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So me and my brother walked into a new store today and found out that everyone that had enough points to play vs. either of us was already playing so my brother and this guy with 500 points of guard teamed up vs. me

My imperial wolves (changed unit names of some slightly but imperial stands for wolf in most cases)
Rune priest chooser wolf tail wolf tooth 125
Rune priest living lighting storm caller 100
Imperial scouts x5 meltagun power weapon 100
Imperial scouts x5 meltagun power weapon 100
10 imperial guard 323
2x combi melta power weapon Melta bombs (scouts)
1x power fist (rune priest and co)
4x regular (5 men troopers)
1 storm bolter (long fangs)
2x terminator with cyclone missiles
Grey troopers 65flamer 75
Razorback plas las 80
Grey troopers 5 mg 75
Razorback plas las dozer80
Grey troopers 5 mg 75
Razorback las plas dozer 80
Grey troopers 5 plasma 85
Razorback las plas 80
Grey troopers 8 meltagun standard motw 140
Rhino dozer blade 40
Long fangs 5ml 140
Long fangs 5ml 140
Long fangs 5ml 140
1998
As the guard player only had 560 points to make up last 60 I gave out dozer blades and Melta bombs to any tanks or wolf guard that could take them but I didn’t end up using any of them

As my brother was using my old chaos army and I cannibalized all the rhinos his list was mostly on foot his list had:
2 lash princes
2 5 man plague marines’ squads with 2 melta guns
2 3 man obliterator units
A land raider with 10 khorne berserkers with one power fist in it

The guard player didn’t even show me a list but from what I understood he had:
Yarick
A squad of grenadier vets with grenade launchers pw and a flamer or two
And another vet squad with a rocket launcher grenade launcher flamer and pw sarg
Both squads with all 4 types of grenades carapace armor and camouflage
The picture will follow after this haven’t figured out how to attach pictures in middle of post yet
We rolled pitched battle with capture and control witch one of my better set ups with my army
I won the roll off and decided to go first but as I was getting my guys out and deploying they had finished as their combined army was smaller (outnumbering guard and foot chaos lol.) I deployed with my 3 long fang squads in the 3 pieces of terrain on my side of the field with my razor backs behind them using the firing lanes from the ruins to give me cover from most angles rhino was in the center ready to go either way as I didn’t notice they deployed everything until after I had deployed.
They deployed all across board with the guard forces and 1 oblit squad by objective land raider the two princes and a pm squad in center and last oblit and pm squad on my right
They roll to seize and do so and I realize I’m about to lose a few guys.
I didn’t realize how space my pictures where until just now but I’ll do my best with what I’ve got
Chaos and traitors turn 1
First turn the guard stays still with the chaos push forward with everything shooting is mostly ineffective only immobilizing and taking out both weapons on my plasma squad’s razorback. The guard tries to take pot shots at my long fangs but cover and armor negates it all.
Wolves turn 1
Ok that was better than I thought it would be and I’ve got a few turns before he hits my lines so I open up on the guard player first having one squad take out have the squad on the objective then realized Yarick was on his own so had the other squad take him out for now at least and my third squad went into Plague marine squad dropping 5 of them (brother misread list and had 6 pms in each squad so he had one left). My razorbacks are fairly ineffective vs. the land raider but I moved my rhino closer to get ready to meltagun it if I have to. The guard passes their moral test and the turn two begins
Chaos turns 2
Once again my brother pushed his chaos forces as forward the only moving the guard player does is moving the rejuvenated Yarick to join the squad holding objective. Shooting sees my flamer razorback get blown up with no casualties from one oblit squad and my rhino being wreaked by the other. (Not fair the obits never seemed to do this well when I used them) the guard once again fails to down any long fangs.
Wolves turn two:
I roll for the scouts and roll snake eyes. Ok so I’ve got two princes a land raider full of stuff and a meltagun plague marine on my doorstop so I move my disembarked squads to engage them. Difficult terrain rolls end up ending this plan so I go for plan be and cast jaws of the warp wolf on his plague marine and knick his daemon prince and they both fail their tests. So I just have the DP and a lr full of berserkers to deal with all my razorbacks fire into the land raider and just shake it. My mls once again go after the guard and knock Yarick down again and knocking the squad down to 4. The way I figure it the berserkers and prince will probably assault one or all my squads in range.
Chaos turns 3:
Yarick gets up again and I basically give up on targeting him as has so tough to kill but so is most of their army. Well the land raider moves to block of a good portion of the firing lane there but doesn’t disembark which is good for me as ill meltagun the thing next turn. The plague marine leg it towards my plasma squad and Yarick joins the other vet squad while the obits get better firing lanes. The obits start shooting plasma cannons witch deal damage across my long fang line the guard move around to get a better cover save as we played the little bunker as 3+2+ for him and the plague marines assault my plasma squad I pass my counter attack roll but we both whiff not counting me taking off the model he was playing extra that we didn’t realize.
Wolves turn 3: both scout squads come in from behind the guard squads and signal this game as almost over. The melta squad move in closer to the land raider the priest splits of for los to the obits or guard and the flamer squad hides behind the tower to reach out for objective in a latter turn. Shooting sees my meltagun wrack his land raider and I started pouring fire into his berserkers first with jaws killing 2 guys including power fist and the grenade launcher from guard squad then a bunch of missile launchers knocking squad down to two models I also managed to finish off the rocket launcher. Then assaults came and my rune priest assaulted his two berserkers and scouts each assaulted a vet squad. Scouts wipe out the squad on the objective and knock other squad down to the sergeant somewhere Yarick split off as the sergeant was stubborn so didn’t run off my priest did one wound and took one and my plasma squad took down two plague marines while losing one.
Chaos turns 4:
At this point they have 3 plague marienes in combat with my plasma squad Yarick with one wound left a berserker in cc a sergeant in cc the 6 unhurt obits and a DP. My brother tries to have the obits shoot my long fang squad again knocking them down a bit more while the other squad tryst to reinforce the plague marines but can’t make it in the assault phase Yarick and the dp charge in the dp kills two guys but my power weapon strikes home on the sergeant and I lose by one but hold my rune priest finishes of his berserker and they concede as none of his troops can get too either objective and I’m holding one with two squads and have 2 others halfway to his squad.

All in all I learned plague marines are a pain to kill in cc guardsmen with a 2+ cover save are very hard to shoot off an objective and Yarick is tough little bugger as he doesn’t like to stay dead. I know there lists weren’t great but it still helped me learn the rules of my army and some weak points I have and how to counteract for them

This was my first report and i realized I need more and better pics next time.

Does your camera have an auto-focus setting on it or perhaps an Image Stabilization Feature? If not and you are shooting in a situation with plenty of light, look for any way to manually adjust shutter speed and set it to around 1/250th of a second or higher. The pics might come out a little dark, but they will be sharp even if the camera is moving, and you can adjust exposure on the computer with most basic photo editing programs. The most important thing is getting a sharp picture, because I cannot tell 90% of what is going on in those pics......

If you are using a cell phone then...well....not much you can do other than hold it steadier.

Its my dads digital camera that I cant figure out to much I played around with it after the game and think i fixed some of the problems so this is essentially a written report with pics to help give you an idea of what happened here and there.

Never heard of Gujard before, new race?

Yeh, maybe writting up a battle report at 11 o clock at night wasnt such a good idea but even if this one didn't turn out great I learned how to make any future ones better. Just not sure I'm ready to try doing this for timed games as I'm still fairly new to the army.