BatRep: Black Templars Vs Thousand Sons

Today is Sept 11th. The last time i was in Australia on this same date, the twin towers were under attack. Still remember watching the live images with much sadness.

I did go down to the LGS for a game though. My Templars were far from completion, but i have been itchin' to have a game with them haha!

My opponent today was Peter. He's a really nice guy and very sporting. A real pleasure to game with. I could tell he just loves playing the game and is just happy to be rollin' da dice :) I also like his lists as he experiments with different unit combinations, not just the ones that are competitive and known to work well.

Let us proceed then, into the fires of battle, unto the anvil of war!

Chaos Space Marines: Thousand Sons List

HQ
Chaos Sorceror (190pts)
Doombolt
Warptime
Mark of Tzeentch
Melta bomb
Termi armor
Combi-weapon

Troops
Squad Alpha
9 Thousand Sons (282pts)
Aspiring Sorceror
Doombolt
Melta bomb

Squad Beta
19 Thousand Sons (527pts)
Aspiring Sorcerer
Bolt of Change
Melta bomb

Total: 999pts
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Black Templars List

HQ
Marshal (151pts)
Twin Lightning Claws, Iron Halo, Frag Grenade, Terminator Honors

Emperor's Champion (140pts)
Vow: Accept the Challenge, No Matter the Odds.

Elites
Dreadnaught (143pts)
Twin-linked Lascannon, Missile Launcher, Extra Armor, Smoke Launchers

Troops
Squad 1 (235pts)
10 Initiates & 5 Neophytes
1 Meltagun, 1 Powerfist

Squad 2 (235pts)
10 Initiates & 5 Neophytes
1 Meltagun, 1 Powerfist

Squad 3
5 Initiates (96pts)
1 Missile Launcher, 1 Plasmagun

Total: 1000pts
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Mission: Capture and Control

Deployment: Dawn of War...(no surprise there lol)

2 Objectives only. We each placed an objective close to our deployment area.

Deployment

Thousand Sons:
Chaos Sorceror deployed behind building near own objective.
Squad Alpha deployed on second floor of ruin building.
Squad Beta deployed in other ruin building.

Black Templars:
Marshal and Squad 1 deploys next to ruin building.
Squad 3 deploys half in cover of ruin building and 1 inch away from BT objective.

BT won first turn. 1kSons tried to Seize the Initiative but failed.
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BT Turn 1:
Night Fight

Movement:
Squad 1 with Marshal moves forward towards ruined building in front.
Squad 3 remains stationary.
Squad 2 with EC walks in 6 inches from table edge.
Dreadnaught also walks in 6 inches from table edge.

Shooting:
Crusader Sqd 3 rolls for distance and is able to shoot at 1ksons Sqd Beta. Frag missile misses due to scatter.
Crusader Sqd 1 with Marshal run forward to edge of building ruins.
Crusader Sqd 2 with EC also runs forward 2 inches.
Dreadnaught runs forward 4 inches.

Assault:
None.

1kSons Turn 1:
Night Fight

Movement:
Not a single model moves.

Shooting:
Due to night fight rules, 1kSons unable to roll high enough to see BT. No shooting.

Assault:
None.

BT Turn 2:

Movement:
Crusader Sqd 1 with Marshal moves into ruin building with a good DT roll.
Crusader Sqd 2 with EC moves 6 inches forwards.
Dreadnaught also moves 6 inches forwards.

Shooting:
Crusader Sqd 3 shoots at 1kSons Sqd Beta. Frag missile kills 2. Plasmagun overheats, but Initiate makes his save.
Crusader Sqd 2 with EC Runs forward through ruins.

Assault:
None.


1KSons Turn 2:

Movement:
Sorceror moves forward into ruins for a better cover save.
All other 1Ksons do not move.

Shooting:
1Ksons Sqd Beta opens fire with their eldritch bolters on Marshal’s Crusader Squad. 1 Initiate and 1 Neophyte die. The rest make cover saves. Marshal’s squad passes Morale and does Righteous Zeal of 5 inches.

1kSons Sqd Alpha opens fire on Crusader Sqd 3. 3 Initiates fall to the eldritch bolters and flee back into building after failing moral.

Assault:
None.


BT Turn 3:

Movement:
Crusader Sqd 3 rallies.
Crusader Sqd 2 with EC moves forward 6 inches.
Dreadnaught also moves 6 inches.

Shooting:
Dreadnaught fires all weapons on 1KSons Sqd Alpha and 1 traitor marine dies.
Crusader Sqd 2 with EC runs 1 inch.
Marshal’s Sqd fires pistols and a meltagun. 2 traitor marines die.

Assault:
Marshal’s Squad charges into combat with 1kSons Sqd Beta. Marshal is gravely wounded by Aspiring Sorceror’s Force Weapon. Marshal takes 2 Traitor marines down before he collapses. The rest of the Crusader Squad 1 account for another 2 traitors, but the reprisal from 1KSons sees 2 Neophytes and 2 Initiates die.

BT loses combat but as they are Fearless only take one wound from the combat result. BT loses another Iniatiated from failed Fearless save.
Crusader Squad 1 has eight initiates left.

1KSons Turn 3:

Movement:
Sorceror moves towards combat.
Sqd Alpha moves back down towards objective.

Shooting:
None:

Assault:
Sorcerer casts Warptime but fails. But he still charges into combat to assist 1KSons Squad Beta. Sorcerer does not do any wounds to Templars.
Templars take out another 2 traitor marines and only loose 1 Initiate due to poor rolling from opponent.
1Ksons Sqd Beta pass fearless roll.

BT Turn 4:

Movement:
Crusader Sqd with EC move 6 inches.
Dreadnaught moves 6 inches as well.

Shooting:
No viable targets in line of sight.
Dread runs 4 inches.
Crusader 2 with EC runs 6 inches!

Assault:
Crusader Sqd 1 takes down another 2 traitor marines before being wiped out.
Sorceror and Sqd Beta consolidate only 2 inches backwards.

1kSons Turn 4:

Movement:
1kSons Alpha move forwards slightly to get better view of approaching EC with Squad 2.
Sorceror and Sqd Beta fire everything at EC’s Squad. Only 2 Neophytes die. They zeal forward 6 inches vengeance burning in their hearts.

Assault:
None.


BT Turn 5:

Movement:
EC with Squad moves close to 1kSons Sqd Beta.
Dread moves up Statue.

Shooting:
Dread shoots all weapons and kills off some more traitors.
EC and Squad shoot and only 5 traitors are left. The Sorceror took a meltagun hit on himself and failed his Invuln save and died.

Assault:
EC with Squad and Dread charge remaning 1k Sons of Squad Beta and wipe them out. Consolidating 5 inches towards enemy objective after combat.


1kSons Turn 5:

Movement:
Sqd Alpha moves only 3 inches backwards.

Shooting:
1kSons rapid fires EC’s Squad. As they shot through the ruins, the BT’s got cover save and only 2 was Loyalist marine were felled. However EC and Crusader Squad zealed 5 inches forward.

Assault:
None.


Roll for game to end made. A Roll of 5. Game continues….

BT Turn 6:

Movement:
EC and Squad move towards 1kSons. Dread also moves to charging position.

Shooting:
Combined shooting of EC’s Squad and Dread fell another 3 traitors.

Assault:
EC and Squad assaults remaining 1kSons with the Dread and wipe the squad out.

Game Ends

It was a close and bloody battle.

A Victory for the Black Templars!

Again a long BatRep, hope you enjoyed the read ;)