8th Edition Battlereport - 1750pts. Blood Angels vs. Death Guard vs. Drukhari

"I wasn't worried when the Drukhari swept to the container area. But I was terrified when we noticed, that the Space Marines who answered our distress beacons had spikes on their helmets!"

+++FALL OF AURELIUS V+++

The distress signals were sent immediately as the Drukhari raiding party appeared at the outskirts of the City XII on Aurelius V. During the first hours of the attack, a good number of citizens of the XII managed to flee. However, many were captured and more were killed. Some hid in the ruins and waited. As the dawn broke, those hiding in ruins heard the rumble of tracked vehicles from the West. Hope rose, but was soon met with horror, as those approaching the city were not their would-be saviours. Oh no, it was the Death Guard.

Some of the Drukhari Raiding Party

Death Guard Forces on the Western Flank

While the Drukhari with their circus retinue of terrible beasts pillaged the Eastern sector of the XII,
the forces of Death Guard took positions in the west side. Hordes of poxwalkers wandered around the vast parking area as hellbrutes and drones tainted the area with their precence. Without neither of the forces knowing, a Blood Angels Scout squad of the Battlegroup 5/2nd managed to creep close enough to guide the Hellblaster fireteams, led by a junior captain, into position. Mephiston himself, accompanied by the ancient librarian dreadnought -2-, overlooked the deployment of two intercessor squads. That was when the hell broke loose.

The Scouts gathering intelligence

+++OPEN FIRE+++

Suddenly the scouts were spotted as the 2nd intercessor squad tried to take hold of the ruins in the middle. Chaos Space Marines and Foetid Drones opened fire at the trapped scouts. Even though the squad was hunkered inside the ruins they could only withstand so much of the combined fire from the Death Guard. Before being wiped out they managed to identify a Drukhari priority target for the Death Company squad led by the company Chaplain. The High Command needed to get those pesky flyers off the skies.

"KILL THE BEAST"

The Chaplain deployed from the skies with the first squad of Death Company. They landed right next to the priority target and proceedet to utterly destroy the beast already wounded by the Hellblasters. The victory came at cost, since even tough the bloodgrazed marines managed to advance a distance towards cover, they were utterly and completely surrounded. Terrifying Drukhari firepower tore the marines to pieces and even the Chaplain finaly fell.Meanwhile a second squad of Death Company landed on the catwalks to cover the Hellblasters and destroy the Drukhari beasts circling towards the fireteams. But alas, the charge was failed.

"Surrounded? Great, we can attack in any direction!"

"Prepare!"

The Drukhari focused their weapons on the Blood Angels. The squad of intercessors in the middle were destroyed by them and some shots were fired against the forces of Death Guard also. It was worrying, that the Chaos Space Marines seemed to do nothing. They were up to something.

As the Sons of Sanguinuis were locked in combat with the Drukhari, the Death Guard made it's move. A horrible Hellbrute and a Foetid Bloat Drone advanced towards the Cemetery at the western flank of the Astartes. Another brute led a horde of poxwalkers towards the Blood Angels. The librian dreadnought, now left without the support of the intercessors, was destroyed by the heathen Las-cannons of the Death Guard.

The Battle had but begun, but the Blood Angels had already suffered substantial casualties.

Foetid Bloat Drone patrolling the area

+++PRIORITY ORDERS+++

It all became clear when the Hellbrute and the Drone emerged from the shadow of the Servitalis. The Death Guard were searching for something in the grim cemetary right next to the deployment zone of the Blood Angels. The high Command reacted and issued Priority Orders: Captain Colpire was to personaly take hold of the Tomb in the middle of the cemetary and prevent the Chaos forces from reaching it.

"Behold the Golden Host!"

Immediately the Captain accompanied by the Sanguinary Guard soared from the skies and prepared to charge. The Junior Captain ordered the Hallblasters to overcharge their incinerators and managed to severly wound the massive Hellbrute. The following charge of the Captain and the Golden Host tore the Brute into pieces and gave the opprtunity to bind the drone into combat.

As the Angels managed to seize the inititative, Mephiston also jumped into combat with the aid of the
Psychic Wings of Sanguinius. The drone was soon hacked to stinking bits of tainted steel. This gave the Captain the opportunity to retreat and take hold of the omnious grave. The remaining squad of Death Company made short work of the beasts lurking at the eastern flank, and jumped towards the middle.

