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IG Imperial Navy Vs. IG Tank Army
In this battle, my friend at my LGS has an IG tank spam army, very competitve. We thought it would be awesome to have a planes vs tanks fight, but heres the kicker..... on the field are two wrecked baneblades. They were originally going to be used as terrain, but we thought we'd add a twist (VAT A TVWIST!)... we would have our tech priests working on the baneblades, and on turn 4 they fix them both. Each baneblade counted as an objective in this pitched battle. I tried to do my best to take turn by turn pics. THIS POST READS LIKE A MOVIE! (refresh the pg if some pics dont load)

The two Baneblades.....
My side
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His side (its a "baneblade" ... just go with it)
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The lists-

Mine
Imperial Navy- 2k: AKA The Glass Hammer

CCS
4x Melta
Astropath

Techpriest

Psyker Battle Squad
10x Psykers

Vets
3x Melta
Demo Charges

Vets
3x Melta
Demo Charges

Vets
3x plasma
Demo Charges

Vets
3x plasma
Demo Charges

Setinel (i know its illegal with 4x fast, but we thought it would be funny to just have 1 running around)

Vendetta
Vendetta

Vendetta
Vendetta

Firebird---(Valk variant- has 2 flamestorm cannons, twin linked nose mounted heavy flamer)
-sponson flamers
Firebird---(Valk variant- has 2 flamestorm cannons, twin linked nose mounted heavy flamer)
-sponson flamers

Manticore
Manticore
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His

Imperial Tank Army
CCS
-las
-chimera

Techpriest

Vets
-las
chimera-

Vets
-las
-chimera

Vets
-las
-chimera (manticore proxy)

Platoon
50x guys
4 autocannons

* everything from here down has camo cloaks and extra armour*

Leman Russ (all have las)
-exterminator
-exterminator (Pask)
-exterminator

Hydra
Hydra
Hydra

Hydra
Hydra (basilisk proxy)
Hydra (basilisk proxy)


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Deployment
This was funny.... he won the toss to go first and so he set up his MASSIVE gun line. I then placed my meager 3 things on the board...
His Deployment
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My deployment...hahhahahaha
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Heres what I kept in reserve, minus the manticores and setinel
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TURN 1 and 2
His first shooting Kills one manticore and stuns the second.... after 4 autocannons, 3 chimeras, 4 las cannons, 1 hydra, and 3 exeterminators.....
My first turn was very productive..... I fired my sentinel and rolled a 1. WOOT!
Heres what shot me......
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Heres what I lost to that. This took 1 full turn and his 2nd turn of shooting.
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My Turn 2
Most of my reserves come in. The 2 Vendetta squads were outflanking....
Squad 1
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Squad 2 unfortunatley got the other side near the hydras (basilisks)
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I then dropped out my troops after they came onto the table, and wrecked 2 hydras from the right flank. (pic above) Then I took out his CCS chimera and another chimera, his troops couldnt get out so they died... Also took out a Russ with melta squad coming from the left flank.

Finally I fired a few rounds at the hydras and didnt do much because of the stupid 3+ cover he gets from having his chimeras in front, and then having camo cloaks... goes from 4+ cover to 3+..... RIDICULOUS!!!

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TURN 3
Time for his shooting yet again....
He pops both my birds that came in on the side and kills a few guys with an explosion
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He did the same thing to the other outflanking squad....
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THE POOR SENTINEL! It had no guns anyways so I sent him to his death. lololol
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and then....... BOOOOOOOOOOM.
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that was turn 3..... his side.....

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MY TURN 3

Alrighty.... I bet youre thinking im totaly hosed in this game... but I assure you this is where the tide turns and it gets good....

Firstly, I roll reserves and get my Firebirds...

They are the variant I made and everyone loves them, they have a ST6 AP3 Flamerstorm cannon (wing mounted, fires 6" from the gun), a ST-5 AP-4, TL HF (nose mounted and it fires 3" from the nose), and then I paid for the sponson flamers (instead of the bolters you normally can pay for), fired from the sponson itself.. These things have NO range but they do massive horde damage. And theyre well balanced, Vendettas have 3 twin linked las cannons at 48", valks have MRP at 24" Firebirds have flamers at 6". Its perfect and everyone approved of the rules...

This is awesome, I made a perfect deepstrike, got snake eyes and the hit marker....... possibly the best part of the whole game was these two birds shooting.....

BEFORE
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AFTER...LOLOLOL
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total.... 63 wounds.... OWCH......


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TURN 4- HERE COMES THE PAIN!

Turn 4.... the baneblades come alive! Only one at a time so he couldnt just shoot mine and kill it....

First he chose to take out those pesky Firebirds with his cimeras and las cannons, and he gets one and stunns the other, they drop out their guys. Next is the Baneblade shooting
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He takes aim at the right flanking vets with the baneblades demolisher cannon... and kills most all of them... then he unloads the bolters.... las cannons and everything but the baneblade cannon and the co-axial autocannon.

Heres what I had before the blasts and bullets.... Oh, and I should mention my favorite guy in my army... meet Harry, hes a plasma gunner with two plasma pistols (counting as a plas gun) and he never overheats (hes just lucky).....sorry its blurry better pic coming up....
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And this is the result of the baneblade shooting.....
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And then the big gun.... aimed at my Firebirds.
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To bad it scatters.... AND KILLS 2 TANKS INCLUDING PASK!!!!!!!!!!! HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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RIP Pask....
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MY TURN 4 (Last Turn)

This is the last turn due to store closing. My Baneblade comes to life!!!! but doesnt kill a damn thing.....

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My CCS and vets on the left flank move foward with meltas and plasmas and pop 2 more chimeras....

Heres the Kill on the board.....all of them are X'd out.

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THIS IS THE BEST PART OF THE GAME. IT WAS AN OBJECTIVE GAME FOR THE BANEBLADES.....ONLY ONE MAN DARED TO CONTEST.... HIS NAME IS HARRY!

This one man, tied the game for me.

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ILL BE POSTING UP MORE OF MY NAVY FIGHTS SOON! FEEL FREE TO EXALT THIS POST. THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AND THATS ALL FOLKS!!!

I enjoyed the battle report. Very easy to understand and the pictures were both helpful, objective, and cinematic. You firebird rules are pretty bad ass. I know I wouldn't like to see that coming for my orks.

Why thank you. =]

Nice report!

And Harry ftw!

Harry rules! (what's his loadout? I wish to rebuild him in my vision...)

I just gave him two plasma pistols from CCS sprues. Also going to attach melta bombs/ demo charge. Hes just a cadian with the coolest looking head I could find


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All fear Harry, kicker of A-holes and destroyer of Baneblades!

All said and done that was a hilarious and awesome battle report. Even with all that stuff going wrong your list still seemed to do very well so good job. That Firebird variant looks nasty as well, wish I could take those in normal games.

Also love the idea of your custom scenario, even if that kind of heavily favored your opponent (you're navy, you don't need no stinkin tanks! )

It was a great battle. It seemed like it was over by the end of turn 3 but the key turing point was the deployment of troops right after getting on the table.

Plus one of the Firebirds has a 10 man psyker battle squad shooting ST10 templates on his tanks. haha