Iron Hands VS Blood Angels 2000 Points.

Hello all. We are really excited to be sharing this battle report, as it is the first game played in the house. Lived here over a year. Have not been able to play 40K. So, it was with great anticipation and longing that finally a Blood Angels force arrived to challenge the perpetual list manufacturing that occurs in the absence of regular games. We had talked about doing 1750, in preparation for the Con Of The North, but decided instead on 2000, as it is our preferred point total. I was prepared for either contingency, but the additional 250 points allowed me to field another terminator squad. Which makes an already mean list much meaner. The concept behind my force, even as Ultramarines are painted over to Iron Hands, is the revitalization of the marine armor list. I am not a fan of Hull Points. I think they sabotage an elegant and random element to vehicles that makes tactical games of armored forces a delight to play. Because no one brings Land Raiders anymore. And certainly not four. But.

The Paint It Black 6 Raider/Robot Iron Hands List

Primary Detachment: Iron Hands [2000]

HQ [230]

Warlord Librarian Scary Ghost Dad 65 Level 2 25 Terminator 25 Storm Shield 10 [125]

MOF 90 Power Axe 15 [105]

TROOP [115]

5 Scout Squad [55]

5 Scout Squad 55 rifles 5 [60]

ELITE [1055]

5 Terminator Squad 200 Cyclone 25 [225]

Dedicated Raider Crusader 250 Storm Bolter 5 [255]

5 Terminator Assault 200 Hammer/Shields 25 [225]

Dedicated Land Raider 250 [250]

Dreadnought [100]

HEAVY SUPPORT [600]

Land Raider 250 [250]

Land Raider 250 [250]

Dreadnought [100]

So yeah. In the min/max game, two scout squads are king. I don't have the point totals for the Blood Angels, but the FO is;

HQ

Mephiston [Lord of Death]

Reclusiarc in Terminator armor

TROOP

5 Scout squad rifles

5 Scout squad rifles and HB

8 Death company hammer 2 fists rhino

10 Assault jetpack squad with 3 melta pistols

Elite

3 Sanguinary Priest Squad with Corbullo one with jetpack

2 Sanguinary Priest in terminator armor

Dreadnought with Frag Cannon

FAST ATTACK

Baal Predator with heavy bolter 

Land Speeder with Melta flamer

Land Speeder with Melta flamer

So. Here are a whole bunch of pictures. 

This is my force. It is kind of painted for crap. I'll cop to it. It's a WIP.

This is my brother's Castle Ragnar, which was retired from this game after much debate. It was in charge of holding the mysterious objective dice.

 From farther back, you can see that Skeletor is overseeing the game.

 The Blood Angels force.

 The board is irregular, in that it is meant to be irregular.

 There is a crash site which is 4+ battle field wreckage, a cemetery center, providing ruin cover, and 3 mysterious forests. Shrouded in mystery.

 The upper courtyard is surrounded by ruins, but is itself not dangerous within.

 The beacon is the location of table center.

 Crash site.

 Game type is Big Guns Never Tire, which is fantastic. 3 objectives, all women. It's a fight over girls, as it always is. Mephiston's girlfriend is in the cemetery, and it is this girl the Iron Hands crave to hang out with the most. Vanguard deployment, BA win roll off, but allow SM to deploy first.

 Turn 1 was all jockeying for position and being to far away and poping smoke. Turn 1 drop pod assault with Dreadnought Fractus does not wipe out the scouts, because they are in Iron Bark forest.

 The Raider line always wants to move at least 6, get a lascannon shot off clean with some accessorized heavy bolters if practical, and then machine spirit the other lascannon at either the same target, or something farther.

 The Blood Angels took the courtyard, as it is an incredibly defensible position, but the choke point of the ramp makes getting forces down field difficult.

 The Librarian, who has Mechanicus Abjurum or whatever and Psychic Shriek eliminates the robot and the pod, and that is all that this 350 points does this game.

 Krak kills. Fists kill faster.

 The ramp.

 Grandma Ball making her way down the ramp while Death Company consistently fails to move quickly from the blast crater left from their lascannoned rhino.

 But man, they are pretty.

 Those two little speeders try to pop some landraider and suck up an entire round of fire only to miss the one melta shot that could have paid off. As it was, hammer terminators who initially deployed to contend with Mephiston hammers it to death.

 Then hammers Mephiston to death.

 Death company just can't get down the ramp, but their ranks are bolstered by a terminator doctor and the wandering monk. There are actually three doctors and a priest in this squad.

 The jet pack troops descend.

 The scouts at the gate, reverse angle.

 The larger view down field.

 Everything is set to hold the middle objective.

 It is to the Blood Angels to close the distance, but, the Master of the Forge, the lone occupant of the raider crusader, exploded with melta pistol fire, stands as a bulwark against their victory.

