Imperial Forces versus Eldar - Medusan Cluster Fracas

Emperor's Will
Dawn of War
5200 Points

Grand Melee 30/12/2015 2pm

Iron Hands vs Tyranids

1,500 Imperial Iron Hands (+200) vs Tyranids (+350)

Command and Control
Dawn of War
Day Fight

House Rule: Repairing Void Sheilds

A Void Shield Generator regains destroyed Void Shields on a 5+

To following rules may also be used to try to restore a lost Void Shield:

Mars- the bringer of war

From out of the scorching, sand-seas blistered into the Red planet, comes a new foe for the 40k theatre.

Tzeentch Deamons vs Tyranids 1,500

1,500 Forces of Chaos (+50) vs Tyrainds (+100)
Command and Control
Hammer and Anvil
Day Fight

Ravenwing Detachment, Ravenwing Special Rule and HQs

I have been researching what DA players have done in response to the new codex Ravenwing detachment that allows for 3 HQs when only Sammael has the required special rule.

The Tusk: Volume 1

Orkz vs Walkers
Points: 1500 + handicaps
Mission: The Relic
Deployment: Dawn of Waaaagh

Da Boyz are Back in Town!

Orkz vs Dark Angels
Points: 2000 + handicaps
Mission: Capture and Control
Deployment: Long 'n' fin

Four Way Battle

Armies: Eldar, dark angels, walkers and tyranids.

Points: 1500
Deployment: Four Way Battle
Mission: Four Way Battle
Night fighting: First Turn

Five Armies Campaign: Eldar Wraithost v dark angel ravenwing

Armies: Eldar Wraithost v dark angel ravenwing

Points: 1500+handicaps
Deployment: Dawn of War
Mission: Capture and Control
Night fighting: None

The Wraithost found themselves ill prepared to fight a mobile mon keigh army and were forced into a defensive deployment. The distant Farseers ensured their constructs crucially stole the initiative and the Wraithost managed to manoeuvre their way into the fight, just managing to retain parity with their busy counterparts.

The Farseers ensured that the losing position in round five was not the battles end and when the conclusion did arrive, had contrived a winning position by the final commendation ruling in the closest of possible victories.

By virtue of a low scoring encounter between the abomination and the invertebrates, the Eldar were able to claim a most unlikely campaign victory.

In the Farseers we trust.

For the Harvest!

Four Way Battle Rules

4 player game,

1500 points each

4 tables (larger area);

Each player to have a 2 VP base to defend (can be scored each turn)

A single central scoring area to contest (can be scored each turn, 2 VP if being contested, 4 VP if being controlled).

Slay the Warlord, Highlander also to apply, but no First Blood or Linebreaker.

Deployment to be as normal, but each turn player order to be randomised until turn 4.

Optional Rule:

Players may choose to spend VPs to replace lost units or models, at the cost of 2 VP per unit. Each VP can be used to purchase 50 points worth of unit. This may only be done once per game. Only destroyed units or models may be replaced. Units within formations can be replaced (e.g. 1 Predator within a 3 Predator unit), but multi-unit formations may not be replaced in toto – only one specific unit within it. (In other words, one destroyed Devastator Squad or one  destroyed Tactical Squad within a Demi-Battle Company could be replaced, but not a Devastator Squad and a Tactical Squad)

Provisional Psychic Rules.

Psychic powers should work as follows:

The d6 Psychic Points roll will be made for each player turn, thereby allowing Deny the Witch for each Psychic Phase.

Players with Psychic Points will be allowed to access these in each player turn.

Deny the Witch rolls can be made against any hostile power cast at a player, unless the Psychic Points pool available to a player has already been exhausted.

Attempts to Deny the Witch against powers cast to buff units within the Pysker’s Army can only be made if a player has a unit within 24” of the casting player, and only if the Psychic Points pool available to the Denying player has not already been exhausted.

Players may not attempt to deny powers being cast against a third party player.

Only one attempt may be made to Deny any power per player turn. The player who wishes to spend the largest number of points Denying will make the roll.

Five Armies Campaign: Tyranid Sky Swarm vs Ork Evil Sunz

Armies: Tyranid Sky Swarm vs Ork Evil Sunz

Points: Tyranids 1,725 vs Orks 1,650
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil
Mission: Capture and Control
Night fighting: Every Turn

Invisibility

I would like to suggest the following adjustment to this clearly overpowered monstrosity.

