It’s been a fair few months since a post on this blog. I put it down to a painting lull mainly. But today it’s Battle Report time!
Notably Warhammer 40,000: 2nd Edition!
The Strike at Deanarm is a small encounter between a force of Orks and some Chaos Space Marines with 800 points a side. As this was the first game of 2nd in a very long time for both of us the armies were kept to a manageable size of 800 points.
I pre-selected wargear cards for both sides and also gave out a haywire grenade for dealing with vehicles, as I realised the forces built were a bit light on anti-vehicle weapons.
So let’s look at the two forces:
Ork Army - Mission: Engage and Destroy
Warboss Le Green: Kustom Shoota, Power Fist, Bolt Pistol and Mega Armour
Mekanik: Melta Gun, Bolt Pistol, Eavy Armour, krak grenades
Painboy: Bolt Pistol, Flak Armour, Sword, haywire grenade
Runtherd: Bolt Pistol, Flak Armour
Weirdboy + Two Minderz: Weirdboy Staff, Bolt Pistols
7 Goff Orks led by a Nob: Bolt Pistols, Axes, Flak Armour and 1 chainsword.
5 Stormboys led by a Drillboss: Jump packs, Bolt Pistols, Axes, frag grenades, Flak Armour and 1 plasma gun
10 Gretchin: Autoguns
Ork Dreadnought: 2 Power Claws, lascannon and Heavy Bolter
Scorcher: Heavy Flamer
Splatta Kannon w/two gretchin crew.
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Chaos Space Marine Army - Mission: Dawn Raid
Chaos Lord Xamahato: Terminator Armor, Combi-Twin Bolter, Chain Fist, Haywire Grenade.
Chaos Sorcerer Champion: Bolt Pistol, Frag Grenades, Mastery Level 2, Bionic Leg
4 Chaos Space Marines: 3x Bolt Guns, Missile Launcher, 1 chainsword
4 Chaos Space Marine Terminators: 2x Chain-axe, 2x Combi-Flamer, Combi-Melta, 2x Power Mace, 4x Terminator, Twin Bolter
Chaos Dreadnought: Twin-Linked Bolter, Twin-Linked Heavy Bolter, Power Claw
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The battlefield had a wide variety of scenery strewn about it and with that missions, psychic powers, deployment and who starts first were decided. Only after which I did strategy cards and forgot they can effect deployment. So after re-drawing the strategy cards we were ready to begin.
Except it's strategy card time already as the Ork force unveils a special issue a quick gathering of all the wargear cards and they get a Toxin Grenade which is completely useless against space marines so the redraw is a Neuro-Gauntlet!