tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79940446669791709712024-03-12T20:48:12.284-07:00Starving Crazed Weasels Miniatures and Wargames PageThe Starving Crazed Weasels write about their Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Hero Scape battlesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-45547466730916162912020-10-05T11:14:00.001-07:002020-10-05T11:14:26.738-07:00Space Wolves (Heresy)5 Terminators w.Storm Bolter, Power Fist
4 Terminators w. heavy weapons
5 Terminators w.Storm Shield and Thunder Hammer
1 Dreadnought
2 Chapter Masters
1 Logan Grimnar
1 Njal Stormcaller
1 Krom Dragongaze (from Stormclaw, special character)
21 Marines with Blue Armor, Purple Trim
20 marines with Purple Armor, Blue Trim
13 partially assembled Marines
5 Marines still on Sprue
18 Terminators on Sprue
1 Landing Pod still on Sprue
450
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3 assembled coptors
remainder on sprue
Assault on Black Reach
all still on Sprue
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1 hammerhead primed
1 Sunshark Bomber Painted (when putting back in box after picture, the drone fell and broke, needs reglued)
3 Crisis Suits, painted, magnetized, extra magnetized weapons
7 stealth battlesuits
9 Fire Warriors painted camo
9 Fire Warriors painted orange
10 fire warriors painted purple (a few may be pathfinders)
7 painted drones no base
6 drones painted, based
4 poorly painted kroot
1 Cadre Fireblade NIB
1 Sunshark Bomber NIB
1 Hammerhead NIB
1 Crisis Battlesuit Team NIB
1 Riptide NIB
550
will throw in some miscellaneous Kroot, a stealth battlesuit, that need stripped.repainted/repaired...the battlesuit just needs based and painted, but just don't want you feeling like these were not disclosed...these are not part of the package, just throwing them in
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-17105248082936812942020-10-05T10:56:00.001-07:002020-10-05T10:56:46.687-07:00Space Marines9 Marines no shoulder ID
5 Terminators w/Storm Bolter, Power Fist
14 Marines w. "IV"
6 marines w. "I"
3 Jump Pack Marines
1 sergeant
5 scouts
1 Thundercannon
2 techmarines (?)
7 misc characters
1 terminator librarian
1 dreadnought
3 terminators black armor, white trim, old style w/small base
1 marine black armor/white trim
31 marines black armor & various pauldron colors, no detail
3 blue marines, solid color
not pictured 1 painted, metal character with Crozius/storm bolter
2 land raiders
4 rhino chassis various configurations (whirlwind, etc), 1 missing the cover
1 speeder, no base
7 marines needing medics (repair)
455
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-9362789361639691402020-10-05T10:28:00.001-07:002020-10-05T10:28:32.036-07:00Dark Angels6 ravenwing bikes (from Dark Vengeance) 3 assembled, 3 assembled and basecoated silver
20 tactical marines (from Dark Vengeance), 10 painted non-standard colors, 10 assembled
10 Deathwing Terminators (from Dark Vengeance), 5 primed silver
2 librarians (from Dark Vengeance), 1 painted
3 Company Masters (from Dark Vengeance), 2 painted
The items below are painted traditional colors
1 dreadnought
4 dual Lightning Claw Terminators
4 Terminators with Cyclone Missile Launcher
7 Terminators with Thunder Hammer/Storm Shield
3 Heroes (Terminator, Librarian, standard)
4 Terminators needing one arm replaced
$380
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The list as near as I can tell (have not played for a while)
1 Land Raider (NIB)
1 Chaos Vindicator (NIB)
1 daemon of tzeentch (metal, box opened but interior packaging intact)
the followng from Dark Vengeance:
Chaos Space Marine force includes a Chaos Lord - armed with power sword and plasma pistol; a Helbrute, armed with multi-melta and power fist, an Aspiring Champion and six Chosen. They stand alongside twenty Chaos Cultists who carry a combination of ranged weapons such as autoguns and close-combat weapons.
