Mayhem Octoberfest Battle Reports

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I signed up for a tournament nearby and played my first three games today. So here's the list (first battle report(s) so feel free to criticise in order to make them more reader friendly :

Doctrines:
Sharpshooters
Chem-inhalers
Drop troops
Veterans
Close order drill

HQ
Command platoon
J.O. with bolter
Veteran with company standard
Three guardsmen
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters

Three heavy bolters
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters

Three heavy bolters
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters

Three missile launchers
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters

Three lascannons
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters


Elites:
Six veterans with a missile launcher and three plasma guns
With chem-inhalers

Six veterans with a missile launcher and three plasma guns
With chem-inhalers

Troops:
First Platoon:
J.O. with bolter
Four guardsmen with grenade launchers
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters

Veteran sergeant and nine guardsmen
With heavy bolter and grenade launcher
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters

Veteran sergeant and nine guardsmen
With heavy bolter and grenade launcher
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters


Second platoon:
J.O. with bolter
Three guardsmen with plasma guns and a veteran with a medpack
With chem-inhalers

Veteran sergeant and nine guardsmen
With heavy bolter and grenade launcher
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters

Veteran sergeant with bolter and nine guardsmen
With heavy bolter and grenade launcher
With chem-inhalers and sharpshooters

Heavy Support:
Leman Russ with hull lascannon and sponson heavy bolters

Total=1,500





Game one (recon gamma):
The first match was a trench covered map (i'll try to get some pics up at some point) and my opponent was a new space wolf player.
We chose our edges and deployed.

The Russ went to the far left and he countered by setting up a ten man squad of longfangs with two lascannons and two heavy bolters, next i set up my first platoon with one squad on the extreme right, the other to the left and the command squad in the centre left. He set up an all lascannon predator about 8 inches to the right of the longfangs and his other predator with an autocannon and twin heavy bolters about 16 inches to the right of the first. My next infantry platoon had its two infantry squads placed to the mid and centre right flank and the command squad to the very centre.

After some deliberation he placed ten blood claws opposite my Russ and the accompanying squad (out in the open: perfect!) My HQ squad went to reinforce the two squads on the centre-right flank, with my lascannons deploying on the high ground to the right, my missile launchers taking cover in a large crater and the heavy bolters covering from each side of them. His force then completed deployment; an iron priest by the lascannon predator, four wolf guard and a wolf lord opposite my missile launcher teams, supported by a tactical squad. venerable dreadnought to the far right and a landspeeder behind the blood claws. Attempting to counter this threat, i infiltrated my first veteran squad as close as possible to the blood claws with the second ready to intercept the wolf guard.

Turn one:
My turn began with me trundling my russ round the hill it had been sheltering behind as a general advance was sounded on my right flank; two infantry squads supported by my main command squad and shadowed by a veteran squad charged forward. in the centre my other two command squads jogged forwards, all to aware of the foe that lay before them.

With a screech of grinding metal the russ' battle cannon swung round to face the blood claws and fired; vaporising four of them in the ensuing explosion. This was followed up by my veterans and an infantry squad, felling a further three of the young marines. A heavy bolter squad opened up on the long fangs, killing a single one, their counterpart squad achieved notably more success; felling two tactical marines whilst the missiles and the lascannons failed to damage either of the predators.

His turn resulted in the blood claws sprinting forwards, leaping the sheer cliff with little difficulty. Ahead raced the landspeeder, its heavy bolter blazing, felling a single member of the veteran squad. The longfangs turned their weapons on the russ, stunning it and the heavy bolters slew a further three guardsmen from an infantry squad on the right flank. The predators, seeing a potential threat aimed their weapons at the lascannon teams, killing only a single crewman. Ahead surged the wolf guard and the dreadnought.

Turn two:
My plasma gunners rushed forward, intent on destroying the remaining blood claws, on the right my infantry squads entrenched themselves at the end of a long tunnel, determined to halt the enemy at this point, several inches to the right their plasma gun support lay in wait. My heavy bolters and missiles all fired on the long fangs, killing three and achieving little else. Fire from my plasma gunners tore apart the the remaining blood claws, whilst their supporting squad downed the landspeeder.
Meanwhile, my lascannons blazed away at the autocannon predator, stunning it. A triumphant cry from the grenade launcher command squad heralded the death of yet another long fang, and with that my turn came to an end.

The dreadnought surged forward, coming uncomfortably close to the isolated right flank infantry squad and the wolf guard joined the tactical squad in thundering towards my defences, only thirteen inches from my gun line forming three units as the wolf lord left his bodyguard. The predators opened up on my missile launchers, causing a team to be removed. The long fangs also opened fire, doing nothing to my russ and killing only two more guardsmen.

