Way to much time passed since our last Kill Team event in 2014. Unfortunately only four club members could make it and were brave enough to resist this summer’s day heat. Nevertheless we had some really entertaining matches.
Flattervieh decided to start a loyal Space Marine chapter and went for the Raven Guard. What could be a better start for a new project than a Kill Team?
Elrond de Gravenesse expanded his already existing Blood Axes with a pack of Nobz.
Rekrom showed his new Iron Warriors for the first time.
Well and I brought my weird Enslaver team with me of course.
The Enslavers had to deal with the Iron Warriors first. The mission was “supply drop” thus the teams had to check each of the six mission objective markers in the Zone Mortalis.
The Iron Warriors went straight forward.
Just like the Enslavers and their mind slaves.
The first Chaos Space Marines fell due to the immense power of the Enslavers’ Warp Blasts.
The Chaos Spawn tried to bring close combat to the Enslavers.
Whereas Bolter rounds were also fired at the Xenos.
Surprisingly the Chaos Spawn was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of attacks from the enslaved humans.
The final mission objective marker was found in the meantime. As it was located next to the Enslavers the Iron Warriors pushed forward even more ambitious.
And one by one the Chaos Space Marines showed the Xenos and their slaves that they were superior in close combat.
The Enslavers could not hold up to the brutal strength of the sons of Perturabo.
Even if the Chaos Space Marines suffered some casualties they could finally cut down the last alien creature.
The next mission was “infiltrate the camp” and the Enslavers had to break through while the Raven Guard had to stand in their way.
So the Enslavers gathered their meat shield and went on to flee over the other table edge.
The infiltrating Enslaver tried to break through on his own.
The Raven Guard stood in position, hidden from their enemies’ eyes. Just like their chapter tactics demand.
The Scouts were in position, able to fire sniper shots at the Xenos.
The sniper fire wasn’t to bad for the Xenos Kill Team. Some of the showing Scouts could even be taken down in their hideouts.
Some of the scouts of the Raven Guard.
The way ahead seemed to be a safe passage.
Suddenly out of nowhere Raven Guard Space Marines!
The Space Marines of the nineteenth Legion showed no mercy and butchered the Xenos and their minions.
The keen push of the Enslavers ended under the blades of Corax’ sons.
The third and last match against Elrond’s Orks saw the narrow space of the Zone Mortalis again. The mission was “alone in the dark”.
The Enslavers were almost all on the battlefield…
…while only one Nob made it through the dark.
But one by one the Orks dropped by from both sides of the board, opening fire wherever they could.
The immense power of the Enslavers’ Warp Blast proved to be quite useful against the tough Orks again.
Yet the Enslavers were surprised to see how tough the Orks really were.
And there was literally nothing they could do against the greenskins brute power in close combat.
So a really brutal and lossy battle on both sides endured between these Xenosraces in the dark of the Zone Mortalis.
Of course the most heavy fighting took place around the mission objective markers.
The last picture of the battle. No Enslaver (just two enslaved Guardsmen) and no Ork was left at the end of the match. The Orks were a little ahead with victory points though.
Cheers to my three club mates for the three great matches! It was a pleasure again as they all came with new Teams which I had never the joy of playing against before. I won’t put any further work into my Enslaver Kill Team as they are a Kill Team only project. And fun to play they were indeed. I had lots and lots of warp power dice to roll and all of them were immune to break tests and whatnot. Quite an interesting team to play with. Of course they lost three times in a row. This may not sound so very entertaining at all, but it wasn’t that bad, really. The first and the third match were tight losses and could have been won with the right dice rolls. The second one was a disaster but absolutely entertaining as it went like in a Warhammer novel. The Raven Guard baited their victims in a very effective trap, that was just awesome to watch (even from my side of the board).
I hope the next Kill Team event will be upon us much sooner and with more participants again.