3 Possessed, two primed primary colors and 1 painted decently
5 Chaos Terminators
1 Dual Lightning Claw hero
6 silver armor Marines w.gold trim
8 black armor marines w.gold trim
10 blue armor marines
4 marines w/dual lightning claws
9 silver armor marines
3 daemons primed solid colors
5 Warp Talons
14 Kohorne Berzerkers red base, silver trim, need painting finished
20 khorne berzerkers red base coated
8 purple armor w.gold trim marines
5 dark blue armor marines
1 Dark Vengeance still on sprue space marines
a Chaos Predator, body assembled, rest on sprue in box
$420Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-62887425967676482772015-03-09T19:55:00.001-07:002015-03-09T19:56:56.745-07:00750 Brettonians v DoCSpace Monkey was on vacation so we decided to sneak in a small game last Wednesday. He came over with his DoC and, having played WoC, Goblins, and Dwarfs recently, I decided to try out the Bretonnians. At 750 there is not much to do.<br />
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Men At Arms being slow, bad WS and low S are a bad choice against DoC. I would be hitting on 5, needing at least a 4 to wound...they are out. I love knights. lets mount everything.<br />
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I put in a Paladin on a Pegasus with the Ogre Blade (S6 would give me a chance if he brought the D-Prince in addition to the accursed Skillcannon of doooooom), my required BSB on regular warhorse, pulled 6 Knigthts Errant, 9 Knights of the realm, both with full command, and 4 Grail knights. I did not have a model to use for the Skill-a-pult, which is about the only powerful thing in the Bret book but with an army of 2+ save, I should be okay,.<br />
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We seldom play scenarios, which is a mistake I think. Battle Line is okay, but it is all we do...I forgot about rolling scenario and elected to get the blessing for the ward.<br />
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I set up pretty basically. I wanted my 4 Grai Knights as far from the Skillcannon as possible so they were always going to be my last placement. Worked perfectly, with his cannon on my left, my Grail Knights on the right. My Grail Knights and Knights Errant faced his Skullcrushers, the Knights of the Realm his 'Nettes and Cannon.<br />
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<b>DOC Turn 1</b><br />
He made a limited advance witht he Nettes and Cannon, leaving the Crushers on their back line. My nnot putting in peasants or men at arms looks even better. If he was a full on aggressive player, they MIGHT make sense as a hopefully stubborn tar pit, but I know he is an extremely conservative player, so they would be wasted points for me.<br />
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I am able to stop his Miasma.<br />
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<b>Bretonnian Turn 1</b><br />
It is a long-shot, but I declare the charge with the Knights of the Realm. S5 would be nice and worst case I probably get in the way of the cannon. I put the Errants where he will need a 10 with his crushers, and the Grail Knights set up to flank him, as does the Peg Knight.<br />
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<b>DOC Turn 2</b><br />
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His 'Nettes charge the Knights of the Realm. His Crushers remain immobile while his cannon moves slightly to get a line of sight on the Peg Knight. Stupid move and shoot cannons. Grr. Fortunately his cannon ball stops bouncing about an inch in front, doing no damage. He gets Miasma through this turn, reducing my weapon skill. It does cost me a couple hits, too.<br />
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Meanwhile, he has to take LD tests on 3d6 for each unengaged unit. Makes 3 of 5 saves with the crushers and 1 of 3 with the cannon. Yay, I have done 3 wounds to him! Okay, he did them, but...whatever, shortly you will see why I take credit for it.<br />
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In the challenge I kill his champion. He gets 3 knights, I get 2 of his guys. We precisely tie.<br />
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We have now concluded the successful portion of the battle....<br />
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<b>Bretonnian Turn 2</b><br />
He fell into my clever trap. My Grail Knights and Peg knight announce charges...against the flank of his 'Nettes. The Grail Knights smash into him. Here come 9 S6 attacks plus 3 attacks as my elite knights wipe his core off the table and I should be able to keep rolling and smash into his cannon, neutralizing it.<br />
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In the challenge his herald kills my Knight of the Realm champ but gets no overkill. He does, however, have his first missed attack of the game for any model in close combat. With his ASF he then kills 5 Knights errant. Not good. With his AP, I think I was saving on 4+. Or, more accurately, NOT saving.<br />
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My Grail Knight also fails his save.<br />
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No worries, watch my Grail Knights chew through him.<br />
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By which I mean fluff EVERY attack. No hits. between my elite Grail Knights and their horses, I combine to create a gentle breeze to cool him off, gently wafting air towards them with the palm fronds I packed instead of swords.<br />
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The Knights Errant did nothing but this time I remember I have the BSB Paladin in the unit, and he at least killed 2...but the game is over at this point. With my flank and charge it is close enough that I manage to stay in combat. uh..yay?<br />
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<b>DOC Turn 3</b><br />
His Crushers charge my Knights Errant. That will be no contest, he will wreck me even with poor rolls.The Cannonb charges the other flank. The impact kills my last Knight of the Realm and gives the Cannon back a wound, I again do no damage, he kills my Paladin with his Herald, they run down the Grail Knights who did a combined zero wounds in two rounds of combat...<br />
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The Crushers handily defeat the Errants, who escape, I flank him with the Paladin forgetting they don't run...instability means that charge will NEVER work even if I do damage...next turn the errants re-engage and by bottom of 4 or perhaps top of 5 at most I am tabled. I think it was bottom of 4, but really...as soon as the Grail Knights fluffed I was done.<br />
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in a humorous moment, in the top of 4 he rolled Double 6 on the table and brought on 10 Bloodletters. Nice.<br />
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<b>What Went Right</b><br />
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<b>What went wrong</b><br />
Grail Knights doing zero hits...never mind wounds, zero HITS. He missed I believe it was 3 close combat attacks the entire game. He dominated this one beginning to end. I knew the Brets were not exceptional, but I really thought it would be a close game he won in the bottom of 6, and not by much. Instead it was an 840-0 slaughter. Oh, and he finished with one fewer model on the table than he started with...<br />
