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Detailing the conflict between the Emperor's chosen and the heretic chaos space marines of the Sons of the Last Breath, this battle report recaps the 1500 point game of Dark Angels + Stormwing vs Chaos Space Marines + Be'lakor. Game - Purge the Alien

Army lists as follows
CSM
HQ
Be'lakor
Dark Apostle, Black Mace

Troops
Cultsists x34 w/ 1x shotgon, 3x flamer, 30x autoguns
Chaos Space Marines x10 w/ 2x plasma gun, rhino w/ dirge caster

Fast Attack
Heldrake w/ baleflamer

Heavy Support
Chaos vindicator w/ siege shield, combi-bolter, demonic possession
Obliterators x2, mark of nurgle
Maulerfiend

Dark Angels
HQ
Librarian, psyker level 2, PFG
Librarian, level 1

Troops
Scouts x5, camo cloaks, sniper rifles
Scouts x5, camo cloaks, sniper rifles
Scouts x5, sniper rifles

Fast Attack
Ravenwing Support Squadron x2, Heavy Bolter / Typhoon Missile Launcher
Ravenwing Support Squadron x2, Multi-Melta x2 each
Ravenwing Support Squadron x1, Heavy Flamer x2

Heavy Support
Predator, Lascannon Sponsons, TL Lascannon
Predator, Lascannon Sponsons, TL Lascannon

Stormwing Formation
Stormraven, TL Assault Cannon, TL Multi-Melta
Stormtalon, TL Assault Cannon, Skyhammer Missiles
Stormtalon, TL Assault Cannon, Skyhammer Missiles

Chaos Marines win the roll for turn order.
Chaos, using their warlord trait, infiltrate 3 units, the CSMs in the rhino, the cultists, and the Warlord Dark Apostle, the Dark Angels scouts infiltrate/scout into the ruins ahead of their deployment zone.
Deployment

DA reserves

CSM Reserves



Turn 1 CSM
Move:
Be'lakor casts invisibility on the Maulerfiend, whole army moves up the center of the board.


Shooting:
Cultists shoot scouts, kill two
Marines and rhino shoot at front typhoon speeder, 1 glance
Obliterators use Assault Cannons on typhoon speeders, finish the front one.
Be'lakor Pupper Masters one of the the predators, which shoots at speeders, no effect,
Maulerfiend runs
Vindicator shoots at Predator, no effect.


Turn 1 DA
Move:
MM speeders move out of cover to engage maulerfiend.
Typhoon speeder moves for a jink save.
Heavy Flamer speeder moves up in front of the cultists.
Librarian Moves to the edge of the central ruins to give the right MM speeder a PFG save


Shooting:
Flamer speeder burninates cultists, killing 28
MM Speeder do no damage to Maulerfiend thanks to invisibility
Las-pred pensthe vindicator, rolls shaken, which the vindicator shakes off on account of demonic possesion.
Scounts target cultists, minimal impact, other las-pred shoots rhino, no damage.

Turn 2 CSM
Move:
Rhino advances, pivots and spills out marines
Bel'akor gives invisibility to the Vindicator, terrifies scouts in the 3 story ruins, they fall back a level. He moves up to ruins (swooping)
Maulerfiend advances toward the speeders
Cultists surround Flamer Land speeder
Obliterators follow cultists in


Shooting:
Cultists, rhino shoot at Flame-sppeder, no damage
Plasma rifles from CSM wreck the flame-speeder
Obliterators fire lascannons at typhoon speeder, speeder jinks away.
Vindicator fires at predator, immobilizes enemy tank.

Assault: Maulerfiend attacks MM speeders, whiffs most of its hits, one of two pens saved by PFG, other pen fails to destroy speeder.

