BATREP 12/31/08

BATTLE REPORT

Players: Anthony Guarracino vs. Chris T.

Armies: Space Marines vs. Imperial Guard

Battle type: Cleanse from 3rd ed. Rulebook

Space Marines					Imperial Guard
505 points					503 points
Librarian			130		Command Squad
Terminator Armor
1x	Storm Bolter
1x	Force Weapon				Infantry Platoon
	Vortex of Doom					2 Squads
	Gate of Infinity
Tactical Squad			205
1x	Flamer				Infantry Platoon
Sergeant						Snipers
1x	Bolter					Chimera
Tactical Marines						Flamers
1x	Missle Launcher
Rhino
1x	Storm Bolter
Tactical Squad			170
1x	Flamer
Sergeant
1x	Bolter
Tactical Marines
1x	Missle Launcher

The battle lasted 2 turns before company arrived to celebrate new years eve.  This was our first battle, so there was a lot of rule checking and discovery being done.  Here is a picture of the set-up.

For terrain we used glued together sprues and lego creations.  I deployed my SMs in my corner with turn based placement.  This allowed me, after my cousin placed his command squad all the way in the back, to place my librarian in the middle of the map.  I followed by hiding my missle launches behind terrain so that they'd live until I got to shoot as my cousin was going first.

Turn 1 - Imp Guard

My cousin advances his position, realizing he's placed all his troops in open cover.  He runs several troops behind the green castle base in the picture above for cover.  The chimera moves up slighty, firing on my rhino, shot falls 1 inch short.

Turn 1 - SM

My goal as to use my librarian to gate of infinity around the board, giving me the upper hand in being able to rapid fire and hide.  First turn, GoI hits without scatter (yay!).  I move my rhino 12" forward, trying to get in enough terrain that I can eventually kill that rhino or tank shock those large platoons.  I pop smokes and fire a few shots with krak missles.  A few imp guard die, but not enough.  

Turn 2 - Imp Guard

Chris advances further, moving his chimera into a better location, but not deploying troops, instead choosing to fire at my rhino's side armor with most of his troops.

(yes that is a lego castle in the background) Damage is not done, I merely get crew shakenresult.

Turn 2 - SM

I GoI my librarian but he scatters right into the open /facepalm.  I move deploy my SM in the rhino, move the rhino up for cover.  Shooting phase I fire a krak missle at the chimeras front armor, blowing it up (6), and killing 4 guys inside.  I fire a frag missle into Chris's platoons again, resulting in only 1 sad kill :(

And that's how it ended.  None of my SM died, but it was a draw based on quaters controlled, as we each only had 1.