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mercer
01-07-2010, 06:34 AM
Had a game against Iron Warriors on Saturday, they brought along a Brass Scorpion as well!

Imperial Fists

1 x Captain - relic blade, storm shield & artificer armour

1 x Librarian - terminator armour, nullzone & smite

5 x Assault Terminators – 3 x thunder hammers & 2 x lighting claws

5 x Assault Terminators – 5 x thunder hammers

8 x Sternguard w/ Rhino – 2 x combi meltas

10 x Tactical Marines w/ Razorback – missile launcher & meltagun – sgt w/ power fist

10 x Tactical Marines w/ Razorback – missile launcher & meltagun – sgt w/ power fist

10 x Tactical Marines w/ Razorback – missile launcher & meltagun

10 x Tactical Marines – plasma cannon & plasma gun – sgt w/ power fist and combi plasma

1 x Land Raider Redeemer – multi melta & storm bolter

1 x Land Raider Godhammer

1 x Land Raider Godhammer



Iron Warriors

1 x Daemon “Dead” Prince – mark of nurgle, wings & warptime

1 x Daemon “Blood” Prince – mark of nurgle, wings & warptime

5 x Chaos Terminators – mark of tzeentch, heavy flamer, 3 x combi weapons & 1 x chain fist

5 x Chaos Terminators – mark of tzeentch, heavy flamer, 3 x combi weapons & 1 x chain fist

5 x Chaos Terminators – mark of tzeentch, heavy flamer, 3 x combi weapons & 1 x chain fist

10 x Chaos Marines w/ Rhino – 2 x meltaguns & icon of chaos glory – champ w/ power fist

10 x Chaos Marines w/ Rhino – 2 x meltaguns & icon of chaos glory

10 x Chaos Marines w/ Rhino – 2 x plasma guns & icon of chaos glory

1 x Defiler – dreadnought close combat weapon & heavy flamer

1 x Defiler – dreadnought close combat weapon & heavy flamer

3 x Obliterators

1 x Brass Scorpion



We played a special game using our own rules. The centre ruin was a Shrine of the Aquila, this would be a objective and each troop choice could plant their flag on the area terrain.

A flag could only be planted once the troop unit was within the area terrain, and the flag would stay on the objective as long as any troop choice is within the area terrain. If all troop choices on the terrain are destroyed, then the flag is removed.



Turn 1

Imperial Fists roll to go first.

Sternguard rhino moves and pops smoke. All razorbacks move 6”, raiders move 12”.

Razorback supporting sternguard rhino fails to glance chaos rhino filled with plasma gun armed iron warriors. Plasma cannon combat squad hits nothing, supporting missile combat squad immobilises the plasma chaos marine rhino. Raider with all hammer terminators does nothing on defiler hiding behind the now immobilised chaos rhino. Other raider splits fire at obliterators and chaos rhino blocking los almost to the scorpion, scores no wounds or damage on either. Supporting razorback fires at obliterators, 2 wounds both saved ok. Two missile combat squads wreck a chaos rhino which was carrying the meltagun iron warriors, the redeemer fires as the now transport less chaos followers and kills 2 with assault cannon.

Plasma chaos marines stay in rhino, dead prince hiding behind flies out hides behind terrain. Scorpion moves 12” around terrain targets thunder hammer raider. Melta marines with champ moves onto objective and claims it, planting their flag. Blood prince moves and hides behind terrain, supporting melta marines, which move and take aim at the redeemer. Defiler behind wrecked rhino moves through the wreckage 5”.

Scorpion scores crew stunned with demolisher cannon on hammer terminators raider, fires scorpion cannon at sternguard rhino but does no damage. Defiler behind immobilised plasma chaos rhino fires and hits sternguard rhino, crew shaken. No other damage to the fists.



