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Battle report! - Road to the vaults

As i had enough tanks to have a battle i decided to jolly well have one, now this is the 1st time me or my opponent has had a battle in around 5 years at a guess so bare in mind if you spot any miss used rules. It was more a game to get us re-familiarize with how to play basics rules and units than to win so it was a fun game even if we were somewhat hungover

Some fluff...
'Why are we hear on this dust bowl of a planet Forgemaster' asked sgt Migul, adding 'its full of bandits, scum and Militias but the imperial creed is strong hear, there no enemies worthy of a fight hear'.
'I hope not brother, i hope not'.The illusive warrior replied, leaving Migul no more the wiser.
'-WE ARE HEAR TO FIND SOMETHING VERY SACRED SARGENT-' Droned out the dreadnought Zillkis, supriseing Migul as the ancient warrior rarely spoke on matters not tactical.
'So were hear to find lost chapter artefacts then?' asked Migul but got nothing More out of the old father.
Just as the Forgemaster went to reply a scream of Vox chatter came over the airwaves.

+++This is Captain Letio of the Marauders you are approaching the vaults of Darrious, you must have Level Alpha clearance to proceed, I am authorized to use force in defending this instillation, please identify yourselves and give codes, over+++

Migul was going to reply when the Forgemaster signalled him not too.
'-THEY MUST NOT KNOW WHO WE ARE-' cut in Zilkis.

+++Please identify and sight clearance codes or i will be forced to send a military escort to your location +++

'We mean them no harm but we can not let out mission be disrupted' said the forgemaster
'For the Emperor', replied Migul readying his bolter as the rumble of engines came to his ears...

The Armies
my opponent didn't have his own force with him so he used my old sm

Marauders fast response unit

HQ – 375pts
Tank commander pask, LR Punisher 210pts
LR Executioner , lass cannon 165pts
TROOPS - 330pts
10 veterans w.shotguns, carapace amour, 3 meltaguns 105pts
Chimera, autocannon 60pts
10 veterans w.shotguns, carapace amour, 3 meltaguns 105pts
Chimera, autocannon 60pts
HEAVY SUPPORT – 295pts
LR Exterminator 130pts
LR Executioner , lass cannon 165pts
TOTAL - 1000pts



Chapter Vengeance reclamation team

HQ – 190pts
Vulkan hestan 190pts
TROOPS – 390pts
10 tactical marines, storm bolter, power fist, missile launcher, meltagun 195pts
10 tactical marines, plasma pistol, power sword, missile launcher, meltagun 195pts
ELLITES – 100pts
Dreadonought, multimelta 100pts
FAST ATTACK – 195pts
10 Assault marines, power hammer, 2 flamers 205pts
HEAVY SUPPORT – 120pts
Vindicator 120pts
Total – 995pts


Deployment
We weren't really bothered how deployed not really having that much of an idea about what to (or any for that matter!). Although i did put my Russes as far away from that dread as i could.


Battle!
Turn 1
The executioners and Letio moved up so they could bring there gattling and plasma to bare on those 3 big marine squads. One of them calming some battle brother with sering hot plasma blasts. The Vets in the BTR transport head straight for the big scary dread and vindicator with there meltas held close, the heavy bolters & autocannons upto firing away, but without much effect.

The lone exterminator sits back and opens up its autocannons killing a couple more Assault members.

the assault marries jump forewards to the building sgt migul hopeful to make short work of the russes with his hammer, the cover of fling rockets from the tac squads.

The Dreadonoughts powerful arm cannon cycles up and blows the autocannon clean off one of the btrs's which then takes a direct hit from a demolisher shell, the impacts knocking the systems offline, but doing little else.

Turn 2
Speeding past there stranded mates the other vet filled BTR steamed on towards the foe, piling out and turning the vindicator into molten slag.

Seeing the other squad prosper they also disembark ready to pile into the inevitable melee that will come.

Letio and the two executioners form up and unleash a torrent of plasma and lead. Completely wiping out the assault squad and that threatening hammer.

In retaliation the dreadnought charges the btr and the foragemaster incinerates 6 of the 1st vet squad then charges and kills the remainders bar 1, who loses his bottle and run for home, however see the other vet squad and immediately rallies!



Turn 3

The tanks start picking off the tac squad close to the forgemaster so it moves to get in towards the cover and the transports, although not making it into the melee that the vets have just joined after firing all the guys at the forgemaster but only one round getting through his energy shield.


Turn 4
The dread carries on attacking the BTR while the FM finishes of the vets, An executioner blows its plasma cannon up.



Turn 5
The other tac squad poke there head out from behind a rock and start taking potshots with a melta but unluckily loose over half there squad getting into position.

Also the other tac squad takes out the final hp on the BTR and the dread does the same wither the other!


