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Battle Report:

Sisters of Battle vs. Adeptus Mechanicus (1000 points) - Crusade

Deployment

Close up on the right flank's tanks-


TURN 1
SoB
Opponent went first. He disembarked his Sisters from his Immolators, and moved them onto objectives. The left Immolator fired on the Breachers, instakilling my Dominus (rolled a one for look out sir, and a three for invuln). The Exorcist fired its guns, and killed a Breacher.


Mechanicus
Used +3BS/-2WS Doctrina, and reroll ones to shoot Canticle. I moved most of my stuff up, creeping my Infiltrators forward in the Relicos, to keep them in 3+ cover. Onager fired its Neutron Laser at the left Exorcist, bringing it down to 2HP and stunning it. Breachers fired their heavy arc rifles and glanced the left Immolator to death.


TURN 2
SoB
Immolator full of Dominions and Veridyin outflanked in behind the Dunecrawler, and a squad of Seraphim deep struck behind my plasma vanguard squad. The Dunecrawler got exploded, and the explosion killed one Vanguard. The Seraphim killed three of the plasma Vanguard, knocking out every plasma gun. The right Exorcist and Immolator fired at the Infiltrators, killing two.

Mechanicus
Used +2BS Imperative. I moved my Infiltrators into range to charge the Immolator, and all of my stuff up. The Breachers moved towards the outflanked Immolator, and combined fire from the arc rifle Vanguard and the Breachers knocked it out. The Peltasts looked at the Seraphim, raised their weapons, and... "Take 25 armor saves, please". The four-man squad of Vanguard and two-man squad of formerly Plasma Vanguard fired at the Dominions, and killed the Canoness and all but one Dominion. Infiltrators charged the right Immolator, and killed it. The objective-holding Vanguard charged the Dominion, and did no damage and recieved none in return.



TURN 3
SoB
Some more Seraphim deep struck behind by Peltasts and fired on them, killing four. The Battle Sisters on objective 1 fired at my Infiltrators, and killed the Princeps. The left Exorcist fired on the Peltasts, and killed none. The right Exorcist fired on the Breachers, and killed one, forcing the squad to break and fall off the board. Nothing happened in the Dominion-Vanguard combat.


Mechanicus
The Peltasts fired on the Seraphim, and killed three. The remaining Seraphim retreated, and eventually ran off the board on turn 5. The Arc Rifle and former plasma vanguard fired on the left SoB squad in the supply dump, and killed three. The remaining two Infiltrators charged the right Exorcist, doing one HP of damage. Nothing happened in the Dominion-Vanguard brawl.



Turn 4
SoB
The right Exorcist fired at the Peltasts, killing two. The right Battle Sisters fired at the Infiltrators, killing one. The left Exorcist fired at the formerly plasma Vanguard, killing my Warlord with a rocket to the face. The Vanguard-Dominion brawl finally ended with the Dominion dying. The Vanguard consolidated onto the objective and sat there for the rest of the game.

Mechanicus
The lone Infiltrator charged the right Exorcist, rolling two sixes to hit and glancing the tank to death. The arc Vanguard marched within six inches of the left Exorcist, firing at point blank, and... whiffing horribly, dealing one HP of damage. The lone former plasma vanguard fired his gun at the Sisters in the building, doing nothing. The Peltasts fired long-range shots at the Battle Sisters on the right flank, achieving nothing.


TURN 5
SoB
The Exorcist fired a full volley of rockets, wiping out everybody in the arc squad except for one Skitarius with an Arc Rifle. The Battle Sisters on the right flank cut down the last Infiltrator.

Mechanicus
The Peltasts moved onto objective 4, and fired more kinetic hammershot, felling two Battle Sisters. The lone remaining arc rifle skitarius fired his rifle... and wrecked the left Exorcist. The last remaining former plasma Vanguard fired his carbine, activating his integrated aimbot, and cut down the last two remaining left-flank Sisters with a single burst of fire.

TURN 6
SoB
The last remaining SoB moved behind a wall to hide from the Peltasts, still holding the last objective.

Mechanicus
I shuffled my dudes around to have more objective coverage. Rolled the die, game over.


