The soul grind drops a template onto the termagants killing a few. The obliterators and havocs fire at the flyrant and I score a wound. The pink horrors are just in range of the hive guard and cause a wound on one.

Hyv3: 3 points (1 objective)
Kevin: 6 points (2 objective)

Turn 2: Hyv3
All of his reserves come in. The two pods land on each flank of my warlord. The termagants are on the left flank and the stealers on the right. Both land within 6-10 inches from the havocs. The trygon comes up behind the havoc squad and the tervigon comes on in the back of my deployment corner. The ygmarls were in the terrain that I figured they were in. Now I am kicking myself for not leaving the raptors in there and spreading them out. A flamer and Burning brand would have helped either against them or the other stealers. My corner of the board just became a nightmare and I don't know how I am going to get out of this mess. The ygmarls show up right near the lord. The flyrant flies over the horrors, obliterators, and the hellbrute. He vector strikes the hellbrute and strips a HP.


This is what my corner looked like once everything came on


Shooting: The flyrant shoots the hellbrute in the back and strips off the last two hull points. First blood goes to hyv3.


Hellbrute is about to die


Everything in his army that can shoot at the havocs do, killing 4 and leaving the lord and 2 havocs. The tyrannofex shoots at the soul grind and strips a hull point from it. The hive guard shoot at the obliterators but they make their saves.
Assault: The ygmarls assault the lord and havocs. As that unit has no champions my lord cannot challenge. The ygmarls kill the remaining havocs and put 2 wounds on the lord. (forgot my FNP here) The lord then black maces them in return and kills all but three. I can no longer claim the objective.


Not looking good for the warlord


Turn 2: Kevin
My bloodletters and Herald come in this turn. I drop the bloodletter near the hive guard and the 4th objective. The herald comes in between the soul grinder and pink horrors, giving me a few options to attack in the next turn.


Rest of the daemons arrive

In the psychic phase I attempt to cast endurance on the raptors again and I do, on two 1's. The sorcerer dies without hyv3 having to do anything. We were joking about how funny it would be if I periled again just before I rolled for the psychic test. The obliterators stay put and the rhino slides to the left to put some distance between the mess that came in on my side, as does the foot squad. The soul grinder moves up to get in assault range. Figuring that the lord is going to die, I move the raptors up towards the center to give them space.
Shooting: The obliterators and both marine squads shoot at the flyrant, leaving him with 1 wound. The rhino drops a havoc launcher on the termagants that came out of the pod, killing 3 or 4. The pink horrors again shoot at the guard and put a wound on another guard. The soul grinder drops another template and kills a few before assaulting. The raptors flame and shoot at the gaunt squad from the pod and kill 5 or 6 more. I run the bloodletters towards the 4th objective and hive guard. The herald runs towards the hive guard as well.
Assault: The soul grinder assaults and makes it. His move puts him near the objective, leaving it contested. The lord is still tied in combat with the ygmarls. The grinder pastes a few termagants and the prime and termagants cannot harm him but are fearless so they stay put. The lord finishes off the ygmarls and moves 3 inches away from the mess behind him.


Soul grinder charges into the bugs



The last stand of my chaos lord


Hyv3: 1 points (First Blood)
Kevin: 3 points (1 objective)

Turn 3: Hyv3
The flyrant leaves the board. The stealers and the trygon move to assault the lord. The tervigon moves towards my rhino and marines. The remaining termagants from the pod move a little towards the rhino. The tyrannofex comes out of the ruins to join the soul grinder fight as it is probably the only unit that can hurt it on that side of the board. The hive guard pull back from the bloodletters and pink horrors shooting.
Shooting: The tervigon and termagants wrecks the rhino by stripping the last 2 hull points. The hive guard shoot at the bloodletters but they are not harmed.




Assault: The trygon and stealers assault the lord. The tyrannofex charges the soul grinder. My lord goes first and I decide to put all of his attacks against the trygon but Hvy3 makes his saves. The stealers then attack and my lord take his last wound. (this is when I remember that I have FNP that my GoM roll granted him but I failed it) In the soul grinder/fex fight I put a couple of wounds on the fex and he takes one off of the soul grinder.


The Tyrannofex joins the fight


Turn 3: Kevin
I move both marine squads a little towards the tervigon to get them into range to use the plasma guns. The obliterators shuffle towards the trygon. The pink horrors stay put and the bloodletters move onto the 4th objective. The herald moves towards the guard. The raptors move a bit towards the termagants.


My marines line up to unleash plasma death!



Heralds move towards the hive guard


Shooting: The plasma marines fire on the tervigon but fail to do any wounds. The raptors fire on the termagants and cause enough wounds to cause them to flee. The obliterators fire on the trygon and cause a wound. The pink horrors kill a hive guard.
Assault: The herald tries to charge the hive guard but fails to reach them. The soul grinder scores more wounds on the fex with none in return. The raptors assault the fleeing termagants and they fail to regroup and get wiped out.

