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More of a highlight reel than a report, but Apoc games take long enough as it is, right?

ARMY LISTS (approximate)
SM-
Chapter Master with Artificer Armor, Relic blade, and Boltgun
Chaplain with Terminator Armor
Captain with Terminator Armor, Thunder Hammer, Storm Shield
Terminator Squad (10) with 2 Assault Cannons
Terminator Squad (10) with 1 H. Flamer, 1 Assault Cannon
Scout squad (5) with Heavy Bolter, Teleporter Homer
Tactical Squad (10) with Meltagun, Missile Launcher, Plasma Pistol
Tactical Squad (10) with Plasmagun, Plasma Cannon, Plasma Pistol, in drop pod
Tactical Squad (10) with Flamer, Lascannon
Venerable Dreadnought with Extra Armor
Bike Squad with 2 Meltaguns, Sgt. Power Sword
Assault Squad (5) with Sgt. Power Sword and Combat Shield
Assault Squad (5) with Sgt. Power Sword
Predator Annihilator tank with Extra Armor, Pintile-mounted Storm-bolter, and H/K missile

IG-
Company Command Squad with Lord Castellan Creed, Medic, Regimental Banner, and Voxcaster
Commissar Yarrick
Stormtrooper Squad (10) with Plasmagun, Grenade Launcher, and Sgt. Power Sword.
Ratling sniper team (4)
Ratling sniper team (3)
Guardsman Marbo
Platoon Command Squad with Voxcaster, Medic, 2 Flamers
2 Infantry Squads with 2 Voxcasters
Platoon Command Squad with Voxcaster, Missile Launcher team
4 Infantry Squads with 4 Voxcasters and 3 Flamers
Veteran Squad with Demolitions, Grenadiers, 3 Meltaguns, in a chimera with a dozerblade.
Veteran Squad with Demolitions, Grenadiers, 3 Grenade Launchers, in a chimera with a dozerblade.
Veteran Squad with Demolitions, Grenadiers, 2 Plasmaguns, in a chimera with a dozerblade.
Armored Sentinel with Lascannon, HK Missile, and Smoke Launchers
Leman Russ Vanquisher with Knight Commander Pask, Lascannon, H. Bolter sponsons, dozerblade
Leman Russ Executioner with Lascannon, Plasma Sponsons, dozerblade


TURN 0: Pre-game
-Time limit set, game started at 10 PM and ends at 2 AM (Had to wait for the kids to be in bed!).
-Imperial Guard declare Strategic Asset: Flank March
-Space Marines declare Strategic Asset: Precision Strike
-No Man's Land and Terrain Configured
-Imperial Guard deploys first, gets first turn.
-Imperial Guard holds 3 Vet Squads in Chimeras and Sentinel in reserve, along with marbo.
-SM hold Terminator squads in reserve, along with a drop pod of tactical marines.



Game Board, Pre-Deployment



After IG Deployment



Game Board, After SM Deployment

TURN 1:
-IG moves aggressively, and takes out the dreadnought on the first round of shooting. Mortars fail to inflict significant damage. The Vanquisher also snap-fires at the Predator through cover, successfully destroying it.
-SM counter-attack with much vigor, their assault squads ripping through a pair of infantry squads. The squads manage to retreat to a safe distance without being caught in a sweeping advance. The Chapter master calls an Orbital Strike on the Executioner, which hits, but fails to penetrate the tank's thick armor. Other shooting is only minimally successful.



The Front Lines, Turn 1



Sniper's Lookout



End of Turn 1



TURN 2:
-IG reinforcements arrive: a Chimera with the Plasmagun Vets and Guardsman Marbo. Due to Flank March, the Chimera comes onto the table in the enemy deployment zone.
-IG sweeps infantry aside with massed FRFSRF orders. Both SM assault squads perish in a fusillade of lasgun fire.
-The executioner destroys an entire combat squad in a single salvo from its main cannon.
-Marbo tosses a demo charge, killing three out of five marines in a combat squad. Sniper fire takes out the other two, removing them from the objective.
-SM reinforcements arrive, a single drop-pod of tactical marines as well as a Captain in terminator armor with a thunderhammer and storm shield. The pod marines take an objective.
-The bikes boost hard in a gambit to contest one of the IG-held objectives in the IG deployment zone.
-A lascannon shot shakes the crew of the chimera that just came on-board.



The Chimera flank marches by the downed Predator



He's right behind you!



End of Turn 2

TURN 3: Last Turn
-The remaining IG reinforcements come on-board. Flank-marching enables them to take key positions and secure more objectives.
-The shaken chimera tank-shocks a lone lascannon gunner from the board.
-SM Biker's gambit did not pay off as they were gunned down by combined fire from a stormtrooper squad and an infantry squad.
-Combined sniper fire wounds the captain in terminator armor.
-SM opposition is eliminated from another objective.
-Fire from multiple sides eliminates half of the drop-pod squad. A scattered shot from a plasma sponson strikes the drop-pod, and by stroke of luck, detonates it with a 2” blast radius. This causes 4 wounds to the remaining squad members, of which only 2 wounds are saved by armor. The squad's morale breaks, sending them fleeing from the objective.



The Biker's Gambit



Surrounded



End of Turn 3

With the time limit reached, and only 2 scoring units left in the SM army vs. the 11 scoring units left in the IG army, the SM player concedes. Deepstriking SM might have been able to shake a few defenders from objectives, but with the IG holding 4 out of 6 objectives and contesting 1, there was little hope of pulling even a tie out of this one.

cool pics and play by play. by 6000pts do you mean per side or total on the table?

Total on-table, it was about 3000 points per side.

Were you playing your wife?? or a mate in the new year I intend to unleash apocalypse again a Imperial Guard and Space Marines Vs Orks and Chaos.

Should be good.

Thanks for this great battle report. Pictures were fine, adding depth to the report. Also your partly custom terrain couldn't have been much better!

One thing disappointed me though: the valiant space marines were mercilessly decimated, not being able to do anything. ;(

@ B_P:
I was playing my wife (poor thing's grasp of tactics and strategy is not that great).

@ Zaephyr:
Yes, the IG getting the first round of shooting did not do the SM any favors. After losing two big chunks of the list's points in that predator and the dreadnought, there was little they could do to stop the avalanche.

Ive tried to play my wife may do so soon Apocalypse may be the way to go with that game as its fun and mindless carnage.

But alas I may end up playing my regular opponent...

Carpet floor table FTW

Good report.

Trying playing with more formations or large models. I think you'll find it adds a lot to the game.

Ugh I've used carpet floor before. I have to commend you for your patience. If I did that nowadays, with two Chows in the house I'd end up spending a week cleaning dog hairs off my miniatures(even after vacuuming ten times) Picts were good but it seemed the spacemarines were hurting for mobility from the start.

Yeah, the poor lighting is because I have to wait for the kids to go to bed. I keep the dog out of the living room with a baby gate. If I had a kitchen table I would have used it! But alas, I don't.

Hehe I was wondering what you used for your table surface, thinking "Those are nice cobblestones." Then I brought my focus out a bit and saw the heaters and table legs ended on the same surface.
Nice report, and a fun battle it seems.