Chaos Marines versus Grey Knights

[Warsmith Aznable]

I wrote a full report on my blog here, but I will give a couple of pictures and a summary on the B&C for anybody who doesn't like to click links.

 

I was playing my friend Mike L, a Grey Knight player from way back when they were first introduced. I have drawn him back into putting his old miniatures to use and he has embraced the new plastics as well. We played last Sunday at the FLGS, which is always a treat because of their nice terrain.

 

We had four objectives and 1500 points apiece to take them with. I played the CSM, and he the GK. I won the initiative and chose the north-east quadrant, we deployed, and he could not steal the initiative.

 

I formed a curved perimeter with my Vindicator and Obliterators holding the middle, which gave them clear lanes of fire. A Predator on my left flank also had a good field of fire and was placed to cover the squad of CSM poised to race across the table and capture the far objective. Another Rhino full of CSM was ready to take the second closest objective, with a third squad as a reserve for (not actually in Reserve, but ready to react to whatever). My Daemon Prince had nothing better to do than to run straight at the bad guys, and a short squad of bikers was positioned to find and fix anybody who looked like they could get too close to my objectives.

 

The Grey Knights deployed aggressively. One huge mob of Crusaders and an Inquisitor were positioned to take the objective in the big ruined temple toward the middle of the table. A squad of Terminators and a Terminator HQ were set to come at me from my right field. A smaller Inquisitorial force of some kind was sent after the far objective, the one my second Rhino was positioned to run at. He held a squad of Terminators in Reserves.

 

The Daemon Prince ate a face full of psycannon fire and died immediately, but he kept my Vindicator from being shot at. The Vindicator lobbed an ineffectual round because I forgot to subtract my BS from the 2d6. The bikers powered forward and fixed the Terminators in place, the Champion playing at fisticuffs and the squad losing the attrition battle but not before taking out one of them. Two more had been knocked out by my Oblits, so they were only two of them when I committed my CSM reserve squad to wearing them down. This adventure ended up with the last surviving Terminator and the Champion in a long duel that saw them kill each other eventually.

 

My first squad of CSM occupied an armored bunker that was an objective, and the idea was that I was trying to keep them from being assaulted by the Terminators since they are so hard to kill in HTH. They sat there snug as a bug the entire rest of the game. The problem was that I didn't have the manpower to take the closest objective, since all my scoring troops were committed to fighting for other objectives.

 

The Inquisitor and his retinue in the temple were tooled up for HTH, so only had a couple of servitors to use as anti-armor. This was a contest I won, shooting into them with my Predator from the side, and positioning my Obliterators and Vindicator to shoot through the windows. The Vindicator dropped a perfect shot right in the middle of them and an improbable series of failed saves saw them fleeing the scene. For shooting the Inquisition out of the church this Vindicator earned the worthy name Damnatio Memoriae, and the right to display this honor on its hull.

 

Over at the far objective, an old Imperial Landing Platform, the heroic 2cnd squad dismounted and got into a serious firefight with the Inquisition's other team, who had beat them there and were sheltering under the platform. Despite heavy losses they stood their ground, and Mike dropped his second squad of Terminators there to deal with them. Two lucky meltagun shots and a wonderfully botched Morale Test later, the Grey Knights were scooting back to his table edge and my reduced force was facing down an assault from the Inquisition. They eventually lost, but had whittled the Inquisitorial forces down to two guys. And did I mention that three Terminators were hightailing back to base?

 

Those Terminators regrouped in time to rush toward reclaiming the temple objective. The Inquisitor and his team were regrouping out in the street, and were probably going to head for the armored bunker to root out my squad of CSM while the GK Terminator HQ fisted my Vindicator, but this was not to be...

 

Turn 6 ended with the Grey Knights holding one objective, and just out of reach of the one they had just been shot off of. My CSM held the armored bunker, but my lack of scoring units to sit on the remaining objective meant this was a tactical draw.

 

And now, some pictures (there are more at the blog)

 

The aftermath of my Daemon Prince's BAD END:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/batrep711-nuncio-calixtus-bad-end.jpg

 

My Chaos Marine Bikers (mounted on "warp beasts") intercepting the Grey Knight Terminators:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/batrep711-7th-squad-thegn-atrithi-holding-to-end.jpg

 

My 1st squad's standard bearer placed on top of the bunker to signify their occupation:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/batrep711-bone-eaters-holding-objective.jpg

 

Neither of us are very experienced. He's new to 5th edition after a long absence, and I just haven't played much in the year and a half that I've been into the game. But we have fun, and every game get a bit more clear on rules. And we have fun and get to hang out, which is all I really care about in the end anyway.