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Imperial Probe Decoder XXXVVIII, elliptical orbit about Virco 5,
message intercept4.21.3
and so it is with great sorrow that we follow this uncivilised
course. I consideryour Emperor to be nothing more than empty
idolatry, the learned Aun of Borkanwould be shocked at your
mindless following of his will (I know that even my
ethereal, who has a soft spot for religious follies, would not
approve)
Your valour in battle I do not question. I can say with
confidence that we share adistaste for the Orks (particularly those
that manipulate the warp and are capable oftransfiguration).
However the regrettable decision to reject our offers of dialogue
will,I fear, result in the annihilation of your forces. We will
meet, Darkos, on the falling ofthe sun.
Pitched battle, Seize ground (5 objectives)
T1
El Quixos forces were the fastest to react, the massed ranks of
fire warriors,hammerheads and pathfinders setting up 2 firebases
nearby objectives. All crisissuits decided to mount surprise
attacks by deep striking and one unit of krootoutflanked. The
second Kroot unit infiltrated into the woods containing an
objective.
The 2 firewarrior units on the Tau left flank opened up with a
devastating volley ofpulse rifle fire, aided by the pathfinders
markerlights. A unit of Devastators wasreduced from an array of 6
to a single plasma gunner, who held firm. On the rightflank, and
despite no markerlight support, the other 2 firewarrior units
managed toinflict 2 casualties on the second devastator unit, who
promptly fled! Great Taugunnery!
With the wind in their sails the might of hammerheadrailguns
detected the whirlwind as a result of pathfinder
reconnaissance. Hit bonuses and reduction to cover rollsmeant
that the time was surely up for the whirlwind, beforeit had fired a
single missile. The first shot flew in, but pingedoff a concrete
pillar (rolls a 6 on cover save). The secondshot misses the
target(rolls a 6 on cover save)! Thebroadsides desperately tried to
rescue the situation but thevehicle was completely hidden by the
structure in front!
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Instead they targeted the large bike unit, vapourising one
biker.
The Vespid leapt into the devilfigh on the right flank, which
sped to the right to faceoff against the bikes.
With that, the Sun Dragons made their move
S1
The fleeing devastatorsrallied, since they knew nofear, the
rally cries of Darkosringing in their ears.
Librarian Telcias cast gate ofinfinity with the aim ofadvancing
on the Tau leftflank (which had displayedsuch competent gunnery
inthe Tau first turn). However adistortion in the fabric of thewarp
resulted in their scatter out to the open battlefield! This was not
Telicas mostauspicious moment and set the tone for his battle and
that of his tactical unit. On thesame flank, the 2 landspeeders
emerged from behind the wood, ready to pourpurifying ammunition
into the fire warriors. The unit of 4 scout bikes turbo
boostednearly on top of the firewarriors, who were beginning to
feel rather exposed.
Their fears were realised.FROM THE SUN!
The combined fire ofassault cannon and heavybolters of the
speeders,plus the last devastatorplasma gunner killed 4 Taufrom the
more advancedunit in the woods. The gorydeath of their comradeswas
too much, and they
fled towards the tableedge!
The kroot were next to feelthe pain. Darkos commandsquad
advanced and usedtheir storm bolters,
pumping shells into the forest, killing 2 kroot and wounding the
shaper.
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The dreaded whirlwind lined up the kroot in the woods, but the
shot scattered wildlyinto the firewarriors on the crater, killing
one and pinning them! Darko wonderedwhere and when ElQuixo would
turn up
T2
The fleeing Tau rallied andconsolidated back into the woods
theyfled from. The crisis suits showedimpeccable punctuality as all
3 unitsturned up.
The tank-hunter monat was placednext to the whirlwind surely
curtainsfor the whirlwind and promptlyscattered behind the cursed
concretestructure (despite pathfinder homingbeacon)!
The crisis team equipped withincineration equipment arrived
andalso scattered, however their flamerswere still in range of the
bikesquadron who were their primarytarget. On the flip side Sun
Dragondreadnought Eliab was in closeproximity.
Lighting up their flamers and aidedagain by the firewarriors,
the scoutbikers were nearly killed outright.One biker survived, who
proptly fled.
The 3rd deep striking unit wasElQuixo and his Q-Guard. They
emerged from a camouflaged bunker and leapt to theattack of
Librarian Telcias unit. Their plasma and fusion weaponry killed 5
spacemarines, forcing a morale check. Telcias promptly rolled 11 on
2D6 and fled!
On the other side of the board, theVespid leapt out of the
Devilfish,confident that their neutron blasterswould decimate the
large bike unit.However their hopes were in vain asonly one bike
was destroyed.
The monat who had scattered soterribly was determined to
completehis mission, and miraculously he did so, hitting,
penetrating and
exploding the whirlwind!
The broadsides turned their attention to dreadnought Azazel, who
they managed toimmobilise.
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S2
The remaining bike was too close to ElQuixo and fled off the
table. Agonisingly forDarkos, Librarian Telcias followed suit, and
along with him the remainder of thetactical squad and all chances
of machine curses! To add to the misery the
terminators stayed away this turn.
