So we finally got round to playing this year's big game and it was great fun! Each player brought a legal 3000pt army and we split into 2 teams for a day Epic battle (Imperial vs Chaos). 12,000pts per side.
Imperial forces:
■ Codex Marines
■ Scions of Iron Marines
■ Minervan Tank Legion
■ Steel legion
Chaos forces:
■ Chaos Guard (Steel Legion)
■ Chaos Tank army (Minervan Tank Legion)
■ 2x Chaos Titan forces (AMTL)
Objectives were placed on the 3 metre wide board and we were off.
Setting up.
Photos from turn 1.
The formations begin closing on eachother. The Imperials tried to stip the shields off the Chaos Imperator using their Vulture’s missiles but most of the Imperial skimmers were shot down with overwatch fire.
The Chaos forces followed this up with a similar tactic as their Vultures stripped the Imperial Warlord of shields and then retained with 2 Deathstrike missiles doing reasonable damage to the War Engine. Shadowswords fired at Baneblades, Manticore artillery rained rockets on Valkyries and their Stormtroopers and Guardsmen huddles next to the Chimeras. Reaver titans armed with Volcano cannons (and close combat weapons) targeted super-heavy tanks. The Imperator targeted a Leman Russ company but only managed to kill a couple of tanks! All that firepower wasted…
A Formation of Chaos Forge Knights (with Warhound supporting fire) tried a clipping engagement on 2 intermingled Steel Legion infantry companies but the Guardsmen managed to fight the Chaos Knights off.
The Imperials had bought a Strike Cruiser which fired an orbital barrage at the Chaos forces, placing blast markers on 4 seperate formations (which did result in a few failed activations! ). The Scions of Iron sent in their Landing craft carrying a Terminator detachment in Land Raider Crusaders. This was going to hurt…
Unfortunately for the Space Marines, the Imperators Defence Laser targeted the Landing Craft. it scored a hit and managed to make a critical roll which destroyed the Landing Craft before it could drop off it’s cargo… A devestating blow to the Imperials - sorry Simon.
Photos from the 2nd turn.
The Imperial Terminators finally joined the battle. Both sides were praying to win the Strategy roll…
The Imperial side won the Strategy roll and the Terminators set about doing what they do best… Close Combat Engagements.
The Imperator was well screened by some Skitarii soldiers so the Terminators went for Reavers, Warhounds and artillery. 2 detachments of Terminators took on a Reaver but they were destroyed whilst leaving the titan on 1DC. Another detachment of the super soldiers went after a Warhound and destroyed it. In return, another Reaver killed 2 Terminator stands, breaking the formation which had no where to run and so it was wiped out. The last Terminator formation engaged a Manticore platoon and destroyed them, which aslo broke a nearby Shadowsword company.
Chaos Warhounds and a Reaver went after the Imperial Break Their Spirit formation (a Scions of Iron Heavy detachment with Land Raider Helios upgrade). 4 Land Raiders were destroyed but the formation was still alive.
Turn 2 was a tale of failed activations (on both sides but more so for the Chaos team). So many 1′s were rolled that it really stalled the game (that and there was some time wasted as we took our time deciding what to activate).
As the 2nd turn progressed, the Imperial Minervan Legion went all out at the Imperator. The Imperator had fire again at the same Leman Russ company, again doing minimal damage! The 2 Leman Russ companies stripped the Imperator’s Void shields with ease and then hit the mighty war engine with everything they had. The Stormhammer company joined in as well as the Chaos behemoth was pounded. Even though it had 10 blast markers on it (nearly breaking it), the Imperator only lost 2 DC during the whole turn. The reinforced armour held strong.
We had to finish the game at the end of the 2nd turn. It came down to points which lead to a (very) marginal win to the Chaos forces (by only 300pts in a 12,000pts per side game). Great fun as always and a big thanks to Duro, Julian, Connor, Scott, Nick, Simon and Drew. Thanks for turning up and having fun guys!
There are a couple more photos on
my BLOG.
Cheers, Steve.
