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Hello!

My first Battle report wich i made a couple of months ago. Please forgive us for unpainted models!

I got my 6th Edition Rulebook in September and it took me a week to get used to new rules. One week later I managed to find some time and play WH40k with friends. We decided to play 1000pts. game. I was going to play with Greyhawk and his Imperial Fists.

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Army Lists:
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IG 1000pts.

CCS
4 Meltaguns

CCS
3 Meltaguns

3х Vets
3 Plasmaguns, Lascanon
Chimera ML, HF.

Vendetta

Vendetta

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SM 1000pts.

Librarian
Plasmapistol

Techpriest

2х 10 Tactical Space Marines
Power Fist, Meltagun, Lascanon
Razorback with Lascanon and Plasmagun.

Predator
Autocanon, Lascanon sponsons

Vindicator

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Mission: Scoring (4)

Deployment: Vanguard Strike (3)

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Terrain rules:
Bunker - 14 14 14 AV, 10 models capacity, 2 fire points.
Ruins - 4+ cover.
Bastion - Impassible.
Shuttle debris - DT 5+ cover.

Greyhawk wins roll off. He generously determined me to the edge of the table where it was virtually impossible to hide.

Warlord Traits:
IG: Divide to Conquer
SM: Legendary Fighter

Psychic powers:
IG: -
SM: Haemorrhage, Psychic shriek.

Near bunker: 2 pts.
IG deployment: 3 pts.
No mans land: 1 pts.
Central ruins: 2 pts.
South ruins: 3 pts.
SM deployment: 4 pts.

Deployment:


Night fight didn't happen.
Seize the initiative? - no :(

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First turn:

SM

Central SM marker was opened - Ambush!
The marker in SM deployment was allso opened but i do not remember it.

Move
- All vehicles moved forward.
- Marines occupied ruins near home marker..

Shooting
- Space Marines on the top flor marker missed Lascanon at Chimera.
- Transports moved flat out and occupied strategic points on the hill.
- Predator and Vindicator moved flat out to have a better shooting position.

* Marker with ambush explodes! Marine with Lascanon dies. Marbo - happy!

SM first turn


IG

Move
- Chimera slightly crawled back.
- Veterans disembarked From Chimera and claimed IG home marker.

Shooting
- Two Chimeras was unable to cause any harm to Techpriests Razorbek.
- Veterans in transports missed at same target.
- Veterans on the 2nd floor of my ruins missed lascanon shot at Librarians transport.

IG first turn


Second turn:

SM

Move
- Vindicator moves forward and preparing to open fire.
- Predator remains stationary.
- Librarians Razorbek moving forward to IG positions.
- Techpriests Razorback moves forward and preparing to open fire at Chimeras.

Shooting
- Razorback with Techpriest and Predator Stun's one Chimera.
- Vindicator puts pie plate on the central chimera. Blast scatters and covers two chimeras. Chimera under the wall is immobilized while second successfully uses its 3+ cover save (high angle).

* SM central marker explodes again. No casualties this time.

SM second turn


IG

Rolling for reserves and ... A first Vendetta is arriving!

Move
- Vendetta with Company commander arrived from SM short table eage. Moving right behind Vindicator.
- Chimera's moved a little backwards to get better cover.

Shooting
- Vindicator was blown up by Vendetta.
- Veterans brake plasmacanon on Librarians Razorback. One veteran dies from "gets hot".

IG Second turn


Third turn:

SM

Move
- Predator moved back and prepared to open fire on a vendetta.
- Librarian with Space Marines disembarked from Razorback.
- Techpriest with combat squad disembarked from in to ruins.

Shooting
- A lot of shooting at Vendetta. Not a single glancing hit.
- Teachpriests Razorbek shakes one of the Chimeras with lascanon.
- Librarian casts Psychic Shriek in the squad of veterans and kills six of them.

SM third turn


IG

Rolling for reserves and ... A second Vendetta is coming!

Move
- Second flyer zooms from the SM's short table side.
- First Vendetta enters Hover mode. It is going to shoot Techpriests Razorback.
- Company command squad disembarks from Vendetta. They move in Predators direction.
- All veterans disembark. One unit is placed in the doorway of the ruins. Second unit takes cover behind the wall. All 3 units of Veterans are preparing to open fire on the Librarians squad.

Shooting
- Predator exploded by Company command squad.
- Central Vendetta wrecks Techpriests razorback.
- Arrived Vendetta explodes Librarian's Razorbek.
- Veterans fires at Librarian squad and kills every one of them.

IG third turn


Fourth turn:

SM

Move
- Techpriest and his squad hides in central ruins.

Shooting
- Tehchpriest shot at Vendetta with plasmapistol and exploded it.
- Marines which were holding top floor marker managed to cause 2 wounds on Company commander.

SM fourth turn


IG

Move
- Veterans marched through the doorway.
- One Veterans squad embarked Chimera and moved to the center.
- Company command squad tried to reach the Predators crater, but the DT roll was very poor.
- The remaining Vendetta entered hover mode
- A squad of veterans at the home marker, moved away from windows.
- Empty Chimera rolled towards the center.

