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Note: This is a different story arc from "The Perfect Vessels" versus the Necron

It's looking bleak for Agriworld Verdus IV... The Venus Plague legion of Chaos Space Marines have unleashed a vile toxin known as "the blood pox" onto the planet. Within mere days, a quarter of the planet's population - over a billion human souls - have died in a beautiful fountain of blood streaming from every orifice for the pleasure of the lusting Chaos gods.

In the previous installments, Sister Ashley of the Order of the Violet Rose received a single vial of an experimental cure from off planet and was racing to a Medicae Manufactorum to produce it in vast quantities. Unable to outrun the forces of Chaos, she was cut down by a Champion of Chaos and her Planetary Defense Force and Flesh Tearer bodyguard destroyed...

And now the forces of Chaos move on the medicae facility to annihilate any hope of the planet manufacturing a cure for their beautiful pox. Only a handful of Flesh Tearers stand in their way...

THE SCENARIO

The Chaos Space Marines must remove three units from the table via the opposing table edge (breakthrough) to destroy the medicae facility.
No turn limit. The game continues until the forces of Chaos succeed or die trying.
Defender (Flesh Tearers) set up first and take the first turn, unless the attacker seizes the initiative

THE FORCES

Flesh Tearers



Chapter Master Gabriel Seth

Assault Squad w jump packs x10
Melta x2, Sergeant w Power Fist

Assault Squad on foot x5 in Razorback (TLAC)
Melta x1

Tactical Squad x5 in Razorback (LasPlas)
Sergeant w Combi-melta

Land Speeder Typhoon

Assault Terminators x 5
TH/SS x3

Furioso Dreadnought
Magna Grapple, H. Flamer

Bikes x5

Sanguinary Priest x2



The Venus Plague



LIST COMING SOON, SEE PICS FOR NOW





I don't really want to know what is going on here...


The Battlefield


The Deployment


The Forces Face Off




The Venus Plague rolls to seize the initiative and....


The forces of Chaos push upfield...


The Defiler unleashes its explosive spew of corrosive acid, blood, and... other fluids, killing three jump marines. The Havoks slay two bikers


The Bike Marine morale breaks, and they beat a "tactical retreat" off the table. SHAMEFUL DISPLAY


Middle of one


The Flesh Tearers push towards the middle to cut off the Chaos Marine advance


The Typhoon opens fire and strips a single hull point from a Chaos Rhino


In the Chaos turn, the Venus Plague pushes forward and unleashes devastating fire. The Havoks destroy a Razorback, and the Defiler follows up on the squad inside, killing two marines and incapacitating Seth (Instant Death - does anyone else hate this rule?!)


The Chaos onslaught continues. The bikers melt an Assault Terminator, and Ascendant Lord Emetophilo Supreme slays another in close combat


Middle of two


The Flesh Tearers advance, thirsty for bloody vengeance!


The jump marines charge the vile Defiler, and the sergeant sinks his power fist into the putrid flesh surrounding its nuclear core! The Defiler takes two marines with him.
Meanwhile, the bikers led by Emetophilo kill two more Terminators and the two marines who had charged in to support


The end of two


The two Chaos Rhinos push forward, making to the opposing table edge. The cultists advance.


The Autocannon Havoks open fire but fail to penetrate the Furioso's armor. The Havoks on the other side of table open up on the jump marines, killing two.
Emetophilo Supreme slays the final Assault Terminator


Middle of three


In the Flesh Tearer turn, the marines swing around to converge on the Chaos Marines - they must not escape!


They open fire, barely destroying one of the Rhinos on hull points (awful rolling all game!)
The Furioso charges Emetophilo, lifts him off his bike with one mighty claw and sends a gout of searing Heavy Flame at his face, killing him! Burn in hell!
I have come to destroy you!


End of three


The newly disembarked Chaos marines easily run off the table edge...


And the Rhino carrying the Noise Marines moves flat out, barely reaching the table edge...
The Imperials are in trouble! The Venus Plague only needs to get one more unit through to destroy the Medicae Facility!!


