DA

Dark Angels

Belial w/TH&SS
Librarian in TDA w/Ccmbi plasma (Prescience)

5 Deathwing w/CML/2xTH&SS
5 Deathwing w/CML/2xTH&SS
5 Deathwing w/CML/1xTH&SS
5 Tactical marines w/ML + Razorback w/TLLC
5 Scouts w/Snipers

Landspeeder typhoon
Landspeeder typhoon
Landspeeder typhoon


NIDS

Hive tyrant w/Armoured shell/Hive commander/toxin sacks + 2 powers (He swapped for Life leach and enfeeble) + 2 Tyrant guard (Warlord trait = SCORING GULP)

Tervigon w/ Adrenal glands and toxin sacs (Iron arm)
10 Termingaunts
25 Hormigaunts w/toxin sacs
20 Hormingauts w/toxni sacs in spore pod

Doom in a pod
Zoanthrope (Can't remember powers)
Zoanthrope (Can't remember powers)

Trygon prime w/toxin sacs

Heres the table




Since Rain is going to the ETC championship in Serbia next month he wanted to play one of those missions.


So deployment was old 5th edition spearhead. Then one objective each was placed in the middle of the opposite quarter from the quarter the army deployed in. Each objective was worth 3 points and all the normal secondary points were on offer.

I won the roll off and decided to deploy first. There is no night fighting

My terminators would be deathwing assaulting (turn1 surprise!) My scouts infiltrating and everything else deployed with good view of the battle field.
In response Rain deployed his tervigon behind a ruin. The Zoans behind him (or her) and the 10 termies behind them. His hive tyrant unit went front and centre and the 25 hormies went top centre to threaten my objective.

My scouts then infiltrated near my home objective but far enough away from the tac squad so the doom would not be able to suck Both squad's brains!
The spore pods are the objective markers btw.





Rain fails to seize the initiative so its over to me!

DA

So of course my deathwing come in turn 1 which isn't a surprise to Rain. Belials squad go right into double tap combi plasma range of the tervigon.( I forget for the SECOND game in a row to cast prescience on anything with my libby) Another squad arrives in the centre with views to lots of enemy bugs. The last squad arrives top left to hopefully to put a dent in those hormies and maybe assault them turn 2 or 3.

My tacs shuffle forward (apart from the ML guy) to get into bolter range of said hormies. Landspeeders move to get shots at the tervigon and zoans. I want to nuke his synapse before he has much of a chance to use his psychic powers. Lazback moves to get a bead on the tyrant.


Shooting goes pretty well for me. Belials squad puts 4 wounds on the tervigon and then a landspeeder finishes him off causing 4 gaunts to explode nearby.

The the remaining speeders and the middle deathwing squad kill both Zoanthropes.


My razorback targets the hive tyrant but he makes his cover save.

Then the snipers, tac squad and far left deathwing squad combine to kill 9 hormigaunts.


Great turn 1 for the deathwing


NIDS

His hive tyrant unit moves towards Belial's unit looking for some retribution. The hormies move and run towards the deathwing squad that shot them up. The termigaunts fail their leadership then move towards cover and are pretty much forgotten about for the rest of the game due to them being close to the dead pile =(.


The hive tyrant life leaches one deathwing member's life away and they then make a 7'' charge. The tyrant roars a challenge to anyone who dare accept but none dare accept (Rain chooses to remove the librarian from the battle since he had a warp charge remaining) Between the hive tyrants 6 re-rolling to hit str 6 ap 2 attacks and the 8 rending attacks from tyrant guards I only lose one termie and a wound from Belial. I then kill one gaurd and wound the other.

DA

The libby finally remembers why I brought him and casts prescience on the middle deathwing squad as I want them to charge the hive tyrant. The speeders all move if they need to or stay still to shoot at the hormies. My left deathwing squad moves to assault the hormies should any live.

I shoot everything at the hormigaunt squad and amazingly (also due to Rain's expert spreading so my blast templates could only hit one model) I only kill 11 leaving 5.

I declare charges with both un-engaged deathwing squads. I made a 7'' charge vs the hormies but then fail a 5 inch charge into the hive tyrant combat.

I roll poorly in the hormie combat only killing 4 but taking no casulties.

The hive tyrant then kills two terminators and Belial puts two wounds on the squad. Rain elects to have the tyrant eat both wounds.


