The battle begins with a number of Webway Portals springing into existence across the battlefield. The Imperial Forces suddenly understand that they are not a vastly numerically superior force about to crush a weak army of Orks and Chaos - they have instead blundered into a weak force of Orks and Chaos dealing with raiding Eldar pirates! The Dark Eldar happily turn upon the new arrivals, their primary goal being to keep the battle here going on, so that they may reap the pain and sorrow from the blasted city for as long as possible.
The Imperial right flank eyes the enemy air forces uneasily as the Heldrakes begin to try and immolate the Terminators...to little effect.
Descending from out of the stormy sky comes a Dark Eldar Splinter Raid Force, the sweep down directly in front of the Astartes' (gun)line.
They unleash a wave of firepower that kills a few Space Marines, damages a few vehicles, and destroys the Disruptor Beacon - allowing them to safely use their portals next turn.
A Lucius Pattern Drop Pod slams into the ground as an Ironclad Dreadnaught storms out to assault a surprised pair of Obliterators.
Another pod drops down right by the Battlewagon.
The Sternguard inside spring out, aided by waves of firepower from the nearby tanks and Termies the Battlewagon and 20 Orks are blasted to smithereens. The Dakkajet is also blasted from the sky.
The Nurgle Rhinos are also heavily punished.
The Imperial fast attack forces make themselves known amidst the shadows of the still looming Heldrakes.
The Ironclad and the Oblits would lock horns for a few rounds of combat, but the Chaos traitors would be ground to pulp before too long.
Seeking to protect the rear lines a squad of Dark Angel bikers encircle a Webway Portal, almost as though knowing this would prevent the Wyches inside from coming out.
Sustained fire from the Marine forces also destroy all three Venoms, though fail to slay all the Trueblasters.
More surprises from the Dark City, the first waves of a Dark Olympiad arrive, a huge Beastmaster squad sweeps out across the field, cutting through the trees to threaten the entire left flank.
Unable to assault out of the
WWP (because that is way too powerful, as all
DE armies have been abusing
WWPs to win at tournaments all over the place with their overpowered and constantly fielded
WWP based lists...) a squad of Wyches springs out amidst the Landspeeder parking lot and wave their hands in the air screaming 'we have Haywire grenades, boo!'
They then throw one and take off a single hull point.
Wyches skulk into the shrine of the Aquila.
The Reaver Jetbikes break away from the core
DE forces, sweeping back behind the hill to bring further support to the flagging Chaos lines.
The Obliterators and plasma armed Chosen open fire on the Terminators, sawing apart the unit and causing massive casualties in the Black Templar lines.
The raiding Archon and her Incubi escort spring from their Raider and dart into the ruins, looking to remove the Space Marines there.
The
DE presence on the Imperial doorstep is mighty indeed.
The killing intensifies in the assault, as the Incubi and Archon saw through the Marines like so much wheat.
Via a Librarian's psychic power (or, y'know, maybe because Chaos and
DE via fluff really should not team up in my opinion...
) but a Burning Brand is dropped on the Reaver's heads.
As is a lot of firepower from the Sternguard.
This attack bike survive a decent amount of Chaos shooting, dodging it all with relative ease.
The Sternguard cut down some Reavers, but the squad holds, still eager to cause more pain.
A God Machine walks amongst us!
The Warhound Velox Venator aka 'Meisha' arrives. Its Inferno Guns already spurting flames.
So many targets, and so...well, many giant-ass flame templates.
Let's see, I'd like to flame blast two Raiders, a Trueborn Squad, *and* the Incubi...so let's just do that...twice.
Meisha's devastation is a bit blunted by invulnerable saves though. The Raiders walk off with only moderate damage, and though two Incubi go down, the Archon makes six saves in a row before finally being incinerated, her Shadowfield finally succumbing to the blasts.
The Baron considers his odds against weapons that ignore cover, and decides to go play in the other direction.
Far, far in the other direction...
The Imperial right flank is relatively clear of infantry, but their armor (gun)line still holds.
In the Chaos rear lines Belial has arrived, dropping in with a small army of Terminators, looking to destroy he weakened rear forces and secure the objectives.
Currently the Immortal Host looks to be winning the battle for the hill having slain the Demon Prince with the Brand and weakened the Reavers.
And Meisha and the Landspeeders still hold the line in their deployment zone.
More Dark Eldar forces arrive from reserve, a Void Raven drops a Void Bomb on Belial's unit, zapping three Terminators into oblivion.
More Chaos forces close in, sensing weakness.
The last Daemon Prince drops down amongst one of the Terminator squads, shredding apart the Black Templar s it roars in victory.
Two other Voidravens sweep onto the board, already targeting in on Meisha.
Under the sustained fire of the entire
DE army and every lance weapon they can shuffle together, even a Warhound Titan knows defeat.
With a pained squeal of its voxcasters, the mighty Titan goes silent. The forces of the Imperium do not know fear, but now they do know concern.
There is no Apocalyptic explosion.
Bringing our total now to 5 Super Heavy deaths with no Apocalyptic Explosion.
WTF!?!
The Succubus and her unit of Bloodbrides have stormed one of the Astartes gunline buildings, and proceed to shred apart the Marine defenders.
Not the best assault ever, only one hull point taken off.
Derp!
The Beastmasters sweep back into the Sternguard lines, shredding apart a full squad of them in short order.
The Bloodbrides prepare to continue their ascent, killing everything floor by floor.
Some Plaguemarines deal with the Ironclad via a bit of melta, you can see how the hill has been basically swept clean due to continued firing sweeps of Sternguard and Predators.
The Sternguard start to move forward to support Belial.
Landspeeders and tanks try to take down the Dark Eldar assault to little effect
An Attack Bike sweeping in for a shot on the last Ravager, again, little effect.
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Unfortunately at that point the game was called for time.
The Verde Angelus were actually wiped off the board at this point save for a single Landspeeder with 1 Hull Point remaining.
The Black Templar had Belial and a Terminator left.
The Immortal Host had 2 Landspeeders, 2 Preds, the Whirlwind (or maybe the Vindy, I forget) an Attack Bike and also a large Sternguard squad led by Lysander and a Librarian, and the Rifleman and Techmarine.
Chaos still had one Heldrake, two Plague Marine Squads, an Obliterator squad, a heavily injured Demon Prince, and one Rhino, oddly enough.
The Dark Eldar still had one immobilized Ravager, the Incubi in a Raider, 3 Voidravens, 2 Wych squads, 1 Bloodbride squad w. Succubus, the Beastmasters, and an odd assortment of Raiders and Warriors.
As stood, no side held any objective. The Imperials were basically out of Troops (having one lone Termie as their sole Troop option) and though the Chaos/
DE forces had Troops on three different objectives, the Imperials were contesting every last one.
Game Result - Draw!
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