Planetfall - Battle Report

So the first battle was a pitched normal battle and the battlefield was pretty barren. We decided the orks were charging out of the hive city and as the Ultramarines made planetfall to combat the Orks. We spread the 5 objectives nice and fairly. 


Edd won the first roll and deployed first. Somewhere in the middle of the game we also decided the winner got to have the first campaign turn and choose the first mission.


Ultramarines Deployment

Won the roll and deployed first. Spread his army. Vehicles in the middle and then squads on the flanks.

Ork Deployment

Deployed with 2 mobs on boys on one flank and tank bustas, battlewagon with boss and meganobs on other flank with a unit of 30 boys in the middle.

Ultramarines Turn 1

Vindicator moved forwards and so did the land raider. Then massive amounts of missiles. Due to Ork boyz spreading out, the damage was huge but not too bad. However the unit of boyz in the centre were nearly wiped out and fled giving first blood to the ultramarines.

Ork Turn 1

The orks moved and ran as fast as possible. The Wagon moved up the flank. The tankbusters moved but were forced to waste their shooting due to glory hogs rule on a rhino miles away.

Ultramarines Turn 2

The Vindicator moved back and the razorback dropped their tactical squad and proceeded to drop their millions of missiles – this time focusing mainly on the battlewagon and smaller unit of shoota boys. The lascannons blew up the wagon and the meganobs took fire but their armour kept them mostly up.

Ork Turn 2

Both Dakka jets came on and the Waaagh! was called. The meganobs advanced to take on the space marine squads on the flank, whilst the other boys advanced. The tankbustas eyes lit up with the land raider and advanced. During shooting the dakka jets went nuts and killed most of the devastators and nearly killed the predator. The tankbustas damaged the landraider and got a lucky 10 inch charge on the raider and prompted blew it up with their tankbusta bombs.

Ultramarines Turn 3

The terminators and the librarian shot and attacked the tankbustas who got lucky and the nob got lucky as hell as his rokkit managed to hit the Librarian and instant death him giving the orks slay the warlord. The Terminators won the assault. Elsewhere the missile launchers of the tactical squads shot down a dakka jet that then proceded to land on the unit of ork shootas – managing to fail to wound! The tactical squads in the rhino sensing the danger of the meganobs started to do a organised retreat.Telion sniped at the warboss and the lascannons shot the meganobz reducing their numbers. The green tide was thinned with bolter and missiles as they got close.

Ork Turn 3

The tankbustas rallied and hid in some barricades. The shoota boys charged the vindicator and the nobz klaw blew the vehicle. The slugga boys tried but failed to charge the tactical squad. The Meganobs charged the tactical squad and made a bloody mess of them. The remaining dakkajet, blew up the land speeder storm.

Ultramarines Turn 4

The rhino picked up a tactical squad and started to advance to the middle objective. Telion fell back and continued to snipe the meganobs. The ork warboss  died to lascannon and sniper fire. This created a large killzone between the meganobz and telion and the lascannons. The Terminators shot and failed to reach the tankbustas in assault. The tactical squads continued to try and shoot down the remaining dakkajet but only did 2 hull points. They also thinned the numbers of slugga and shoota boys even more. The Final Nob of the shoota boys fled.

Orks Turn 4

The Meganobz backed up into a wood to get cover from the lascannons. They also killed a few scouts with shoota fire. The tankbustas tried to shot the rhino and missed. The Slugga boys finally made it into combat and defeated and made the marines flee. The Dakka jet shot some more marines.

Ultramarines Turn 5

We worked out the score. They had the centre objective, first blood and warlord (5) to the orks 2 Objectives, line breaker and warlord (8). The Terminators shot the remaining tankbustas and the tactical squad in the middle shot the fleeing shoota boy Nob. The last two tactical squads tried to gun down the slugga boy squad, but they didn’t kill enough. The orks passed the morale check. The lascannons and Telion continued to reduce the meganobz numbers.

Ork Turn 5

As things stood it was 8-5 to the orks. The Slugga boys would not survive another round of being fired at and charged the tactical squad and reduced their numbers. After winning the fight the nob and one ork boy moved back to claim the objective.  The Dakka jet had to move off the board.

Ultramarines Turn 6

Moved the terminators to claim linebreaker. The lascannons and the telion thinned the meganobs number down to 1. The meganob passed his morale test. The Last few tactical squads did an aweful round of shooting and only did 2 wounds leaving the slugga boy nob alive. However he failed his morale and fell back. At the end of Ultramarines turn 6  they had First blood, linebreaker, slay the warlord and an objective 6 against the orks 5 (linebreaker, warlord and an objective.)

Ork Turn 6

The dakkajet returned back, and the ork slugga nob didn’t rally. The meganob was holding an objective. The Dakka jet fired like mad at the tactical squad holding the middle objective and killed all 5!

The game ended.

The Scores!

Ultramarines 3 – (First blood, linebreaker and slay the warlord)
Orks 5 – (Slay the warlord, linebreaker and an objective)

We forgot to do photos for this fight, as the games initial plan was to be a practice 1650 2 hour game test for an incoming tournament nearby. We did get two photos...

Eager to get into a fight, Da boys just lined up ready to charge!

.The Ultramarines take up positions on the outskirts of the Hive City

The Lists:

Orks

Warboss – Mega armour, bosspole, squig and ammo grot

15 Tank Bustas – 2 Squigs, 2 Hammers and Nob with klaw.

8 meganobz
20 Boyz (shoota/nob w. pole)
25 Boyz (Sluggas/nob w. pole)
25 Boyz (Sluggas/nob w. pole)

Dakkajet w. fighta ace and super shoota
Dakkajet w. fighta ace and super shoota

Battlewagon w. 4 big shootas, ram and red paint job

Ultramarines

Librarian

5 terminators (assault cannon and land raider crusader w. multi melta)

5 Scout squad (Telion, Landspeeder storm, camo cloaks and snipers)
5 Tactical Squad (Missile and serg)
5 Tactical Squad (Missile, serg and rhino)
5 Tactical Squad (Missile and Serg)
5 Tacical Squad (missile, serg and razorback with TL Las)

Devastator (4 x Missile)
Predator (las, las and TL las)
Vindicator