Warhammer Horus Heresy V.2
My 5th game in our local escalation league game was 2500 points. This has been my first escalation league and I have enjoyed this format immensely. It has motivated me to build and paint all my piles of plastics! Over two months I have built and painted this entire Imperial Fists army, something I wouldn't have done if I had not been playing this much.
This was the last game in our league, and I was matched up against the Iron Warriors! My opponent had Perturabo, three Leviathan Dreadnoughts, two Predator Tanks, a full Melta Support Squad in a Rhino, a Terminator Command Squad and two Tactical Squads.
I was running a pretty brutal list for the Imperial Fists. I had a Delegatus Centurion, a Armistos Centurion, two Apothecaries, two squads of Phalanx Warders, a Recon Squad, a Scout Squad and a six-man Autocannon Heavy Support Squad. But the main pain in the list were four Castraferrum Dreadnoughts and a Leviathan Dreadnought! Three of the Castraferrum had Lascannons and fists and one had two fists and two assault cannons. I was also running the Iron Gauntlet Rite of War.
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| I was using two of my new Furibundus dreadnoughts in place of Castraferrums. |
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| We played Blood Feud with the Clash of the Line deployment. |
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| Some really heavy armor on the the way. |
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| Dreads in the center with Warders on the wings and snipers holding the flanks. |
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| A almost mirrored deployment for me. |
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| Besides the Predators, everything was short range for the Iron Warriors. |
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| You do not want to come down mainstreet. |
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| I chose to fight at night, since I had lots of Augery Scanners and Searchlights. |
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| The Imperial Fist wedge advanced slowly and steadily. |
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| The loyalist fire is too much and the Leviathans are losing wounds and an alarming rate. |
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| My own Leviathan moved into range with its Storm Cannon and twin Assault Cannons. |
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| Snipers, as always, doing incredible work. |
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| The last view of the Iron Warriors line before it evaporated. |
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The next turn saw all the tanks go down and the Leviathans as well.
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| The game ended with just Perturabo and the two tactical squads hiding at the far end of the table. |
I did feel pretty guilty in this game. I killed his entire army except for Perturabo and the two Tactical Squads for the loss of a single Phalanx Warder... The shear amount of firepower this army is able to put down is brutal. Several things really helped me out. It being nightime, which I was prepared for, and his army being short range and slow, meant I dealt critical damage before any of his troops could return fire. The other big benefit was the deployment being short edge to short edge, meaning he had a long way to run.
