by leopard » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:16 pm
A grand day out today, first real outing for the nutters under 8th, apart from the launch day events.
Three formations, the first being a Bastion & defence line, with two units of 12 cultists to man them - aim being a defensible fire base and reasonably safe rear area.
Naturally I forget that meant cultists were manning the defences weapons.. umm.. yeah.. anyway
the cultists were each part of the other two formations
First up we have an actual chaos space marine unit, my two infantry formations, only one rhino though, with a pair of chaos lords as they are decently cheap.
Then a Thousand Sons detachment using my 30k models, Ahriman, a sorcerer and two units of rubric marines who I hoped would do decently well, plus a predator as I've got one painted
2k in all, for not a lot of actual models
Then we sore Dave's IG force...
Four Leman Russ, thankfully just the basic ones with heavy boaters on the sides, occurs to me as I write this he never fired the hull gun all game. Backed up by a triplet of basic Guard squads... and a Baneblade, and a wyvern mortar
Mission twist was to have two sets of objectives, ended up with a pair of objective, capturing both of which is an instant win.. um.. yeah my lot can't much four tanks and a super heavy in a month of Tuesdays, and his lot were not really mobile enough. Second one was four objectives granting 1VP each a turn - five turns, most VP wins.
My mob ended the game with a Lord in "retreat" at a rapid pace, a sorcerer hiding behind a ruin on an objective and a single unit of cultists in the bastion, trying to work out how to work the weapons (Icarus las cannon did zip all game, quad gun put a few wounds on a tank though), all seemed lost - except we have more VP...
You see we advanced, a squad of CSM managed to push a tank off an objective for a turn before they go minced - this earned me a point on a turn it robbed Dave of a point - by the time he worked out what was going on there wasn't enough time to advance and return the favour though he certainly had the firepower.
IG Casualties.. a few guardsmen, and thats about it other than some paint scrapes on a few tanks.
Oh so glad the mission wasn't to kill stuff...