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Transmission: Alpha 4
Subject: Transferius Prima (planet)
Receiver: Grand Marshal Wulfe
Sender: Sergeant Mankor ; special forces, Rednash squad

Today was a day of great grief. Many of our battle brothers died an unnecessary death.
A few days ago we were sent to Transferius Prima, the Prime planet in the Transferius solar system. It is a barren planet, used for mining operations.
Still we don’t really know why we were there. Our librarian said something about a artifact of great importance. I get the shivers every time I see him. Since our battle at Armageddon he had changed. More obsessed, more creepy, more Chaotic. But it is heresy to even think these thoughts.

We made landfall. On the surface the planet looked more desolate then from above. The mining operations are at the other end of the planet and everything looked dead. We started searching the rocks and plants, Zagrof wanted to find the artifact before anyone noticed us. What should notice us here? There’s nothing to notice us, I thought foolishly.

Suddenly there was movement not far from us. Battle formation! Chaos is here!

Deployment(Left to right): Rhino with 5 marines, melta and sarg
Assault terminators with Librarian
Lascannon Dread
Assault cannon Dread
5 man Tac squad
Multimelta Dread

Enemy forces(left to right): 5 man tac squad with missile
Captain alone on the tree
Predator tank
Techmarine behind predator
5 man Tac squad with flamer
Ironclad Dread
Terminator squad with cyclone launcher


We are both somewhat noobish, so the scenario was just to kill each other. We rolled for who began and we deployed. See above. My friend Henk began.

Turn 1:
He began moving his units around somewhat for better shooting purposes. Everything moved generally in my direction except for his cap, pred and techmarine. Yeah he put his captain unguarded on a tree.. With my lascannon dread in front of him.
The shooting began..
One squad of marines rapid fired the sh*t out of my scouts. Or so they thought.. The moving wasn’t beneficial for their shooting as it seemed. They missed almost all shots and what shots hit were saved by the scout armor.
The predator shot at the terminators and caused 2 wounds. And even with a save of 3++ two termies went down. Blown to smithereens, which makes sense of course, it’s a tank fcol.
His terminators launched a missile which destroyed the multi-melta weapon of a dread.
The ironclad dread fired a hunterkiller missile at my assaultcannon dread and stunned it, no shooting for him the next shooting phase.

I wanted to kill the predator and my lasdread was perfect for that. Yeah not.
The scouts sniped 2 marines. Everything moved forward for assaulting purposes except for the lasdread and scouts. Rhino moves as fast as he can towards cover and out of sight of the tank.
The dreads and rhino popped smoke.

Turn 2:
He only moved his ironclad en termies closer to my lines.
The predator takes another terminator down. Marines take down 1 scout. His Ironclad decides to hunterkil the rhino, but misses. Yeeh.

I move my rhino even closer, just like the dreads, terminator squad and my own half marine squad.
All of my shooting proved ineffective or missed.
But then I assault his terminator squad with my mm missing dread! The dread promptly kills 2 terminators and they do nothing in return! They didn’t break.

Turn 3:
He moves his ironclad the wrong way, not towards the fight but towards the assault dread. Everything else just stays put.
He kills 1 scout and the predator explodes my assaultcannon dread.
In combat the dread murders another 2 terminators and the remaining terminator hit a rock.. or something.

I move the rhino a bit and disembark. 2 meltaguns and one tank to kill. The terminators almost come in range for the librarian to use his powers finally. The other half of the marine squad runs about.
The scouts murder another marine. Nothing else is effective.. 3 times in a row I miss with my lasdread!
Combat sees the last terminator fall to a hit of the dread.

Turn 4:
He moves his healthy half of the marine squad towards my melta squad. The ironclad still wanders about, now trying to get in range to shoot the rhino.
Predator tries to hit the rhino, hits a bird instead. His marines rapid fire and kill 1 of my marines.

I move my meltasquad closer to his tank and the rhino out of the way. The assault terminators walk a little bit further. My termiekilling dread runs towards the ironclad.
The scouts make short work of the remaining 2 marines, while the meltasquad immobilizes the pred. One short moment later the predator is in flames, the lasdread finally wrecked it.
Meanwhile the librarian decides to smite a marine.

Turn 5:
Well as he loses things left and right he decides to try and kill as much as he can. He moves his marine squad in flamer range. His ironclad towards my lasdread.
He kills 2 of my meltasquad and try to assault them, only to realize that isn’t possible with rapid firing. His captain still stands on top of the tree and headshots another marine.

In my turn I move my lasdread and mm dread towards his ironclad. The termies and librarian towards his marines and scouts around the tree.
My lasdread aims and instantly kills the lone captain. That’s what you call a headshot! The meltasquad kill 1 marine as did the smiting librarian.
Librarian squad assaults the lone marine and pulverize him, while consolidating towards the techmarine.

Turn 6:
His ironclad reaches and destroyes my lasdread.
I reached his techmarine and made him history.

Rednash won! I had a dread left on the field.

Just to be clear and avoid confusion
I wrote the report and gave Gallao permission to put it on this forum. The I in the report is Rednash, the He is Galloa.
That's why Galloa put a final sentence at the bottom which says: Rednash won! I had a dread left on the field.

Enjoy!

Kill each other is a great way to play when you are starting out - some of my favorite memories are just fistfuls of dice and youthful enthusiasm :-)

Just take some of that pain to the bad guys now.

I remember "just killl everything and you win" games. The good ole days were great. I get my brother over to house and beat on his sillly blood angels or imperial fists now.