Shooting
- Company commander squad guns down 2 Marines on the top floor marker.
- Vendetta kills two Marines from Techpriests squad.
- A squad of veterans in the doorway reaches marker next to the bunker.
- Chimera with veterans moved flat out.

IG fourth turn


Fith turn:

SM

Move
- Tehpriest leaves Marines squad and moves towards floating Vendetta. His squad climbs up and grabs another marker.
- Marines with lascanon in SM deployment ruins moves downstairs and prepare to take their home marker.

Shoot
- Tehpriest shoots the plane, but unable to penetrate it.
- Lone Marines on top floor marker in central ruins guns down 2 guardsman’s from Company command squad.
- Techpriests squad reaches top floor of their ruins..
- Marines with lascanon claims SM home marker.

* Central marker in the ruins explodes again ! (Marbo obviously overdo it) - Marines managed to make their armor saves.

SM fith turn


IG

Move
- Veterans at the bunker, moves a little bit to have some extra models near it in case of casualties.
- Chimera disembarked veterans.
- Vendetta floats in hover mode around and drops second Company command squad, which moves in to the point blank range to the marines at SM home marker.
- Warlords command squad manages to jump in to the craters.

Shooting
- Veterans and Vendetta killed Techpriests squad.
- Warlords command squad killed last marine on the top floor marker.
- Second command squad killed 1 marine ar SM home marker.

Assault
- In fearsome melee fight, Company commander manages to kill 2 marines by himself and one more was killed with knifes by veterans. Last survived Marine failed morale test and runed away. (We figured out that you can't charge after disembark only after game finished)

IG fith turn


We rolled for 6th turn and the game was ended!

Game results:

IG 7VP
First Blood 1VP
Warlord 1VP
2 Markers 5 VP

SM 0 VP

P.S. My English knowledge does not allow me to write complex sentences. This is why my descriptions are so short.

Great report! Good photos!
Keep it up!

 Brymm wrote:
Great report! Good photos!
Keep it up!

Thanks!

Nice report mate!

Good pics and the report structure was good and to the point.

Well done.

Nice job bringing flyers to a ground fight. I saw the IG win the second I looked at the rosters. Great report though. I LOVE the second view photos giving you multiple shots of the BF from unit views. I wish more people would take the time to do that. Great Bat Rep!

Great Batrep, both for your win and for the excellent photo format. Keep posting 'em like that and I'll keep reading 'em!

I really really love your batreps Blansh. They're the best and most clearly presented I've read - they're like GW reports but interesting and to the point, and I'm guessing not staged either.

As for the game, I'm very surprised at the result. I thought for sure Space Marines would take it, given their superior position and excellent deployment. If they had simply held their ground, you would have had to choose between splitting your forces and crossing the field, exposing chimera side armor to certain death, or sitting back and essentially forfeiting the game.
I think you were very lucky to get both vendettas in so early, and that the SM player threw away the game when he sent in the librarian squad to die.

Congratulations on the win

Dear Blansh,

In addition to the fanastic layout of your battle reports, I also really appreciate the fact that the battle reports you've posted so far are at the 1000 point range. That's the usual size of game we play in my gaming group. So many of the Battle Reports here on Dakka are +1500 points and I have trouble relating to them (which sounds weird to say).

So a huge thanks for the effort and quality of your battle reports, I truly do look foward to the next one!

With Regards,

Mathew

To everyone:
Thanks for all your comments, i really appreciate it. I will keep posting battle reports so stay tuned.

Almarine wrote:I really really love your batreps Blansh. They're the best and most clearly presented I've read - they're like GW reports but interesting and to the point, and I'm guessing not staged either.

As for the game, I'm very surprised at the result. I thought for sure Space Marines would take it, given their superior position and excellent deployment. If they had simply held their ground, you would have had to choose between splitting your forces and crossing the field, exposing chimera side armor to certain death, or sitting back and essentially forfeiting the game.
I think you were very lucky to get both vendettas in so early, and that the SM player threw away the game when he sent in the librarian squad to die.

Congratulations on the win

Thanks! I am trying to keep things very simple to understand via pictures without reading.

After the game, my opponent told me that he understood the mistake which he made by splitting his forces. He had to hold position, or make a full attack with everything he had. The idea behind splitting forces was to hold me as long as possible to enshure that i wont take any objectives in time. And clearly it was and Air superiority which won me a game.

MathewFPerry wrote:Dear Blansh,

In addition to the fanastic layout of your battle reports, I also really appreciate the fact that the battle reports you've posted so far are at the 1000 point range. That's the usual size of game we play in my gaming group. So many of the Battle Reports here on Dakka are +1500 points and I have trouble relating to them (which sounds weird to say).

So a huge thanks for the effort and quality of your battle reports, I truly do look foward to the next one!

With Regards,

Mathew

Thanks!
I am sad to say but we usually look at bigger games of 1750 - 2000 points games as a main tournament size here. There will be more of 1k format for sure, but we are focused on a bigger games.

This is probably the best battle report I've come across so far!

I like the short hand format and the pictures are just amazing in explaining what is going on!

Keep up the good work!

Great, very clear! I loved what you did with the other report where you show the dead tolls, and the hull point loses. You shoudl deffinately continue that.