Prison for Gods - Carnage at Hive Geffyl - Black Scorpions vs Guard + Dark Angels

The Black Scorpions readied themselves. Today was the day of days, a vital strike to liberate Hive Geffyl. The facilities there and the population would welcome them as glorious saviours thought brother Volus. The vital target? An intercontinental missile. It's destructive power was a terrible weapon to behold. It's destruction would be paramount. It was time, the rubble, that feeling of free fall as the drop pod was fired out of the battle barge. Searing through the atmosphere like a comet, Volus held tight. They soon be on the ground. He remembered the words of his training sergeant. 'You are angels of death! you are his will made manifest! Strike hard, strike fast and leave nothing alive'

Black Scorpions vs Guard + a smattering of Dark Angels. 2000pts. Maelstrom

The gate of Hive Geffyl

Magnus would be bringing a stormlord with a 30 veterans with demoltion skills along with an HQ squad and two skilled psykers. Guardsmen guarding his back lines would solidify his lines. A deathstrike missile and a wyvern would provide fire power/magnets. Shockingly a drop pod with grav centurions and librarian would join his forces!

The Black Scorpions brought the boom train = Telion, scouts, thunderfires, quad cannons. Two drop pods with tactical marines and one with an ironclad would be dropping in. Two fire raptors would provide air support. A deimios laser destroyer would provide some much needed anti-tank fire power.

Both sides benefitted from a archeotech shield generator. The Black Scorpions benefitted from a Bastion recently stolen from the fickle Eldar.

Ratlings that are actually RATS.... Heresy!!!

Heavy weapons!

The Assault force!

Turn 1

The Black Scorpions won the roll off going first. Destroying the heavy tank and deathstrike would be super important. Magnus had a 35 man squad inside the Stormlord, ready to trundle forward and unleash hell!

Two drop pods, carrying an Ironclad and a tactical squad slammed down. A bad scatter meant the tactical squad was far away from its target, the storm lord. They scarpered into the ruins to seek cover. 5 other marines roasted a 10 man squad scoring first blood. The platoon command squad was reduced to the sergeant, he held his ground. My cannons and thunder fires unleashed hell on the storm lord taking only 2 hull points. The shield generator absorbed a ton of hull points. I scored Obj 2

Magnus stood fast, his drop pod slammed down too, in front of my quad cannons. His Stormlord stayed still. Psykers unleashed heretical powers, one periled but surived. The stormlords vulcan bolter cycled up and 30 shots unleashed on the thunderfire cannons. the 3+ cover and 2+ techmarine save wasn't enough, a thunderfire was ruined!

The grav centurions opened fire, I was finally on the end of my own medicine! They killed 3 marines and wounded a quad gun. Some scouts were killed and drop pod marines killed two. A decent round of shooting from Magnus. No objective scored however

2 - 0 so far.

Turn 2

Black Scorpion reserves came in, a drop pod and a raptor. The tactical squad reinforced the assault on the hive, the raptor strafed the Stormlord but failed to cause any damage. The avenger cannon strafed the wyvern, causing it to explode.

The ironclad and the tactical marines roasted more units and killed some scouts in the back lines. Magnus base had been all but eradicated. I fired my deimios at the scary deathstrike, taking single hull point off it. The Centurions were a massive threat, the rending thunderfire cannons went to work. Two centurions were killed. A blow to Magnus.

The Ironclad wiped out the scouts, the Ratlings were cut down by the lone space marine from the 5 man squad that had been decimated.

Magnus replied with more shooting, His forces were mostly inside the stormlord but some grav shooting and the stormlord did some damage, a hull point here and there but nothing serious. The teeth of his force had been blunted. His librarian assaulted the quad guns, killed 2 more marines and therefore 2 guns and the centurions took a hull point from the deimios. The deathstrike, on 1 hull point attempted to fire, it failed! luckily.

