So just like last year, EpicUK held their annual epic megabattle on december 29th at slayer gaming in mansfield
As last year was quite a special event (
siege of terra....) instead of trying to top it, I decided to attempt to write a scenario which would lead to lots of silly fun..... hopefully it worked out that way!
here's a report of what happened on the day and a brief description of the scenario itself!
forces used - 18k of dark angels, 3x4k chaos forces (iron warriors, death guard, thousand sons)
the table is three 6x4 tables in an L-shape, the dark angels deploy ground units at the ends of the L, upto 60cm on, the dark angels get a free strike cruiser each, all barrages must be plotted at the start of the game, but drop pods are done one turn in advance
the ref places 6 bunker objectives, 4 on the centre table and one on each end table, in the chaos half but out of the deployment zone (this may need changing) these two bunkers need to be engaged and their contents destroyed or the third table is considered to be shielded, while the table is shielded no orbital barrages will hit, planes cannot land or ground attack (but may fly over as normal) and any troops podding in must take a dangerous terrain test with no re-rolls permitted
each bunker has a hydra turret which cannot be targeted or suppressed and the contents are hidden and cannot be targeted until the bunker is engaged, to win the dark angels must engage all six bunkers and eliminate the contents, any other result is a loss.... when a bunker is engaged, move the attackers into range, the contents (decided by the ref) are then revealed and placed within 10cm of the bunker, in a position to countercharge
The chaos players have an unlimited daemon pool, until both objective-sorcerers are killed, at which point they cannot summon more daemons
On the day, the dark angels started out strongly with teleporting terminators eliminating the shield generators right away.... I got pretty involved in reffing and answering the inevitable rules questions so didn't take regular pictures.... here's a series of pics with captions:
Interrogator Chaplain Markus deploys his ground assets:
M'T'homm'asss, acolyte of the nine deploys his troops:
D'vid the undefeated leads his death guard out in defence:
Masters Timon and Bothus deploy their troops:
Brutus the siegelord readies himself for the carnage:
Warsmith SS'ann'daars prepares to destroy the usurpers:
Thousand sons withdraw:
Deathwing terminators bounce off the plaguehound and the thunderhawk explodes....
death guard terminators teleport into the midst of the dark angels advance:
thousand sons terminators teleport in to protect the bunkers:
more deathwing teleport in to prep and support:
yet MORE teleport in to engage the obliterators:
the obliterators overwatch claims some deathwing and they win the assault, yet are broken:
the death guard have them surrounded from the inside....
thousand sons are repelled by tactical marines (for shame!)
Brutus shows off his shiny dreadnought-firing cannon
Death guard make a mess of the dark angels advance:
Brutus waves as the dark angels speed past him....
Dark angels load up for the final assault:
Brutus, mightiest of the siegelord titans, conqueror of a thousand worlds, loses a fight against some space marine scouts
Thousand sons make themselves look BIG
dudes in the wrong place at the wrong time when the battle barge dropped its pie-plates o'doom
4 tactical formations swarm the penultimate objective and kill the sorcerer inside
Dark angels take down the fallen masterminding the whole operation:
