Battle report of 2000 points matched play
Mission: Dominate & Destroy
Deployment: Dawn of War
Armies
Blood Angels
Batallion
Captain with wings, thunder hammer, inferno pistol and death visions of the sanguinius (stratagem)
Warlord: Librarian dreadnought, storm bolter, powers: wings of sanguinius, quickening, Artisan of war (relic)
5x scouts, bolters
5x scouts, snipers, camo cloaks
5x tacticals, plasma, combi-plasma
Razorback, twin assault cannon
Razorback, twin lascannon
Vanguard
Mephiston, powers: wings of sanguinius, shield of sanguinius, unleash rage
12x death company, jump packs, 2x power fist, 2x power sword, 1x power axe, 7x chainsword, 12x boltgun
7x sanguinary guard, 5x sword & angelus boltgun, 2x power fist & inferno pistol
Sanguinary ancient, sword & angelus boltgun, Banner of sacrifice (relic)
Spearhead
Astorath
5x devastators, 1x lascannon, 1x plasma cannon
5x devastators, 1x lascannon, 1x plasma cannon
5x devastators, 1x heavy bolter, 1x missile launcher
Death Guard
Batallion
Typhus, powers: blades of putrefaction, putrescent vitality
Malignant plaguecaster, powers: blades of putrefaction, putrescent vitality
7x plague marines, 4x boltgun, 3x plasma gun
7x plague marines, 4x boltgun, 3x plasma gun
7x plague marines, 3x dual knife, flail of corruption, bubotic axe & knife, bubotic axe & mace of contagnion, power fist & plaguesword
17x poxwalkers
20x cultists, 18x autogun, 2x heavy stubber
Chaos rhino, storm bolter
Vanguard
Warlord: Daemon prince of nurgle, wings, daemonic axe, suppurating plate (relic), power: miasma of pestilence
Biologus putrifier, plaguebringer (relic)
Foul blightspawn
Tallyman
Outrider
Chaos lord, plasma pistol, balesword, Fugaris' helm (relic)
3x foetid bloat-drone, 2x plaguespitters, plague probe
The Game
DG starts deploying and finishes first.
BA player fails to seize.
BA player uses the Furlon's fury strategem to move it's
DC squad.
There's six objectives: 1 in the ruins on the second building in the top left corner. One in front of the cultists. One in the ruins on the hill. On the
BA side there's one in front of Mephy, one with the sniper scouts in the left bottom corner ruins and last is between the two cathedral ruin pieces. (Objectives are on a 32mm base and a
DG die)
Pic: After deployment.
Turn 1: Death Guard
DG player uses the dead walk again strategem on the poxwalkers. Poxwalkers, cultists, two of the bloat-drones and Typhus move & advance towards the objective on the hill along with the closing
DC blob.
Chaos rhino stocked with melee
PM and the elite section of the
DG army move and advances within 3" of the midfield objective and puffs smoke. Daemon prince moves along with the bloat-drones.
PM squad on the right flank aligns for a better shot.
Pic: After
DG movement.
In the psychic phase, Typhus tries to manifest smite and putrescent vitality failing both. Daemon prince kills 3 death company and those three rise as poxwalkers. The poxwalker blob is now 20 man strong. All other psychic powers fail.
In the shooting phase foetid bloat-drone in range of the scouts in the building shoots it's plaguespitters with two hits, killing three scouts {7 auto hits, 5 wounds, 4+ save (cover negates the -
ap)} On the right flank one of the
PM squads are in range of the twin assault cannon razorback and they super charge their plasma causing 2 wounds on the razor.
Pic:
DG shots create three more poxwalkers upfront.
In the charge phase there's not much to do after cultists and poxwalkers have already advanced, they would have been like 3" away from the
DC.
DG SCORES 3
VP for three objectives.
Turn 1: Blood Angels
Mephiston moves within 7" of the bloat-drone. Astorath jumps behind the
DC and
DC move around the poxwalker blob. Other
BA units remain stationary.
Pic: After
BA move.
Pic: Mephy looking at the closing bloat-drone.
In the psychic, Mephiston manifests the wings of sanguinius and has to use a re-roll stratagem to pull it off.
DP tries to deny the witch, but fails. Mephiston smites 3 damage, but DR saves 2 of them. 7 wounds left on the
DP.
In the shooting phase:
9x rapid fire boltguns shoot at the poxwalkers (T5 from Typhus aura): 2 poxwalkers dead.