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Good time, good lesson. To be competitive, do NOT play Brets until updated.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-38259948477457449012014-12-13T22:28:00.000-08:002014-12-13T22:28:00.435-08:00750 Points Warriors of Chaos V 750 Point DoCFresh off the Night Goblin thrashing, we decided to play a more...competitive game, lets say. So using models at hand, I built the following:<br />
Level 2 Sorcerer, lore of tzeentch.<br />
17 Chaos Warriors, shield, full command, mark of tzeentch<br />
5 chaos knights, full command, ensorcelled weapons, mark of khorne<br />
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I put my wizard behind the hill on my left, the warriors opposite his Crushers and 'Nettes, and the Knights on the extreme right hidden by the forest. He used the same setup as before; from my perspective, the cannon on the hill on my left, the Crushers in front and 'nettes behind them more or less centrally located. He again won first turn.<br />
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<b>DoC Turn 1</b><br />
Crushers moved forward a bit, 'Nettes followed them, I shut down his magic. His Cannon would not be denied, taking out 4 Chaos Warriors.<br />
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<b>WoC Turn 1</b><br />
I moved my knights around to use the forest in the center of the field as cover from his cannon. He returned the favor by shutting down my magic.<br />
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<b>DoC Turn 2</b><br />
He had a conundrum of how to get a shot at my Knights without leaving his Crusher flank exposed. It was going to be tough. Finally he marched the Crushers forward towards my Warriors and floated the the 'nettes around to face the Knights. The cannon was blocked from all. I shot down his magic.<br />
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<b>Woc Turn 2</b><br />
Ironically, about a week ago I mentioned I had never seen a game changed or the outcome determined by magic.<br />
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The Knights charged into the 'Nettes, passing dangerous terrain tests by 2 of them for passing through a forest. He blocked my first spell, but then I got off Infernal Gateway with Irresistible Force on his Crushers. And rolled an "11" for S, then a 15! for number of hits...15 S10 hits! It did 6 wounds when he was done rolling saves...two crushers gone, game changed.<br />
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He slew one Chaos Knight but the champ slew his champ in a challenge (gaining +1 I on the Eye table) and the other knights largely fluffed their rolls but won by 3 or 4. He passed his Instability test. Which, by the way, should have been steadfast...we forgot but it did not matter.<br />
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<b>DoC Turn 3</b><br />
With one crusher, he headed off to try to join the 'nettes v Knights since one Crusher could not take on 13 Chaos Warriors alone.<br />
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I shut down his magic...again. His cannon shot down 3 more Chaos Warriors. 7 so far...ouch.<br />
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In challenge, my Champ slew his Herald and gained another pip of Initiative. this time he melted down to one Nette left after instability as he took about a half dozen casualties from combat and more from the results. Best outcome for him, pinning my knights in place.<br />
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<b>WoC Turn 3</b><br />
I moved my warriors forward. he shut down my first spell but Infernal Gateway finished off his Crusher. That is right, magic wiped out an entire, powerful unit for me. Oh yeah.<br />
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Knights killed the last 'Nette...which was bad...<br />
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<b>DoC Turn 4</b><br />
The Skullcannon charged the knights...and killed 3 with Impact Hits. I wounded it once. He could not wound the unit champ but he broke and got run down. Which was bad...<br />
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<b>WoC Turn 5</b><br />
His overrun gave me the Skullcannon flank. I took it. He did in a couple warriors, I put a couple wounds on him, he died to instability and got tabled.<br />
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<b>What Went Right</b><br />
Magic. The Chaos Warriors v 'Nettes I am usually going to win. I am not sure my Champion killing his Herald is a given...he had ASF with first his unit champ, then herald...but not an upset, really, either. But taking out 2/3rds of his Crushers before they could charge with magic was awesome. And finishing off the third was icing on the cake. My Warriors hitting his Cannon in the flank was a gold mine because I got so many attacks I was able to win the combat.<br />
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<b>What went Wrong</b><br />
First, losing 3/4 of my Knights to Impact Hits meant they had no chance against the cannon. Second, his shooting was brutal, taking out masses of warriors. Had the Crushers not been magic-shredded, he would have wrecked the Warriors (we ran the scenario live a couple times and math-hammered it...it all turned out the same. Crushers who charge Warriors win) and the cannon and Crushers v my Knights would be clear win for him.<br />
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Fun, entertaining game.<br />
<span id="goog_1689111342"></span><span id="goog_1689111343"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-61232007530222430382014-12-06T22:03:00.003-08:002014-12-06T22:03:57.936-08:00750 points Goblins v DoCSpace Monkey and I threw together a last minute game. I don't have all my models here at the house, a lot are out at Fixed Dice's house...so I decided to make an all-night Goblin army.<br />
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Night Goblin Shaman, Lvl 2<br />
20 Night Goblin Spearmen w/full command, 2 fanatics<br />
20 Night Goblin Bowmen w/full command, 2 fanatics<br />
10 Spider Riders with Short Bows<br />
Mangler Squig<br />
8 Squig Hoppers<br />
and the one non-Night Goblin, a Doom Diver<br />
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He brought a Herald giving ASF in a unit of daemonettes, 3 bloodcrushers, and a skullcannon.<br />
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I put the Spider Riders on the left, had a hill in between, then the Mangler Squig in front opposite his Crushers who were in front of the 'nettes, my Bowmen behind them, to their right the Squig hoppers in front with the Shaman in the Spears behind them, and to the right my Doom Diver. He threw the Cannon on the hill on his right (my left) and off we went.<br />
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<b>DOC Turn 1</b><br />
The cannon hit the mangler and killed it, taking 4 Night Goblins with it...which did not matter because, seeing a unit destroyed, they panicked and ran off the table as did the Doom Diver.<br />
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<b>Night Goblin Turn 1</b><br />
The Spider Riders advanced and fired at the 'nettes, doing no wounds. The Squig Hoppers bounded forward...4". On 3d6. Hmm. I drifted left with my Spearmen, tried some magic, but lost concentration.<br />
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<b>Doc Turn 2</b><br />
