8th Edition Blood Angels vs Biel-Tan

[LutherMax]

BLOOD ANGELS VS BIEL-TAN 2000 POINTS

 

MISSION: SECURE & CONTROL

 

 

Blood Angels list:

 

 

BATTALION (+3 CP) & SPEARHEAD (+1 CP)

 

HQ

Captain (power sword, plasma pistol)

Librarian (power sword, plasma pistol, jump pack)

 

ELITES

Sanguinary Guard x8 (Angelus bolt pistols, 6x sword, 2x axe)

Sanguinary Guard Ancient (power fist)

 

TROOPS

Scouts x5 (camo cloaks, sniper rifles, missile launcher)

Tactical marines x10 (flamer, heavy flamer)

Tactical marines x10 (flamer, heavy flamer)

 

HEAVY SUPPORT

Rapier Quad Launcher & Gunners

Rapier Quad Launcher & Gunners

Baal Predator (twin assault cannon, heavy bolters)

Baal Predator (twin assault cannon, heavy bolters)

Devastators x5 (4x missile launchers, signum, cherub)

 

TRANSPORTS

Rhino (storm bolter)

Rhino (storm bolter)

 

 

 

Biel-Tan List

 

 

BATTALION (+3 CP)

 

HQ

Farseer Skyrunner (witchblade, twin shuriken catapult on jetbike)

Farseer Skyrunner (witchblade, twin shuriken catapult on jetbike)

Warlock Skyrunner (witchblade, twin shuriken catapult on jetbike)

 

TROOPS

Guardians x20 (2x bright lance heavy weapon platforms)

Guardians x20 (1x shuriken cannon and 1x starcannon heavy weapon platforms)

Dire Avengers x10 (shuriken catapults, exarch, diresword and sh pistol)

 

FAST ATTACK

Windrider guardians x3 (shuriken cannon, twin shuriken catapult)

Vyper (shuriken cannon)

 

HEAVY SUPPORT

War walkers x3 (bright lances, starcannon)

Vaul's wrath support battery (3x vibro cannon)

 

FLYER

Crimson Hunter (2 lances and a starcannon)

 

 

 

BLOOD ANGELS DEPLOYMENT

 

Scouts take up position in the fort, tanks and transports fan out, Rapiers, Devastators and Captain in ruins and jump units in orbit…

 

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BIEL-TAN DEPLOYMENT

 

Sneaking in the shadows, out of sight…

 

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BIEL-TAN TURN 1

 

Eldar swarm over the side of the fort and make short work of the Blood Angels scouts…

 

First Blood

 

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The Crimson Hunter and Artillery barely scratch the paintwork of the Blood Angels armour but the Vyper does some damage to a Baal Predator after a Farseer weakens it with Doom…

 

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The War Walkers take out a Rapier before it has a chance to fire – the gunners duck for cover and come out unscathed…

 

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BLOOD ANGELS TURN 1

 

The Sanguinary Guard and their commanders descend from orbit and make an immense leap to slice through the Eldar artillery like a hot knife through butter…

 

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The Blood Angels armour focuses fire on the Crimson Hunter and blow it out of the sky…

 

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BIEL-TAN TURN 2

 

The Vyper finishes off the Baal Pred…

 

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Despite their master-crafted armour and concealed position, the Sanguinary Guard take heavy losses from massed Eldar firepower…

 

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BLOOD ANGELS TURN 2

 

The Red Thirst takes the Sanguinary Guard and their escort, and they charge headlong into a massacre of overwatch and failed charges…

 

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The remaining Baal Pred and Devastators whittle away at the Eldar in the fort…

 

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BIEL-TAN TURN 3

 

It takes the entire Eldar force to bring down the Blood Angels HQs…

 

Slay the Warlord

 

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BLOOD ANGELS TURN 3

 

With the forward position overrun, the Blood Angels consolidate to defend their own objective…

 

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BIEL-TAN TURN 4

 

