1500 points battle report - Hammer and anvil deployment - Mission: Dominate and destroy
Blood Angels
Batallion
Captain > thunder hammer > inferno pistol > death visions of the sanguinius
Librarian > Angel's wing > force stave > unleash rage > wings of sanguinius
5x scouts > 4x boltgun > heavy bolter
5x scouts > 5x boltgun
5x tacticals > melta gun > combi-melta & chainsword on sergeant
Razorback > twin assault cannon > storm bolter
Sanguinary ancient > angelus boltgun > encarmine sword > standard of sacrifice > Warlord: Heroic bearing
7x sanguinary guard > 2x inferno pistol & power fist > 5x angelus boltgun & encarmine sword
Spearhead
Lieutenant > master-crafted boltgun > chainsword
Predator > predator autocannon > lascannon sponsons
Predator > predator autocannon > lascannon sponsons
5x devastators > cherub > missile launcher > lascannon > plasma cannon
Death Guard
Batallion
Malignant plaguecaster > miasma of pestilence > curse of leper
Chaos lord > power sword > plasma pistol
5x plague marines > 2x plasma gun > blight launcher > plaguesword on champion
5x plague marines > 2x plasma gun > blight launcher > plaguesword on champion
7x plague marines > 5x dual knife > flail of corruption > power fist & plaguesword on champion
Plagueburst crawler > 2x plaguespitters > heavy stubber > plagueburst mortar
Chaos rhino > combi-bolter
Foetid bloat-drone > 2x plaguespitters > plague probe
Foetid bloat-drone > 2x plaguespitters > plague probe
Vanguard
Daemon prince of Nurgle > wings > suppurating plate > 2x malefic talons > Warlord: arch-contaminator > miasma of pestilence
Tallyman
Biologus putrifier
Foul blightspawn
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Pictures of the deployment.
Death guard deploys first, wins the roll of and Blood Angels fail to seize.
Turn 1
Bloat-drones and prince move and advance towards the Blood Angels lines. The chaos rhino embarked with melee oriented plague marines and their elite escort rush forward advancing and puffing smoke. Footslogging plague marines align better around the two objectives while the
PBC holds the third.
Miasma of pestilence is failed on the
PBC. Daemon prince smites three damage to the razorback. Only shooting is from the plagueburst mortar which after a command re-roll manages to kill a single boltgun marine from the devastator squad.
Death guard score 3VP from holding own objectives.
Blood Angels movement is only from a razorback which blocks the driving lane of the chaos rhino.
A librarian descents from the skies deep in the enemy lines.
The librarian fails the cast wings of sanguinius on himself, but successfully smites two damage to the plagueburst crawler only to find that it's disgustingly resilient, double fives on DR rolls. Oh, no is it happening again! Stupid dice against the death guard!
The Blood Angel's gunline still fully operational starts it's shooting. First predator opens it's fire and takes 5 wounds off from the closest bloat-drone. Second predator only gets two wounds through. Razorback opens it's twin assault cannon and storm bolter at the wounded bloat-drone only to scratch some paint. Devastator squad's sergeant yells it's commands and the cherub is used on a double lascannon shots at the
PBC and
ML and the signumized
PC is shot at the wounded bloat-drone. Overcharged plasma cannon drops the bloat-drone to a single wound remaining. Only a disgustingly resilient save saves the bloat-drone from death after a well aimed shot from the sergeant's boltgun. Missile launcher's to hit roll is a 2. No re-roll available. Cursing can be heard from the blood angel's player. Two lascannon shots score five wounds on the
PBC.
Librarian charges the
PBC and after a re-roll a 9 is scored. The librarian moves within an inch of the
PBC and still hiding from the both plasma plague marine squads. No damage from either side.
Blood Angels score 3VP.
Turn 1 summary
Death guard moved to a position to make a second turn breach for the Blood Angels gunline. The razorback's blocking might stall the chaos rhino's contents for it's charge. A bloat-drone withstood a massive amount of shooting from the Blood Angel's player which is at 1 wound left, so no first blood granted. Blood Angel's player managed to charge the
PBC, so no shooting from the
PBC on T2. It's up to prince and his drone to make contact to the gunline.
Blood Angel's player: "How I did not manage to get the first blood?"
Turn 2
In the movement phase the bloat-drones move and advance towards the Blood Angel lines.
Chaos lord closes on the librarian.
Daemon prince moves forward and the chaos rhino circles around the ruins after it has dropped it's whole carg. Daemon prince fails it's miasma of pestilence on himself.