Turn 2 DA
Stormwing arrives from reserve

Move:
Skimmer retreats from maulerfiend, typhoon shuffles for jink,

Shooting:
Stormraven fires everything at Be'lakor and kills him
Left Stormtalon fires at rhino and explodes it, no casualties from explosion
Las-pred puts a second hull point on the vindicator-immobilized
MM speeders destroy Maulerfiend
Las-pred gives one obliterator one wound
Typhoon shoots Chaos Marines, kills two



Turn 3 CSM
Move:
Marines move into the tall ruins under the scout snipers
Cultists/apostle advance towards speeder
Obliterators move in behind them


Shooting:
Vindicator shoots at las-pred and speeder, speeder jinks, predator takes no damage
Cultists shoot at speeder, no damage
Obliterators shoot assault cannons at and destroy last typhoon speeder


Assault:
Cultists/Dark apostle attack MM speeder, glance it to death.
Marines attack scouts in ruins, take 3 casualties for no kills dealt

Turn 3 DA
Move:
Stormraven goes off into ongoing reserve
Last MM speeder advances at vindicator
Librarian climbs ruins away from cultists
Stormtalons move forward


Shooting:
MM speeder kills vindicator
Predator and one Stormtalon shoot at obliterators, kill one
Other Stormtalon shoots at cultists


Assault:
Scouts lose two guys to the chaos marines in their faces, sarge is killed, CSM aspiring champ rolls Shrouded on boon table

Turn 4 CSM
Heldrake Arrives!!

Move:
Cultists/dark apostle move behind librarian and scouts
Heldrake moves towards back corner scouts
Obliterator moves towards last MM Speeder

Shooting:
Heldrake BBQs scouts, kills all 5
Obliterator misses his shot on MM speeder
Cultists flame into ruins, kill one scout

Assault:
Obliterator charges speeder, kills it
Marines kill one more scout, scouts fall back but are not caught up in sweeping advance
Cultists/apostle charge libby and scouts, fail charge, lost one cultist to overwatch


Turn 4 DA
Stormraven returns from ongoing reserve

Move:
Stormtalons in hover move to shoot at obliterator and apostle
Libby and scouts move up the ruins to stay away from cultist/apostle
Right side las-pred turns to look at csm marines in ruins


Shooting:
Talons kill off obliterator and apostle/cultist
Raven gives heldrake weapon destroyed

Turn 5 CSM
Move:
Heldrake flies off into ongoing reserve, killing right hand side librarian with vector strike
chaos marines move to the back of the ruins and get linebreaker

Shooting
Chaos marines shoot at scouts which fell back, kill one, other runs off the board

Turn 5 DA
Move:
Raven flies off into ongoing reserve
Talons move up beside chaos marines

Shooting:
All fire poured into chaos marines


Game ends
9-8 for DA

nwabudikemorgan wrote:Librarian climbs ruins away from cultists.

I claim the moral victory.

In my defence, all those occasions of "no damage to predator" and "only managed to inflict 1 hull point on the speeder unit" were because he rolled 5s on his jink and area terrain saves 9 times out of 10. Absolutely ridiculous.

I was outplayed and outmaneuvered. Any C&C into either army's actions (and lists) appreciated!

28 cultists in one hit is painful. Need to spread them out when you know a flamer is coming. Looked like a fun game though. Good job

I was impressed with the walking Oblits honestly. The cultist smackdown right off the bat was comical though.

Yep totally forgot about the Flamer speeder after deployment, that was going to happen. If I'd bothered to think it through he should only have gotten ~10, maybe.

Oblits are always that good, though.

IMO his deployment was pretty bang-on, thoughts?

That air wing data slate helps DA immensely. I think they thought the bolter banner would help the nephilim suck less. Or whichever one has the hurricane bolter.

Yeah, don't know what they were thinking, DA pretty much needed the Stormwing to be able to counter AV 11 and AV 12 air at all. The Nephilim is a joke, and otherwise you're stuck with quad guns or mortis dreads for AA

Losing 28 cultists off the bat was painful to read.


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Great batrep though. What model is that Heldrake?

On the one hand, they're cultists. It isn't like they would have added all that much had they been around. That said, having an extra 15 ablative wounds for my warlord was sorely missed...

Not all the other 6E Codices have decent AA either. CSM only have BS 3 Hades Drake with the occasional S7 Vector Strike, then back to fortifications too.

The model is the fantasy High Elf Lord on Dragon, with the Lord and all the pretty bits torn off.
Different piece for the base, and different base obviously. Planning on strapping on a couple pieces of armour plating around the shoulder/wing joints, and adding some flashy paint highlighting on the wing membranes.

That was a nice, closely fought game between two interesting army builds. Thanks for sharing!