Skip to main content

Chaos vs Xeno - League game report

Hi All,

With the Six Up Save's 2nd League officially started, Sam quickly threw down the Gauntlet for a 3000 point doubles game against him and Dae. Myself and Charles answered this call with our Nids and Eldar armies.

We played on a 6 x 4 board, rolling for the Deadlock Mission and deploying with the Hammer and Anvil setup. Sam and Dae won the roll and, after failing to take the initiative, deployed and started 1st.

 Sam and Dae started putting down some seriously nasty stuff

 Especially this guy!!

 And these guys!!!

 Ooh and that guy over there!!

 Me and Charles Deployed as much in cover as we could to try and reduce the casualties in turn 1

 My Wraithknight stood ready to move forward on either side of the mountain in the middle of the board.

 All units deployed, except for the Infiltrators

 Like this winged beast...

 and these little fellas that Charles placed inside a ruin right next to some Marines



 The Gene stealers Quickly got the Knights attention, but to Sam's dismay didn't all die trapping it in combat for an additional turn.

 Despite throwing everything I had at Daes beast, he survived with 1 wound remaining

 Charles started to move forward with his nasties...
..and found some tasty marine bikers to chew on!!

 Sams Marines gathered together around an objective to try and hold it as long as possible.

 While on the other side of the board, a well executed vector strike tore my Raider apart killing 2 of my Kabalite warriors as they scrabbled for safety.


 Sam brought on this flying fortress and introduced the Xenos to some pain
 Having being stuuck in combat, Sam wasted no time finishing off the Gene Stealers with the help of the Hell Drake

 My Wraithknight made it into combat...

 ....and inflicted 8 wounds turning Sams Land Raider into a steaming Wreck and forcing its passengers to disembark...

 
 ....where they quickly charged at the waiting Wraithknight with the support of the Sam's now free Knight....
 ...and with a roll of a 6 on its Destroyer Weapon, wrecked the Wraithknight. This put me and Charles into a 'we must survive' state of play.

 Charles's Dimachaeron continued its rampage across the board....

...Until a lucky shot from the Harvester cannon finally took its last wound. Sam and Dae hid their emotions well here I think!!


 Both of Sams aerial units continued to cause casualties across the board, quickly reducing the number of Xeno units left in play.


 The Chaos team had nothing left to oppose their march forward into the Xeno half of the board.

  Only a handful of Xeno units were now left alive. By the end of turn 4, there was 5 points in it, and only 2 Tyranid flyers and a squad of Dark Repers were left. Sam and Dae realized that to win they would have to table the Xeno team...

A successful charge was enough to take down the Dark Reapers...

 Leaving everything else free to target the 2 Flyers....

 ....after a high amount of shots were thrown at them, the impossible happened....they survived!!

With the final roll of the die, and getting a 1, the game ended. The Chaos team secured a further 3 points bringing them upto 13 with the Xeno team holding on 15. Somehow, we had won, by the skin of our teeth we had managed to avoid being tabled to get the win. It was so uncomfortably close, with the Xeno army going ito full 'runaway and hide to survive' mode at the end of turn 3!!

I would like to thank Charles for his part in the win, and of course Sam and Dae for putting up an awesome fight. It was such a challenge and that made it incredibly enjoyable.

Thanks Guys!!

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Confessions of a Warhammer Wife

Confessions of a Warhammer Wife Bruce’s obsession with Warhammer was only revealed to me during our second year of dating. We had been together a long time by then – had even lived together for the majority of that time while at University. And still I didn’t know about this one aspect of Bruce’s nerd-dom. When Bruce and I first began dating I was fully aware of – even besotted by - his nerdy credentials. Together we had played hours of Halo 3 and Mario Kart, swapped manga and even visited the cinema for a solo late night screening of Star Trek. Yet this did not prepare me for what would become one of his main loves in life. It all started back in 2012. We had been living separately back at our parents’ homes after University – me in Yorkshire, he in Worcester. I would often travel down to visit him and on one such occasion I was told of a new friend Bruce had made through work. Damien. They had apparently bonded when Bruce had taken on old model – a Tyranid Warrior I beli

Batman - Harley Crew vs Riddler Crew

Hey all, its Martin, With my Riddler crew fully assembled and painted, I was itching to have a game of Batman, and Bruce took me up on the offer. Bruce took the Global Plan Strategy and so selected the 'Ambush' Scenario. His team became the attackers as he had a higher model count. I had selected the Fast Advance and Patrol strategies, allowing me a larger deployment zone, and also allowing me to deploy 1 model outside of this zone. In hindsight, the Fast advance was a bad idea as it reduced the areas I could deploy my Clue Markers!! I would have been better to choose a strategy like 'snitch', to cancel out one of my opponent strategies; in this game it would have forced a random scenario again. Being the attacker, Bruce had to divide his crew into 2 teams and deploy 1 team within 10cm of the table edge on 2 opposite sides of the fantastic board created by Andy from Worcester Wargames. Within each of these teams. I then deployed my crews inside a 20cm wide area ru

Death korps of Krieg

Hello everyone, Sam here, it has been a while since I have posted on here and wanted to share what I have been working on. My first loyalist (shudder) army. Also my first guard army.  Over the past 10 months or so I have been slowly building and painting a Death Korps of Krieg army using the seige of Vraaks book. I have been attempting a unit a week but like we all do my attention and attitude towards painting blows hot and cold. I was origionally drawn to Krieg due to their post apocalyptic / menacing appearance and thought that they would be perfect for a renegades army. However the more that I read and planned the army, the more interested in the Krieg themselves that I became. This lead me to my first order of death riders and the other more krieg units. This is not to say that i wont experiment with renegades as i have found some wicked looking zombie krieg models that I may incorperate in the future. I expect this army to play in a totally different style to those I currently use