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Imperial Guard/Dark Angels & Chaos Space Marines | Fight for the Church

This SiFi game was played on 2004-10-20 at Tarik's old place using Warhammer 40,000, 2nd ed.-Rules (set in ' The Imperium ') and 28mm miniatures. This report was written by Matthias.

Briefing

SitRep

Both sides try to capture the church in the middle of the battle field. The Imperials try to save the shrine from the corrupted hands of the Chaos scum, the Chaosians try to destroy a shrine to the false Emperor.

Order of Battle
Imperial Guard/Dark Angels   Chaos Space Marines
[ Tarik/Volker ]   [ Matthias ]

Execution

Deployment

The battlefield was build ad hoc from different railroad model material Tarik had lying around.

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Turn 1
Chaos
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All of the Chaos Troops advanced forward.

The cybot shot his plasma gun at the Marines in front of him, hit one, but the power armour saved the Dark Angel.

The Rhino Commander, wanting to save his cargo from harm until they where in charge range, shot three smoke grenades in front of his vehicle.

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The Terminators opened up with their reaper auto cannons on the whirlwind. But all shots glanced of the armour. The second reaper was ill maintained and produced two jams.

The Veterans killed two Guardsmen with a hail of plasma shots, but the Techmarine survived the bolter attack on him.

In the Psi-Phase the Chaos Magus tried to cast Plaque Wind on the Marine Squad in Front of him but was out of range.

Imerial Troops
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The Imerial Guard Squads advanced towards the church, readying their weapons. The HQ followed them, desperatly trying to increase the distance between the Veterans that apperad at their back in the woods.

For similar reasons the Techmarine hid behind the Whirwind.

The Marines in front of the Whirlwind repositioned, half of them able to attack the advancing Terminators, the rest aimed at the Veterans in the woods.

The Marines on the other side also faced backwards to deal with the threat at their backs.

The Marines achieved several hits on the Veterans, only one wounded though, and that hit was saved by the ancient power armour. The Imperial Command Squad caused two hits, but none wounded. The sentinel's autocannon hit twice killing one.

The Terminators laughed at the 'blings' of the bolter shells on their armour. The autocannon which could have caused some damage missed.

The Whirlwind aimed at the Terminators. The Marine rushed his shot though and the impact point was off target, only two Terminators where hit, the one with the reaper cannon being woundend, but his armour saved him.

The Imperial soldiers tried with their ridiculous lasrifles to harm the Terminators as well, causing another gush of laughter from the Chaos Marines. The grenade launcher gunner shot a frag grenade which had better chances but again the armour saved the Chaos Marine.

The other Imperial Squad's sight was blocked by the Smoke Grenades, only the grenade launcher's gunner had managed to establish line of sight. He hit the side armour of the rhino, but the grenade glanced harmlessly off.

The Space Marine Psyker attacked the Veterans in the woods, but he as well was not able to cause harm.

Turn 2
Chaos
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The Rhino dashed forward through the billowing smoke, the Berserkers jumped out and charged everything in sight with a mad battle cry.

The Terminators and the Chaos Lord put out a hail of bolter-bolter and reaper cannon fire, which killed 4 of the Imperial Guard Soldiers facing them. At the end, the second Autocannon jammed as well.

The sorcerer shot one of the Dark Angel marines in his eye dropping him dead on the spot.

The Cybot shot on maximum energy at the sentinel, ripping one leg away. The sentinel fell down and was out of the fight.

The Veterans opened up on the Marines in front of them, hit two, but the power armour was to thick to be penetrated.

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In the meele with the Berserkers, hardly an opponent survived, many where chopped down in praise of Khorne with none of Khorne's finest taking as much as a bruise.

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In the Psi-Phase, the Scriptor tried to cast a power against all enemy models around him, but the Choas Sorcerer blocked that attempt.

Imerial Troops
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The Imperial Squad charged into the melee with the Berserkers, to help the Marines.

The other Imperial Squad advanced into the objective.

The Whirlwind moved forward together with the Tactical Squad.

The Techmarine, and some of the Tactical Squad in vain attacked the Veterans in the woods again.

The Rest of the tactical squad still tried to kill Terminators with Bolter Fire as did the Imperial Guard in the Church Yard with their lasguns. The result were the same as last round.

The command group shot into the wood as well, but missed with every shot.

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The Whirlwind shot into the melee group with the Aspiring Champion, two Berzerker and one Dark Angel, as the lone loyal Marine seemed doomed anyway. The Dark Angel was killed in the blast, as well as the two Berserkers, the Aspiring Champion survived thanks to his Terninator Armour.

In the melee 3 Berserkers died being attacked from all sides, but they took with them 4 of the Imperials.

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In the Psi-Phase nothing happened. At the end though, the Choas Forces summoned three Bloodletters near the Imperial Command Group.

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They were in a good position to charge the Imperial Command group.

Turn 3
Chaos
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The deamons charged the Imperial Command group, the Aspiring Champion charged again into the great melee. The Rhino moved around the melee towards the other flank, the Terminators and the Chaos Lords ran forward towards the objective, frantically clearing the two jammed Reaper Auto Cannons on the way.

The Rhino and the Veterans shot at the Space Marine Squad but did not manage to kill a single model.

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The Berserkers killed some more Imperials, with many hits in return, but all were turned aside by Khorne's magnificent armour, one Berserker taking 18 hits!

The deamons killed two Imperials and the Captain.

In the Psi-Phase nothing happened with mostly blocks being dealt.

Imerial Troops
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The remaining Imperial Soldiers charged into the melee, supporting their hard pressed buddies.

The remaining Tactical Squad moved into firing positions to attack the Terminators, the Dark Angel Master Jeremias moved into the middle of the remaining forces.

The Whirwind Driver went at full throttle and roared towards the Terminators and the Socerer, trying to run them over. All managed to jump out of the way except the Terminator Seargeant, who was left with a crushed Terminator Armour and Chest. The Whirlwind was stopped by the wall in his way, colliding with it. The track was shattered sending the vehicle out of control and the gunner was beaten unconcious.

A lot of bolter fire went the way of the Veterans, but again none found it's mark.

Another wall of fire was directed against the Terminators, but no bullet fulfilled it's purpose.

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In the Hand-To-Hand combat with the Berserkers, one model on each side died.

One Deamon was overwhelmed by it's attackers, in return two Imperial Guardsmen where killed as well as the Librarian.

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Turn 4
Chaos
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The Cybot became Frenzy with enemies so near and charged into the Imperial Guards as well, in support of the Berserkers.

The Deamons charged into the rest of the command group.

The driver of the Chaos Rhino followed the example of the Whirlwind Driver, and drove right through the Dark Angels Tactical Squad. But all of them jumped out of the way.

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The Chaos Lord shot his assault launcher while advancing, the frag grenades killed on Marine and three Imperial Trooper, as well as one Blood Letter, which regenerated the wound though. When the Lord fired his bolter it jammed.

The first Reaper Cannon jammed again, after killing one Space Marine. The secon Reaper faired better and killed two Marines and the Dark Angel General.

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Frightened by this sight, the few remaining Imperials begged for mercy and where taken prisoner. This did not help the unfortunates in the melee still going on though. They were chopped down by their frenzied opponents.

Debriefing

Total Victory for the Forces of the Dark.