In the shooting the wounded bloat-drone manages to kill a single devastator marine. Second bloat-drone kills only one more thanks to cover. After a re-roll the foul blightspawn only hits once the razorback, but still manages to do 3 damage on the razorback which is now at 4 wounds. Melee plague marines use the veterans of the long war and the blight bombardment on the razorback only to score two more wounds. Razorback is now at 3 wounds. Tallyman fails all three sevenfold chants.
Chaos lord charges the librarian. Both
HQ's manage to do three damage to each.
Melee plague marines charge the razorback. Fist manages to do 2 damage and the flail of corruption finishes the transport once and for all. Daemon prince charges the devastators getting a single wound through overwatch and in the fight kills the remaining devastators and consolidates within 3" of an objective.
Death guard score 7VP, four for objectives and one for first blood and two kill points.
Blood Angel's captain move closer to engage the daemon prince by himself.
Tactical squad move behind the intact bloat-drone.
In the end of the movement phase a golden army descent from the sky within 9" of the melee plague marines.
In the shooting phase captain even with the re-roll to ones from the lieutenant fail to wound the daemon prince within 3". It's happening again! Master-crafted boltgun fails to wound the daemon prince. Predator does 7 damage to the wounded bloat-drone, overkill, eh? destroying it. Tactical squad miss and fail to wound with it's boltguns and meltaguns. The ones are really happening.. *sigh* Second predator opens fire at the closing bloat-drone scoring 6 damage, whoo! Angelus boltguns from the golden descendants stop either to armour or DR saves.
In the charge phase the captain Slamguinius score a double one in the charge distance roll! NOooo!! Command re-roll is used to ensure the charge.
BA player now at 4
CP.
Sanguinary guard ensures it's charge with a descent of the angels (-2CP). Tactical squad charges Tallyman.
Captain scores 5 hits on the prince. Three ones on the wounds, two stay after re-rolls from the lieutenant. Jesus! One mortal wound from the suppurating plate on the captain, but it's denied by the
FnP! Five damage get's through.
DP is at 2 wounds.
BA chooses the
SG to fight first to deny the foul stench from the blightspawn. Nine hits after re-rolls from the encarmine swords. Seven wounds thanks to red thirst against T5. No armour saves made and same goes for DR. a whole squad of plague marines is gone from a single charge of 5/7 sanguinary guard who had to spider leg to get re-rolls from the warlord ancient. Chaos lord hits next and kills the librarian. Tacticals force the Tallyman to make five armour saves who covers them all. Tallyman rolls 6,6,5 for hits so two more hit rolls from the death to the false emperor and yet two more sixes are rolled, but tacticals remain alive. Daemon prince gets one wound off from the captain after invulnerable and
FnP rolls.
That was a brutal second turn. Blood Angels score 4VP from objectives and from two kills. Death guard gets one kill point for killing the librarian.
Score is
DG: 11 to
BA: 7 after two turns.
Turn 3
Death guard's chaos lord makes it way towards an objective hold by plague marines. Chaos rhino moves closer the same objective.
Tallyman stays in the fight and biologus putrifier and a foul spawn closes on the sanguinary guard.
Wounded bloat-drone advances over the predator within 3" of the Blood Angel's base objective.
Daemon prince manages to smite three wounds of from the Blood Angel's captain. Now at 1 wound. Miasma of pestilence is manifested on the
PBC.
Wounded bloat-drone kills four scouts from the objective and morale finishes of the squad in the end of the shooting phase. Foul blightspawn changes two hits to one hit with his flamer with a re-roll.. *sigh* failing to wound the sanguinary guard with S7 hit.. (-1CP) Tallyman fails to wound a tactical marine with it's plasma pistol.
PBC's mortal scores 6 hits and is within chaos lord's re-roll aura: 6 wounds, 2 failed saves, 2 and 3 damage hits through and both sanguinary guard model's manage to make one
FnP roll. Summary: one dead and one wounded
SG. Sanguinary ancient needs to make one
FnP roll to stay unharmed from the heavy slugger of the
PBC.
Daemon prince kills the Blood Angel's captain. After a long thought no stratagems used, Blood Angel's player seems to want to save his last two remaining
CP.
Tallyman slays one tactical marine.
Death guard scores total of 7
VP for holding five objectives and killing two units. So before
BA turn it's 18 against (+1 line breaker) 7.
In the Blood Angel's movement sanguinary guard and the ancient surround the elites on the death guard force while lieutenant get within 3" of an objective.
First predator forces the daemon prince roll 10 DR saves failing 8, that's one dead warlord. Second predator, even after re-rolls to wound from the lieutenant fail to wound the bloat-drone. Inferno pistol from a point blank range does six damage to the foul blightspawn killing it. Angelus boltguns score a single wound on the biologus putrifier.
