Battle Report- Ultramarines Vs Iron Warriors- picture heavy

Hi all,

This past weekend saw the Ultramarines of Lord Halfpenny, clash with the Iron Warriors of the6thdegree. This was a battle of the ages- literary, this was the first 1 on 1 we've had since we were teenagers (only a few years then?- LH) The Battle was 2500 points, over my battle board- the battle also saw the use of the new Space Marine codex, along with a few 'additions' (Sorry they are the 'grey marines- didn't have time to paint them.. LH)

The battle lines were set, the Ultramarines, lead by Marneus Calgar including new additions in the form of centurions and a hunter tank, taking on Abbadon and his chaos horde. the6thdegree used his force from BW, with some additional units to make the points up.

Mission

• single objective in the centre of the board
• Kill points
• Line Breaker / First Blood / Slay the Warlord 

Iron Warriors Deployment

• Iron Warriors deploy first, utilising the agis defence line to fortify their position
• oblitorators take up firing positions in the ruins
• Hellbrutes and Forgefiend take up aggressive positioning to either go for the flank or centre of the board
• Helldrake in reserve

 Ultramarine Deployment

• Hunter deployed behind ruins
• Calgar and Assault Terminators in Land Raider Redeemer- positioned to go for the centre of the board
• Centurions deployed to have good coverage of the board, with a view to move them towards the objective with support from tactical squad

Turn 1
Iron Warriors

• Obilitorators target the contemptor, taking a hull point
• Forgefiend kills 3 marines
• Vindicator finishes off the contemptor in a fiery blast

Ultramarines

• Sternguard arrive via drop pod assault
• Centurions open fire, causing 24! wounds killing 5 terminators and Abbadon with Grav fire
• Sternguard combat squads open fire at both the forgefiend and Vindicator- damaged saved with daemonic saves
• Razorback destroys a weapon of the forgefiend

Turn 2

Iron Warriors

• Helldrake arrives, killing 3 space marines via shooting and wounding a centurion via vector strike
• the havoc launcher on a rhino wounds another centurion
• Hellbrude (dakka) shot the Land Raider- destroying Calgar's transport- a terminator is killed in the wreckage
• Obilitarators destroy the razorback with lascannon fire
• Several sternguard are killed with CSM fire

Ultramarines

• Centurions destroy the helldrakes weapon with grav fire
• Terminiators charge into the rhino- destroying it in combat
• Marneus Calgar destroys the forgefiend in combat- however he is left open to incoming fire

Turn 3

Iron Warriors

• havoc launcher causes further wounds on the centurions- killing one, and wounds another
• Calgar is first wounded by the IW marines encircling him, then killed via obliterator plasma fire

• remaining Sternguard are killed in combat
• centurions reduced to 3 in number with weight of sustained fire

Ultramarines

• Stormtalon arrives, killing several CSM with assault cannons
• Centurions kill another CSM with Grav fire
• Terminators kill 4 CSM in close combat

Turn 4

Iron Warriors

• Hellbrute charges Centurions killing 1- centurions fall back and are destroyed
• CSM vs Terminator close combat sees losses on both sides- the chaos champion wins his challenge- and has the boon of becoming a chaos spawn! (I blame fateweaver who was watching the game..)

Ultramarines

• Helldrakke Finally downed by the Hunter fire
• Hellbrute is charged by tactical squad and is reduced to 1 hull point thanks to a power fist 

Turn 5

Iron Warriors

• CSM move forward to claim the centre of the board
• Razorback is blown to pieces via fire from the havocs
• spawn of chaos finishes of the last terminator in close combat

Ultramarines

• Power fisted SM destroys the Hellbrute in close combat
• storm talon kills a couple of CSM with assault cannon fire

Turn 6

Iron Warriors

• Stormtalon is  finally brought down
• Move in to contest the objective

Ultramarines

• marines in the centre of the board open fire- but unable to wound any CSM

the game ends- as the dust settles, we calculate the kill points, 

Iron Warriors 12 - Ultramarines 10-  a narrow win to the6thdegree!!!

we had rolled for a 7th turn, and we should of played on- however time was against us- I think if we had continued the Iron Warriors would of destroyed my force, leaving only the hunter left. 

My unit of the game has to be the centurions- I couldn't believe how easily they disseminated Abbadon and his terminator body guards- 6 of them is overkill, and is very high priced.

A few moments of magic- firstly the CSM winning his challenge, only to be turned onto a spawn of chaos.. secondly seeing both Abbadon and Calgar getting blown to pieces- showing that it doesn't matter if you are an eternal warrior- weight of fire will bring them down..