Hyv3: 2 points (First Blood, slay the warlord)
Kevin: 6 points (2 objective)

Turn 4: Hvy3
No night fight
The flyrant comes back on near the raptors. The trygon moves towards the obliterators and the stealers move towards the raptors. The tervigon spawns 9 termagants and they go in front of my marines. At this point I mention that I forgot that they spawn termagants. I would have kept my marines back if I had remembered.


Tervigon spawns some termagants



The Flyrant is back


Shooting: The flyrant fires on the raptors and kills 2, one of them is the melta gunner and the other is the champion. The spawned termagants fire on the marines and kill a few. The hive guard fire on the bloodletters but again no wounds.
Assault: The stealers assault the raptors. The trygon assaults the obliterators. The stealers kill most of the raptors and they kill 4 or 5 as well. The raptors lose combat and are run down. The trygon kills a obliterator. The other two obliterators move in and put a wound or two on the trygon. Over in the soul grinder fight the grinder reduces the fex to his last wound and suffers no wounds in return. The Obliterators fail their break test and flee.


The last stand of the raptors


Turn 4: Kevin
The Obliterators regroup and move towards the Tervigon. The Marines stand still in order to rapid fire on the tervigon and termagants. The bloodletters move towards the hive guard to try and finish them off.




Shooting: Pink Horrors shoot at the hive guard and kill one. The marines wound the tervigon with plasma.
Assault: The herald charges the fex/grinder assault. The bloodletters charge the guard. The herald gets challenged by the prime and I accept. The prime easily kills the herald. The grinder finished off the fex. The bloodletters kill off the guard and bounce back towards the 4th objective.




Hyv3: 2 points (First Blood, slay the warlord)
Kevin: 6 points (2 objective)

Turn 5: Hyv3
Nigh fight is in effect
The trygon moves back a little towards the objective in my corner. The stealers move onto my objective.
Shooting: The flyrant swoops over the bloodletters and kills a couple in shooting. The tervigon spawns 6 more (rolls a double). The new group comes out near the Obliterators and in shooting they kill one more Obliterator.




The termagants shoot at the marines and reduce the melta squad to 4 men.
Assault: The tervigon and termagants multi-assault. The tervigon and some termagants attack the larger group with 2 plasma and the remaining termagants charge the 4 man melta squad. The marines kill a few termagants but combined the termagants and tervigon kill off the larger squad and the now three man squad breaks. Luckily I roll real low and they avoid falling off of the table. The soul grinder finished off the termagants, leaving just the Prime.


What was left after the multi-assault was done


Turn 5: Kevin
The last obliterator moves towards the tervigon. The bloodletters consolidate on the objective.
Shooting: The horrors unload 30 shots in the trygon and I roll enough 6's to kill it.
Assault: Soul grinder kills the prime. The 3 man melta squad regroups and moves up 3 inches.


Finally, down to the Prime


Hyv3: 5 points (First Blood, slay the warlord, 1 objective)
Kevin: 10 points (3 objective, slay the warlord)

we roll for turn 6 and it goes on.

Turn 6 Hyv3
The tervigon moves towards the obliterator. The stealers huddle around the objective and the flyrant goes into glide mode to contest the objective that the pink horrors hold. He kills a couple of pink horrors but they are fearless and stay put. The remaining termagants move towards the Pink Horrors.
Assault: The tervigon assaults the obliterator and the obliterator kills it. The soul grinder finishes off the Prime and consolidates on the objective.


Termagaunts are going to try and contest but the Obliterator finished them off



Genestealer will claim this objective


Turn 6: Kevin
My marines regroup and move towards the stealers. My soul grinder moves on top of the objective in Hyv3’s corner.
Shooting: The obliterator shoots at the two termagants near my pink horrors and kills them both and freeing up the pink horrors to hopefully finish off the flyrant now contesting the objective.
The pink horrors again roll 18 dice at the flyrant, needing 6’s to hit and wound. I get enough 6’s and strip him of the last wound. My marines open fire on the stealers holding the objective and miss.


Pink Horrors for the win!


Game ends
Hyv3: 7 points (First Blood, slay the warlord, line breaker, 1 objective, kill 1 heavy unit)
Kevin: 12 points (3 objective, slay the warlord, line breaker, kill 1 heavy)

Wow, what a game! When all of his units came on in turn two I figured it was “game over man”.
This game was all about close combat and tying up units.
Highlights of the game were getting in my preferred wave and getting them where I wanted them to go. Losing the sorcerer to perils without firing a shot was also a classic. He got “horsted”.
Obliterators with the MoN and daemon allies that are fearless are just awesome. I figured that with their weak saves that I’d lose them all early on but most of his army lacked shooting and the ones that could shoot were going at the big stuff like the obliterators. Can’t wait to get more games in using Daemon allies in the future.

Hyv3 will be posting a narrative version of this report over on his blog in the next couple of days.

Played a game against Trevor and his Orks on Tuesday. Look for the report by this weekend.

League record:
2 wins | 3 losses | 2 draw

[Smitty]

What program did you use to do the battle report against Courtney?