Month 3 battle (1200pts): Vic vs Gareth

Now the fun begins with more substantial 1200pt sized armys. The battle was to capture and hold four objectives. It seems that all the battles Gareth and I play have been of this type even though we always roll for it. The scenery was set up with a ruined small outpost feel to it using mini buildings made from cities of death kits.


This as you can guess is how we set up the battlefield, the yellow rings highlighting the four objectives.

I learnt my lesson after turn one as four template weapons wiped out the rather poorly placed loota boyz in the building ruins. They got their custom forcefield cave from the Big Mek but the one in three chance that they would survived was an unproven statistic.

Turns 4 saw the Orks loosing their nerve and hiding in any cover they could from the Thunderfire cannon whilst the Blood Ravens confidentaly strode on.

Kantor and his Sternguard were tasked with campturing the furthest reached objective but found that to massed shoota boyz firepower followed up with the demented flailings of thee killakanz were simply too much for them as they were wiped out in turn 5.

The Terminators marched across to outflank the Kanz but were left with nothing to attack as the kanz consolidated away from them. This allowed the repositioned surviving unit of Lootas to pick off one of the terminators as they returned to the main action.

There were two titanic clashes in the final turns 5 and 6 with two units of tactical squad fighting against a mob of boyz each. These took place in the centre of the battlefield and in the ruins just to the left of it. Calling a Waaaaaghhh the Orks charged madly at the marines who put too much faith in their ceramite armour (or was it marmite armour) as they were both wiped cleanly off the board.

Battle conclusion:
The dice was rolled for turn 7 but it was not to be. The Orks had won the day with brute force in the last desperate turns of the game.

Objective 1: contested by the heavy weapons and thunderfire cannon
Objective 2: held by the Ork boyz
Objective 3: Held by the Deffdredd (The Big Mek makes him a troop type)
Objective 4: uncontested.

'Hide from the big cannon fing' screamed the Orks as they scambled for cover.

Vic post battle comments:
I was relieved to have won the battle, the Blood Ravens were attempting to manouver their men around the outskirts of the battlefield whilst successfully suppressing my army with their heavy weapons. Despite the relatively small numbers of, the Blood Ravens yet again proved impervious to any Big shoota, slugga or even loota fire passing armour save after armour save and those were the power armour clad! I didn't even bother with the terminators until it looked like the dice Gods were favouring me with more luck.
All in all a fantastically close battle, and with an eye on the mission objectives and some gutsy manouvering gave the Orks enough fun to tell round the campfire back at Orky Ead'quaters. Now where do I get more firepower?

Gareth post battle comments:

Some more Eldar painted!

Well here is some more painted models (a bit of a rarity for me) Some Warp Spiders and Eldar Jetbikes (These models are not quite finished) I know i won't win any prizes for being on time but i prefer to do my talking on the battlefield! I am nearly done with a Fire Prysm and my Wraithlord too so i will get them painted in time for the big one. I think i need more troops but am stuck between more jetbikes or Dire Avengers. Other than that i know am adding some Dark Reapers just because Gaerth will be pooing his power armoured pants at the sight of them! Other than that finish off my Avatar and see where i stand i guess. Vic's orks will be tasting Wraithbone, just not how he wants to!

I would like to add they are finished now, fully painted and based! woo hoo!

More Space Marines! Still no Tanks!

Well here is the rest of my quota for the month, a second Tactical Squad and a thunderfire Cannon. Add that to the second half of a Devastator squad and a Company Master and it more than covers 400 points and gives me options for the army. The Tacticals i always take at least 2 for any game so they were a given and the Thunderfire cannon, I have used it in 1 game already and it made me bloody happy I took it! It will mush up Orks and Eldar all day long. I know i really need some sort of Armour in my army but i just enjoy painting infantry so much! Next month i will probably round it off with a couple of Rhinos or Drop pods, a Whirlwind and maybe a Predator.

My Blood Ravens Fortress Monastry. Like the guy who put it together it looks better at a distance but for a first attempt i am quite proud!

Photos of my Thunderfire Cannon and 2nd Tactical squad will follow tommorow. (they are painted, just in my figure case after a game).

Big Mek Stompy Klinik complete!

This is the side objective for this month, I opted to build a Mek hut in a similar style of the one in the Dawn of War game and added other details like the look out tower. You might have noticed that in the WIP I had a base with it which I have now decided not to include as the building can freestand on the battlefield without it. The round bit in the first picture is supposed to be a power generator of sorts and the watch tower fits one 25mm based figure like a rikkit launcha boy.
The remainig two walls show a lil gretchin shop for pawning spare go fasta bits and a shooting range to test the Big Mek's latest contraptions. The top of the hut can hold up to ten 25mm based models with three manning a mounted big shoota.
Here is a close up of my favourite bits, the Big shootas, Gretchin trading hole and the shooting gallery.

Vic's month 3 Orky quota

It's been a busy month but I have finally managed to finish my third lot of twenty Ork boyz which brings the total up to sixty excluding HQ models etc. To further bolster the model count and because they are awesome fun filled models I painted up a unit of Gretchin and a runtherded. These were joined by the very useful Lootas, another unit of 5, and a Deffdread.

The Deffdread I've actually had modelled and painted up for some time now, kinda the time I made the Killakanz as the whole metal stompy fever took hold of me. With loads of close combat weapons I'm sure looking forward to tucking into some wraithbone!