Turn three:
My veteran squad on the left struggled one inch through the wreckage of the land speeder, watching enviously as the grenade launcher command squad managed to advance six inches, followed closely by the plasma gun wielding command squad. With a silent consensus, the centre veteran squad scrabbled out of the trench and sprinted forward. My grenade launchers, russ, heavy bolters and missile launchers all fired at the long fangs, but caused only two casualties (just my luck...) My three squads trying to hold of the wolf guard and the tactical squad opened fire, passing their target priority test and dropping three of the marines, the veterans skidded to a halt at the edge of the trench, spraying superheated plasma at the wolf guard, killing all four of them but losing a man to an overheat. My lascannons once again failed to damage the predator. Things were not looking that good in this sector.

His wolf lord gave a cry of anguish and abandoned his tactical marines, surging towards my veterans. Meanwhile, the dreadnought stomped forward, turned a corner, and came face to face with one of my infantry squads. The tactical marines continued their frenzied charge. The predators opened up on my lascannons, causing three wounds-a single man remained. Meanwhile, the dreadnought incinerated six guardsmen and the assault cannon tore apart a further three, leaving a single grenade launcher facing the mobile sarcophagus. Seven guardsmen were felled from the tactical squads bolters and flamer and the wolf lord killed two veterans with his stormbolter, before charging into the fray, slaying two before they could react and blocking the futile retaliation of the lone remaining veteran.

Turn four:
My grenade launcher command squad hurried to reinforce their allies fighting the tactical squad as the two plasma squads on the left flank scrabbled towards the wolves' deployment zone. My lone grenade launcher opened fire and stunned the dreadnought, with my infantry squad behind it blowing off its assault cannon. Down in the trench my men blazed away, taking out two more tactical marines, unfortunately the grenade launchers did not meet with the same success; totally failing to kill any marines. My heavy bolters killed another long fang, my battle cannon missed and my missile launchers failed to do any damage. With a cry my grenade launchers charged into the tactical squad but were cut down without causing any damage.
His tactical squad then consolidated towards my guardsmen.

The wolf lord and the tactical squad moved towards the guardsmen and fired their flamer and stormbolter, cutting down four of the defenders before charging into the fray, slaughtering my men and consolidating. Elsewhere the predators killed a further two heavy bolters and the last lascannon team, whilst their long fangs yet again failed to damage my russ.

Turn 5:
Once again, my plasma squads desperaately scrambled through the terrain to the deployment zone. Then, with a deafening roar, the battle cannon spoke one last time; killing the remaining long fangs. My heavy bolters and missile launchers fired, cutting down his wolf lord in a murderous volley.

The two predators fired in unison at my missile launchers, reducing them to a single man. Together, the dreadnought and the tactical squad charged into the fray, tearing apart my last infantry squad on the right and consolidating into my deployment zone.

Unfortunately the game had to end there as we were out of time

Result:
A Draw! Just. He had about 276 more points than me, but rules are rules; we left with ten points each.







Game two (secure and control gamma):
Standard forest board with three pieces of forest/ruins in each deployment zone. The four counter were set up along the centre of the board at regular intervals.

Turned out this game would be against a dark angels player (he looked about ten! ;D). He deployed first, putting an empty crusader on the far left with a chapter master next to it, a tactical squad behind the woods about eight inches to the right. In addition, he set up two squads of three bikes in the centre right, backed up by an assault cannon toting dreadnought and a multi-melta equipped attack bike. Between these and the tactical squad were five assault terminators, two landspeeders and a chaplain (i think).

I deployed in a roughly symmetrical fashion, two infantry squads on each side backed up by a heavy bolter squad. My primary command squad was holding the centre woods with my two others holding the right flank which also had my missile launchers and leman russ, whilst my left had my lascannons. My veterans were held back for deep striking.

Turn one:
His crusader trundled forward six inches followed by his chapter master and tactical squad. Towards the centre left objective hurried his chaplain and two land speeders. Three of his bikes sped towards the centre right objective followed by the lumbering assault terminators, towards the far right advanced the remainder of his force. His land speeders opened fire on my centre left infantry squad, cutting down eight men. The bikes and the dreadnought all opened fire on my centre right squad, bringing it down to one man.

My russ trundled from cover and my far right infantry squad with their accompanying plasma gun wielding command squad dashed forward through cover to try and bring the objective within rapid fire range. My battle cannon fired a shell, wiping out three bikers. My missile launchers, hoping to equal that feat stunned his dreadnought and my lascannons followed suite with his crusader. Another biker went down to heavy bolter fire and a land speeder was stunned.

