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Scouting forces of the Ultramarines and the Crimson Fists were only just forced back in their first engagement against the Death Guard on this world which once the Exodites called the "Heart of Ucileonan". The kin of the Eldar were killed off thousands of years ago by a Warp anomaly which sucked this planet into a completly random part of the Galaxy. The Heart of Ucileonan had then reamerged in a backwater system near the Ghoul Stars. Imperial Chapters have since established bases on this planet due to its strategic importance. Now the Heart of Ucileonan has come to the attention of the Traitors. Another scouting force has arrived to bolster the Ultramarines and the Crimson Fists; the ever vigilant Salamanders.....

Welcome to part 2 of the joint battle report with Panic and crew.

I, Solomon am playing Death Guard and Pat is playing Salamanders.


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Mission is Sieze Ground with three Objectives. Set-up is Dawn of War. Pat wins the roll,
forces me to go first and fails to Sieze Initiative

Top of Turn One


Death Guard arrive into an empty battlefield


Salamanders arrive via drop pod and take the hill

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Top of Turn Two


A unit of Salamanders is slaughtered by the Daemon Prince who vomits forth a Wind of Chaos


The Vindicator and Thunderfire Cannon arrive as the remaining unit of Salamanders withdraw

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Top of Turn Three


The Death Guard assault the Drop Pods as the Possessed arrive


The ten strong unit of Terminators led by an Epistolary Librarian with Gate and Vortex Cleanse a unit of Death Guard

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Top of Turn Four


The Terminators are reduced to three models and the Librarian by the combined charge of two fifths of the Death Guard army


Vulkan and Sternguard arrive to support the Terminators which draws more of the Death Guard away from Objectives

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Top of Turn 5


The Librarian and Terminators fall but the massacre moves are too pityful for the Daemons to claim the center Objective


Vukan and his Sternguard also fall but the Salamanders still hold one objective and the Death Guard hold none

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Then Pat rolls a one and the game ends. Noooooo!
Wow that game was tight right to the end! If it had gone one more turn then I could clamed two Objectives with overwhelming force.
Vulkan and the Librarian did their job and kept me busy for just long enough.

Well the score for the London to Hawai`i joint battle report is Chaos 1 and Loyalists 1.
I am not gonna let you down again Panic!

Now whos gonna do the tiebreaker game lol both where awsome (just if all 5 of you guys can get in one huge game together)

What are those markers with the smoke on them?

Did the Thunderfire do anything?

Those are "wreck" markers. The smoke is just for effect

Yes the Thunderfire Cannon was able to work at my Lesser Daemons and Rhinos. In one salvo it took out 8 Lesser Daemons in fact

good match, good report

Another impressive report MH, this is great stuff. The overhead shots + the smoke and wreckage makes it feel like gak is really going down

- Salvage

Thanks Salvage, I owe it all to Panic. He sets the standard

Great report, enjoying the link up between you guys. Always sad to see a Brother-in-Nurgle be denied, but I am sure that you will have your revenge - afterall, killing Vulkan, a Librarian and 10 Terminators has to count as a moral victory in terms of the damage to the Salamanders! =)

yeah,
That was a close game! your armies look Awesome (as always). London is preparing for our next battle!


As the Salamanders feed back 'sector secure' intel to Command, above them the Imperial Vessels Searching for the Plague Fleet have begun to detect a coded astral Transmission that seems to be broadcast directly towards the Ghoul Stars!
...Unable to detect the source, the Captain of the Fleet can't block the transmission... he knows that soon War will come to the Heart of Ucileonan and they will have to decide... Just how valuable is this world?

Panic...

Great pics on this report - do you just stand on a chair and snap the pic?

I personally would like a bit more turn to turn with the various units, but that is a tiny nitpick on an awesome report!

edit: oh yeah, beautiful armies for both players!

I have kind of a question actually: How do you get those aerial pics of the board? Do you stand on a ladder or somethng ? (not that I actually think you do, but I just don't know...)

Yeah I stand on a ladder. I learned it from Panic

Panic wrote:

As the Salamanders feed back 'sector secure' intel to Command, above them the Imperial Vessels Searching for the Plague Fleet have begun to detect a coded astral Transmission that seems to be broadcast directly towards the Ghoul Stars!
...Unable to detect the source, the Captain of the Fleet can't block the transmission... he knows that soon War will come to the Heart of Ucileonan and they will have to decide... Just how valuable is this world?

Panic...

It's really fricken valuable, as you will see in our next report.

Great battle report, and exactly the Salamanders army I was hoping to assemble from Pat; including multiple drop pods, powerful librarian in termie armour + termies, Vulkan with a Sternguard + heavy flamers (from what i can see from the pics) and the thunderfire cannon.

I've taken from the replies that the thunderfire is good crowd control, but how did the characters rate against the deamons and chaos marines? Also, how do you think such a large group of termies did here?

Hey Bigadley!

Yes the thunderfire is wicked at crowd control and the best thing about it is that you have the option to slow enemy units down or ignore cover too

The Terminators sure packed a punch and were able to draw enough of the Deathguard away from the objectives and keep them away. Interestingly enough that is what my Thousand Son Terminators did in my latest Battle report (part 5). Check it out

I prefer to use th/ss termies- and with vulkan they're master crafted, so they'd kill more stuff and survive!

Great looking battle hope to see more!

normally i'd suggest more LOS blocking or area terrain but what you had there definitely goes themewise with your ROB board. nice report. i too second the aerial pics. it's like live action vassal!

Somnicide wrote:Great pics on this report - do you just stand on a chair and snap the pic?

I personally would like a bit more turn to turn with the various units, but that is a tiny nitpick on an awesome report!

edit: oh yeah, beautiful armies for both players!

i must agree with this. the armies are beautiful, the pics are great, but i would like a bit more turn to turn description of the game.

Yes the armys are great but look at the date I do wish morehammer would do more reports havent seen a new one of his in a while

Closed due to thread necromancy.