Dreadnought Eliab started the turn in fine style, killing 2
flamer crisis suits with theteam leader fleeing. The massacre of
crisis suits wasnt to stop there. The bravemonat was gunned down at
point blank range by tactical squads. Finally, devastatorsand
landspeeders took aim at ElQuixo. The outcome was not pretty, with
his Q-guards being blown away. ElQuixo was so exhasperated by this
that he decidedtactical retreat was the logical option, and he
could not rally owing to his unit beingbelow half strength!
In a final flurry of activity,the exposed Vespid weremade to pay
for their lackof killer instinct by beingblown away by the
bikes,who watched as the insectsfled the field.
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El Quixo fled thebattle along withthe Vespid.
The fire warriorson th left and
centre decided itwas time to takematters into theirown
hands.
All unitsadvanced on theobjectives. Thedevilfish on theleft
flankswooped low andwrecked a landspeeder with avolley from
itsburst cannon.
The broadsides decided to dealwith the bikes on the right
flank,and succeeded in destroying allbut 2, the remainder
fleeing.
S3
The 2 fleeing bikers rallied andturned for another attempt to
break the Tau lines. And then the hoplite Terminatorsarrived There
was wide-spread panic in the Tau lines as flames engulfed
firewarriors and pathfinders. This resulted in the destruction of 2
squads who fled off thetable.
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The left flank fared no better than the centre, the brave
advancing firewarriors haswalked into the deadly fire of the last
speeded, killing five and breaking them. Thedevastators targeted
hammerheads but failed to penetrate the armour. The 2 bikestargeted
the broadsides and caused 2 wounds, while a krak missile blew a
shielddrone away.
T4
The outflanking krootarrived on the Tau left,threatening to grab
anobjective.
The Tau vehiclescontinued to performwell, devilfish stunningthe
last speeder andhammerheadimmobilising Dreadnought Eliab.
Broadsides wiped the bikes.
The rest of the Tau army tried manfully to destroy the
terminators but only one wasblown away. The terminators were very
close to the 1st unit of Kroot in the woods,who had been
resiliently holding an objective all game
S4
The terminators destroy the Kroot with heavy flamer fire. Darkos
command squadrun towards the outflanking Kroot. The last broadside
drone is destroyed by heavyweapons.
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T5
The outlflanking kroot tentatively let 2 hounds out of the wood
to claim the objectivethat would win the game. The hammerhead
supports them, hastily landing on thewrecked land speeder!
Immobilised brother Eliab can only look on in
immobilisedanguish!
The other Hammerhead surges forward to contest the single held
Sun Dragonobjective next turn. The shooting phase is superfluous in
part because of decimated
ranged capacity.
S5
The terminator hoplites ignore the nearby steath suits and run
towards the Tauobjective on the crater. Hammerhead has railgun
disabled and is stunned from heavyweapons fire.
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Darko and command squad assault Kroot, and annihilate them! Game
ends on turn 5.
Epilogue
Darkos turned, just in time to see the Sun bursting over the
horizon of Virko 5. FROMTHE SUN he heard his hoplite terminators
cheer over the shared comm.-link. Darkowiped his brow and realised
that he was covered in the blood of Kroot. The greensavages had
fled, and the thrust of ElQuixos armoured advance on their
positionshad failed. His children, the Sun Dragons, held the
Northern tactical annexe howeverthe Tau still controlled the
mineral-rich highlands. Damn him muttered DarkosDamn his eyes. As
he squinted at the morning sun, he began to think ofconsolidation,
and of orbital strikes to remove the enemy armour.
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Result draw (1 objective each held). SM kill points 10, Tau kill
points 6.
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El Quixo Cadre
El Quixo Fusion/Plasma/HWMT/Stim/ shield gen 117
2 Q-Guard Fusion/Plasma/HWMT/ Arrays 164
3 crisis suits, TL flamers, burst cannon, ld w/ detonator
137
monat with TL fusion and flamer 473 stealth suits each with
marker drone 180
7 pathfinders+ devilfish w disruptn pod 169
7 pathfinders+ devilfish w disruptn pod 169
10 vespid inc strain leader 166
10 firewarriors, inc shasui bonded 115
10 firewarriors, inc shasui bonded 115
10 firewarriors, inc shasui bonded 115
10 firewarriors, inc shasui bonded 115
10 kroot, 10 hounds 130
16 kroot +shaper 140
3 broadsides, stabilisers, ld w/ 2 shield drones 275
Hammerhead, DP, burst cannons, multi tracker 165
Hammerhead, DP, burst cannons, multi tracker 165
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Darkos Men
Darko, stormbolter, digi weapons, artificier armour 155
command squad, stormbolters + stormshields 187
Librarian, terminator armour, gate of infinity, machine curse
180
Dreadnought, assault cannon, stormbolter, power fist 115
Dreadnought, assault cannon, stormbolter, power fist 115
terinators w heavy flamer 205
5 bikes, 1 attack bike w multimelta 185
4 scout bikes 130
2 landspeeder, hvy bolter and assault cannon 180
tactical squad, missile launcher, flamer 180
tactical squad, missile launcher, flamer 180
tactical squad, missile launcher, flamer 180
Devastators, 2 missile launcher, 1lascannon, 1 plasma cannon
175
Devastators, 2 missile launcher, 1lascannon, 1 plasma cannon
175
Whilwind 85
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