Warhammer 40k - Apockalypse (9th)

Apocalypse Battle

9th Edition Rules

8th Edition Points

Chaos and Eldar Convention 

(Eldar, Iron Warriors, Nurgle Deamons)

VS

Imperial Retribution Force 

(Imperial Fist, Salamanders, Cadians)

The Battle

The mission holds six objectives, each generating a victory point for the side holding it at the end of the battle turn.

Secondary objective generates one point by killing an enemy warlord.

Each side is About 9000 pts. 

Note; the Reaver titan is currently not operational.

Turn 1 

Either The chaos gods or Eldrad Ulthrran has forseen that the unholy convention of Aeldari and Chaos must start, so after a tied roll off, the Convention finally wins the roll.

In the first turn the Convention side move forward with most units, securing a few Objectives. The Convention side major achievements would be a destroyed preadator, a thunderbolt flyer and quite some wounds off assorted vehicles. The Imperium side strikes back harder, mostly thanks to the Imperial Fist fire base, destroying the Sicaran, the Preadator, both Hellblade fighters, a Vindicator and an Aeldari Hemlock, as well as multiple wounds on the convention armies. However, the Imperium has not gained much ground.

Chaos/Eldar 4 objective pts

Imperium 1 objective pts

Turn 2 

The Convention side destroys a couple of Cadian tanks, mainly with the combined Aeldari force weaponry, but the the Great Unclean One shines by dealing the last wounds to the Imperial Knight in close combat. The Salamanders Repulsor goes down aswell to Iron warrior fire. The Imperials reinforce their ranks and retaliate by taking out both Soul grinders, a vindicator and the last Hemlock fighter, as well as gaining some ground. In the Center the Salamanders claim the ruins and start the purging of Heretics.

  

  

Chaos/Eldar 3 objective (7) pts 

Imperium 1 objective (2) pts

Turn 3 

With heavy losses on both sides, the Nurgle Deamons summons 30 new Plaugebearers to the battle, bolstering the Convention ranks. Most Imperial causalities this turn is inflicted on the Cadian army by the Aeldari force. The Deep striking Imperial fist terminators only goes down to the massed firepower of the full Iron warrior army. The Salamaners kills the Nurgle Herald in Close combat and the great Unclean one (Warlord) goes down to the Imperial fist firepower, leaving the Nurgle Deamons Leaderless.

  

  

Chaos/Eldar 3 objective (10) pts 

Imperium 2 objective + 1 warlord  (5) pts

Turn 4

In the last turn both sides forces are getting thin, but the Convention side has more heavier vehicles left. A few more Cadian Vehicles gets destroyed, and a massed close combat is initiated in the center of the battlefield. The Aeldari Autarch (Warlord) is slain by the Salamanders Librarian, standing too close to him during a failed attempt to smite by the Librarian, resulting in a Perils of the warp implosion that kills them both. The Imperial fists purge away the large Plaugebearer unit claiming one objective and the imperial Space marines can now claim four objectives between them.

Final scoring

Chaos/Eldar 2 objctive (12) pts 

Imperium 4 objective + 1 warlord  (10) pts

Flames of war - Team yankee - No retreat

US marines M60 company
2 HQ M60
3 M60
3 M60
3 M60
M113 inf
2 A10

Volksarmee
1xT62M
3xT62M
3xT62M
3xT62M
BTR60 HQ
BTR60 + 2 spigot
BTR60 + 2 spigot
2 Shilkas
4 BMP1 scout
2 Gaskin
2 Frogfoot

The battle is a No retreat with the East German Volksarmee as attackers. One objective is located by the houses in the road junction and one on the railroad deep in the US deployment. The US holds two platoons of M60s in reserve and the third in ambush.

Turn 1

The Volksarmee advance all units and inflicts two team causalities on the infantry hiding in the houses by the closest objective. The US strike back, ambushing one M60 platoon and getting another from reserve. They open up on the East germans destroying the BMP scouts, a BTR60 and two T62s.

Turn 2

The volksarme sets up the infantry in position covering the closest objective, succeeding a blitz the staggers can fire on the M60 close by. The second infantry platoon fail to blitz but dismount. Combined fire destroy two M60s and a infantry team.

The US gets reinforced by the last M60 platoon and are now at full strength. The Tanks concentrate fire on the T72s destroying 3 tanks.

Turn 3

The Volksarmee is now supported by soviet aircraft, takes out two M60 arriving from reserve and an infantry team. The infantry on the right flank stays pinned and cannot do much to support the fight.

The lone tank flees but the A10 strike aricraft makes an appearance. The M60 destroy all but two T72, aswell as the gazkins, preventing any AA-rire in range. The A10s then strafe the BTR60s destroying four of them. 

Turn 4

With single tanks left in two platoons, the soviets fails both morale and company morale, leaving the mechinized company on the table. The Infantry on the right again fail to unpin. The Shilkas preposition to offer anti-air cover while the stagger teams destroys a M60.

The US again gets some air support. The M60s snipe one of the Shilkas and clean the table from BTR60:s. The A10s striking loses one aircraft to AA fire, and only scores a single infantry kill.

Turn 5

The HQ tank is destroyed by arriving Frogfoot aircraft, but the east germans fail to do anything else, as the infantry on the right fail to unpin once again. The infantry on the left moves towards the houses supported by staggers, but dosent reach it.

The A10 aircraft flees due to a failed morale test. The M60:s re position to prevent an assault on the houses, killing four East German infantry teams. The platoon barley remains, but is pinned.

Turn 6

Both infantry platoons unpin and the two M60s, now exposed to the stagger teams gets destroyed by the incoming missiles. With only the infantry left the US flees the battle at the start of their turn.

East german minor vicory.

The battle was a very close call, if another two East german infantry teams would have been destroyed, the battle would have gone in the US favor. The new morale rules, similar to FoW WW2, is however a bit punishing and un-predictive. Nevertheless an even and fun battle.