Battle Report April 1st 2010

An old bombed out village was the setting for this engagement.
A force of Tyranids with a contigent of mind controlled, enslaved chaos space marines were out on a hunt for some necron technology that was showing up on some scanners. Once they were in the area they happened upon a group of Ultra marines and Imperial guard who were out looking for the same materials. Once both sides caught sight of each other the combat ensued. The IG set up a ranged defensive posture in one corner of the area while the marines, being that they are marines, charged forth into the ruins of the village to engage whatever was heading toward them led by the assault marines. Out from the fog of the village emerged the tyranids fielding the monstrous carnifex alongside the enslaved groups of Nurgle Death Guard. Things got ugly once everyone was in range and opened fire. A crazed Death guard champion raced across the map to try and out flank the marines but was swarmed by a Tactical squad who tore him off the bike and killed him. They were also assisted in this by the IG forces to make sure the Champion wasn't getting back up. The Imperial guard were holding their own against most of the tyranid forces until a unit of genestealers came at them from the side of the battlefield. This cause the guard to open up with all they had and destroy the first wave of bugs. After this a second wave entered the map and dismantled a bane wolf which caught fire from all the damage and exploded. The bugs were able to shield them self and take minimal damage from this but since they ended up in front of a Leman russ tank which landed a shell directly in the unit destroying it. In the end both sides had taken heavy losses but the Imperial forces were able to hold onto and recover more of the Necron technology thus winning the day!

Chris

Battle Report sunday march 28 2010

Today saw a pitched battle between Marshall (IG) and Jim (SM) in an annihilation battle at ~1700 points. The battle took place at Time warp comics and the terrain was the big and small hills and some ruined buildings.
It started out with troops making maneuvers for the best positions to do the most damage on both sides. Jim's side went first and since the range wasn't quite there they mainly moved up. During Marshall's turn he was able to land some hits and cause casualties to the marines with some of his long range attacks. In this game Jim was able to keep his land raider and dreadnought going past the first turn and Librarian Sobel also managed to stay out of trouble for awhile. Once in the center of the board both sides inflicted heavy damage to each other with Marshall knocking out Jim's Land raider as well as most of his command squad, tactical and an assault squad. Jim was able to destroy numerous units of infantry as well as a punisher tank and the main armament of one of the Chimera variants (can't remember the name and don't have the codex in front of me). By the end of the battle it looked like the IG had won the day but when kill points were counted it came out to a DRAW!

It was a good battle and everyone had fun.

Chris

Battle Report March 21 2010

A quick recap for those who weren't there.

We played the battle missions scenario vanguard. The fight was over the ruined city. Each side had about 1000 points. It started out as a pretty even match with both sides taking hits. Jim lost his dreadnought early on from a hit from Matt's demolisher tank. Jim teleported his terminator librarian with a terminator unit across the map to engage some of Matt's infantry. This is where things took a turn for the worst. Jim's unit engaged and destroyed a good part of Matt's HQ unit but the next turn they tried to work their way towards Matt's leman russ tank. Jim tried a pretty crazy close to the edge of the table teleport with disastrous results! The librarian took himself and the whole unit of terminators off the edge of the map and removed them from play. Jim's assault marines flew across the map and engaged one of Matt's squads who were holding an objective. Matt's tank rained hell down upon Jim's units of men crushing many under bombardments from their battle cannons and demolisher cannons. All in all aside from a few small mistakes. Matt ended up holding 2 objectives while Jim had none. A victory for the imperial guard!

Chris