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.
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