Mission Update: Surrounded

FYI

I have updated the rules for the Surrounded mission to make it a three player battle.

Five Armies Campaign: Eldar v walkers

Armies: Eldar Battlehost v walkers
Points: 1500 (no handicaps)
Deployment: Dawn of War
Mission: No Man's Land
Night fighting: on

Five Armies Campaign: Bad Moons vs Dark Tyranids

Mission: Cities of Death

Points: 1,500 Orks (+150) vs Tyranids (+175)

Hammer and Anvil

Day Fight

Bikes, and where they can and cannot go.

This issue is a regular cause of discussion, so I thought I'd throw a few observations out there as a way of laying this to rest once and for all.

Skyshield Landing Pad Rules

Skyshield

I would like to propose the establishment of a clearer set of rules for the Skyshield Landing Pad, as the current situation is far from being clear.

Five Armies Campaign: Imperial Guard vs Tyranid Artillery

Mission: Scouring

Points: 1,500 Guard (+50) vs Tyranids

Hammer and Anvil

Day Fight

Five Armies Campaign: Imperial Knights vs Blood Axes

Cities of Death 2000 points
Diagonal Battle Thingy

Five Armies Campaign: Ravenwing vs Ork Goffs

Maelstrom of War Mission 2

1000 + 500 Points plus handicaps

The Goffs faced down the new improved Ravenwing with bravery and reckless daring, charging into the fray with bikes to the fore and guns blazing.

Most died. Some ran. Defeat was swift and absolute.

For the Lion.

Ork concession Turn 2. Ouch....

Five Armies Campaign: Tyranid Skyswarm vs Dark Angels Librarius

Points: 1000+500
Armies: Tyranids (+350) vs Dark Angels (+150)
Mission: City of Death
Deployment: Dawn of War
Night: Forgot

Five Armies Campaign: Wraithhost v grey knights

Points: 1000+500 (no handicaps available)
Mission: City of Death
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Five Armies Campaign: Dark Angels Librarius versus Windrider Host

Mission: Big Guns Never Tire
Hammer and Anvil

5 Armies Campaign: Thousand Sons vs Tyranid Swarm

Points: 1,500
Armies: Chaos Marines vs Tyranids (+100)
Mission: Crusade (4 Objectives)
Deployment: Vanguard Strike

Night Fighting: Forgot

5 Armies Campaign: Grey Knights vs Blood Axes

1500 Points

Hammer and Anvil

Purge the Alien (Modified)

The Blood Axes launched an incursion into the Grey Knight zone, planned using all of Boss Snigrotz powers of stealth warfare. The boss however was a bit late arriving and the boyz just went about things with their usual tact and subtlety! Despite this deviation from the plan things went well for the orkz; although they conceded First Blood they took out both Dread Knights. Casualties on both sides mounted as the battle settled into a close quarters slug fest. The Paladin armour largely defied the Lootas firepower and even the eventual arrival of Da Boss couldn’t tip the balance.

“It woz like chippin’ away at un iceberg wiv a Grot knife”

Grey Knights 9 (FB, 5 kills, 3 surviving units)

Orkz 9 (LB, 3 kills, 5 surviving units)

Five Armies Campaign: DA Librarius vs Space Marines

1500 points
Cities of Death

Different factions of the Imperium came to blows over the ruins of an Imperial hive city. The Dark Angels, following up rumours of a Fallen presence, allied themselves with a free blade knight, only to find themselves a sailed by forces from a different  marine chapter. However, the power of their mobile psykers and supporting Ravenwing Knights, plus the awesome firepower of the free blade, soon decimated the terminators and stern guard formations of their adversaries, and the Angels secured their objectives with relative ease.

Librarius 13
Marines 5

Five Armies Campaign: Eldar Stormhost vs Tyranid Tremor Swarm

Mission: maelstrom of war
Points: 1000+500+handicap
Armies: tyranid v eldar stormhost

Fearing the worst, the Eldar took the offensive to their insectoid opponents after stealing initiative and choosing Wave Serpents for mobility. The firepower of the massed Eldar ranks started to take its toll and the swarm became increasingly isolated. When reserves failed to show, the invertebrates found themselves with little chance of subduing the strangely aggressive Eldar and the contest was ended.

For the Harvest!

