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The Daemons
HQ
Great Unclean One w/ cloud of flies
Great Unclean One w/ cloud of flies

Elite
3 Flamers
3 Flamers

Troops
7 Plague Bearers
7 Plague Bearers
7 Plague Bearers

Fast Attack
Blight Drone
Blight Drone

Heavy Support
Daemon Prince w/ mark of nurgle, wings, iron hide, noxious vapors, cloud of flies
Daemon Prince w/ mark of nurgle, wings, iron hide, noxious vapors, cloud of flies
Daemon Prince w/ mark of nurgle, wings, iron hide, noxious vapors, cloud of flies


The Ultramarines
HQ
1 Librarian w/ gate (apparently he's been getting cheated some daemon players have told him that daemons have a "daemonic" save not an invulnerable save.

Elite
Dreadnaught w/ assault cannon, storm bolter
Dreadnaught w/ tl lascannon, missile launcher

Troops
Tac Squad w/ lascannon, melta gun, power fist, razorback w/ tl lascannon
Tac Squad w/ lascannon, melta gun, power fist, trazorback w/ tl heavy bolter
10 Scouts w/ missile launcher, tellion, camo-cloaks

Fast Attack
Typhoon w/ multi-melta
Land Speeder w/ multi-melta
Land Speeder w/ assault-cannon, heavy bolter

Heavy Support
Whirlwind
Whirlwind
Vindicator

Mission: 2 objectives
Deployment: Spearhead


Deployment:
The ultramarines deploy in depth.


Ultramarines Turn 1
I just wanted to point this one out. He moved up his zone of influence but used speeders and vehicle's to keep a risky deep strike zone. This is a pretty good spread out position to be in. You don't want to castle and pack in tightly because of drones and flamers, this way he has extended his influence but still made it risky for me to deep strike.


Daemons Turn 1
My primary wave is the 2 blight drones, 1 great unclean one, 1 unit of plague bearers, 2 daemon princes. Whenever playing in objective missions i make sure to put at least one troop squad in the initial wave. This is to ensure that if I don't get the right half of my army I have at least one of my troop units in reserve. I roll a 1 and get the other half. So in come 2 units of plague bearers, 2 units of flamers, 1 great unclean one, and a daemon prince. Everything in the initial wave scatters except the plague bearers I drop on my objective, luckily the deviations are fairly good. The flamers kill off 5 marines from a combat squad and 7 of the scouts.


Ultramarines Turn 2
The Ultramarines move up and unload. Easily wiping out one of the three man flamer squads. The last pesky flamer proves to be too resilient and doesn't go down. About half of the forward plague bearer squad goes down to vindicator fire whirlwinds and razorback action. The dreads and land speeders light up the daemon prince putting 3 wounds on him, but the great unclean one dropped in his backfield emerges unscathed.


Daemons Turn 2
The daemons look for reinforcements and get big ugly guys in respone. The one great unclean one that does come in scatters 11 inch's onto my own plague bearers and my opponent places him in the back corner of my deployment zone. The two daemon princes manage to land with minor deviation. This was one of his mistakes, just because my back corner is the furthest spot from him doesn't mean it's the furthest spot from the action. He should have placed it on the other table corner, it didn't really affect the outcome of the game but it could have. My one flamer jumps up and flames a vindicator, a razorback, and the 5 man squad with attatched librarian. It rips the gun off the vindicator and puts 3 wounds into the squad (he takes one on the librarian). My daemon prince assaults the no close combat weapon dread and destroys it. My 4 man plague bearers charge the combat squad but do no damage, losing one in return. My other plague bearers charge the librarian and friends, killing the librarian and he chooses to auto-flee the squad. The great unclean one charges the cc dread and immobilizes it.


Ultramarines Turn 3
The Ultramarines shoot the last of the flamers, kill off the wounded daemon prince, and put a wound on one of the new daemon princes. The plague bearer combat squad fight is a draw, and the great unclean on rips the arm off of the dreadnaught and blows it up. The 2 man squad rallied at the start of the turn and start to move towards my objective.

Daemons Turn 3
A blight drone and 2 daemon princes become available. Both daemon princes try to start working on killing tanks, jumping into each of the razorbacks. One razorback goes sky high, the other (only because it has extra armor) gets away with a weapon destroyed and shaken. The blight drone drops in and kills 2 out of a 5 man squad they fail morale and run off of the table.


