3,000 points aside, we played a 2v2 game. Each player had 1,500 points to play with. This is the first game for the Shield of Baal Campaign that I am running for Titan Games. It is a 7 week campaign that uses league rules. Two main factions each vying for Mission Points every week. Each week will award a bonus to the final week's game which is an apocalypse game.
This week is the 1st week so we played the Vitria Strike Mission from the Shield of Baal Campaign book.
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| Mission 1 |
The reward for the apoc game is additional reinforcements for the winning Faction.
Imperial: 1 unit of 10 Scions (hotshot lasguns with 2 plasma guns) with Sergeant (the Kappic Eagles) mounted in Valkryie.
Tyranids: 1 unit of 16 Genestealers with Broodlord (both work out to 285 points)
Marshall is my team mate and we both decided to use the new Hive Fleet Leviathan Force Organization which gave us both 3HQ slots but we had to bring 3 mandatory Troops. This was my list:
HQ
Hive Tyrant with TL Brainleech Devourers x3
Troops
Rippers x3 Deepstriking
Termagants with Devourers in a Tyrannocyte x20
Termagants with Fleshborers x10
Termagants with Fleshborers x10
Heavy
Carnifex with TL Brainleech Devourers in Tyrannocyte x2
Marshall brought this:
HQ
Hive Tyrant with TL Brainleech Devourers x3
Troops
Rippers x3 Deepstriking
Genestealers x10
Genestealers x10
Hormagants x20
Hormagants x20
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| The Pale Death rolled these powers |
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| Supreme Warlord rolled these |
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| The Winged Shadow rolled these powers |
The Imperials were a team of Grey Knights and Dark Angels. Still bamboozles me why GW would make Sisters of Battle the main protagonist in this book.
Dark Angels comprised mainly of bikes, led by Sammael and a Imperial Knight.
The Grey Knights brought two Dreadknights, a unit of Palladins and 2 units of Purifiers in Rhinos.
Most of the models are WYSIWYG so that should not pose too much a problem. I would also like to throw a shoutout to the Imperial players who put a lot of effort into getting their models all done up for this campaign.
Imperials got the first turn. Nids tried to seize but failed.
Turn 1
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| Imps pushed up midsection really hard |
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| And supported them with nimble units who could grab objectives |
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| Sammael |
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| The backfield had 2 other unit of bikes to fill up gaps in their lines |
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| The Nids however clustered up the corner building and with the help of a Malanthrope, lurked |
Together with Night Fight, the Flyrants were saving on 2+ Cover Saves due to the Malanthrope buff and Stealth
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| Flooding the midfield with cheap Hormagaunts, these would form the bubble for the Flyrants |
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| Using the Dark Angels' Homing Beacon, the Grey Knights dropped in accurately without any scatter. |
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| Augurs sending the Imperials their target-that nest of flappy wings |
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| How all 40k games should look |
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| Mmmmm |
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| After a round of shooting, the Nids lost a few of the Hormagaunts. |
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| Unfortunately for the Grey Knights, their chief suffered a Perils and lost a wound. |
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| Bottom of Turn 1 and the Imperials managed to secure 2 VPs |
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| Multiple objects were spotted in the skies surrounding the city. Nids sent forth their harbingers of doom |
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| And managed to hurt a few of the Grey Knights but did not manage to slay the warlord. |
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| The Grey Knights really tanked a lot of the shots coming out from the Flyrants-72 shots! |
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| The Hormagaunts surprisingly killed off a few bikes for little in return. |
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| And managed to kill off a few Grey Knights as well |
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| Amazing work by cheap Hormagaunts. I have just learn to respect them a little more |
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| The Dark Angels decided to break using their Hit and Run, opening the Hormagaunts to shooting in Turn 2 |
The Tyranids did not manage to secure any VPs
Turn 2
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| As most of the Tyranid army was in the air, the Imperials went for the Malanthrope |
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| Unfortunately immobilized one of their Rhino's while driving through some glass building |
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| One of the Dreadknights shunted up to charge any of the Flyrants who may fall out of the sky |
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| Carnage every where |
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| Imperials manage to kill off the Malanthrope (proxy) for First Blood |
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| In a show of good shooting, managed to wound a number of the Tyrants. |
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| Wiping out the Terminators, the Hormagants regrouped and prepared for the next assault |
The Imperials score another 2VPs with First Blood for a total of 5VPs.
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| Out of the skies drop a Tyrannocyte containing 20 Gants with Devourers |
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| While the other Tyrannocyte dropped behind the Rhino and out pops the Carnifex armed with the TL Brainleech Devourers |
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| Out in the ruins some Genestealers reveal themselves |
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| And in the backfield another brood show themselves |
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| Two other Gant units walk into the battle |
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| The Flyrants make their moves |
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| The combined fire brought down the Grey Knight unit save for the Warlord. |
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| While the Hormagaunts went in for the Purifiers |
Tyranids managed to secure 3 VPs
Turn 3
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| The Grey Knight Warlord heroically defies the Tyranids and walks closer to the Flyrant Warlord |
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| The bikes redeployed to tackle the Genestealers |
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| Carnage from the skies |
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| The Imperials succeed in taking out the Tyranid Warlord for Slay the Warlord |
Imperials score 3VP for a total of 8VPs
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| Flyrants take to the skies again while the Devourer Gants went in for the Warlord |
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| And managed to kill him off for Slay the Warlord |
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| While the Carnifex charges into the Dreadknight |
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| Bottom of 3rd. Nids managed to secure 4VPs for a total of 7 VPs |
Unfortunately both the Imperial players had run out of time and had to run off. We did some theorycrafting and concluded that since we can't really finish the game, we agreed to call it a draw thus earning both factions 3 Mission Points for the campaign.
Hope you guys enjoyed the batrep. I am going to work on painting more of my stuff so that the next battle will look better.
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