7K Apoc game

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Well I dusted off the Amazonian LXIX after not hving played a real game in about two months. It was an apoc battle of Tau/Guard versus the girls in pink. "Dubbed back to the kitchen woman".
Both sides had as close to 7K as we could get. My opponents had two strategic assets to my one.


This was a 5 turn game. It would have been 6 turns, but it was a time shortage that ended the game early.

7K Amazonian LXIX force
Emperor's Wrath Artillery company (9 Basilisk, 1 Chimera Command Tank)
1 Hell Hammer
2 Bane Blade
1 Shadow Sword
1 Leman Russ (Standard kit)
1 Hell Hound
2 Immolators (Sister superior with Celestians in one, and a Dominion squad w/ meltas in the other)
1 Sentinel
2500+ points IG (Notable entries 2 Lascannon, 1 missle Launcher, 1 Heavy bolter team, GL in each of the 4 squads, Tech priest with three tech servitors 4 Commissars, 10 Ogryn)
Commissar Yarricka

Opposing force
Mech Guard and Tau 7K
Defense Laser
2 Bane Blade
Hammer Head
10 Crisis suits
2 Squads of Ratling snipers

Turn One
I choose to delpoy last and take the second turn. My strategic asset (Raid) allowed me to hit every unit made up of one model prior to first turn. Only damage it did was to remove the Basilisk the opposition had (only long range threat besides the Defense Laser) My opponents took Stategic Orbital Bombardment and Precision Strike (Unit chosen was one of the Bane Blades).

First strike of the Orbital Bombardment did nothing and we moved on. The Sentinel Was one of the targets for them and they spent a good portion of their shooting phase trying to take it out. I was surprised that it made it so far into the shooting phase as it did (Going to have to give that driver a medal - posthumously of course). They also managed to do 2 Structure points to the one Bane Blade and immobilize it.

My Turn one.
Brief movement on my side to jockey for some line of sight as well as move my tech priest towards the immobilized BaneBlade (Finally made it to the tank at the end of turn 5). The Artillery company opened up and did a fair amount of damage to plenty of the guard and the tau stealth suits.

Besides the normal carnage that ensues with the troops a vast majority of the armor was unscathed.

Turns 2-3 showed little results for both sides as after my first turn of shooting I spent a lot of time looking for targets. The Artillery company was doing it's job well with little drift on any of the rounds. I was surprised that my opponents were concentrating on the single Bane Blade and trying to remove it from the game. The Shadow sword took out two more vehicles and the heavy bolters laid waste to a few squads as well (Love that BS increase just wish all my guard could shoot like that.). My Sister Superior ended up spending two rounds on one of the two Hellhounds they had before finally destroying it on turn four destroying the inferno cannon on turn 3)


Turn 4
I got tired of the damage of the defense Laser and with concentrated fire of one battery of the Artillery company it was removed from the game. (If only I had a line Breaker to just remove it totally).

Turn four also was the end of the game for the Shadow Sword (No explosion). My immobilized Bane Blade still kicking and down to just the heavy bolters. Commissar Yarricka also bit the big one, but she fought impressively through out the game and had absorbed a lot of shooting from the enemy. The Tau were down to three Crisis suits two on one side of the table and the third tied up in combat with the Dominion's since turn 3 (Lost three of the girls in total fighting the crisis suits)

Turn 5 ended with the Amazonian LXIX controlling 4 Objective of the 6 and having destroyed the ability of one of them from being a threat.

My Casualties
5 Ogryn
Commissar Yarricka
3 Sisters of the Dominion Squad
5 Celestians
3 Loaders of a Heavy Bolter Squad
1 Shadow Sword
1 Tech Servitor
17 Sisters of Battle (one squad)
1 Auto Cannon Squad (3 auto Cannon's and loaders)

Total 39 models

Opponent Losses:
2 Hell Hounds
1 Basilisk
1 Leman Russ
1 Demolisher
1 Devil Fish
1 Hammer Head
7 Crisis suits
1 Broad Side
more guardsmen then I was able to count (on my fingers and toes) he only had 4 guardsmen on the field come end of game
2 Tech Priest and servitors
7 Ratling snipers
6 Stealth Suits
18 fire warriors (one full squad and half of the second)
12 Kroot
All the gun drones of course.

easier to say what the two opponents had left on the table.
3 Crisis suits
4 Guards men
2 Bane Blades (Both Damaged)
1 Squad of Ratling snipers +3 remaining from the first Squad

All in all The game was enjoyable for both sides.

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Narrative

The weather was cold. No let's correct that the weather was down right freezing. What the imperium needed this ball of ice for was not for the Amazonian LXIX to care about just that it could not fall. Having been issued a company of basilisk Arica knew it was only a matter of time before her girls would once again board one of the ships of the fleet to be transported to some distant world to defend it against what ever threat was there.

The communique had come through that the Tau and a traitor guard unit had captured a Imperial Defense laser. It was up to the girls to either destroy it or to recapture it.

Even with the sun beating down over the frozen waste Arica could sense that this was not going to be a battle that would be easy. Experience taught her that the larger the force she used the larger the force that she had to face. This would be no different. She and the Cannoness spoke briefly that morning with Commissar Yarricka. A basic tactic was developed and her forces were deployed. She knew that some of the girls wouldn't be coming home after this.

At the Urging of Commissar Yarricka raid forces were deep in the enemy lines. She listened to the reports as each team made it's surgical strike. While the disappointing news that all the raids failed but one the one that did succeed was the one she prayed to the emperor went off without a hitch. With the news that the enemies Basilisk was a smoking wreck She ordered the Sentinel to scout ahead.

With the opening volleys of the enemy raining down shells from orbit she used the Vox channels to monitor the course of the battle. Damage reports began coming in from across the field. The shells fell short of their targets and those that did hit did little or no damage. The Bane Blade "Daddy's Girl was under a heavy barrage of fire and her heart sank when the news that the drive was hit several times and the tank wouldn't be able to do anything more than hold it's ground until it was either destroyed, or by the emperor's will the tech priest would be able to traverse the frozen ice and reach her. The sentinel driver's grunts and curses could be heard loud and clear as blast after blast ripped through the thin armor. The first shot brought forth the loudest litany of hatred for the Tau she had ever heard as the driver reported that the Lascannon was taken off line. She looked down the field to see the heavy barrage of fire exploding around and against the thin ceramitite armor plate. Then she could see the walker collapse as one shell took out the left leg.

Arica ordered the counter attack. She watched from the out cropping of rocks she and her retinue were using for cover from any of the incoming fire. This ball of frozen waste would not fall into the hands of these traitor guard and their Tau Master's. Very shortly it became evident that the only real threat on the battle field was the defense laser itself. With no other recourse Arica ordered the artillery company to open up on the structure. It only took three shots from one battery to silence the weapons laser and give her girls a better chance of making this an much easier win.

Her blood thumped in her ears as her heart rate quickened. The Shadow sword ripping great tracts of holes in the enemies front lines. Where once was clean white snow now was littered with body parts as teh Earth shaker cannons belched forth their deadly payloads. vehicle after vehicle littered the field. Arica could see that it would be neigh impossile for the girls to cross the frozen ice and capture both the bridge and Laser. All in all she would be able to muster her girls to capture both of the power stations that lay inside of no man's land.

When the smoke of battle finally drifted off into the distant she took in a mental note on what to accept as casualties. She could see that the ladies training not to mention the R&R brought forth a new hope that this battle would end well for the girls.