Not entirely sure who won as I was crowned victor but they killed 4 units and I only 2.
All in all was a fun game considering I had to keep checking the rule book and the state we were in, but it was really nice seeing my models in action again.
What the game taught me: As both armies are mine i was learning for both of them, I think the key thing I found was more shots are better than one powerful shot because your more like to fail to hit. This was particularly noticeable with my bs3 russes with the lass cannons and defiantly the rocket launcher with the tac squads is a waste especially in squads with a melt guns. Also just because I’ve got assault weapons with my vets doesnt mean i should assault, they will always do better at shooting.

looked fun! I haven't played a game of 40k since 5th edition, and yeah with guard its all about quantity over quality.
battle cannon leman russes with no sponsons or exterminators are the best options IMO bc of the big blast or high rate of fire.

that being said I prefer much more guardsmen so I don't really know about tanks.

 STG wrote:
looked fun! I haven't played a game of 40k since 5th edition, and yeah with guard its all about quantity over quality.
battle cannon leman russes with no sponsons or exterminators are the best options IMO bc of the big blast or high rate of fire.

that being said I prefer much more guardsmen so I don't really know about tanks.

Yeah for sure, the rule of thumb seems to be buy two of everything. With the LRBT though you still only get one shot per turn so its a bad chance of hitting with bs 3, however allthough the lack of range and strength my punisher absolutely laid down the hurt just out of pure weight of fire. Also the exterminator just constantly sat at the back of the board quietly wearing down the marines, i think heavy bolter sponsoons might atchually be worth the 10pts. The executioners really put the hurt down on the marines wiping out half squads each almost every turn, but i do think yes they will misfire at least once a match.

 stonned_astartes wrote:

With the LRBT though you still only get one shot per turn so its a bad chance of hitting with bs 3

But the large blast though? and ap 3 aswell, chews through marines. Don't waste points on sponsons as they can only snapfire due to the main gun being ordnance

 stonned_astartes wrote:
my punisher absolutely laid down the hurt just out of pure weight of fire. Also the exterminator just constantly sat at the back of the board quietly wearing down the marines, i think heavy bolter sponsoons might atchually be worth the 10pts.

Punishers and exterminators are the 2 tanks I would take sponsons on as their main guns aren't ordnance so they can fire all their guns at full BS.

a quick tip for executioners: as they are likely to get hot, if you take the executioner in a squadron with pask, his warlord trait means you can re-roll ones, so if you roll a one for gets hot, you can reroll and hope you don't get another 1.

 STG wrote:

 stonned_astartes wrote:

With the LRBT though you still only get one shot per turn so its a bad chance of hitting with bs 3

But the large blast though? and ap 3 aswell, chews through marines. Don't waste points on sponsons as they can only snapfire due to the main gun being ordnance

 stonned_astartes wrote:
my punisher absolutely laid down the hurt just out of pure weight of fire. Also the exterminator just constantly sat at the back of the board quietly wearing down the marines, i think heavy bolter sponsoons might atchually be worth the 10pts.

Punishers and exterminators are the 2 tanks I would take sponsons on as their main guns aren't ordnance so they can fire all their guns at full BS.

a quick tip for executioners: as they are likely to get hot, if you take the executioner in a squadron with pask, his warlord trait means you can re-roll ones, so if you roll a one for gets hot, you can reroll and hope you don't get another 1.

Cant all ruses do that anyway as there heavy tanks? And thanks for that tip i totally forgot about that and his orders.

unfortunately LRBT'S cannot fire their sponsons at full BS due to the gun being ordnance, they used to be able to but they've changed that.. :(

Ok, so not on LRBT's or other ones with ordnance weapons, but maybe on the others.

forces are looking good there man!

Cracking scratch-builts s_a, really impressed with your skills.

Nice battle report too. It is very gratifying to finally get models on the table after you've been working on them for a prolonged period. I found myself rooting for the marines (sorry, couldn't help it). I thought the IG performed well though. I think your amy was hampered a bit by the small table size. A full-sized 4x6 table would let you take advantage of your vehicles, increased range and mobility to a greater extent.

Keep up the great work!

shasolenzabi wrote:forces are looking good there man!

Cheers shas, just need some turrets on those bad boys now.

Gitsplitta wrote:Cracking scratch-builts s_a, really impressed with your skills.

Nice battle report too. It is very gratifying to finally get models on the table after you've been working on them for a prolonged period. I found myself rooting for the marines (sorry, couldn't help it). I thought the IG performed well though. I think your amy was hampered a bit by the small table size. A full-sized 4x6 table would let you take advantage of your vehicles, increased range and mobility to a greater extent.

Keep up the great work!

Cheers mate! Yeah I did end up writing that way in the end, no idea why

The table was one of the things we spoke about after the game, reckoned they used to be bigger and vowed to go claim some of my old board from storage

Today i finished the 3rd russ, calling it mortis because its a executioner & cba to think of anything clever.


Got sort of lazy and just wanted it finished but it could have done with an exhaust system really.

My next one will i think be lower to the ground and have a less bulky rear the same shape as the forge world one.

a progress shot.

So just about got four tanks together now, Just been finishing the turrets and the freya class. 5 including the scrap tank pics coming soon.

Sorry phones not behaving had to take the card out and move the pics like that, so heres my tanks so far!


