MM Turn 3Fleshounds arrive near bridge in the middle. Landraider moves off bridge, down river and terminators get out: the librarian lines up to use Avenger to wipe out a swathe of marines but rolls double 6 and take s PotW wound. Speeder retreats behind woods. Scouts move towards runepriest but shooting fails totally.
DE warriors on hill fail to do any damage to anything as does the whirlwind.
The scouts and the dreadnought draw their combat while the nurglings are destroyed. The terminator assault squad charges and kills all the scouts and a unit of bloodclaws but the librarian dies in return. Marines and plague bearers draw again.
DE Archon has joined the fight with the grotesques on the bridge but fails to kill anything. The Des are the losing side but hold again.
AAJ Turn 33 Skyclaws die to dangerous terrain rolls and shoot one hound dead. Marines in the corner move up to shoot the assault terminators – a thunder hammer marine dies to bolter fire. Bloodclaws move back towards the assault terminators covered by a rhino. Rhino on the bridge tries to move but gets immobilised. The runepriest kills a hound and the drop-pod kills 2 more. The last hounds are killed by the Long Fangs. The grey hunters who killed the nurglings shoot then charge the scouts killing them all. The landraider ignores a penetrating hit from the razorback (good old chronous). The scouts shake the dreadnought in combat while 2 plague bearers die. The
DEs on the bridge lose combat again but hold again by rolling a double 1. Ragnar charges in to the assault terminators but between him and the rest of his squad only kill 2 terminators. Ragnar takes 2 wounds in return so it’s a draw.
MM Turn 4Speeder move 24” across table onto hill. Landraider moves to hill for a tank shock and a tactical squad runs. The landraider then immobilises the razorback.
DE warriors fail to kill and skyclaws as does the whirlwind. The plague bearers/marines and scouts/dreadnought combats are again draws. The grotesques still hold on the bridge. Ragnar dies but so to the remaining assault terminators.
AAJ Turn 4Tactical squad run off the table as the landradier is within 6”. Bloodclaws embark on rhino and move across river towards an objective. Skyclaws move to assault
DE warriors on the hill. The runepriest takes a PotW wound while the Long Fangs fail to hurt the speeder. Likewise, the Landraider shrugs off everything fired at it. The rhino on the bridge repairs itself.
Plague bearers win combat killing 2 marines but the marines hold. Scouts and dreadnought draw again. Grotesques killed to sweeping advance. Bloodclaws charge the landraider hoping for a powerfist hit but do nothing. The
DE kill 2 skyclaws in combat but 5
DE are killed in return and they run off the table.
MM Turn 5Landraider turns on the spot, kills 2 marines and takes the lascannon off the razorback. The whirlwind does nothing while the landspeeder kills two skyclaws including the wulfen. The plague bearers/marines and scouts/dreadnought combats are again draws.
AAJ Turn 5Bloodclaws in the rhino move onto the objective while the grey hunters move towards the drop pod. The terminators on the bridge, having gotten free from the grotesques fire an assault cannon at the speeder, blowing it up and killing the skyclaw with the powerfist in the resulting explosion. The runepriest fails to hit the whirlwind but the Long Fangs immobilise it. The landraider avoids any damage while the plague bearers stifle a yawn as they draw again. IN other news, 2 scouts die but take the assault cannon arm off the dreadnought. They lose the combat but hold.
MM Turn 6Landraider turns and tank shocks the blood claws AND rams the rhino on the bridge but with no effect. It then shoots it an wrecks it. The whirlwind fails to kill the runepriest. The plague bearers finally dislodge the marines from the objective in the crater. The skyclaws stop the whirlwind shooting and the scouts fighting the dreadnought finally all die.
AAJ Turn 6The Plague bearers go to ground but 2 are killed by JotWW from the runepriest. The grey hunters wreck the whirlwind with a meltagun. The lone wulfen fails to charge the prone plague bearers and the bloodclaws and sole terminator on the far bridge fail to hurt the landraider.
Final scores:AAJ = 10 Mission Points (1 bridge, 2 opponent objectives, 1 own objective)
MM = 0 mission points (contesting bridge and 1 opponent objective)
ConclusionsA very fun game if a bit one sided! Having dark elder with no armour to speak of and a weak daemon spare army on one side versus 3 marine armies meant it was always going to be an uphill struggle. Having some appalling rounds of dice rolling didn’t help at all!
The only real bright spots for MM were the assault terminators who must have used up the side's entire good luck with dice based on the number of saves they made – and they killed Ragnar too which helped soften the blow of defeat