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Commander Tristan looked out across the field, intellegence suggested that the last remnants of the ork squadron would be coming towards his forces, all he had to do was wait for them to come to him.
The battle the day before had been grand! Tanks smashing into eachother, Imperial Guardsmen pouring shots into the orks, paving the way for his battle-brothers to charge into the horde.
Well, all that remained of the horde now was some boyz and that good-for-nothing warboss Zugrot with his retinue of meganobz.
He surveyed his own forces, knowing that he would find no flaw there, Tactical Squads Charlie and Echo long since prepared for the battle ahead. Both squads were going to split up, Sergeants Olaf and
Julius going in razorbacks with half of their squads, the other providing covering fire as per the Codex Astartes.
He disliked this waiting before the battle and whispered a litany of calm to himself. To focus he decided to go over his wargear again, armed with the finest the imperium could offer he was confident
that both his lightning claws and jump pack would serve him well, as so many times before.
He was in the middle of his systemscheck when he heard his com cackle "This is Screaming Eagle, the targets have been sighted coming right at you commander, they are about 5 minutes out, over"
Aah, and so it begins Tristan thought to himself
"Be ready Brothers, the enemy is about to stumble upon us!"

And come they did, someone had made a mistake. While there were no armor like reported, the amount of boyz coming forth was far larger than intellegence had suggested.
Each squad had their orders, they would stand fast and wither the orks down with their bolters, any remaining would be mopped up by the Squads in the Transports.

The orks kept running towards the Space Marine lines, singing songs as if they had forgotten the battle the day before.
"Keep steady brothers, start firing on my command" the stern voice of Brother Rufus cut across the comlink, 'He should be up for promotion soon' Tristan thought to himself, quickly purging his mind
of such unimportant thoughts at a time like this...


'An all off a suddin all 'dis boyz started fallin down 'an bleedin around me, I's herd great big dakkas ahead and more boyz died. We had da big groups of boyz so I waz not worried. Wel all uz boyz we
started runnin 'cross to 'da humies in 'da 'eavy armor and so we screamed at them. 'den ere was these 'trukks coming outta behind some hills 'and more boyz started to die. 'dats when da boss shouted
to da deffcoptas to gettem! 'and da 'coptas started shoot 'em wiw 'da rokkits! I sawed one of 'da trukks got shoot up. 'da big shoota still killed boyz but it was stuck to da ground!
But 'fter that 'da big shootas shot our 'deff coptas outta 'da skye. After 'dat Zugrot got angry and 'shouted at us, WHAAAAAAGH! It 'was good gettin pumped up, me wanted to crush humie skulls
together quickly so I started runnin real fast. 'den we all got shot up so much it was nomore fun, we just wanted to get away now, but 'da other humies was chasin after us so 'we had to go on.
And 'den a plane came over 'us and humies came jumpin out off da plane!

"This is vanguard squad Delta, we are closing in on our targets over"
"Good Delta, charge in from behind and prevent any and all orks from fleeing that way"
"Will do commander"
This was turning out better than he could have hoped, one of his Razorbacks was immobilised but it's heavy bolter kept spewing out death whenever it fired into the ork squads, it's passengers had
jumped out and were helping out with bolter fire. Meanwhile the other Razorback had disposed of the orks crude flying machines toghether with squad Echo. Charlie had also inflicted heavy losses on
the orks speeding across the battlefield. More than half the orks was dead or wounded, the rest was desperate and soon their weak eastern flank would be demolished. All that would be left was the
meganobs. Well, he would see to them personally.
Igniting his Lightningclaws he used his jump pack and leapt into one of them, planting both armorshod boots right in it's chest, felling it to the ground he raked his claws across it's face, slicing
the head to a bloody mess. He quickly turned and punched his lightningclaw into the spine of another, making it spasm and flail, one of it's massive arms sped round and clipped Tristan right across
the skull, knocking him unconcious.


'dats when 'da humies boss got knocked on 'da 'ead. We all cheered 'ven though all 'da boyz was gone but me and 'da boss and 'da nobz in 'ard harmor waz still up and runnin.
Boss smashed one of 'da humie shooty wagons 'dat had killed alot of boyz and i don't know what he did, but it blew up! Boss is strong!.
'after 'dat we were almost through da humie battleline, but them all shot us alot and da nobz died. So it was just 'da boss and me left so i ran for it, but I heard da boss scream real loudly at 'da
humies before he was hacked down by da humies 'dat came from the sky.


Not sure how much sense that did to you all =), but I perfer this way of posting a battlereport to the more "normal way" atleast in smaller games.
It was a 750 pts SM vs Orks annihalation game.

Armylists roughly as follows:
Sm:
Captain /w Dual Lightningclaws and Jump pack
2 x Tactical Squads /w Flamer & H.Bolter + Razorbacks /w H.Bolters
Vanguard squad /w Jumppacks and some pw's

Orks:
Masses of Boys and 5 MegaarmorNobs + Warboss in MegaArmor + 2 Deffcoptas /w TL-Rokkits
He lost most of his boys (all but 6 - 7) to my massed bolterfire, my vanguards came in and mopped up the remainders. The nobs walked around wreaking havoc on whatever they reached, so I kept away
from them, shooting, until the game ended (he had 2 nobs left by then)

EDIT: Format was all messed up when ctrl+c'ed from notepad, fixed.

i have to say this far more entertaining that just reading turn1 blah blah blah, gives a little life to it, though more detail would be nice, its a good start that have yet to see too much of, hope to see more

This is my first attempt to write a BR like this, more will come, glad someone liked it

I liked it. Just make it A little longer, K

Great story!

ba ba ba ba ba im lovin it

nice report

While I find the initiative admirable, I think it needs to be written more fluently and in a more uniform fashion, to make it clearer what actually happened and to make the report a more enjoyable read.

For instance, while the choppy and straight forward first-person account might have been in character, having to read "this happened, then that happened, then that happened" for long gets annoying. The change between third and first person, I also do not like - mainly because I feel you could have gotten more across and done so with greater clarity if you had kept to third person writing for the Orks.

Lastly, I'd personally have had an easier time understanding the contents if your army lists had been at the top.

I like your way of writing battle reports

I love these types of battle reports. Did people ever read the old WD battle reports with all the cool lore bits everywhere? You good sir bring a very solid bucket of lore to a battle report and pore it all over. 100% win ;p

The only thing that's lacking is the details into what's going on in the game.