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This is the promoised battle report between the Space marne chapter of Pod Droppa's Emperors Eyes and my own Tanith 1st and Only. The deployment we rolled off for was spearhead and the mission was 3 objectives marked by the #1,2,3 on the map below.


Objectives as numbered:

1: A pile of rocks
2: Another pile of rocks
3: a blown up bunker

Quick note about the shapes. Ciricles are craters, Rectangles are fences and tank traps, and the grey squads are blown bunkers.


List: 2000 Points

IG "Ghost Divison" Tanith First and Only with Allied support.

CCS
Lord Commisar
Tech Priest

2 platoons of 20 with attached commisars
1 Platoon of 30 with attached commisars
1 HWT of Missile launchers
1 HWT of Autocannons
1 SWS with 3 snipers

Melta Vets

Marbo

X10 stormtroopers with GL

x5 ratlings

x1 Valk

X2 LRMBT


Emperos Eyes Space Task force 119

HQ
lysander

Libby

6 Drop pods

3 tatical squads
3 Fist sarges
2 combi Meltas

2 Ven Dreadnaughts

Sternguard squad with combi meltas

x10 man scouts with snipers

Deployment:

IG Start off in the lower corner to the south near Objective #3 and slowly deploy in a reversed L shape with the Company command squad and the ratlings in the center crater. The 30 man power blob with the Lord Commie deploy at the front while meanwhile the ML team and the Autocannon team deploy right next to the 30 man blob. The valk sits out on the far edge to the north with the melta vets riding in it and 1 of the 20 mans blobs hiding behind it. to the far south another 20 man blob covers around 2 LR tanks and the SWS takes cover in the #3 objective. Stormies will be deep striking. Marbo will come in from reserve. They await the pods to fall......

Space marines deploy scouts onto objective #1 with sniper rilfes.....


Turn 1: Valk scouts forward to objective 2 and sits near it to capture it. Meanwhile, ML and autocannons fire at the Scouts causing few loses for the scouts. Tanks fire their lascannons and Main turrets at the scouts causing a few more losses. (3 scouts dead). Valk forgets to fire....

Turn 1: Marines drop down 3 pods. Two land on target in front of the central 30 man squad and the northern platoon while one pod with 1 of the Ven Dreadnaughts scatters and goes off the table resulting in a destoryed result.The marines manage to land 1 Ven dread and a tatical incuring heavy loses on the ML and autocannon teams as well as the 30 man guard squad. . (3 wounds on the ML HWT, 3 wounds on the Autocannons, 10 guardsmen died from the flamer on the Dread)

Turn 2: Reserves come in. Stormtroopers deepstrike into the rear of the table near the far bunker and land safe near the table edge. Marbo appears on the table near the scouts. Valk drops off the Vets onto the objective and moves towards the #1 objective. Marbo throws his det pack and completely misses. The Stormies are too far to fire and the Valk fire off its Multi-laser with no wounds. meanwhile in the south my CSS starts pushing out orders to bring it down! and fire on my target! Autocannons and ML fire at the Dread but fail to do anything. Meanwhile a nice round of FRFSRF sends the tatical marines down a few remaining marines. Ratlings also fire but fail to do much as well as the SWS. Tanks Fire at the Dread but scatter onto the ML and Autocannons killing off both teams from friendly fire. (HWTs destoyed by FF, Tatical marine loses 10 out of 10 men)

Turn 2: Marines drop second wave of pods onto the table. Far south near the bunker a tatical squad lands as well as in the centeral rear near the back of the IG deployment. The sternguard land to the north as well with lysander and the libby creating a strong hammer and anvil force around the IG. The pod that lands in the center and rear releases its combi meltas into the LR destorying both tanks as well as having the Tech priest die in the resulting explosion. 4 Marines are killed from the blast. The dread charges the now reduced 30 man blob into CQB while the marines in the south kill off the SWS snipers to claim the bunker. Meanwhile the stern guard to the north unleashed into the northern platoon resulting in 15 dead IG and seriously hurting the northern flank. Lysander and the libby move out of the pod to towards the dread. Off on the #1 objective the scouts get off the objective to punch marbo in CQB. Marbo is beaten to death but removes 1 scout. Stromies move up and unleash GL shells onto the scouts with no deaths. Valk fires its ML at the scouts and inflicts no deaths. Melta vets on the #2 objective fire at the scouts but inflict no wounds. (2 deaths in the 30 man blob from CQB, SWS team killed,15 men of 20 man blob killed, both LR Destoryed, Tech priest killed, 4 Dead marines, 1 scout, marbo)

Objective count at this point:
Marines:2
IG: 1

More to come tomorrow as im getting tired but await the exciting conclusion in part #2. Can the IG pull the win or have the Emperors eys got victory in the bag? Comments and critisms are welcome as always.

I laughed hard when he scattered a pod off the board.

I must just be good at ranges but I've never had a deep strike mishap lol, ecspecially not with drop pods.