Battle Report

[steve shields]

So I finally had my first battle with the new dex. I used my chaos with guard allies, and my buddy had brought a pretty mean space puppies list. This was my list

 

Lord 150

Sigil

Power Axe

Combi Plas

MoN

Boon

 

5 PM 197

2 Plas

Rhino

Havoc launcher

 

5 PM 197

2 Plas

Rhino

Havoc launcher

 

2 heldrakes w/ baleflamer 340

 

Pred LC Sponsons and AC top 115

 

Pred LC Sponsons and AC top 115

 

Pred all LC 140

 

 

GUARD

 

CCS 125

2 GL

AC

Chimera

 

PCS 100

3x Flamer

Chimera

 

TS 120

GL

AC

Chimera

 

TS 120

GL

AC

Chimera

 

Leman Russ 150

 

Vendetta 130

 

And his list went roughly like this

 

Logan

 

3 grey hunters, two with plasma one with melta, all had wolf standards and a Combi weapon and I think power weapon. All mounted in drop pods.

 

7 man squad of wolf guard squad with 3 Combi meltas and 3 termi wolf guard for extra scary-ness. All in a drop pod

 

2 dreads with plasma cannon and missile launcher

 

3 long fangs packs. 2 had 4 missile and a las; one had 5 multi meltas (Logan went with them and an assault cannon wolf guard termi in a drop pod)

Each pack had a rhino with them for extra AV saturation and in case they needed to get the hell out of dodge

 

I want to start by saying it was a glorious day for shooting. And I also want to list the upgrades I completely forgot about cause I didn't print out my list havoc launcher sin general, the Combi plasma and the sigil on my lord. Whoops haha, I forgot to ever use my warlord trait!!!!!!

 

Started off the game by getting that icy aura on my lord, and rolling a one on the trait table preferred enemy space marines in a 12 inch bubble. Would have been fantastic if I ever remembered it. Mission was purge the alien, deployment was dawn of war, could not have asked for a simpler battle haha

 

He got first turn and I failed to seize the initiative. He podded in his multi meltas with Logan, and two squads of grey hunters. Logan went exactly where he wanted (outside of 12 but he wanted to minimize the damage that would be dealt back to them, they were in cover). The other two pods scattered a small distance but they were still in plasma range. He disembarked to the rear to give them a cover save in case my Russ wanted to shoot at those two squads (which he did). He had to move one of his long fang squads forward because I hid in a corner to be out of range of them. His multi meltas split fire and popped two chimeras. Not looking too good. His plasmas did nothing but his missile fang squad that was in range popped my rhino. 3 KP and first blood to him first turn. My return fire saw the death of two drop pods from grenades and auto canons. Those grenades just kept rolling sixes. The Russ fired on one grey hunter squad killing five outright. The multi lasers and heavy bolters fired at the wounded marine squad bringing them down to two guys. My flame squad walked up to Logan and did 10 wounds. I was hoping I could get Logan to take one and then start doing look out sir rolls. Instead he passed all 10 saves on Logan. That was a bit of a blow out.

 

His next turn he finished off that flamer squad (obviously haha) his melta squad came in and bagged the leman Russ. His melta squad owned the plague marines; he didn't want Logan to eat hot plasma death. His rockets from the dreads, which had moved up, glanced my rhino. The long fangs split fir glancing a chimera and penning the rhino (immobilized) his other grey hunters came in and glanced a chimera with their plasma (not the same on that took a glance before)

 

my turn all three of my fliers came in. I flew one of them over his full grey hunter squad and another one came in at an angle to flame that same grey hunter squad. Vector strike claimed two marines. The vendetta came in on the far left looking right at his fire base of two dreads the two rhinos and the long fangs that had been out of range first turn. My chimeras did a shuffle to let one of my AC LC predators come out of his building and stop giving cover saves. Hell drake flamed the grey hunter squad reducing them to one model. The other hell drake flamed the multi melta squad killing 4 multi melta guys and failing to hurt Mr. Terminator. The vendetta blew away his dreadnaught that was not in area terrain. Combined fire reduced the two man squad down to... two men. I fired two multi lasers two heavy bolters 2 auto cannons and 3 grenades and couldn’t kill a single guy haha. Did a hull point to a drop pod with the last chimera. My rhino fixed itself because he’s a bad ass

 

Next turn saw him run Logan and his boys out, put his last full man grey hunter squad in a building to try and weather the coming storm. He penned a predator with his multi melta (rolled a one so he got a three) and assault cannoned my last rhino doing nothing. Grey hunter squad plasmad my rhino bringing it to one hull point. Long fang pack that was far away fired at my helldrake scoring two penetrating hits amazingly. I thought it was curtains for him until I passed both of my invul saves! His dreadnaught however got a lucky krak missile hit and did a hull point to him (he penned me but my demonic possession saved him from taking damage). His other long fang squad fired at the rhino with the weapons that could see it and the rest at the vendetta (I had a chimera partially blocking my rhino) hit the vendetta twice but didn’t hurt it, and did nothing to the rhino.

 

my turn saw me move the vendetta another 12 so that I could shoot his dreadnaught, one hell drake flew over his one man grey hunter squad killing him with vector strike, and the other one zipping 18 towards his closer long fang squad. My rhino drove six and pooped out my plague marines and lord to plasma Logan friends with. Last predator came out from behind cover. The lord squad fired plasma and Logan and friends and finished off the three remaining guys. I fired my three las predator at the one wound Logan and did nothing. So I had to fire with the other uninjured predator, and did nothing. So I fired with the snap shot only predator at Logan, rolled a 6 with a lascannon and got him. Vendetta penned the dread twice only to watch him make both of his 5+ (helldrake in training?) the helldrake that went after the long fangs flamered them and brought them down to the pack leader and one missile guy. The other drake flamed the grey hunters in the building killing the two guys with the plasma guns and the one red shirt.

 

His next turn he put the wounded long fangs into the rhino to hid them, and hid his plasma boys now that they didn’t have plasmas. The long fang squad that embarked hit the wounded helldrake and did nothing. The other long fang squad all fired at the hell drake and did not hit. He storm boltered the plague marines and did nothing.

 

My turn I fired the vendetta at a drop pod popped it, fired the last two chimeras at the other drop pod popped it. Vector struck the hidden marine squad killing one and setting myself up for a hover attack should there be a next turn. Last helldrake didn't have range on the last long fang squad in the open, so he penned the rhino holding the two man long fang squad with his flamer, rolling a weapon destroyed. He called the game after this turn

 

Heroes of this game would have to be the helldrakes. They did amazing and chuckled at missile spam. Flame ate a lot of units, and actually hurt the rhino to being STR 6 and all. The predators were disappointing, but I think that was more due to my rolling than anything. But it felt like I was not going to be able to deal with all of the marines he was throwing at me, until the helldrakes showed up and proved just how amazing that torrent weapon of theirs is.

[Azekai]

Good report! Those fliers certainly sound like they played their role well! I like the chaos + guard combination- there is a lot of potential there.