Raxxil - Khorne Lord on Juggernaut

Raxxil leads the 2nd Auxiliary 'Blood Beasts', a unit of Khorne Chaos Spawn supporting Namtar's Warband. Raxxil made his name after defeating an Eldar Avatar of Khaine and a Dark Eldar Archon at the same time in close combat on the planet Illic'Kor.
Raxxil was the first Warlord I used in 6th ed and from the new CSM Codex. 

Custom built from many parts - all that remains to finish is the base.

• Head and chest are Khorne Berserker bits.

• Back piece is actually from a vehicle CSM, the type that usually doesn't have a power pack. (only one I had left)

• Shoulder plates are loyalist marine. (Didn't have any chaos)

• Arms and legs from a Bloodcrusher rider. (Gift of Mutation)

• Power pack was given to me.

• The leg plates are from somewhere, I think it was the Skull Cannon kit, possible shoulder plates for the Herald but I'm not sure.

• The axe is a bloodcrusher sword with the blade cut off, with an extended shaft and two Chaos fantasy axe heads joined together for the 2 headed battle axe look. (Axe of Blind Fury)

• The chain with skull and symbol on his left shoulder were vehicle bits. (Sigil of Corruption)

• The plasma gun came from some CSM kit.

• Green stuff chain mail thing to cover his ass. Although his ass was proportional it looked silly with the bulky power armour on his upper body so I covered it to even it out..

• The jugger from my Bloodcrusher kit.

The Battle Continues. January 3, 2015

Daemons v Orks

1000pts

Mission: Big Guns Never Tire
Deployment: Dawn of War

Daemons:
Warlord: Herlad of Tzeentch on disk with Grimorie and Prescience
HQ: Herald of Nurgle
Troop 1: Daemonettes
Troop 2: Plaguebearers
Heavy 1: Soul Grinder of Nurgle with Phlegm
Heavy 2: Soul Grinder of Slaanesh with flamer (Reserve)

Orks:
Warlord: Warboss
Troop 1: Gretchen with runt herder
Troop 2: Ork Boys
Elite 1: Nobs; with ‘Eavy armour, big choppas, 2 claws and a pain boy
Dedicated Transport: Trukk transport for the Warboss and Nobs.
Fast 1: Storm Boys
Fast 2: Burna Bomma (Reserve)

The Battlefield & Deployment: 3 objectives.

Daemons go first.

Turn 1

Screamers push into the centre, with a general forward push of all units.
Nobs charge Screamers from one side while Storm boys charge from the other. A number of Screamers die to the Nobs, and the claw Nobs become unengaged and can’t attack.

Turn 2 

Daemonettes charge the back of the Storm Boys who are all killed except 1 which is killed by the remaining Screamers. 1VP First Blood to Daemons. I forgot to shoot the Nobs!

Ork Boys shoot and kill all but 1 Daemonette who is killed by the Trukk.
Nobs charge the screamers again killing all of them and the Herald for 1VP Slay the warlord to Orks.

Turn 3

Phlegm Soul Grinder scores a scatter of only 1’’ killing ½ the Nobs and the Warboss for 1VP Slay the Warlord to Daemons.
Slaanesh Soul Grinder flames and charges the Nobs killing all remaining except for 1 with a claw.

In the Ork turn the final Nob is killed by the Soul Grinder.

Turn 4 and 5

Slaanesh Soul Grinder wipes Ork Boys by winning CC then sweeping advance.
Burna Bomma arrives turn 4 but has no impact.

Game ends at the end of turn 5 with an easy victory to the Daemons.

Daemons: 8 (First Blood, Slay the Warlord, 2 objectives)
Orks: 1 (Slay the Warlord)

Some thoughts:

Orks failed to build in enough anti-armour redundancy in their army, putting all their eggs into the Nobs. The Nobs slaughtered the Screamers and Herald Warlord; however, when they were hit with a S8, AP3 large blast they were stuffed (no armour save, instant kill so 2W and FnP are irrelevant). This followed by S10 AP2 Soul Grinder CC attacks cleaning them up. Once they were dead the Soul Grinders were without threat.