Turn 2

Sternguard rhino moves hides behind terrain opposite side of dead prince, supporting razorback flanks forward targets the dead prince. Hammer terminators move out the crew stunned land raider and ready to smack the brass scorpion, supporting razorback follows up and targets chaos rhino on the objective through hole in ruin. Other raider and supporting razorback move forward target chaos rhino on objective. Redeemer moves 6” and the captain only bails out.

Hammer raider pops defiler behind immobilised chaos rhino. Other raider pops chaos rhino in terrain on the objective. Razorbacks fire at chaos marines now on the objective. Missile combat squads miss the other defiler. Redeemer fries 5 chaos marines with flamestorm cannons. Missile and plasma combat squads fire at immobilised chaos rhino both do no good.

In assault hammer terminators charge the brass scorpion but only score crew shaken and stunned, which daemonic possession ignores. The scorpion scores 2 wounds, but both are saved. Captain charges the burnt chaos marines, kills 2, chaos marines fail morale but reroll as got chaos icon and pass ok.

One unit of chaos terminators comes in from reserve and lands by immobilised plasma chaos rhino. Dead prince casts warptime ok and flies to sternguard rhino. Plasma chaos marines bail out. Scorpion moves by rear of hammer terminators raider. Blood prince moves towards razorback flanking the other raider. Defiler moves 3” through terrain and targets captain or redeemer.

Plasma marines score weapon destroyed on razorback flanking the sternguard rhino. Scorpion fails to kill any hammer terminators with demolisher shell, instead scores immobilised on the supporting razorback with the scorpion cannon. Terminator fire combi plasma at hammer terminators, but only kill 1 and wound the librarian. Obliterators and chaos marines on objective score weapon destroyed result on razorback by other raider, now immobilised.

Dead prince wrecks sternguard rhino, scorpion does nothing against thunder hammer land raider, blood prince scores crew shaken on the other godhammer land raider. Defiler scores crew stunned on redeemer and captain kills single iron warrior in combat.



Turn 3

Librarian casts nullzone ok. Sternguard move towards own table edge, supporting combat squad bail out of razorback with melta and fist ready at the dead prince. Combat squad bail out of razorback which got attacked by scorpion and spot its weak rear armour. Hammer terminators move towards chaos terminators. Captain moves towards blood daemon prince, combat squads in immobilised razorback and crew shaken raider bail out and aim: at the blood prince.

At the end of the shooting phase the sternguard and combat squad wiped out the dead prince with a combo of hellfire rounds and melta. Plasma cannon fires at chaos terminators, misses and hits hammer terminators but make saves ok. Scorpion loses on structure point from melta shot at rear from combat squad. Hammer terminators land raider kills 2 obliterators with lascannons. Redeemer puts wound on other obliterator with assault cannon rending shot. Blood prince is shot down but still has 1 wound. Chaos marines on objective lose 2 more and have now lost 25% of the unit, put pass morale ok.

In assault hammer terminators batter chaos terminators. Power fist sgt pops the scorpion, which goes nuclear and kills the melta marine and sgt of that squad along with 2 hammer terminators, the librarian, 3 chaos marines on the objective and 3 marines from a nearby combat squad with a 14” range SP9 AP2 blast! Captain takes a wound from the blood prince, but slays the beast. A lighting claw terminator is killed by defiler, which in turn literally gets hammered by the assault terminators.

Another chaos terminator unit teleports in, but not by a icon and scatters into terrain, 1 terminator dead after dangerous terrain test. Chaos marines on objective move and spot combat squad which killed the scorpion. Chaos marines move from immobilised rhino towards sternguard and combat squad.

