1500 Marines vs Witch Hunters
Got a game in last night against Danny, a new comer to the gaming centre
Space Marines (Me)
Librarian – Terminator Armour, Storm Shield.
(Vortex of doom and null zone)
6 Terminators – 2xLC, 4xTH/SS
Landraider Crusader – Extra armour, multi melta
5 Tac marines
Razor back – Twin Heavy Bolter
5 Tac marines
Razor back – Twin Heavy Bolter
5 Tac marines
Razor back – Twin Heavy Bolter
2 Land speeders – 2x Multimelta, 2x Heavy Flamer
2 Land speeders – 2x Multimelta, 2x Heavy Flamer
Predator – Auto Cannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons
Predator – Auto Cannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons
Witch hunters (Danny)
Inquisitor – Power armour, power weapon, scourging
Servo skull
3 guards men – 3x Plasma Gun
Landraider Godhammer
Vindicator assassin
5 Storm troopers – 2x Grenade Launchers
Rhino
5 Storm troopers – 2x Grenade Launchers
Rhino
5 Storm troopers – 2x Grenade Launchers
Rhino
5 Storm troopers – 2x Grenade Launchers
Rhino
5 Storm troopers – 2x Grenade Launchers
5 Sisters of Battle – Book thingy, Heavy Flamer, Flamer
Immolator – Twin Multi Melta
Exorcist
Exorcist
Immolator – Twin Multi Melta
We went with pitch battle with 5 objectives.
There where two buildings on the left flank, one in front of each deployment zone they each got an objective in them. There where some ruins in the middle of the table with an objective placed either side in the open the final objective was on the right had side of the table in the corner of a building (this building was just in front of Danny’s deployment zone).
He won the roll and decided to go first.
Danny deployed one rhino squad in the left hand corner with an exorcist to cover that objective. In the middle going from left to right the other exorcist went down then the two immolators (the second one loaded with the storm trooper squad without the rhino). The Land raider deployed to the middle left. One rhino went behind it with the last two deployed in the middle at the back.
I deployed my land raider opposite his with me two preds deployed to the middle left to cover the exorcists with two razor backs behind them. All four land speeders deployed on the far right hiding behind a building. The last razorback squad went into reserve.
The vindicator assassin infiltrated on to the top of the building on the right with an objective
Turn 1
Danny
There wasn’t much moving on Danny’s part, the rhino behind the landraider went right towards the objective there the immolators also rolled right to counter my land raider. The exorcists shuffled forward a wee bit.
The exorcists opened fir on my preds blowing the auto cannons off them both, the land raider shot at mine but the las cannons bounced off.
Me
Well losing the auto cannons was a bit of a blow I had planned on using them to suppress the exorcists (also didn’t help that I forgot they where AV13 and not 11 to the front).
My landraider drove straight at his and popped smoke. One squad of land speeders went up the right flank at top speed, the other squad shot across to the middle of the board to help out with the immolators. The preds and razor backs rolled forward 6”.
In the shooting phase the preds and razorback managed to stun on of the immolators but that was it.
Score 0-0
Turn 2
Danny
The one working immolator rolled around to get a shot at the land raider, the sisters in the back jumped out. A couple of the rhinos squads moved to intercept the speeders coming up the right hand flank. The exorcist in the middle started heading over to the left of the table while the one on the far left moved forward to get a flanking shot on the preds.
In the shooting phase the exorcists destroyed on pred and stunned the other one. The immolator and the land raider opened fire to the crusader but between failure to pen and cover saves from the smoke it survived. One of the land speeders in the squad that moved to the middle was destroyed by the sisters heavy flamer. The speeder squad on the right emerged unscathed from the fire that was thrown at them.
Me
The razorback tac squad in reserve came on this turn, they rolled up the far left to let them get a flank shot at the exorcist.
The land raider rolled forward 6” and disgorged the terminators into the middle of his army. The two razor backs shuffled about one heading towards the objective to the right of the ruins in the open.
The two speeders on the right flew around the building to draw a bead on the landraider and the remaining speeder in the middle moved only a little to allow it to fire both weapons (a first!)
