Friday, 30 January 2015

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...





Friday, 9 January 2015

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!