In the chaos shooting turn solo obliterator fires multi melta at the captain, wounds but passes invulnerable save with the impressive storm shield. Plasma marines not all in range but kill 3 of the combat squad. Chaos terminators fire combi plasma at the 2 remaining hammer terminators, both hammer terminators die and 1 chaos terminators dies after failing gets hot save. Combat squad fails morale and falls back 8”



Turn 4

Combat squad falls back 9” and off the board. Remaining imperial fists close on iron warriors, all 4 heavy weapon combat squads hold position. Sternguard move towards plasma chaos marines, combat squad which wrecked the scorpion move onto edge of objective terrain. Hammer terminators land raider moves less than 6” towards chaos terminators which just deep striked in. Captain moves through cover towards objective. Assault terminators jump back in the redeemer and roll towards the objective. Other combat squads move towards objective also, other raider moves towards solo obliterator.

In shooting turn plasma cannon hits and kills 2 plasma chaos marines, sternguard follow the volley with vengeance rounds losing one of their own to gets hot but leave only 2 traitors standing, which pass morale. Iron warriors on objective get shot by everything but pass armour and cover saves ok. Hammer terminators land raider kills a chaos terminator. Multi melta from redeemer fails to kill the solo obliterator.

Chaos terminators teleport in by plasma marines and target sternguard. Other chaos terminators move to land raider which just killed one of their number and wind up the chain fist.

Shooting turn, the sternguard are killed by plasma and flame from the chaos terminators and plasma chaos marine squad. Chaos marines on objective kill one from the combat squad which popped the scorpion, they pass morale ok though. Solo obliterator immobilises the redeemer with a multi melta shot.

In assault chain fist chaos terminator pops the godhammer land raider.



Turn 5

Missile combat squad supporting plasma cannon squad moves out of terrain. Remaining godhammer land raider moves around terrain 6” spots chaos terminators which wrecked the other raider. Assault terminators bail out of redeemer ready to assault obliterator. Other imperial fists and captain move onto objective and their plant flag.

In shooting, redeemer fires all ranged weapons along with the other godhammer at the chaos terminators, which wrecked the other raider and kill them. One chaos marine on the objective dies after mass bolter fire, the solo surviving iron warrior passes morale ok. Combat squads which haven't moved all game fire krak rockets the at chaos terminators which killed the sternguard, but no kills, plasma cannon has better luck and kills 2.

In assault captain kills the single iron warrior holding the objective, assault terminators kill the solo obliterator.

Fists win claiming the objective!

Iron warriors have a broken rhino left 2 chaos marines and 3 terminators. Fists have 2 raiders, 3 broken razorbacks, 4 assault terminators, the captain and 24 tactical marines left!



Summary

Combat squads and Razorbacks never fail and always do me proud ;) . They just allow you to spread your forces more and not worry about moving with that heavy weapon. However, a unit of 5 in the Razorback once out are easily gunned down :(

First time trying a Librarian, I usually take a terminator Chaplain. I found the Librarian using nullzone to be plain evil for the Iron Warriors. Both Daemon Princes and a unit of Chaos Terminators had to reroll invulnerable saves, which failed :) . I think the Librarian adds more to a unit and also the army than the Chaplain. The Chaplain just gives re-rolls to hit, but if you stay locked in combat or get charged you don’t get that ability. The Librarian’s nullzone power extends 24” so anything within that range is affected, so other units of your army will benefit if a enemy target is within 24” of that power.

Also first time using a Land Raider Redeemer, Crusader is usually taken. The Redeemer worked well with those AP3 S6 flamers and BBQ power armour, but you need to get close in order to use them. What creates a problem is they’re on the side and will leave anything in front of the Land Raider protected, though if you bail out you can assault afterwards. I think its perhaps better than a Crusader, you need to get within 12” to utilise its full fire power anyway.

As for the Brass Scorpion I was worried about its speed and AP3 and AP3 weaponry, but it surprisingly survived the thunder hammers onslaught and then afterwards easily got taken down by a combat squad. I’m not that impressed with it, its more better for mass hordes of infantry.

Duke
01-07-2010, 12:51 PM
Nice report... I only wish you had some pics or video link. Congrats on the win

Duke

mercer
01-08-2010, 10:26 AM
Thanks. And I will try and get pics next time :)