Ultramarines Turn 4
He lays some heavy fire into the daemon princes and one has one wound left the other has taken 2 wounds. The plague bearers are doing a good holding position but they are down to one guy now. Finally the great unclean one destroys the ultramarines dreadnaught and is freed up!

Daemons Turn 4
I get in one blight drone, which scatters onto something and goes back into the warp. One daemon prince jumps up and destroys the typhoon, the other jumps up on the tower and kills the scouts. The great unclean one runs over and blows up a whirlwind. The blight drone manages to immobilize the assault cannon wave serpent.


Ultramarines Turn 5
The speeder with multi-melta lines up it's shot and takes out the wounded daemon prince. His 5 man squad starts running towards my deployment zone. He's staged himself for a turn 6 objective contest.

Daemons Turn 5
I kill off the 2 man squad with one blight drone, 3 out of 5 of the other squad with the other blight drone, my great unclean one makes it into combat, but fails to damage the fast moving razorback.


I currently have control of both objectives, but we roll a 4 and go another round.

Ultramarines Turn 6
His speeder zooms up to contest and he parks the vindicator on my objective, he tries to do the same with the razorback but it immobilizes itself.

Daemons Turn 6
I destroy the razorback and the land speeder (it only took a great unclean on and a daemon prince to do it!). Giving me 1 objective with the other being contested by the vindicator.

Daemons win 1:0

Aftermath:
Good bloody battle. Definitly kept us both thinking to the end. I think it was fairly well played on both sides, about the only thing I would have done on the marine side is tried to combine fire a bit more. I've noticed especially with the nurgle daemons that usually by about turn 2-3 I have multiple big wound nasties with more than one wound on them. Now I try to make this happen because of lines of fire but concentrating to bring down a big one instead of spreading out the wounds is key to taking down my list.

Very nice report, i flying prince spam myself, do GUO suffer from slow and purposeful but get a 3d6 in moving since they are MCs? oh and also, what do blight drones do?

Nice report! Check you out with your sexy Vraks models!

If you find the daemonic players that have been cheating the guy with the libbie, give them a sock in the mouth for me. We have enough trouble getting respect as it is without asshats making rules up.

Enmitee everytime I see your sig I think of Qwekelkwami or however that Lord of Change on warseer was spelled. Awesome.

Nice report. Really good game. I didnt understand the bit about opting to retreat, could you explain please

Combat tactics lets ultra marines choose to fail morale checks if i'm not mistaken.

I really liked the commentary on tactics and what not you did for the batrep.

@Enmitee: The blight drones are forge world models. Think of them as fast moving skimmers with weapons that are equivalent to a defiler (no close combat attacks, and only bs2).

@Somnicide: Last week I broke out the Blight Drones and Mamon. Mamon was just a beast against eldar, his t7 really shines against t3 opponents.

@The Acolyte
Normal marines, not using any special characters, have the ability Combat Tactics. Combat tactics allows you to auto-fail any morale test you are called upon to make. You don't see it a lot because most marine players use the special characters that replace combat tactics. This allowed him to fall back from combat and since plague bearers are only initiative 2 it's pretty easy to get away from them.

Nice to give them a taste of Wraithlord style love ;-)

I am not sure what you mean by this:

'One razorback goes sky high, the other (only because it has extra armor) gets away with a weapon destroyed and shaken. '

Do you mean he was able to move away from your troops and not take another round of CC attacks in his assault phase due to the 'Extra Armor' or are you implying it reduced the results of the two hits (Shaken, Weapon Destroyed)?

Fun Battle Report to read, thanks for taking the time to share it. I am amazed how quickly your Nurgle closed in on him, usually they get tagged as being a bit too slow and not quite purposeful enough.

calypso2ts wrote:I am not sure what you mean by this:

'One razorback goes sky high, the other (only because it has extra armor) gets away with a weapon destroyed and shaken. '

Do you mean he was able to move away from your troops and not take another round of CC attacks in his assault phase due to the 'Extra Armor' or are you implying it reduced the results of the two hits (Shaken, Weapon Destroyed)?

Fun Battle Report to read, thanks for taking the time to share it. I am amazed how quickly your Nurgle closed in on him, usually they get tagged as being a bit too slow and not quite purposeful enough.

Correct, I originally roled a stunned result, but since he had the shaken armor it was able to get away.

I deep strike very agressively with my slow moving stuff, and go a little more conservative with the faster moving things. This means that almost everything is a threat at the same time. Plus marines aren't all tha maneuverable if they want to shoot.

I really enjoyed the batrep.

G

Nice one Rich. I really enjoyed seeing your demons at the Haven annual.