Battle Report by Ashram

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I can not take credit for the name. This site was named by Aaron Cains.

This my first attempt at a battle report so bare with me and I apologize if I'm
not much of a writer. Played a 1000 pt game last night against my brother. He
uses the sisters of battle and I was going to try the terrorflex for the first
time. Here's the army breakdown:

sisters:

hq     cannoness w/ pwr fist & plasma pistol
       8 celestian bodyguards w/ heavy flamer, meltagun, icon bearer
       rhino w/ smoke launchers

troop 6 battle sisters
       veteran sister superior w/ plamsa pistol & close combat weapon
       multimelta, meltagun
       rhino w/ smoke launchers

troop 6 battle sisters
       veteran sister superior w/ plamsa pistol & close combat weapon
       multimelta, meltagun
       rhino w/ smoke launchers

heavy 5 retributors
       veteran sister superior w/ storm bolter, close combat weapon
       4 heavy bolters
       rhino w/ smoke launchers

heavy 8 retributors
       veteran sister superior w/ storm bolter, close combat weapon
       4 heavy flamers
       rhino w/ smoke launchers

dark eldar:

hq     dark eldar lord archon w/ power weapon
       combat drugs, jetbike, shadow field, and terrorflex

troop 10 raider squad
       sybarite w/ power weapon, plamsa grenade
       raider

troop 16 warrior squad
       2 dark lances

elite 10 wyches
       succubus w/ power weapon
       wych weapons, plasma grenades, raider

fast   5 reaver jetbikes
       succubus w/ power weapon, tormentor helm, plasma grenade
       2 blasters

heavy talos

Okay I'll try to summarize the battle as best as I can recall. We played a
meatgrinder mission with me being the attacker (duh). Objectives were simple,
attacker wins if s/he destroys the entire defense force, the defender wins is
s/he has any forces left. My rolls for the drug effects were +1A for both the
reavers and wyches, 2 sixes, woohoo!! That unfortunately was going to be the
best the dice would roll for me that night -_- my brother's sacred rights
really screwed over my experiment, of the six squads, two recieved can never be
pinned, another two recieved ignore negative modifiers to morale and pinning
tests, and the last received always attempt to regroup. So much for testing my
terrorflex.

I'll describe the layout of units from my side of the board.

setup: On my left flank was my lord and reavers, in the middle was my warrior
squad in the cover of bushes and my talos. On the right were my 2 raiders. My
brother had two rhinos on the left flank, one in the middle and two on the
right. He got first turn.

1st turn: 4 rhinos moved up and activated smoke launchers, two on my right flank
and two up the middle. The last stayed put, obviously the heavy bolters. The 2
rhinos in the middle block his line of sight of his heavy bolters to my
warriors. Reavers moved up the left flank to get to the retributors, had to
only move 12" to stay behind a forest, big f***ing mistake!! Talos moved
towards the right flank, raiders dropped back out of range of my brother's
weapons but kept the rhinos in dark lance range. my firing was pitiful, only
managed to destroy a storm bolter!! Rolled a bunch of 1's and 2's on to hits
and AP.

2nd turn: 1 rhino veared from the middle to my left flank and made it around
the forest!! i wasn't too worried, yet. Heavy bolter rhino stayedd put other 3
advanced, 1 up the middle and on the right flank. In his shooting he killed
one of the warrior squad with bolter fire and could only reach one of the dark
lances in the warrior squad with his heavy flamers. The rhino in front of my hq
and reavers was his hq squad! They fired a heavy flamer, plasma pistol,
meltagun and boltgun from inside. Storm bolter was knocked out. Heavy flamer
was resolved first, scoring a hit on my lord, succubus and a blaster!! Succubus
and blaster bit it, and my lord's shadow field gave on my first save attempt!!
augh!! The remaining fire vaporized two more bikes leaving me with just my lord
with 1 wound and a bike with a blaster!! ouch!! I passed my morale check. My
turn had my lord and remaining reaver circle to the back of the cannoness'
rhino. My talos moved up to within assualt range of the rhinos on the right
flank, warriors stayed put, and the two raiders swung around behind the
warriors, couldn't do anything with them until I popped open the rhinos. I
managed to pop open the rhino in the middle and the hq rhino in my shooting.
The rhino in the middle was the other retributor squad with 4 heavy flamers!!
uh oh!! The hq squad lost 3 sisters and the retributor lost 1. My talos
assaulted on lead rhino on the right flank, and I rolled a 1 for the number of
attacks! and another 1 for ap! ugh! My lord took a hit of reroll misses and
+1A and charged with the reaver into the hq squad killing the cannonness, I
allocated all my attacks from my lord to the cannonness, she had a 5ws with the
icon bearer, everyone else had 4ws. I didn't take a wound on the counter attack
and my brother passed his check.