His Crushers charged my Squig Hoppers. The fanatics released and missed him by about a sixteenth of an inch. I did one wound with the Hoppers, he killed all but one and that one fled. I forgot to test for the night Goblins for unit breaking. Oops. His Cannon took out 3 or 4 more Night Goblins.<br />
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<b>Night Goblin Turn 2</b><br />
Spider Riders failed animosity and moved straight towards his 'nettes. Night Goblins tried to face his Crushers. The Fanatics planted themselves into terrain and died. The Spider Riders again did nothing with their bows.<br />
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<b>DoC Turn 3</b><br />
Nettes moved around, crushers turned to face my unit of Night Goblins. He charged the Spider Riders who fled planning to regroup and shoot. His winds chart did a wound to his herald.<br />
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<b>Night Goblin Turn 3</b><br />
Spider Riders failed to rally. magic Vortex went off, doing a wound to the 'nettes.<br />
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<b>Doc Turn 4</b><br />
Crushers charged the Night Goblins, 'nettes declared charge on Spider Riders who fled off table. He hammered me in combat, I fled, got run down and tabled.<br />
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<b>What Went Right</b><br />
Though I forgot to use his Mushroom, having a level 2 was funny. He did manage to put one casualty on the DoC...the only actual casualty they suffered.<br />
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<b>What Went Wrong</b><br />
Having LD5 on most units (Riders had 6) meant his opening salvo essentially ended the game. The Mangler and fanatics were all I had that were even a slight threat. I called off the turns slightly incorrectly because I fired 3 times with the Spider Riders, though never did a casualty with them.<br />
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I wanted to try out an all-night goblin army. It is not a good idea and will not be attempted again...but it was fun.<br />
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Also, I really dislike the new google feature which is why no pictures. I have several on my phone but getting them on here is not functioning.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-6362364191374159602014-09-15T19:30:00.000-07:002014-09-15T19:30:01.610-07:00War of the Relics; Fade to Grey<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gunvor fired his Storm Bolter at the Warp Talons threatening the last two members of Marius' Grey Hunters. He did not know if it was his storm bolter or the assault cannon and did not care, he simply felt satisfaction as vengeance was wreaked for the death of the Grey Hunters. Both Warp Talons fell dead</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Zhi recognized he would quickly be surrounded and the pointless long-range fire-fight with the Terminator was accomplishing nothing. He led his men at a run trying to achieve the shelter of the nearby ruins. He hoped to reach them before the rest of his unit got shot to pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Gunvor heard Logan's report over his headset and began moving to set up a fire lane on the approaching Ta Fire Warriors. Marius' Grey Hunters fired a Frag Missile at the Fire Warriors, killing a couple. Logan and Njal fired at them as well and Njal unleashed his Psychic might at them, reducing them to just two remaining warriors. It was too much for Zhi and they began running.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile a new unit of Grey Hunters entered the field and began moving toward the relic to Gunvor's right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Deathwing moved toward the Ultramarine Dreadnought. This time the Krak Grenade penetrated its armor. Not satisfied, Luce led his men in a charge, and the overwatch fire missed them completely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Against all odds he was able to not die to the crushing blow of the Dreadnought power fist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Dreadnought, however, was not so fortunate as multiple blows penetrated its armor, killing it outright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Before he could lead his men back to the relic they were guarding, Grey Hunters appeared to his right. They opened fire with plasma guns and bolters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The plasma guns were ineffective, as one missed and the other saw the Terminator armor look invulnerable to it. The Bolter fire was more effective and three Deathwing Terminators slumped to the ground.</span><br />
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With that the Space Wolves held the field and the Relics. The cost had been high, but they intended to make sure it was worth it.<br />
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<i>Things spiraled out of control. The combination of the order I rolled units to arrive, what units arrived, what their objectives were combined to make this a slaughter. The Space Wolves held the center of the field, had 2 Lord-level characters, 2 full units of Grey Hunters, 2 heavy weapons from one Grey Hunter unit, a couple Terminators...units coming on one at a time would just run into a buzzsaw.</i><br />
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<i>I have learned a great deal about the game, this seemed a good time to end it.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-91617992351332669592014-09-14T19:30:00.000-07:002014-09-14T19:30:00.440-07:00War of the Relics; Chaos still (doesn't) Rock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Space Wolf Terminators and the Deathwing Terminators resumed their long-range, low-intensity firefight after a round of fire by the Space Wolves took down the Dark Angel Dreadnought, glancing it to death. As one Cyclone Missile launcher crashed to the ground, Luce recalled the others into the shelter of the ruins.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Grey Hunters looked at the on-rushing Chaos Warp Talons and retreated to take advantage of the rough terrain nearby to make the inevitable charge less deadly.<br />
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<i>I ended up playing two consecutive turns and did not take notes. At this point I am thinking of things to somewhat speed up the end. I enjoy this but the piece-meal entry has given one army too much of an advantage to overcome. The rules are coming much easier to me...rending took out a Terminator as he had to save on a 5+ not a 2+.</i><br />
