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Had me a game of Planetstrike last night (Sunday) against my mates Plague Marines. I've beaten the Plague Marines before with Orks in a normal game of 40k, but without numbers on my side will I win?

http://imperiusdominatus.blogspot.com/2009/11/battle-report-imperial-fists-vs-plague.html - pictures in the link :cool:

Imperial Fists

1 x Captain - relic blade, storm shield & artificer armour

1 x Chaplain - terminator armour

1 x Master of the Forge - conversion beamer

5 x Terminators - assault cannon

5 x Assault Terminators - 2 x lightning claws & 3 x thunder hammers

8 x Sternguard - 2 x combi meltas

10 x Tactical Marines - plasma gun & plasma cannon - sgt w/ power fist

10 x Tactical Marines - missile launcher & meltagun

1 x Dreadnought - heavy flamer & storm bolter

1 x Dreadnought - assault cannon & storm bolter

1 x Dreadnought - assault cannon & storm bolter

1 x Dreadnought - assault cannon & storm bolter

1 x Dreadnought - assault cannon & heavy flamer




Plague Marines

1 x Daemon Prince - MoN & warptime

1 x Sorcerer - lash of submission

1 x Sorcerer - lash of submission

1 x Greater Daemon

8 x Plague Marines - 2 x melta guns - champ w/ power fist

8 x Plague Marines - 2 x melta guns - champ w/ power fist

8 x Plague Marines - 2 x plasma guns - champ w/ power fist

2 x Obliterators

2 x Obliterators

2 x Obliterators



Chaos gets 7 firestorm templates in total, after the destruction a dreadnought loses a dccw, few barricades are broken and two marines from the plasma gun combat squad are killed.

The entire army deep strikes, 3 units of plague marines and 2 raptor squads deep strike in. Only one raptor squad scatters and is mis-placed on the mishap table in dangerous terrain. Two raptors are killed in the dangerous terrain, and one plague marine from the plasma squad is killed by the interceptor quad guns.



In the first turn of chaos shooting two assault cannon dreadnoughts are destroyed, the sternguard bastion is wrecked and both combi melta sternguard are killed in the explosion :(



In the Fists first turn the sternguard take a pinning test, and fail. Combat plasma squad moves towards the raptors in the dangerous terrain and the captain and assault terminators move out the gun pit. The three remaining dreadnoughts move through cover to the plague marine squads.

In the shooting phase the the plasma cannon fires at the nurgle plasma squad, it lands on target and kills all but one of them! One of the melta plague marine squad takes a few wounds, and the heavy flamer dreadnought burns and charges the other raptor squad and kills them all.



Turn 2


All remaining chaos forces arrive from reserve. All plague marine squads move into the craters, both sorcerers dettach from the units and move into cover also. The raptors move out of dangerous terrain, the one armed with the melta gun is killed.

In the shooting phase the two obliterators which levelled the bastion the sternguard held wiped out the sternguard with mass plasma cannon fire. One sorcerer uses lash of submission on the captain and assault terminators and lashes them away from the daemon prince by 6". One plague marine squad fires melta guns at the ironclad dreadnought and pops it. Two obliterators fire at the heavy flamer dreadnought, but do nothing. The raptors shoot at the remaining plasma gun combat squad and kill all put the sgt.

In the assault phase the greater daemon charges against a assault cannon dreadnought, the dreadnought explodes and the daemon suffers one wound. The daemon prince charges and destroys the entire plasma cannon combat squad. The two obliterators charge the heavy flamer dreadnought, one is insta-killed after failing its invulnerable save and the dreadnought suffers a crew stunned result. The raptors assault the sgt and suffer one wound, but pass morale and stay in combat.



The fists attempt to strike back, but efforts are futile and hardly any damage is done. Though one obliterator is killed which deep striked in at the start of the turn.

In combat the power fist sgt gets killed by the raptors.


Turn 3

Most forces move towards the remaining bastion.

In the shooting phase the solo obliterator fires and wrecks the bastion. The other two obliterators which previously killed the sternguard fire at the assault terminators, killing one and putting two wounds on the captain, though one of the sorcerers lashes and moves the assault terminators only 3".

In assault the daemon prince and solo obliterator charge the tactical squad and master of the forge in the bastion ruins, a few marines are killed by chaos suffers no wounds at all. The greater daemon charges the heavy flamer dreadnought and scores weapon destroyed result, though the obliterator is killed.

In the fists turn the captain and assault terminators fail leadership test as took 25% damage, and fall back 7" off the table! The other terminator unit moves towards the bastion, but are out of range of doing any real damage.

In the shooting phase the terminators fire at a plague marine squad, but do little damage.

In assault the greater daemon and single obliterator kill the master of the forge and tactical squad. The greater daemon also wrecks the heavy flamer dreadnought.



Plague Marines win capturing two objectives and the Imperial Fists have one surviving unit!

Fantastic report and great pictures. I would have kept those SM Terminators in reserve and used deep strike to get them where you needed them. Brilliant Chaos attack - came from behind and left the Terminators out of the battle for the most part.

It was a good attack and while I stated that impassable terrain lies around the entire board edge, except for the far side I should have said impassable terrain is extends up to the edge of the bastions as well - perhaps should have thought of that!

The terminators I did think of keeping in reserve, but wasn't sure and I was hoping for mass assault cannon spam on first turn. The chaos player had very very good luck deep striking with only one mishap!

It was a good game, and chaos did well.

The god of Nurgle was indeed smiling on me with regards to my deepstriking. I was expecting severe casualties what with my strike being so close to the edge of the board.
It could have just as easily gone the other way.
I guess chance really does favour the brave.

Wow...as I've always seen, oblits wrecked house.
Cool game, wonderful to see that yellow smeared off the board

you should have used refused flank to keep them from coming in behind you.

Nice report.

If it was Blue i would agree with you Santjud, but i like the Fists.

Aye a few things I could have done differently. Though I will say Chaos had a lot of luck deep striking lol.

Cool report, Imperial Fist armies look really impressive on the field

Cheers dude!

Plague Marines win.

Huge surprise.

jk but cool report.

and kudos to that smart maneuver by the PM player, Termies were useless this game!