Turn two:
His bikers completed their advance towards the centre right objective and opened fire on my command squad in the woods, killing one. His attack bike sped towards the far right objective and his chapter master and tactical squad began to overtake the damaged crusader. His terminators also continued the advance.
His shooting was fairly ineffective, only wiping out the remainder of my centre left infantry squad.

My first squad of veterans came down this turn, rapid firing at his terminators but doing nothing save kill two of their own number. The missile launchers destroyed the dreadnought, whilst my heavy bolters knocked a land speeder out of the sky and the other was shaken. My infantry on the far right knocked a wound off his attack bike and i killed the final two bikes on the centre right objective. The crusader was once again stunned.

Turn three:
The terminators lumbered towards the veterans with murderous intent as the crusader's two escorts moved another six inches, leaving the tank behind. The chaplain joined the land speeder on the centre left objective. Shooting merely consisted of two casualties to my far left infantry squad. The more dramatic assault phase saw my veterans annihilated and the terminators consolidating towards my command squad.

My missile and grenade launchers moved round to get a better firing arc on his remaining vehicles , my russ lumbered forward to look for a better target and my plasma gun command squad moved closer to his terminators. In addition, my last veteran squad landed about sixteen inches from his terminators. My shooting began with the destruction of the attack bike, this was supplemented by the death of one of his terminators and the annihilation of his chapter master via lascannon.

Turn four:
His terminators thundered closer towards my small, isolated command squad. One that provided a quick and easy route to all my decent anti-tank weapons in my rear lines. Another guardsman was killed on the far left as the tactical squad moving to cluster round the objective with the crusader hurrying to catch up. The assault phase consisted of his terminators annihilating my command squad, he was allowed to move six inches; a move that would bring him into assault range of my lascannons. Miraculously, he moved backwards to continue to sit on the objective!!!

My two plasma gun squads doggedly advanced towards the terminators as my russ rumbled round the corner. My grenade launcher command squad sprinted through the woods, all too aware of the terminators a mere seven inches away. The turret of my russ swung ponderously and fired a single shot that would seal my victory. The shell sailed through the air into the crusader causing it to violently explode. Enheartened by this, my grenade launchers stunned the land speeder again and the terminators were annihilated by my plasma gunners who lost two men due to overheats.

Turn five:
His tactical squad sat on the objective, causing another casualty to my far left infantry squad.

My battle cannon spoke again, killing seven tactical marines and the surviving plasma gunners killed the chaplain; losing another man to overheats. My missile launchers, finally in position blew the last land speeder out the sky as my turn drew to a close.

Turn six
He sat on the objective.

A final shot from the battle cannon saw his marines anihilated.


Result:
Kerching! Twenty points for me!!!




Hope you enjoyed, will take some pictures of the boards and games tomorrow and be back with four more battle reports!

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heck yeah, i sur enjoyed reaing that, great job haha you gotta love that lemun russ of yours!

[Cadian 117]

Agreed! nice jb man!

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Did the Chem-inhalers and Sharpshooters help much?

[Mabus]

Well done for beating those Dark angels, sounded like a fun battle.

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Sharpshooters and chem inhalers saved me on multiple occasions; worth over double the points you pay for them!

Sorry i wasn't able to get any pictures (use your imaginations)

Thanks for the comments and here's the next report:

Mission:
Cleanse

Opponent:
Tau

Terrain:
A large 12" by 8" (approx.) ruin in the very centre, with a long, thin bit of terrain in each corner with two more, one in the middle of each short table edge.

Deployment:
I deployed my Russ behind a decent sized piece of terrain with my command squad using it as cover, whilst my grenade launcher command squad, an infantry squad, the two heavy bolter squads and the missile launcher squad set up on the lower right edge of my quarter and the lascannons to the top left. My second infantry squad deployed as close to the ruin as possible. Everything else went in reserve.

He set up his two broadsides behind cover along with two hammerheads; his commander's crisis suit, two piranhas and a devilfish, with six fire warriors in the cover. He had five crisis suits in reserve.

Turn one:
He used his turn to move a piranha, his commander, a devilfish and a hammerhead down the board, hugging the cover on the short table edge. On the other flank, his piranha hugged the ruin whilst his hammerhead sailed out into the open. His shooting consisted of the hammerhead blasting at my lascannons with the large blast template; slaying only a single gunner (thank the emperor for ruins).

My movement saw my infantry squad move into the ruins. Then the fun started! I fired everything that had line of sight (7 heavy bolters) at the fire warriors in the cover, killing two (well, not as bad as it sounds, the rest were too far into/out of the cover for me to get). My lascannons then swivelled and fired three well aimed beams at the hammerhead = three glancing hits (damn skimmers) = one stunned and rather annoyed hammerhead without a railgun.