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<i>Lightning Claws are great against power armor...power fists are great against Terminators. I am definitely learning things like that. Weight of fire matters, too. Just putting out 8 or 10 shots from a unit simply does not do enough damage, and you REALLY have to have stuff capable of taking out stuff like Armor Value 12 Dreadnoughts or AV14 Land raiders or even though they only put out a certain volume of fire, they are impervious to entire units.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Gunfire between units guarding objectives can best be described as desultory. An occasional casualty is done and in an open-ended game like this can be effective. In a 6 turn game I need to figure out wat to make shooting more powerful. For me, at least.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Meanwhile, the actions above are mostly just maneuver to get the right models closest to where fire will come from so key models are late casualties, and also to do some more objective seizing. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Njal got off 3 psychic powers but all it accomplished was giving him Shroud...and a 5+ cover save does nothing except what his Terminator armor already gives him. he also bounced back to take advantage of Difficult Terrain which could give him an advantage against the Terminator Chaos lord.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stumpy punched his brother. "We are not running. Lets take that thing down." Suiting actions to words, he fired his Lascannon 1-handed at the Land Raider, taking away slabs of armor and noticeably weakening the mighty warmachine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I have been keeping the dice separate for the 2 lascannons. The properly built model has proven incompetent, either missing entirely or failing to glance/penetrate. Stumpy has been devastating in this battle. A story behind the model with the stump..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His prey all but out of sight, Ovidius pointed towards the nearby Terminators. Instantly one was vaporized under the fire of his lascannons. The other lascannon missed and the bolter saw its efforts deflected by armor, but he was making progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The unmistakable hiss of jetpacks signaled the arrival of Zhi and his crisis suits. They unleashed a hail of fire on the back of the Chaos Chosen. Missiles, Fusion blasters, Plasma rifles and Burst cannons unleashed, slaying three of the blue-clad Chosen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>The Chaos units that have come on just cannot catch a break...though to be fair, the left side of the board has pretty well failed up as almost everyone either enters on that side or has an objective on that side. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>The exceptions to missions are the land raider and Crisis suit teams with Overwhelming Firepower and the Chosen trying to destroy something in close combat...so it makes sense to leave the other side of the field lightly inhabited.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Ingvar dead the Long Fangs were going to need even more assistance. Yet Gunvor knew he could not leave his post. no matter how much he wished to leave his post the needs of the Wolves as a Chapter meant more than his desire for personal glory. His men edged ever closer to the edge of disobeying orders but remained in place...for now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ovidius shouted for a damage report. The stuttering of his crew's response let him know they were shaken but they managed to trigger their weapons, albeit a bit less accurately. Still, they managed to slay the missile launcher which sent the last two Long Fangs running off the hill. Satisfied, he began searching for a new target.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Land Raider shot pretty well for firing only Snap Shots, hitting 3 times though only wounding once. Still, the Fangs fled...4". Had they fled 4-1/8 they would have been gone.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gunvor watched as the Land Raider moved inexorably towards the Long Fangs. If their Lascannons did not get to work soon they would be nothing but smoking bodies on the hilltop. He led his men toward the hill to his own left, on the verge of deserting his post. What meant more, guarding an objective nobody was coming for or the lives of his brethren?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even as Gunvor began mobilizing his men, Ingvar stepped to the front, exhorting his men to take out the Land Raider. Their shots were striking it but could not penetrate the thick armor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The rule is the closest model is the casualty. By moving the grenade launcher, which needed a 6 to glance anyway, and the captain, I protected the two lascannons from the brunt of the fire. Strictly practicing effective defense of the most important models.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Captain Ovidius saluted the courage of the Space Wolf officer. It had been a brave thing he had done, if a bit suicidal. His gambit had been successful, as the lascannon blast had torn him in half but missed the lascannons behind him that were the only real threat to the Land Raider. The bolters rained bullets off the other Long Fangs, but their armor proved up to the challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Trebuchet nodded to his two cyclone-wielding terminators and they launched Krak missiles at the only target they could see, the Land Raider. He did not expect to do much damage but if they could damage it, all the better. And if it came near, they would tear it apart with their Thunder Hammers...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Marius led his men in at the run. Radio chatter told him Gunvor was leaving a vital objective untended. He needed to get there before it fell into the wrong hands. He saw the land raider to his left but there was little harm he could do to it anyway. Rather, his power fist could probably do some damage, but little else in his unit could hurt the behemoth. Better to take over the task of sitting on the intelligence while Gunvor led his unit to destroy the tank.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>I almost re-rolled when two more units of Space Wolves came on in the last two turns, but again decided to keep the results as there is no "winning" this game or losing it. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>I am beginning to regret the static objective. I think some interesting stuff could be happening if units were moving around the field. So I have decided to artificially mid-game change the rules. If a unit is relieved (a second unit from the same army with the same objective) arrives, the unit being relieved may make one roll on the Missions table, choosing to keep the current mission or switch to the new mission.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ovidius looked at the bodies laying around the field. Ahead of him were the Terminators, but closer and far more dangerous were the Long Fangs on a nearby hill. Turning to face them, he smiled as his Lascannon blasted one of them clean off the hilltop. Their armor was proof against his Heavy Bolters, but he had begun inflicting casualties and was pleased.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Commander Tai gestured his men deeper into the ruins. He knew full well his men could not stand up to the Deathwing Terminators in front of him. His men's fusion blasters could not penetrate their armor, however, nor did the cannons. He knew he was in trouble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luce watched the cowardly Tau slink away. Doggedly he gestured his men forward, picking up speed to crash into them. The Terminators were not bothered by the snap shots taken by the Tau Stealth team as they went in, nor were the flailing blows of any concern, even though many hit. They counted on their armor to withstand the blows and the thunder hammers to squish the Stealth Suits. Both assumptions proved correct as they surged forward to take the objective they had been given.