The Mission:
Incursion 5 - The Ritual
White Scars
Librarian (Warlord)
10 Tactical Squad
Ironclad Dreadnought
3 Bike Squad with Attack Bike
5 Devastator Squad
Thunderfire Cannon with Techmarine Gunner
Rhino
Adeptus Custodes
Shield-Captain (Warlord)
Shield-Captain
3 Custodian Guard Squad
3 Allarus Custodians
Vexillus Praetor
Venerable Land Raider
Crusade Blessings:
WS 5 Crusade Points
Custodes 4 Crusade Points
Custodes get 1 CP in Crusade Blessings
Until this game I thought the Crusade Blessings were calculated on the Order of Battle, but it's actually only based on the army roster for the game in question, which makes sense.
The Battlefield. The white objective marker indicates the center of the ritual zone, where the defending Warlord can stand and do an action each round for VP. It's 6" in diameter, which zones out the other objectives mostly to the attacker's side of the board, since they have to be 6" away from it, any battlefield edge, and each other.
White Scars attacking
Deployment
Ironclad in Outflank (1 CP)
Devastators in Rhino on board
Custodes defending
Deployment
Shield-Captain, Vexillus, Allarus in Land Raider on board
Agendas
White Scars take Assassins, Lord of the Warp
Custodes take Priority Target, Witch Hunter
White Scars get first turn
Round 1, Turn 1:
Tick up to 6 CP
Devastator Doctrine active
Bike Squad move up for a shot at Custodian Guard
Combat Squad A move up onto an objective
Devastators disembark to shoot at Land Raider
Librarian moves up, flying to the top of a container to Smite Custodian Guard
Rhino moves over to:
Combat Squad B, who embark, planning to try to make it to the Custodes Warlord next turn
Ironclad does not come in from Outflank—no good spot that doesn’t leave him open for lots of Lascannon shots
Librarian casts Storm-Wreathed on Bike Squad. They can't be overwatched, and can score mortal wounds on the charge.
Smites Custodian Guard Squad. 3 wounds. Custodes get no FNPs. 1 Custodian down.
Bike Squad shoots into Custodian Guard.16 bolter, 1 melta, 3 heavy bolter. 1 wound.
TFC shoots twice using Suppression Fire at same squad.
1st volley, 9 shots. 2 wounds. Custodian fails both saves, rerolls one into a good save.
2nd volley, 9 again. 3 wounds unsaved.
1 Custodian with a single wound remains.
Librarian misses with bolt pistol.
Rhino misses with HKM, fails to wound Land Raider with storm bolter
Devastators fail to wound Land Raider with boltgun and missiles, but two lascannons get through for a total of 8 wounds. Land Raider gets FNP on one, so goes down to 9 remaining.
Charge phase, Fierce Rivalries to allow for a 3D6, drop lowest charge. Bikers into remaining Custodian Guard. Need 7. Tanglefoot Grenade from Custodes makes that 11 instead. Roll is 9, charge fails.
Custodian passes morale.
Custodes Turn 1
Tick up to 6 CP
Lone Custodian moves toward Librarian to shorten charge distance.
Allarus, Vexillus, Shield-Captain disembark from the Land Raider,
Land Raider moves up to LoS on Bikers
Warlord does mission action
Custodian shoots Combat Squad A. Doubles shots with Superior Fire Patterns, to 4. No wounds.
Land Raider shoots storm bolter at Combat Squad A. One marine dies. LR shoots the rest at the Bikers.
A biker and the attack bike get blown up. I'm forced to take the attack bike because it's at the end of the formation, and now out of coherency since one in the middle is gone. If I take another from the middle, the distance from Biker Sgt to Attack Bike will be more than 2", so one of them would be lost in the morale phase to coherency checks. Rough! You have to mind your unit formation with mixed units.
Allarus fire grenades at the nearby Rhino and do one wound. Fire their axes into Devastators, killing 2.
Shield Captain fires Spear into Combat Squad A. Nothing.
Allarus Charge Rhino. Need 6, get 11.
Vexilla also. needs 7. Gets 7.
Shield Captain needs 8. Gets 10.
Custodian into Librarian needs 8. Gets 10.
Custodian fights. Rolls three 1s. CP reroll one of those. Librarian ends up taking two wounds.
Allarus fight the Rhino. 3 Misericordia swings do nothing. 15 axe swings, rerolling ones, adding 1 to wound rolls via Slayers of Nightmares strat. 10 attacks go through to damage for a total of 21 damage. Dead Rhino. No explosion.
Combat Squad B disembarks, two die in the process.
Allarus, Vexillus, and Shield Captain all consolidate into them.
Librarian fights Custodian. Forces a CP reroll on his save.
Combat Squad B fight the Vexillus. Nothing.
Everyone Passes Morale.
Custodes score 10 VP for mission action.
Round 2
WS tick up to 4 CP.
Score 20 VP for hold 2, hold more.
Tactical Doctrine.
Bikers ride away from Land Raider’s LoS toward Allarus.
Librarian falls back from Custodian
Combat Squad B falls back from their attackers.
