Hunger's Battle Reports - Diagrams Included

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Welcome to my battle report thread. Every so often the thread will be updated with a new battle report for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Page 1 - Tyranids Vs Death Guard (1000pts)
Page 2 - Tyranids Vs Craftworld Eldar (1000pts)

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Tyranids Vs Death Guard

1000pts

Tyranid Forces
Winged Hive Tyrant + Devourers
2x Zoanthropes
15x Gaunts + Devourers
15x Gaunts + Devourers
2x Carnifexes + Devourers
12x Hormagaunts
12x Hormagaunts

Death Guard Forces
Typhus
5 Terminators + Combi Flamers + Reaper Autocannon
7 Plague Marines + Plasma Gun
7 Plague Marines + Plasma Gun
Helldrake

Deployment
The Death Guard deployed first, spreading out their three squads thinly across the board. The helldrake was held in reserve. I opted for a refused flank deployment. I often do this if I go second because it can shut a good portion of the opposing army out of the game for a couple of turns, allowing me to bring my entire army’s weapons to bear against a smaller part of the enemy army and get some firepower leverage early on. It works especially well if there is some good LOS blocking terrain to pivot around - in this case the central building. I hoped this would allow me to get close enough to obliterate the squad of plague marines on my left before the squad on the right could arrive, and if I was cunning I might be able to lure the terminators off in the wrong direction by threatening the other side of the central building with my hive tyrant.

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Turn 1

Death Guard Turn 1
The plague marines on the left flank advanced into the rocks ahead of them and shot a couple of gaunts. The terminators waited behind the central building watching their motion trackers. The range of the reaper autocannon enabled it to take a wound off a zoanthrope, while the plague marines on the right flank – realising they needed to redeploy quickly – moved closer to the terminators.




Tyranid Turn 1
The tyranid army advanced en-masse down the crowded left flank; gaunts and hormagaunts swarmed around and through the chemical tanks, while the central firebase of gaunts, carnifexes and zoanthropes rolled forward as one entity. The hive tyrant flapped toward the right flank, intending to fool the terminators into moving away from the main assault. The front rank of gaunts in the central brood blasted away at the plague marines in the rough ground, but the writhing worms splattered against the rocks. One zoanthrope incinerated a plague marine with its warp blast. Everything else was still out of range.

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Turn 2

Death Guard Turn 2
The terminators saw through the hive tyrant’s feint and now started their advance toward the tyranid left flank, and the the plague marines on the right continued their march. The Nurgle force’s shooting caused very little damage, the terminators storm bolter shells mostly clattering off the chemical tanks as they shot up the advancing gaunts. The plasma gunner in the left hand plague marine squad took aim and pulled off an excellent shot that wounded the hive tyrant.




Tyranid Turn 2
The tyranid line advanced again, and the hormagaunts continued to race up the left flank but rolled poorly for their run move. Now in range, the tyranid army opened up with their living weapons. The hive tyrant killed a terminator with its devourers, and both gaunt broods poured devourer shots at the plague marine squad in the rocks, bringing down a plague marine. The wounded zoanthrope reduced four of the same squad to bubbling slag with a warp blast, leaving just one plague marine sheltering among the melted, sizzling rocks.

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Turn 3

Death Guard Turn 3
The plague marines slogging in from the right broke into a sprint, their scanners showing a swarm of tyranid lifesigns massing on the other side of the central structure. The terminators now strode into the open and hosed the hive tyrant with autocannon shells, wounding him again. The lone plague marine gritted his teeth and advanced from his cover, spraying bolter shots at the gaunts but missing. Typhus tried to cast a psychic power but his concentration was broken by a perils of the warp attack and he lost a wound.




