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so this afternoon me and my friend decided to have an apocalypse battle.im playing the tyranids and my friend is playing the chaos,this is my first time doing a battle this size with my nids since i got back into them earlier this year and its probably evident in the battle(basically i make a lot of mistakes)Also i apologies for the numerous unpainted models,as i said i just got back into my nids and the color scheme that the hierodule and malanthrope are in is what i hope to paint the rest of the army eventually.Just thought i would mention this is my first battle report on dakka so i hope you like it
Anyway here is my army list.
HQ
hive tyrant
tervigon
malanthrope
parastie of mortrex
Elites
venomthrope
zoanthrope
doom
pyrovore
ymagrl
Troops
4warriors
2 broods of 10 genestealers
2 mycetic spore pods(one of these was a very old conversion and doesn't look to great)
2 broods of 20 termagants
1 brood of 20 hormagaunts
Fast attack
raveners
heavy
2 carnifex's
old one eye
biovore
also
a barbed hierodule and 3 meiotic spore sacks
i don't remember my friends full list but it was something like:
abaddon and 5 termies
chaos sorcerer
renegade command squad
2 squads of 10 khorne bezerkers
5 possessed
5 chosen
10 marines with mark of nurgle
5 normal marines
10 blood letters
10 renegade guardsmen
baneblade
shadowsword(borrowed from my marines)
leman russ executioner.

we decided to do a kill point game,so there's two objectives in the middle and whoever gets the most kills counts as having an extra objective.just for fun we decided to have 5 stratejic assets each which turned out to be pretty interesting.
my 5 assets where,replacements, hammer blow, scheduled bombardment,vortex grenade and blind barrage.
his where replacment,replacment,vortex grenade,tunnels and disrupter beacon.
so hers the board.

i win time bidding at 6minutes and 29 seconds,heres my first mistake for some reason i choose the really small deployment zone.
my side deployed.

malanthrope,old one eye and venomthope decide to hide to adoid fire from the super heavies.

now i thought that my friend would be pretty far away the first turn giving me chance to get organised however he decides to deploy everything around the center of the board, lucky I've got that blind barrage(or so i though)
my friend deployment.

we then placed objectives which are the pots of paint,mine was where the malanthrope was and my friend put his over next to the leman russ.He then rolled to see how many tunnels he got and rolled a six!,meaning he got 9 tunnels(since we had no actual tunnel markers these where represented by the barrels and the necromunda camera things)
turn 1 nids
I started the game of with hammer blow which i only got one shot with and managed to take two structure points of the shadowsword straight off!I then made one of the worst decisions of the game creating a blind barrage from just infront of the shadow sword to just in front of the malanthrope.i then began to advance forwards.I moved the hierodule right up close to the shadowsword and the buildings.

everything else just moved up a bit.It was about now that i relised that the blind barrage made me not be able to shoot so that was my turn over.
my gaunts in an odd formation
http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/flyingsquirrels/IMG_2511.jpg
Turn 1 chaos
my friend moved both super heavies through the blind barage so they could then see and shoot my stuff(oops )
his chaos sorcerer also jumps forward eager to use his vortex grenade on the big nid conveniently placed right in front of him
In the shooting his shadowsword kills the hive tyrant,the baneblade kills a load of gaunts and 2 warriors,and the vortex grenade took of 3 wounds from the hierodule.
the only good thing was when his chaos sorcerer and squad charged in to the hierodule and then my frien remembers that there only strength four and the hierodule stomps 4 of them dead.

Turn 2 nids
The vortex grenade moves a whole 3 inches killing the hierodule(good job i have replacement),and the sorcerer and squad.

Everything moves forward and the malanthrope gets up near the khorne bezerkers.We came up with a problem here as the ymagrl tried to come out of terrain however he used his distrupter beacon to make them go over to the over side of the board,now does this effect them or not?i decided to let it be and let them be put miles away from the battle.

two genstealer groups came on behind the shadowsword,one of which assaulted it,stunning its volcano cannon and the other group assaulted the disrupter beacon and destroyed it.The malanthrope assaulted the khorne bezerkers and killed four of them.

