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The Silent Judges act on the intelligence of their torturers, striking from their black-hulled transports against the treacherous Dark Angels known as the Order of the Lepidoptera. Onslaught on Search and Destroy, Dark Angels Serpent's Bane against the Sisters of Silence. The Silent Sisterhood took first turn, and struck out immediately with two of their three Acquitioner transports. Being Fast vehicles as well as being assault transports, they leapt straight over my forward-infiltrated front line of Indomitus Terminators, and one Squad of Executioner-sword wielding sisters smashed at speed into my Despoilers and their Librarian commander. On the other flank, Jenetia Crole and her Retinue leapt from their transport and fired into my unprotected Tactical Squad - but they turned around and fired right back. Though they were overrun in close combat, they killed every single member of the Retinuethrough their Reactions. Jenetia was alone, defenceless, with two Praetors within charge range. The mighty Guiding Hand, Cataphractii Praetor, lined up - and rolled a three. Satanus, the Swordsman, Keeper of the Keys prepared to charge - snake eyes. Double one. The Librarian Turmiel did his best, and it showed on the other flank. All of the other Executioners were cut down, and the Despoilers rushed forward. But as the turn ticked over, a great rumbling beneath the ground became impossible to ignore. Two squads of ten heavy-flamer-equipped squads came a-drilling from below, a Subterranean Assault in a pair of Siege drills. The Despoilers were killed outright. Elsewhere, gunfire exchanged, snipers taking shots of opportunity, a Plasma Repeater Squad turned an Acquisitor, then a Drill-tank, then a squad of Flamers to liquid metal and scorched meat. The Praetors and their Command Squads pushed up to claim the enemy objective. But one of the Serpent's Bane targets was still alive, and as she finally Deep Struck on Turn Four, it was too late to kill her. I had failed my mission. Final Scores: 9-7 to the Silent Sisterhood! #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #tabletopsimulator #warhammerbattlereport #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday484 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp30heTIIUb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A grim bloody fable with a bitter bloody end. Short table edges and one objective: break through the enemy lines, and capture their deployment zone. A simple task, but not when the enemy is the Adeptus Custodes. A long thin line of gold met a long thin line of black and bone. 2+ save outnumbered all others 10:1 - but, like the Emperor's Children - the Custodes have an awful lot of high initiatives AP2. It was the usual bloodbath. The first turns saw half of my charges fail. Individual squads were outnumbered and annihilated by Custodian Guard spears while their support was still stumbling in. The Ravenwing Tartaros Terminators took barely any casualties, lost combat due to an enemy vexilla, then rolled my traditional 11 on the morale check. The first of three such rolls, always at the worst times. My line was broken in the center, as the Tartaros were run down, and stalled by a Dreadnought on each flank. My squads were then charged, and outnumbered. Do you know how insane it is to be outnumbered by Custodes? But it wouldn't be one of my games if it didn't go to the grim, bloody end. I was finally tabled, my single Cataphractii Praetor - surrounded by his dead Deathwing Bodyguard and a whole bunch of Hetaeron Guard - dying to a Tribune in a challenge on the last phase of turn six. Five Volkite Calivers didn't cut it. I think I'm going to have to break one of my long standing rules. I think I'm going to have to break out the Plasma. #warhammercommunity #warhammerbattlereport #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #darkangels30k #adeptuscustodes30k #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday463 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBrGwoIKdO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Pride of the First and Third Legions meet in the mud and blood of a post-Istvaan battlefield. 3000pts, Onslaught on Long Table Edge deployment. Both armies were exercises in maximising the quantity of Line units, with no less than four Legion Standards on the battlefield. The game was characterised, as always, by awful charge rolls and terrible armour saves. The Emperor's Children Phoenix Terminators passed every single save they were called to make, until turn three saw them get charged by more than 1000pts of Dark Angels just to start tearing then down. The Dark Angel Indomitus Terminators failed their charge rolls, fled as a result of a Hold The Line reaction, and the other unit got pinned from a single incidental hit from one of those Sonic Template-Screamers. The Third Legion can get *nasty*. +1WS every turn you pass a leadership, autopassing from Fearless, and -1 to hit from Sonic Shriekers made my normally-2s-to-hit marines sometimes failing to hit on anything but sixes. It seemed like the perfect counter to my force, but the Dark Angels ground