5x sniper rifles shoot at the chaos lord: Nothing.
6x angelus boltguns rapid fire at the prince: 10 hits, 3 wounds, 1 unsaved and failed DR. 1 wound of from the
DP, so 6 left on the
DP.
Mephiston shoots its plasma pistol at the bloat-drone: No wound.
3x boltgun and 1x heavy bolter shoot at the chaos rhino: 1 wound.
Missile launcher with enhanced
BS shoots at the bloat-drone: To wound roll is 1...
Storm bolter from the librarian dreadnought shoots at the bloat-drone: Nothing.
Twin assault cannon and twin lascannon from the razorbacks shoot at the bloat-drone in front: 2 wounds through.
2x plasma supercharged and enchanced
BS from the signum, 2x lascannons (and boltguns) from the two devastator squads shoot at the same bloat-drone: plasma gets 2x success DR's, but lascannons get 4x wounds through. Bloat-drone is at 4 wounds.
In the Charge phase
DC and Astorath engage the poxwalkers. Mephy,
SG with descent of the angels stratagem and
SG ancient pull of charges on the poxwalkers only the captain failing it's own. Descent of the Angels got total of 9" charge, so made the day. Only 1
CP left on the
BA force.
Chargers hitting:
DC has 6x fist attacks (kills 4), 6x power sword attacks (kills 3), 3x power axe, 16x chainsword attacks (kills 3). Unit is within Astorath's re-roll to hit aura. Poxwalkers are T5 due to Typhus aura. Astorath has 4 WS2 6S
AP -3 D d3/3 on 6+ to wound attacks, all wounds go through, but one poxwalker manages to save all three. TOTAL 15 dead poxwalkers, 2 from shooting 13 from melee.
Mephy has 4 WS2 S10
AP -3 D d3 attacks. Mephy gets one mortal wound from the suppurating plate, but negates it with it's on "DR". Only one damage goes through the
DP's DR. 5 wounds remaining on the
DP.
SG ancient and
SG have 13 S4
AP-3 D d3 attacks and 4x S8
AP-3 D d3. Fists scrapes a wound,
SG swords do 4 damage and take 1 mortal wound from the plate. The Nurgle Warlord has been slain. It's first blood and slay the warlord.
Now
DG retaliates:
10 poxwalker attacks, now buffed for S4. A single 6+
FnP is needed to shrug of the attack.
BA SCORES 5
VP for three holding the objectives, 1 for first blood and 1 for slay the warlord.
Pic: This piece of the board is getting crowded and look, no daemon prince!
Pic: Overview of T1 end.
Turn 2: Death Guard
Nurgle's gift kills one
DC, causing the last turn's dead walk again stratagem trigger one last time.
Foetid bloat-drone on the right flank tries a heroic one last charge, but stops ~9"+ of the sniper scouts.. Chaos lord and the plaguecaster withdraws within
PM squads. Midfield drone gets within 3" of the objective and is ready to toast some imperial devastator scum. Chaos rhino stays stationary and waits the battle to progress.
Cultists on the left flank spread out between the two objectives and succumb the Typhus and poxwalkers inside. Last drone jumps in front of the
DC.
Pic:
DG movement done.
In the psychic phase the malignant plaguecaster tries to manifest putrescent vitality on the bloat-drone and getting it with 11. Then he smites the captain with a six. Mephiston tries to deny, but gets only 5+1. Single mortal wound on the captain.
Typhus smites the
DC killing two and fails the putrescent vitality.
Time to shoot:
7x boltgun shots take out 3 wounds from the captain, 3x failed 3+ saves with failed 5+
fnp, that's how you shoot!. 4x plasma shots finish off the "
DC" captain.
3x super-charged plasma shots, 4x boltgun shots at the razorback scoring 4 wounds through. Razor at 4 wounds now.
4x storm bolter shots at the devastator in the middle killing two boltgun ablatives.
8x plaguespitter auto-hits at the devastators finish the squad off.
6x plaguespitter auto-hits at the scout squad in the building on the left flank leaves only 1 scout alive.
18x autogun shots at the
DC and 6x heavy stubber shots at the
DC kill two more.
Typhus shots it's 5 destroyer hive shots at the
DC missing all.
That was nasty shooting from the death guard.
Pic: After
DG shooting.
Only fighting is done on the left flank where Typhus and the poxwalkers engage the
DC and bloat-drone the lone scout.
Typhus kills two
DC. Poxwalkers do nothing. Bloat-drone drone kills the single scout. Two remaining power fist
DC retaliate and a single fist hit manages to get through all the invulnerable and DR saves making three damage.
DG SCORES 5
VP for the 5/6 objectives, that's dominating the table. Kill points will be counted after the game. That's TOTAL of 8
VP (+3 killed units so far.)
Turn 2: Blood Angels
SG and
SG ancient engage the midfield drone, Librarian dreadnought leaves the cover and moves & flies next to the chaos rhino. Mephy aligns for better angle for killing stuff.
Pic:
SG are closing on the bloat-drone.
Psychic phase is a success for
BA. Smite kills two cultists and Mephy unleashes rage on the
SG unit. Librarian dread flies and does the quickening with +3 attacks. Now, if I could just go back in time, I should have moved the
SG close to the rhino as well.
Pic: Well, hello there! It's me mr. flying dreadnought with this pointy 4 damage halberd with 6 attacks.
Time to shoot:
Storm bolter scratches some paint on the rhino.
SG with two inferno pistols in melta range score 5 wounds of the bloat-drone. Angelus boltguns manage to do 3 more so it's only 2 left on the bloat-drone before the charge.
Mephy kills one cultist with his plasma pistol.
Twin assault cannon manages to get 9 hits with BS4, killing one plague marine from the building on the far right flank. Snipers kill two more from the same squad. Twin lascannon does three damage to (T8) drone, which has only 1 wound left. T8 is a tough nut to crack even with a plasma cannon, but lascannon from a devastator squad takes the last wound off, hitting in a vital point and causes an explosion, but luckily no
BA models within 7".
Last devastator squad shoot at the
PM in the building with the chaos lord killing two
PM more. So total of 5 dead
PM from the same squad, within chaos lord, but morale gets 1 more (roll of 4). Only the champion left on this squad.
Pic: Before shooting there used to be a 7man plague marine squad with the chaos lord.
Now for the charges..
All charges as successful: Astorath,
SG,
SG ancient and the librarian dread. Overwatch from the weakened bloat-drone scores 9 hits, but only S4 and the presence of the banner of sacrifice get only one damage, resulting in a casualty (
DP suppurating plate damage). Cultists fail to scratch T5 Mephy.
Into the combat:
Librarian dreadnought has WS2 S10
AP-4
D4 (artisan of war) and 6 attacks which wound on 2 make 16 unsaved wounds. What a waste. Rhino explodes on a roll of 6! Causing only 1 damage even with a re-roll stratagem. 7 wounds left on the
BA warlord. Explosion kills also a plague marine model.
Mephy kills three cultists.
SG fists fail to get wounds through T7
Inv 5+ DR 5+. Ancient and
SG get 4 damage through after those disgusting saves.. No explosion, not even with a re-roll. Should have used the stratagem..
Astorath kills Typhus with two wound rolls of 6 and failed Invul. & DR.
DC swing their fists at the poxwalkers and this time Astorath's re-roll to hit aura comes into play killing 5 poxwalkers, last poxwalkers successfully DR's the killing blow.
Cultists consolidate towards Mephy and within coherency.
BA SCORES 2VP for objectives. Totaling at 7VP so far (+5 from kill points coming after the game)
Pic: End of T2. No more Typhus or bloat-drone.
PIc: Overview of T2 from the
DG side of the board.
Turn 3: Death Guard
In the movement phase cultists dispatch from the combat with the Mephiston and align in a better angle to cover two objectives. Last bloat-drone goes towards the
DC to get a kill point. Chaos lord and the lone champion make their run for the other ruin to hold the objective with stronger numbers. Plaguecaster moves within 18" of the melee plague marines facing the Librarian dreadnought. Disembarked elites and the melee plague marines from the chaos rhino move around the objective and the
BA warlord. Lone poxwalker runs for cover.
Pic: End of
DG movement, chaos lord and champion's heroic run.
In the psychic phase plaguecaster manifests blades of putrefaction on the melee plague marines.
In the shooting phase the bloat-drone toasts the remaining two
DC. Tallyman wounds the dreadnought with his plasma pistol. Foul blightspawn scores two unsaved wounds with 4x S5 (after re-roll) shots (3 damage each). Enemy warlord has been slain unexploded.
Bloat-drone doesn't charge Astorath.
DG SCORES 5VP, 4 for objectives and slay the warlord. (+2 for kill points). Grand total is 13VP + 4 for kill points)
Turn 3: Blood Angels
SG ancient stays within 3" of the objective while
SG goes to aid Astorath against the bloat-drone. Twin assault cannon razorback move within 24" of the chaos lord. Other units remain stationary.
Pic: End of
BA move,
SG closing on the bloat-drone and the
BA warlord is no more.
Mephy smites three cultists. Burns the last
CP doing so. Mephy fails unleash rage.
In the shooting
SG shoots the inferno pistols wounding twice at the bloat-drone and the angelus boltguns at the cultists killing another two. Mephy kills one more cultists with it's plasma. Morale roll of 1 kills only one more cultists, seven left.
Sniper scouts go for the chaos lord for just scratches.
Devastator squads nails the lone champion with heavy weaponry.
Razorback shots it's BS5 (mid-bracket and movement) twin assault cannon causing two wounds on the lord.
Second devastator squad finishes the chaos lord from the existence.
SG model gets a single wound from the plaguespitters while assaulting. Astorath and
SG engage the cultists and the bloat-drone.
Pic: Charges are successful and power of
BA shooting can be seen on the diminished cultists blob.
Mephy kills two cultists. Five left and next turns coherency movement makes the cultists lose atleast one objective.
Astorath's hits end up saved by invulnerability.
SG score 4 wounds with fists and encarmine swords score 5 more, it's a dead unexploded bloat-drone.
BA SCORE 2VP, both for objectives. (1 kill point coming from drone) Grand total is 15 points.
Turn 4: Death Guard
Lone Poxwalkers goes for the objective in the building secured by the
SG, but over 1" away from the
SG models. Cultists get into coherency and dispatch from melee. Melee
PM move within cover and hold the midfield objective. Blightspawn move towards the
SG ancient.
Pic: End of
DG move, foulblight spawn is closing on the ancient.
One supercharged plasma shot is made with the only in range
PM which does two damage to a razorback.
No charges.
DG SCORES 4VP from objectives. Totaling 17 (+4 from kill points) Grand total of 21VP so far.
Turn 4: Blood Angels
Limbing razorback reverses outside the plasma range and puffs smoke.
SG close in on the cultists and Astorath's job is to finish the poxwalker.
Pic:
SG move up for another prey. So far they have killed a
DP and two bloat-drones, with a single casualty.
In the shooting angelus boltguns shred the remaining cultists.
All the sniper and heavy weapon shots go for the
PM squad in the building. Snipers mortally wound 1 plague marine. Plasma cannons kill two more. Lascannons from devastators and razorback kill three more. Leaving the champion left. Morale roll of 5 wipes the whole squad.
In the charge phase Astorath finishes the lone poxwalker.
BA SCORES 4VP from objectives. (+3 from kill points) Grand total of 13+9 is 22VP so far.
Death Guard has only the malignant plaguecaster, foul blightspawn, biologus putrifier, Tallyman and the 7man melee plague marines left. Odds seem very thin at the moment for the
DG player to find ways for victory.
Turn 5: Death Guard
Malignant plaguecaster castles up in the ruins to hold the objective as long as possible. Foul blightspawn moves within torching range of the
SG ancient.
Malignant plaguecaster manifests putrescent vitality on himself.
Foul blightspawn does 4 S6 auto hits, wounding with 3, 1 armour save, but two get through. Banner saves 2, but the 4 unsaved wounds is enough to kill the
SG ancient.
DG scores 2VP for objectives. (and +1 for kill points.)
GT is 24 so far. If the game ends T5,
BA will win, they'll score atleast 4 from objectives..
Turn 5: Blood Angels
SG move towards the blightspawn while Astorath and Mephiston remain witih 3" of the objectives.
Pic: Last "mission" for the
SG. Will the foul blightspawn endure and kill spray the golden carcasses in the overwatch.
In the psychic phase Mephiston gives the
SG unleash rage.
SG shoot at the blightspawn causing only a single wound.
Left flank opens fire on the plaguecaster. Super-charged plasma cannons score 3 wounds. And the lascannons finish him off.
In the overwatch blightspawn's two S4 auto-hits manage to kill one. Fists manage to kill the blightspawn.
BA SCORES 4VP for objectives (+2 for kill points)
GT at 28 against 24 of the
DG. Game ends for a roll of 2.
So, there you go, hope someone reached the bottom to read this