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Hello everyone. This is a recap of a fun battle report i played last night against a friend of mines Orks for a campaign we are having at our store. To both our dismay however the game we rolled was Annihilation in combination with Dawn of War, and against his fast Mech heavy list i sure was not to thrilled about that. However here our are lists (the orks list to the best of my knowledge, dont remember everything he had), and thanks for reading mates hope you enjoy!

Thousand Sons (Me)

-Chaos Lord
*w/ Terminator Armor, Mark of Tzeentch, Combi Melta, Power Fist

-x8 Thousand Sons
-Aspiring Sorcerer
*w/ Bolt of Change, Melta Bomb

-x8 Thousand Sons
-Aspiring Sorcerer
*w/ Bolt of Change, Melta Bomb

-x2 Oblits

-x2 Oblits


Da Orkz (My Mate)

-Big Mek

-x12 Boys
*w/ Shootas, Big Shoota, Nob
-Trukk

-x12 Boys
*w/ Shootas, Big Shoota, Nob
-Trukk

-x12 Grots

-x3 Buggies
*w/ TL Rokkit Launchas

-x3 Kans
*w/ x1 Grot Launcha, TL Rokkits

-x3 Kans
*w/ x1 Grot Launcha, TL Rokkits

-x5 Lootas

-x5 Lootas

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Sorcerer Asim gazed silently as the rays burning orange planets sun began to bathe the surrounding landscape of hills and trees in a glow that resembled the resting place of the dammed. "We will send many of the greenskins to hell this day" he thought to himself. Turning around he faced in the direction of the lound clanking that had been heard for a few minutes now. Like a plague the Greenskins were coming. To Asim's right stood his brother squadron of Thousand Son Marines that was identical to his own led by his fellow sorcerer Khaldun numbering total including him, their most glorious of Gods sacred number. Between them stood the brooding form of Lord Darin, his massive bulk of terminator armor reflecting the rays of the rising sun. He glanced behind him seeing in the distance the two squads of blessed obliterators advancing soon to join their battle line. However his analysis was soon interrupted by the roaring sound of ill tuned engines as the orks appeared on the horizon.

Rumbling to the fore was a battered trukk with a Ork that was clearly in charge standing boldly above the dangerously swaying bed clutching a massive wrench in one hand and shouting orders, to his great knowledge Asim was able to identify him as what the orks referred to as a Mek Boy. Behind him on both right and left flank strode two squads of three dreadnought like contraptions along with speeding buggies roaring towards the Thousand Suns left flank ahead of the Kans. A second trukk soon joined the first halfway to the Marines position and behind him came a small squad of gretchin and behind them, two squads of five orks wielding massive guns.

With a roar the Mek Boy waved his arms wildly and both trukks along with the buggies and lootas unleashed a storm of fire on the Marines position. Asim grinned beneath his helm as he watched the rokkits and shells shot against him bounced harmlessly off his squads magically protected armor, however Khalduns squad was not so lucky and two marines fell to the lootas fire. Behind him Asim heard the thudding steps of the obliterators followed by the screech of ionising air as one of the squads targetted the buggies speeding up their left flank. In an explosion of metal and blood two of the buggies came apart as the second squad of obliterators fired on the second trukk to arrive and detonated it sending its occupants sprawling with the explosion killing six of their number and pinning the rest. Drawing upon his powers of the warp Asim and Khaldun unleashed their sacred bolts of Tzeentch at the trukk and felt their spirits soar as it two went up in flames as well as killing two of the boyz inside. Lord Darin began to move toward the trees to encounter the left flank squad of killa kans.

Gathering his wits swiftly the Big Mek bellowed and the Orks once again advanced with the unpinned squad of shoota boyz sprinting towards Asims squad while the two squads of Khans and grots did the same. The buggy driver had other ideas in mind and turned around seeking to hide from the sight of the now much feared obliterators (Mate trying to negate a kill point) as the Big Mek, apparently not satisfied with the numbers ran over and joined the pinned squad of orks. With a savage yell the ork boyz charging Asims squad opened fire with everything they had, their combined fire bringing down one of Asims Marines. The rokkits on the Kans and Lootas fired as well and two more of Khalduns marines fell as yet again, the rubric spell kept Asims marines from being further injured. With a mad yell the orks that had shot Asims squad now charged in whooping in the upcoming slaughter. However their joy was short lived as Asim himself cut down two of the orks and his squad efficiently butchered a further six more with the orks inflicting no damage whatsoever, forcing the wounded nob and one remaining boy to flee.

The obliterators who had shot the buggies earlier moved slowly to the left past a grove of trees to better see the fleeing buggy and calmly fired two lascannon shots turning the last buggy to scrap metal. The two squads of thousand sons trained their bolters on the now unpinned squad of boys and opened fire with everything they had. Sacred shells tore into the packed greenskins shredding them all to pieces of blood and green body parts even as they seeked to go to ground. However as the last ork fell the clanking of the kans grew louder as inspired by their bigger cousins grisly demise both squads of the killing machines ran ahead seeking to get into grips with the Thousand Sons. The lootas fired once again and succeeded in bringing down another marine from Khalduns squad as the grot launca on the right squad of Kans fired with the rokkits killing two marines of Asims squad while the left flank squad of Kans chose to run to try and close the distance. Darin was waiting.

As the kans lumbered by the grove of trees on the left flank Darin stepped forward and fired his combi melta destroying one of the kans (and the fleeing squad of boyz in the following explosion) in a rain of shrapnel. With a wordless roar he followed up his kill with a brave charge right into the other two Kans. However his fury was cut short as a panicking Grot pilot got lucky and buried his spinning saw into Darins gut shearing him in half in a spray of enforced bone, guts and ichor. Seeing their Lords Grisly demise Asims squad prepared for the Killa Kans Charge as Khuldans squad prepared for the the same on the right flank. However with the screech of ionizing air cutting through the noise of battle all four obliterators fired lascannon bolts at the right flank squads of Kans and along with Asim and Khalduns bolt of change butchered the charging killing machines. However with the sound of exploding rokkits and squealing grots smashing into the ground around him (Left squad of Kans fired and missed with the Rokkits and Grot Launcha) the remaining two Kans slammed into Asims squad.

Ducking a swiveling buzz saw Asim was able to stick a melta bomb to the side of the towering construct of death and ducked back as the resulting explosion tore the Kan apart. The other Kan was very much alive however and proceeded to smash one of his marines to pulp. Asim knew he would be very hard pressed, as would his men to get a melta bomb or krak grenade stuck on the second whirling machine when his prayers to Tzeentch were answered as one of the squads of obliterators thundered into the fray and smashed the Kan apart before tearing out the Grot driver and mashing its tiny body in one of their power claws. The orks seeing all their vehicles destroyed fled the field, and Asim watched the remnants of a powerful warband scatter into the distance a thought sprang unbidden into his mind. "Yes, we did send many to hell this day."

Looks pretty good, although I would give some straight up info, not just in story mode. Pictures are good to have too.

stompydakka wrote:Looks pretty good, although I would give some straight up info, not just in story mode. Pictures are good to have too.

+1 Pictures always help tie a story in and keep interest. Not everybody likes to read a big wall of text.

Well didnt have a camera mates and honestly was just trying to do something different from the same old battle report with just what happened over and over again. Alot of what 40k is made up of the backstory and fluff, figured why not change things up a little?

Despite the entertaining focus on fluff (nothing wrong with that), I actually found it to be quite informative and I could follow the battle well enough. As has been said, pictures would have been cool, but if you don't have a camera we can't really blame you.
Kudos for fielding my favorite traitor(?) legion despite the handicap they have in this edition. The boyz will be back for another go later i'm sure