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Aloha and welcome to another Morehammer Battle Report.

This battle was intended to break in my new Grey Knights Army.

We played allied forces of Grey Knights and Blood Angels Vs Thousand Sons and a Tzeentch heavy Daemon army.

All Icons, Psychic Powers, Apothecary-bubbles etc. were shared.

Each player fielded 2,000 points, the set up was Spearhead and the mission was Capture and Control.

THE LISTS:

Dave`s Blood Angels:
Chaplin
Jump Pack Apothecary
Terminator Apothecary
Honor Guard with 4 Plasma guns in a Drop Pod
Ten man Terminator Squad
Two ten man Jump Pack Squads
Three Rifleman Dreads, one in Drop Pod


Sousou`s Grey Knights (I gave him the honor of debuting my army)
Corteaz
Librarian
Shooty Henchman Squad in Chimera with Corteaz
Assualty Henchman Squad in Chimera
Callidus
Vindicare
Eversor
Ten Man Grey Knight Terminator Squad
Ten Man Purgation Squad with 4 Psy Cannons



V.S.


Aaron's Thousand Sons:
Sorcerer Lord on Disk
9 man Terminator Squad with mark of Tzeentch
Two 9 man Thousand Son, one in a Rhino
Land Raider
Dread with Missile and Twin Las
Dread with Fist and Twin Las
Predator with all Las
Chaos Spawn, Nurgle aesthetic (stress relief for dreads)


Solomon`s (me) Deamons:
Fate Weaver
Two Squads of 9 Flamers
9 Horrors and Changling
8 Blood Letters
12 Seekers of Slaanesh
8 Flesh Hounds including Karnak
Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
Daemon Prince of Khorne

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THE SET UP



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TOP of ROUND ONE

Corteaz takes up position on the imperial objective and the Purgation
Squad takes a lofty perch near the center of the battlefield. They stumble a bit
when trying to get in range of the Land Raider so only two Knights get to shoot
their Psycannons, but still manage to blast it off the table! Awesome!. The 3
Rifleman Dreads emerge from the base of the named perch and begin to pepper the rest
of the Thousand Sons as the monotonous chanting begins to open a hole into realspace.


BOTTOM of ROUND ONE

Fateweaver and part of his host including 18 Flamers spill into realspace as the Thousand Sons retaliate
The Purgation Squad Is Wiped out, except for the Knight who Blew up the Land Raider(and he
goes on to live thorough the rest of the battle At the top of the round, A drop pod landed near the Chaos
objective with a teleport homer which the Sorcerer Lord was eager to silence, but Fateweaver stays his wrath.
"Please, let them come."


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TOP of ROUND TWO

The Blood Angels arrive en masse on the Chaos objective And turn everything they got
On the flamers. Plasma gun wielding Honor guard, a ten man unit of Terminators with two
Assult Cannons (carefully ignoring the Changlings suggestions) and the treachery of the
Callidus only mange to kill four of them!!! I made 85% of my saves even without needing
to use Fateweavers Re-roll!!!.


BOTTOM of ROUND TWO

The counter-attack is severe. only 7 or 8 of the Blood angels remain after being Flamed to death.
My Seekers and the Khorne Daemon Prince show up on the Imperial flank near the Rifleman Dreads
to put the pressure on the Imperial objective. The Thousand Sons continue to push up the middle and
around the opposite flank, all the while providing me with solid icons for summoning my Daemons. The
large unit of Thousand Son Terminators land safely in the middle of the board to begin the push up the
middle of the field.


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TOP of ROUND THREE

The Eversor charges into my unit of Blood Letters to tie them up as The Grey Knight Terminators Show up
to Stop the bulk of the advancing Chaos forces that are coming up the middle. They poured everything they had
into my Khorne Daemon Prince, which in hind site the should have ignored. The Thousand Son Terminators were the bigger
threat because the Librarian was in the Grey Knight Terminator unit and his Dark Excommunication would have
made them better suited to receive charging Deamons.




BOTTOM of ROUND THREE

The Thousand Sons Terminators Ignore the Justicar Terminators challenge to engage them in combat and simply steps
back and fires as they await Fateweavers guidance. The Seekers of Slaanesh, tied up with one of the Rifleman Dread,
continues to struggle to get to the Imperial objective. The opposite flanking Thousand Sons in the Rhino are repelled
by Corteaz and his three Plasma Cannon Servitors and Two Jokearo in one of the Chimera. The Imperial objective will be hard to
reach by the end of the game because the Blood Angels sold their lives dearly (and bravely) to slow down The daemonic forces.


