I have just added my Land Raider Proteus to my White Scars crusade list, and I wanted to play a vehicle-heavy game, so I broke out all of their heaviest units from the list and formed a Spearhead detachment, which I then put up against one from my Astra Militarum list featuring all of my tanks, allied with my Imperial Knight Freeblade.
Above is the White Scars force, featuring plenty of Lascannons, Melta, and Power fists to smash up T8 hulls.
Said collection of T8 and T7 hulls, along with a couple of infantry squads to go in the Chimeras, and a heavy weapons squad of three Autocannon teams.
This mission is remarkable for the 12" circle in the middle of the field where no invulnerable saves can be taken.
The black rectangular thingy in the center of the image above represents the centerpoint of the battlefield.
White Scars deployment above. Ironclad Dreadnought and Devastator squad on the left off the field are embarked in the Stormraven. The other Devastator Squad is in the Land Raider, and the Terminators are in a Teleport chamber.
Guard deployment. The two infantry squads at the bottom are in either Chimera.
WS Win the roll-off, and go first.
No VP are awarded in their first turn. Devastators hop out of the Stormraven, which flies over near to where the Autocannon teams are. Bikers and Speeder move up to take shots at tanks. Predator and Land Raider move to get line of sight on other tanks.
Multi-meltas and missiles from the Bikers, Speeder, and flyer all take out the white Leman Russ Punisher. Massed hurricane bolter fire from the flyer kills the Autocannon teams. The Stormraven also blows up a Chimera, and two infantry squad are killed jumping out of it.
The Predator is unable to wound the Imperial Knight Freeblade, which has rotated ion shields and now has a 4+ invulnerable save.
The Land Raider brings the Leman Russ Battle Tank down to 6 wounds remaining.
Devastator squad brings the Leman Russ Eradicator down to only 2 wounds remaining.
The Valhallans who lost two models when the Chimera exploded pass Morale.
This Predator only had line of sight to the Knight.
In the Astra Militarum first turn, they get 15 VP for control of the middle of the board Search Zone, which is apparently something you can score in the first round, unlike other objectives.
They then regenerate a few wounds on the damaged tanks.
Tallarn squad disembark their Chimera and move over to a nearby objective point. Their Chimera then moves up to fire at the Devastator squad, but ends the move just a tad outside of heavy flamer range. The Tank Commander positions himself between the other two Russes to issue orders to both. The Knight circles the Null Zone area, intending to make his way over to where the Predator and Land Raider are.
Primaris Psyker buffs the infantry squad with him, then Smites the Stormraven for a few wounds.
The Chimera and Russ Eradicator together kill the Devastator squad on that side of the board.
Combined shooting from the other tanks and Knight bring the Stormraven down to just 1 wound remaining. The Land Speeder loses one wound from the Knight's heavy stubbers, as well.
At the beginning of the White Scars second turn, they score 10 VP for being on objectives.
Ironclad Dreadnought is dropped off by the Stormraven, which then flies over into the Guard's backfield. The Land Raider moves up and the Devastators inside Lightning Disembark out of it and move over to some cover and near to an objective. Terminators Teleport Strike into the Guard's backfield, 9" away from a couple of their tanks.
Shooting from the Terminators, Stormraven, and speeder eliminate the remaining infantry and psyker on one objective. The Chimera and Russ Eradicator are taken out by the Devastators and Predator. The Land Raider puts a few wounds into the Tank Commander. The Ironclad adds a few with his hunter-killer missiles and meltagun, and takes a wound off the Commissar with his heavy flamer. Bikers also kill a couple Tallarn with boltgun fire.
The Terminators pull off a 10" charge into the Leman Russ Battle Tank and smash it to bits with their Power fists. The Ironclad charges into the Tallarn squad and kills three of them. The Commissar with them fights back and takes a couple of wounds off it.
In Morale, a couple more Tallarn models run away.
Guard turn two, no VP are scored.
Tallarn and Commissar fall back onto the nearby objective.
Knight moves around the building to get close to the Devastators.
Tank Commander fires at the Terminators who have consolidated into him, killing two.
Knight fires heavy stubbers at the Devastators, killing one.
Fires the Rapid Fire Battle Cannon at the Predator, missing most shots, resulting in only 3 wounds.
The Knight charges the Devastators and kills them all with his chainsword. Then consolidates into the Land Raider.
The Terminators fight the Tank Commander and kill him.
White Scars third turn, they score 15 VP from controlling the search zone, and another 15 for controlling the objectives around the board.
Land Raider falls back from the Knight, using Feinting Withdrawal so it can still shoot.
Terminators and Land Speeder pick off the remaining Commissar and Tallarn infantry.
Everything else opens up with ranged into the Knight, bringing it down to 16 wounds remaining.
Khan on Bike and Ironclad charge the Knight and finish it off between them. The Khan deals 9 wounds with his spear, and the Ironclad deals another 12 with his combat weapon.
With this, the Guard force is completely wiped out, and the White Scars have fulfilled the Angels of Death Agenda for massive XP gains all around.
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