Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Hey all! Haven't done a battle report in a long time. This isn't going to be a super detailed report of the battle itself, more a pic dump with some text. Pictures were taken by my buddy and that day's opponent 92acclude and you can check out more of his stuff here: http://dylangould.blogspot.com/

Dylan had recently finished an amazing table using Secret Weapon's Tablescapes tiles, plus plenty of GW and scratch built terrain. While some of the terrain is still WIP, we decided to break the table in the proper way - with a huge game! We had it set up with five objectives, one at the center of each quarter and one at the very center. They were all worth 1 point per turn, plus one point at the very end of the game. The center objective would grant 3 at the end.


My forces were made up of:
A Militarum Tempestus Ground Assault Formation, a platoon of IG, a Shadowsword, and a Knight Errant, on loan from Dylan and painted in a sick Warp hunters scheme:




He had:
A Killbursta, Stompa, Battlewagon full of Flash Gitz, Battlewagon full of MANz, and trukks with boyz:



Deployment looked something like this:







I had first turn and was prepared to open up on the Orks, but they stole the initiative! The Orks rushed up and caused a few hull points here and there, but didn't blow anything up.


On my go I reshuffled some units around:

This also involved surging my stormtroopers out to try and burst the killbursta:


They put a few hullpoints down on it with their meltas, and one with a krak grenade!

The Shadowsword takes aim at the Stompa...

Target sighted! It hits and causes a few hullpoints of damage.


The Orks retaliated, blowing up my Lord Commissar's ride and killing a few Stormies in the process. They later went on to hold a home objective while the Commissar joined a blob:

The Killbursta also made short work of the lead Stormtrooper squad, leaving only the sergeant surviving. The Stompa used its supa-gatler and mulched one of the blobs as it advanced towards the Shadowsword:

The MANz plus their warboss drove up and charged the Knight!

I totally flubbed almost all of my dice rolls, killed one Nob, and the robot took another two out when the Warboss exploded it that round.

On my go, the Stormtrooper command squad and plasma squad disembarked from their vehicles and made short work of the Warboss and his retinue:

The surviving sergeant from the lead Stormtrooper squad got up close and personal with the Killbursta, ripping hullpoint after hullpoint off it with his power fist:

While the Shadowsword put more fire into the Stompa, it was the autocannon teams that were really doing the damage, putting a hullpoint or two down every turn!

The MANz' ride kept deffrolling around, not doing a whole lot:

The Stompa waded past the infantry blob, killing all but the last three men since it couldn't get an angle on them. These three dudes included a meltagun, which went on to blow up the Flash Gitz' battlewagon in one shot! He was promptly murdered by the Gitz for his troubles. The Stompa got to grips with the Shadowsword, destroying it with its giant chainsword before being taken out in turn by a deluge of missiles and autocannon shots from the Tauroxes. The Gitz engaged in a firefight with the stronger of the two blobs, which had been pared down significantly:

The Gitz were soon blown up by the Master of Ordnance with an Ignores Cover order thrown down by Company Command. This was pretty pivotal, as without the Gitz, Stompa, or MANz the Orks were pretty defanged. The next few turns involved the surviving Stormtroopers jumping back in their trucks and chasing down the Ork survivors. At game's end there were a couple Orks huddled up in a graveyard while the remaining Valhallans held four of the five objectives. Even with the points accrued turn by turn by the Orks, the Valhallans were able to take the day!



All in all, it was a really fun game and a pretty balanced scenario. Even with super heavies, it was a pretty close game up until right near the end when things started swinging in favor of the Valhallans. It was super fun to break out the big toys and play on a fresh new table! Maybe in the future I'll get around to doing another crazy in-depth battle report.

Nice to see a nicely balanced big game, great models and terrain. Well done guys.

Thank you! I think so long as each side is spending a roughly equivalent amount of points on superheavies it doesn't get too unbalanced. Points! As a balancing system! Imagine that!

Nice board and minis. Was a pleasure to read

That was a good read with lots of pics of nicely painted models.

Thanks for sharing.

Good job.

I like how that one surviving sergeant decided to punch an armored vehicle in revenge. I'm impressed he succeeded in knocking down some Hull points. Good job!

Your Valhallans look totally awesome. Infantry and vehicles both look superb and the Soviet theme is perfect.

Board and armies looked awesome - great batrep!

Looks like a blast.

Thanks everybody! It was a really fun game, and what I think 40k should be all about. Hopefully next time he'll be done painting more of his terrain!

 urbanknight4 wrote:
I like how that one surviving sergeant decided to punch an armored vehicle in revenge. I'm impressed he succeeded in knocking down some Hull points. Good job!

This was personally my favorite part of the battle. The sergeant might have actually killed the Killbursta (if he didn't, the autocannons did) and actually survived the superheavy explosion, but he got aced by a single surviving Ork loota who had survived the exploding Stompa. Oh yeah, did I mention the Stompa was full of lootas?

Great battle report between two fantastic and well-painted armies. I appreciate you taking the time to post all the pictures. My only complaint is the focus on some of the army shots. I want to see a clearer picture of those cool storm troopers!

I'm also impressed that the Orks put up a decent fight in an Apocolypse game. They usually get creamed because their Superheavies can't go toe-to-toe with a lot of others. Their biggies are good at taking out infantry and regular vehicles but the Orks have a tough time shooting anyone else's Superheavies. It was good to see the Orks wreck the Knight and bigTank in close combat, the proppa' way!

Good job on the report!

What carnage! Great battle report.
Armies look awesome. Love the Valhallans.

 The Riddle of Steel wrote:
Great battle report between two fantastic and well-painted armies. I appreciate you taking the time to post all the pictures. My only complaint is the focus on some of the army shots. I want to see a clearer picture of those cool storm troopers!

I'm also impressed that the Orks put up a decent fight in an Apocolypse game. They usually get creamed because their Superheavies can't go toe-to-toe with a lot of others. Their biggies are good at taking out infantry and regular vehicles but the Orks have a tough time shooting anyone else's Superheavies. It was good to see the Orks wreck the Knight and bigTank in close combat, the proppa' way!

Good job on the report!

Thank you! Some models didn't get great pictures taken of them (he didn't take many of his own Orks) but if you want to see more pictures of the Valhallans check out the link in my sig! Here's one shot of the rank and file:

just wanted to comment on a great looking battle report. saw this a few days ago and wanted to say the battle looied pretty cool. Great looking armies.

Thank you! Hopefully we'll get another game in on that board soon.