NIDS

The dooooooooooooooooooooom arrives but scatters 10 inches. He had hoped to place him between Belials squad and the squad that missed their charge. Instead he can only suck Belial's squad's brains and moves behind the hive tyrant combat. The hormies in a pod arrive but the prime does not. He places the hormies behind my tacticals and nails the landing.

The HT tries to enfeeble the DW that failed their charge but I deny the witch!

The doom sucks the librarian's and lightning claws brains out after I roll a 15 on their leadership test leaving Belial alone. The doom then uses his str7 ap1 last blast to pie plate the middle deathwing squad killing two.

The large bases are spore pods!



The hormies that just arrived run closer to the tacs and the spore pod that dropped them off pens a landspeeder but I jink it.

The hive tyrant then puts 4 wounds on Belial and he makes every 3+ save. He then kills the tyrant gaurd.
The deathwing fighting the lone hormiegaunt smash him and consolidate 5'' back towards my tacticals

DA

I move my now 3 man deathwing team close enough to the hive tyrant combat (5''away) but far enough from the doom. The landspeeders all jockey for positions to explode the doom, as does the lazorback.

The full deathwing squad move towards the newly arrived hormigaunts.

For the second turn in a row I elect not to shoot with the middle deathwing squad hoping to get my 5'' charge vs the hive tyrant. All my landspeeders and my lazorback and my split firing cyclone launcher fire at the doom but he doesn't fail any instant death rolls.

The storm bolters from the termie squad, the tactical marines and the scouts manage to kill 7 hormigaunts. The doom sucks a wound from Belial after I make 5 out of 6 invulns! He is down to his final wound tho where as the doom is on 5 and the hive tyrant on 2


I then declare two charges, the full DW squad needs a 10 and fails and the 3 man squad needs a 5 again and fails......again

In combat Belial has to make 3 invulns but sadly fails his last one. On a side note, I've played quite a few games with Belial and have NEVER managed to achieve his warlord trait ''the hunt''



NIDS

The trygon prime comes in and lands behind the two middle speeders. The tyrant who is now free to reign terror moves towards the same area and the doom follows.
The hormies prepare for the easiet charge of their short life on the tac squad.

Shooting and the doom fails to suck the middle 3 deathwing's brains as they pass their leadership test. The doom then attempts to put his str 5 ap1 large template on the full 5 man deathwing squad's head and covers all 5 !!! GULP Sadly for Rain it scatters 9'' and lands on my landspeeder and his trygon prime. The prime takes a wound and the speeder is not penetrated.

The prime fires its electro spines at the middle speeder but fails to pen.

The HT fires life leach at the speeder but fails his psychic check but then charges in and with 3 str 10 smash attacks re-rolling to hit and dispatches the flimsey vehicle with ease.
The hormies charge the tacs and lose 1 to overwatch and then wipe out the marines.

Landspeeders all move to get out of the way of all the crazy big griblies in the middle of the board. The 3 man deathwing squad moves out of the doom's brainleach range but close to the hive tyrant.
The full deathwing squad moves nose to nose to the hormigaunts.


Shooting and the the 3 man squad splits fire using the krak missiles on the doom and the storm bolter on the hive tyrant. The doom fails his first invuln and pops, the storm bolter doesnt wound the tyrant.

The full squad also split fire with the kraks going on the prime and the storm bolters into the hormies. The prime is wounded twice and 3 hormies die. Then combined fire from the sniper scouts the razorback and 1 landspeeder fell the massive trygon prime. The final landspeeder plinks a wound from the hive tyrant to add insult to injury.

The 3 man squad then charges the hive tyrant and for some stupid reason I accept a challenge with my sarge who is no Belial when it comes to 3+ invulns. He dies on the first one!

The termies then charge the hormies and lose 2 of their number and kill a handfull of hormies.


NIDS

Hive tyant casts enfeeble on the termies in combat with the hormigaunts and it goes off.

Assaults and the hive tyrant fails to kill the last two terminators who in turn crush him under hammer and fist blows. The hormigaunts fail to kill any termies and my opponent conceeds.



CRUSHING VICTORY TO THE DEATHWING!


That was a fun game and I hope my opponent wasn't to affected by his bad luck this game. We talked a bit about his list afterwards and since this is his first match with tyranids he could really use some help building his list and using it well. So anyone who cant be of help post in here and I'll pass the ideas on as my own!! (joke)

Thanks for reading really hope you enjoyed.