Five Armies: Three-way Skirmish

Mission: No-mans Land
Armies: Eldar Battlehost, Ork Death Skulls, Imperium Deathwing 
Points: 1000 + 500 + Handicaps

Five Army Campaign: Tryanid Endless Swarm vs Militarum Tempestus

Slay the Alien (Modified)
Dawn of War (Winchester Table)
Night Fight

Lords of War Special Rules

The Escalation rule book says...
Updated for the FAQ v1.1 August 2014.

Campaign: Five Armies

Following on from the last 'hex' campaign here is my idea for a smaller one:

Campaign: Five Armies

Comments...

Tzeentch - Tyranids Hoedown

1,500 Points (Tyranids +50)
The Relic
Planet: Sodre-mund

A most enjoyable scuffle between two basement veterans saw the Egyptian cross dressers outlast the massed line dancers of bugland.

A daring infiltration by the Sons saw them crowd the relic from the outset, but it was ultimately the summoning  of daemonic horrors that proved decisive. The pinkies drew the attention of the insect hordes whilst terminators ground down the Tyranids' heavy hitters.

A close fought encounter that was in the balance all the way.

Now... bring on the Knights!

The Ghost Warriors

With the coming of the Craft Worlds to the Exodite's Maiden Planets, the Eldar of Myth-Illiath have become increasingly concerned with their over-reliance on Ghost Warriors. The Eldar of Myth-Illiath consider the life force of the souls swimming in the Infinity Circuit to be utterly sacred and will only call upon them for moments of most dire need, come the Apocalypse.

This will also deny the plethora of D-Weapons wielded by these constructs from reeking further havoc upon their treasured homelands.

For the harvest!

Orask

Points: Eldar vs Orkz (2000)
Mission: The Relic
Planet: Orask
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Grey Knights return

Points: Orks vs Grey Knight (1,600)
Mission: Tactical Escalation
Planet: Friendly
Deployment: Dawn of War, The Long Night.

The Moons of Ra'pson

Points: Eldar vs Chaos (1600)
Mission: Purge the Alien
Planet: The Moons of Ra'pson
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Harlequin - Saedath

Saedath

The Battlefield version of a Masque’s Mythic plays.

Harlequins can achieve a perfect ending to a battle for additional victory points.

Harlequins in the Tunnels

Points: Harlequins (750) vs Tyranids (750+100)
Mission: Tunnels
Planet: Okassis

House Rule: No Cover for Flyers

Zooming Flyers (Ie Not in Hover mode) and Swooping Flying Monstrous (Ie Not Gliding) do not get a cover save from other objects and do not grant a cover save to other objects.

Alsanta

Points: Orks vs Chaos (1850)
Mission: Crusade
Planet: Alsanta
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Groft 'n' da boyz continued der little scrap tour wiv a stop at Alsanta. Chaos had taken Alsanta from us Orks and one year on it was about time for a big birthday bash for the Chaos, with all the bumps provided by the Orks. At first da boyz thought dey'd found more bugz to squash but even though it looked like a big bug it was actually da chaos mob and dey was pissed. 

Da krew wasn't really in da mood for deamons so they dug in and hung on while da big scorpion smashed most of da hardware, although Groft was still able to scavange a lot of it!

Orkz: 6 (1xObjective, First Blood, Slay the Warlord, LOW damage)

Chaos: 4 (1xObjective, Slay the Warlord)

WAAAAGH!



MAP

Battle for Ybaric Cluster

Armies: Harlequins v Chaos
Points: 2000
Mission: The Relic
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

De-Bugging Orask

Points: Orks 2,000+150 vs Tyranids 2,000+175
Mission: Purge the Alien (with central objective)
Planet: Orask
Deployment: Dawn of War

Harlequins: Serpent's Brood Formation - The Skystride

Can they Embark and Disembark on the same turn ???

Battle for Mandragora

Armies: Harlequins v Tyranids
Points: 1500
Mission: The Emperor's Will
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Battle for Valhalla

Armies: Harlequins v tyranids
Points: 1500
Mission: the Relic
Deployment: dawn of war

Tank traps

I have done some research  into these, and as far as I can gathet they are supposed to be 6" size base per trap. You can have 6 of them per fortification - and therefore protect most but not necessarily all approaches.

