I had a couple of games of Warhammer 40k last night against a mate playing Imperial Guard. Sgt Robinus once again performed some thrilling heroics that provided some entertainment. In fact, without them both games would have had a VERY different result! Below are two brief battle reports, centered around his actions.
Marine army:
Chaplain (melta bombs + jump pack + Plasma Pistol)
Assault Squad x10 (2 Plasma Pistols, Power Claw and Combat Shield.)
2 x Tactical Squads with Rhinos, (Power Fist, Combi-Melta, Melta gun and Missile Launcher - both squads combat-squadded for both battles.)
2 x Landspeeder Tornado's - MultiMelta and Heavy Flamer.
Battle 1: <5 objectives>
The imperial guard brought along a pretty decent tank army. 2 chimaeras, a Leman Russ Demolisher and a Leman Russ Executioner (I hate these things!) as well as a Valkyrie filled with Veterans It was very intimidating - especially when considering my lack of heavy weapons.
Sgt Robinus rode around midfield for half the battle guarding an objective, supporting the assault squad and the other Rhino looking for targets. In the latter half of the game, him and his squad trundled up nose to nose against the executioner on the right flank, with the Valkyrie (Immobilised) and its vets behind it. The combi-Melta wrecked the Executioner, and everyone mounted back up and trundled over to the vets, who Demo packed their ride, and charged the squad once they dismounted. The squad held out and the next round a chaplain who's assault squad had been wiped out jumped on in and between them they took down the remaining vets. 2:0 win for the marines due to 2 rounds of rediculously lucky shooting from the the 2 missile launchers up the back.
Battle 2: <Objectives, 3 markers.>
The imperial guard brought an infantry army for this one - 80+ troops, 8 scoring units - considering I had a footslogging assault squad - this was more intimidating than the last (At least I could block the executioners line of site in the first battle - cant block the lines of site from all 80 guardsmen, or their 6 missile launchers, 3 Lascannons, hotshotting Storm Troopers (Ap3 lasguns), and dozen or so Melta guns/plasma guns on vets!) The assault squad made some major judgment BooBoo's that resulted in them being mowed down in the open in front of 90% of the guards line. As for Sgt Robinus: His squad and the other squad went up the right flank - the other squad being dismounted, slogging up the middle and eventually being slain to plasma fire.
Robinus and his squad trundled up through the woodlands, and emptied out in front of a heavy weapons team and guardsman squad, and opened up with Melta guns and rapid fire bolters forcing the surviving heavy weapon guy to flee. They took the shots from the guardsman squad losing the Melta gunner, whilst the rhino got stripped of weapons beside them. The rhino moved over whilst Sgt Robinus and co. moved over to the guardsmen and assaulted. The charge was a failure, the combat was tied - but this meant that the squad was safe from guard shooting next round. In the Imperial Guard round the guardsmen lost, and were cut down in their retreat. The Rhino tank shocked a heavy weapon squad behind the guardsmen squad that had just been killed forcing them to flee, and they continued off of the board. Sgt Robinus and his squad continued over to a vet squad, charging and killing all but 2, the storm troopers joined in in the guard round and the battle there raged for another two rounds before Robinus was cut down by the remaining Colonel and the remaining Storm Trooper leaders power sword. (Robinus+co tally: 2 heavy weapons squads, 2 guardsman squads!) I am proud of this little marine... anything less from them and the battle would have been a tie, or lost. As it was, it ended with a score of 2:1 to the Marines.
It was an interesting evening - I may have stumbled onto a 1k point army I actually like with Marines! I dont think they would fair well against Tyranids however! They have always been my Achilles heel...
-V
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