Ironclad shows up from outflank (at own board edge lol)
Librarian Smites Custodian for two. Custodian gets FNP on one, dies to the other wound.
Casts Ride the Winds on Dreadnought. Adds 2 to its charge roll.
TFC Suppression Fire unto Allarus. Volly1 is 9 shots. 1 wound, saved.
Volley 2. 8 shots. 1 damage scored.
Devastators into Allarus. One down.
Bikers into Allarus. nada
Combat Squad A into Allarus. nada
Combat Squad B into Allarus. nada
Dreadnought into Allarus. nada
Dreadnought charge into Allarus. needs 9, adds 3, rolls 3D6 and drops one. gets 12.
Bikers also charge. Get in.
Combat Squad B also get in.
Shield-Captain and Vexillus intervene.
Ironclad fights, scores two wounds, both saved with the Allarus' 4++
Bikers miss most of their attacks.
Combat Squad B does nothing either.
Allarus fight back. 6 damage dealt to the Ironclad.
Vexillus fights. Kills Combat Squad B.
Shield Captain fights. Kills Biker Squad.
...end of WS turn lol
Round 2, Turn 2
Custodes tick up to 1 CP
Warlord begins mission action
Land Raider backs up to shoot at the Ironclad.
Custodes in combat with Ironclad fall back to contest nearby objective, 4 models to 4
(All Custodes Infantry have Objective Secured)
Land Raider Lascannons into Ironclad. Kills it.
Land Raider Storm Bolter, Twin Heavy Bolter into Devastators. One dies.
Custodes score 10 VP for mission action.
20-20
Round 3.
WS Tick up to 1 CP
No VPs scored
Assault Doctrine in effect.
Librarian moves to see Allarus and for a gimme charge.
Smite Allarus. 2 mortal wounds. No FNP. Tough bastards have 4 wounds each.
Storm-Wreathed on Combat Squad A. fails.
TFC into Allarus. 8 shots. 1 damage through.
Combat Squad A shoots Allarus. 1 damage through finishes one off. One remaining. Heavy Bolter shoots Hellfire Shells for D3 mortal wounds. Last Allarus down to 2 wounds left.
Devastator Lascannons into remaining Allarus. Both miss.
Charge Phase.
Librarian Charges remaining Allarus.
Combat Squad does also.
Vexillus and Shield Captain intervene.
Librarian fights. Nothing gets by the 4++.
Combat Squad fights. A tactical marine scores a wound, +1 dmg thanks to super doctrine, gets the final Allarus kill!
Custodes turn 3
Tick up to 1 CP
Land Raider moves to get LoS on TFC.
Warlord does mission action.
Land Raider bolt weapons at Devastators. Kills both.
Lascannons at TFC. Destroys it.
Fight phase, Combat Squad A fights first, at Vexillus. nada.
Shield-Captain fights. Kills all four marines.
Custodians consolidate onto objective.
Score 10 VP
30-20 Custodes.
Round 4.
WS have only Librarian and Techmarine Gunner left.
Tick up to 1 CP.
Score no VP.
Techmarine gunner has assault weapons so he advances toward Vexillus.
Librarian Smite. 2 Mortal wounds on Vexillus.
Bolt Pistol. nada.
Techmarine flamer rolls 1 shot. reroll. now. 6. no wounds. Plasma supercharged. Forces a CP reroll of the save, but it is saved.
Librarian and Techmarine both charge Vexillus. Both make it.
Techmarine fights. Kills the Vexillus.
Techmarine and Librarian consolidate, for what little it matters.
Custodes turn 4.
Up to 1 CP
Score 10 for hold more
Warlord does mission action.
Land Raider shoots everything at Librarian. Storm Bolter is enough to kill him.
Shield-Captain shoots at Techmarine Gunner (who has a 2+ save wow) does 2 wounds.
Shield Captain charges. Makes it.
Fights. Kills Techmarine, tabling the Scars.
Score 10 end of turn
Round 5
Custodes score another 30
Win 90-30
Post battle, no unit on either side failed their out of action rolls.
For the White Scars, Bike Squad Drover ranked up and got the Battle-Tested battle honour, so they now have objective secured, can shoot without failing an action, and can auto-pass attrition tests while on an objective.
Thunderfire Cannon Conquestmaker ranked up and got the High Calibre weapon enhancement, so it is now shooting at S6!
Devastator Squad Kaminari was marked for greatness.
For the Custodes, the Warlord, Shield-Captain Celal, earned a battle honour by virtue of the win, so I choose Resilient for him, which is a generally applicable 6+ FNP. So now he is -1 to hit, -1 to wound, 2+/3++/6+++, and worth 5 Crusade Points by himself!
Venerable Land Raider Utku gained a rank and the battle honour Repair Systems, which lets it heal one wound each command phase.
Allarus Squad Battal was marked for greatness, and gained a rank and the battle honour Grizzled, given them a generally applicable 6+++ as well. As if they weren't hard enough to kill!
Both armies gained 1 Requisition Point, which will likely be spent to up their respective supply limits.
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