Turn two:
His main attack force about reached my long table edge this turn, with the hammerhead and piranha peeling off to engage my troops (eek!). To top it off, one of his crisis suits had landed to the side of my Russ. Both piranhas then detached their drones.
The Hammerhead fired a deadly shot, slaying two guardsmen and four heavy bolter crew, whilst the piranha drones ended the lives of two more, prompting a pinning test at Leadership 9 (easy!). His commander then decided to make his presence felt, destroying the remains of the damaged heavy bolter squad. in a last ditch attempt to cripple my forces, the lone crisis suit unloaded his plasma gun into my leman russ, failing to even scratch this manifestation of the god emperor's will.

A veteran squad arrived this turn, landing directly behind the tau devilfish, as my infantry squad advanced through the ruins, shaking the piranha with their grenade launcher. My veterans destroyed the devilfish, despite an overheat prompting 12 fire warriors to pile out of the rear hatch. My heavy bolters and lascannons failed to damage their assigned targets; the piranha and the damaged hammerhead respectively. My luck began to look up, however, as my russ utterly destroyed the troublesome crisis suit.

Turn three:
Two squads of two crisis suits arrived, in the open field before the guns of my russ. His broadsides moved into the cover, followed closely by the four fire warriors from the smaller squad as his commander bounced back to help the fire warriors. The damaged piranha sped off away from my infantry, whilst the intact one headed back to the fire warriors. His piranha-based drones slaughtered two more guardsmen apiece and his fire warriors unloaded into my veterans, annihilating them. His crisis suits also slaughtered all but one of my lascannon crew.

Two infantry squads landed to the right of the ruins, a veteran squad landed behind the broadsides and my plasma gun command squad landed in front of the fire warriors and the intact piranha. My Russ fired a shell at one of the crisis squads, a vital shot; that completely missed. I also failed in damaging the hammerhead that was harassing my main battle line. A shot from the last lascannon downed the rippled hammerhead as a storm of fire downed the drones by the ruins. My plasma guns succeded only in taking out two shield drones from the broadside squad, losing two men to overheats. The plasma gun command squad destroyed the piranha and waited for the inevitable retaliation from the fire warriors. His commander's shield drone was destroyed by a missile this turn, as were his two remaining gun drones.

Turn four:
His crisis suits scrambled for cover and his fire warriors in the cover crept towards my newly entered infantry and his piranha raced towards the next piece of cover. His broadsides lumbered out of the cover towards my veterans. Then his shooting resumed, his hammerhead fired a devastating round that tore apart half a heavy bolter squad, four guadsmen and two missile teams, a burst cannon salvo then saw the end of my heavy bolters. As predicted his two squads of fire warriors, between them managed to annihilate a squad and a half of infantry and his commander annihilated my plasma gun command squad. Shooting from his crisis suits saw the destruction of my primary command squad and the death of all but three members of the squad in the ruins. Unexpectedly, his broadsides charged my veterans! Annihilating them!

By now my options were very limited, my Russ managed to kill a crisis suit who wasn't far enough into cover and the remains of an infantry squad managed to dispose of the last of the smaller squad of fire warriors.

Turn five:
His Piranha sped round the terrain, ending up behind my Russ as his broadsides wiped out the remnants of an infantry squad, his crisis suits reduced the squad in the ruins to a single man, the piranha blew my Russ sky high and the hammerhead took out all but one of the remaining guardsmen near the russ, pinning him.

I conceded this turn with two guardsmen left, one pinned and one hidden in the centre of the main ruins.

Result:
I got massacred. Horribly. Twenty points to him....


Will add the final three reports when i get time.

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no pain no gain, srry to here mate.....that was some fight, he had a ridiculous amount of vehicles that game, and those battlesuits.....geese....good use of target priority though, i'd give u good generalship on that cant wait for more

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Two weeks after the tournament and i've just found the time to write the next report. Enjoy!

Game four (take & hold gamma):
I found myself facing a rather impressive force of black templars (this guy actually won the best painted army prize). It consisted of a chaplain and the emperor's champion (both were mounted in rhinos); each led a bodyguard of nine sword brethren (i think that's what they were called). In addition, there were two five man tactical squads; each wielded a lascannon. However, what really drew my eye was the three vindicators he had mobilised.

The terrain on this board consisted of a spaced out line of tree cluster in each deployment zone with two more in the centre, my right flank was anchored by a large ruin.

