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This was the 1st battle of a 5 battle campaign between a friend and me.
Our overall Campaign rules are here - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/659504.page

His army is referred to as the Ryzan Forces or (RF) and for this game was made up of:


Mine is referred to as the Lone Gryphonnes or (LG) and for this game was made up of:

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The Lone Gryphonnes made Planetfall and were beginning to secure their foothold in the city when the Ryzan Forces viciously fell upon them.
(Hammer and Anvil Deployment)

The Ryzan Forces wished to seize, and therefore deny, ammunition caches and supply stashes before the Lone Gryphonnes could make use of them.
The Lone Gryphonnes wished to secure as many caches and stashes as possible because they were now in effect stuck behind enemy lines.
(4 objectives (2 placed by each player) worth 1 VP each)

A power station lay in the centre of the battlefield and would be a significant advantage to any war effort, so both sides wished to control it.
(Critical objective worth 3 VP)

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Turn 1 Summary:

Turn 2 Summary:

Turn 3 Summary:

Turn 4 Summary:
Turn 5 Summary:


Game Ends.

LG have technical victory (2VP from objectives versus 0VP for RF)
Whilst the Lone Gryphonnes suffered disproportionately high casualties in this opening battle, they successfully secured an ammunition cache and a supply stash before extracting. The Ryzan Forces whilst having not completed their objectives, have forced the LG from the field and deeper into the city.

Casualties (based on pts cost)
RF - 37%
LG - 65%

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IC AAR

Concentrated enemy armour prevented any breakout attempt and saturation bombardment from their heavy support elements made our position untenable. We sustained heavy casualties during extraction but managed to secure valuable objectives.

OOC AAR

I should not have won that battle; my army was basically obliterated and didn't deal much damage in return. His army washed over my position quite easily.
If the game had gone on for another turn I would have definitely lost; his Chapter Master would have cleaned up my Veterans and seized the Critical Objective and his Knight would have cleaned off at least one of my rear objectives.

My worst mistake was placing the Land Raider too far forward (he took most of the enemy fire, including two rounds of shooting from a Knight Errant) and so I lost just under a quarter of my points which didn't even achieve anything. After that I was focussed purely on survival and was unable to accomplish much.

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Thanks for reading if you've gotten this far!
I haven't uploaded many pictures because our armies aren't complete in terms of painting and/or assembly and our terrain is more imagination than model!

Any constructive criticism or thoughts would be great. We've just finished our second game and I will be writing that up soon (TM).
Thanks again, Otto.