+++OBJECTIVE SECURED - CAPTURE AND RETREAT+++

Suddenly a ball of blue light appeared behind the Servitalis and screaming Drukhari infantry started pouring right into the vulnerable flank of the Death Guard. At the same time Drukhari forces launched attacks against the Chaos Space Marines and Drones in the northern middle.

The Drukari Flankers

The remaining Death Company squad got caught into crossfire and were wiped out. Death Guard managed to repell the flanking Drukhari infantry and started lumbering towards the Blood Angels deployment zone. They were how ever severly slowed down by the Drukhari flyers and the Hellblasters occupying the catwalks.

The Last Thing the Death Company Marines ever saw...

The Sanguinary Guard was targeted byt the Mortars of the Death Guard and was soon reduced to but a single marine. Mephiston and the last remaining Sanguinary Guard Marine retreated to cover the Captain, who was furiously searching the grave. The remaining intercessor squad did their best to support the captain, but was soon destroyded by the Death Guards long-range weaponry. On the Eastern flank A sudden Flash of Teleporter captured the attention of the Drukhari. The Lord of Contagion had arrived right next to Drukhari main force. He had come late since at that moment Captain Colpire un-earthed the relic that the Death Guard so eagerly coveted.

"NOT TODAY!"

Utter chaos ensued as Drukhari flyers swept the skies shooting at any targets they could acquire, while the Death Guard forces tried to destroy the Angels. One of the Drukhari flyers made a strafing run towards the Captain, but his Stormshield protected him from the firepower. The Lord of Contagion prevented some of the Drukhari from joining the rest of the raid against the Death Guards flank. How ever, the Death Guard was forced to an open parking area and could not advance fast enough to charge the deployment zone of the Blood Angels. Only a handful of poxwalkers somehow managed to limp close to the captain. Their charge was less than impressive, as they were thrown assunder by the swings of the Thunderhammer.

The relic now in their hands the Blood Angels, Mephiston ordered the Astartes to retreat from the City XII and leave the xenos and the heretics in each others throats.

Final moments of the battle. The Hellblaster take aim at the flyer as Mephiston prepares to unleash rage

+++END+++

End Results:

Blood Angels 6 vp (yippee!)
Drukhari 5 vp
Death Guard 2 vp

8th Edition Battlereport - 2500pts. Blood Angels vs. Death Guard

+++ALARMING ACTIVITY AT MANUFACTORUM 680+++

"How did they get so close? I mean, one minute everything was normal and all willy-nilly, and then
suddenly: Demons. Demons and rotting Space Marines and flying horrors spewing filth and disease. I saw it all! From the ruins I did! I'm tellin' ya, I saw a real flying Demon with wing and horns and the lot! By the Emperor, if it wasn't for the the Blood Angels, I'd be a goner, swear me mum!"

+++DEPLOY+++

Battlegroup 5/2nd received an order from the High Command to immediately deploy most of it's forces near the Manufactorum 680, investigate the situation, and purge all heretics encountered. The situation became clear as soon as the first troops set foot on the Manufactorum soil: The Heretics forces previously thought to be driven away, had indeed returned stronger and in greater numbers. The scouts even reported traces of Demonic precense.

DEPLOYMENT

The Blood Angels deployed in haste. Left flank was taken by the Baal predator supported by a Tactical squad, right flank by two squads of Intercessors and a squad of Hellblasters, while the center held castle within a ruined buildinf by a Razorback and two squads of Hellblasters led by a junior Captain. A sormraven carrying the Dreadnought 9 soared through the clouds to support the middle castle.

FIRETEAM IN POSITION

Meanwhile the heretic ranks had occupied the opposing side of the main streets. The Baal predator crew reported a massive Hellbrute surrounded by poxwalkers right in front of them. A Hauler and some drones buzzed around the foetid ranks of poxwalkers, and a crawler was spotted digging inside some ruins. Worst was yet to come: None other than the archvile Typhus himself was spotted towering over the rancid poxwalkers. Even more disturbing was the fortified platform on which some traitorous Space Marines held watch.

