Battle Report: US Open 2023 Tacoma - Occultaris Campaign M3 - Sisters

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The Tenuous Allies, after extending out from the drop sites to secure supplies, stumbled into the the plans of the Ravenous Hordes all along: to infiltrate and sabotage their back lines, in an Insurgency!

As the vox static cleared, it became apparent that the Adepta Sororitas had declared any Imperial Forces working in even a 'tenuous alliance' with xenos in an effort to secure the relics of Occultaris would be considered heresy.  Faustus was unimpressed with their demands as he gestured to have the audio cut - the Ecclesiarchy did not dictate the actions of Adeptus Terra, let alone Adeptus Astartes, but he wondered what the true motivation was...

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Battle Report:

Ruleset: 2023 Tenth Edition Leviathan US Open Narrative Missions, Tyrannic War Crusade
Mission: Insurgency

Points: 1000

Mission Objectives

At the end of the battle:

• The attacker scores 20VP for each primed objective marker on the battlefield.
• The Defender scores 15VP for each unprimed objective marker on the battlefield

My Forces:

+ Leaders +

• Primus Leo Exevio Faustus - Captain in Terminator Armour: Warlord - Enhancement: Artificer Armour, Crusade Relic: Artificer Weapon: Power Fist

+ (Elites) +

• Squad Tourbillion - 5 man Terminator Squad: Teleport Homer, Power sword, Storm bolter, Assault cannon, 3x Chainfist, Power fist
• Squad Lazarus- 5 man Assault Squad w/ Jump Packs: Bolt Pistols, Chainswords, 1x Grav-pistol, 1x Power Fist
• Squad Uzziel - 5 man Tyrannic War Veterans: Boltguns, Bolt pistols, combat weapons

+ (Heavy Support) +

• Squad Nero - 5 man Devastator Squad: Power sword, plasma pistol, 3x Lascannon, Missile Launcher
• Land Raider One - Land Raider - Twin Heavy Bolter, 2x Godhammer Lascannons - Reinforced Superstructure

+ (Fast Attack) +

• "One Charlie" - Land Speeder Tornado: Heavy flamer, Multi-melta

Takeaways & Analysis

 This one didn't go so well for Faustus and his Ultramarines.  The mission called for the attacking sisters to prime explosives on each objective and had the 'Counter-assult Engagement' parameter so that the defender (the Ultramarines) had the first turn.  I made the gamble to throw everything I had at the Castigator tank in the backfield since it was pretty much the only thing I could see, and then drop the Terminators out and charge them and the Assault Marines into the Retributor Squad hiding in a building to the northeast.

My bold moves didn't pay off - not only was I not able to completely destroy the tank (only 2 wounds remaining!) but none of my infantry was able to get a charge off.  What followed was a chain of events where we got melted to slag pretty quick.  I had pretty cold dice while my opponent had hot dice, so it was quite a stomping.  This was definitely one where I probably would have been better off just hiding for the first turn.

While every unit was destroyed, it was fitting that only Faustus took a battle scar - he did get lasered in the face by a Vindicare sniper.  I immediately removed it with my hard earned RP.