RHGC 40k Megabattle March 2008...

A brief Battle Report (Slightly modified from MWPH Forum)

Date: March 29, 2008
Venue: RHGC HQ
The Players:

Loyalist Forces- Jesse(Luna Wolves), Ronald and Ryan (Titan Legion with Witchhunter Strike Column), Henri(Space Wolves) and Sigismund(Blood Ravens)

Forces of Chaos - Adrian(Azure Dawn(?) turned traitors), Obi(The Fallen), Romy(Dark Eldar Kabal of the Black Heart), Joel and Lance(Chaos Space Marines of Nurgle and Khorne)

The Megabattle: 12,000(!)pts per side, Apocalypse Rules

Objectives: Crypt of the Ancients in the Loyalist Deployment Zone, The Bunker in the Chaos Deployment Zone, and The Shrine of Pork in No Mans Land. Too bad there were no Orks on pilgrimage that day.

Highlights:

Four turns in a little over four hours of "everything including the kitchen sink" 40k gaming, RHGC style.

Game started with Jesse and Adrian picked out (probably being the youngest from both sides) to work out what strategic assets (whatever they are :P) will be used by both sides. Chaos won out in bidding for first turn, with minimal deployment in the Chaos deployment zone and all of Adrian's forces coming out behind enemy lines going for glory and take out the Titans early, only to be picked off by sniper fire (using the Ambush Asset). After seeing some of Adrian's dreadnoughts blowing up, Obi and I "went conservative" by deploying 1/4 of our individual forces on the side edges, with Obi's tanks, Assault Squads, Veteran Squads and my Wyches and Archon on raiders forward from our deployment zone edge to hang around near the closer objectives and provide a gauntlet to ambush any Loyalist forces who might think of advancing to contest them.

Titans and Baneblades from the Loyalists had a field day shooting, realizing after the second turn that Chaos was planning to claim two objectives (three actually, with the bunker counted as two c/o Vital Objective asset).

With the "timely" arrival of Sigis and Joel later in the afternoon, we had the opportunity to bring them in as reinforcements for both sides on the third turn, with Joel (and Lance) providing a Baneblade and 3 defilers to bulk up Chaos firepower and Sigis providing the Loyalists with the much needed objective takers.

At the second to the last turn, Sigis landed two drop pods with Terminators (Sigis went for precision over teleporting) on the Chaos Bunker, almost wiping out the Dark Eldar Warrior Squad that was close to claiming it. Only problem is, a coven of Wyches and an Archon and Haemonculus with an Incubi retinue were nearby with disintegrators, dark lances, agonizers, punishers, and... well, in short it was ugly.

At the appointed hour of game end, it was Chaos holding the Crypt (Adrian was able to sneak a landspeeder behind the Titans' backs). The Shrine of Pork was contested by The Fallen's Whirlwind, the Blood Raven Suicide Bikers (had to turbo boost across difficult terrain to get there), and a Titan. And lastly, the Chaos Bunker was claimed by the Kabal of the Black Heart, with the Terminators already on a one-way trip to Commorragh.

Good game.

Heeding the Call of Chaos

Here are pics of SJ's beautifully crafted Khorne Land Raider...

Top shot (Khorne Land Raider)

Front hatch (Your faith has sealed your doom!)

Hull vandal (Death to the False Emperor!)

Fortress March 2008 Week 2

Regularizing Friday gaming at Fortress, VMall Greenhills! Small pointage gaming on a 4x4 table - Warhammer Fantasy and WARMACHINE/HORDES!

March 7, 2008:

• [WMH] Kei's Grim Angus x Arvin's Magnus the Traitor, 500 pts No Man's Land, win via objective
• [WFB] Kim's Khorne Daemonic Legion x Ron's Bretonnians, 1500 pts Pitched Battle, Massacre victory for Khorne Daemonic Legion
• [WMH] Kim's Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight x Manolet's Lord Tyrant Hexeris, 500 pts Invasion, win via objective
• [WMH] Manolet's Lord Tyrant Hexeris x Kei's Grim Angus, 500 pts Mosh Pit, win via forfeit

March 8, 2008:

• [WMH] Doclance's Warwitch Deneghra x Manolet's Lord Tyrant Hexeris, 500 pts Mosh Pit, win via objective
• [WMH] Manolet's Lord Tyrant Hexeris x Obi's Kromac the Ravenous, 500 pts Assassination

WARMACHINE/HORDES Fortress Siege results on the WARMACHINE Philippines blog.

Codex Daemons

Here's the supposed cover of the new Chaos Daemons codex originally posted on Bell of Lost Souls.

Here's a summary of rumors found on various sources online:

HQ:Special characters:

* Kugath the Plaguefather
* Fateweaver, Oracle of Tzeentch
* Skarbrand the exiled one

God-specific Greater Demons: (significantly more potent and costly than the CSM Major)

* Bloodthirster (don't even try using psychics agasint these guys)
* Keeper of Secrets (dance marine-boy dance...you'll see)
* Lord of Change (tons of shooting, can split fire)
* Great Unclean (a tough Monstrous Creature who wounds on a 2+!)

Special character Heralds:

* The Masque (Slaanesh)
* Epidemius (Nurgle)
* The Bluescribes (Tzeentch)
* Skulltaker (Khorne)

Standard god-specific heralds (four)

-You can take 2 heralds as 1 HQ choice but the army must be led by either a GD or one of the named demons.

Elites:

* Fiends of Slaanesh
* Flamers
* Beasts of Nurgle
* Fleshhounds (with a named character upgrade option)

Troops:

* Bloodletters
* Daemonettes
* Plaguebearers
* Horrors (with a named character upgrade option)
* Furies (do not fill compulsory troops slots)
* Nurglings (do not fill compulsory troop slots)

Fast attack:

* Bloodcrushers
* Seekers of Slaanesh
* Screamers

Heavy:

* Soulgrinder
* Daemon Prince (tons and tons of options)

Wargear and Gifts:

* Chariots are coming to 40k, and are upgrade options for Heralds.
* Many new psychic powers (including a hilarious Slaneesh one which is a much saner version of lash and may inspire some truly comic dreadnought conversions)
* Khorne has an ability to ignore Psychic and Force Sword damage on a 2+!
* Most of the standard daemons are our old favorites (power weapons for knorne, poison for nurgle, etc...)