To: Space Marine Strike Cruiser ‘Townsville’, base of the third company ‘Imperial Dropbears’ chapter
From: Imperial Battle Barge ‘Zeemaphrame’ commanded by
Imperial Inquisitor Lord Rob.
Greetings in the Emperors name. It has come to my attention that Heretical activity is taking place on Imperial world Octerapus with Traitor Marines having been spotted. A unit of Deathwatch Marines dispatched to the planet
are out of contact and are assumed to have been destroyed. Please urgently send a team
of Marines to the planet to locate and destroy the heretics before the heresy takes root.
From ‘Townville’: Strewth Mate we’re just in the middle of
something here, can’t you take care of it yourself?’
From ‘Zeemaphrame’: No we can’t. His excellency Lord Rob is busy undergoing
routine maintenance. Planetary garrisons are already committed elsewhere. What’s so urgent you
can’t help?
From ‘Townsville’: We’re
having a bar… Err We’re partaking in an ancient chapter ritual that’s totally
out of the manual and shouldn’t be interrupted. [Muffled] Here Wayne watch
those sausages mate, they’re starting to burn.
From ‘Zeemaphrame’: What? Look Rob is a Lord Inquisitor and he
can totally order you to obey you know!
Besides we haven’t carried out a ‘purity review’ of your chapter
recently if you get my drift.
From ‘Townville’: All
right mate, don’t stress yourself out, OK we’ll send a few of the boys to deal with it. Leave it with us. Townsville out. Bluey get your lads together, oh and pass
those prawns…
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With Rob busy on family business Tony stepped up to play the
next game of Kill Team. The two sides
were Tony’s Tactical Space Marines vs Chris’s Heretic Space Marines giving a
simplified battle as it was Tony’s first game.
The Heretic Astartes were as the previous battle, Aspiring Champion
Derek the Miffed with Plasma Pistol and Power Fist, Chaos Warrior Roderick with
Bolter, Chaos Warrior Tyson with Bolt Pistol and Chainsword, Chaos Warrior Tarquin
with Chaos Icon, Bolt Pistol and Chainsword, Chaos Gunner Brutus with Meltagun
and Chaos Heavy Gunner Steve with Heavy Bolter.
The Imperial Dropbears Space Marine Chapter fielded a
Sergeant Bluey with Bolt Pistol and Chainsword, three Marines Bruce, Robo and
Loco with Boltgun, Gunner Wayne ‘Barbie’ with Flamer and Heavy Gunner Chook with
Missile Launcher.
Chaos won the initiative and choose not to use a Strategic Ploy, the Imperials chose Bolter Discipline enabling them to Shoot twice. Tarquin started by Dashing to the centre objective and securing it for Khorne (1vp to Chaos). The Imperial response was brutal as Bruce advanced then gunned down Tarquin using his two shooting actions. Steve moved forward into a shooting position and secured the second objective (2vp for Chaos). In response Robo leapt onto a shipping container, negating Steve’s cover and again with two shots gunned him down.
Tony’s decision to enact Bolter Discipline looked to be the right one. Worried about the way things were going Brutus Dashed towards Robo and fired his Melta gun. The effects were pretty brutal and finally Chaos had started to inflict some casualties. Wayne moved towards Brutus and unleashed his flamer but only managed to likely injure the marine before securing the third objective (1vp for the Imperials). Roderick moved position and managed to secure the final objective (3vp for Chaos). Bluey dashed forward in the centre and managed to shoot Brutus with his bolt pistol inflicting enough damage to kill the injured marine. Carnage amongst the Chaos ranks with 50% dead and it was still turn 1, admittedly their saving rolls had been rubbish. Tyson moved up into the middle of the table and Loco jumped onto a shipping container and fired at him for no effect. Derek dashed into range of Loco and shot him with his Plasma Pistol killing him on the spot. Chook repositioned at the back lining up on Tyson.
Turn 2 and this time Chaos took Malicious volleys allowing
them to shoot twice. They also won initiative
and started off with Bluey charging into combat with Bluey and killing him with
his power fist. He was also planning to
shoot down Wayne but Tony reminded his sergeant that ‘Only is Death does duty
end’. Bluey remained in play preventing
Derek from shooting an he was still within the Engagement range of the fatally
wounded (but not yet expired) Marine.
The next activation saw Bluey killing the Chaos Space Marine Sergeant
and securing the central objective before falling to his wounds. Roderick opened fire at Chook and in two rounds
of shooting managed to inflict only 3 wounds on Chook. He then moved out of sight to avoid the
likely counter fire. Unfortunately Tyson
was not so lucky being found to be in the Missile Launchers sights. One Krak missile saw Tyson blown to bits
leaving Roderick as the sole Chaos Marine in play. The remaining Imperial forces repositioned
and captured objectives leaving the score 4/3 to Chaos at the end of the second
turn.
Turn 3 and the sole Chaos Marine was first to go. Using Malicious volleys, he advanced into
position where he could see two of his three opponents before unleashing a
stream of bolter shells at Chook (unfortunately two lots of shooting saw no
hits inflicted). This time the answering
shot hit the unfortunate Roderick killing him and leaving the table to the forces
of the Imperium. Victory to the Empire.
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The game ran well now that we are starting to get the rules
under our belt. There was major rules
query. If someone is killed during a melee
attack but uses ‘only in death’ to survive one more activation does the combat
continue? We decided not but we’ll have
to see if an official adjudication is announced. Beyond this the game seemed to be a easy to
play although as a new player Tony initially found the rules tricky to get to
grip with. Didn’t stop him winning though.
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