This is my first battle report, the battle was at Game Empire in San Diego, CA. Tonight we have a little schism within the Blood Angel ranks, the battle is BA vs BA. I was trying a few units I haven't used in awhile so my list is a mix of a few different units. This was a pickup game with a great opponent, my list was made before I went there so I had no idea who I would be playing. I like my lists to be able to handle all comers, I prefer it that way. I don't like to build my army to fight a particular person.
My Army List
Dante -225
Honor Guard with 4 PG's -225
Assault Squad w/ PF and 2 Melta's -235
Scout squad - 4 sniper rifles w/missile launcher and camo cloaks -100
Death Company w/ 1 PW and all bolters - 155
Sanguinary Guard w/chapter banner -230
Terminator Assault Squad sergeant with LC's rest TH/SS - 220
Sanguinary Priest w/JP -75
Furiouso Dreadnought w/Blood Talons and Heavy Flamer -135
Storm Raven w/Multi-melta and assualt cannons -200
Storm Raven w/Multi-melta and assualt cannons -200
Points -2000
My Opponent -John (List from what I remember)
Librarian -100
Assualt Squad w/PF and 2 melta's -235
Assualt Squad w/Power Axe and 2 Flamers -215
Scouts (bolters) -75
Death Company w/Lemartes-350
DC Dreadnought -125
Storm Raven w/PC and multi melta -200
Terminator Assault Squad Sergeant w/TH/SS....2LC 2TH/SS -215
LR Crusader for the terminators -260
Sanguinary Priest w/JP -75
Bastion w/ Icarus Lascannon - 110
There are probably some unit upgrades spread around I don't remember but it was around a 2k list.
Ok now for the actual report. We rolled for the Mission Crusade and Dawn of War deployment. We did terrain and 5 objectives. each objective is worth 3 victory points at the end of the game. My opponent has first turn.
Deployment
Top of Turn 1
LR shoots at scouts but doesn't kill anything, the bastion also shoots the LC but nothing.
Bottom of Turn 1
My Sanguinary Guard move up the left side with the Furioso and go sit next to that objective which ends up being +1 cover save because of mysterious objectives. I don't have anything to shoot so the game is pretty uneventful so far.
Top of Turn 2
John deep strikes both assault squads down in my deployment zone and combat squads them which actually proves to be pretty effective and I wish I would of done this but I usually like bigger squads and that definitely was a bad decision on my part but we will all see that as this report continues.
Assualt squads deep strike and run, pretty much all move another 5-6 inches.
3 of my DC die from the Land Raider, Bastion tries to shoot at my Furiouso again but rolls a 1 to wound.
Bottom of Turn 2
Both my ravens arrive but the bastion uses the interceptor rule to shoot at one of them in my movement phase and blows up one of my ravens which then scatters and rains down on top of my scouts in that ruin that they are in....luckily I don't lose any of them.
Dante uses his precision drop to land next to the ruin in front of his assault squad, I chose here because I didn't really want those 2 assault squads running around in my deployment zone and I didn't want to be near the bastion or LR.
Dante's squad shoots and kills 4 marines
Sniper squad kills 1 marine
Remaining raven shoots at LR but rolls a 3 to wound with double melta.
Top of Turn 3
Everything moves towards Dante, LR see's a target now moves up 12. Terminators come storming out. assualt squads all move up. 4 marines die to shooting as well as 2 DC on the other side of the ruin.
Then everyone assaults Dante's squad, I guess they want him dead....it is a schism and they apparently dont agree on his leadership style.
My raven isnt about to go to hover mode so he pivots a little and see's he has nothing to shoot at so he flies off the table knowing that the enemy raven is coming on next turn.
Either way the TH/SS sergeant challenges Dante which I of course accept because it is just a lowly sergeant after all. My assault squad was afraid or something because I miss on every attack, his marines do a little better but I made every saving throw. The LC Terminators kill 3 marines after I fail the FNP save.
