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This is Lead Medicine reporting contact with unknown units.
Chaos?
Negative. Moving in for a closer look.
What do you see Lead Medicine?
Necrons and they’re moving towards the PDF checkpoint as well.

Well that, at least, answered why this area was important but raised a more important one, why are they interested in the PDF checkpoint?

Sir the checkpoint is crawling with eldar!




Copy your last Lead Medicine. All units stay on the edge of the necron formation. They don’t seem to interested in us so we’re going to let them take the brunt of eldar fire.

Sergeant Walsh looked out of his chimera ready to call targets when he saw an entity of fire and energy leap from behind some barricades and charge out towards the column closely followed by some eldar with intense bling and their leader who was blingier than the rest.




Look out for that lot Lead Medicine they may not look like much but that big scary bastard is probably going to be trouble.

Lead Medicine began swiveling its turret to engage the oncoming eldar. As it lined up its shot a lance of energy went up the barrel of the cannon exploding the shell in the breach. A second lance shot out and hit Walsh’s chimera and peeled a little bit of paint off.

Stuart, Lumbering Behemoth this is the Captain, take that alley in front of you and flank the enemy everyone else hold and fire.




Bunker Buster fired its nova cannon at the gaggle of eldar behind the firey death monster of doom. The shell landed short killing only a few eldar troops instead of the whole unit. While the heavy bolter fired away the gunner activated the search light and aimed it right the blob of death. The light reflected off the eldar’s bling for the company to see and see they did. A volley of multilaser shot flew down range dropping several more of the hapless eldar.



Walsh looked to his immediate front and saw a group of more heavily armored eldar run out from behind a wall.





His chimera suddenly exploded around him, throwing him out of the top hatch. Miraculously only one of his men was killed in the explosion. He looked back at the approaching eldar assault unit and promptly pulled out a package of D batteries and began to put them in his chainsword.

The eldar let out a battle cry and charged at the exposed guardsmen. Walsh fired a few haphazard shots at them and saw two go down as the rest of his men did the same. Even with two of their number gone they were more than a match for Walsh and his veterans. Walsh looked up and saw an eldar sergeant with a massive chainsword swing at him. He deflected one blow but the eldar was as relentless as his squad. Within minutes all that was left of Walsh and his men was a desecrated pile of remains at the bottom of a crater.

Sergeant McGregor had seen the eldar charge in and moved his men out on foot towards them since his chimera was knocked out of action.








Sergeant Stuart wasn’t much better off, at least, so he thought. A grav tank shot out from behind some buildings and deposited an eldar unit with rather nasty looking anti-tank weapons in alley near him and Lumbering Behemoth. The jump from their tank must have thrown off their aim because both vehicles came through unscathed however.




Lumbering Behemoth continued past them while Stuart moved his chimera into position with its heavy flamer.



Nothing remained of the eldar soldiers when the flamer let up.





From nowhere two necron fliers appeared and zoomed in, depositing troops and lining up their targets.







The necrons had noticed the guard units and while not making contact with them did acknowledge, at least to themselves, that the guards firepower would be needed to help fight the eldar. The bug swarms and destroyer lords moved around the ruins and prepared to intercept the encroaching eldar.




A vendetta flew overhead lascannons lighting up the sky as it delivers blow after blow into the living construct near Lumbering Behemoth finally felling the beast.




C’mon lads, let’s get those eldar bastards for what they did to Walsh! Hit ‘em with everything you’ve got!




Callum looked out of his chimera and immediately wished he hadn’t. The fire monster of doom was still alive and was coming straight towards him. Sure there was an eradicator in the way but Callum was sure that wouldn’t slow this monster down. He saw Lachlan in his chimera directing his retinue to fire on the monster and after a barrage of plasma it still stood, but it was hurt.

There is the biggest damn eldar I have ever seen out there men get those plasma guns up and help me kill it!

After a second barrage of plasma the beast finally fell to the ground inches away from the eradicator.




Callum looked towards the bastions and saw a high ranking eldar and another soldier booking it towards them.




Then saw the corpses on the ground around the necrons and assumed why.