Namtar's Ambush. September 19, 2014

Chaos Space Marines v Black Templar

700pts

Mission: Purge the Alien
Deployment: Vanguard Strike

CSM:
Warlord: Namtar Plague Rider – Nurgle Biker Chaos Lord (Warlord trait: Master of Deception – infiltrate D3 units)
Nurgle Spawn
2 x Plague Marines
Dakka Predator

Black Templar:
Warlord: Captain
2 x Crusader Squad
1 rhino dedicated transport
Terminators
Dreadnought

The Battlefield and Deployment

Crusader Squad in the Rhino moves forward but is intercepted and assaulted by Namtar and the Spawn.

The Dreadnought moves in to support the Crusader Squad but is destroyed by Namtar’s power fist.

Namtar continues on to assault the Crusader Squad that disembarked from the wrecked Rhino killing them all and slaying the Warlord in the process.

Namtar finishes off the Crusaders and assaults the second Crusader Squad behind the barricade and destroys them.

A rookie Scout stands defiantly against overwhelming odds!

Meanwhile the flanking Plague Marines kill the Terminator squad with their plasma guns.

Chaos wins comfortably.

Unfortunately I can't remember all the details but you get the idea...

Black Templar arrive to oppose Namtar. August 23, 2014

Chaos Space Marines v Black Templar.

1500pts

Mission: Maelstrom of war - Tactical Escalation
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

CSM:
Warlord: Namtar Plague Rider – Nurgle Chaos Lord on a bike
Troops: 2 x Plague Marines with Plasma guns
Transport: 2 x Rhino dedicated transports for the Plague Marines
Fast: 2 x 4 Nurgle bikers (1 with plasma guns, 1 with Meltas)
Formation: Helbrute Helcult Formation:
Helbrute with plasma cannon
2 x 20 Cultists

Black Templars:
Warlord: Captain
Troops: 2 x Crusader Squads
Transport: 1 x Land Raider Crusader dedicated transport
Transport: 1 x Rhino dedicated transport
Fast: Land Speeder
Elite: Dreadnought
Transport: Drop pod dedicated transport for Dreadnought
Elite: Terminators

The Battlefield and Deployment

Black Templars place Land Raider with HQ and Crusader squad and the land speeder on the left flank.
Rhino with crusader squad on the right flank.
(Sorry no pic)

The Battle Begins.

Nurgle Bikers push up their right flank while the rest of Chaos move forward.
The Black Templars advance.

Plague Marines disembark, 1 squad on the objective in the building and the other after the Rhino is destroyed by the Land Raider.
Drop pod lands and the Dreadnought disembarks. Terminators deep strike next to the Drop Pod.
Nurgle bikers assault the BT rhino and destroy it. Namtar repositions into a more central location.

Land Raider unloads the Warlord and Crusader Squad and they assault the Plague Marines.

The Cultists and Helbrute join the melee in front of the Land Raider.

The Nurgle Bikers assault the Crusader Squad that disembarked from the wrecked Rhino.

Namtar turns around and runs up the field to the objective in the bunker.
The second Cultists squad assaults the Crusader squad in front of the Land Raider.
The Nurgle Bikers continue to fight the Crusader Squad next to the wrecked Rhino.

Despite heavy losses, including the Helbrute, the overwhelming numbers of Chaos whittle the Crusaders down and also slay the Black Templar Warlord.

BT Land Speeder wrecks the remaining Chaos Rhino.
BT Terminators try to kill the Plague Marines in the building on the objective but fail due to plasma gun fire and poisoned attacks. The Terminators are destroyed.
Namtar splits from his biker buddies and captures the objective in the bunker.
Nurgle bikers finish off the Crusader squad with the help of the second nurgle biker squad.

Final Results. Draw

Unfortunately I can’t remember exactly how all the points played out, but I do remember it was a draw. It all came down to a D3 VP roll in turn 6 after Chaos held enough objectives to meet the D3 requirement. I needed a 3 (5 or 6) and rolled a 6! Amazingly this was the second time this has happened!

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch - Non GW

Size comparison with GW DP

• The model is a Reaper mini called a Pit Fiend. It is a "Bone" mini so very cheap.

• You can see from the size it is a perfect substitute.

