Ultramarine Strike Force Omega with Grey Knight Auxiliary [2500]
Use your bikes like a sword. Striking where your enemy is weakest. – Roboute Guiliman
Primary Space Marine Detachment Ultramarines [2150]
HQ [450]
Marneus AKA Papa Smurf 275 Armor 10 [285]
Tigurius [165]
TROOP [977]
10 Tactical 140 Launcher 15 Flamer 5 [160]
10 Tactical 140 Lascannon 20 Flamer 5 [165]
10 Tactical 140 Lascannon 20 Flamer 5 [165]
10 Tactical 140 Multimelta 10 Meltagun 10 [160]
10 Tactical 140 Launcher 15 Flamer 5 [160]
10 Scout 110 Rifles 7 Tellion 50 [167]
FAST ATTACK [223]
10 Bike Tactical 213 Meltagun 10 [223]
HS [500]
10 Devastator 140 Launcher*2 30 [170]
10 Devastator 140 Launcher*2 30 [170]
10 Devastator 140 Heavy bolter*2 20 [160]
Grey Knight Battle Brother Ally [350]
HQ [100]
Coteaz [100]
TROOP [15]
3 Henchmen Ultramarian Ladies Auxiliary 12 Bolters*3 3 [15]
FAST ATTACK [235]
Stormraven 205 Hurricane 30 [235]
What exactly the chaos fielded is not known, but, what is remembered is thus;
HQ
Abaddon
Delomes Khorn Lord Delomes with Axe of Blind Fury, Wings, and Plasma pistol
TROOP
5 Chosen Lasgun, meltagun, plasmagun, flamer, fist, rhino.
5 Chosen Lasgun, meltagun, plasmagun, flamer, fist, rhino.
ELITE
7 Havoc 2 Lascannon 2 rocket with flak
4 Khorne Terminator Meltagun
5 Tziench Terminator Heavy flamer combiflamer
FAST ATTACK
5 Warp talons
5 Raptors meltagun claws plasma pistol
Helldrake with baleflamer
HEAVY SUPPORT
Land Raider
Maulerfiend
Dawn of War Eternal War Mission 1 The Crusade. 3 objectives, 2 in Ultramarine deployment.
The battle field had a large amount of armor 12 buildings, but a simple look at the building table shows that being inside of a building is almost suicide. What with a 7 result. And that happened. And just annihilated the havoc squad. But. This is the marine deployment.
It was difficult but not by any means impossible to deploy 102 Ultramarines and an Inquisitor within my deployment. Chaos chose to hide a much smaller footprint of mechanized troops behind the cover of the tallest building, and push in my far flank, away from the bikes. The two part building would seem like a prime vantage for an enterprising havoc squad, until you consider that it is also a huge target. Tactical doctrine was used as follows:
Tactical
Tactical
Devastator
Assault
Tactical doctrine, even when applied to a devastator squad, is bolter drill, but better. It meant that my 3 rocket tacticals rerolled as well as the lascannons, which proved crucial to ultimately collapsing the building, and offering first blood in a first turn that chaos
The maulerfiend is always something I try to avoid, and it, in turn, wiped out a squad that had been taking shelter in a building with a 7 result. The air tanks banishment was nice to be able to ding the chaos invulnurable save down to a 6+ Below, the air power is a gentle ying and yang to a holistic battle ground.
Marneus did relatively little in the battle, except to make everyone able to ignore morale tests. The ability to fail a test and later regroup saved at least two lives. Which is a great deal, when you consider the training wasted. Below, batman chaos Lord Delomes leads his raptor squad into glorious melee.
The helldrake, likewise, is a vexing foe. Able to lay flame unto huge swaths of blue men.
Eventually the air creature landed, and was able to be killed with grenades. A better choice may have been to retreat to ongoing reserve, as the air tank had done.
Here, Abbadon stands alone against about 17 marines. He can only kill, at most, 5 at a time. Which is not enough to survive. I respect his refusal to retreat to the relative safety of the Land Raider and give Slay The Warlord as a hard-fought gift.
The chosen attempt a last ditch effort to deny the crash site objective that was generated as aerotech cargo.
Abaddon continues his assault, but a turn 6 would not see him survive.
The chosen disembarks and fires on the scouts, but Tellion manages to hold his objective.
The air tank seeks to deny the chaos objective, but Objective Secured maintains it. We are unwilling to disembark the ladies, and risk being gunned down in a turn 7.
The chosen cannot assault, and so the scouts survive.
Marneus, Tigerious, and Coteaz appraise the victorious battlefield.
Final score; Ultramarine Omega 10 Chaos Force Abbadon 3
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only fun.