THE HELLBRUTE

And over them all, loomed the Demon.


+++ADVANCE+++

The will of the High Command was clear: Take and hold the platform currently occupied by the Demon host, kill their leaders and purge any and all resistance. But alas, the deployment was not a successful. The Blood Angels soon found them in a disadvanceous situation, where they could not bring their weapons in range. Only some scattered shot from the Hellblasters and the Razorback managed to dent some of the Enemy troops. Also the Baal Predator managed to mow down some of the poxwalkers around the Hellbrute. The Stormraven unloaded it's Lascannons managing to wound the Brute.

"COVERING FIRE, BROTHERS!"

Grazed from pain and frustration the Hellbrute responded by utterly disintegrating the Baal Predator with a massive double volley from it's lascannons. A Chaos Predator shot it's weapons at the Stormraven cribbling it. Meanwhile Typhys, the ever-cursed one, had some plan of he's own, and advanced towards an objective homer nearby.

The Demon host remained stationary, waiting


+++PURGE+++

As the hellblasters laid supporting fire towards the Chaos Troops, The Chief Librarian Mephiston ordered the squad of Death Company marines led by the company Chaplain, to assist him in taking down Typhus. They droppen on nearby tower and jumped in amongst a squad of poxwalkers. It was a trap. As th Death Company marines chopped down the poxwalkers, Combined fire from two bloated drones killed the marines and left Mephiston wounded.

"ONWARDS! FOR SANGUINIUS"

The Stormraven released the mag-clamps and dropped the Dreanought right next to the smoldering remains of the Baal Predator and banked towards the Hellbrute and Typhus. As the Dreadnought ran towards Typhus and his Poxwalker bodyguard the Stormraven destroyed the Hellbrute and balsted away most of the poxwalkers.

With the Frag Cannon roaring the Furioso Dreadnought rumbled amidst the poxwalkers taking a glancing shot from Typhus's pistol. With mighty blows the Dreadnought gravely wounded the Ancient Heretic, but finaly fell under the heretic Scythe.

THE LAST STAND OF DREADNOUGHT 9

The armoured column of the Chaos forces used their combined firepower to bring down the Stormraven. Things started to look grim for the noble Astartes as the Demon host finaly started to slowly move towards the Angels.


+++CHARGE+++

With the loss of the Dreadnought and the Stormraven there was no time to lose. Terminators armed with hammers and shields teleported nearby Typhus to aid Mephiston, while Captain Colpire jumped in from the skies with another squad of Death Company's damned warriors readying themselves to charge into the enemy castle. The Chaplain hurried to aid the assault.

The now wounded Chief Librarian himself charged Typhus, felling the wounded traitor and this left the terminator squad wihout a target. A suprise counter-attack by another Bloat Drone killed most of the terminators and forced Mephiston to teleport away from the battle.

Meanwhile a squad of Blightlord Terminators teleported to the rear of the Astartes troops, but failed to notice the Hellblasters dug in deep within the ruins. Ten Plasma Incinerators started rapid firing from cover towards the Chaos terminators killing most of them in an instant.

"OPEN FIRE!"

Finaly, the charge led by Captain Colpire tore the Heretic Troops asunder. Hammers and chainswords cut down enemies left and right. The heretics managed to overpower some of the Death Company Battlebrothers but in the end, it mattered little.

"FOR THE EMPEROR!"

And then came the Shadow.

A Demon Prince of Nurgle himself lunged from the ruins and laid it's eyes upon th Captain. Roaring it ran towards the Captain but the nimble Astartes Captain managed to swing his hammer at the demon. The strike tore of the Demons lower jaw, but did not completely stop it. The Demon struck the Captain, inflicting horrendous wound and forcing the Captain to teleport away, just before the remaining Death Company marines clubbered the Demon back to the Warp.

"You shall not pass!"

"Fly, you fools!"

"GO BACK TO THE SHADOWS!"

+++RETREAT AND REPENT+++

As the machines of the Manufactorum started to spew noxious fumes, the outcome of the battle became clear for the High Command. The Astartes had come to late, and could not stop the Heretics from fulfilling their plans. A command of Retreat and Repent was issued as the remaining Blood Angels desperately flung themselves towards the enemy.

