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!