A Random Encounter. June 12 2014

Chaos Space Marines v Ultramarines 

500pts

Mission: Crusade (5 objectives)

Deployment: Vanguard Strike

Nightfighting: Rolled but didn’t happen

Level 2 Sorcerer with mark of Slaanesh

Slaanesh Primaris Psychic Power (Chaos Focus): Sensory Overload

Slaanesh Psychic Power (compulsory): Hysterical Frenzy

Biomancy Psychic Power: Endurance

Level 1 Librarian

Primaris Telepathy Power (Focus): Psychic Shriek

Telepathy Psychic Power: Invisibility

Chaos won the roll and chose to go first.

The Battlefield and Deployment

Chaos Top Turn 1

Mysterious objective: nothing of note

Sorcerer casts Endurance, Ultramarines fail to Deny.

Ultramarines Bottom Turn 1

Librarian casts Psychic shriek, PERILS Takes a wound and misses due to snap fire (Rhino moved 12’’).

Terminators shoot Cultists, kill 7. Cultists FALL BACK and are destroyed. Ultramarine First Blood.

Chaos Top Turn 2

Sorcerer casts Endurance.

CSM and Sorcerer assault Rhino and destroy it with Krak grenades (1 glance and 3 pen)

 

Ultramarines Bottom Turn 2

Librarian casts Invisibility PERILS AND DIES, Chaos get Slay the Warlord. Chaos DENY THE WITCH just to rub salt into the wound!

Ultramarines unload all shooting at CSM, cyclone launcher manages 14 hits, 9 wounds, but only kills 3! No other shooting kills any CSM. CSM pass moral but only just!

Tac Squad assaults CSM – 1 dies to overwatch. Sorcerer kills Sergeant in a challenge. FnP on Boon table. CSM 10 hits, only 3 wound and no kills! Tac squad land 3w, 2 fail, 2 FnP (Endurance). Tac squad fail moral and FALL BACK!

Chaos Top Turn 3

Sorcerer casts Sensory Overload but fails to kill any Tac Marines.

CSM shoot pistols at Tac marines and kill 1.

CSM assault Tac Marines, 1 dies from Overwatch (Wall of Death). CSM kill remaining Tac marines.

 

Bottom of Turn 3 and turns 4 – 6

Terminators capture central objective - mysterious objective was Skyfire Nexus.

CSM bunker down on objective – mysterious objective was Skyfire Nexus.

Cultists spread out and got to ground on objective.

Ultramarines Tac squad moves to capture objective in multi-story ruins - mysterious objective was Nothing of Note.

Ultramarines shoot at Cultists every turn but fail to force a moral check, not even once!

GAME ENDS

Chaos: 7 (2 objectives, Slay the Warlord)

Ultramarines: 7 (2 Objectives, First Blood)

DRAW

APPENDIX

Chaos Space Marines

HQ: Sorcerer, mark of Slaanesh, Mastery level 2, Spell Familiar, Force Sword, Vets of the Long war

Troop 1: 10 CSM, mark of Slaanesh, + cc weapons, Vets of the long war, Champ has power sword.

Troop 2: 20 Cultists

Troop 3: 19 Cultists

Ultramarines

HQ: Librarian, force axe

Troop 1: 5 Tac Marines, flamer

Dedicated Transport: Rhino

Troop 2: 5 Tac Marines, missile launcher

Elite 1: 5 Terminators, cyclone missile launcher

Comments by James

Pre-battle thoughts

This is just a test run as neither of us have read the new rules. Keep it small and look everything up to see if there are any changes. Also a test for new psychic powers.

Post-battle thought

This was a hard fought battle, after Mike routed my Cultists in turn 1 he took control of the battle and I was forced into a defensive reactionary position. Mike had 3 scoring units to my 2 which meant I had to kill at least one of his to draw. Luckily I had that chance. After that point I was forced into a defensive ‘holding’ position to get the draw. If I exposed my Cultists they would have been shot to death and if I exposed my CSM they would have been shot to death – Mike had control of the centre and could hit any of my units with missiles and bolters. I could have tried to split my Sorcerer off and go for another objective, but with 2W, T4 and 3+ armour a single Krak missile would have instant killed him – not a wise choice. Another option could have been to go for the objective in Mike’s deployment zone and get Linebreaker as well, but CSM aren’t fearless so I could have easily been forced to make a moral check which would have been a big risk (I had to cross open terrain to do this) but this may have been the best option to try for – didn’t think of it during the game.

Luck got me over the line for a draw.