RESULTS
Sisters of Battle: (3pts)
First Blood (+1)
Slay The Warlord (+1)
Objective 1 (+1)

Adeptus Mechanicus: (4pts)
Slay The Warlord (+1)
Objective 2 (+1)
Objective 3 (+1)
Objective 4 (+1)

FINAL THOUGHTS
An amazingly fun and close game. My opponent was a joy to play against, always happy, and I got to play against an army that I've always wanted to play against. Any game that ends with 3 models on one side, and 10 on the other, is guaranteed to be fun.

Here's my Dunecrawler, in its new home for a few months. My LGS' display case.


And here's a very WIP picture of my House Johnson Imperial Knight. The orange isn't even close to done, and the white needs more thin coats. Metal needs cleaning and cables need doing.

House Johnson Imperial Knight update 2.

House Johnson knight, update four.

I'm getting there...

So, it looks like Aperture Laboratories is still a going concern in the 41st millennium. If only you could have done the Knight's head as Wheatley or GLaDOS or something...

Tidy bit of Knight work there, Verviedi. Great stuff!

Awesome stuff V - is that Aperture emblem freehand?

Yes, everything on the knight is freehand. No decals at all!
I wanted to make a GLaDOS head, but sadly I didn't have the skill.

Your freehand is truly commendable, my friend. I'm very jelly

Great close battle! And that knight is looking sweet already

Excellent pics from the game vs the Battle Sisters.

Wicked work on the Knight too, top freehand skills!

EDC

Thanks guys

Here's a picture of her in my LGS. Only like 2 hrs of work to do until she's finished!

Looks terrific Verv!

Here's what became of a failed Techmarine candidate. The Mechanicus told his chapter that he died in an unfortunate blast furnace accident. There was no body...

++All sanctifiers are in place. We are prepared to begin execution.++
***Confirm containment of subject.***
++Subject is contained. Vitals are steady. Black carapace is prepared for integration.++
***You may begin the procedure.***
++Beginning procedure...++

Now that's cool! I love cybernetically augmented dudes, and you've got a really good creepy vibe going with this guy

Loving the little background snippet for him too. It's little touches like that that really bring a model to life for me.

Thanks! I only wish I had your conversion skills...

Done! Mark II Modified Astarte.

I don't know, I'd be proud to have made that dude one of the things I hold important is it's about picking the right bit, not necessarily the most complicated

Plus, your posing's great it really looks like he's sort of shuffling forwards, dragging his feet. Exactly what a mind-wiped Astartes servitor would do

Also, your sig's reminded me that I must read The Hydrogen Sonata. I've read Matter and Surface Detail and they're both brilliant

I agree, and you must read the entire Culture series! They're all amazingly good. Consider Phlebas is a bit weak, but still enjoyable. I'm halfway through Matter at the moment. Finished Consider, Player of Games, Use of Weapons, and Surface Detail. About 33% through Hydrogen Sonata.

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Sweet I'll definitely pick some of them up soon.

If you like the Culture series I'd thoroughly recommend the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton (2 books, Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained). Just finished reading them for the second time and they're excellent

Added to my list! Thank you

I like the "modified" Marine. Kind of like a cross between a Space Marine and a Skitarii (Skitarius?). Seems like something that would belong a Blanchitsu article in White Dwarf or something.

Thats one snazzy techmarine. Didn't know mechanicus bits could be used like this on marines!

Thanks for the kind words. That's the feel I was going for.

Here's a bolter Modified Astarte.

Getting to work in Canoness Veridyan and an Emperor's Champion (Not Pictured).

This is my first sculpting attempt. It's already been purged with fire, to be redone later.

Nice knight, marines and such

Sweet while the previous Modified Astarte looked more like a shuffling mind-wiped servitor, this guy looks a bit more like a clockwork soldier. Perhaps moving in more jerking sudden movements and overall more animated than his colleague

I like him

Thanks! I have plans for a few more Modified Astartes, maybe one with some spider legs... won a game against Dark Angels, who says my Mechanicus didn't drag a wounded Marine off the board?

I present to you. Spider Leg Modified Astarte. Look at those base contact points.