2x Dark Eldar vs Blood Angels 600 pts picture batreps!

So I brought my new and improved Dark Eldar with me this time against the Blood Angels for two sets of battles! I had to make some last minute changes because I had forgotten to take two Troops choices, so I scaled off a few points here and there and added 5 whyches with haywire grenades for some suicidal anti vehicle support. Other than that I had my Archon with agoniser, shadow field (2+ invuln, that goes away if he fails a save) and a Blaster, five Trueborn with 4 blasters and a splinter cannon (blasterborn!), 10 kabalites with a splinter cannon riding a Raider with flickerfield, splinter racks and night shields. And lastly 3 Reaver jet bikes, with cluster caltrops and a heat lance.

The Blood Angels brought an assault squad with a librarian, a squad of tactical marines with a plasma gun and cannon and a furioso dreadnaught.

In the first battle I managed to immobilize the Furioso after trying to hit it in the back like 3 times with the heat lance, so it stood there firing it guns for the rest of the combat. My raider got blown up but only 2 kabalites died in the blast, but then another four died to bolter and plasma fire and the squad fell back after failing their leadership test.

The assault marines got in a good position behind a large rock formation before jumping out towards the Blasterborn with my archon in it who had moved up a bit to fire at the tactical squad.
They managed to get off the assault killing 3 blasterborn with hammer of wrath and gunfire, and then the Librarian accepted my Archons challenge (he didn't know what the Archon could do apperantly) and the Archon got to hit first and with ws 7 and 4 attacks with ap 3, the librarian didn't even get to strike back before he was dead. I felt kinda bad that I didn't warn him about the fact that Archons are pretty mean in a duel before he accepted, but oh well, I'll take it as some sort of wierd cosmic vengeance for the force staff to my ork warboss's face!

the assault marines however quickly killed the remaining trueborn and eventually the Archon as well, who rolled two 1's after taking 3 hits, putting him down to 1 remaining wound and no invulnerable save. I had also magically forgotten that the agoniser always wound on a 4+ instead of using his strength 3, that certainly didn't help him killing off assault marines before they could strike!
the Wyches got gunned down as they tried to assist the kabalites against the tactical marines, and then the kabalites got crushed between the tactical and assault marines, and that was that for the first game!

For the second match the blood angels decided to switch it up a bit and exchanged the assault marines for sanguinary guards instead! (from 10 assault marines to five sanguin's I think). I switched out my wyches for 5 kabalites with a splinter cannon. 

I got first turn this time but he siezed the initiative, and just genreally moved up with his force. The plasma cannon opened up on the new kabalite squad, direct hit and killed all of them! On my turn I flung my reapers across the table, bladevanes killing 2 marines from the tactical squad, and then hid behind a rock in his deployment zone. my blasterborn and Archon moved up as well, and greeted the sanguinary guard with 5 blaster shots, killing two guards and putting a wound on the librarian! the Blood Angels would have been better off with 10 assault marines, because the 2+ armour save of sanguinary guard was wasted against the blasters ap 2 fire! 

The Raider got in position behind a large rock (ther was a lot of them about!) and caught wind of the furioso, but the dark lance didn't manage to hurt it.

on the blood angel turn the tactical squad advanced into the ruins in the middle of the table, trying to shoot down the archon and his blasterborn, but the archon was the first model to take the hits from them, and he saved them all with his 2+ invuln! nasty!

the furioso moved up but failed its charge against the raider, luckily!

Then the Sanguinary guard charged the blasterborn, I got 3 sixes on the overwatch, and killed another 3! leaving only the librarian left to charge, and as before he didn't stand much chance against the Archon.

On my turn the reaver jet bikes swept back and in behind the furioso, hit it with the heat lance, and instantly blew it up!, the Raider swooped up and the kabalites within opened fire on the tactical squad, re-rolling to hit because of the splinter rack and ended up killing all but one marine. The pesky plasma cannon guy! He legged it out of the ruin, turned around on his turn and fire the plasma towards the Archon, scattered and hit the ruins he had just left. After that the blood angels conceded.

For the Emprah! taste plasma!

700 pts Orks vs Blood Angels Picture Batrep

Played a small 700 pts battle agains the Blood Angels, it was a smaller table and line of sight was pretty poor due to many small rocks jutting out of the ground. 

I brought my warboss,nobs in a looted wagon combo, as always. My lootas, 20 boyz and 10 'ard boyz to protect my new Wierdboy (that I upgraded to a warphead for 30 pts so he could reroll his psychic power, because Orks cast a random power on a D6, and rolling 1 is bad).

My first mistake I did was bringing lootas to such a small battlefield with so much terrain blocking LOS, as they had to move up twice before they could do anything really, which meant two rounds of snapshots and getting really close to the enemy.

I put my 20 (shoota) boyz on the right flank, and before they could get around a particulary large rock, they got assaulted by... Assault marines, and I lost pretty badly because of the high number of attacks, but the boy held for at least one turn.

A tactical marine squad had moved up into some ruins in the centre, and my wierd boy and his 'ard boyz (or for fluffnes sake, mad boyz) headed in that general direction with some cover fire from my lootas. On the first turn he had gotten of a zzzap, killing a few marines, but as they fired their guns and psychic powers before charging I rolled a 1 on the wierd boyz psychic powers, luckily I had a reroll for just this occasion...

And I rolled another 1, blowing up half of the 'ard boyz (who had a 4+ armor, but the blast was ap 3) right before the charge. in which the rest of that unit got killed. Oh you, Orks!

My second mistake was putting the looted wagon on my left flank, because what I didn't see was that the way they went was a dead end for the tank, so the Boss and his nobs had to jump out and walk. Which hurt pretty badly as the pesky stormraven entered play and gunned pretty much everything down as the assault marines charged the lootas so they didn't even get a chance to shoot at the flyer.

The warboss and nobs did however get into close combat with the terminators and the librarian. That ended pretty badly as well however because the librarian had a force staff. using a psychic power to get it to strength 10 and he then spent is other force token to use the force weapons power to give it instant death. killing the warboss in one blow!

The nobs held out pretty good though and managed to down a few terminators before getting wiped out as well.

Blood Angels Victory!

Pool table Batrep - Orks Vs Blood Angels

This is an old battle I played before the summer of 2013. It was during a painting and play night, the larger table was occupied by a warmachine battle so we took to the ol' pool table and fought it out!

This was the first time I played against Anders and his Blood Angels, his army list consisted only of assault marines and sanguinary guard. bull rushing Orks turned out to be a bad idea and he lost pretty badly, but boy can those blood angel assault marines dish out a high number of attacks!

My Ork list consisted of two mobs of Ork boyz, 3 killa kans, 10 lootas and a Looted tank with my Warboss and his Nobs in it, I think I had a Pain boy as well. At the time I didn't know what a death star a fully kitted warboss with 8 nobs and a pain boy giving them cybork bodies and FNP was... ooops! >:D