mughi3 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 This weekend we decided to go back to what 40K was meant to be, a beer and pretzels fun little bit of destruction. We each put down 2,800 points of standrd game love minus the force org chart and apocalypse weapon templates. so it was sort of a modified apocalypse. I got to put my entire chapters worth of painted minis on the table with the minor exception of bray'arth ashmantle(IA 10) which FW does not have a model out of yet. i hope to get it up to 4,600 points next month when i drop in 2 thunderhawk gunships to fill my air cav theme. My force consisted of- HQs .master fo the forge, power weapon, servo harness, digital weapon. .epistolary librarian, force weapon, storm shield: powers-gate of infinity, the avenger .Bray'arth ashmantle venerable ironclad character dreadnought. Troops .10 man tac squad with fist, melta bomb, flamer, missile .10 man scout sqaud with sniper, cammo cloak, heavy bolter, telion upgrade .5 man scout squad, cammo cloak, power fist, bolters and shotguns, missile launcher Elites .X3 venerable las/missile dreads with extra armor Fast attack .X5 assault marines with flamer, power weapon, storm shield, melta bomb .land speeder typhoon with heavy bolter .land speeder storm with heavy flamer Heavy support X3 ironclad dreads with 2 hunter killers each, ironclad assault launchers, 2 heavy flamers, all with lucius pattern drop pods http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/aka42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akb42411.jpg My first opponant was a hybrid legion of the damned/imperial guard armored company list. we rolled up dawn of war and kill points but decided to do away with the troop deployment restrictions. http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akc42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akd42411.jpg He sat his IG units back letting them use their superior range so i had to drop some dreads on his side of the table to deal with them. while he deep struck in his legion units un my area. i went after his thin skinned basalisks first killing 2 of them right off, the third took some getting to and i lost an ironclad in the long walk, however my scouts outflanked in the storm (wrong side of the table of course) and finally got the third. his big guns spent most fo the time battering my infantry taking my tac squad down to 2 and wounding the libby with an erant heavy bolter shot. then whittling my scout snipers down to the lone heavy bolter. his legionaires tried to hurt my dreads but only managed to damage them before falling to massed fire and templlate weapons or getting assaulted by my reserves. In this game i opted to play around with bray'art and put him in a pod while i walked teh other ironclad on with the jump infantry. All told my jump infantry scored a kill on one squad of legonaires, bray'arth droped a venerable dread and a leman russ before he fell to battle cannon fire, ironclads scored kills on 2 basalisks, 2 legion squads and a venerable dread, my scouts got the last basalisk for a total of 9 kill points. his tally was a master of the forge, 1 ironclad and bray'arth for a total of 3 kill points. I was rather suprised at how quickly the legion evaporated under light arms fire and assault with their vaunted 3++ saves. http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/ake42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akf42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akg42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akh42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/aki42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akj42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akk42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akl42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akm42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/akn42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/ako42411.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mughi3 Posted April 25, 2011 Author Share Posted April 25, 2011 Game 2 I used the same force but put all the ironclads inthe pods. This time i went up against a super elite nid warrior/stealer swarm. He had HQ .2 warrior prime with rending claws Troops .X2 warrior broods with lash whip bone sword and devourer(IIRC) .X4 stealer brod with brood lord Elite .X1 sqaud of yamaril stealers Heavy support .X2 trygon primes .X1 tyrano fex We rolled up one objective in each deployment and standard setup(double range of 24" due to the table size) http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bka42411.jpg He made me go first, so i dropped in 2 ironclads and killed his tyrano fex. he managed to bring both trygons and a stear brood on to my side of the table while my scouts zipped in to join my iornclads on his objective. After one trygon got slaughter by bray'arth he realsied he had nothing in his force that could touch the dread because it all relied on rending and bray'arth is effectively a monolith with legs. so he went for the tie bringing in all but those 3 original units in on his side of the table. the game went all the way to turn 7. had it ended on 5 or 6 i wound have won. but he managed to kill one ironclad and both pods to get his objective clear on turn 7 . the final tally, my asssault marines lived to kill a stealer brood, the scouts dropped the yamarils, brayarth got a trygon in CC and took the last wound off the second in shooting with my melta shot, one ironclad managed to take out an entire stealer brood. On his side he dropped an ironclad, 2 pods, the land speeder storm, and a venerable dread and i had the 3rd ironclad pod mishap off the table scattering a full 12" in the only direction that could have killed him. :D http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkb42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkc42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkd42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bke42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkf42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkg42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkh42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bki42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkj42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkk42411.jpg http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/mughi3/batreps/bkl42411.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassWave Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 A good read as always <_< Quick question: I saw you didn't take the troop dreads this time, any reason why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mughi3 Posted April 25, 2011 Author Share Posted April 25, 2011 A good read as always :whistling: Quick question: I saw you didn't take the troop dreads this time, any reason why? 2 reasons actually, the first is the other list is a dedicated standard game list for my siege force and second they are not completed or properly painted. the idea here was to put all my finished stuff for my DIY chapter on the table. the bray'arth proxy was the exception since they do not even have a model out for him yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyustukyi Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Good job. Great battle reports. I need to post one but the sad thing is I like big battles >_>. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mughi3 Posted April 28, 2011 Author Share Posted April 28, 2011 Why is that sad? i think this is the way the game should really be played. it breaks the competative meta-game mind set and lets you do what 40K was meant to be-fun carnage in a beer and pretzels sort fo way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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