I just need a Annihilator now, then on to some medusa's!

Ran out of steam on my tanks but got stuck into a few troops...

Tried adding some extra armour to this Scion, also converted is gun to fire solid slugs, see the shells.



And some of my new lists use heavy flamers so hears how i made one out of two flamers...

1st i cut the end of one and scraping the side clear.


And this side.


had to make this cut is angled slightly as it fits against the chest.


I kept this bit for something else.


Nest i stuck them on the bloke, next to each other and added a bit of rod between the handles.


Then smoothed it off with green stuff and used the grenade launcher arm to hold it.


Pretty pleased with this, quite simple. I did take inspiration from someone else who did exactly the same thing but used the heads of the flamers on the grenade launcher body, stopped the random ending of the gun in the guys midrif but i like mine better aha.

Also this is what i did with the other bit, quite rough, needs some work.


Inspiration comes from this thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/326381.page

Cheers, SA.

Ah finally, some infantry!

I really like your Scion conversion. I never really liked the original bodies and what you have done give them a nice feeling.

Maybe you should add an extra flavour of Soviet to fit the theme of your tanks (BMP and so on).

Cheers!

 RazgrizOne wrote:
Ah finally, some infantry!

I really like your Scion conversion. I never really liked the original bodies and what you have done give them a nice feeling.

Maybe you should add an extra flavour of Soviet to fit the theme of your tanks (BMP and so on).

Cheers!

Cheers razgriz, still lacking a little something though, may try to get them even similar to yours.

Like the suggestion, could do some banners with stars & the hammer & sickle on them, also some Ushankas.

Could also write some better fluff haha. The original idea was they were rarely re supplied so they were good at armour repair (hence the difference between tank models) although the troops are a bit uniform now i suppose it could still work.

Nice! love conversions!

 STG wrote:
Nice! love conversions!

Cheers matey!

Just a quick update to show i'm not dead Still at the 2nd squad of vets. Painting white is a massive ballake, may change my scheme if i ever get many more troopers, although the tanks were always going to be randomly painted so that's one bonus.


Cheers, SA.

Painting masses of guardsmen is where all the fun is ... maybe not. keep at it!

 STG wrote:
Painting masses of guardsmen is where all the fun is ... maybe not. keep at it!

Haha, i'm sure there's a faster way. Thanks for the enthusiasm for me though.

Cheers, SA.

Had another battle, with the same armies.



By turn two there was only the dread and four marines left, plasma cannons really kicked arse this time.

Congrats on the win Comrade!

Nice work, everyone loves a bit of plasma, except when it's hitting you in the face.

EDC

shasolenzabi wrote:Congrats on the win Comrade!

For the mother...planet? Cheers

evildrcheese wrote:Nice work, everyone loves a bit of plasma, except when it's hitting you in the face.

EDC

Still got to love it though!

League of Extraordinary riveters scenery contest No.20 'Noise' project/ abandoned russ commissariat HQ!!!

So my entry into the the Loer contest 'noise' is a abandoned russ, which has been converted in to a field HQ for the commissariat.
The noise comes in with a pulpit and a public address system as what self respecting commissar wouldn't have that!

Its also going to have a tent entrance on the side and be covered in propaganda posters as i saw some a while ago and want to try them, and its the commissariat.
I chose the tank because it fits into my armies theme well and i get to use up the really awe full mist casts.

If you haven't checked out the comp yet DO! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/702469.page


corrugated steal (card) will be used a lot in this build as its easy and has that bodge feel.


The basic shape along with the frame for the tarp.


Left the door open a bit to give some depth.


Soaked a small piece of linen in pva and glue, i hope this will give it some strength, and be a dam sight easier than sculpting it from green stuff.


So far so good, just got wait for it to dry.


'Spre-lings' and 'sprivets' on the platform.


Found a ladder, no point in making one when i have one i doubt i would ever use anyway


Noise machines!

nice! your working hard, good luck!

Cheers mate got really stuck in today, might mean i actually finish it

I have to get some work started on my sound making entry. Had to help out with a kit of the RMS Titanic

Sounds time consuming, a model of a ship that size is still a model but... still, the titanic. Can't wait will keep an eye to your thread.

 stonned_astartes wrote:
Sounds time consuming, a model of a ship that size is still a model but... still, the titanic. Can't wait will keep an eye to your thread.

It took, most of Friday-Saturday up. Pre-colored parts, so the model can be used Monday for his presentation.

Finished the modelling part for my entry, added the speakers some fortification, a pulpit and the wire. Now for painting.


Also bought this jem of a model as i needed a tech priest for my formation. Really amazing detail and a fun model, very pleased will be bying from warex-minis in the future.

Started painting it up, tiring my hand at some rust. It's coming along but i think i need to do vary the colour of the corrugated sheets from that of the tanks to make it stand out more, i'm think brown wash. Also my plan was to put red sand down but the plater of Paris has made a mildly convincing quagmire, so i'm not sure where to go with that.




Anyway, its a good start and now i can play around with some propaganda posters.