Yesterday was a very special day for me: I could finally play Warhammer 40k again, the first time this year and the second time in many years. Therefore, I am quite unfamiliar insecure with the current ruleset but since I played with one of my best friends and long-time 40k arch enemy it was a lot of fun anyway...
We played around 1160 points Death Guard (aka Chaos Space Marines) versus Grey Knights. None of us has currently a proper gaming table with terrain in his appartment. Therefore my friends kitchen table and printed paper-terrain had to do the job... :-)
My first list was:
- Typhus
- 2 x 10 Plague Zombies
- 2 x 5 Plague Marines with 2 x plasma gun, plasma pistol and a Rhino
- 4 Terminators with power fists and combi-meltas, mark of Nurgle and a Land Raider
My friends list was:
- Inquisitor Coteaz
- 5 Grey Knight Paladins with two psicannons and 4 demon hammers in a Land Raider with a hatch-mounted multi-melta
- 10 Grey Knights with two psicannons and psybolt ammunition
- 1 Nemesis Dreadknight with a heavy incinerator
- 1 Chimera of the Inquisition
- 3 Imperial Soldiers with bolters
The Mission was to retrieve the holy imperial relict from a little space freight port on an unimportant small colony world. The imperium tried to secretly ship the relict away from the endangered world but Typhus somehow got to know about it and intervened with a small force. Inquisitor Coteaz, on the other hand, was secretly following Typhus' moves for a while now, and this would be a perfect opportunity to ambush Typhus with a small highly specialized Grey knight dettachment and kill him...
Both forces clash in the small space port with the relict right in between them. The Grey Knights take the initiative while the Death Guard for now stays in cover. Typhus in the Land Raider with his guard of terminators first has to accommodate to the new situation...
The Grey Knights move forward in close formation and start killing the first plague zombies becoming visible between the containers...
Typhus decides to attack with full strength and annihilate these fragile humans. His Land Raider shoots forward to a head-on with the Grey Knight Land Raider, while the Plague Marines are brought into tactical positions in their Rhinos...
Unimpressed by the laser shot of the Chaos Land Raider, the Grey Knight Land Raider turns and releases the Paladins. The Grey Knights fire at the Rhinos, destroy one and severely damage the other...However, the plague marines inside remain unharmed in both cases...
Now it is time for the Death Guard to strike back! Typhus and his guard leave the Land Raider directly in front of the enemy and unleash their meltas at the Gey Knight Land Raider, which explodes in a huge fireball leaving only a huge crater...
But what is this?! All of a sudden a huge Dreadknight appears in the smoke stepping through the crater...
... and attacks the Chaos Terminators! Typhus' anger rises and he challenges the Grey knight in the chest of the Dreadknight for a duel. A bad idea as it turns out: The Dreadknight was designed exactly for this purpose: killing demons and their servants! Typhus falls to the ground his terminator armor torn open. Is he trully dead this time? Before the pilot of the Dreadknight can find out, the terminator guard of Typhus tries to take revenge for their master. Foolish of them because they are without chance...
In the mean time the other Grey Knights exit the Chimera and take the Plague Marines under heavy fire. But these are completely unimpressed and despite aweful wounds, none of the Death Guards goes to the ground.
The plague marines storm forward and return the fire of the Grey knights with their charged plasmaguns. With devastating results as all of the Grey Knight unit die apart from Inquisitor Coteaz himself...
Despite these heavy losses, Coteaz decides to assault the plague marines supported by the Paladins, which had stayed back in the mean time because of losses due to laser fire of the Chaos Land Raider. This decision proves correct as the plague marines cannot withstand the powerful close combat attacks of the Grey Knights. One after another they fall, while the Dreadknight first kills all Chaos terminators. The remaining zombies cannot harm the Grey Knights but while they keep the Dread knight busy, the Chaos Land Raider manages to retreat. Did it take Typhus' corpse? After the battle Coteaz orders a thorough search of the infested battle field. But no sign of Typhus...
Coteaz knows the Chaos too well to assume that Typhus would not come back to seek revenge another day. However, the relict is recured at least and can be brought to a safer place out of reach of the Death Guard...
We played around 1160 points Death Guard (aka Chaos Space Marines) versus Grey Knights. None of us has currently a proper gaming table with terrain in his appartment. Therefore my friends kitchen table and printed paper-terrain had to do the job... :-)
My first list was:
- Typhus
- 2 x 10 Plague Zombies
- 2 x 5 Plague Marines with 2 x plasma gun, plasma pistol and a Rhino
- 4 Terminators with power fists and combi-meltas, mark of Nurgle and a Land Raider
My friends list was:
- Inquisitor Coteaz
- 5 Grey Knight Paladins with two psicannons and 4 demon hammers in a Land Raider with a hatch-mounted multi-melta
- 10 Grey Knights with two psicannons and psybolt ammunition
- 1 Nemesis Dreadknight with a heavy incinerator
- 1 Chimera of the Inquisition
- 3 Imperial Soldiers with bolters
The Mission was to retrieve the holy imperial relict from a little space freight port on an unimportant small colony world. The imperium tried to secretly ship the relict away from the endangered world but Typhus somehow got to know about it and intervened with a small force. Inquisitor Coteaz, on the other hand, was secretly following Typhus' moves for a while now, and this would be a perfect opportunity to ambush Typhus with a small highly specialized Grey knight dettachment and kill him...
The Grey Knights move forward in close formation and start killing the first plague zombies becoming visible between the containers...
Typhus decides to attack with full strength and annihilate these fragile humans. His Land Raider shoots forward to a head-on with the Grey Knight Land Raider, while the Plague Marines are brought into tactical positions in their Rhinos...
Unimpressed by the laser shot of the Chaos Land Raider, the Grey Knight Land Raider turns and releases the Paladins. The Grey Knights fire at the Rhinos, destroy one and severely damage the other...However, the plague marines inside remain unharmed in both cases...
Now it is time for the Death Guard to strike back! Typhus and his guard leave the Land Raider directly in front of the enemy and unleash their meltas at the Gey Knight Land Raider, which explodes in a huge fireball leaving only a huge crater...
But what is this?! All of a sudden a huge Dreadknight appears in the smoke stepping through the crater...
The plague marines storm forward and return the fire of the Grey knights with their charged plasmaguns. With devastating results as all of the Grey Knight unit die apart from Inquisitor Coteaz himself...
Despite these heavy losses, Coteaz decides to assault the plague marines supported by the Paladins, which had stayed back in the mean time because of losses due to laser fire of the Chaos Land Raider. This decision proves correct as the plague marines cannot withstand the powerful close combat attacks of the Grey Knights. One after another they fall, while the Dreadknight first kills all Chaos terminators. The remaining zombies cannot harm the Grey Knights but while they keep the Dread knight busy, the Chaos Land Raider manages to retreat. Did it take Typhus' corpse? After the battle Coteaz orders a thorough search of the infested battle field. But no sign of Typhus...
Coteaz knows the Chaos too well to assume that Typhus would not come back to seek revenge another day. However, the relict is recured at least and can be brought to a safer place out of reach of the Death Guard...
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