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So a 1500 point match between my Imperial Fists and SonofGuilliman's The Emperor's Word marines. This is my first battle report and I'm sure Blair will post lots of corrections either to his list or to the game. It's semi long and has a decent number of pictures. Props to Blair for his awesome paintjob on The Emperor's Word marines.

Imperial Fist army list:
Captain on Bike w/relic blade
5 xAssault Terminators w/ Land Raider
Ironclad w/seismic hammer, storm bolter and meltagun, in drop pod
9 x Bike Squad w/powerfist, plasmagun and Multimelta attack bike
5 x Tactical Squad w/ power weapon, in Razorback w/ Assault cannon
5 x Tactical Squad w/ power weapon, in Razorback w/ Heavy Bolter
Predator w/ Autocannon and Heavy bolters


Emperor's Word army list:
Librarian in Terminator Armor w/ Avenger & Might of the Ancients
Captain w/ power weapon and Combi-plasma
Command Squad w/ Combi-melta, Apothecary, Company Champion and Standard Bearer
10 x Terminator Squad w/ Assault cannon, Cyclone Missile launcher, 2x Chainfist
Dreadnought w/ Multi-melta and Storm Bolter
10 x Tactical Squad w/ Missile Launcher and Flamer
10 x Tactical Squad w/ Missile Launcher and Flamer


Game type was capture and control with pitched battle deployment, The Emperor's Word won deployment choosing to go first. He placed his objective in one of the corners in the bottom floor of a building and I placed mine near the middle of the board out in the open.

Emperor's Word Deployment:
Blair placed one of his tactical squad in the building with his objective the other half hidden behind terrain near the middle supported by his Dreadnought.The terminators with his librarian were held in reserve to deep strike them and both the Command squad and the Sternguard Squad were placed behind a building in the middle of the board.



Imperial Fist Deployment:
I placed All my transports along the left side of the board as near to his objective as possible, hiding them partially behind my landraider. The predator was placed on a small hill in the very corner on the same side as his objective.
My bikes were combat squaded with one with the melta and plasma near the middle taking cover behind a low hill and the other with my bike captain and sergeant hiding behind a building on the very far side of the board.



Emperor's Word turn 1:
Blairs entire line advanced forward with the dread moving to its left of the ruin, the sternguard moving through the ruin and the command squad moving to the right. Both Tactical Squads stayed stationary and fired off krak missile shots on my razorbacks, failing to do any damage. His melta dread does manage to pick off one of my bikers but that is the only casualty of his shooting.


Imperial Fist turn 1:
My drop pod dropped in right between his tactical squad and dread deploying the ironclad partially behind the drop pod, the rest of my army moves up with the heavy bolter razorback coming to my right towards my objective. Both bike squads move up towards his dreadnought with my captains bike squad moving behind a building out of line of sight. The shooting phase was more eventful with my Ironclad destroying his dreadnought and the predator, razorback and landraider combining for 3 kills on the tactical squad on his objective.



Emperor's Word turn 2:
The terminator's fail to arrive from reserve keeping a large chunk of blairs forces off the board. The command squad advances towards the land raider and the sterguard move towards the multi melta bike squad killing all but the plasma gun biker in their ensuing shooting phase. A krak missile from one of the tactical squads connects with the assault cannon razorback wrecking it forcing the marines to hop out, and the other krak missile fails to damage the ironclad.

Imperial Fist turn 2:
The plasmagun biker moves across the board looking to soften up the command squad for the assault terminators... but instead blows himself up with 2 failed gets hot rolls. The landraider shuffles a bit back from the command squad dropping a marine with a lascannon shot and the now footslogging tactical squad takes cover behind it.The razorback on the right is repositioned even closer to my objective, while the ironclad assaults the sternguard and the Captains bike squad assaults his closest tactical squad. With no melta bombs or power fists the sternguard have no way of damaging the ironclad and suffer 3 losses and fail to retreat from combat, while the bikes annihilate the tactical squad consolidating back towards the middle of the board.



Emperor's Word turn 3:
The terminators arrive and deep strike pretty much right on top of my objective, dropping 2 bikes and putting a wound on my Captain with there shooting. The command squad advances ever closer to the landraider and manages to get its single combimelta shot into it from half distance blowing it up unloading the assault terminators but failing to do any damage from the explosion. The tactical squad on his objective manages to stun the dakka predator, stopping it from shooting for the next turn.



Imperial Fist turn 3:
The assault terminators and the 5 man tactical squad advance on the command squad and move into assault with them. The heavy bolter razorback and its tactical squad fire into the terminators, while the Captains bike squad charge into assault with them. The assaults do not go well for blair. His Captain manages to miss on all of his attacks and the command squad only inflicts 1 wound on the Assault terminators and are wiped out. In the other assault things do not fare much better as both of his chainfists are tied up with the bikes and only his sergeant and 1 powerfist terminator are able to put attacks onto the ironclad failing to do any damage, and even worse the remainder of his terminators and librarian do poorly and only manage to kill my bike captain. In return between the combined firing of all the squads and the assault 6 terminators are killed while failing to retreat from the combat.

Thunder hammers... not good for your health...


Emperor's Word turn 4: With only 2 squads left on the board blair doesn't really have much to do he fires his bolters into the nearest tactical squad killing one and continues to do poorly in the combat with the ironclad and the bikes killing only 1 biker. In return the ironclad and the sergeant crush another 4 terminators between the two of them leaving only the librarian fighting them by himself.


Imperial Fist turn 4: The assault terminators and tactical squad advance on the squad on the objective failing to make it into combat, but the fire from the predator and heavy bolter razorback drop a couple more marines from the squad leaving only 4 holding the objective. The assault between the ironclad, biker sergeant and the librarian continues with the librarian failing to do any damage to the ironclad and then getting dropped by the seismic hammer.


At this point the game was over, his marines proceded to charge my terminators in the next turn and were killed. It was a good game, and I got very lucky while fighting the terminators, since both chainfists were on one side of the combat and blair got fairly unlucky doing very little damage with all of his powerfist attacks. Next time I will try to have a much larger portion of my army painted, I don't normally use bikers so they haven't been high on my priority list of things to finish. Hopefully I can get another battle report with some more interesting , and better quality pictures up after this weekend.
Twalks.

Cool batrep.
I kinda expected blair to win because of his larger tac squads in an objective based game.

oggers wrote:Cool batrep.
I kinda expected blair to win because of his larger tac squads in an objective based game.

He wasn't mechanized and the IF guy was.... he kinda lost before the game started lol. Especially since it was objectives

Good batrep though.

Ya both armies are a bit WIP Blair hasn't bought any tanks yet so being able to maneuver could be a problem.. I know some people think footslogging isn't the worst thing, and the vehicles I did have didn't do a whole heck of a lot to be honest..

I've got some plans for next time that won't require me to be mechanized. Hopefully the plans are sound.

SoG

dam i wish we did from reports from the games on sunday we had some close ones