Irondeath and I just finished a game of Epic: Armageddon on Vassal. I used Black Legion (using v1.1 of the playtest changes), versus Steel Legion.
My army list:
Slaanesh Retinue 705
-> 8 Rhinos
-> Havocs
-> Noise Marines
-> Daemon Prince (supreme commander)
Khorne Retinue 710 (BTS. Note that the ancient enemies rule was removed)
-> 6 Rhinos
-> Bezerkers
-> 3x Defiler
Chaos Terminators 540
-> 2x Obliterators (note these cost 75 each)
Retinue 350 (garrison)
-> Desecrator
Feral 300
3x Hellblades 200
2x Hell Talons 200
Grand total = 3005 (Irondeath let me off the last 5 points - this time)
As vassal doesn't have a Chaos mod yet, I proxied. Tacticals = CSM, Assault Marines = Bezerkers, Scout Snipers = Noise Marines, Stompas = defilers, Supastompas = desecrators, Ork Dredd = daemon prince, SM dreads = obliterators. Vassal lets you label stuff, so it wasn't too hard to keep track.
In the meantime, lessons learnt:
Deployment
Imperial Guard essentially deploy in top right corner. CSMs are spread out along baseline, with Terminators in reserve.
Turn 1
I activate the Khorne formation (red bases, in the middle) and move up to pop a few shots off against the Infantry Co in the middle of the board. I retain and charge the small Retinue with the Desecrator. They get whooped, and all die but the Desecrator and the sorcerer. They retreat behind the wood in the middle right of the board (see Picture 1).
The vultures were deployed in the middle left of the board. They get shot at by my Hell Talons, killing two and breaking the formation. They withdraw to the back of the board. The thunderbolts come on to attack the Talons, killing both. The Hellblades come on and kill the Thunderbolts (the +1 to AA intercepts is pretty brutal!)
Other than that, the two forces move forward. Vultures fail to rally.
Turn 2
Start of turn 2 see picture 1 (below). Termiantors teleport in next to manticores in the top wood.
Terminators massacre manticores rather unreasonably. The Khorne formations (in the middle of Pic1) charge forward on foot (remind me why I bought rhinos?
) and Engage the same Infantry Co that trounced the previous formation. Two remaining defilers lope forward with their 40cm charge, smashing into the guard. After a largely ineffective CSM attack and lots of brutal bayonetting, the combat is a draw, so we fight again! Afterwards Chaos win by a whisker, and the mauled (but very hardcore) Infantry co retreats.
The tank co manages to fail their activation (despite the sup comm re-roll on a 2+!) and puts a little more hurt on the Khorne formation (but blocks the advance of the superheavies). Then the 4 roughriders charge in, murder both defilers with their first strikes. 3 roughriders die in the return fire, but the remaining stand succeeds in routing the Khorne formation (and then promptly breaks and refuses to rally - back for well-earned tea and biccies no doubt for scaring off 30 Khornate marines!)
Between the infantry co and the roughriders, they held off over 1400 points of chaos marines!
The mechanised company gets roasted by the feral while they try to put some hurt on the Slaaneshi formation (bottom left of picture 1). The Slaanesh worshippers charge in as a response, and break the guard in a messy melee (the daemon prince wiffed horribly despite being in BTB contact, but the rhinos massacred the guard - that always seems to be the way!
). See picture 2 for a shot just before the guard break.Critically, all of the chaos formations rallied and none of the guard formations did, leaving the guard in a bad position with only two functioning fomations (tanks and more tanks!)
Turn 3
The tanks push forward but can't dislodge the Slaaneshi formation. The Superheavies turn around to try and put some hurt on the Terminators solidly holding the Blitz objective, killing a couple of stands.
Final outcome (picture 3) - 2-0 to chaos (Blitzkrieg & Take and Hold)
