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Hi dakkanoughts! This is my first battle report, please be let me know what I can do to make them better in the future, because I sure intend to write some more

1500 points match, and our first chance to use a terrain table at the game store (Factoria battle bunker, great place)

Jhans313's Black Templars


Scambone's Imperial Fists


We are still learning the rules, so we decided to go for Annihilation to keep it simple. Looking in the rule book every thirty seconds gets old, so sometimes we just kinda wing it, but mostly the idea was to learn the right way to do things.

Deployment



Turns 1 and 2 got us into good position, Jhans swinging one of his tac squads wide left to flank and another up into a building, and me trying to get the drop on that beautifully painted metal dread.
As we see here:



How'd that assault squad fare against the dread? Better than nothing I suppose Lost 2 men to an unlucky dangerous terrain roll trying to drop in on him , then disabled his left arm with a lucky plasma pistol shot. Then managed to stay alive for a while and not much else, sad to say. Meanwhile, I had tried to break his center by throwing my (WIP) assault marines at the guys in the structure. Fail. Also advanced my dread and devastators into shooty range and landed a couple of wounds against his Chaplain-led tactical squad. He briefly stops smirking about his fancy BT special rules as he rolls

So, Turn 3 looked like this:

Tactical Squad II still holding! Still holding!

I hesitated to embroil more units in the melee, and so assault squad II was doomed from the start. Don't half-arse things!

And poor assault squad I is still hammering futilely away. Should have tried to use that melta bomb, but I thought the hammer had a chance. Wrong!


Which brings us to Turn 4, at which point my optimism has finally begun to fade. I think we had at least six appearances of the dreaded snake eyes, and once my command squad failed 6 armor Svs at once, only to pick up all but one with the Apothecary. My tactical boys had demolished a terminator squad and a half, and my Dread blew up *RIGHT. IN FRONT. OF THE TECHMARINE.* seriously, how traumatic is that? It would be like a pediatrician having to watch babies get run over. That's how I felt anyway. Like a run over baby.



Chaplain and gang tried about half a dozen krak grenades before one finally got through. All the way through to the part that explodes. But not a big enough explosion to kill anybody. And then he Crozius'd the Techmarine... no Invulnerable Sv for a techmarine?! Cheap! [Note to self: build terminator techmarine]


Now things might look a bit one sided so far, but take a look at his casualty shelf after Turn 4:


And then, the end.
I shot people! My dice don't always go !
So then it just became a question of how many BT's I could take down before it was over. Tactical squad I, which i had held at the back of the table for the whole dang game, was assaulted and failed morale, falling back off the table after taking a measly 3 losses. Cowards. I'll have to think up a shame badge and paint those jerks something to remember not to stink by. My Captain and command squad held on longer than I thought, mostly due to some great work by my Apothecary (Feel No Pain is my friend).


So he wiped me out entirely and I made a fair accounting for myself:
The numbers:



Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed the report. I may be a bit fuzzy on the exact details here, so Jhans, don't get too upset
Please comment and let me know what I can do to improve for the next one, thanks again!

Good report... but there are so many tables...

Hey, good report, just one thing, black templars don't have sergeants, they have all sword brethren. All with storm bolters and powerfists, don;t worry about it, nothing game changing in this game but just for future reference.

He was trying to explain something about that to me. Only one guy was different in the squad so i assumed it was a sergeant, my bad. Good to know for future games though, thanks Ninja.

There was never any doubt in my mind that my favourite chapter (templars) had the day

I haven't beat him yet in three battles. I'll keep trying

There are some pics I've uploaded to compliment Scam's battle report. Check them out in my gallery. It was the quickest way I could think to get them uploaded before work!

Couple of comments here:
1. My Dread's left arm was completely demolished by a pissed off IF Assault Marine and his trusty Thunder Hammer, not some wimpy plasma pistol, sir!
2. I'd like to point out that despite the number of snake-eyes in this game, I DID manage to roll a 1/1 followed by a 2/2 on a 4+ to hit. That 2/2 was my RE-ROLL. Good times!

Also, his Chaplain was a pain in the ass to knock out. Terminators couldn't do it (damn dice), so the Emperor's Champion came in and finished the job.

This game was a blast! Took just about 4 hours, but the experience was totally worth it. Had no idea krak grenades would do me any good!

Looking forward to the next engagement, Scambone!

Thanks for the corrections, Jhans, I couldn't remember all the details off the top of my head.

Yeah great game, we'll get another one going soon. I like the Factoria store a lot, we can totally do another battle there.

Really nice little report, ultra sweet terrain in it.
Good pics and was pretty easy to follow the flow of the battle.

Right on, thanks Ratius. The official GW stores are great for the free to use terrain tables.

Armies and batrep look great, make sure you use a standard board length though. If each of those modular squares a 2' x 2' then you have an 8' x 4' board, not 6' x 4'. Using a normal sized board will condense the action, especially at only 1500 points. Great otherwise!

Well spotted about the boards, didnt notice that myself.

Good to know, thanks! Seemed like a lot of turf to try and defend!

Really nice Templars there, cool battle report too.

Thanks! Check out Jhans13's gallery, his templars are indeed nice

I really like the buildings and the colour you have used on them - the paint job on the templar dreadnaught is just how I imagine them to be in "real life"

Nice battlerep and some nice figures

@Sumi: We used the store terrain pieces. They are pretty cool though. Yeah that old metal dread model is pretty great, he did a nice paintjob on it.