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Alderin Triscar, Shadow Captain of the 5th Company of the Ravenguard Chapter listened attentively to reports from his scouts that Tyranids had landed on the planet. The scout veteran explained that the Nids were spread out right now and trying to regroup after a rough landing. Triscar smiled and nodded as the veteran said they must strike fast before the Nids had a chance to muster in full force.

Triscar walked out of the Mobile HQ and called an emergency attention to his space marines, who quickly formed up for battle. Triscar explained to his marines that his advance scouts had run into some Nids and a sniper squad was still in the area picking off what they could without being seen. The mission was to annihilate the Nids before they could send off for more buggy troops. Triscar, a former member of Kayvaan Shrike’s Wing, now with his own squad and dual lightning claws just like his former teacher, eagerly looked forward to his first battle.

Triscar immediately sent off one of his devastator squads which immediately split into two five-man squads, one with missile launcher and plasma cannon and other with two heavy bolters and veteran with a power sword and pistol. The veteran moved his troops into the open in the middle of the battle field so he could get clear shots at the two swarms of gaunts and warrior brood with deathspitters. The other squad moved into cover with the two five-man sniper squads with a heavy bolter into rocky cover on the left side of the field. An assault squad entered in the middle bottom and moved up a little setting up a charge. The sniper squads both fired at the warrior brood and with the heavy bolter shooting a poison blast, downed one warrior and two gaunts after the others duck behind some trees for cover.

A swarm a hormoguants and another warrior brood with a lot of claws ran onto the board in the top left corner behind some trees. A carnifex entered in the top middle and shot at the devastators in the open, the armor of the Space Marines resisted any damage. The warriors with deathspitters were out of range so the two gaunts swarms and warriors moved forward. (1 *denotes end of turn)

Another squad of devastators entered battle splitting into a squad of lascannon and missile launcher and veteran with power axe and pistol and two missile launchers. They moved into the middle of the battle field to support the heavy bolters in the open. A squad of five terminators honed in on the beacon of the sniper squad and teleported into battle in front of the scouts. A unit of five vanguard, three with power axes and two with dual lightning claws, dropped in next to the heavy bolters for support. The heavy bolters and missile launcher, plasma cannon and scout squads tore into the warrior brood with many claws and downed two warriors and wounded another and wiped out two more gaunts. The terminators blasted the other gaunt squad with four storm bolters and an assault cannon and down five. The assault squad charged yelling “Victor aut Mortis!” and hit the guants and destroyed them to a bug.

Another brood of four warriors entered in the top left and a carnifex with a lot of claws and three skinny bugs with big heads. The shooty carnifex shot at the space marines and killed one devastator with a bolter. The warriors with death spitters shot the snipers and two fell wounded. The hormogaunts and warriors with claws swarmed the assault squad and after a vicious struggle down six marines. The marines in turn killed two gaunts and the one warrior and wounded the other. Even despite being heavily outnumbered the space marines refused to run and kept smiling as they held up the line so that the rest of the force could destroy the bugs. (2)

Triscar and his unit of assault marines entered the battle on the left side of the field and assaulted the gaunts. A squad of close combat scouts entered in the top left section and immediately assaulted the warrior brood armed with guns. The vanguard moved up to support the assault marines but even with fleet could not quite make it into combat. The plasma cannon overheated and the marine died while the missile launcher missed. The heavy bolters demolished two warriors with deathspitters and the lascannon and missile launcher put two wounds on the shooty carnifex while the other two missile launchers and all the snipers put one wound on the close combat carnifex. Most shells just bounced off his durable hide. The close combat scouts ran through the warriors and continued on their way to the middle of the battlefield. Triscar and his squad hit the guants and utterly demolished them. Triscar looked around for bigger bugs to slice and dice and led his group towards the close combat carnifex. The terminators shot at the psychic bugs and wounded one of them. The assault squad on close combat lost 2 more marines and killed one hormogaunt and fled from combat right next to the vanguard with all the hormos and warrior close on their heels.