 The snipers hold their objective, unable to assist with fire.

 Death Company is pretty, but just too slow.

 Master of the Forge Meineke Spareparts makes all of his 2+ saves against a crippling series of chainsword blows.

 Scary Ghost dad looks on, holding the rear objective with the diminished scout squad as the game ends, turn 5. Iron Hands 8 Blood Angels 3.

 These were my only casualties.

I didn't get a shot of the BA casualties, but they were also pretty light. I feel like the Iron Hands may be the only way to play Space Marine armor in 6th ed. But this is all just opinion and pictures. Thanks, from Karuvas XIII!

Ultramarine Strike Force Lightning.

Marneus and Tigerious recruited the Khan to lead 6th company bikers in an advanced assault party. Hoping to use sheer speed and power to confound any tactic set forth by the enemy.

Ultramarine Strike Force Lightning [2500]

Ultramarine Primary Detachment. [1314]

HQ [585]

Marneus 275 Armor 10 [285]

Tigerious [170]

Command squad 100 Apothecary 15 Champion 15 [130]

TROOP [529]

10 Tactical 140 Flamer 5 Lascannon 20 [165]

10 Tactical 140 Flamer 5 Lascannon 20 [165]

5 Scout 55 Telion 50 Cloaks *4 8 Rifles*1 1 Rocket 10 [124]

5 Tactical 70 Flamer 5 [75]

HEAVY SUPPORT [200]

Storm Raven 200 [200]

White Scars Primary Detachment. [1086]

HQ [540]

Q’han of the North [Khan] 125 Moondraken 25 [150]

Q’han Command 100 Bikes 35 Apothecary 15 Champion 15 Storm Shield*3 30 Fist 25 Hammer*2 60 [280]

Chaplain 90 Bike 20 [110]

TROOP [546]

10 Bike Tactical 213 V.Sgt 10 Fist 25 Multimelta 10 Meltagun 10 Flamer 5 [273]

10 Bike Tactical 213 V.Sgt 10 Fist 25 Multimelta 10 Meltagun 10 Flamer 5 [273]

FORTIFICATION [100]

Aegis Line 50 Quad Gun 50 [100]

2,500 Point Ultramarine Omega Force

I was preparing for a tournament the weekend after T-Giving and after formulating a number of different lists suddently realized: Wait. You have a blog claming you are the last Ultramarine. So. You should probably field the most badass UM list available. Thus I present to you a force and list that uses every member of the Ultramarine cast.

Ultramarine Strike Force Omega [2500]

HQ [920]

Marneus 275 Armor 10 [285]

Sicarius [185]

Tigerious [165]

Cassius [130]

Command squad 100 Apothecary 15 Fist 25 Champion 15 [155]

TROOP [845]

10 Tactical 140 Vet Sgt 10 Fist 25 Flamer 5 Lascannon 20 [200]

Dedicated Rhino [35]

10 Tactical 140 Vet Sgt 10 Fist 25 Flamer 5 Lascannon 20 [200]

Dedicated Rhino [35]

10 Tactical 140 Flamer 5 Launcher 15 Flak 10 [170]

Dedicated Rhino [35]

5 Scout 55 Telion 50 Cloaks*4 8 rifles*2 2 [115]

Dedicated Storm 45 Multimelta 10 [55]

ELITE [225]

5 Assault Terminator 200 Hammers 25[225]

HEAVY SUPPORT [510]

Stormraven [200]

Land Raider Crusader 250 Chronus 50 Multimelta 10 [310]

Leroy Jenkins Has Eaten The Falcon.

The dog ate probably $50 worth of things today. Give or take. GW price is just below $45, but then there’s shipping. Margin. Minus cleaning products. Just wrecked the craft. we thought, in our imagination, that we knew what a wrecked craft was. But we didn’t know. Until we saw what a 15 week old ¾ Yellow Lab ¼ German Sheppard could do to an Eldar tank given an afternoon free to poop and chew. It was our hubris that caused this. We wanted to see it on its flying base. It was not sturdy. By any means. But it was glorious in its own way. Falcon Grav Tank with bright lance. Just one. The other was missing, but we would have found the other. Now it is probably inside intestines. At least we have a picture to remember her by before we turn her into some terrain. Probably. Probably she can not be rebuilt. The bastard ate the pilot. Last known photo below. Craft circled crudely in red.

How do I Warhammer?

Some people want to know how I Warhammer. And the answer is simple; Hard. 

I rock the Warhammer, and worlds die.

Everyone hates on the Ultramarines. Calls them Vanilla, but they are the last real hope for the galaxy. The Imperium of man is a corrupt and damned vessel for hate. But Ultramar is the best of humanity, unblemished by the taint of chaos.

This is my air tank. There are many like it, but this is mine. 