"SHOOT THE HEAD!"
"WHERE IS THE HEAD!?!"

It was too late.

+++END+++

Ready for battle! Space hulk.

Stand fast brothers!

Suurprojekti Space hulk-figuureiden parissa on vihdoin päätöksessään. Kuriositeettimies ja kollektööri M.R:n pelinappulat ovat maaleissa. Aikaa tähän projektiin meni yli vuosi eli paljon enemmän mitä aiemmin oletin.


Tekninen kehitys ja taitotason kasvu olivat ilmeisiä. Liki jokapäiväinen maalaaminen toi toivottua rutiinia figuhommiin. Kaiken muun miniatyyritoiminnan ohella voidaankin sanoa, että viimeisin vuosi on ollut antoisin ja aktiivisin sitten vuosituhannen taitteen. Elämme uutta renessanssia figurintamalla.


Tästä on hyvä jatkaa. Maalauspöydällä on seuraavana reilut 2000 pistettä Death guardia, jota onkin jo parin pelin verran ulkoilutettu hyvällä menestyksellä. 

8th Edition Battlereport - Blood Angels vs. Death Guard

+++REGARDING THE INCIDENT AT MANUFACTORUM 471+++

Captain Colpire of Battlegroup 5/2nd Company was informed that Manufactorum 471 had seized production and did no longer respond to hails. Upon interrogations the local contacts told stories of hulking men of foul stench and pestilence, walking dead followed by swarms of carrion flies and Machines spewing rot and disease. Captain Colpire immediately reported to Chief Librarian Mephiston who had arrived to supervice and evaluate the Battlegroup 5/2nd consisting mostly of the new Primaris battlebrothers.

Upon orders of the Chief Librarian The Battlegroup 5/2nd set off to investigate the area. As they laid eyes and sensors at the Manufactorum 471 the situation became clear: Foul heretics of Nurgle had laid their lepery stumps upon the Manufactorum. Led by the mighty Lord of Contagion a sizeable group of Chaos Marines, tanks and drones had turned the workers and administators of the Manufactorum into mindless poxwalkers and tainted the area with not only their mere presence but disease and malice as well. This was not to be and had to be cleansed immediately. Should the Nurgle Warlord live, the taint of Chaos would spread rampant. No! With bolter, flame and chainsword should the unclean be babtised.

The Chaos Forces had nested near the ruined dormitories of the workers and administrators. An armoured column consisting of a huge possessed Land Raider, a tainted Predator and a Rhino was parked between the ruined dormitories and the still almost intact Servitalis. Even an artillery unit in the form of a Plagueburst Crawler had been set up in the ruins. The terrible Chaos Lord stood amidst the former workers, now tainted by Chaos and turned into mindless poxwalkers. Nearby a Chaos Spellcaster barked orders to the tanks. A second group of poxwalkers was occupying the catwalks nearby, followed and pushed around by a Foetid Bloat Drone and a Myphitic Blight Hauler.

Hellblasters overlooking the Servitalis and the Chaos Land Raider

The Blood Angels of 5/2nd swifthly took positions.Two squads of Intercessors creeped closer in the shadow of the Servitalis building, taking cover in the ruins. They were followed by a mighty Baal Predator and a Razorback armed with the sanctioned Twin Lascannon. At the same time a squad of Hellblasters managed to scale up on the tallest tower of the Manufactorum. The Stormraven had already locked it's approach vector. The Heretics would not know what hit them.

Blood Angels rushing towards the foul forces of Chaos

Fisrt strike was struck by the Stormraven carrying Mephiston and the dreadnought number 9. Hordes of poxewalker were slain in the hails of fire from the hurricane bolters and chunks of steel of the Rhino's side melted to slag by the mighty Meltagun. The assault bolters of the squad of Inceptors, that soared from the skies and landed on the balcony of the Servitalis, tore down a second blob of poxwalkers. At the same time captain Colpire with a unit of Death Company marines jumped right behind the enemy warlord and his retinue. But alas, the charge was failed due the rubble and overwatch. The enemy Warlord turned his attention to the Captain and his fellow marines.

"Follow me my brothers! For Sanguinius and for the EMPEROR!"

"Oh..."