3rd turn: Heavy flamer retributor squad moved closer to my warrior squad. One
the troop rhinos on the right flank advanced to the middle in front of my raider
w/ the raider squad. The other rhino stayed parked infront of the talos. And
heavy bolter rhino stayed. The combination of 4 heavy flamers and 4 heavy
bolters totally decimated my warrior squad, wait a minute, he fired 4 heavy
bolters in a 5 man squad from inside his rhino!! Didn't even notice that, oh
well, next time bro!! His troop squad in the rhino ripped up my raider killing
5 of warriors inside but they held. And the talos, through bolter, plasma, and
multimelta fire only took 1 wound, <whew>. In the assualt phase his remaining
hq squad lost 2 more, didn't return a wound then broke!! The lord and reaver
promptly ran the rest down put themselves within striking distance of the rear
of the heavy bolter rhino. In my turn, my lord and blaster jetbike moved behind
the heavy bolter rhino. The remaining raider squad moved toward the heavy
flamer squad, The talos moved in behind the stubborn rhino, and the wych raider
moved to a safe location but still in dark lance range of the two troop rhinos,
(it was the last full squad I had, and I had to put it in position to be able to
fly to either the troop squads or the heavy bolter squad in case my lord and
reaver failed). My shooting phase started horribly. My blaster on my bike
missed the rear of the rhino! The dark lance of the wych raider took out the
troop rhino that took down the other rhino. The wildfire of the talos did
nothing to the rear of the rhino it was engaging but it did knock off one of the
newly disembarked troops from the other rhino and one of sisters from the heavy
flamer retributor squad. The raider squad fired a splinter pistol, 2 rifles, 1
cannon and 1 blaster into the heavy flamer squad, downing a couple more. In the
assualt phase, my lord took another injection of +1 attack, reroll misses and
+1S and assualted with the reaver the rear of the rhino, he succeded in
penetrating and caused a 5" explosion, lucky for me the wound went to the reaver
who made the save, unfortunately for me my brother only lost 1 sister in the
explosion and promptly place his sisters in front of the wreckage at point blank
range of my lord!! My raider squad assualted the remaining heavy flamer
retributor squad and the sybarite promptly dispatched of two of them, one being
the veteran sister superior! They took no wounds in return and the sisters
held. The talos finally wacked the rhino aside, don't remember if any sisters
died in the crash. Then a question was raised if a unit successfully assualt a
vechile can the unit consolidate. One of the other players in the store said
yes. So I moved behind the wreckage.

4th turn: My brother moved his troop squad near the talos around the wreckage,
and kept the other troop squad still to fire the multimelta at the talos, just
in case. Lord and reaver died in a hail of heavy and storm bolter fire, eh, at
least he was high when it happened and the talos finally bit it. In the assualt
phase my raider squad was able to finish off the remaining heavy flamers and
consolidated toward the troop squad that stood still. My wych raider moved
closer, too close for my brother, to the heavy bolter squad who had no line of
sight because of the wrecked rhino. My raider squad moved towad even closer to
the sisters. The raider squad fired into the sisters and was able to drop a
few. In the assault, the raider squad was able to reduce the sisters to two
while taking a loss. the sisters broke 9" and my pursuit only went 8", damn. A
2+ was needed to play a 5th turn, and I rolled a 5 (yes!)

5th turn: The heavy bolter squad started to run, the sisters that broke had the
sacred rite to always attempt to regroup. He failed and they had to run again.
that squad had a bolter and a multimelta remaining. The other troop squad moved
in closer to my raider squad, my brother did not want me to get the bonus for
assualting him. From the firing of the two squads I only lost
1 warrior and passed my moral check. My brother assualted with each of us
suffering wounds, we were both down to 2 men/women in each squad! But I still
had my sybarite, I believe my brother had to take the morale test, and he
passed. On my turn, the wych raider was still able to catch the heavy bolter
squad and drop the wyches within inches of them. Since I didn't need the fleet
of foot, I decided to fire the pistols, my first time! Not a single sister
dropped, oh well. The dark lance missed, bummer!! Assualt phase, wyches jumped
all over the heavy bolter squad, killing all in a flash!! I had been rocked the
whole game, that it was only now that I realized that I had a chance of
winning. My brother only had the four remaining sisters left, and i still had a
full squad of wyches, a raider, and 2 of the raider squad in h2h vs 2 of the
sisters, the other 2 sisters still had to regroup. I could not consolidate back
into the raider so I consolidated toward the 2 retreating sisters, I was within
a movement, fleet of foot and assualt range, plus he could only take out 2 of my
wyches at most. And I was confident about the sybarite being able to take out
the other 2 sisters. Okay to go to turn 6 a 3+ is needed. and I roll a 1!!!
Again!!! Game over man!!! My brother had forces remaining, he wins, though he
said to me "why do I feel like I lost?"

Had a lot fun playing, the closest game I've ever played so far. Hope you guys
enjoyed reading this, and are able to learn from my mistakes.

Ashram