Five Zones Campaign - Iron Hands versus Walkers

Mission: Modified Purge the Alien
Battlefield: Short and Fat, with new terrain features
1500 Points each - no handicaps previously achieved



This battle revolved around the ability of the Iron Hands' Command Unit whittling down the Walkers before running out of steam...

In the first turn, the Walkers began to advance on the Iron Hands - only to be ambushed from above by a Drop Pod assault by the Iron Hands Command Unit, which destroyed the Walkers sole mobile unit and exposed their HQ in mid-table.

The next round saw the Iron Hands Command Unit - Chapter Master, Chaplain, 2 Techmarines and a Command Squad - reduce the Walker Command unit to the HQ and one support Walker. Exchanges of artillery fire began to erode the forces on both sides, but as yet no decisive losses were inflicted either way. A unit of assault walkers advanced menacingly towards the tactical squads of the Iron Hands, but it took several hits en route. Meanwhile, a unit of Imperial landspeeders arrived by deep strike to distract some of the Walker lascannon units

Turn Three would prove decisive. Although the Walkers were able to force the landspeeder unit to flight, they could not destroy it - and it was able to take up a scoring linebreaker position out of range of enemy fire. The Iron Hands Command unit finished off their Walker counterparts, and began to advance on the nearest Walker artillery units. The Walker assault forces were able close in on the Imperial tacticals, but not before losing a significant proportion of their force.

Over the following turns, the Walkers were able to kill off all of the Iron Hands Command Unit bar the Warlord - but only after this unit had monopolised the Walker heavy guns for four rounds, and killed two more enemy squads. The Walker assault forces were able to kill of a ten man Tactical Squad, but were so depleted in the process that they were wiped out soon after.

Although the game lingered on to Turn 7, the early rounds had given the Imperials a lead that the Walkers were simply unable to claw back.

Final Score:

Iron Hands 14 - First Blood, Linebreaker, Slay the Warlord, plus points for killed units/survivors
Walkers 9 - points for killed units/survivors