As the battle continued in the ruins of the manufactorum the wreched heretics illuminated the Blood Angels Stormraven with devastating lascannon and combined autocannon fire. The flyer crashed in flames, but with the guidance of the Undying God-Emperor, Mephiston and the dreadnought managed to get out of the wrecage unscaved. Meanwhile a blight drone charged the Death Company squad led by the Company Chaplain. It was at that time, when the heretic Warlord charged Captain Colpire and his Death Company marines. With terrible blows of his infested axe the syphilic warlord decimated all but one battlebrother of the Death Company and wounded the captain gravely..

The Blight Drone in combat with the second squad of Death Company

At the same time the Foetid Drone aided by a Myphitic Blight Hauler withled away the second Death Company squad. Only one battlebrother and the chaplain remained untouched by the filth spewn by the launchers of the wreched demon engines. Mean while the combined fire from the shells of Ball Predator's assaultcannon and the Lascannon of the Razorback only managed to do minor damage on the Chaos Rhino and the Crawler.

But look! From the wreckage of the fallen Stormraven rose the Chief Librarian. He ordered the dreadnought to lay covering fire with Frag Cannon and Melta as he Himself lunged towards the Chaos Warlord. With the psychic aid of the Wings of Sanguinius Mephiston leaped over the Chaos Spellcaster and landed but a few steps from the horrific Warlord of the Chaos forces. Firing his sacret plasma pistol Mephiston ran towards and struck a flurry of blows. Finaly, The mighty Lord of Contagion fell under Mephiston's sword.

Notice the empty space where the Lord of Contagion stood just a minute ago.

Now, with the aid of Captain Colpire and the remaining battlebrother from Death Company, Mephiston turned his attention to the Heretical Land Raider nearby. Hellblasters laid searing plasma shots from the catwalks and with a thunderous battlecry the Librarian, the captain, the chaplain and the battlebrother struck  terrible blows that detonated the Land Raiders tainted core. The blast took away the chaplain and the last remaining battlebrother, leaving Mephiston and the Captain alone and wounded.

With the enemy warlord slain, poxwalkers decimated and the Land Raider reduced to smoldering heap of scrap the tides of battle seemed to swing in the favor of Blood Angels. Leaderless, the drone and the hauler buzzed and whirled on and beneath the catwalks of the Manufactorum. In the next brief moments Mephiston, almost as an aftertought, scewered the Spellcaster with his sword as he prepared for the the final push with captain Colpire.

But the victory was not final. A squad of Heretic Astartes jumped out from the crippled Chaos Rhino and greeted the charging dreadnought with an immense hail of tainted grenades. The dreanought was ripped to pieces by the combined blasts. Also, a full squad of Blightlord Terminators teleported in front on the flanking Blood Angels infantry and started pouring bolterfire upon the primaris squads. The Intercessors could naught but hunker down in the ruins, since their Cawl pattern bolters but scracthed the twisted plate of the the terminators. Nearby the Chaos Predator pummeled the noble Baal Predator with autocannon shots quickly stripping away it's armour and weapons.

The situation grew dire as the captain and Mephiston suffered grave wounds when the whole left flank of the enemy forces fired upon them. The teleport homers activated by the last second, and teleported the captain and Mephiston back to the battle barge. Immediate Order of Retreat and Repent was issued. The primaris battlebrothers and the tactical marines, now disembarked and supported by the crippled Razorback tried to slow down the heretic terminators as the remaining hellblasters ran towards the homing beacon with the Myphitic Hauler at their heels.

As the last tactical marine fell under the power fist of the cursed chaos terminator, intercessor squads lay torn in bits and the razorback blasing smoke and flame the final three hellblasters were teleported back to the battle barge.

The battle was over. The Battlegroup 5/2nd suffered massive casualties. But all was not in vain since the enemy warlord, the mighty Lord of Contagion was slain and a good 3rd of his forces destroyed. The remaining Chaos forces were without a leader and would soon abandon the Manufactorum 471.

MVP of the Blood Angels forces: Chief Librarian Mephiston

In memoriam: Dreadnought -9-

+++END+++

P.S. This was my first time playing any kind of tabletop miniature game apart from a few games of X-wing.
P.P.S And it was a draw! \o/