The 4th brood of warriors with deathspitters entered battle in the middle of the top and shot at the terminators and one fell. The close combat carnifex moved closer to Triscar and the shootyfex took out two vanguard. The warrior and hormogaunts charged the depleted vanguard and assault marines and down one vanguard and both assault marines. The vanguard struck back undaunted and killed four hormogaunts and then one more as they struck out madly with their lightning claws. The psychic bugs moved forward to follow the hormogaunts. (3)

The devastators all shot at the shootyfex and wounded him a little bit. The terminators and scout squads both shot at the close combat carnifex and only one shell penetrated his extra tough hide. The close combat scouts ran towards the warrior brood but were still well out of range. Triscar charged the combatfex and he and his squad could not hurt the massive beast. Six marines were pulverized as the big bug stomped around. Triscar and his men quickly fled and regroup as the bug ran after them and was close on their heels. The last two vanguard were pulled down under the massive swarm of hormogaunts and they moved forward closer to the devastator squads.

Another shootyfex and a large swarm of hormogaunts appeared next the to scout squad and promptly attacked them. The warrior brood with guns shot at the terminators not harming them and the shootyfex after being wounded could not see straight and missed the devastator squads badly. The homorgaunts and warrior charged two devastator squads, both which had a veteran. The warrior and hormogaunts downed six marines from the two squads, but the captains down three hormogaunts and the last warrior, so now the hormoguants were without a synapses creature. One squad of marines fled off the battlefield while a veteran and one space marine fearlessly stayed in combat. The scouts lost six men and killed five bugs in return and their resolution did not fail as they stayed in combat. The combatfex hit Triscar and his marines. Triscar infuriated at losing his squad dug his claws into the fex’s hide and proceded to badly wound the bug, but still the fex destroyed the other four marines and again Triscar had to flee combat for his life. (4)

The terminators decided to be exterminators (lol) and unleashed the autocannon and storm bolters on the combat fex and watched as its dropped to the ground to move no more. Triscar charged one of the physic bugs but due to some force shield, only wounded the bug. The devastators shot at the wounded shooty fex but failed to do any serious damage to it. The hormogaunts decapitated the four scouts and moved towards the terminators. The hormogaunts, after hitting and wounding the devastators, only succeeded in killing the marine while the veteran killed two in return forcing the bugs to look around and see they had no support, but miraculously they stayed in combat (needed a 4 and rolled it).

Both shooty fex’s and the last warrior brood shot the terminators and after a hail of fire, only one fell. The hormogaunts then charged the terminators and completely overran them. Triscar looked around and hated himself for not being more careful with his squad and giving the battle to the Nids. With abandon he hacked the psychic bug to bits and moved closer to the next of the two left. The hormoguants hit the veteran marine and wounded him multiple time, but due to his good armor he came out undaunted (saved six wounds with a 3+). The veteran killed one bug and this time the bugs being out of synapses range turned and fled and the veteran ran all 14 of them down and continued to the last psychic bug. (5)

Dusk had not yet fallen so combat continued a little longer. The devastators and snipers missed wounded the one psychic bug by the veteran but could not kill him. Triscar and the veteran both charged their respective bug. The veteran and his bug failed to hurt each other, but Triscar still in his fury, shredded his bug.

The hormoguants which over ran the terminators could not reach the snipers and the warrior brood and both shooty fex only wounded one space marine devastator.

Triscar looked up and was surprised to see the Nids turning tail and running. He looked over his marines and sighed as he won the day, but lost too many marines to make his first win enjoyable.

My squad
Shrike (Named him Triscar)
2 units of devastators (4 missile, 2 heavy bolters, 1 plasma and lascannon), vet with power weapons
2 units of assault marines with vet with power fist
1 unit of close combat scouts with powerfist
1 unit of 5 terminators with 2 chainfist and assault cannon
1 unit of 5 vanguard, 3 with power weapon and 2 with lightning claws
1 unit of sniper scouts with heavy bolter

Nids
2 shooty carnifexes
1 close combat fex with T7 and regeneration
3 warrior broods of 4 with range weapons
1 warrior brood, close combat, 4 bugs
2 units of 24 gaunts with guns
2 units of 24 hormogaunts
3 psychic bugs which he split up

Playing kill points
At beginning of the battle I thought I had the game in the bag and got stupid and decided to try Shrike against a carnifex, big mistake. The battle turned and looked like I was going to lose until Shrike shredded two psychic bugs and the veteran devastator survived 10 armror saves over two rounds and ran down the hormogaunts. I won with 9 victory pts to his 6. It was a fun game all around.

Must have been very interesting!

Shooty and fast army is always interesting to play with and not to underestimate!

I have a battle coming up about in a month with my IG against SM 1500pt.