Battle Report: Blood Angels vs IG 2k points

Sorry, I had issues with my new digi video cam and Video is not available for this one yet...

Mission: Bases
Deployment: Table Corners

I played a BFS Battle Brother Ed. He is a good sound player with hard killer lists. I have had a lot of great games against him and love playing him.

He won the die roll and gave me first turn.

So, I dropped my base and deployed my Tactical squad with their Rino and a dread defending it, and two Preds near by behind cover. The rest I reserved. He deployed a similar set up, almost identical, but he had two tanks that had some sick 72 inch range Str 7 heavy four guns on them... They would prove to be the MVP for him in my opinion!

Turn 1:
I go first, and shoot at a Firedog he had behind some cover, he failed cover save, and I blew it up! Nice Lascannon shot, they usually fail me. That wrapped up my shooting since I rolled 1's on my two Baal Peds OCE and they stalled... they were out of range of his Russ tanks.

On his turn, he moved his two Russ tanks up and another Devil dog... He light up my tacitcal squads with his big guns from far... but only killed 2. The rest of his shooting would do nothing. Quick turn!

Turn 2:
Not a lot came on for me, my 3rd pred, 2 rhinos and 2 attack bikes. I needed Dante on the table and wish I had deployed him! I have to remember that from now on... However, My guns were on fire! I stunned his Devildog, and exploded both Russ tanks! What a turn of luck. Assault cannon fire and my Lascannon again did the trick... this game seemed like it was going to take a drastic turn for the worse for poor ole ed. I thought I had it wrapped up right then.

On his turn, some of his troop Chimeras came on and another Devildog. Smartly, he deployed them close to his base to support. This would lead to a clogging of the battle field, which formed nice protective walls for his base, stopping me from getting to it.

Turn 3:
Still no Dante or Corbs. I however was pushing for his objective pretty early. We were playing a 2 hour time limit ala BOLSCON and I had to hurry! As it turns out, the game would have expired at the end of my turn here... resulting in a draw. We played on of course! I moved up my transports early attempting to claim his base for the early win... but failed to reach it. Lots of shots were exchanged, and he moved up chimeras and deployed vets with Meltaguns... not good. He popped my rhinos and slaughtered my troops inside.

Turn 4:
Now the game was entrenched in a major defensive for him, while trying to leave himself squads to get to my base. He was fighting to hold off wave after wave of my vehicles pushing for his base. Dante came in but was out of reach to have an effect, corbulo failed to come in again.

Turn 5:
He was not close to my base with his transports, and he had taken out my 2 defending predators. Only a Rhino, tac and Dread were holding my base. His base became a quagmire of destroyed vehicles and dead bodies. Dante jumped up and exploded a Devildog with his meltagun. I managed to get into assault against his troop squad holding his base, they broke, but escaped me and managed not to run off the table. He would bring on his commander on his turn and rally them... crap. Now my marines were left in the open... dead ducks.

At the end of 5, it turned out that he got too aggressive with his defense, and was not actually holding his objective! Had the game ended now, Victory Jawaballs! Sadly, my dice failed me. I rolled a 6... then 3 consecutive 2s... Bah.

Turn 6:
Things took a turn for the worse for me. I was planning on a turn 4 win, not a turn 6 slugfest... I had over extended myself to win the game early... now I was going to pay. Dante was cut down, in turn 5, and corbulo came in with the DC. They charged up on turn 6, and were almost wiped out themselves. He had a LOT of plasma/melta guns and I could not hold. He was also pressing for my base... geting closer, and had only a few guns to stop him.

Turn 6 ended, we were drawn, but Ed rolled for the game to continue... drat.

Turn 7:
It was over for me. Almost all of my forces attacking his base were knocked out, or having to go around the huge mess of tanks that they could not reach his objective. It came down to him trying to tank shock me off my base. He charged the tank, made his terrain test, I passed my leadership, and he ran into my Lascannon, so I death or Gloried. I tried to get my meltagun into his path too, but only rolled a 4 on the terrain test and could not get over far enough. The Las penetrated, but rolled a 3.. weapon destroyed... Dead Lasgunner. His tank stopped within 3" of my objective, contesting it, and winning the game for him!

Great game Ed! Lots of fun and tacticly enlightening. Mostly because I learned that 2 hours to play a 2k game is NOTHING. My usual reserving may help shorten the games, but may leave me out of position to take objectives...

His MVP? Those damn guns... they were the ones that shoot down skimmers who try to move fast and get cover saves. They had range to the entire table, and I could not reach them at all. While my speeders managed to sustain 4 turns of shooting against them... in the end, they knocked my speeders down, and opened the lane for Eds transport to contest my objective. Stupid guns.

Tonight! James. Muahaha.