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2012/08/09 23:14:42
Subject: Battle Sisters at the Golden Throne GT (Game 3 of 7 vs Space Wolves)
FAST ATTACK Dominions - 5 Women, 2 Meltaguns, VSS with Combi-flamer, Immolator with twin-linked Multi-Meltas Dominions - 5 Women, 2 Meltaguns, VSS with Combi-flamer, Immolator with twin-linked Multi-Meltas Seraphim - 10 Women, 2 Twin Hand Flamers, VSS with Meltabombs
HEAVY SUPPORT Exorcist Retributors - 10 Women, 4 Heavy Bolters Retributors - 10 Women, 4 Heavy Bolters
FORTIFICATION Aegis Defense Line with Quad Gun
Space Wolves Army:
Spoiler:
1500pts Space Wolves HQ Rune Priest, Runic Armor, JotWW, Living Lightning
ELITE 4x Wolf Guard, Power Armor, Power Fist 1x Wolf Guard, Power Armor, Combi-Melta 1x Wolf Guard, Terminator Armor, Cyclone Missile Launcher 5x Wolf Scouts, Meltagun
Pre-Game A pretty typical Missile Wolves list. I've played against these before and I just need to weather the shooting until my reserves come in and can take out his fire base. We both get the same boost thanks to the Big Guns Never Tire mission (Heavy Support choices can score) but he has 7 scoring units to my 5, so I'll need to keep my eyes on the prize.
Deployment
Spoiler:
I don't remember who won the roll, but I went second and I don't think we had Night Fight. The three red poker chips are the mission objectives. There's one in a crater behind my Aegis Line, one near the ruin in the middle, and one that's in the ruin at the top left.
Long Fangs set up on the hills and all the meched up Grey Hunters are ready to push up the middle to seize the objectives. One Grey Hunter squad deploys as far left as possible to make a play on the objective in the ruin. (The Rhino chassis that have Predator turrets are his Razorbacks so don't think he took 4 Predators!) The Rune Priest is in the Rhino and not seen are his outflanking Wolf Scouts.
I set up one BSS on the objective in my DZ and put one of the Retributors up against the Aegis Line. I think those Rets, the Quad Gun, and the Exorcist all had range to the close Long Fang squad and all of the vehicles.
On the other side I deploy outside of the Aegis line to try and get two scoring units as close to the central objective as possible. My Retributors are in the crater hoping it will give them some cover.
Both Dominion squads are outflanking. St Celestine got Outflanking as a Warlord ability so I elect to outflank her and the Seraphim thinking it will be safer than trying to deep strike.
Space Wolves Turn 1
Spoiler:
12 Frag Missile shots brutalize my poor Retributors. I don't think the rest of his shooting was terribly effective. I know he snake-eyes'd a TL Lascannon shot though!
Sisters Turn 1
Spoiler:
(Taken at the top of turn 2.) I popped the Razorback that was trying to be sneaky and the Grey Hunters failed their pinning check. I was also able to clip a couple of Long Fangs from the leftmost squad, but didn't get any hits on the main group of vehicles.
You can barely see that I moved up my BSS to shield them from the two Long Fang squads on the hill.
The decimated Retributor squad got a little bit of revenge and killed two of the Long Fangs on the hill.
Space Wolves Turn 2
Spoiler:
The Razorbacks and the Rune Priest's Rhino make a tactical advance.
Another round of shooting from the Space Wolves cuts down a few more sisters. The BSS behind the ruin lost two ladies and the backfield Retributors lost four. Not pictured, the other Retributor squad was finished off.
Sisters Turn 2
Spoiler:
Surprise! All of my outflankers arrive! One Dominion squad comes in on my left, Celestine comes in on the right, and the other Dominions get to choose. They choose the right.
The Dominions that got lost on the way to the party slip in behind the ruin. At least they'll be able to keep the Grey Hunters away from that objective.
The Retributors behind the Aegis line moved to restore coherency and the BSS took a safer position deeper into the ruin.
Dead Long Fangs. Thanks to the new wound allocation rules the Terminator is able to soak up a lot of the fire after the first 5 Long Fangs were killed.
Space Wolves Turn 3
Spoiler:
His Wolf Scouts come in and have the Exorcist square in their sights.
All three Grey Hunter squads disembark and prepare for vengeance while the Rune Priest stays in the Rhino. The Immolator explodes, Celestine takes a wound, and three Seraphim are dead.
Kaboom! The Scouts just earned back their points.
Sisters Turn 3
Spoiler:
I forgot to take a picture here but Celestine & Her Flying Bucket of Dice wiped out a Grey Hunters squad while the Dominions finished off the last of the right-side Long Fangs. My BSS in the deployment zone destroyed the Wolf Scouts and I wrecked the Rune Priest's Rhino with my Quad Gun.
Space Wolves Turn 4
Spoiler:
He's moving up his Hunters to try and stop the implacable wave of destruction that is St Celestine.
I got shot up real good here! The Dominions are wiped out (Jaws!), three more dead Seraphim, and Celestine is down to one wound.
Sisters Turn 4
Spoiler:
On the boring side of the battlefield the Dominions disembark and kill the two remaining Grey Hunters, successfully defending the objective.
This is the aftermath of Turn 4. I wrecked his Ass-Back, but I'm wondering if I forgot to shoot with my Seraphim since only one Grey Hunter has died here. Celestine assaulted the GH squad and I'm guessing we both had some lousy rolls since nothing apparenty has happened.
In the very bottom left corner of this picture, you can see the base of one of my Battle Sisters as that squad has finally made it over to the objective.
Space Wolves Turn 5
Spoiler:
The Rune Priest joins up with some Grey Hunters and makes a play for the objective that my Battle Sister Squad is also trying to reach. It was another lame round of combat as we just trade single kills. But I had a trump card to play!
Me: The Seraphim are going to Hit & Run. I test on Celestine's initiative of 7, so a 6 will fail. Him: OK. Dice:
Sisters Turn 5
Spoiler:
In the top right, I finished off his last Razorback. I also moved my BSS to well and truly hold the objective. I shot into his Grey Hunters and he had some crappy luck. The Rune Priest was 2nd closest, and he ended up snake-eyesing his Runic Armor save. Ultimately that didn't matter though since this would be the final round of the game. (I also think this picture was taken after the game and he'd already picked up the 3 or 4 Grey Hunters that survived.)
Some seriously tough Grey Hunters! They fought 3 rounds against Celestine and only lost two men!
The Aftermath
Spoiler:
I have Battle Sisters on the objective near the central ruin and on the objective in my Deployment Zone. I got First Blood when I popped his Razorback, I got lucky and picked up a "Slay the Warlord" point, and I also got 3 Bonus Points for killing his Long Fangs (Big Guns Never Tire).
He had no objectives, but picked up two VPs for my Exorcist and a Retributor squad.
Sisters Win! 11-2
This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2012/08/10 04:41:26
