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Hello all,

This is my first battle report, so bare with me. I played a game with a local buddy, RapidFireText. It was 2400 points of Orks versus Chaos Space Marines. We decided to play the Scorched Earth battle mission. So here are our lists:

Kaptin Blitzkrusha's Freeboota WAAAGH!!

HQ
Kaptin Blitzkrusha (Ghazghkull Thraka)
Dek 'And Gormek (Big Mek) w/ Kustom Force Field, Burna, 'Eavy Armor, Bosspole, Cybork Body

Elites
9 Kommandos w/ 2 burnas and Boss Morslasha (Boss Snikrot)
15 Burna Boyz
15 Lootas

Troops
10 Nobz w/ 3 Power Klaws, 1 Waaagh! Banner, 2 Ammo Runts, 3 Kombi-Skorchas, 3 Big Choppas, Painboy, all with cybork bodies, 'eavy armor, and stikkbombz
12 Boyz w/ 1 upgraded to nob w/ powerklaw and bosspole
Da Boat (Trukk) with armour plates, boarding plank, reinforced ram
12 Boyz w/ 1 upgraded to nob w/ powerklaw and bosspole
Da Skiff (Trukk) with armour plates, boarding plank, reinforced ram
12 Boyz w/ 1 upgraded to nob w/ powerklaw and bosspole
Da Land Lubs (Trukk) with armour plates, boarding plank, reinforced ram
10 Gretchin, 1 Runtherd

Fast Attack
Deffkopta w/ Twin Linked Rokkit Launcha
Deffkopta w/ Twin Linked Rokkit Launcha
Deffkopta w/ Twin Linked Rokkit Launcha

Heavy Support
Da Star-Raida (Battlewagon) w/ 2 Big Shootas, Armour Plates, Boarding Plank, Reinforced Ram
Battlewagon w/ 2 Big Shootas, Armour Plates, Boarding Plank, Deff Rolla
Looted Wagon w/ Boomgun, Big Shoota, 'Ard Case, Armour Plates, Red Paint Job

Tempest Legion

HQ
Choas Lord w/ Melta Bombs, MoS, Daemon Weapon, Wings
Chaos Sorcerer w/ MoS, Lash of Submission

Elites
5 Chosen w/ Lascannon
5 Chosen w/ Lascannon, Icon of Chaos Glory

Troops
7 Plague Marines w/ 2 Meltas, Champion w/ Power First
Rhino w/ Dozerblade
7 Plague Marines w/ 2 Meltas, Champion w/ Power First
Rhino w/ Dozerblade
7 Plague Marines w/ 2 Flamers, Champion w/ Power First
Rhino w/ Dozerblade
7 Plague Marines w/ 2 Plasmas, Champion w/ Power First and Plasma Pistol
Rhino w/ Dozerblade

Fast Attack
7 Bikers w/ 2 Meltas, MoN, Champion w/ Powerfist

Heavy Support
2 Obliterators
2 Obliterators
2 Obliterators

Here's how we set up terrain.


We got 4 objects. We placed one pretty much in the middle, two more ended up in what would become my deployment zone, and one to the the table quarter to my right. We rolled for the area terrain (as per Scorched Earth). The top 3 forests (in the picture above) started to burn as did the middle two, making them dangerous terrain. The rest were just smoking, increasing their cover save by one.

I won the roll for who choses side and chose left most corner in the picture above.

It being the Scorched Earth mission, Chaos got to deploy first.

He deployed his bikes to avoid the now flaming trees, and set his rhinos up to head towards the objectives. All his obliterators are in reserves.

Then I got to:

I deployed my Lootas in 3+ Area terrain. Most of my trukks and battlewagons ready to head into fight. The Big Mek and burnas are in the battlewagon with the deffrolla, and nobz are in the other. Looted wagon in the back. Also the autocannons are the objectives, there are two more to the left, off camera.

He infiltrated his chosen into the two forests to my right.

TURN 1
He moved is rhinos up in a sort of conga line formation and screened his bikes. He popped smoke on his foremost rhino.


I moved up, taking several dangerous terrain tests with my vehicles as I plowed over terrain. Lootas shot at the bikes, killing one. My three trukks shot at his foremost chosen, killing one. My boomwagon shot at his bike, scattering 3 inches toward his table edge, catching 3 in its blast. He made 2 cover saves.