The Eldar march en-masse, taking pot-shots as they go…

 

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BLOOD ANGELS TURN 4

 

Blood Angels covering fire makes short work of the Guardians…

 

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BIEL-TAN TURN 5

 

The remaining Eldar continue to put pressure on the defenders…

 

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BLOOD ANGELS TURN 5

 

The beleaguered Angels make a last stand around the objective, with the Devastators and Rapier providing covering fire under command of the lone Captain…

 

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BIEL-TAN TURN 6

 

In a brutal round of shooting, the remaining Eldar take down the tactical marines to a man. Dire Avengers move on the objective and jetbike-borne Farseers threaten the Blood Angels’ position…

 

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BLOOD ANGELS TURN 6

 

Devastators and Rapier fire whittle down the Dire Avengers and destroy another Walker. The Rhino rams the Avengers killing another, but three remain to claim the objective. The other Rhino does likewise to the Farseers but fails to finish them…

 

Linebreaker

 

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Meanwhile the lone Warlock has sneaked onto the Eldar’s own objective…

 

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FINAL SCORE

 

BIEL-TAN: 9

BLOOD ANGELS: 0

 

 

A sad day for Baal.

 

 

Lessons learned:

 

spectacular as the charge from deep strike was (I rolled 11, 10, 10 and 9 to bring the Guard, Libby and Priest all into combat), this left them in a vulnerable position with so many of the Eldar still being in that half of the battlefield. This was compounded when the Red Thirst took me and I attempted to make another assault the following turn, when I should have counted my blessings and fallen back to a defensive position – especially as the Priest can revive one squad member per turn (and indeed did so once).

 

In general I also spread my forces out too much and should have kept everything tighter, units supporting each other. I forgot until the last turn that Rhinos can charge (and thus eat Overwatch!). I also kept forgetting my Command Points and ended the game with 6 out of 7 un-spent…

Edited July 28, 2017 by LutherMax

[Charlo]

My word your army looks  AMAZING on the table dude!

 

Good batrep and wishing you luck in future 8th battles :P

[Aothaine]

Great report and photos! Also, your forces are looking amazing!

 

Something to keep in mind for future games is the following: Objectives! Objectives are super important and how the game is won. If you have 1 model left at the end of the game but are up on VP then you win. 

 

Also, it seemed you were running your force piece-meal into the enemy firing line. It is okay to throw out bait units to try can out maneuver your opponent and get them in a bad position where you can fire more at a target then they can fire at but it is difficult against armies as fast as Eldar. 

 

I also think that the scouts were deployed too far forward. I would keep them back, they have really good range and you can move them into a better firing position and still fire in 8th ed so putting them way out in the front with sniper rifles was a pretty rough spot for them, even with camo cloaks and cover.

 

I wanted to say again how fantastic I think your painting is! I can only hope that I can produce miniatures of that quality in the future.

[LutherMax]

Thanks both!

 

Aothaine, not all of those models are finished, but you can see more on my blog [/shameless plug]

 

You're right about the Scouts... there was no other elevated position to put them, but I should have just held them back and moved into position when it was safer. Same with the one Rapier that got destroyed turn 1. I put them 12" from my back line because they have 60" range, but his Walkers move 10" and have 36" guns so he was able to get close enough to pop one. The other one performed admirably though!

 

In general I think I spread out too much, and should have moved forward in one blob (kinda like my opponent did).

 

We'll be having a rematch in a few weeks so I need to do better, for the honour of the chapter!

Edited July 28, 2017 by LutherMax

[Schultzhoffen]

Lovely army. I so much prefer photos reports to video reps.

[QuarterPounder]

Thank you for taking the time to write up that batrep! I concur - I much prefer written reports to video.

 

I also concur that your army is fantastic! Would closeup pics be in our future...? ;)

[LutherMax]

Thanks both!

 

You can see better pics of my army here:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/282574-luthers-wosp-works-of-slow-progress/

 

And the Biel-Tan here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/649841.page