Crusade Mission - Incursion - Supply Cache
With Chaplain Gregorios having failed to assassinate Big Mek Nogbugg, the freshly healed Captain Arastos gathers his full strike force to recover a large supply of munitions and supplies from yet another crash site of a downed imperial transport. The Orks, led by Warboss Bonekleava, have proven rather adept at bringing down targets with supplies to fuel their waaagh. Moving into the dense city sector on foot, the Imperial Fists are determined to stem the Orks here, and now.
Strike Force Arastos - Battalion Detachment
Crusade Blessings - 6
HQ Terminator Captain Arastos - Thunder Hammer, Storm Shield, Iron Halo, Adamantine Mantle
Indomitable, Stubborn Heroism, Sentinel of Terra
HQ Terminator Chaplain Gregorios - Storm Bolter, Crozius Arcanum, Rosarius
EL Terminator Squad Hektor - Storm Bolter, Power Sword, Power Fists, Assault Cannon
Fleet of Foot
EL Relic Contemptor Dreadnought - Twin Heavy Bolter, Dreadnought Chainfist, Storm Bolter
Martial Legacy
T Tactical Squad Alpha
T Tactical Squad Beta
T Tactical Squad Gamma
DT Razorback - Twin Assault Cannon
Waaagh! Bonekleava - Battalion Detachment
Crusade Blessings: 12
HQ Warboss Bonekleava - Kustom Shoota, Power Klaw
Da Biggest Boss, Da Lucky Stick, Proper Killy, Resilient
HQ Big Mek in Mega Armour Nogbugg - Power Klaw, Kustom Force Field
Da Kleverest Boss, Da Killa Klaw, Brutal But Kunnin'
HQ Boss Zagstruk - Slugga, Blitz Missiles, Da Vulcha's Klaws
EL Goregasha's Gang of Nobz - 1 Power Klaw, 4 Big Choppas
Grizzled
EL Painboy Bloodcuttah - Power Klaw, 'Urty Syringe
Deep Cncussion
T Jawchoppa's Lucky Blue Skarboyz - 1 Power Klaw, 29 Skarboyz
Veteran Warriors
T Boneshredda's Brown Skarboyz - 1 Power Klaw, 29 Skarboyz
T Skrag's Gretchin (10)
Agendas
Pre-game
Deployment
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| Strike Force Arastos, in all its glory, arrayed to maximize its firepower. That ruin is obscuring though. |
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| Most of Waaagh! Bonekleava. |
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| The rest of Waaagh! Bonekleava. |
Turn 1 - Goffs
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| Skrag's Gretchin Advance onto Obj 2, hiding in the shadows, hoping not to be noticed. |
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| Boss Zagstruk jumps onto Obj 4 using Full Throttle, and does not take a wound for his efforts. |
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| The bulk of the Waaagh! Advances, bellowing their war cries and racing to get stuck in. |
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| Showing the rest of the boyz how it's done. |
Goregasha leads his Nobz in an early charge, hurtling through the ruins at breakneck speed, watching as one of his Nobz eats a Heavy Bolter round. They trade blows with Tactical Squad Beta in an fairly even match, killing one marine while only taking one wound in return.
Turn 1 - Imperial Fists
Devastator Doctrine is active.
Chaplain Gregorios utters the Recitation of Focus, and Terminator Squad Hektor finds it inspiring.
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| Undaunted by the early assault of their lines, the Fists resolutely advance toward the objectives. |
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| Rounding the wall, Nikephoros draws a bead on Zagstruk, inflicting 5 damage. |
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| Hektor uses Fury of the First, as well as Recitation of Focus, to enable the assault cannon to hit on 2+, then smashes into Boneshredda'sSkarboyz. In return they hack down two Terminators. |
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| Trying to slow the avalanche of green, the Razorback plows into the tide of flesh. |
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| Zagstruk interrupts and inflicts 5 damage on Nikephoros. |
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| Enraged, Nikephoros pastes Zagstruk with an additional 5 damage from his dreadnought chainfist. |
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| Jawchoppa's Skarboyz surge forward onto the Razorback, inflicting 9 damage. |
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| Arastos, charging into Goregasha's Nobz, pulps three of them outright, leaving just Goregasha covered in, um, gore. |
Turn 2 - Goffs
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| Big Mek Nogbugg, Painboy Bloodcuttah and Warboss Bonekleava push deep into the Fists' lines. |
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| Boneshredda and his Skarboyz leg it... |
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| ...but he rounds up some more Skarboyz that were in the vicinity, and they come back for another go. |
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| Boneshredda's Skarboyz immediately charge the remneants of Beta Squad. |
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| Big Mek Nogbugg charges Squad Alpha, Painboy Bloodcuttah charges Chaplain Gregorios, and Warboss Bonekleava heads straight for Captain Arastos. |
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| Bonekleava brings the fight right to Arastos... |
Fighting first, Bonekleava throws out 6 attacks, hitting 8 times (gotta love Goffs), and wounding 8 times. Arastos fails four of his Storm Shield saves, takes 9 damage, shrugs 3 of them thanks to his Adamantine Mantle, uses a CP re-roll to try to save one more, fails and is slain!
