First up I played Liam, with his more Nurgle-centric Chaos marines.
I had quite the amount of cover until I think Abaddon allowed that Land Raider to Infiltrate on my right hand side, luckily I'd arranged the coral for my Aegis.
Obliterators struggled to draw a bead on anything thanks to my setup.
Cultists have a better view, just not the range to do anything with it.
Typhus jumps out of the Land Raider, maybe premature but going bold so early on was at least going to speed things up.
The Hive Tyrant took a couple of wounds.
Everything barreled into the Terminators. I think Typhus killed the Crushing Claws Tervigon with his Force Sword but may have eventually succumbed to the smaller vanilla Tervigon.
Liam's Nurgle Heldrake. I was impressed with the wings, although the bright colours don't scream Nurgle - decay and rot. However, I did look over to the other table in a later game and I swear the graduation worked as a perfect optical illusion and tricked my mind into thinking I was actually looking through the wings!
I'm not sure what that is but I'm guessing it can't be good, well at least for one of us
Next up was Otty and his Eldar, the new Codex was just a week old and was still new to him, which is why he ended up with his HQ lugging around 150pts of ALL the Eldar Special Weapons [somehow for free] instead of just the 1 weapon he was allowed to have. Additionally he had stuff in Transports that weren't allowed to take them but it's a new codex so cut him some slack. Anyway this is his Revant Titan masquerading as a Wraith Knight [and why not] about to breach my back line.
While my Flyrant does the same for his Deployment Zone.
Rather comically the Wraith Knight is stalled by the combined efforts of some Termagants and Broodlord and one Stealer. I managed to put 3 wounds on it thanks to Enfeeble - Devourers and Fleshborers eventually going to take a wound. I later on thought my Termagants were super cool doing a couple more wounds - more effective than the Broodlord but that was because I keep thinking they're S4, not 3. Anytway we fixed it up, hey it's an old codex, cut me some slack ;)
We went well over time on this we'd reached turn 3 and I was clearly winning but it was elected to continue on and Otty managed to swing it his way, although I think the Wraith Knight was eventually smashed by my Tervigon thanks to more Termagants tarpitting it long enough for the Crushing Claws to get in range. Enfeeble was awesome in cutting it down.
I had quite a nice little defensive screen to keep me safe.
Eventually all hell broke lose in Ben's backfield!
What with my on objectives I think I ended up sealing this one to end with two wins and a loss.
Otty managed 3 wins and took the prize.
While I was playing Liam, Ben took a few pictures of his match with Otty.
Otty's scratchbuilt Defence Line from disposable razors and curtain rail fixings!
Otty had some amazing Eldar objectives made from medicine spoons.
Wraithguard get to head through the trees, which I absolutely love, asked for specifically and never got to play on that table!
Marbo tries to steal the cache of Shuriken Pistols. I think he eventually succumbed to the Rangers.
The Jetbikes arrive.
But the objective is still in Ben's hands.
Another cache of Shuriken Weapons and the gun-line continues to pound the Guard.
Wave Serpent tries to flank the Guard.
I think these were the Wave Serpents target.
Gunlines trade shots across no-man's land.
Wraithguard advance through the autumnal trees.
This was a really good days gaming, Ben was the consummate host but we must get better at time-keeping. The heat was certainly a factor, gaming was a little more fractious than usual with us having to stop and mediate for rules during games, maybe next time we need to crank out the beers sooner, although I did miss finishing off a fantastic cup of tea which was replaced by an equally awesome ice-cold shandy. See what I mean about a cool host, and lest us not forget about the massive bacon and egg barms [which I spilt on the battle board!].
Anyway, an Apocalypse battle is planned for next get together, although my lowly 4,000pts won't stack up against these power gamers, ha, ha!