The Gordium Campaign: Battle at World's End

In the early dawn, Sammael and Librarian Hephestion, over look the canyon edge in view of the bridge into the Tunguska glacier. Both are eager to continue their pusuit of the mercurial villian Bolivox, who, with every passing hour, gets closer to the polar fortress of Gastongen held by the forces of Chaos...

The mission was purge the alien the deployment Hammer and Anvil. We rolled for night fight after the game began and surprise night fight it was!

Deployment

Dark Angels 1 - The command squad fires on the beasts of nurgle but can't penetrate the saving throws of shrouding combined with the night fighting.

Demons 1 - The killing power of nurgle falls on the dark angels, the command squad fails to hit and run.

Dark Angels 2

To top it off these guys fail their H&R!

Demons 2 - Sammy dead, command squad dead, Dreadnaught alive but nearly dead, and all his heavy hitters are still alive. Ouch. Just so we're clear the beasts of nurgle if you have the charge get 1+d6 attacks, so if have 5 and you roll average (getting a 4)they have 25 atacks per turn and they have 4 wounds each. Damn.... that my friends is a tarpit that bites back.

All that shooting only does one wound to the demon prince. 6 plaugebearers die in the explosion.

Dark Angels 3 - With the demon Wildebeast locked in combat with the contemptor Dread, all three typhoons bring ordinance to bear on the demon prince resulting in a single wound. With the last turns arrival of plaugebearers and nurglings deepstriking into the fray, the whirlwind unleashes a barrage wiping out more than half the squad. Trying to escape the ministrations of the beasts the ravenwing squad hit and runs to a point behind the canyon wall. Janus Arpegeon, that ancient warrior, falls, wrecked by the Demon Prince Wildebeast Ramyermomma. The second ravenwing squad hit and runs behind the drake hoping the greater demon can be slowed by the ruins.

Demons 3 - The helldrake advances and takes exception to Br. Tibbs and his lascannon (may it live in infamy). Wildebeast Ramyermomma strides past JanusArpegeon, and mercilessly destroys the nearest typhoon, while Flaatus Funnytimes reproduces the feat north of the bridge. The beasts once again chase down the doomed ravenwing, while the great unclean one, AKA Roger Sweathog, dispatches two, but his nefarious scheme is laid bear by the Sgt.'s quick thinking. The plaugebearers attempt to destroy the whirlwind but their powers aren't strong enough to damage the whirlwind.

Seeing the devastation wrought on their entire company destroyed, the two raven wing decide that discretion is the better part of valor and flee the field...

Final score - At the time of Concession
Demons WL, LB + 7 = 9
Dark Angels FB + 2 = 3

Summary - Well every trilogy needs its empire strikes back, and I got struck back hard. I'm glad they changed the rule about night fight cause it hurt me bad in this one. Given that i was entirely relying on sucessful hit and run out of combat, its too bad i didn't use the ravenwing banner with a second command squad and dropped the tacticals. That being said this was my second time playing demons and first time playing nurgle demons. I got abused and was also pretty unlucky but thats how dice games work. My opponent hats off to him kept pressing his advantage and made me pay for every mistake. This game was at 1750 points so there wasn't enough points to give the tacts a rhino which makes them a lot more effective, as it was they were wasted points in this game. Its interesting in that the army is really made for objective missions while kill points really exposed its weaknesses.

Epilouge - After a six hour chase through barren tundra, Brother Danoclus and Brother Meridian make it to the caves in the Tunguska valley...

"Brother's what happened?"
As Meridan and Danoclus relay their report to Company Master Indomiel. The Co. Master becomes stoic.
"Very well. I shall relay this message to our brothers in orbit. If what you say is true we shall have to fight our way through a large host of enemies to recover Master Sammael, but what comes afterwards... We should not dwell on the words of Demons, but... This is a dark day for the Chapter. You have my thanks brothers. I know that you grieve for your brothers, but now is the time for retribution. The vengeance of the Angels shall be swift and merciless. Our enemies shall know our fury..."

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