Starting deployment, i placed my Russ behind the ruin, this was countered by the positioning of the first Vindicator behind some trees, opposite my armour. The left flank was secured by my placement of my infantry squads to give them good fire lanes across the board, a second vindicator went behind the centre forest as my command squad positioned itself; 3 heavy bolters and 3 lascannons went in the ruin whilst my missile launchers went to the left, with the last three heavy bolters in the centre; able to cover both left and right flanks. The rest was in reserve. A third vindicator joined the second to make a potent strikeforce; this vindicator's flank was shielded by the champion's rhino. The tactical squads were deployed between the two vindicator forces whilst the final rhino was placed on the left flank.

I won first turn - and so it began...

Turn one:
The grenade launcher command squad sprinted towards the ruins as the squad on the far left stumbled into cover, their second squad covered them by dropping a tactical marine. With a devastating salvo six heavy bolters roared into life, slaughtering the remains of the tactical squad. A dull metallic grinding could be heard as the leman russ swung its turret about and fired, the shrapnel from its shell eviscerating four of the foolhardy marines.
The lascannons also added their weight to the salvo, taking out the champion's rhino. Life looked good.

The lone marine failed his last man standing and ran, his lascannon weighing him down as he sprinted to safety. Determined to avenge their fallen brethren, the templars rolled forward, all but the far left vindcator rolling 12 inches into cover in the middle of the board. The final vindicator sped forward, a different role in mind as the chaplain's rhino carried its lethal cargo towards my thin defences. The rhino's stormbolter fired, a salvo blowing out the chest of a guardsman who had failed to get into cover in time. Mercifully, the vindicator's demolisher shell scattered too far away to do any real damage.

Turn two:
Of my reserves, none made planetfall this turn, i would have to carry on without them. My lascannon crew, their blood roused, brutally gunned down the last marine; two lascannon shots penetrating the back of his ancient power armour. On the left, my far infantry squad knocked out the last rhino with a well placed grenade, their successes were unfortunately not repeated by the missile launchers who only managed to shake the crew of the lead vindicator. The heavy bolters in the ruins also made a good account of themselves, cutting down two of the champion's retinue.

The champion's squad stumbled out of the wreckage of their rhino and just managed to get into cover behind the forest. The vindicator on the right rumbled out of cover, its cannon trained on my lascannons. In a huge cloud of dust, debris and body parts the machine spirit of the damaged vindicator tore apart my second infantry squad, killing five. Its counterpart, on the right, despite a direct hit only slew a single crewman.

Turn three:
All my reserves hit the ground this turn (it never rains but it pours!). Both squads of veterans were deployed on the right flank, one on the board edge just behind the vindicator, the other out in the open near the champion's abandoned rhino. The infantry platoon was deployed on the left, between the chaplain's squad and the now unshaken vindicator. Both veteran squads opened fire with a devastating plasma salvo, destroying a vindicator apiece, though i lost three gunners to overheats. My russ annihilated five of the members of the chaplain's squad; who were still pinned by their rhino, another four were dropped by massed lasgun, bolter (both types) and grenade launcher fire from two of my squads (the second deep striking infantry squad had landed out of range, as had the plasma command squad). A few opportunistic heavy bolter shots also managed to down two more of the emperor's champion's squad, whilst my missile launchers destroyed the demolisher cannon on his last vindicator.

Throwing caution to the winds the chaplain and champion each charged towards the closest squads, those that had just arrived this turn, crashing into them with bone shattering force. The chaplain lay about him with his crozius, cutting down three gallant guardsmen before the squad retaliated, with a mixture of luck and skill they drove the towering behemoth into the ground (superhuman endurance doesn't work against a heap of guardsmen(well it does, just to give you a hint of what's in the next report)). The emperor's champion on the other hand, fared much better; slaying eight guardsmen and losing only two marines in return. Combat was lost, but my men held their ground.

Turn four:
A squad of infantry and a command squad rushed forward, intending to meet the last enemy soldiers head on. This shooting phase consisted solely of my entire force pouring fire into the vindicator, which eventually gave in to the inevitable and violently exploded. My men charged, savage warcries rending the air, three of the command squad were slain by the emperor's champion. The eleven men of the two infantry squads exchanged blows, killing six of my men; a single marine fell in return.

Locked in combat, we moved straight to the assault phase. The emperor's champion finished off the command squad and the marines slew all but two of the remaining infantry, losing the last of their troops in the exchange. Losing combat, my guardsmen fled.

Turn five:
In the fire arcs of six heavy bolters, four lascannons, three missile launchers and twenty odd lasguns, the emperor's champion decided surrendering was the only option with long term career prospects.

Wahoo! Twenty points!

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good job i must say haha nice!!