Blood Angels vs Imperial Guard 1750 Battle Report

Thought I’d have a crack at writing a battle report of the 1750 point 40kGT practice game I had. Instead of a wall of text, I’ve decided to go with a ‘spotlights’ type affair – with only the interesting points. None of that “I rolled a 1, he rolled a 6” stuff. Let me know what you think of this first attempt.  Also, sorry for phone photos...

Codicier Armand and his retinue

Blood Angels Army:

• Librarian Armand - Terminator Armour, Storm Shield, Fear of the Darkness, Unleash Rage
• Terminator Squad Khayman (5) - Thunder Hammer and Storm Shields
• Sanguinary Priests (2) - 2x Power Weapons, 2x Melta Bombs
• Assault Squad Corvinus (9) - Thunder Hammer, Meltagun, Rhino
• Assault Squad Tanis (9) - Power Fist, Meltagun, Rhino
• Assault Squad Mael (5) - Razorback w/ TL Lascannon
• Baal Predator - Assault Cannon, Heavy Bolters, Searchlight
• Baal Predator - Flamestorm Cannon, Heavy Flamers, Dozer Blade
• Dreadnought - TL Lascannon, Heavy Flamer
• Stormraven - TL Lacannon, TL Multimelta

Blood Angels Strike Force Crimson Death

 Imperial Guard Army:

• Company Command Squad (5) - 2x Meltagun, Lascannon, Officer of the Fleet, Chimera
• Veteran Squad (10) - Autocannon, 2x Plasma Gun
• Veteran Squad (10) - Autocannon, 2x Plasma Gun
• Veteran Squad (10) - 3x Meltagun, Chimera
• Veteran Squad (10) - 3x Meltagun, Missile Launcher, Chimera
• Armoured Sentinel Squadron (2) - 2x Plasma Cannon
• Bane Wolf
• Vendetta
• Hydra
• Leman Russ Demolisher Squadron (2)
• Leman Russ Battle Tank

Vardian 101st Imperial Guard Regiment

Pre-game

• Capture and Control with Spearhead was rolled for mission and deployment.
• Imperial Guard army deployed and took first turn.
• Blood Angels forgot to scout Baals... Doh!

Deployment

 Imperial Guard Turn 1

• Leman Russ Demolishers, Bane Wolf and Sentinels move up to get better firing lines.
• Vendetta causes 2 penetrating hits on the Stormraven and destroys it! Terminators bail out.
• Demolisher squadron targets Terminator squad but causes no casualties, a Chimera takes a pot shot with it Multilaser and kills one.

Blood Angels Turn 1

• Assault Squad Mael jumps out Razorback onto home objective, Razorback zooms off to find its target. Everything else flies forwards.
• Terminator Squad charges Sentinel squadron and explodes both walkers, consolidating closer to the IG objective.

Terminators send the Sentinel squadron to the junk yard

Imperial Guard Turn 2

• Most IG tanks shuffle backwards away from the Terminators.
• Vendetta shoots at a Baal Predator, destroying its Assault Cannon and immobilising it.
• The Leman Russ Battle Tank kills a single Terminator with a Plasma Cannon shot.
• A Lascannon from the Command Squad kills another Terminator.
• The Plasma wielding Veterans unleash death upon the remaining Terminators and wipe out the squad, leaving just the Librarian.

Blood Angels Turn 2

• Flamer Baal rams 18” into a Demolisher, stunning it (which is converted to a shaken as its in a squadron).
• Librarian uses Fear of the Darkness on the Veterans holding the objectives, they fail their Ld test and flee off the board.
• Razorback shakes Hydra.

Good old fashioned Rhino rush

Imperial Guard Turn 3

• No manoeuvring except for pivots.
• Vendetta disintegrates Librarian.
• Chimera shakes a Rhino.
• Melta Veterans explode Flamer Baal.
• Battle Tank immobilises a Rhino.

Blood Angels Turn 3

• Assault Squad Tanis jumps out of their immobilised Rhino into cover, shoots their Meltagun at a Bane Wolf but only stuns it.
• Rhino moves 12” towards enemy objective - Assault Squad Corvinus jumps out and destroys the Command Squad’s Chimera with melta.
• Razorback and Dreadnought shoot at the Battle Tank, casing a shaken and immobilised results.
• Assault Squad Corvinus charges Command Squad through their transports wreck, wiping them out.

End of Turn 3

Imperial Guard Turn 4

• Hydra immobilises the Razorback and destroys its Lascannon.
• Both the Demolishers and a Chimera target the Assault Squad Tanis, but only cause 3 kills. Enough for them to take a morale check and fail, fleeing back through the woods.

  

Blood Angels Turn 4

• Assault Squad Corvinus explodes a Veteran’s Chimera, killing 4 Veterans in the blast.
• Assault Squad Tanis regroups and explodes the Hydra.

End of Turn 4

Imperial Guard Turn 5

• Moves remaining Veterans onto home objective.
• Bane Wolf flames Assault Squad Corvinus, kills only 2 due to Feel no Pain.
• Demolisher also kills only 2 (even though the squad has no cover).
• Vendetta stuns Rhino.
• Battle Tank overshots Assault Squad Tanis but shakes Rhino instead.

Blood Angels Turn 5

• Assault Squad Tanis meltas the Battle Cannon off the Leman Russ, then assaults and a meltabomb destroys the tank.
• Assault Squad Corvinus charges Veteran Squad on objective, kills 6, sweeping advances them and claims the objective for their own. Winning the game 2-0!

End of Game snapshot

Cadian Gunnery Sergeant Harker Conversion

In preparation for a big overhaul of my Imperial Guard in the new year (once my Blood Angels are complete), I tried to convert up a Gunnery Sergeant Harker. I don't particularly like the GW metal model, and my army is based on the Cadian 501st anyway. So here it is, sorry for crappy phone pic:

Thought it came out quite well! Was torn between using the marine devastator heavy bolter (as above), or try the scout one. As it turns out, I really like the ammo feed - and it merges nicely with the ammo container on his back (again from the marine devastator sprue). And of course, he needs his +1 Bandanna of Ogryn Strength. How else does he get to be Strength 4!

Oh and popped into Warhammer World on the way back from work and treated myself to a Contemptor dreadnought :-D. Just washed all the resin, and hoping to build this baby tomorrow and get him undercoated ready for a game on Sunday (day after my mates Stag night.... urgh. Definitely time for a Bugmans all day breakfast!).

Sorry It's Been So Long

September has been a very dry month for blogging unfortunately due to not actually get much hobby done! Mainly due to social craziness, and the fact both Space Marine and Deus Ex have been eating any spare time I have. Both are awesome games by the way, I totally recommend them to anyone.

Anyway, as I've already said not much hobby this month. Built and basecoated my new 5-man naked Assault Squad for my 1.5k Blood Angels list, as well as adding a few new recruits to my Mordheim warband for the campaign (4th game this Wednesday - will try and remember to take some photos).

Also had an epic 4000 point game yesterday at Warhammer World, as we figured it would be pretty empty due to GamesDay (another borefest according to some friends that went, glad I didn't waste my time this year). Here are some photos. Was my 2500 points of Blood Angels and 1500 points of Imperial Guards versus Tom's mahoosive Chaos army.

Most of my current 40k collection.

Mass Hysteria!