Battle Report Outpost Attack!

Hey all – me and ian had a really good (and close!) game of W40k – continuing the Dremora Campaign. My Dead Fleet vs Ian’s Angels of Dremora – here is some fluff…

The Space Marines of the Angels of Dremora Chapter (AoD for short) are preparing the defences of the Hive Primus against the approaching Swarm of the Dead Fleet. Reports came in of a disturbance in the Primus’s underhive – a strike force of AoD are sent to search and destroy any xenos… and strangely enough they found a few….

Anyhoo here is our forces deployment

Close up on AoD deployment

Close up on Dead Fleet deployment

Turn 1
As per usual 40k – nothing much happened for ze nids. Moved forward, made some really rubbish fleet rolls – about it 😛

Ian on the other hand, pushed his tactical sqauds forward and let rip – wiping out my spinegaunts – to the gaunt *gulp*

Battlefield at the end of turn 1

Turn 2
Righty o – not to good for me but the day is young..hmm. I rolled for reserves and succeeded in getting both of my Lictors on the map – hopefully these will put the hurt on the AoD 🙂

Sadly, one only managed to kill a couple of marine and got splatted back

While the other didnt manage to even scratch the land raider… dammit!

Ian on the other hand unleashed the land raider solely on the Lictor. How do you spell dead? L.I.C…

Then unleashed a tactical squad and a devastator squad on my devourer gaunts – killing them all, as well as taking out half my hourmagaunts.

Battlefield at the end of Turn 2

Turn 3
Okay… he has hurt me yes… now lets put the gribby hurt on him!! My nids finally slam into melee

and by the end of my turn – managed to just beat the tactical squad with my gaunts and nearly wiped out the other with my stealers.. but lost my broodlord in the process. My other stealers managed to charge the terminators, killing a healthy 5.

In Ian’s turn, he unleashed a ton of fire at my Hive Tyrant – luckily surviving the lot!!! his remaining tactical sergeant got swamped and a pretty drawn combat with the tactical vs hourmagaunts.

Battlefield at the end of turn 3

Turn 4
A bit better, i may have a chance. my stealers aid the other stealers with the terminators and my tyrant charges the dreadnought. Combat went really well. the stealers finish off the terminators, the hourmagaunts kill all but one of the tactical squad and the Tyrant totally wrecked the dreadnought, but caused it to blow up and put a wound on itself 😛

Ian then fired his devastator squad and his land raider crusader at my tyrant – who survived again (i am not usually this lucky). Combat saw the end of his tactical squad and his force commander – still holding on to 2 turn of stealer combat is bloody good going!

Battlefield at the end of Turn 4

Turn 5

Bit of a quick one, my stealers charged the devastator squad and my Tyrant charged the Land raider. the stealers killed all but two of the devastators and my Tyrant munched the Land Raider – Victory to The Dead Fleet!!!

I know i won but this was a really good and close game. I took such a punishing in the first turns, losing almost half my army – i really thought i couldn’t pull it off – but just shows how lethal Genestealers are – they basically won me the game!