The campaign had not been going well for the regiments of Wake. The 423rd armored was routed in an early blitzkrieg assault from the enemy warbiker mobs and deffkoptas, leaving this sector without armored support. And more recently the 328th had been pulled back from the frontline after sustaining 74% casualties in but one week of heavy assaults. After a month of deadlock fighting against the brutal orks on Kehsuvall IV the men of the Wake 325th were also approaching their breaking point. In response to the increasing enemy forces in this sector the men have been working every night to prepare and repair the defenses for the coming massive assault.
2000 points
annihilation
deployment: I won the roll off and chose to go first, simply because we both had large armies, and troop placement here didn't matter nearly as much, seeing as no matter what, we would take up both sides of the table. So I deployed a core of my troops in the center with straken and an assault platoon of combined squads there. On the flanks, I placed a Basalisk and the majority of my heavy weapons teams in one spot. On the other end I placed my mortars and my more shooty platoon.
In typical ork fashion, my opponent simply placed alot of boyz everywhere, and put some lootas and his warboss in the center, and kept two truks of shoota boyz and a few warbikers in reserve.
Turn one:
I knocked out an entire mob of boyz who were mostly in the open by firing my basalisk in the knot of boyz cowering behind a large boulder, and then by using heavy weapons to smash the rest of em up. Most of my lads where out of range, except for Gunny Harker and his snipers and autocannon, who I used to blast another mob of lads, only managing to kill 5 boyz out of 20 though.
all the orks moved up, and the loota's shot at Harker who's men had the stealth rule, and made all their saves.
Turn two: basalisk missed, but the men where now mostly in range, and with a whole lot of FRFSRF goin on, we managed to wipe out the rest of the mob of 20 boyz and a few from a larger mob.
Orks moved up, one truk made it onto the table along with the bikerz both of which ran up the side that had the basalisk and heavy weps. The lootas fired at a larger mass of men and managed to kill five men from my combined squad of thirty.
I know this report so far seems like I shoot, he runs, I shoot, he runs, well yeah thats kinda how all Ork Vs. Guard start our, but I assure you its about to spice up.
Turh three: So by this time, he's making a notable shift towards two of my three sections, my basalisk and heavy weapons, and my core. Leaving my more shooty platoon, along with Gunny Harker. By the end of this turn I know that his shoota boyz will be tearing my heavy weapons teams a new one, along with his warbikers smashing up my basalisk. accepting the losses I fire all my heavy weapons and basalisk at the warboss in an attempt to bring him down before he can hit my lines. I only got one wound on him leaving him with two left. Firing the rest of my men with yet another FRFSRF we manage to wipe out another mob, leaving him with only one full strength mob and two half beaten ones, with the full strength mob and the warboss chargin up the middle, and the two half beaten ones along with the truk and warbikes headin up the left towards my bassy.
Ork warbikers smash my basalisk, and the truk parks right in front of my heavy weapons teams, while the boyz get out and pour fire into them. The warboss and his boyz end their turn exactly 7 inches away from my gunlline.
stay tuned for the epic conclusion!
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Personally, I think you've reported on the wrong part of the battle. The majority of your posts relate elements of the game to what you're thinking and why. I think you need to go into a bit more detail and put more focus on the reasoning and thought processes taking place in parallell to the action.
ReplyDeleteyou know, I have always hated writing battle reports, and maybe that's why. its just so much information going on I don't want to bore people. I'll try to focus more on the thought process, which the real reason why I did everything is coming up anyway, so it shouldn't be too difficult :)
ReplyDeleteWhat do you like to write about? the way I interpreted the majority of your other posts is that they are your thoughts on a particular element of the hobby; primarily in relation to your guard. What if you instead focused on one particular element of a 'battle' rather than the whole lot?
ReplyDeleteI Like writing about anything that deals with Imperial Guard or warhammer for that matter, I just feel that battle reports have too much going on, I mean to condense an hour and a half long battle into a few paragraphs doesn't to it justice, and to write about all of it would be like 4 pages.
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