Tyranid Turn 3
In an attempt to rip the heart out of the Nurgle force, the entire tyranid army opened up on the terminators with a sustained fusillade of massed devourer and brainleech worms. After the zoanthropes tried to lance the squad, the gaunts, hive tyrant and carnifexes poured around 90 shots into the terminators, downing two and wounding Typhus again. Undeterred, the terminators waded through the storm of voracious worms and bore down on the gaunts shielding the carnifexes.

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Turn 4

Death Guard Turn 4
The terminators advanced to within charge range and hit the gaunt brood with combi-flamers, roasting seven of them. The helldrake zoomed down from the sky and blasted its S6 flame weapon across the rear of the tyranid line, catching the hive tyrant, a zoanthrope and a single gaunt from the already-smouldering brood in the centre. The flames failed to wound the zoanthrope but the tyrant lost another wound and another gaunt was incinerated. The terminators then tried to charge the carnifexes, but spectacularly failed to reach the monsters, rolling a 3 for distance, which left them stranded in front of a wall of devourers.




Tyranid Turn 4
The hive tyrant took to the air to take on the helldrake, vector striking it and damaging two of its three hull points with glancing hits. The central gaunt brood darted aside, allowing the carnifexes to stomp toward the terminators. The heavily armoured warriors were now surrounded, and the tyranids opened up again with everything they had. Another storm of 90 devourer shots filled the air, most of the worms impacting against the reinforced armour in splatters of thick goo, but a couple found their way to the terminators’ joints and neck seals and felled the remaining warrior and the champion, and also caused Typhus a wound. Only Typhus remained, facing down the two carnifexes. The monsters thundered toward him and trampled him into the ground – the great warrior’s immense survivability kept his last wound intact right down to the last dice roll.

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Turn 5

Death Guard Turn 5
The air battle between the hive tyrant and the helldrake reached a climax, as the helldrake killed the winged monster with a vector strike. The advancing plague marine squad finished off the battered gaunt brood with rapid firing bolters. The lone plague marine, enraged and totally alone in the middle of the killing field, foolhardily charged the carnifexes. In a fit of berserk fury he wounded the huge monsters three times with his plague knife before he was smashed into pulp.






Tyranid Turn 5
The tyranids now swarmed around the remaining plague marine squad, loosing streams of devourer worms and psychic energy into the plague marines and wiping the entire squad out. Only the badly damaged helldrake was left, which took to the skies to live another day. Another world claimed for the swarm.

[sunnyrobert]

I actually enjoyed the battle report! Nice win there....

[coredump]

Cool, I kinda like diagram-batreps because you can see the entire battle at once.


You may want to try dropping some devourers. This will give you some cheap gaunts in front to absorb some shooting. If so inclined, you could spend the points on more gaunts. ie. 20 gaunts +10 devs is the same as your 15dev unit.

I assume your flyrant was Gliding for the first few turns.
His Helldrake should have used Vector Strike on the flyrant when it came on the board.

I understand you wanted to shoot the terminators, but I would have made the Drake primary target for the flyrant. When you VS'd, I would have skipped the VS, and put all 12 shots into the rear armor.

The Drake, however, broke the rules when it VS'd the flyrant back. It could only pivot 90degrees before zooming, and you were behind it.


Looks like you played it well, congrats.

[krimson]

I actually enjoy the diagram batrep alot Very well done!

I find it easier to see the strategic view of the game this way rather than shaky pictures of the board.

However I would like to see pictures of each army's paint schemes just to better fill in the imagery.

I will most likely be stealing this method from you for my next batrep.

Good job, and keep em coming!

[Davor]

Just a shoot em up game with objectives? How come objectives were not used?

[krimson]

Apr 14, 2014 17:24:04 GMT Davor said:

Just a shoot em up game with objectives? How come objectives were not used?

Purge the Humans!!!

[clobbersaurus]

Thanks for the report. The diagrams make it all much easier to understand than all text. Keep them coming!

[tylertt]

Very cool idea. What did you use to make the diagrams?

[fnorrll]

Apr 14, 2014 12:15:26 GMT Hunger said:

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Huh?