I scored 1 point with overwhelming firepower (kill something in the shooting phase)

3-0

Turn 3

Turn three saw my 2nd raptor come in. It also failed to do much damage, taking only 1 hull point from the stormlord. The thunderfires took another 2. it had 6 left now. A melta shot from the ironclad took another, down to 5. The 2nd raptor took another hull point 4 left! The 1st raptor cycled up its mega bolter and shredded the primaris psyker in the open. Victory point for slay the witch. The librarian remained locked in close combat with no wounds. The Centurion was killed by the combined fire of scouts and heavy bolters. A suicidal charge by the tactical squad failed epically and all were slain by 35 firepower overwatch. The deimos also managed the vital strike. A well placed shot annihilated the deathstrike... PHEW!!

Magnus desperately needed to score some points now. I had 5, he had zero, his cards were all 'take obj ### and his forces were all inside the mighty stormlord which he now evacuated, 30 veterans spilled out. He took the final wound off the quad cannons, neutralising them. A few meltagunners in the stormlord pointed their melta's skyward, two sixes! 1 pen! jink failed, a 5! EXPLODES!!! the fire raptor crashed to the ground in a fiery explosion! Scour the Skies!

5-1

Turn 4 

 The forces of the evil Magnus closed in. With troops in the open the lines opened up. Many a man was killed but the death blow came from two places. 7 hits from the thunderfires.... 3 hulls points. It only had 1 left now! The ironclad that had been chasing is closed in... I needed 9 for get into close combat.

WOOOOOO!

BOOOM!!!

 The ironclad ripped apart the Stormlord. 4 pens! BOOOOOM!! I rolled a 6 for the cataclysmic explosion! All but the company commander died inside. 7 men surrounding the mighty warmachine were vapourised. The Ironclad survived by a small miracle.

Magnus had few forces left but he fought on. His forces tried desperatly to cause some more damage and sell their lives. A techmarine was killed! two scouts died too!

6-1

Turn 5

Magnus graciously said 'lets see if you can wipe me' I got to work. The remaining guardsmen were all slain by snipers and heavy bolters and scout bolt pistols.

All that remained was the evil psyker standing defiantly.

The deimios aimed.... and fired.

 3 hits!

3 wounds! The psyker was vapourised with 3 shots from the deimios. Stg 9 ordnance laser cannon shots. An epic end to the psyker.

In the final move of the game with scouts thrusted and slashed, the brave company commander fell with a multitude of wounds. My 3 cards for the last turn were epically: Decapitating strike & KingSlayer and Supremacy. I scored 3 points for those cards, 1 for slay the warlord and another for linebreaker

11-1

VICTORY BLACK SCORPIONS!

Conclusion

Well well well. Magnus is a formidable 40k player. He knows the rules and knows the game. His first two turns were scary. His drop pod and the stormlord firing twice caused a lot of wounds, both my artillery squads caused damage. It looked grim as the centurions and the librarian had dumped right into my lines (oh the irony, the bitter taste of my own medicine) I HAD to deal with them, meaning the Stormlord would continue unmolested.

Again tho, the thunderfires remained the bullet absorbers they truly are. The stormlord kept trying to take them out. The 2+ armour was just too hard to get through, meaning the stormlord was less effective than otherwise.

All in all a good game. My game plan as always with guard is to send flamer tacticals and clear out the rear, so far, it's always worked. It makes it very hard to score objectives.

This is my 9th campaign victory in a row. The hate is palpable and the group is conspiring to deal with me. My downfall will come... soon... but it was not this day.

Thanks to Magnus for being a great opponent!

The hive is ours! shouted Volus, the great towering spires were pock-marked with craters and wounds. The city had folded under the pressure. Once the hive gate was taken the rest of the city fell quickly. The slaying of the commander disrupted all semblance of order amongst these foolish guard. Volus saluted as the great flag of the Black Scorpions fluttered in the wind on the highest spire.