So this another Plague Marine Vs Arbites match up Ian and I played again yesterday.
Sorry for more
MEQ gaming but my other armys arn't ready for 5th edition yet... and Ians testing out his arbites this time counting them as witch hunters allied with imperial guard
also this batrep is a bit mess my notes of what happened weren't very good...
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---Ians Arbites---
HQ
5 x Arbitor Command HQ (IG CHQ with Heavy Bolter, 2 Grenade Launchers)
6 x Arbitor Fire Support Squad (IG FSS with 3 Heavy Bolters, Sharpshooters)
6 x Arbitor Anti-Tank Squad (IG FSS with 3 Missile Launchers, Sharpshooters)
6 x Arbitor Snipers (IG SWS with 3 Sniper Rifles, Sharpshooters)
1 x Arbitor Chaplain (WH Priest)
ELITES
10 x Arbitor Recon Team (IG Stormtroopers with Hellguns, 2 Meltaguns, Infiltrate)
6 x Cybermastiffs (WH Arco-Flagellants)
TROOPS
10 x Arbitor Patrol Team in Repressor (IG Grenadiers with Hellguns, 2 Plasmaguns in Chimera)
10 x Arbitor Patrol Team in Repressor (IG Grenadiers with Hellguns, 2 Plasmaguns in Chimera)
10 x Arbitor Patrol Team (IG Grenadiers with Hellguns, 2 Grenade Launchers)
10 x Arbitor Combat Team (WH Battle Sisters with Boltguns, 2 Flamers)
10 x Arbitor Combat Team (WH Battle Sisters with Boltguns)
HEAVY SUPPORT
1
x Arbites Siege Vehicle (IG Leman Russ Demolisher with Hull-mounted Lascannon)
DOCTRINES!!
Grenadiers
Sharpshooters
Carapace Armour
Special Weapon Squads
1770pts
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---PaniCs Nurgle
CSM.---
HQ
Daemon Prince (Mark of Nurgle, Wings)
Troops
6 x Plague Marines (Champion with PowerFist, 1 melta Gun, Rhino dozerblade)
5 x Plague Marines (1 plasma Gun, rhino)
5 x Plague Marines (1 plasma Gun, rhino)
5 x Plague Marines (1 plasma Gun)
5 x Plague Marines (1 plasma Gun)
Elite
5 x terminators (3 champions with Lightning claws, Landraider)
1 x dread with (plasma-canon and missile launcher)
Heavy
1 x Preditor annihilator
1 x Preditor destructor
1770pts!
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Mission:
Annihilate on a SpearHead - TableQuarters
Ians set up first and goes first...?
Total Kill points available:
Arbites 15 kill points
Nurgle CSM 14 kill points
Deployment
Out of picture to the right is a snipper squad ontop of the church
out of the picture to the left is infiltrating arbites and cyber-mastiffs
both repressors contain arbites
three rhinos all contain Plague marines
the LandRaider has the terminators.
I forgot to try and seize the inititive!!
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---Turn1---
siege tank fires its battle canon and Stuns the LandRaider and wound the Daemon Prince
Arbiter with Missile launcer immobilises the Chaos Dread!
Dozer rhino with 6man Plague marine Squad is imobilised
middle rhino is shaken
infiltrating Arbites destroy the Preditor Destructor with Melta gun fire!
And I think a good cheer was heard from the arbites battle line! "HUu RaH!"
Chaos Plague Marines assult the infiltrators and killing 5 and cutting down the rest as the flee.
the rest of the chaos army moves forward...
end of turn 1
Arbites Kill points: 1
Chaos Kill Points: 1
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---Turn2---
Cyber mastiffs leap from cover and 'stim up' (1 dies from a system overload!) they assult the Plague marines that killed the arbite infiltrators
two Mastiff die and two
PMs to tie the combat
Arbitors all fire enmass at the Plague marine squad next to the landraider killing 4.
chaos moves forward
the last Plague marine decides to fall back (I'm trying to save the Kill point)
Preditor annihilator moves 6" and fires the turret
TL lascanon at the Seige Tank leaving it a smoking Wreak!
Daemon Prince leaps over the ruins of the building next to him and launches him self into the arbites next to their Repressor : dispite taing a heavy hit the arbites squad stands firm
end of turn 2
Arbites Kill points: 1
Chaos Kill Points: 2
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---Turn3---
Cyber Mastiffs kill 1
PM but the
PMs kill the remianing Dogs
a Repressor drives into the ruins, it's squad dismounts and rapid fires at a 5man
PM squad killing 3!
this leaves two squads of two PlagueMarines left
Deamon prince finnishes off the arbite squad (in their combat phase.)
and then in the Chaos turn he soars up to the snippers ontop of the church and kills them all!
5man
PM squad assult the rapid firing arbites that got out of their repressor and kill them all!
Terminators Assault from their LAnd raider and destroy a Riot squad and then fall back towards the Plague marines with a 6" consolation move
Two squads of two Pm assult the riot arbitors
a general fall back has been called to the Nurgle forces (enough points have been scored)
PLague marines jump onboard the LandRaider.
and the last man of the first squad is still falling back
end of turn 3
Arbites Kill points: 1
Chaos Kill Points: 7
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---Turn4---
Arbite combine fire again this time on the Daemon Prince and they made a proper mess of him!!! grenades / missiles every thing! he's DEad Dead dead.
Chaos falls back
Landraider fail to hurt repressor
end of turn 4
Arbites Kill points: 2
Chaos Kill Points: 7
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---Turn5---
Arbiter fire is ineffective...
Plague marines finnish off the riot squad and attemt to fall back hiding behind the terminators.
chaos falls back a bit more
Land raider fails to hurt repressor
end of turn 5
Arbites Kill points: 2
Chaos Kill Points: 8
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---Turn6---
Arbites fire and destroy a rhino
Arbites kill one of the two 2man Plague marine squads
and kills one marine in the other! the last
PM from that squad jumps into a immobilsed rhino to hide!
the LAnd Raider finally blows up the Repressor in front of it
end of turn 6 and it's the end of the game!
Arbites Kill points: 4
Chaos Kill Points: 9
A Solid Victory for Nurgle!!!
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Panic...
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Edit: Lots of edit to fix spellings/events/actions/picture order and to add the ARMY Lists..
awesome report, good read