Since it didn’t have a flame monster of death to worry about Bunker Buster fired its cannon and bolter at the bunker hoping to kill a large number of the troops holding it. After the dust settled nothing moved.




Reeling from the crippling fire from the guard and necrons the eldar can only reform behind their lines and hope for their flank units can do anything.







Which they do




McClellan redirected his remaining armored fist squad to support Stuart.




His specialist let fly with a krak missile while the chimera fired it multilaser. The tank survived the fusillade long enough to have the squad inside pop the hatch and fire their meltagun. The weapon melted through the armor into the power generator of the tank and exploded it.

Slightly dazed from the explosion of his chimera Stuart had only one though in mind. Move. He ordered his men onto the ruins of Lumbering behemoth and had his squad open up on the walker in front of them.




Their fire was ineffective at hurting it but its head started jerking and twitching and went dark. Ready to pounce it McGregor moved his squad towards it.





Having lost complete track of the necrons Callum moved his chimera to engage the wraith guard. He didn’t want to go anywhere near the necrons. He knew what they could do. Seen it himself on more occasions then he cared to remember. Let them take the eldar on and overrun the bastions, all Callum wanted to do was stick near his men and take the flank so they had a clear line of retrat when things went tits up because with necrons he knew they would.





Little did he know that his target was packing some serious heat. Not til they knocked out his chimera.





I didn’t say we could stop for a rest, men. On your feet! Let’s move! They aren’t going to plasma themselves!



To his left McGregor was busy flanking the construct to move in for the kill.




Sprinting at full speed the soldiers charge krak grenades at the ready. Two men suddenly dropped to their knees and cupped their hands together. McGregor ran towards them put his boot in their hands and they gave his jump a boost. He grabbed at something that was sticking out of its back and swung his arm with the krak grenade around. The grenade lodged between the head and the neck and McGregor let go and fell to the ground. The grenade exploded and tore the head from the shoulders. One of his men picked him up.





Lets go men, we aren’t done yet. I still seem some snipers in that building over there.





Callum continued his advance and had his plasma fire. All three men held their triggers to long and their guns exploded. Callum assumed the nearby seer was playing with their minds and had his men move to cover positions while some necron destroyers moved to help.







Callum this is the Captain, do you have eyes on the necrons?

Apart from the ones in front of him that had helped kill the wraith guard he had no idea. He looked at the eldar line




Then closer to the bastions and saw the tail end of the necrons moving around the flank while a lone destroyer lord





Affirmative sir, they are moving around the flank of the bunkers.

Callum we’ve sustained to many casualties we are going to fall back and regroup then return in force.

After several hours of waiting for replacements C Company moved back to recon the area. Callum moved in with a small squad of his best men on foot. The necrons were nowhere to be seen and the field was littered with dead eldar. They moved past the bastions and into the PDF compound. They moved towards a building with a reinforced vault door that looked like the hand of the emperor had tried to open the door and failed. After a few minutes one of his men had by-passed the door control circuits and the door slowly swung open. Callum wondered what was behind the doors that had interested the necrons AND the eldar.





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After airlifting Callum and Lachlan back to HQ with the crystals C Company was retired from the line and the officers had some downtime in the HQ. Lachlan approached Callum in the “mess hall” of the building and handed him a letter from the regimental HQ.

What is this sir?

Its from HQ we took a lot of officer casualties so they're rearranging us.

Callum looked at the letter.

Major Blackwood was killed in the assault with F Company and I’m replacing him, and lucky, lucky you, get to lead C Company from now on.


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Great pictures btw. I will say that I'm not a huge fan of the format since it makes it hard to follow exactly what's going on. I might suggest adding a short tactical section at the end of each turn.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/520947/5507832.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/520947/5507832.page GMT
There are three problems with doing a tacticle break down after each turn. The first is that the events i describe happen over several turns but i merge them together so that it will happen all at once as it would in a real battle. The second is that we played this game friday night and I had a busy weekend so when i finally got around to making the batrep a few days later some of the events were rather fuzzy. The last reason is that i really don't want to. These batreps are labour intensive as they are and putting a breakdown after every turn would just become too tedious. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/520947/5512912.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/520947/5512912.page GMT