Gulgar Jailbreak!

[Polythemus]

***Urgent communique to dark angels inner circle***

**Azreal there has been a massive escape from the Gulgar prison planet. Three weeks ago a riot began in the labor camp on Gulgar IX. The magistrate of the planet was killed in the early rioting and the imperial prison staff were unable to quell the prisoners before the entire planet was out of control. Preliminary reports are sketchy however it is believed that the entire ork population has escaped! The orks have captured a ressuply and transport vessel and are unifying under a single leader. The last known intelligence suggests that the leadership is the highly dangerous Tarkum, who single handedly destroyed an entire platoon of imperial guards on Gulgar in the rioting. A tech saavy mechanic also appears to have been freed and the two have formed a battle company calling themselves "the jailbreak boys." the freighter identified Marny’s Freight has been commandeered and has been vectored to arrive in the Rasjani system. It is believed they are resupplying on Rasjan VII as the freighter did not have adequate supplies for an extended journey. The orks are highly dangerous, not much is known about their current battlefield capabilities. Rasjani is a known manufactorum so it is likely the orks will have had time to resupply before you get there. Your orders are to neutralize all xeno threats on Rasjani and purge any alien presence you find there.**

Looking up from the communiqué Azreal immediately placed a holovid transmission to Belial. The call was quickly answered.

“Belial your instructions are being sent to you now. I know you are only just recovering from your encounter with the eldar kabal, but our need is urgent brother. The Emperor protects.”

Deployment

Hammer and Anvil

Purge the alien

The hammer and anvil deployment was a boon when ive got so few models on the table. I decided I would do my best imperial guard impersonation. As a side not before you read any further. This is a quick and dirty batrep not a comic batrep. I apologize to any that are disappointed with the change. Hopefully someday soon I will bring you my normal batrep style again.

Strategy

The plan is to shoot with missles as much as possible and try to use the terrain wall as a impediment to the movement of my opponent. At the same time I would sweep around and take out any softer targets with the bikers and land speeders. I have never played against orcs before but the volume of shots they had meant I was extremely leery of assaulting even with terminators I deployed everything from the start as I wanted to buy as much time as possible while maximizing my ability to shoot missles. Da boyz were bringing a kan wall which I had heard about as being extremely potent so I wanted to be able to minimize the damamge.

Orks 1

Tarkum and his boyz roll forward his nobz blazing forward putrid smoke pouring forth. “Boss diss tingy is makin da dirt sticky!” The orks discover a terraforming node has been activated in the crashed lander. One squad of lootaz move forward, the other takes down one of the ravenwing.

Da 1

“hold your ground deathwing!” the deathwing unleash a volley of missles. While the ravenwing reposition to shoot on the nob bikes, the tornado speeder moves back out of lootaz range.

Ork 2

“Lets krump dees humies boyz! WAAGH!” Tarkum declares a waagh! Trying to get through the nodes range but cant do much. The excited nobz, eager for battle charge the ravenwing. They didn’t count on the overwatch from twin linked bolters! The combat ends with emperors finest decimating the nobz. First blood to the boys in green, err, power armor!

DA 2

With one threat neutralized the ravenwing countinue to sweep the squad of boyz behind. While the attack bike lines up to shoot crossfield and take out the boyz on the left flank. With the approaching bikers in sight Belial rallies his troops, “Charge brothers!” But even for terminators the distance is too great.

Ork 3

The lootaz on the right flank unleash a massive volley immobilizing the tornado. The first kan wave hits the termies… grotzookas! Tiny grotz massive destruction! The termies bear their teeth the 1st legion never surrenders! Seeing their opportunity in the chaos the nobz divert to bash in the heads of the two marines on the attack bike.

DA 3

Belial sees now that he almost fell into a huge trap set for him by the nobz, and quickly reorganizes the deathwing into a firing line while the central termies head for the orange and blue kanz but again the distance is too great. The unending volleys from the deathwing begin to pay off as Tarkum’s truk is destroyed. The ravenwing meanwhile continue firing on the boyz but wary of the power of the overwatch and the boyz ability in close combat do not assault. The boyz go to ground.

[Polythemus]

Ork 4

“You dere, kanz! Go smack up dem metal humies!” Tarkum orders the kanz in to assault but cant make it in himself. The buzz saw slices apart the hammernator leaving a termie that can only smash his claws against the hulls and hope to dodge a similar fate. The nobz continue to clean up destroying the immobilized landspeeder.

DA 4

The gunline of tactical termies moves up letting loose with their stormbolters and finishing off the boyz squad on the left. Unable to shoot the kanz engaged with their lone brother the missles find atargets all over. One hits the lootaz on the left. Not in cover 3 lootaz explode into gooey green bitz. “Dey iz killin us boyz, head for da hillz!” The lootaz break! Another missle penetrates the forcefield and last can comes to a screeching halt, wrecked. The ravenwing attempt the same thing with the other squad of lootas, but their low numbers means they cant do enough damage. They do force the lootaz to go to ground. In assault the final termie falls to the kanz. They gleefully march towrads their next target.

Ork 5

Klank, klank! The kanz advance and then unload a hellish barrage of grotzookas! The shooting strips one hull point off one speeder and immobilizes the other. The termies take serious casualties, but all squads remain. Belial takes a wound. the boyz squad get up and kills the last two bikers.

DA 5

Trying to protect belial the termies readjust playing defensively. They know that another Kan onslaught and they will not be able to signal the fleet. They try and remain in the hyperslime pool and avoid its soporific effects. The last functioning speeder tries to shoot the kanz but the nervous gunner misses! At the last minute belial hears through encoded communiqué. “This is captain Nerilim of the 3rd company. Master Belial, we are in bound to your location.”

The game ends

Victory points

Analysis

While it was a good strategy to try and shoot the orks as much as possible, I may have given them a bit too much respect. It may have been better to deep strike in behind the building and try to assault on turn 2 without getting shot up by the lootaz. Also I didn’t like the waiting game and certainly did almost go too early while trying to assault the nobz with Belial. It didn’t feel great playing like that but I did end up winning so maybe it was worth it.

Epilougue

“Congratulations Belial, it seems you routed the orks and saved the planets population.”

“Not so Eziekel, glory goes to the entire chapter. All share in the victory.”

“If I recall correctly, in the aftermath of the incident on Pollus, libriarian brother Bellerophon, experienced a moment of precience describing a green wave. It seems the tides fell on a white wall this time, and could not break it. Take your rest brother you have earned it.”

[Giga]

Nice, keep em coming. :)

[Kierdale]

Glory to the 1st Legion!

Well done.

 

I know full well what a relief it can be to roll Hammer and Anvil deployment when facing orks :D

[Polythemus]

Giga: thanks for the kind words and taking time to post

 

Kierdale: i always hope to get a good matchup and I was favored on this occasion. Hammer and anvil really saved me. The orc lootaz shooting was limited to my bikes mostly. Do you think i should have charged the orcs with three bikes? I just don't have a good sense of what was the best play there. i would have gotten a total of 10 attacks before the boys struck, but i was worried about overwatch. thinking it over i guess i should have gone for it and tried to trust in armor saves. on a side note, i really liked the capability of running 6 bikes. Felt a lot sturdier.