“Commence Firestorm…and also the super tidal wave thing. Yes, we are hitting them with a tidal wave – deal with it!”
The Firestorm launches, and the Tau reveal their first stratagem – the Red Tsunami.
Chaos replies with their first stratagem – the thing that gives them a 4+ force field save vs. Firestorm…though not Tidal Wave…attacks.
As per usual standards, the Firestorm/Tidal Wave is devastating to units not in buildings.
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The Noise Marine squad is gutted down to one man.
But literally no other damage is done, as the buildings and saves easily survive the bombardment.
Frustrated, but not deterred, Tau forces begin dropping down from the sky (striking the planet, you might even say
)
The Chaos interceptor fire does a fat load of nothing, as a massive force of Tau and Ork mercenaries appear.
“Lead da way, fishies, we’z got yer backs, hur, hur, hur.”
“We can hear you over the vox channel, greenskin…”
“Oh? Well, I mean, we got dere backs first, den yours after…hur, hur, hur.”
Farsight directs his forces against the Redoubt first, wishing to silence the bulk of the anti-air firepower and also to dismantle one of the primary enemy strongpoints.
The firepower of the assembled Suits makes short work of the Redoubt, sending the occupants inside staggering to escape the shattered building.
Not able to breach the walls yet, the Orks settle for pouring waves of fire through the open firing slits at the Noise Marines inside.
“Suck on that burn, pink beakie!”
“It burnssss…but not as bad as the burn between our
le-“
“Oi! Dis ‘ere is a child approved batrep, watch yer mouth!”
“Anything with Slaanesh is clearly rated NC-17, for *numerous* children under seventeen preferred!”
“You filthy gitz.”
A lone Suit scatters a bit off course and struggles to poke a hole in the Oblit occupied bastion.
Another tries to carve open the Loota’s bastion with his fusion weapon, but fails to damage the building.
“Hey, Slaaneshy! Suck on *dese* nutz, hur, hur, hur!”
“Okay boyz, time fer da return dakka, yar-har!”
Ork battlewagons lumber into view, driven by the hooting Orks of WAAAGH Zog’dakka. An empty one rumbles into a ruin, trying to crush a suit that, wisely, falls back. The other moves slower, the Orks inside prepping their shootas.
The Sorcerers have a somewhat mediocre psychic round, so the Obliterators decide to help out with some plasma cannon love into the Tau battlesuit mega unit.
Chaos Lord Morderand reveals his own cunning stratagem – allowing his deep striking Mutilators (and himself) to assault on the same turn they arrive. They drop in near the Farsight unit, being joined by the Sorcerer from the Aquila Strongpoint, and aided by some firepower from Lootas, and Oblits, charge in (the 2nd Sorcerer and his squad come in as well, losing the Oblits to overwatch, but sparring the Mutilators)
Morderand calls out a challenge to the Tau commander, and it is accepted by the Buffmander who will try to hold him at bay.
The battle is a brutal one, but the Chaos forces manage to carry the day on wounds, as the Tau fall back they are a bit too quick, and a bit too close to their board edge, and flee off the board. In one fell swoop Morderand has practically halved the enemy firepower opposing him.
“For Slaughter and the Dark Gods!” Morderand rallies his men around him as he prepares to continue his rush.
I actually don’t recall what this roll was for (I’m going to guess that 4+ was a success), but, needless to say, John’s dice luck held itself up to his usual high standards.
More Tankbustas roared forward, the Deathskulls looking to smash everything in sight and scupper off with the lot.
“Waaaaagh! Dakka, dakka, get ‘em ladz!”
Ork strategy at its finest as waves of fire and bullets strafed across Morderand’s beleaguered forces. Multiple Mutilators succumbing to the barrage as the Orks readied for the assault.
Tankbustas and battlesuits claimed the gun on the hill for their side, ready to use ‘da new dakka gun thing that I’ve always owned’ for their own ends.
Missile suits drop in near the lone Sorcerer.
The Kroot arrive, declare themselves in the third person, and advance forward, firing upon the lone Noise Marine and blasting him to pieces.
“We were useful as more than a speedbump!”
A grand party is held.
“Come at me, Ork.”
“We’z comin’ at yer, beakie!”
Morderand and his last forces put up a brutal fight, managing to hold the line, albeit barely.
“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Justin.”
“Justin who?”
“Justin case you don’t open up, we brought a whole lotta bombs!”
Things go badly for the Aquila Strongpoint as the Orks smash into it.
The bloody melee battle still rages.
The Tau and their Ork mercenary forces are claiming a lot of the center table area.
Seeing the Tau making a move towards the second Vengeance Battery, some more of Zog’dakka’s ladz show up, guns blazing as they move to reclaim the hill.
They will gun down the Suit and hold the hill against the coming attack from the Kroot.
“It looks ta me like it’s time for a little brutal kunnin’…let’s go stomp face!” Zog’dakka and his Meganobz take the field, laughing as they storm in towards the enemy burna buggies, their power klaws clanking in merry glee.
The Lootas storm up onto the battlements of their bastion and lay down suppressing fire into the burna buggies below.
The Chaos Sorcerer stands alone atop the hill, trying to stave off the Tau from controlling the gun.
Ork battlewagons move forward to support him, firing waves of shoota weaponry they slowly chip away at the Crisis Suits.
A view of the center field. Zog’dakka and his Nobz will manage to get ahold of a Burna Buggy and rip it to pieces.
The Ork bikers carry the day, downing the Mutilators. Morderand takes to the sky and flies off, vowing revenge, but he is done with the fight for now. The Ork bikers chortle in glee as they consider their next victim.
“Let’s pick something important, but super easy to stomp!”
They all glance up the hill at the lone Chaos Sorcerer.
“Yeah…”
You can see Zog’dakka and the Meganobz rolling up the flank on the left, and the thinning line of buggies and bustas trying to maintain control of the center.
The Ork bikers find a new victim while Grots cheer them on.
“Oi, now dat dere, dat is two buggies an’ some ladz…let’skeelhaul da lot of ‘em!”
“Aye-aye, Capn’!”
What’s that? After eating some burna buggies these Lootas need to pass insane heroism to rally?
Well…guess we’ll just rally them and shoot some Grots off an objective then as an extra kick to the emotional nards of our opponents.
The Meganobz did not know what exactly keelhaulin’ was, but they had some fun trying out some possibilities. The buggies are wrecked and the bustas stomped flat, as the Meganobz continue their march of doom towards the bikes.
“Shiver me spikey bitz! We’z got dem on da run! WAAAAGH stab dem inna back!”
The right flank is a wasteland of death as the Meganobz and Zog’dakka smash apart all opposition.
The Noise Marines held on till the last, taking constant abuse, but armor, cover saves, and
FNP helped them hold the line.
The final table. The Kroot got gunned down in the upper right. Zog’dakka and Noise Marines control the center. The last holdout is the hill, currently under duress as two battlewagons (one filled with Shoota boyz) roll up it and nothing really left on the table that can stop the 2+ Nobz as the Shoota boyz gun down the Warboss and his Painboy from the bike squad.
Chaos wins!
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