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TOP of ROUND FOUR

The other Chimeras with four Crusaders, 3 Death Cult Assassins, 3 Arco-flagellants and two Eviscerator-wielding
Banishers advance to serve as a counter measure for the Grey Knight Terminators who, despite thier best effots, do
not prevail against the Fateweaver influenced Thousand Sons Terminators, and in return are finished off, Librarian and all.
The Imperial Forces Still have a strong hold on their own objective, but if the game continues beyond the 5th turn
They may be in trouble.


BOTTOM of TURN FOUR

The forces of Chaos give up on the flanking maneuvers and take the battle right up the middle of the board. But with only Corteaz,
the Henchmen units, 2 Rifleman Dreads and a Ten Man Squad of Blood Angel Jump Packs, Dave And Sousou concede victory
and settle for a draw.




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ANALYSIS

Whew!!! What a hard fought game!!! The next time around, I will need to test my daemons one-on-one against the Grey Knights. Having Icons on the board
from turn one and avoiding the Grey Knights made it easy for the Daemons to stay in the game. Also, Dave's gamble of trying to wipe out my Flamers on turn two
really hurt his advance force. I probably would have played it a bit more safely by taking the opposite corner with the Blood Angels, then I work my way in
to the objective, perhaps buying more time for the defense of my own objective. But that is just because I am a Sneaky (and cowardly) Tzeentch Daemon player

All in All, a fun game with gracious players. Next time, the match up will be a bit smaller, and I wont have the Thousand Sons to hide behind

Thanks for reading!

By the way, here are some snapshots of my new Grey Knight army. 75% is new stuff that I have just added




Aloha!!!

Great to see you're posting batreps again, Morehammer! It's always a treat to see fully-painted armies duking it out, especially when there are four of them! It's interesting to see what happens when powers/effects are shared across different armies- Thousand Sons suddenly seem that much more viable when Fateweaver is backing them up.

As always, I look forward to your next report.

P.S. I noticed the old Redemptor Kyrinov model in the pic of your Grey Knight army. What will you be using him as?

Awesome bat rep

Excellent battle report. Can't wait for the next one!

Hah. That was a crazy game. I was worn out by then end.

That one unit of flamers withstood shots from an assault squad, a ten man terminator squad with two assault cannons, an honor guard shooting plasma guns, and three dreadnoughts with TL autocannons.

I killed 4... Even the grey knights lost hope after that

Thanks for your hospitality Solomon! We should do another Grey Knight report next week.

Also, this was the first time I saw Aaron's Thousand Sons in their complete splendor. What an awesome army!!

Thanks folks!

And thanks for the correction rdlb, it sounds a lot worse they way you described the inflammable flamers fiasco!

And as for Kyinirov, as he has no rules I will probably use him as a generic Inquisitor. However, he may get some loving from the upcoming Sisters codex, literally and metaphorically

Ha! I forgot about the Callidus too. I hated those things before this game and now I really hate them... because as a marine player I rely on my absurdly good armor save!

What correction?

Beautifully painted armies. Too bad the game ended abruptly. Apocalypse games tends to run twice the duration as a normal game.

Thanks for sharing.

great looking armies I was just wondering what models you used for the crusaders?

dumplingman wrote:great looking armies I was just wondering what models you used for the crusaders?

Hey thanks Dumpling man and everyone else for the appreciations!

For the Crusaders, I simply got 10 plastic Space Marine Scouts, and loped of their arms just below the elbow (at the "glove line" so to speak). Then I too some chaos warrior heads, shields and right-hand weapons, cut off the horns, shaved the surface and cut at the "glove line" respectively. And a sombre color scheme of Scab Red and Scorched Brown with a Delven Mud wash. This was followed by Hawk Turquoise for the weapon and voila!

Epic BatRep

Why no fluff?

Fantastic report and beautifully painted armies! Always nice to see non-typical lists and units hold their own (loved the 9 man flamer units!).

That was a blast to read. I'm glad you are doing these again.

1. You can't get rifle dreads for blood angels.
2. Apocetharies are called sanguinary priests

Did dave use the space marine codex? BLOOD ANGELS HAVE THEIR OWN CODEX FOR THEIR OWN REASON!
Mind you, I wish blood angels have the conversion beamer.

elementbender wrote:1. You can't get rifle dreads for blood angels.
2. Apocetharies are called sanguinary priests

Did dave use the space marine codex? BLOOD ANGELS HAVE THEIR OWN CODEX FOR THEIR OWN REASON!
Mind you, I wish blood angels have the conversion beamer.

Hmmm, says they can in Army Builder I will ask Dave to double check

elementbender wrote:1. You can't get rifle dreads for blood angels.

False.
You can have Rifle dreads for BA

I really think your army deserves some more close-ups and more in-focus photos.
It looks very good, but it's hard to see it very detailed unfortunately.

Great battle, great opponents! Thanks Solomon for letting me hang out @ your place. Great group of peeps over there. cant wait till next time.

the next report needs to have your sharks in it.