Into the Maelstorm: 40k ultras vs 30k iron hands

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

40k ultras vs 30k iron hands

I went again to the store for another game of 40k, this time I took Iron Hands with some sicaran battletanks plus Castrman Orth (who gives tank hunters and BS 5 to a tank) to deal with the speeders of the last day. Great was my surprise when I found that he had just one speeder and no bikes but termies and Land Raiders instead!

The mission rolled was the relic, whoever had the relic at the end of the game would get three victory points

I got first turn and deployed Ferrus Manus directly before the relic

In my first turn I just stunned a speeder but got Ferrus close to the relic

In the ultras first turn they launched a drop pod and the veterans coming out of it wrecked Orth's sicaran

His land raider blew up an executioner predator

In my turn Ferrus seized the holy lamp of Antioch relic, a powerful artefact said to have illuminated a street where the Emperor passed by once

Orth now out of his sicaran charged the veterans, killing one with his pistol and bashing the brains of another with his maul

The termies managed an impossible charge into the land rider

Cutting it to pieces

In the ultras turn a "drop pod" unleashed a dreadnought behind a rhino

His termis charged mine

The rhino was blown up

And its passengers decimated by the scouts

Who then charged in

The combat went fairly even between the termies altough the storm shields would mark the difference in the next turns

The tactical was wiped out by the scouts in hand to hand

Orth was also felled

In my turn the sicaran killed the dreadnought

And my termie won the combat, the smurfs retreated and he was unable to pursue due to slow and purpouseful

The scouts shooted at Ferrus but just one wound was inflicted

The termies charged but the Sicaran survived

In my sixth turn I manoeuvred the remaining units in order to claim linebreaker, the sicaran killed the termis and the tactical fury of the legioned the vets