Middle of four


In their turn, the Flesh Tearers reposition slightly and open fire on the Boyz of M.U.N.T., killing all but two


In the Venus Plague turn, the autocannon Havoks on the FT right flank start to make a mad dash for the table edge


The Furioso slowly lumbers over to intercept


The tacticals slay the remaining Boyz of M.U.N.T. while the jump marines charge the Havoks on their left flank


In the Chaos turn, the Autocannon Havoks keep running! They're getting too close for comfort! The dreadnought can't keep up!


The Typhoon moves to cut off their escape route, but isn't fast enough! The tacticals start to run over to lend their support.
Have the Flesh Tearers underestimated the Slaaneshi speed of the Havoks?
Now all the Havoks need to make it off the table in their turn is to roll a six on the run result!!!


The Havoks move up field and run in the shooting phase! Can they roll a six to make it off the table and win the game? Click on the Spoiler!


The Flesh Tearers bring everything they can to shoot at the Havoks and destroy them! Will it be enough?
The Tacticals open fire with long range Bolter shots, while the Typhoon throws everything it can at them!


All but one Havok dies!!!! Now it's down to the morale roll! Break, damn you, break!


Will the Havok's morale hold? Or will he run away, mere millimeters from his goal?! Click the Spoiler!!



Hope you enjoyed!!!

Again, these take a TON of work. I generally take around 250 - 300 pictures through the course of the game and then the photo editing and batrep write-up take me around six hours or so. So if you like it, please let me know!

Thanks for that - really nice to see all painted....it makes the game in my opinion

Break, damn you! How many times have uttered this... Excellent report. Quick and bloody, Flesh Tearers style!

SOOOOOOOOOO CLOSE! Ah that was awesome! I can't wait to see the next one. Also did I miss a batrep when you were giving the intro fluff cause the last one I saw was the second necron one.

Lovepug13 wrote:Thanks for that - really nice to see all painted....it makes the game in my opinion

Thanks! I agree. It's hard for me to play unpainted. I can't remember the last time I did it.

konst80hummel wrote:Break, damn you! How many times have uttered this... Excellent report. Quick and bloody, Flesh Tearers style!

Thanks! Yeah, man, I was praying for him to fail that morale roll! Alas, it was not to be!

Insane Smile wrote:SOOOOOOOOOO CLOSE! Ah that was awesome! I can't wait to see the next one. Also did I miss a batrep when you were giving the intro fluff cause the last one I saw was the second necron one.

Thanks! This is a different story arc - the one against the Necron is called The Perfect Vessels. You can find the other two installments of The Antidote here -

Part I - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/455577.page

Part II - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/470627.page#4665885

I will also edit them into the original post.

Man that slanneshy defiler was disturbing in person, and now everyone on the interwebs can share in the glory.

Another great battle rep.

 Desubot wrote:
Man that slanneshy defiler was disturbing in person, and now everyone on the interwebs can share in the glory.

Another great battle rep.

Thanks!

Yeah, isn't that thing horrifying?!

I hope next time he brings his Predator with... um... "appendages" growing from it. He calls it his "Sexual Predator"...

Excellent report Xeno! Down to the last man again!

That defiler with the boobs will always creep me out. Awesome but kinda messed up.

 Insane Smile wrote:
That defiler with the boobs will always creep me out. Awesome but kinda messed up.

Yeah, it's even grosser in person. You feel dirty holding it. He's got some other pretty grotesque vehicles that he doesn't use much. His Land Raider is just horrendous. I'll try to talk him into fielding his "sexual" Predator and Land Raider next game.

Egad... that was a nastay defiler. Close game. very very well done batrep.

Another nice report.

Another amazing report. I could feel the excitement and tension rising as I went to click the show spoilers, fantastic work.

I'm definitely stealing the mission idea too

Thanks again!

Very very nice report, really cool armies!!!

I was like when he siezed lol, great battle you had a string of bad luck at the start loosing your bikes. Can't wait for the next one.

Awesome, awesome, awesome reports dude! I always enjoy seeing the Venus plague and your wonderful flesh tearers. So much time and effort was poured into each of your figs and it really shows.

Thanks again for doing these, these are exactly how games should be played IMO. I am so tired of seeing poorly modeled armies and proxies as a part of flavorless army builds just to min max, and spam. If you play with your heart the games are almost always close and entertaining like these ones.

Thanks again mate!