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| ...and drops him, in one round of glorious combat. That's a notch in the belt. |
Captain Arastos used Only in Death Does Duty End to attack on death. He swung his hammer 5 times, wounded three times, but the gaze of Gork, or possibly Mork, was upon the beast, and only one of the blows landed squarely, dealing 3 damage.
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| Chaplain Gregorios interrupts, effortlessly smashes Painboy Bloodcuttah, and consolidates into Bonekleava. |
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| Big Mek Nogbugg stomps his way into Squad Alpha, and uses Da Killa Klaw and Brutal but Kunnin' to great effect, smashing four marines in the blink of an eye. Orks have eyelids, right? |
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| Boneshredda's Skarboyz pile into Squad Beta... |
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| ...and utterly annihilate and overrun their position. |
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| Not to be outdone, Jawchoppa's Skarboyz pile into the Razorback, completely trash it (forgot to Loot It!) ... |
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| ...and consolidate into Brother Nikephoros, who promptly killed 4 boyz for their efforts. |
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| At the end of the fight phase, Bonekleava used Get Stuvk In, Ladz to fight again, this time against Chaplain Gregorios. He lashed out 6 times, hit 6 times, wounded 4 times, but Gregorios's Rosarius held, only allowing one strike to land for 3 damage. |
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| In the Morale phase, Sgt Beta felt he was overmatched, and fled...nope, withdrew...to fight another day. |
Turn 2 - Imperial Fists
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| Hektor used Fury of the First to unload a volley into Boneshredda's Skarboyz, then charged into Big Mek Nogbugg, killing him, inflicting 9 damage total. |
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| Squad Gamma also unloaded into Boneshedda's Skarboyz, then hurled themselves into the maw of ravenously flailing choppas. |
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| Warboss Bonekleava interrupts... |
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| ...and does not waste the opportunity, just managing to drop Gregorios. Another notch on the belt! |
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| Jawchoppa's Skarboyz continue to pile into and surround Brother Nikephoros, but he saves all ten (10!) choppa wounds, and the Power Klaw only does 1 damage. (Wound counter not changed in pic.) He killed another boy in return. |
In the Morale phase, Boneshredda's Skarboyz failed their Morale, but Warboss Bonekleava used his Breakin' Heads ability to maintain order, only having to kill 3 boyz to do so.
Turn 3 - Goffs
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| Warboss Bonekleava and Nob Goregasha eye up Squad Hektor... |
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| ...they charge in, after inflicting 2 damage with a slugga and a kustom shoota, of all things... |
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| ...Bonekleava attacks first, killing only 2 terminators, but Goregasha finishes off Sgt Hektor, smashing him to bloody pulp with his powerklaw. |
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| Jawchoppa's Skarboyz begin to bring the full weight of the numbers to bear... |
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| ...hacking, chopping, spitting and cursing until the giant walker topples. |
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| Squad Beta trades blows with the remnants of Boneshredda's Skarboyz. Knowing they are the last Imperial Fists standing, and watching the xenos streaming towards them from all sides, they know their time is short. |
Turn 3 - Imperial Fists
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| Boneshredda's Skarboyz get to attack first... |
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| ...and complete the destruction of Strike Force Arastos! |
Final Score
Unit Experience
Goffs
Waaagh! Bonekleava: +2 RP (Mission Reward)
Warboss Bonekleava: +1 XP (Battle), +2 XP (Reaper), +3 (Marked), +3 (Kingslayer), +2 Kills
Big Mek Nogbugg: +1 XP (Battle)
Painboy Bloodcuttah: +1 XP (Battle)
Goregasha's Nobz: +1 XP (Battle), +2 Kills
Jawchoppa's Skarboyz: +1 XP (Battle), + 2 Kills
Boneshredda's Skarboyz: +1 XP (Battle), +2 Kills
Imperial Fists
Captain Arastos: +1 XP (Battle)
Chaplain Gregorios: +1 XP (Battle), +1 Kill
Contemptor Nikephoros: +1 XP (Battle), +1 XP (Cull the Hordes), +1 Kill
Terminator Squad Hektor: +1 XP (Battle), +1 XP (Cull the Hordes), +3 XP (Marked), +1 Kill
Tactical Squad Alpha: +1 XP (Battle), +1 XP (Cull the Hordes)
Tactical Squad Beta: +1 XP (Battle)
Tactical Squad Gamma: +1 XP (Battle), +1 XP (Cull the Hordes)
Razorback: +1 XP (Battle), Battle Scar: Angered Machine Spirit
Summary
Ouch.
I really thought the combined firepower of all those bolters would make fairly short work of the Skarboyz mobs, but that combo of Kustom Force Field and Painboy 6+++ slows down the damage from Firstborn juuust enough that the Orks can regularly make use of Unstoppable Green Tide to recycle one unit of boyz. And in a roughly 1000 point game (50 PL per army), getting an extra 250 points worth of S5 choppa awesomeness is really strong. I don't think there would be that much difference if I were to run Primaris Intercessors. They would die just as fast, though I guess they could use Transhuman Physiology to slow down the incoming damage. Interesting.
Next game up is Incursion - The Relic. Someone is walking away with a trinket. And the Imperial Fists need to figure out a way to stem the Ork assaults, or the city of Vogen may be lost forever to the greenskins! That'll be next month.
Until next time, happy gaming!
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