With Mark, a guy I met over at Bolter & Chainsword, I've begun a Horus Heresy campaign with Forgeworld rules. These are rather simple: each player chooses a planet in their turn and the battle is played according to the characteristics of it, if the attacker wins he gets one control point and the strategic benefits from the location. The player with more planets (where he has most control points) at the end of a determined number of battles wins the campaign.
Mark (playing as Horus's forces) choose to attack Terra in a BFG battle
We got just two random units on the board and the rest would come as reserves
He got most of his fleet in turn 1 against my lone battlebarge
However my barge had the greater range and crossed the T on a cruiser, wrecking it
I got some reinforcements also
The barge soon recieved an expected retaliation
While yet another traitor cruiser joined the fray
The ordnance of my barge soon got their revenge on the enemy flagship
While my cruiser launched a bomber wave against her opponent in the other side of the table
The battleship still had teeth
And a hidden weapon: a mark of chaos ideal for boarding
Things looked grim for the loyalist barge, surrounded and unable to move with her engines damaged, and now the barge had to suffer all the strength of waves of assault ships
I won the boarding unexpectedly however
In the other side, the lone traitor cruiser got hit by bombers and torpedoes and was crippled
My cruiser also felt the bomber's wrath
But closing on the enemy, launched a devastating ordnance wave that finished off the traitor cruiser
Thankfully the rest of my fleet finally arrived
The frigates now moved to engage the new threat
Surviving some bomber waves
One of the crippled cruisers crashed against the volcanic moon
Two of the traitor frigates were destroyed by further bombers
The battleship, with her engines also damaged, was unable to escape from a torpedo wave which left her with just one remaining damage
With his flagship agout to die, Mark decided to concede and so the battle ended
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