These are my HQs.

This is WIP Draigo and his paladin. Since, they have been based. Next step? Staple books to their brains.

This is Khan of The North fighting, and surviving, against four dreadnoughts, only one tactical nought. 

This is The Duke fighting against way too many bugs.

This is one of my bike lists hammer and anviling chaos pink. 

And this is my attempt at beating the dreaded 6 Doomsythe list. Would have been a tie at 5. Went to 7, and it did not go well for the Draigo Coteaz alliance. 

So hard. 

<3 UM

Karuvas XI Apocalypse Total; 16K

Karuvas XI Master List [15,843]

Undedicated Aegis line 50 Quad Gun 50 [100]

Ultramarine Force Omega [7193]

Kabal of the Black Heart [5868]

Ordo Exterminatus [2682]

[16,000 Contingent U.F.O. Extra Armor*6 90 Stormbolter*2 20 HK 10 Speeder HF 10 O.E. Xtra Armor 15 Tech Stormbolter 3 Hench Storm*3 9 {157}]

Ultramarine Force Omega [7193]

HQ [2345]

TROOP [1758]

ELITE [730]

FAST ATTACK [865]

HEAVY SUPPORT [1370]

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS [125]

HQ [2345]

Marneus Calgar [265]

Honor Guard 4 150 Banner 25 [175]

Kato Sicarius [200]

Vargo Tigerious [230]

Ortan Cassius [125]

Q’ahn Of The North 160 on Moonhund 45  [205]

Q’ahn Command 115 Bikes 90 Champion 15 Hammer/shield 45*2 90 Powerweapon/Meltabomb 20 Company Standard 15 [345]

Captain Killfist 100 Bike 35 Fist 25 Stormshield 15 Artificer Armor 15 Meltabomb 5 [185]

Chaplain Cassius II 100 Bike 35 [135]

Vulcan He’stan [190]

Captain Spearkill 100 Power Weapon 15 Digital Weapons 10 Artificer Armor 15 [140]

Spearkill Command  115 Champion 15 Meltabombs 20 [150]

TROOP [1758]

10 Tactical 170 Fist 25 Plasma Pistol 15 Missile Flamer [210]

10 Tactical Fist 25 Missile Flamer [195]

10 Tactical Fist 25 Missile Flamer [195]

10 Tactical Fist 25 Missile Flamer [195]

10 Tactical 170 Fist 25 Multimelta Meltagun 10 [205]

6 Scout 88 Missile 10 Tellion 50 [148]

10 Bike 255 Fist 25 Multimelta 10Meltagun 10 Flamer 5 [305]

10 Bike 255 Fist 25 Multimelta 10Meltagun 10 Flamer 5 [305]

ELITE [730]

5 Assault Terminator [200]

5 Assault Terminator [200]

5 Terminator 200 Whirlwind 30 [230]

Dreadnought Octavian [100]

FAST ATTACK [865]

Land Speeder Storm 50 Multimelta 15 [65]

Land Speeder 50 Multimelta 10 Assault 40 [100]

Land Speeder 50 Cyclone 40 Multimelta 10 [100]

Land Speeder 50 Cyclone 40 Multimelta 10 [100]

Land Speeder 50 Cyclone 40 Multimelta 10 [100]

5 Assault Marines 100 Fist/shield 40 Plasma 15Meltabomb*5 25 [180]

5 Assault Marines 100 Powerweapon/shield 30 Plasma 15Meltabomb*5 25 [170]

Attack Bike Squad 40 Multimelta 10 [50]

HEAVY SUPPORT [1370]

Land Raider Crusader 250 Multimelta 10 Stormbolter 10 Chronus 70 [340]

Land Raider 250 Hunterkiller 10 [260]

Land Raider 250 Hunterkiller 10 [260]

5 Devestator 90 Heavy Bolter*4 60 [150]

5 Devestator 90 Lascannon*2 70 Rocket*2 30 [190]

5 Devestator 90 Plasmacannon*2 50 Rocket*2 30 [170]

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS [125]

Rhino 35 Hunterkiller 10 [45]

Rhino 35 Hunterkiller 10 [45]

Drop pod 35 [35]

Kabal of the Black Heart [5868]

HQ [1265]

TROOP [1111]

ELITE [1474]

FAST ATTACK [778]

HEAVY SUPPORT [660]

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS [580]

HQ [1265]

Vect  [240]

Lady Ruthless Malys [130]

Drazhar [230]

Lelith [175]

Urien [190]

The Duke [150]

Archon Q 60 Shadowfield 30 Drugs 10 Ghostplate 10 Soul Trap 10 Huskblade 35 Venom Blade 5 [150]

TROOP [1111]

