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Played in a great game against BuffaloChicken during his hamslam weekend with my Black Templars vs. his Genestealer Cult, 1500 points.


Deployment, objectives were in the central hill, central temple, far right temple and far left temple


Crusaders eye the objective


As do the tactical squad


The corrupted guardsmen of the Genestealer Cult defend their spotter tower and triceratops (counts as earthshaker battery and manticore)


The cultists in hiding


Sneaky gits


The Templar line


Assault Marines drop in! They fail their charge


Their quarry fires a storm eagle rocket in overwatch, doing little


Marines advance and take the center


Cultists ambush the assault marines!


And they brought friends...


A Primaris psyker and corrupted guardsmen take the center hill objective


The battlefield at the end of turn 2


The stealers hit hard!




Terminators arrive!


And they eye their prey...




Crusaders defend the temple




The Terminators charge the spotter tower as the rockgrinder prepares to ram the crusaders


They make the charge! Unfortunately, they leave the Chaplain behind


Tactical Marines get stuck in on the central hill, clearing out the guardsmen


Cultist command comes to take the hill back


While some degenerate mutants charge the chaplain, who failed to join his assault terminators


Crusaders fall back on the temple objective


Sword brethren clear some stormtroopers off the right temple objective, crusaders hold the central temple objective, the hill is contested by assault terminators and genestealers, and the left flank objective has a rapidly moving triceratops running for it


Out of missiles, he runs!


Sword brethren defend their prize


Dreadnought gets stuck in, but escaping Genestealers take the objective from behind him


A rhino comes and helps the Chaplain! At game's end, Templars hold two objectives, plus bonus points for first blood, slay the warlord, and linebreaker. Victory to the Black Templars!

Not pictured:
- My Dreadnought's arms, as they're not painted yet
- The Emperor's Champion getting punked by a mining laser and krak grenade in overwatch
- BuffaloChicken dressing up like a Catachan and opening beers with a machete all weekend

Nice little rep SRM, super terrain and setup.

Great read Extra credit for two very nice armies on groovy terrain!

- Salvage

Great read. Purge the alien!

Awesome Terrain, and great looking armies. Thanks for sharing!

Great battle report man! This style is so much better than long drawn out videos. Would you be willing to post the lists involved?

That seemed really fun! and i like how you wrote it out, very clear and concise.

 argonak wrote:
Great battle report man! This style is so much better than long drawn out videos. Would you be willing to post the lists involved?

Thanks! When I do eventually get to doing battle report videos for my Camhammer channel, they're going to be pretty concise - nobody needs to see my games in real time!

I frankly have no idea what his list was, mine was as follows:
Captain (Marshall Siegward) combi-melta, power axe
Terminator Chaplain
Emperor's Champion Black Sword
Crusader Squad (15) power axe x2, flamer, neophyte x5
Tactical Squad (10) combi-melta, melta, multimelta
Assault Squad (10) flamer x2, fist, grav pistol
Terminator Assault Squad (5) TH/SS x5
Vanguard Veterans (Sword Brethren) (6) Power sword, lightning claw pair x1
Rhino Stormbolter
Venerable Dreadnought DCCW and flamer, Twin Lascannon

Great armies on a great table - thanks for the report! The cult army and table theme was really nicely done.

Loved that report. Great looking game.

I loved the terrain. Will be making me some hills for my jungle set now xD

Thanks all! You can see a bunch more of this board in my new video on 8th edition: