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2014/12/11 00:20:19
Subject: 8000 points. Last old codex Blood Angel video batrep.
Decided to have a nice send-off to the old codex with an all-day 8000 point game.
The premise: I would only bring Blood Angel codex entries. No allies, knights, reaver, or anything else. I would try to include pretty much everything iconic from the codex. (except Lemartes because even in an 8k army, old jp death company are still priced TOO DAMN HIGH.) Also, going along with that, the BA switched to using 5th/6th psychic rules to get their book-powers back. Lastly, owing to their assaulty nature, the Blood Angels would be undeployed but allowed to walk on first turn.
Given the size of the battle, we just did turn recaps instead of having another 5 hour batrep like the 8k one from our narrative. :x
The opponents were 4300 points of counts-as Salamanders, and 3700 points of Dark Eldar. I don't have their lists, but they're explained in the video.
BA list, along with how they fared at the end of the battle.
-Dante with jp libby (lv 1, blood lance and shield powers,) jp reclusiarch, jp priest with power sword, full assault squad with two melta and power fist sarge. (830) -Mostly dead at end of battle by concentrated fire from half a table, Dante and rec still alive.
-Astorath with jp libby (lv1, sword and shield powers,) jp priest with power sword, full assault squad with two melta and power fist sarge. (670) -Mostly dead at end of battle by incubi assault, Astorath, priest, and libby still alive.
-Jp libby (lv1, sword and shield powers,) jp priest with power axe, jp reclusiarch, full assault squad with two melta and power fist/plasma pistol sarge. (635) -dead at end of battle by massive concentrated fire.
-Sanguinary guard, 3 swords, 2 axes. (200) -couple swords alive at the end about to join Dante.
-Vanguard Vets with packs. storm shield/power sword sarge, 1 2x lightning claws guy, 6 bp/chainsword. (305) -Full strength, about to come in and wreck something.
-Sanguinor. Power axe sarge in Seth's squad below got the buff. (275) -dead by small arms fire
-Mephiston. (250) -dead by massive poison barrage, plus an early perils and plasma overheat.
-Gabriel Seth with bro. Corbulo, full assault squad with two melta and power axe sarge with sangy buff in land raider redeemer. (695) -untouched, redeemer down a flamestorm cannon and 1 hull point left.
-Reclusiarch with 12 bp/chainsword death company, and 3 pfist death company, in land raider crusader. (755) -half strength or so, crusader untouched.
-Stormraven bringing 5 lightning claw termies, a bare priest, and an AC/heavy flamer dread. (575) -infantry almost dead, dread in bad shape, raven doin' fine.
-Stormraven bringing 5 th/ss termies, a bare priest, and an AC/heavy flamer dread. (600) -Everything unscratched.
-Tycho and 9 Sternguard vets in a drop pod with deathwind launcher. (465) -dwindled sternguard, but Tycho unwounded. Drop pod fine.
-Furioso with frag cannon, melta, and magna grapple in drop pod. (175) -untouched. Drop pod fine.
-Furioso with melta/heavy flamer and blood talons in a drop pod. (170) -blown up 1st turn. Drop pod fine.
-Furioso with melta/heavy flamer and blood talons in a drop pod. (170) -untouched. Drop pod fine.
-Predator with sponson lascannons. (135) -untouched.
-Predator with sponson lascannons. (135) -untouched.
-Devastators with 4 Missile launchers. (130) -1 launcher left.
-Devastators with 4 Missile launchers. (130) -untouched.
-Whirlwind. (90) -2 hull points left.
-Baal Predator with AC/heavy flamer sponsons. (145) -wrecked by land raider ramming
-5 man tactical squad with bp/chainsword sarge in razorback (145) -untouched.
-5 man tactical squad with bp/chainsword sarge in razorback (145) -untouched.
Spoiler:
-Sorta sad that they gave up when there was still so much happening on the field. Should've expected it though, as the dark eldar guy is our group's famous "give up in 30 seconds" guy. Never got to bring in the vanguard vets for an assault out of deep strike, and never got to swing in with blood talons from the blender-osos.
-Tycho and the sternguard had a huge advantage going into that combat early, but kept whiffing bigtime, which gave them time to bring more dudes in. Seth's full strength squad was about to put an end to those shenanigans though.
-The frag cannon furioso got to lay his templates across two dark eldar raiders at once, and rolled unbelievably bad on hitting guys inside. Like snake eyes on one and a 3 on the other. He at least blew up with first raider with the magna grapple though. He was another unit about to take a fun turn (there were more full raiders nearby packed together) when they gave up.
-The highlight of the battle was miraculously caught on camera, just because I wanted to show off DC overkill. And then they almost didn't wipe him out. After recounting in the video, it was 34 saves that were left for the captain to take.
-I've mentioned before on dakka about how my Mephiston only has 3 wounds, because I perils right off the bat every game, and I take a wound from his plasma pistol every game. Guess what? My record holds true. He literally periled and took a wound from overheating in 100% of games I used him from the time this book came out to the very last game with it. If there has ever been a fail more epic, I have not seen it.
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