Monday, August 24, 2009

3500 teams game Chaos + Templar vs Guard at Evolution Games!













This was no doubt the funnest game for 40k that I have played in a longtime. The teams were 1750 of my Chaos Deathguard/Iron Warriors paired with 1750 of my buddy's Black Templars versus two Guard armies both at1750. We used standard 40k rules, no Apoc and it was brutal.
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The pics are pretty much in sequential order.
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Just to give you an idea of what was fielded, we had a vindicator, 6rhinos, 6 Oblitz, 3 5-man tacs with las cannon, 2 Lascannon dreads, 2Assault squads, 2 tac squads (one with the emporer's champ and one withthe Marshal), 3 plague marine squads, 2 daemon princes, and a 5 man chosen team with 5 meltas.
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The Guard players had 3 squads of Storm troopers, an executioner, 2Russes with Battle cannons, quite a few vet squads with meltas in tricked- out chimeras, a Medusa, an inquisitor Lord with retinue, a Banewolf, a big Psycher squad, 3 armoured sentinels with autocannons, 1armoured sentinel with a plasma cannon, Sly Marbo, a big squad with heavy weapon team, Creed and a partridge in a pear tree.
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They got to go first and what a first turn it was. I think the shooting took about 45 minutes and was filled with Large and small blasts,exploding vehicles and dead Plague Marines. In turn two, we pressed forward and failed to pop any vehicles.
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Turn two, they shelled us again and for the most part, my armour was all gone along with a couple oblitz, but the real killer was when Sly Marbo popped out and dropped a demo charge on a team of Assault Marines and killed 7 of them. In our reply, we lashed the ratlings out of cover and assaulted them, the templars still pushed forward and a group of Plague Marines got into assault with some Storm Troopers.
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Turn three saw the destruction of all but one of my oblitz at the hands of the executioner and the death of both dreadnoughts, one from a team of vets with melta bombs. Our reply got us into assault with the psychers with an assault squad, taking them out of the game and a group of Marines in combat with an Inquisitor Lord and his retinue. My loneoblit took out the executioner, another lone plague Marine Popped a sentinel and two surving plague Marines from another squad managed to pop a Banewolf. The Lash Prince also managed to feed the psycher squad to the assault marines. Marbo hit and ran a squad and then ended up near some guardsman in combat with a las cannon tac squad.
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Turn four brought the death of my Lash Prince, the end of my last obliterator and a group of Plague Marines killed in CC by Stormtroopers. Sly Marbo helped kill a squad of tac Marines and ran further across our deployment zone. We still hadn't gotten our chosen in, but the templars were starting to walk the Guards gun line unit by unit with their Marshal Squad.
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Turn five, we had no more assault Marines, Sly Marbo managed to get intoCC with 5 Plague Marines, The Templars seemed to keep walking the back line while the Inquisitorial retinue held back the squad they were in assault with. I got my chosen and wrecked a Russ while the templars scored a kill on the Medusa with a melta gun. The bad news was that Ionly had a few models left on the board.
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Turn six and seven were like a blur, but Marbo managed to kill the Plague Marines and run out across the board, my Nurgle Prince died uneventfully, my chosen were killed except for one, who popped a chimera and then got into assault with the inquisitor retinue and managed to be he last Chaos model on the board. The Guard line was decimated, but if it had gone on another turn, there would be no doubt they would have won.
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The end result was what was really incredible. WE TIED! 19 to 19 kill points and the same number of HQ remaining on both sides. Points-wise,the Guard still had more points on the board, though, but we called it a draw..This was so fun, we saw a lifetime of crazy scenarios from a vindicare assasin who killed or wounded nothing and spent the game relaxing on a rooftop to Guardsman Marbo killing a total of 15 Space Marines (some with FNP)and travelling about 6' around the table. Absolutely fun and Iwould do it again any day. If you live anywhere near Lansing MI, you need to come on in to Evolution Games and play a game! I promise you will have fun against any of the players here!


2 comments:

  1. Steller sounding game! Marbo's a beast!

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  2. Marbo is absolutley nasty! This guy walked the board leaving destruction in his wake. He was no doubt the single killyest thing on the board that game and a 65 point well spent.

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