Turn 2 chaos

The vortex grenade bounces around and does nothing
The baneblade moves up and nearer to my objective(where old one eye is lurking )he brings on abbadon and his terminators from reserve right at the back of the board near to the tervigon.
The bane blade blows up a hole lot of termagaunts and a warrior(and i think the venomthrope as well)

one squad of genestealers are nearly killed and the second are assaulted by the khorne bezerkers and they tie combat.The malanthrope finish of the khorne bezerkers and moves towards the next squad.
Tyranid turn 3
OK time for me to bring in my reserve's!The doom drops in behind abbadon,the parasite comes out of its drop pod behind the bane blade,i then role to see if the hierodule comes back and get a six!so he stomps back onto the board in the bottom corner next to the zoarnthrope.Oh and the vortex grenade is boring again and just bounces around my carnifex's


i then have some fun trying out the meiotic spore sacks however the two i try and drop on the nurgle squad scatter and are pretty useless for the rest of the game.One of them does cause one wound to the squad of chaos termies and manages to kill one.The raveners with rending claws also pop up behind the leman russ.
sorry for the last few images being blurred.
The tervigon poops out seven gaunts but gets constipated while doing so.The genestealers that weren't being assaulted came out of cover and moved towards the leman russ.old one eye also burst from the shadows and plodded over to the bane blade.The ymagarls moved but where getting nowhere fast.ok this is where the fun begins,my hierodule opens fire at the shadowsword and manages to remove its last structure point,sadly it does not explode like we both hopped,the next was a bit of a surprise to my friend as the parasite somehow pulls out a vortex grenade(despite having claws for arms)and throws it on the bane blade,it scatters a massive two inches!and manages to take of two structure points from the bane blade.
(nearly to the end of the blurry pics now)
The doom attempts to absorb the squad of termies but they pass,abbaddon however fails his leadership by 6,luckily he manages 4 invun's and so survived getting his sole sucked out.squad of termagaunts shoot at abbadon but do nothing.
The termagants(for some reason) assault abbadon and they all die,the malanthrope reaches its next target,the nurgle marines and manages to kill a couple and suffers no wounds in return.genestealers assault the leman russ and manage to immobilize it and stop it from shooting and old one eye easily destroys the bane blade however once again there was no explosion.
turn 3 chaos
ok its was now my friends turn to get his own back first of all he roles for replacments and both his shadowsword and baneblade role into battle the only good thing is that there to far away to really do much now.he also brings on some possessed near my carnifexs and some chosen near abaddon as well as an obliterater next to the parasite and some lesser daemons next to abbadon.He also brings on teb guardsmen nearto my objective and a guarsmen command squad round the other side of my objective
the two super heavies rolling in(didn't notice the shadow swords cannon falling of)

The guardsmen shoot at the pyrovore who has done nothing throughout the game,they kill him however when he explodes he takes 5 guardsmen down with him!.
in assault a lot happens abbadon kills the tervigon.The lesser daemons kill the termagants,the chosen kill the hormagaunts,the termies kill the doom and (a mistake here as the obliterater shouldnt of been able to assult)the obliterater kills the parasite.The carnifex draw combat with the possessed casuing two wounds each.The khorne bezerkers also assault the remaining genestealers and kill them.
turn 4 tyranids
by this time i had realized he had won on kill points so i set about trying to get my objective back.the termagants and old one eye headed for the guardsmen at there objective.In the shooting the hierodule gets lucky and with one of its guns manages to kill all 5 chosen and with the other manages to kill 3 members of the guardsmen command squad.In assault the raveners blow the weapon of the leman russ.the malanthrope kills a couple more nurgle marines but takes two wounds,the hierodule go's into combat with the possessed and slays them.The termagants manage to kill the guards men and reclaim the objective!.The ymagarls also try there luck against the shadow sword and manage to blow of a weapon and take a structure point of.

an over view of the middle of the battle.

turn 4 chaos
by this time it was getting quite late and so my friend only decided to do one thing and that was move abbadon and assault the termagants,he didn't kill them all but he didn't need to the objective was contested and that meant victory for the chaos!
after battle thoughts
i made a lot of mistakes during this game and hopefully during the next game i will have learnt(i'll also have my scythed by then )
here are few pictures from the battle field.


thanks for reading!

Not a bad game. Seems quite close.

Oh, by the way...

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

Barbed Heirodule
Excellent.

Upload full report as one please!

I have completed the battle report!

It was a good read cheers pal, quite funny as well some of the stuff you said (parasite's vortex nade lol!)

That malanthrope looks HORRENDOUS, ugly thing...what does it do exactly?

yeah,me and my friend where having a conversation about the malanthrope and how it actually manages to stand up.To be honest i actually like the model but the rules don't suit it.basically it gets 5 close combat attacks(6 on charge)with no saves aloud and causes instant death,it costs about as much as a normal carnifex and has a better save than a hierodule!,i think it should be more of a psychic creature as its power in close combat don't really suit its tiny little limbs.

That was a pretty sweet read, I would personally go with a Harridan as their new rules are stupid good, but great game.

Just FYI, you can't take the same asset more than once. I.E. Your opponent can only take one instance of Replacements...not two.