Defence of Site 371X8: The Unusual Alliance. Jan 11 2014

After so much fighting between the Daemons and Orks, the Eldar took notice. Somehow they were able to forge an alliance with not just the Dark Angels, but also the Skaven Chaos Marines – possibly connected to the Patrol Clash incident and a schism with Namtar. With their arrival Fateweaver was able to gain support from the Orks of Snotrot and the two armies meet the enemy just outside the depot.

Daemons and Orks (D.O.) v Chaos Space Marines, Eldar and Dark Angels (Unusual Alliance UA)

Points: 3000

Mission: Purge The Alien [D.O. are screwed!]
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil [D.O. are even more screwed!]
Night fighting: 1st turn [D.O. are a little less screwed]

UA won the roll to choose sides and place terrain first
DO won the roll and chose to go second

The Battlefield: 
1. UA placed their ADL with Icarus Lascannon.

Deployment.

UA deployed first.

UA Reserves:
CSM Daemon Prince
Helldrake

D.O. Deploy
1. KhorneDogs Scout

DO Reserves:
Zagstruck with Stormboyz

UA, Top Turn 1

1. Everything in range shoots at the KhorneDogs that scouted forward killing 10 dogs.
2. Terminators fail charge at Dogs.
3 Plasma cannons shoot at Orks, all get direct hit but all the Orks save or make their Feel No Pain!

D.O., Bottom Turn 1.

Everything advances.
Portaglyph fails to spawn anything.
Warp Storm: Dark Prince Thirsts but doesn’t do much
Soul Grinder hits a war walker but rolls 1 on armour pen.
KhorneDogs charge terminators and kill 1.

UA, Top Turn 2.

Helldrake arrives from reserve.
UA shift around in their deployment zone, dire avengers and dreadnaught advance.
Lots of shooting destroys Killa Kans giving UA First Blood VP and 1 Kill VP (KVP), some lootas and boyz also die.
1. KhorneDogs kill another terminator in close combat.

 

 D.O. Bottom Turn 2

Zagstruck arrives and lands in front of the dreadnaught.
Daemons and Orks advance. Fateweaver makes his move flying forward with the DP.
Portagylph spawns 8 Bloodletters.
Warp Storm: Rot, Glorious Rot! Papa Nurgle rains poison destruction on the battlefield. 1. All Wraithguard are killed (1 KVP) and 2. an entire squad of CSM (1 KVP). Fateweaver takes a wound fuelling his hatred for Nurgle! 
3. Fateweaver casts Flickering Fire onto the Dire Avengers and kills the whole unit (1 KVP).
4. Daemonettes assault terminators and kill them all (1 KVP).
5. Zagstruck assaults the Dreadnaught and blows it up (1 KVP).

UA, Top Turn 3.

CSM DP arrives from reserve and lands in front of Daemon advance.
UA shift a little in their deployment zone.
Helldrake moves, then flames and kills 6 Daemonettes and 1 dog.

Icarus Lasscannon hits and destroys the Ork Trukk making it zoom forward before exploding (1KVP).
Marines kill Ork HQ with force field (1KVP) and Orks that jump out of the Trukk (1KVP).
Marines shoot and kill Zagstruck and his squad (1KVP).

D.O. Bottom Turn 3.

1. Burna Bomma arrives from reserve and takes 2HP immediately due to Icarus Lasscannon intercept. Must snap fire and only fly 18’’ forward.
D.O. army advances. Portaglyph fails to spawn anything.
2. Fateweaver flies deep into enemy territory and wipes the Dark Reaper squad on the Icarus Lascannon using Flickering Fire (1KVP).
Warp Storm: All Daemon units gain +1 invol save
Lootas shoot and take 1HP off Defiler.
3. Soul Grinder hits Marines and kills 4, the rest make their cover saves.
4. Daemon DP fails 7’’ charge v Forge Fiend rolling… SNAKE EYES!
5. KhorneDogs and Daemonettes charge CSM DP, DP challenges Khorne Herald, and I completely forgot I could refuse! Herald is killed (1KVP) and black mace harms Dogs and Daemonettes! Had I refused the Khorne would have turned my Herald into a spawn…
6. Big Ork Blob tries to assault marines due to Mad Dock Grotsnick’s battle lust, but get the snot shot out of them from overwatch and fail to make the range due to casualties.

UA Top Turn 4.

Only movement is CSM towards Icarus Lascannon.
War Walkers shoot down Burna Bomma. (1KVP)
Everything begins shooting at Fateweaver, he is grounded then killed (Slay the warlord 1VP + 1KVP)
However, Fateweaver soaks up much of the shooting and all that remained were the Devastator plasma cannons and heavy bolter that fail to wound the Daemon DP.
CSM DP fights KhorneDogs and Daemonettes. Black mace and daemonic instability kill off all dogs except for 1 with 1 remaining wound and all Daemonettes (1KVP). Daemons manage 2 wounds off the CSM DP

D.O. Bottom of Turn 4.

Army advances.
Soul Grinder kills 3 marines and 1HP off a War Walker (1 on damage chart)
Portaglyph fails to spawn anything.
Warp Storm: all quiet
Daemon DP assaults CSM DP, manages to do 1 wounds while taking none. CSM DP down to 1 wound.

D.O. Concede.

Unusual Alliance with an easy win.

UA: 11
D.O.: 6