Sanguinary guard and the ancient multi-charge the two remaining death guard elites.
Tallyman saves three wounds with DR and gets only two wounds from the Sanguinary guard. Rest of the golden hits are made against the biologus putrifier which explodes, one less sanguinary guard and tactical marine and ancient gets a wound as well,
FnP failed.
Blood Angel's score 6
VP for holding two objectives and killing three units and the warlord. 18 vs. 13.
Turn 4
Foetid bloat-drone advances towards the last scout squad getting within' 3" of the objective.
Plague marine squad embarks in the chaos rhino which advances forward towards the corner objective hold by the scouts. Chaos lord moves within 3" of an objective. Miasma is failed on the
PBC.
In the shooting the foetid bloat-drone scores 10 hits after a command re-roll on the scouts squad, wiping it. 8 wounds after re-roll to 1's and 6 4+ armour saves failed by the scouts.
PBC targets
SG, but no significant damage. Tallyman misses. Tallyman needs to make 17 DR's succeeding in two.
SG consolidates towards
DG lines.
DG score 5
VP, 4 objectives, 1 kill.
BA get a single point for killing Tallyman. Score 23 vs. 14.
Blood Angel's tactical squad advances towards the base objective. Predator reverses to another objective.
Sanguinary guard and the ancient jump towards the chaos lord behind the rock safe from overwatch.
Reversed predator scores two wounds to bloat-drone and the second predator gets one autocannon shot through the saves and scores three wounds after DR which dies.
Sanguinary guard gets the charge off to the chaos lord. Ancient fails it's own charge with snake eyes. Sanguinary guard slay the chaos lord with ease.
Blood Angel's score 5
VP, three for objectives and two kill points. It's 23 vs. 19.
Turn 5
Plague marines align for a possible shot at the sanguinary guard. Chaos rhino advances within 3" of the corner objective and for line breaker.
Malignant plaguecaster smites a sanguinary model to death, but gets periled with miasma, but DR saves.
In the shooting, one of the sanguinary guard models is partially over 12" of the
PBC and it fires all it's weaponry at the sanguinary guard, but fails to get any damage through. Sanguinary get's a wound from the rapid firing plague marine squad.
No charges. 3
VP means 26 vs. 19.
Sanguinary guard closes on the plague marine's in the
DG corner.
Tactical squad with two melta guns get within melta range of the chaos rhino.
Tactical squad get two wounding hits after a command re-roll and score 8 wounds from the rhino. Predator holding the rear objective and barely outside firing range from the
PBC overkills the two remaining wounds off the chaos rhino. Plague marines disembark inside the building and holds the objective for now.
Sanguinary guard with two inferno pistols and two angelus boltguns kill the malignant plaguecaster in the shooting. Overwatch kills a single sanguinary guard. In the fight phase four plague marines are killed and morale slays the last one. Blood angel's secure the corner objective.
Blood Angel's score 7
VP, four for
VP's and two for kills. It's 26 vs. 26!
...game continues to turn 6 on a roll of 4.
Deat guard's plague marine squad moves their big guns outside of the building.
PBC manages to do a single wound with it's plague spitters on the sanguinary guard. Mortar kills the tactical squad. Plague marines only succeed to do three wounds to the lieutenant which is now at 1 wound.
Plague marines go for a 10" charge getting it on the lieutenant. Blood Angel's player uses it's last
CP for a single save roll succeeding in it and the lieutenant survives. Lieutenant kills a single plague marine in the fight.
It's +2
VP for the
DG player: 28 vs. 26.
Blood Angel's after a thought.. doesn't go for tabling because there's a chance of defeat, coward.
SG moves outside plaguespitters range and inside ruins.
Lieutenant withdraw from combat to still within 3" of the objective.
First predator opens it's fire to the plague marines killing only two, one plague marine makes three DR's in a roll. Second predator fires it's autocannons at the plague marines killing it and lascannons at the
PBC failing to wound.
Blood Angel's score 5
VP for four objectives and a kill. It's 28 vs. 31.
DG player thinks that with maxium dice rolling he could score 4
VP more, but
BA would anyways would top that.
A Blood Angel's victory!
Both predators intact, Ancient at 3/4 wounds, Lieutenant at 1/4 wounds and three
SG alive against
DG's 8/12 wound
PBC.
From the Blood Angel's player's view in some stages of the game I had strong doubts if I had even a slight change. MVP is sanguinary guard, with the ancient they can compete in resilience with the plague marines and my opponent didn't have any deep strikers or real threat against my predators so they could operate quite freely.
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