Batrep: Giving Chaos a try?

  Chaos Space Marines vs. White Hunters 850p

Our very first batrep was a battle fought between me (Simo) and Eric. I had left all my figures at home so he borrowed me his Chaos and made me a solid list with mostly close combat units. (My first battle with the forces of Chaos). He decided to fight with his new Raven Guard successor chapter of White Hunters.

The Warlords of our armies

The deployment after scout & inflintration

So here are the lists:

Chaos

HQ
Chaos Lord - 147p
- Mark of Khorne
- Gift of Mutation
- Terminator armour with pair of Lightning Claws

Elites
10 Posessed - 290p
- Mark of Khorne

Troops
15 Khorne Berzerkers - 320p
- Champion has Power Sword and Gift

The army and deployment of White Hunters

10 Chaos Space Marines - 190p
- Mark of Nurgle
- Veterans of the Long War
- Heavy Bolter

Loyalists

HQ
Chapter Master
-Blade of Burning
-Artificier Armor
-Jump pack

The army and deployment of Chaos

Elites
Vanguard Veterans
- Thunder Hammer, 5x Lightning Claws, 4x Storm Shields

Troops
10 Tactical Squad
-Missile launcher
-Grav-gun
-Veteran


10 Tactical Squad
-Missile and Melta
-Veteran


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What's on MaGGoT's mind?
Chaotic theme on the game since both objectives have the Mark of Khorne in them. This could be a sign from above... or not. Most likely Simo's Berserkers will masturbate themse ahemm... stumble to death, which will be a minor setback to the assaulty theme of his army. Likely winner is White Hunters, whose Jump Infantry will prove valuable in the small field. Also, the Posessed suck. Period. 

"Remember the scars!" White Hunters guarding the objective

Deployment and bunch of useless throws:


Warlord Traits:
Chaos - Master of Deception (explained later)
Hunters - All friendly units within 12'' of the Warlord may re-roll moral tests

Gifts of Chaos:
My Berserker Chapion got Stubborn, which did him no good since his whole squad was already Fearless. Lord rolled 44 and got Crusader special rule which was important later in the game.

This was a game of two objects, one in each side of the table. Eric rolled better and got to deploy first. He placed most of his army behind the Aegis Defence Line around his objective and left one Tac squad on the right.

Soldiers of Chaos are ready to take the objective. Simo, GTFO

I deployed my Chaos Marines near my objective and the rest of my army on the left, hoping to get a slight cover save against his scary Grav-guns. The Chaos Lord joined Posessed in the far left as my Berserkers were nearer to the centre. My Warlord trait allowed me to Inflintrate D3 units. I rolled 4 and moved both of my CC-squads nearer to the enemy. At the same time Eric's Vanguard (along with their Chapter Master) used their 12'' Scout move and got close to my Chaos Marines and moved his Tacticals slightly closer. I failed to steal the initiative so he got the first turn. Here we go!

Turn 1:

Being already close to my home objective his Veterans flew above my ADL towards the poor Marines defending it. Meanwhile his Tac squads got few boltershots, killing total of 3 Berserker. Not so good but neither was that useless. He then assaulted the objective-keepers with Vets and I managed to kill one of them in overwatch. His Chapter Master wiped the floor (or ground) with my Champion in challenge, altough his sword did burn in his hand, making him lose a single wound. His remaining guys then swinged their Lightning Claws at the rest of the enemy, taking out about half of the squad. Chaos then struck back and with Preferred enemy (Space Marines) they managed to take out one guy. Lost the battle but passed the Ld roll and therefore stayed to fight another day.

Table after the Hunter's turn 1

The first turn of chaos started as my posessed ran across the table and the Crusade-rule (of Lord's gift) proved valuable as they travelled total of 10 inches on the table. The Berserkers realised that something had just gone wrong and they turned around to help their Brethren in danger and charged the Veterans. Berserker Champion then declared a challenge to which Eric decided to answer with his Vanguard Sergeant. His Thunder Hammer was too slow and Champion slew him with his Power Sword. I then rolled in the Chaos Boon table getting... nothing. The offering wasn't "good enough". Great. Then the remaining Berserkers piled in around the Chapter Master losing one guy when he swirled his magic sword around (truly unlucky rolling here). The remaining 10 guys poked him with their little swords and drowned him in wounds. Requiescat in Pace, the guy whose name I never remember. The remaining 2 Vets slashed with their shiny claws, taking out one of the Marines who then attacked back doing nothing. Ld's were thrown, but with all the fighting everyone was too busy to give a damn, so the battle continued.

 


Turn 2:
The closest Tactical squad retreated 6 inches and they both fired at the Posessed, killing few. After that we continued fighting once again the two Veterans fought bravely and killed one of my men, who then struck back doing nothing. The White Hunters turn was really a short one.

Lots of greyness here. Chaos Lord scares the color from your face?

Chaos turn was not much longer. My Berserkers charged the Veterans pretty much wiping them out and consolidaiting away. Meanwhile the Posessed also charged, getting barely into battle (only 4 guys were able to fight after piling in). Then my Lord made a challenge and, well... there's no putting it gently, he simply crushed the brave SM Sergeant and was rewarded with better armour save (2+ armour already...). The Posessed got +1 Initiative and Attack (Vessels of Chaos) and killed few Marines.

The game was ended with a handshake

Turn 3:
The last Tactical squad charged my Posessed and the Sgt. got challenged (surprise!) and died (surprise!!). The fighting was fierce and the Marines took many of my Posessed down but eventually lost the fight while my other army did pretty much nothing but scrathced their butts.

So the brave White Hunters got tabled in turn 3 and the gods of Chaos smiled upon the new guy (ME!).
Thank you for reading and we hope you enjoyed this batrep, because there's more to come!

- Simson