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It was the bad luck of the Tau to come on by objective three, needing to get to objective one, only to run into the Deathwing scattering to between them and escape, needing to get to objective 3. Again I see the power of the no-armor save power fist. Fully 13 wounds were dished out, and with only cover saves, which you cannot take in cc, the Stealth Team was just another stain on the field. The battle took place on the objective, so the Deathwing got a two-fer, and with 8 left they are going to be tough to dig out of that objective.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Njal knew multiple units of Wolves were on-planet. He was not particularly surprised to see Gunvor holding an objective impatiently and Ingvor involved with a Land Raider. He advanced to his objective and looked around for a target for his mighty psychic powers. Seeing the Deathwing, he unleashed the wolves, killing one terminator, but the power of the warp was so strong he took a wound. He then shrouded himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>In a fortuitous roll, Njal came on the board by his objective. Hiding behind the wrecked Hammerhead and shrouded, in Terminator armor, he can stick around a while picking up cheap points.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Captain Ovidius cursed the lost time as his Land Raider cleared the last vestiges of the bunkers. One track shuddered but stayed on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now he was in the opening and could unleash the might of his moving death-dealing machine. He unleashed everything he had at the Tau Stealth Team straight ahead. With satisfaction he watched one of their accursed drones blow apart and what appeared to be fully half their unit fall to the power of his heavy Bolters. It was a good day to be an Ultramarine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luce and his men were used to deep striking into battle. He was not shocked when they deviated one quick march from their objective. What did surprise him was the presence of the 3 Tau Stealth Team directly in front of him. Cursing the lack of ranged weapons, nevertheless he watched the Cyclone Missile Launchers erupt in flame, sending Krak missiles at the Stealth team, only to whistle harmlessly by them, foiled by the rubble the Stealth team protected itself in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Guard the objective" snarled Gunvor. Still smarting from the loss of 60% of his command, he was chafing to get into combat and the never-ending task of guarding an objective whose value he did not know was only exacerbating the situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the only target in sight was the hapless remainders of the Ultramarine tactical unit. Gunvor and his men fired away but their fire was ineffective. For the moment he would have to satisfy with himself with the knowledge he was accomplishing his mission all but uncontested.</span><br />
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<i>I considered bringing in 2-3 units from each army, but the purpose of this game is to get used to moving, shooting, learning rules like pinning, morale, and seeing how effective...or ineffective...any given weapon is so I elected to just keep doing it the way I have been. On the bright side, it keeps the turns quick and easily managed...on the dark side, the Space Wolves are dominating.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Doggedly the Ultramarines advanced to seize the objective, with the Plasma Gun moving to a better firing position. His movement jostled his aim and he missed, as did the captain, but the missile Launcher hit the stealth unit hard. Only one drone was knocked out of commission, however...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Casualties had taken away their holding the objective and taken them out of squad coherency. I found that by moving the captain forward and shifting the Plasma Gun I could fire the missile launcher Frag grenade and still snap shot with the Plasma. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Grenade did 4 wounds due to how crowded the Tau Stealth team was, but only one was not saved. In a way it was a glorious last stand...they had done nothing of note since wiping out the Hammerhead, though they had held the objective for quite some time.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I saw your pathetic shooting, Gunvor" radioed Ingvar. "A shiny new Storm Bolter on whether my boys can outshoot you?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gunvor accepted the bet and started laughing as the two missiles sailed way over their targets and one Lascannon buried in the crumbling walls of the ruins sheltering the Ultramarines. His laughter stopped as Stumpy fired and took out the Ultramarine captain. The damage proved too much for the beleagured Ultramarines and they turned and fled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Long Fangs are sitting alone on a hill with good line of sight to virtually the entire field. With nobody threatening them they are able to plink away. Having their Frag Grenades scatter 10 and 11 inches limits the damage they do, and the ruins gave cover from the Lascannon, but they still have been the MVP so far, blowing up Land Raiders, running off the rugged, stubborn Ultramarines...I am learning the power of the Long Fangs.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Commander Tai chuckled gleefully as the blue-clad Ultramarines took to their heels. "We have company, boys, and they did part of our work for us. Lets go find some enemies."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Ovidius reporting for duty". Captain Ovidius of the Ultramarines had heard the distress calls from Captain Aelius and his long-time friend Decimus as well as a third unidentified man, someone who was leading a unit of tacticals to recover some bit of tech. He had thundered his Land Raider toward the field of battle as quickly as possible, yet now that he should be in radio range, all he heard was silence over the com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It seemed likely the targets he was picking up on the instruments had something to do with the radio silence. He did not know who they were but it mattered not. He would wreak a terrible vengeance on them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gunvor could not see the tank but he heard the chatter of fire and its treads crushing rubble underneath. The warrior in him felt a bit of regret for the Ultramarines now caught betweeen him and the tank which was making it clear it was not a friend to the Ultramarines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, he would have expected no mercy had he been in that situation and he owed them the respect due them as warriors. He would honor their courage and skill greatly if they found a way out of their predicament. He led his men closer, while still maintaining his post guarding whatever treasure was buried in the ground. The 3 remaining ranged weapons of his company fired at the beleaguered Ultramarines, though their shots had no effect.</span><br />