Dante kills the sergeant and I pass Leadership then Hit & Run out and move like 16 inches towards the assault squad in the middle of the table.
Bottom of Turn 3
Dante shoots and kills 1 marine and charges and kills 2 leaving like 1 alive. At this point I started failing at writing stuff down.
Top of Turn 4
Terminators and 3 assault guys that fell back earlier attack Dante. Power fist sergeant challenges Dante and I accept and beat the sergeant down into the ground while everyone stands around and watches.
I believe it was this turn that all my sanguinary guard die from massed shooting from raven and LR
Bottom of 4
This turn my Honor guard come down but scatter away from everyone and my terminators scatter into terrain and all have to take dangerous terrain tests....but they end up being ok.
LC terminators cant get through Dante's 2+ armor and then Dante rolls to hit and one lands on a 6 so i place it on the TH/SS Terminator. Dante ends up killing all of the LC terminators but ends up trading blows with the TH/SS terminator killing each other.
Top of 5
His raven goes down into hover mode and flies over to the right side where my honor guard and terminators all scattered away from the battle and drops a PC template right on top of the Honor Guard heads and I end up failing 2 out of 3 FNP saves. Power of the machine spirited the multi melta onto the terminators and killed a TH/SS Terminator.
Botton of 5
I move my furiouso up towards his objective doesnt shoot becuase he wants the best chance to make his charge since it will already be lucky for me to get into them. My scouts are trying to make their way to an objective since they are my only remaining scoring unit but fail at doing that, they made it to the bottom floor of the ruin thats about it. Even if they did make it out the LR was right there to kill them
My raven flies on and the bastion gets my raven stuck in locked velocity, oh joy. That bastion is really worth it this game for him.
At least at this point I get my Terminators into assault with his squad down there on the bottom making a long charge of like 10 inches, I end up wiping them all out except his priest who ends up falling back 17 inches.
The furiouso made his charge but missed with everything, of course. His guy realize they cant hurt the furiosuo so choose to fail morale and end up getting out and going back like 9 inches.
At this point the game ends on the bottom of 5
He wins 5-0
He had an objective worth 3, he got Slay the Warlord and first blood.
The worse part was his power unit the DC never did anything they were sitting in his raven flying around and never needed to be used. I should of broke my assault quad up with combat squads. Would of helped to actually have more assault guys too.
DC were pretty useless, they couldn't hit anything with their bolter's and couldn't make a charge to save their life. double 1's at the end for a glorious finish for the last 2 of them.
I couldn't kill his librarian who was already pretty weak from Dante's death mask but he ended up going back into the LR which i couldn't scratch.
Snipers couldn't really do anything, I missed most of the time with them too. I was hoping for some 6's for some fun but my dice liked the number 2.
Sanguinary guard I deployed in the wrong place and they died for it. I really only brought them because they were troops because of Dante. Last game I played they were awesome killing a lot of wraiths in a necron army.
Furiouso could of been left home, deployment mistakes but he was pretty vulnerable with all the anti tank. I started drifting away from vehicles becuase they usually all die turn 1 it seems./
Honor guard would of been better if they didn't scatter 6 inches away from everything, was funny when they rapid fired though and I had like 4 gets hot. They weren't bad, would of been good if my dice were better.
That Bastion taking out 1 raven before he got to do anything wasn't good
I learned a lot this game, it was every enjoyable even though my geneseed was spread all across the battlefield. Dante was a real beast this game having never failed a challenge and killing marines left and right as well as terminators. He actually never lost a wound until he got instant death from a thunder hammer.
My record so far in 6th ed is 1-1-1.
Feel free to comment on anything, I know I am not great but trying to learn. One of my biggest mistakes seems to be deployment. That's an ongoing problem, I'll figure it out one day. Then the list which will definitely change. Probably not the best game trying to see how different units are.
Thanks for reading, more to come in the future.
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