TURN 2
Two units of his obliterators came in. He deep struck one on to the hill in the middle off an icon. And another squad in between his two chosen squad. His bikes turbo boosted towards my lootas. He fired all his meltas and lascannons into my Nobz' battlewagon and failed to do anything through misses and cover saves. He lashed my lootas out of cover and into dangerous terrain.


Two deffkoptas came in, one on each side. I moved my battlewagon to the left and disembarked my nobz. I moved one trukk off to the right towards the chosen and disembarked. My burnas battlewagon tank shocked the obliterators, killing one, and then they disembarked as well. Everything else moved up. My shooting was completely ineffectual. I assaulted the bikes with my Nobz. I wiped them out but took a wound.


I assaulted a squad of chosen and the obliterators with my trukk squad. I made two 6+ saves from the chosen, and killed them with a mix of boyz and powerklaw attacks. The Oblits killed a boy and I piled into them.


The burnas assault the lone obliterator and kill him effortlessly. They consolidate back to towards their battlewagon.


My Boarding plank destroys his Rhino,



TURN 3
The last oblits squad came in and landed in between my nobz and lootas. He moves his lash sorcerer back a bit and disembarked with the plasma plague marines. A second rhino disembarked its passengers who move their flamers towards the front, facing my Nobz. His lord is also in this group. His Meltas missed or failed to penetrate my Burnas battlewagon. He fired pistols and flamers into my Nobz doing 2 wounds. His oblits shot twin linked meltas at my nobz, killing one. He rapid fired his plasma and bolters from the other squad and botlers killing 1 and wound 3 more. At this point Powerklaws, Big Choppas, a regular nob, and the painboy remain. I WAAAGH!! to avoid a leadership check.

He assaults with the flamer squad and his lord. He rolls a 1 for his daemon weapon and fails his invul. Through assault he killed the regular nob and I kill 5 plague marines with powerklaws, leaving 2 left and his lord who I failed to wound (lash kept my powerklaws away from him). He made all his fearless saves. My trukk squad finish off the obliterators through powerklaws.


Nothing comes in. Blitzkrusha disembarks. The boom gun moves back and shoots at his chosen killing 2. The remains of my trukk squad's trukk tank shocks the chosen toward my squad. He death and glorys with his lascannon but rolls a 3 for a glance and only shakes my trukk (trukks are armour 12 in the front for tank shock purposes with the reinforced ram). The squad assaults them and kills them off. My burnas got back into their battlewagon which tank shocks the melta squad. They death and glory and blows up the battlewagon. They take 11 s10 hits which kills all but 2. A trukk drives up behind them and disembarks. The fleet up (from my waaagh) to surround his second melta squad's rhino. My lootas and battlewagon fire on the obliterators, killing one. Blitzkrusha assaults the lord who rolls another 1 but makes his invul save. The Nobz finish off the squad while Blitzkrusha instant kills the lord with 1 of the 2 wounds he caused. The boyz wreck the rhino with the meltas in them and they were destroyed without a way out. Burnas assault the 2 remaining plauge marnies that destroyed their battlewagon. They finish them off.


TURN 4

Without much left he open fires plasma on Blitzkrusha.


He takes two wounds, making 3 5+ invul saves. He assaults my nobz with his only remaining obliterator and kills a nob before dying.


The rest of my stuff comes in. Most of my trukks move to take objectives. I assaulted his last rhino with some boyz, blowing it up. My nobz and Blitzkrusha assault his final squad, killing them off and ending the game.


AFTER ACTION THOUGHTS
RapidFireText: Well this game I had rolled badly but my generalship needed work too. I should have tried to have the orks overextend himself and deal with them one at a time. It really came down to whose army was better up close and it definitely made sense the orks won. Could've used my bikers better instead of making a beeline for the lootas but they ended up dying fairly quickly. Also definitely sad my lord whiffed twice in a row. Game still woulda been a loss had he done better though. Overall very fun game and showed me how to use my army better.

AcedentProne: I love mek orks. With a simple 4+ save, my 10 all around, open-topped vehicles are incredibly resilient. The 12” movement, with an automatic 6” fleet with Ghazghkull makes it a huge threat radius. Nobz offer an incredible distraction from my forces. They are hard to ignore and are well worth it in this game. They killed double their points worth between the bikes, two plague marine squads, the obliterator, and the character. Scorched Earth is an interesting set up. I was very close to him very quickly and limited our movement with all the dangerous terrain. RapidFireText did roll really badly while I rolled well over all.

Sorry for the lack of pictures towards the end game. It is hard to remember to take pictures with such action abound.

Great looking flames on the front of that battlewagon!