Battle Report 1250 points: Grey Knights vs. DE.
I will apologize up front that I do not know Grey Knights well, so may have some of the names wrong.
Duke Sliscus
Haemonculus Hexrifle, venom blades
Haemonculus Hexrifle, venom blade
9 Wyches, RF in a Raider
5 Wyches, HWG in a venom with SC X 2
9 Warriors, HWG in a Raider, SR, night shields
4 Incubi in a venom, SC X 2
5 Scourges HWB X2
Ravager
Ravager
HQ
Some large paladin dude with a big warhammer who had a two
plus save with a 3+ FNP and lots of special rules.
Grey knights squad of 6 with heavy weapons.
Grey knight squad of 6 (grey squad)
Grey knight squad of 6 (red squad-not sure exactly what
these were, but had a power hammer and a power sword among other stuff)
5 paladins in a land raider (HQ here too)
Grey Knight Nemisis Dreadkinght
Deployment: Normal
Special Issues: None.
Warlord Traits: He rolled and got the furious charge in my
deployment zone
I
then rolled and got the reroll reserve rolls. Big help with no reserves
Terrain was already there. A couple of buildings and some
hills.
I won first deployment.
He failed to steal the initiative. My combat drugs were +1
strength. We forgot about night fighting.
I deployed split between the two far corners where there was
cover. In the far right I put a ravager, the raider with wyches and a
haemonculus and the venom with wyches. In the far left I put the raider with
warriors and the duke all around them. Next to them was the venom with the
incubi and a haemonculus around it. The scourges were in the building in the
corner that the vehicles were behind.
He deployed a squad on the hill in his far right corner with
the squad with the psycannons behind it. His land raider and his dreadknight
were near the middle back and his other squad was in a building on his far
left.
Turn one DE: First I did a switch and loaded the Duke with
the Incubi on the venom, leaving the pain token behind and loaded the warriors
and the Haemy on the raider, leaving the 3+ poison shots with them. I moved all
my vehicles to just at 36 inches and spread out. My scourges went to the mid
point on a hill to try and keep some cover but could not quite get in range of
the land raider. A venom put 12 SC shots into his dreadknight and he took one
wound. My raider to my right could only see the dreadknight and gave it a
second wound with the DL. My ravager wiffed at his land raider. The haemy on
the right took a shot with his hexrifle at the dreadknight and missed. On the
left of the board concentrated fire took out the front squad of grey knights
completely (the grey squad).
Turn one Grey knights: First he used an orbital bombardment
(apparently GK can have that as a weapon) and it exploded my raider with the
warriors-I only lost one or two to the explosion. He move his dreadknight and
his land raider forward. His heavy weapon squad remained stationary and he
moved his other squad out of the house but still in cover. He cast some psychic
power to make his heavy weapons squad be able to hit anything within 24 inches
despite line of sight, but they were out of range of everything. His land
raider put a HP on a venom and killed two scourges. His dreadknight put a hull
point on a ravager. I made a lot of jink saves that round (but pretty much
failed them the rest of the game).
Turn 2 DE: I moved everything some, just to keep line of
sight and jink. On the right side of the board my ravager exploded his land
raider. My raider wiffed but my hexrifle hit the dreadknight but he made his
save. My venom fired into his paladin squad that came out of the raider getting
4 wounds but he saved them all. On the left my ravager killed a paladin. My
scourges fired their weapons into the paladins but did nothing.
Turn 2 GK: His orbital bombardment wrecked my venom with the
incubi but failed to kill the scourges. He moved his paladin squad forward
along with his dreadknight. His other squad (red) came around the corner and
his heavy weapon squad stayed where it was. He wrecked my venom carrying the
wyches after hitting with one pen and several glances. Saved the pen
(preventing an explosion) but got hull pointed. His heavy weapons unit destroyed
my ravager over on the left that I had moved a bit too close to them in order
to get the shots off that turn.
Turn 3 DE: My wyches that exited the wrecked venom in
mid-back field moved 6 inches strait at the paladin squad. My lone surviving
ravager moved a little. My scourges moved forward a bit. My raider on the right
moved forward a bit. In the shooting phase, my scourges failed to do anything
of value. My ravager killed his dreadknight. I unloaded everything else into
his paladin squad but came up empty. My wyches rolled a 2 on the run roll so I
rerolled and got a one…
Turn 3 GK: His red squad shot up my raider managing to
immobilize it. His heavy weapons unit killed all but one scourge who ran. He
shot into my 5 wyches sprinting at him managing to only kill three.
Turn 4 DE: My 9 wyches and Haemy unloaded from the
immobilized raider towards his red squad. My incubi and the duke moved forward
to get ready to assault the paladins. My two wyche unit moved forward for the
same. The warriors moved up close enough to get in rapid fire range of the
paladins. My scourge ran away a little more. In the shooting phase my one
raider wiffed as did my ravager. My squad of wyches on the right fired their
splinter pistols into the red squad killing one and the haemy killed one with
the hexrifle. The squad of two wyches and the warriors failed to kill any
paladins, but the haemy with the hexrifle on that side killed a paladin. The
duke failed to wound with his blast pistol. The 9 wyches and haemy on the right
assaulted the GK squad. His overwatch failed to kill any and the wyches killed
them all, taking no wounds. The squad of two wyches charged, making him expend
his paladin overwatch on them-failing to kill either of them. Then the incubi
and the duke charged. He used some kind of psychedelic grenade that made my two
wyches initiative one and my incubi/duke leadership 2. In the combat, the duke
was base to base with his HQ they managed to wound each other a few times but
both made all their saves. The incubi managed a wound on a paladin. His other
three remaining paladins managed to kill one wych. The last wych with the RF
managed to actually kill a paladin. I won combat, but he was fearless and
doesn’t run.
Turn 4 GK: His heavy weapon squad did that magic shooting
around corners thing and killed 4 or 5 warriors. Close combat was a draw.
He then conceded as my other squad of wyches were about to join combat and my
ravager and warriors were going after his heavy weapon squad. Very fun game,
but GK have a lot of interesting rules and psychic stuff that he cast all along
causing a lot of interesting effects. I have decided I like hex rifles, after
all, and FNP is still valuable enough to bring a Haemonculus or two.
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