First game 9th edition

 Gotta start somewhere. 

Dantarael Co. master faced off in a 1000 point battle to emerge from Covid  isolation and roll some dice. Facing off against 1000 points of  Death Guard commanded by a Fell Daemon Prince Aspirus, in the Ruined city of Nemiahdes.

This was simply played with scoring on primary objectsives. no secondaries were used. numerous Errors were made. Just happy to get a game in frankly

1st Legion

Co master gravis 

3 units intercessors bolt rifles x5

plasma inceptors x3

Hell blastersx5

deathwing with assaultcannon

Death Guard

Demon prince wings supperating plate

plaugecaster

plauge marines x5

bloat drone

plaugebearers x10

plauge burst crawler

The Battle for Celestine square

Dantarael rallies his troops

The implacable might of Aspirus prepares to lay seige with their deamon allies holding the rear objective.

Aspirus gurgles to his plauge terminators threats and promises compelling them to a slobbering fervor

T1 - The death guard advance laying down a hail of fire, with plague burst crawler thinning the intercessors ranks

The first legion advances...

the hellblasters use their Dark age plasma to wipe out 2 terminators

T2 - the deathguard move forward to unleash hell

not trusting his terminators Aspirus, charges the hell blasters who valiantly try to overwatch...

... but are surreptitiously cut down by the favored of nurgle

The deathwing and inceptors arrive, but the poxes of nurgle leave their shots mostly ineffective.

Dantarael stands against the demon but cant hold him back, falling to his putrid blade. The demon prince now advances on the intercessors

 T3 - Aspirus cuts down the remaining intercessors, and his bloat drone and plauge marines remove several marines from the other side of the square. the the Dark angels follow up neither the inceptors or the deathwing shooting can take any wounds from the demon prince. As the ranking officer of the Imperium sergent Barachiel issues orders to charge...

Aspirus is banished to the warp... but the Dark Angels must flee the field due to the ascendancy of nurgle. Dark angels concede on turn 4.


Breakdown:
too many errors to list. First big thanks to my opponent. hard to get weekdays games with two small children, and this was my first game since 2019 at least so i was pretty rusty.

1. didn't remember that the termies were transhuman
2. didn't know that inceptors have to roll for shots twice
3. didn't really use combat doctrines, or take advantage of the sons of the lion or grim resolve rules
4. probably shouldn't have brought so many troops in a patrol list
5. woulda been better to just run up the board to take advantage of the obscuring ruins to claim one of the two central objectives or at least contest.
5. really didn't consider any other strategems
6. would have been good to remeber the hold steady/set to defend rule for bracing against a charge into area terrain.

There's a lot to remember in 9th ed. got a long way to go, was glad i took out the demon prince but focused on him to the exclusion of all else and lost as a result. rolled dice had fun, really like the newer primaris models.