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It was obvious the Tacticals could not threaten the Land Raider in front of them as only the Krak missile from the launcher could even penetrate the armor. Stoically, they advanced towards their objective, hoping to at least take the pesky fire of the Space Wolves out of the equation and perhaps shove a krak grenade down the hatch in close combat with the Land Raider. They considered firing at the Raider but decided instead to run for cover.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Dark Angel commander Florent looked with disdain at the Ultramarine cowards scurrying for cover before the might of his mighty land Raider. He considered slaying them all simply to demonstrate his superiority, but his navigator pointed out the dangers of toiling through ruins. Even a Land Raider could throw a track.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nodding acquiescence, Florent pointed through the nearby wall. "Lets get out of these ruins and head towards our objective."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Florent checked the coordinates and looked at his instruments. There was no doubt about it, there were 4 Space Wolf Terminators squarely on top of his objective. He smiled gleefully. He would accomplish his mission while taking out the arrogant pups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>I think I actually played this a bit illegally. I went "flat out" instead of shooting to clear the ruins. I think the rule is no flat out in dangerous terrain. I only realized this after playing another turn, however...so be it. I also made the choice because only the Hurricane Bolters on the right and Assault Cannon in the turret had line of sight and they could not even take out Power Armor...not liking their chances against Terminators.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>As an aside, I think a Land Raider without at least one AP2 or better is wasted points. You HAVE to be able to take out tough targets. I think it is poor against any Space Marine or equivalent. Sheer volume will do a few casualties, but I would rather have effective shooting...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingvar smiled gleefully as the Land raider hove into view. "Target practice, boys!" Almost before the echo of his voice faded two crack missiles thudded into the Land Raider's front armor but were deflected. One lascannon missed entirely but the one-handed Stumpy was more effective. The bright ruby laser found a chink in the armor and the land Raider instantly exploded, tearing itself apart in a fiery wreck. Stumpy raised his fist in salute to his vanquished foe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So skilled were his men that the first the Ultramarines knew of their presence was the unleashing of gunfire. Two marines fell to the Fusion Blasters, but their armor was proof against the remaining fire of his unit. No matter, Tai would wipe them out, advance to his objective, report back and then find out what had happened to Commander Bau.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>The poor Ultramrines just cannot catch a break. Any roll but a three and the Tau would not have encountered them. Instead they are squarely in the path the Tau need to take. One might guess they are not long for this game...</i></span><br />
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<i>This is one of the weaknesses of the scenario I set up. Really there is nothing a single Terminator sergeant can realistically do...so hiding out plinking away and picking up Objective points until his almost inevitable timely demise is about all he can do.</i><br />
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The Space Wolves returned fire as they clustered around their objective. Their fire proved too effective and Decimus slumped to the ground, the last Ultramarine terminator dying with a whimper.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Tacticals tried to decide if they should fire at the terminators or take their own objective. They opted to seize the objective, but strung themselves out to give themselves a good line of fire at the terminators the next round.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingvar gestured towards the far-off Tactical marines. "Unleash, boys." Instantly the Lascannons unleashed their fury even as two frag grenades rocketed into the strung-out tacticals. When the smoke cleared fully half the unit was laying dead. Ingvar smiled in satisfaction. His men were proving their worth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Sitting on a hill with good visibility, the first grenade scattered perfectly and the second hit. Only one Lascannon hit but the cover save was no more effective than the armor saves as only one Ultramarine passed his 3+ save in 6 attempts. Ouch...And the plasma and missile launcher would have been casualties if not for the "closest model to the firing unit" rule.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">he poor Ultramarine Tactical troopers were still reeling from the devastating fire the Long Fangs had subjected to when even worse news greeted them. With a thunderous squeal, a Dark Angel Land Raider began crushing its way through the ruins surrounding their objective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It unleashed a hailstorm of fire but to the relief of the Ultramarines, this time their armor held up under the assault. Still, things were looking dim for their future...</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994044666979170971.post-12516868848655636052014-09-01T19:30:00.000-07:002014-09-01T19:30:00.822-07:00War of the Relics: Terminators gonna TerminateHaving destroyed the Tau Hammerhead, the tactical marines kept moving toward their objective, taking a few ineffective shots at the Space Wolf Terminators.<br />
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Decimus grimaced. He was the sole remaining member of his squad. The Berzerkers had fought in honorable combat. The treacherous Space Wolves, however, had no right to open fire on him. Angered but still wise, he retreated deeper into cover, firing his Storm Bolter as he went.<br />
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<i>Snake-eyes to wound...not good...but he still holds the objective. At this point Decimus' role is to hold that objective as long as model-ly possible (because saming humanly possible seems silly)</i><br />
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Gunvor snarled in rage. How dare those foul Chaos Terminators stand so close to his wolves. Gesturing behind him he led his men towards them, firing as he went. Bullets chipped away paint under the deafening crush of fire as both assault cannons roared their anger at the Chaotit interlopers, storm bolters howled their rage but it was impotent as the armor of their enemies stood proof against all the fire the Wolves could pour on them.<br />
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"Charge!" Gunvor roared, only to be met by a withering hail of fire. Two of his men fell under the responding torrent of fire as his howling Wolves surged into hand to hand combat with their despised enemies.<br />
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Then again, anyone not a wolf was a despised enemy...though less despised when they fought well.<br />
