What warp trickery is this?-12,000 point battle in 30k

[mughi3]

 

It is the 30th millennium and gods of war stride the galaxy like titans

 

the emperor of man leads his forces of imperial army and space marines to cleanse the galaxy of the xenos threat-

 

But what trickery is this you say? a tau sept world overrun with 6,000 points of tyranids facing off against the luna wolves, the sons of sanguinius and the imperial army led by the emperor himself?

 

The warp has no end to it's trickery.

 

 

So we were planning on fighting orks in a re-do of the ullanor campaign, but nobody hadthat many orks so we ended up facing tyranids instead.

 

We had 1 player with all his nids VS 4 players with 1,500 points each

the loyalist luna wolves led by loken with a spartan and some 30K era tanks and a bunch of tactical marines, imperial militias with a baneblade, mortar teams and some leman russes, a horde of jumping blood angels, and of course the emperor and his retinue.

 

Since this was a silly fun game using rules found from 3rd edition(the emperor) we allowed the nid player to use the old doom of malan'tai rules and all the nids were based on the 5th ed book with the upgrades being applied to 7th edition models (synapse being eternal warriors, monsterous creatures having access to extra toughness, wounds, BS, WS etc..).

 

We only ended up going 2 turns sadly as the luna wolves and imperial army players needed to leave.

 

At the time it ended the blood angels had just arrived and crushed a horde of gene stealers, however the tyranids were in the lead having eaten a bunch of imperial militiamen and a luna wolves tank in the previous turn. now they were in the teeth of the imperial force.

 

 

Perhaps someday we will revisit this battle but for now we have pictures

 

Imperial forces of the great crusade-

 

 

 

 

The starting table

 

 

 

the first turn

 

 

 

the second turn

 

 

[okonomiyakimarine]

Wow, nice shooting lanes! With a short field and not much of blocking terrain you don‘t even have to waste any time moving models around!

[mughi3]

well at the points we were playing and the number of models we didn't want to much clutter on a 4X8 table.

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

Looks mega fun that, were you planning on having a rematch? 

 

If you've read Horus Rising, there's a bunch of Xenos in there that remind me of Nids, could easily say it's one of those you're fighting eh.

[mughi3]

yeah we thought about the mecharacnids or whatever their name was. eventually we will probably do a rematch. the blood angel player finally got the FW book with his rules in it so he played the salamanders this time for a little 2k primarch on primarch fest.

 

 

We have a 2k match scheduled next week without primarchs, we will see how it goes.

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

Would love to see a batrep with pics on that if possible please?

[mughi3]

We did a quick test run last weeked at 1,500 points. his blood angels had a list building flaw since he was relying on lots of melta/infernus weapons and all my heavy armor has ceramite. so this weekend coming up will be a bit of a rematch

 

this is my planned list with mostly wisywig models

HQ-

1.cassian draco (dreadnought character)

TROOP

1. tac support squad(10)volkite culivers X9 the sarge has a power fist, melta bomb and artificer armor

2.assault squad(10)-standard fare-bolt pistol/chainsword + 1 plasma pistol, 1 hand flamer,

the sarge has artificer armor, a thunderhammer and combat shield

ELITE

1.doredeo anvalis autocannon/ailos missile launcher/twin linked heavy flamers

2.tech marine servo arm

FAST

1.storm eagle gunship

2.land speeder typhoon

3.attack bike squad (5)-autocannons

HEAVY

1.land raider achillies

2.legion whirlwind scorpius

Edited October 15, 2019 by mughi3

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

How are you planning on running your list?

[mughi3]

Well since he is playing legion blood angels drop doctrine he is putting half his army (jump troops) in reserve as they all arrive turn 1 no-roll for reserve. gaining a 5+ invul on the turn they arrive.

 

I am planning on shielding the whirlwind with the tacticals. I am not to concerned with the land rsider or doredeo given their ceramite upgrades and such. depending on the scenario I am probably going to deploy the bikes as well since he cannot assault the turn he deepstrikes. especially given their speed and the range of their guns. since this is based in 7th edition the flyer has to go in reserve. but I am most likely putting Cassian and the assault squad in reserve.

 

Since he is coming to me, having Cassian and the jump troops walk onto my table edge gives me a lot of flexability especially since cassian gives my jump troops 5+FNP if he is close to them. the land speeder is going in reserve as well given how fragile it is even though it has AV11/11/10.

 

Oh also the techie will be inside the land raider.

Granted this may change dependant on the scenario we roll up.

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

hope you get to put the results of the game up for me to read :) 

[mughi3]

Sooooo about that battle report.


Sometimes you have friends that do the darndest things and make you go huh?


So as I mentioned above I had to do a bit of mismatched parts to try and make it as WYSIWYG as possible.



As you know I was expecting jump troops with some heavy support.....but my friend decided he wanted to try the all jet bike list. I am not sure how he worked it out, it was 2 HQs on bikes with commands squads (3) 2 troop units (3), 2 hunter units(3) and 2 xiphon fighters. so 20 bikes and 2 aircraft. with a mix of heavy bolters, multi-meltas and powerfists and so on.

He proxied with his mantic jet bikes and some of his corvis flyers-




So we set up and he won the roll to go first, so I figured my attack bikes and especially my tac support squad/whirlwind were gonna die...then he says I'm gonna try something, and he proceeded to remove all but 2 units from the table using a special rule to outflank them from reserve.

I was like, dude you sure you wanna do that???? I figured he would hide them. nope he moved them up to me, behind cover but not out of LOS and shot at me doing minimal damage which I made my saves against...then I proceeded to table him. being as I wanted to keep playing I said bring in those reserves lets do some fighting. he only got half. 1 hunter unit that immobilized my doredeo and his command squad that shot them assaulted and beat down my attack bikes.

so I got to roll for reserves and .....got almost everything-the land speeder was the only no-show. Cassian walked up to the hunter unit and pounded them into the ground after burning them a bit. after I shot a bunch at his command squad the assault squad got their number, I lost a couple guys but whipped them out.

then my volkites proceeded to shoot the plane apart scoring 2 penetrating hits-destroyed 2 times over. so after tabling him the second time we decided to do some list building/tactical shop talk. I hope for a rematch next weekend and I requested he bring along Sanguinius to make it more interesting for him (and me).


I am hoping for a tougher fight next go around.


the table





So here was the starting positions





After that I went and did an infinity game with another regular on this table-who knew aquarium terrain looked so good on table top-

Edited October 20, 2019 by mughi3

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

Wow! That's absolutely brilliant.

 

I hope for his sake he brings his Primarch next time

[Pacific81]

Absolutely mega - love games that are on this kind of scale! 

 

My only question, does the Stella Artois have an invulnerable saving throw? :D

[mughi3]

LOL I am sure it does since it is a transport box, whatever the save is for pluck foam.