Miral System - Chaos Rampant

Miral  System - Chaos vs Tyranids
Crusade
1500 points

The Plague Worlds

Points: Orks 1,000+200 vs Eldar 1,000+100
Mission: The Emperor' Will
Planet: The Plague Worlds
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Deep Jungle - Friendly

Points: Orks 2,000+200 and Tyranids 1,000+350 vs Eldar 2,000+100 and Tyranids 1,000+175
Mission: Deep Jungle
Planet: Friendly
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Chaos

The forces of Chaos have corrupted several Imperial held worlds.

UPDATED MAP

Apocalypse

Armies: Eldar v Dark Angels

Mission: Standard

Points: 8,000 per army

Planet: Neutral

Orks press Ravenwing to Limit

Mission: The Relic

Armies: 2000 Points

Battlefield: Hammer and Anvil

Planet: Volistad

Proposed Rule Change - Moral Check in Assault Phase

I would like to propose that the moral check during the Assault Phase triggered by losing a combat based on the number of wounds sustained is changed to being triggered by the percentage of unit wounds lost in the phase (25% as per loses in the Shooting Phase) and that there is no modifier based on the number of wounds sustained.

My reasoning behind this is that I feel it unfairly discriminates against large number/low cost units, such as those common in Ork armies. The Ork codex appears to have been written on the basis that low abilities (BS, saves, armour, invulnerability etc...) are balanced out by low cost i.e. that higher spec opponents are resisted by weight of numbers rather than abilities. With the current arrangement for moral in the Assault Phase it is common for a largely intact Ork unit to be wiped out through failing a morale check and the resulting 'sweeping advance' (which Orkz also tend to be disadvantaged in due to low initiatives across the board).

I do note the Ork 'Mob Rule' ability which gives them an opportunity to redress a failed morale check (which in the new codex this has much reduced effectiveness) but I don't believe it addresses the above issue.

Cities of Death - Friendly

Points: 2,250 (Orks + 200 and Tyranids +350 VS Eldar, Imperial and Tyranid +175)
Mission: Cites of Death
Planet: Friendly
Deployment: Dawn of War

The Thethrock Quay Counter

Points: 2,500 (no handicaps)
Mission: Purge the Alien
Planet: Tethrock Quay
Deployment: Dawn of War

Okassis - Tyranids vs Orks - Cities of Death

Points: 1,500 Orks (+100) vs Tyranids (+175)
Mission: Cites of Death (Highlander)
Planet: Okassis
Deployment: Dawn of War

Dark Angels versus Eldar - Instant Classic

Big Guns Never Tire
Dawn of War
2000 point battle

Suggested Mission

When it is decided who is playing who, one player takes the lead as the 'home' army. They decide on the mission and battlefield and order of deployment, but must publish their army in full. The second player must abide by the 'home' player's choices but gets the advantage of arriving with an unknown force, cherry-picked for the battlefield, mission, deployment order and army chosen by their opponent.

This might not suit all, but it is perhaps an interesting alternative every now and again.

Orky Eldar v Eldaresque Orkz

Points: 1000 Orky Eldar (+100) vs Eldaresque Orkz (+200)
Mission: Emperor's Will
Planet: Neutral
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

As you would expect, under the leadership of the Orkz, the Eldar advanced and under the generalship of the Eldar, the Orkz stood firm. Not renowned for holding fast under fire, the Eldaresque Orkz took a couple of Void Shield Generators and survived the bombardment. Not renowned for their charging, the Orky Eldar's advance soon faltered.

At great personal (and Gretchin) sacrifice, the Weird Boyz summoned charioteered Heralds of Slaanesh, and they tipped the balance towards the Eldaresque Orkz,forcing the Orky Eldar from the field.

Great fun and a real insight into an opponent's Codex. Thoroughly recommended.

Cities of Death - Dark Angels vs Tyranids

The battle between Dark Angels and Tyranids proved to be very close
but there are a lot of rules in this mission.

Full Rules: Cities of Death

House Rule - Psychic Power Specialists

In a Battle Forged army,
a psyker may choose their powers
provided they are all selected from one psychic school.

Apocalypse January 2015

Eldar Revenant Titan, five Wraith Knights, Biker Psykers and three Crimson Hunters

Tyranid Harridan, Barbed & Scythed Heirodules and Hive Tyrant formation

vs

Chaos Imperial Knight Triplets, Vendetta Triplets and Heldrake Triplets

Ork Stompa triplets with Bikes, Tank and Gorkanought

Eldar and Tyranid Win

Nb. Orks scored all the points on the Chaos team, even more than they lost to Stompa losses - probably.