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Monday, December 10, 2012

Batrep - Khorne vs. Blood Angels (long)


I had the opportunity to finally test my 2500 point army yesterday afternoon over on the Big Back Porch in Brandon. Plenty of cold beer was on hand which makes a good time even better.

This article is the first part of the batrep. I took a lot of pictures during the game for your viewing enjoyment. The second article will appear later this week.

Here are our army lists. Note that mine does not follow the rules for a standard Force Organization Chart (FOC) as defined in the sixth edition rulebook. My army is specially designed for a one day campaign I'll be playing in this coming weekend down in Fort Lauderdale. I have posted all of three special missions I wrote for the campaign here on this blog.

Note - Units shown clumped together are attached to each other and their transport (Tr) appears directly underneath each of these combined units. Two Forgeworld flyers were used to proxy the Heldrake and Chaos Storm Eagle.



Khorne Space Marines
• Kharn
• 6x Chaos Space Marine (Fallen Angels)- 5x bolter/bolt pistol/chainsword, flamer
Champion - bolter, lightning claw, power fist
- Mark of Khorne, Icon of Wrath
(Tr) Land raider - dozer blades, extra armor, dirge caster 
• 7x Berzerker
Champion - lightning claw, power fist
- Veterans of the Long War, Icon of Wrath
(Tr) Land raider - dozer blades, extra armor, dirge caster 
• Khorne Daemon Prince* - wings, power armor, Axe of Blinding Fury 
• Heldrake - bale flamer

Khorne Daemons
• Skulltaker - Juggernaught
• Herald of Khorne - Juggernaught, Unholy Might, Fury of Khorne, Blessing of the Blood God 
• 4x Blood Crusher - Fury of Khorne
• 12x Bloodletter - Fury of Khorne

Black Legion
• Abbadon (Warlord - Black Crusader)
• 3x Chaos Terminator - 2x pair of lightning claws, combi-melta + power fist
Terminator Champion - lightning claw, power fist
- Mark of Khorne, Veterans of the Long War. Icon of Wrath
(Tr) Chaos Storm Eagle - daemonic possession, Reaper autocannon

* Note - I could replace the Daemon Prince (HQ) from the Chaos Space Marine codex with a similarly costed Daemon Prince (Heavy Support) from the Chaos Daemons codex to make my army list adhere to the sixth edition rules for a standard FOC. Obviously the CSM Daemon Prince is more Killy.


Here is my opponent's army list to the best of my memory:

Blood Angels
• Recluisarch - terminator armor (Warlord - Outflank)
• 9x Death Company Marine - 9x bolter, 2x power weapon, power fist
(Tr) Land raider - extra armor 
• Sanguinary Priest - power axe
• 4x Assault Marine - flamer
Sergeant - power axe
(Tr) Razorback - twin linked lascannon, dozer blades 
• Sanguinary Priest - power axe
• 4x Assault Marine - flamer
Sergeant - power axe
(Tr) Razorback - twin linked lascannon, dozer blades 
• Sanguinary Priest - power axe
• 4x Assault Marine - meltagun
Sergeant - power axe
(Tr) Razorback - twin linked lascannon, dozer blades 
• Vindicator - siege shield, extra armor
• Vindicator - siege shield, extra armor
• Vindicator - siege shield, extra armor 
• Baal Predator - flamestorm cannon, heavy bolter sponsons
• Baal Predator - flamestorm cannon, heavy bolter sponsons

Imperial Guard Allies
• Command squad
• Commissar 
• Platoon 
• Leman Russ Eradicator - heavy bolter sponsons (Black Betty
• Aegis Defense Line - quad gun


Story Line
Kharn has colluded with Abbadon and has plans to use the Black Crusader as a lure drawing a veteran Company of Blood Angels down to an ancient world where the forces of Chaos wait bidding their time to spring their well planned ambush... There will be a hateful and heavy reckoning... Much blood will flow and many skulls will be taken in the name of their exalted War God Khorne. The Blood Angels are literally beside themselves fully focused on the opportunity to finally face off versus the Black Crusader and do not fully contemplate the lethal danger awaiting them down on the planet below.


Mission and Deployment
This mission does not come from the campaign as those were specifically designed for Chaos versus Chaos. There are three objective markers worth 3 battle points each. The first marker was placed in the center of the table with the other two on either side roughly 12" apart. First Blood, Slay the Warlord and Line Breaker are each worth 1 battle point each.

Deployment is 12" along either long table edge... I won the roll to choose my deployment zone and chose the side of the table that had a bit more terrain. Note that the table was covered with an abundant amount of terrain - mostly ruins and a few scattered buildings.

My opponent won the roll to go first and opted to let me setup first. I placed my two land raiders side by side in the middle of my deployment zones. Everything else I held in reserve. The two Heralds attached to the Blood Crushers are my primary wave. My opponent deployed his entire army except for his Baal Predators that he opted to outflank.


You can see how my opponent deployed in the picture above. His land raider is over towards the upper righthand corner just outside of the photo. My opponent declines the chance to sieze. Night Fight was in effect the first turn.


PRE-GAME ANALYSIS
My main plan was simply to focus on first killing all the Blood Angels scoring units. I have some very fast units at my disposal to quickly reach his back line. As it turned out Abbadon and the Deamon Prince would have their work cut out for them.


To be continued !!






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