BFG: assault on Eln

I've been playing quite a lot of Mass Effect games these last months, and so I was feeling like switching to a sci fi game, for land battles I'm already in a campaign of 40k 8th, lacking naval games I decided to begin a BFG bash with my father. The battles will take place in the Golgotha subsector, the Imperials won the roll off and picked the best planet, the forgeworld Demios, as their base; the orks deployed at the other end of the map.

 The Imperial Navy invaded the nearby system of Eln to launch a planetary assault against the planet

 The human vessels sped ahead towards their goal, keeping the transports behind

 Two ork roks adopt a blocking position

 While the hulk and the rest of the fleet strain to get out of the tricky position where the imperial player has placed them: you roll a dice before the battle 1-3 the enemy deploys a defender's ship

 The dictator keeps back, blasting away with the nova cannon

 Oneshooting a defence monitor

 The foremost rock crumbles under torpedo and bomber strikes

 However a transport is also destroyed

 Squadron valkyrie is totalled by ork fightas

 Another rok dies to bombers

 This hapless asteroid recieved first a torpedo salvo

 And was the finished off by a bombing run

 The imperial bombers sow terror among the ork fleet

 Destroying yet another "ship"

 The battleship Sebastian Thor moves ponderously through the weckrage of the enemy fleet

Launched from the hulk, a bomber wave bravely attacks a dominator cruiser, but thanks to brace for impact she survives the onslaught

With all the roks gone, the ork admiral decides to disengage giving up the system to the imperials

I've also cooked up this using the "Smotherman formula" to serve as my flagship in the campaign