on regardless. Sadly we had to call it halfway through turn three, due to time constraints, but that didn't stop us from standing in the rain and chatting for a full hour afterwards. We're just as much in this hobby for the people, as for the plastic, after all! #warhammercommunity #wargaming #warhammerbattlereport #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #ageofdarkness #darkangels30k #emperorschildren30k #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday456 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/Covi_16IZuw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Some games are just too nail-biting to photograph. Today, the Dark Angels saw their first game in the flesh. Underprepared is certainly the word for it, as I was still gluing models onto bases twenty minutes before we were due to meet up - but even so, the game was amazing. 2000pt Ambush deployment saw the Angels surrounded by a beautifully painted Alpha Legion force. My first turns were punctuated by some awful rolls, and some harsh lessons in the effectiveness of the Alpha Legion movement/range shenanigans. My Leviathan and Tartaros Terminators were shot off the table turn one. My Veterans and Command Squad were charged by Contemptor Dreadnaughts, and my shooting squads were always just out of range. And then the dice turned. A slew of lucky sixes saw one Contemptor hewn in half by the Calibanite Warblade of a Veteran Sergeant, and the shredding chainswords of the Command Squad finished what a Terranic Greatsword had started. Stuck into melee, the Angels of Death took an obscene toll on whatever unit they engaged, but all the while their already limited numbers were slowly chipped away. Going into turn four, I only had seven models on the table. But those seven models had each slain four times their number of more valuable enemies. Be it the lone Veteran Sergeant who single handedly removed 9 Tactical marines (before a Power Fist Sergeant nailed him in retaliation), or three Power Fist Indomitus Terminators that deleted a whole ten man squad of Seekers and their Saboteur leader, running them off the table without taking so much as a wound in return. Every man was a Hero - but Heroes don't win battles. It takes men to hold the field, and mine were exhausted. It took one lost volley of Nemesis Bolters and Lascannons to bring an end to my rampage, and I was tabled at the end of turn four. What a game! #warhammercommunity #warhammerbattlereport #darkangels30k #alphalegion30k #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday449 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoddyrWNUvJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I dont think I really need to present today's game with much commentary. Dominion mission with short edge deployment. Night Lords keeping us in darkness until turn 3. Imperial Fists losing one half of their points cost every turn, from a turn one exploding Land Raider claiming 8 lives, to a trio of Predator Melta-Cannon turning a Dreadnought to mulch every shot. I didn't bother photographing my enemy - I think it works just to show my own force each turn, as it vanished away. It doesn't matter if your army is super elite, or if you make all the right decisions, or if you know exactly what you're doing - if the only high rolls you ever make is for your Leadership Checks, you're gonna go nowhere. And I definitely didn't do any of those other things either! (Incidentally, I stopped counting my failed leadership rolls somewhere after the sixth. Which happened on turn three. My own assault marines got pinned by intercepting rotor cannons as soon as they deployed. My lascannons were pinned turn one from a sniper rifle, and never unpinned. My Castellan and his squad failed three tests in a row, and rallied on the board edge. Aaargh.) Good game, though. #warhammercommunity #warhammerbattlereport #spacemarines #spacemarine #imperialfists #imperialfists30k #nightlords30k #siegeofterra #ageofdarkness #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #hardforheresy #hardforheresy2point0 #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday443 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLgLmuI3WL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Eight players enter, no one leaves! Four thousand points each, sixteen thousand points a side, five Primarchs, four Lords of War, and nine hours to play. Shatterstrike played over a twelve foot by four foot board. The White Scars and Iron Hands on the right, facing off against the Night Lords and Emperor's Children. On the left, two Imperial Fist forces drew up against the Word Bearers and World Eaters. We played for four turns, and three of them were under the cover of darkness due to Night Lord shenanigans. That cover let the heavy hammer of the World Eaters and Word Bearers slam almost unopposed down the left flank, while the right flank was reduced to a desperate holding action within the first few hours. My own part was that of a largely passive observer. Three out of my four thousands points were in Deep Strike reserve, appearing in the second phase of Turn Two. Unfortunately, my lack of numbers opened holes in