20 Warriors 180 Splinter Cannon*2 20 Sybarite 10 Blast 15 Agonizer 20 [245]

10 Warriors 90 Sybarite 10 [100]

5 Warriors [45]

10 Wyches 100 Hecatrix 10 Agonizer 20 Blast 15 Haywire 20 Net 10 Hydra 10 [185]

10 Wyches 100 Hecatrix 10 Agonizer 20 Blast 15 Haywire 20 Net 10 Flails 10 [185]

10 Wyches 100 Hecatrix 10 Agonizer 20 Blast 15 Haywire 20 Net 10 [175]

10 Wyches 100 Hecatrix 10 Agonizer 20 Blast 15 Haywire 20 Net 10 [175]

ELITE [1474]

10 Incubi 220 Klaivex 10 Demiclaives 20 Murderous Assault 10 Onslaught 15 Bloodstone 15 [290]

10 Incubi 220 Klaivex 10 Demiclaives 20 Bloodstone 15 [265]

10 Harlequins 180 Kiss*2 8 Fusion pistol*2 20 Death Jester 10 Shadowseer 30 Troupe Master 20 Power weapon [268]

9 Trueborn 108 Dracon 5 Ghostplate 10 Dark Lance 25 Carbines*4 20Haywire 18 [186]

10 Trueborn 120 Dracon 5 Ghostplate 10 Splinter Cannon*2 20 Haywire 20 [175]

5 Trueborn 60 Dark Lance*2 50 Blaster*2 30 Dracon 5 Ghostplate 10 Poison Blade 5 Haywire 10[170]

5 Trueborn 60 Splinter Cannon*2 20 Shredder*2 10 Dracon 5 Ghostplate 10 Poison Blade 5 Haywire 10 [120]

FAST ATTACK [778]

5 Scourges 110 Haywire 10 Heatlance 12 Solarite 10 Power Weapon 10 [152]

10 Reavers 220 Heat Lance*3 36 Cluster Caltrops*360 Champion 10 Venom Blade 5 [331]

10 Reavers 220 Blaster*3 45 Champion 10 Agoniser 20 [295]

HEAVY SUPPORT [660]

Ravager 105 Torment 5 Sails 5 Chains 5 Tropies 5 Blades 5 Shields 10 FField 10 [150]

Ravager 105 Torment 5 Sails 5 Chains 5 Tropies 5 Blades 5 Shields 10 FField 10 [150]

Talos 100 Chain-flails 10 CC Weapon 15 [125]

Talos 100 Chain-flails 10 CC Weapon 15 [125]

Cronos 80 Probe 10 Vortex 20 [110]

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS [580]

Raider 60 Torment 5 Sails 5 Chains 5 Tropies 5 Blades 5 Shields 10 FField 10 [105]

Raider 60 Torment 5 Sails 5 Chains 5 Tropies 5 Blades 5 Shields 10 FField 10 [105]

Raider 60 Torment 5 Sails 5 Chains 5 Tropies 5 Blades 5 Shields 10 FField 10 [105]

Raider 60 Torment 5 Sails 5 Chains 5 Tropies 5 Blades 5 Shields 10 FField 10 [105]

Venom 55 Chain 5 Tropies 5 Blades 5 Shields 10 [80]

Venom 55 Chain 5 Tropies 5 Blades 5 Shields 10 [80]

Ordo Exterminatus [2682]

HQ [735]

TROOP [1026]

ELITE [686]

FAST ATTACK [235]

HQ [735]

Lord Draaigo [275]

Levar Burton 150 Mastery 3 50 Servo Skull*3 15 Master Crafted 5 [220]

Coteaz [100]

Valeria [140]

TROOP [1026]

5 Paladin 275 Apothecary 75 Mastercrafted*5 25 Psybolt ammo 20 Brotherhood Banner 25 [420]

12 Henchmen 2 Jokaero 70 5 Servitor 50 5 Acolyte 20 Power armor 50 Boltgun 5 Meltabombs 25 [220]

12 Henchmen 2 Jokaero 70 10 Acolyte {40 Power armor 100 Boltgun 10 Meltabombs 50} [270]

4 Henchmen 4 Acolyte {16 Carapic*2 8 Hotshot lasgun*2 10 Boltgun*2 2 Meltabombs 20} [56]

3 Henchmen 3 Acolyte {12 Power Armor 30 Boltgun 3 Meltabombs 15} [60]

ELITE [686]

Techmarine 90 Warding Staff 25 Meltabomb 5 Rad Grenades 10 Empyrean brain mines 10 Digital Weapons 15 Psychotroke grenades 15 Orbital strike relay 50 [220]

Venerable Dread 175 Truesilver 10 Psybolt ammo 5 Searchlight 1 [191]

Callidus Assassin 145

Eversor Assassin 130

FAST ATTACK [235]

Stormraven 205 Hurricanes 30 [235]

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