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Nergui and his Chaos Terminators did just that. A power Maul slew one Wolf before he could even swing. Three more Wolves fell to the crushing blows of Chaos Power Fists even as they themselves ripped the entire unit of Chaos Terminators apart in a flurry of Thunder Hammer and Power Fist blows.<br />
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Whether his blood lust was momentarily sated or the cold reality he had lost 60% of his command in one furious charge, Gunvor regained his sense of mission and hastily ordered his men back towards their objective.<br />
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<i>The Space Wolves failed to wound on nearly 5/6ths of their shots and the ones that wounded were saved. Meanwhile, Chaos Terminator overwatch only managed to wound twice...but snake-eyes meant two Space Wolf Terminators gone.</i><br />
<i><br />Then the Power Maul went first and another 1 meant another Wolf gone before they could swing. When it was 10-5 it looked like a clear and easy Space Wolf win, but a couple fortuitous rolls in the favor of Chaos swung things wildly the other way.</i><br />
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<i>After handily dismissing the unit, the remaining 4 Terminators consolidated towards their objective, just managing to get within 3" and make it a 2-point turn.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingvar led his Long Fangs to the crest of the first hill he saw. His orders were clear. If something moved and was not a Space Wolf, shoot it. If it is still twitching, get a bigger gun. rinse, repeat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He saw the four Space Wolf Terminators moving with purpose and behind them saw a single enemy terminator. Almost before they stopped moving the Lascannons of Jannick and the Stump roared their ruby red beams and the two missile launchers he commanded sent Krak Grenades towards the lone Terminator. All missed by a wide margin, but Ingolf was not cocerned. Anything they hit while moving was pure bonus. He held the hill with a good field of fire. It was time to settle in and get to killing...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>With one full unit of Ultramarine tacticals and a single Terminator against 4 Space Wolf Terminators, it was wide open for anything to come. I thought it was funny the Wolves got long-range support. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Here is where I slightly adjusted the roll...their initial task was destroy a unit on close combat. Them being Long fangs, it made "cinematic sense" to make their Objective to wipe out a unit in the Shooting Phase so I did. Unfortunately, they came on the furthest edge of the field from anyone...</i></span><br />
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Tau: 3 (Objective)<br />
Space Wolves: 5 First Blood, 2 Kill points (HQ) (Chaos terminators), Objective (2 turns)<br />
Ultramarines: 4 (kill point (Hammerhead), kill Point (Berzerkers), objective (2 turns)<br />
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Though there was but one Berzerker remaining Decimus did not take him lightly. Even had he such a notion, the armor of the Berzerker proving up to the task of deflecting his blows would have disabused him of that notion, even as the armor of his squad-make sparked in defiance of the Berzerker's attacks.<br />
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The power armor did, however, melt under the hammering, crushing blows of the power fist blows dealt by the Ultramarine terminators. As the last Chaos Space Marine crumpled to the ground, Decimus was already leading his men towards their nearby objective.<br />
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<i>I considered moving them towards the Space Wolf Terminators but A) 3 Termies v. 10 seems heavily weighted in the favor of the 10 and B) three Terminators in cover could prove a tough nut to crack. Plus, sliding into the terrain having garnered a kill point and now seizing their objective, the Ultramarines added two VP to their total.</i><br />
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Tau: 3 (Objective)<br />
Space Wolves: 3 First Blood, Kill point (HQ), Objective<br />
Ultramarines: 3 (kill point (Hammerhead), kill Point (Berzerkers), objective<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gunvor watched the demolition of the red-clad chaos space marines with interest. Here was a worthy foe. Yet he could not leave his post. Hastily barked orders saw his men string out towards the Ultramarines while still maintaining contact with their objective. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Assault Cannons chattered death, sending two Ultramarine Terminators spinning down in defeat. The Storm Bolters hit often, but the remaining Terminator stood firm and unharmed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I was considering charging them into combat, but the stratagem of the Ultramarines to get into cover meant the charge was unlikely to reach. Better to maintain the VP for controlling the objective. Ironically, the felling of two terminators to Assault Cannons probably save the third one's life after he made 7 saves against Storm Bolter wounds as it was just too far to reach him.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nergui cursed as he saw his landing position. With the failure of the incompetent Ganzorig, Nergui* had been sent to this planet to recover the instructions to a particularly effective bomb. The equally incompetent minion running the teleporter had missed their target. Now in front of him stood a full unit of the hated Space Wolf Terminators. Worse, they were between him and his objective...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He considered having his men charge in and tear the Wolves apart in close combat but the sight of several Storm Shield and Thunder hammer wielding Terminators dissuaded him from such an aggressive choice. Instead he ordered his men to open fire. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With a furious roar they unleashed a firestorm upon their enemies. Sparks flew as Reaper Autocannons, Combi-bolters and flamers roared their vicious song of death and destruction on the Space Wolves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With dismay Nergui saw not one Wolf fall...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Chaos Space Marines drew objective 5. I almost dropped them in any other part of the field, but this scenario is not set up to be "balanced" per se, it is set up to see how the rules work such as Deep Strike, and also to measure the various weapons against the various armors. So I followed my admittedly artificial yet highly entertaining self-made scenario rule and tried to Deep Strike on top of the objective the wolves were holding. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Unfortunately they scattered a mighty 11" and then, while their accuracy was phenomenal, only missing 2 or 3 shots, between rolling low on the wound attempts and high on the armor saves, they could not put a single Wolf out of commision. On the bright side, this means the pressure is off of Decimus, the lonely Ultramarine terminator guarding objective 6...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">*Nergui means "no name" in Mongolian. The joke will soon be evident...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0