our line, and by the time I arrived the loyalist side were up against the wall. The arrival of the reserves were a hope spot, but as they failed to bring down any targets as their first turn turned into their second, they were systematically removed just as surely as the Iron Hands had been annihilated in turn two, and the Scars had been decimated in turn three. The ultimate score was a lot closer than one might expect, but by the end of turn four, two loyalist players had been entirely knocked out, their armies killed to a man, while the two remaining - both Imperial Fists - were surrounded, embattled, and unable to choose their own engagements. Victory went to the Traitors, and the walls of the Imperial Palace fell just as surely as the pile of empty cans we Fists had been stacking came a-toppling come 11pm. What a day! #warhammercommunity #warhammerbattlereport #spacemarines #spacemarine #imperialfists #imperialfists30k #whitescars30k #emperorschildren30k #wordbearers30k #ironhands30k #worldeaters30k #nightlords30k #siegeofterra #ageofdarkness #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #hardforheresy #hardforheresy2point0 #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday410 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmxbHgHIIIa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The World Eaters breach into the Inner Palace, and Rogal Dorn's words echo in every Imperial Fist's ear: Kill Them All! Table quarter deployment and War of Lies mission, Kharn and his Berserkers against Sigismund and his Stone Gauntlet. The World Eaters went first, advancing right into the teeth of the Fists' guns. Charge and counter-charge rippled across the line, as Sigismund's Templar Brethren charged into Kharn's Despoilers, and the WE Leviathan assaulted Contemptor Ancient Vergil in the Fists' shooting phase. The slaughter was immediate. Dozens of Khorne-addled traitors died under gun and blade. Lascannons annihilated a Contemptor with 9 hits and 8 wounds. Sigismund and the Templars cut down a full squad while the Templar Champion threw Kharn down and broke him with his Solarite Power Gauntlet. Wave after wave of white and blue crashed upon the rocks of the Templars, losing twelve Despoilers, fifteen Assault Marines, and a Contemptor to kill five Brethren. When the bloody brawl in the center of the table finally cleared, the only survivors were a depleted squad of Phalanx Warders and Tactical Marines, Sigismund and his Brethren, and five World Eater models: a quad-Las Contemptor, a Legion Champion on one wound, a Leviathan on one wound, and a damaged Javelin. You'd think that would be it over - but this was only turn three. We went all the way to six turns, and it was decided at the end by Sigismund duelling the Leviathan. If the First Templar died, the World Eaters would win. He was dropped to a single wound, and finally - finally - killed the Levi. 13-10 to the Fists, with no points scored from objectives. #warhammercommunity #warhammerbattlereport #spacemarines #spacemarine #imperialfists #imperialfists30k #deathguard30k #siegeofterra #ageofdarkness #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #hardforheresy #hardforheresy2point0 #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday347 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkPBqB7N3Pn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today, Sigismund and his Stone Gauntlet of Imperial Fists threw down against Corvus Corax's Raven Guard, with Tylos Rubio in support of the Midnight Clad. Short table edge deployment, with our objective to break the lines and breach into one another's deployment zones. Raven Guard went first, and immediately hamstrung my most valuable assets: lascannons immobilised Sigismund's Land Raider, and plasma cannons turned the firepower of my lascannon squad into a thin gruel. The lascannons returned fire, ensuring that only three plasma cannon operators would survive - but these opening salvoes defined much of the game. I was very lucky. Most of my opponent's rolls were ones, most of my own were sixes, but the bottleneck of an immobilised Land Raider and the screaming vanguard of Corax himself turned the center of the field into a mire of protracted combats and footsloggers taking the long way around, which only broke when Corax - the sole survivor of his squad, but for the Praetor he had with him - elected the hit and run out of combat. The game ended on turn three, with plenty of firepower on both sides - though Sigismund had only a single wound left, and Corax had lost only one, my two squads of Phalanx Warders were threatening my enemy deployment zone. A further two turns could have swung either way, and the table as it was gave us a well fought draw. Always a pleasure. #warhammercommunity #warhammerbattlereport #spacemarines #spacemarine #imperialfists #imperialfists30k #ravenguard30k #siegeofterra #ageofdarkness #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #hardforheresy #hardforheresy2point0 #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday327 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjY7rQlNv2y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=