This was going to be a crucial shooting phase, it didn’t go according to plan, Despite getting three penetrating shots on the land raider from multimeltas and one from vortex of doom (all AP1!) all I managed to do was take off all the guns and immobilise it.
The other land speeders heavy flamer killed 3 of the sisters that shot it then the multimelta damaged the immolator with the resulting explosion killing another.
The razor backs managed to put a wound on the assassin, but the one on the far left failed to hurt the exorcist.
Failing to destroy the landraider with shooting put a bit of a dent in my plans so I had to put the terminators into the damaged and the land raider immolator, thankfully they managed to make both them go boom.
Score 0 – 0
Turn three
Danny
Counter attack time, again not major movement just some shuffling to get the exorcists in line of site and to get some stuff out the way of the termies.
In the shooting phase the two land speeders on the right died in a hail of plasma fire from the inquisitors squad. In a nice little move the vindicator killed on of the terminators to make more than 50% of the landraider viable to the exorcist that then promptly rolled one missile and a one to hit.
The second exorcist stunned the razorback that had came on the left flank.
Me
Losing the two land speeders was a pain but it could have been worse. In the movement phase the termies headed to the back of the board to get a rhino that was hiding back there.
The land raider moved around to try and engage one of the exorcists. The librarian started moving through the building on the right that had the objective.
The last land speeder lined up the inquisitors. The Tac squad in the razorback on the far left jumped out and started heading towards the objective in the building. The ramming pred and two razor backs kept moving to cover the objectives either side of the ruins.
My shooing this turn didn’t do much only the inquisitor and his whole command squad where killed by the land speeder and crusader.
The termie popped another rhino and the last immolator in combat .
Score 2-0
Turn 4
Danny
He started with sending the rhino squad that had been hiding in the back left corner in the direction of the building in front of them, the other rhino squad went around to get the objective on the far right.
In his shooting phase one exorcist put five wounds on the termies killing four of them thanks to some shocking rolling on my part. The rest of his fire managed to destroy one of the razorback in the middle of the table.
The assassin shot the librarian putting a wound on him before charging in, both parties fluffed their rolls leading to a drawn combat
Me
My last TH/SS termie moved to engage one of the stromtrooper squads that was out in the open.
The three remain tac squads moved to secure the objectives in the back left and the two centre ones. The land speeder moved to contest the one on the far right.
Well the pred and razor back still alive on the left move to block the exorcists and provide some cover for the tac squad sitting in the open.
Shooting I popped the rhino on the right with the speeder and a couple of storm troopers with the landraider.
The last terminator then charged the squad but only killed one so they stuck around. The librarian and the assassin continued there ineffective flailing.
Score 3-0
Turn 5
Danny
Not much left to move, the rhino on the right move in the direction of one of the objectives in the missile to contest. The squad it dropped off move onto the objective.
In the shooting phase two tac marines on the squad on the right died to a grenade launcher and the land speeder lost it’s multimelta.
Close combat the terminator still ended up stuck in combat and the librarian and the assassin continued to dance (ass opposed to actually kill each other)
Me
I just moved to try and block of some lanes and cover myself in case the game didn't end.
The terminator finally killed the squad and that other fight still went on!
Score 3-1
And the game didn’t end so on we went for another turn.
Turn 6
Danny
The last rhino moved over some dangerous terrain to contest on of my objectives and the last pred finally died to the exorcists.
In close combat the assassin finally managed to kill the librarian, I was just glad that fight was over by this point.
Me
Not much left to do really. The Crusader manoeuvred to shoot the rhino contesting the objective in the ass. The multimelta immobilized it, the assault cannon took the weapon off it and finally the bolters glanced it to death.
The terminator broke the squad in close combat and with that the game ended
Score 3-1
Overall it was a really tough close game, Danny is relatively new to this version of 40k but he didn’t make much in the way of mistakes.
The game did confirm that grenade launchers are a waste of time. Despite all the shooting they did they killed 2 marines and blew a multimelta off a land speeder.
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