Nice armies! Hopefully we can see the predator and landraider in your next installement. Thanks for the report.

Largeblastmarker wrote:Egad... that was a nastay defiler. Close game. very very well done batrep.

Thanks! Yeah, the owner is a sick dude He's a 3D art director for a major video game company, so it's actually kind of cool to be across the table from his army.

Dinamarth wrote:Another nice report.

Thank you!

torgoch wrote:Another amazing report. I could feel the excitement and tension rising as I went to click the show spoilers, fantastic work.

I'm definitely stealing the mission idea too

Thanks again!

Thanks! Yeah, I thought the spoiler thing for important rolls might be a fun thing to do. Glad you liked it!

aliusexalio wrote:Very very nice report, really cool armies!!!

Thank you!

VeteranSgt.Ryokai wrote:I was like when he siezed lol, great battle you had a string of bad luck at the start loosing your bikes. Can't wait for the next one.

Man, that's exactly what I said when that six came up! My luck was just terrible all game. I couldn't crack those Rhinos to save my life. But that's ok! That is what ended up making it so exciting.

Red Corsair wrote:Awesome, awesome, awesome reports dude! I always enjoy seeing the Venus plague and your wonderful flesh tearers. So much time and effort was poured into each of your figs and it really shows.

Thanks again for doing these, these are exactly how games should be played IMO. I am so tired of seeing poorly modeled armies and proxies as a part of flavorless army builds just to min max, and spam. If you play with your heart the games are almost always close and entertaining like these ones.

Thanks again mate!

Thank you! Comments like these make me want to do even more!

You know, I used to see all this stuff on the internet and I would piss and moan about all the powergaming and min-maxing going on, but then I thought - why don't I lead by example? Why don't I stop complaining and do something about it? I certainly don't judge anyone who likes to play competitively - that's their thing, and that's cool, and I don't mind playing competitively sometimes - but, for me, this game is about telling a story with two nicely painted armies on nice terrain. When people read my BatReps, I want them to have that feeling of "wow, this is cool!" that they had the very first time they looked inside of a White Dwarf or a 40k rulebook.

Jupiter wrote:Nice armies! Hopefully we can see the predator and landraider in your next installement. Thanks for the report.

Thank you! Yeah, he and I have been talking about what to do for the next installment, which will probably be the finale... I think we have some cool ideas Hopefully we will have enough time to play a big game and be able to field all the toys!

I'd like to echo Red Corsair - these reports are the best representation of the game AT ITS BEST I've seen in a long time! I hope they inspire others to follow suit and I'm very lucky to take part.

 Thokt wrote:
I'd like to echo Red Corsair - these reports are the best representation of the game AT ITS BEST I've seen in a long time! I hope they inspire others to follow suit and I'm very lucky to take part.

Thanks buddy! I am glad you are a part of it, too!

That is exactly what I am aiming for - to inspire others!

As I mentioned above, I have felt for a while that the pendulum has swung very far towards the competitive side of things. There is nothing wrong with competitive, but there are very, very few outlets for creative and "fluffy" gamers out there. There are about a million sites out there that cater to competitive gamers, but very few that focus on casual / narrative play.

So, rather than troll internet forums with grumpy comments on how people aren't having fun the right way, I AM BEING THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD!

And it's a blast! And I hope it's one small part of a revolution!

Great batrep. Thanks for putting in the time. Looks like it was a fun game.

Just read through all three battle reports. Loved them

Great batrep and two very nice armies, that defiler is excellent lol

great batrep guys

Thanks so much guys! Glad you liked all three batreps, Grimaldus!

Phenomenal report - thanks for the time to make it. Also, your armies both look stunning, it is a pleasure to read these games and see these pictures.

 Xenocidal Maniac wrote:
When people read my BatReps, I want them to have that feeling of "wow, this is cool!" that they had the very first time they looked inside of a White Dwarf or a 40k rulebook.

Done!
That was a joy to read (typing whilst stamping feet and shouting "more!!!")!

Thank you!!

@fuusa - Thanks! Love that mental image! Glad you liked it. I'll try to get one of these up a month.

Cool bases, awesome defiler.

Raise the banner, and keep playing the game as it was meant to be played!

--Brian