Thursday, January 16, 2014

A long awaited update

Due to life issues (cat getting sick, holiday stress and so on) I haven't done much with my wolves. However thanks to a few friendly games with a friend, Aythrea my Space Wolves frenzy was renewed. He showed me the raw power of grey hunters, and the ferocious bloodlust of thunderwolf cavalry. Such awesomeness that even daemons can pale in comparison!

So, tonight I joined my bloodclaws, Ulkoa, Krag, Tunrida, Surma, Varvus, Moorden, Volharding, and Aarteppel along with the ever trustworthy Rignus the wolf priest, in both drink and battle. Enough fire water to drown a horse, and enough blood to drown a daemon of the blood god! This battle was fought against Chaos Space Marines, an ever growing thorn in the side of the imperium! What sort of foul debauchery was taking place before the blood claws intervention?... probably daemon summoning, CSM like to do that, but who knows? So without further delay, the results of the battle!

8 blood claws and Rignus fought against 11 chaos cultists and 5 chaos space marines. This was the first mission that I used modified kill team rules for. Basically every model was its own unit. However the army was treated as using highest leadership, for both CSM and SW (not that it mattered much)

Ulkoa: Missed with his bolt pistol, then overcome with blood lust all too familiar to blood claws, failed to dodge an overwatch from a chaos space marine and fell in battle. Ulkoa's next fall may be too much for even the healing powers of Rignus.
Krag (no relation to the grenade...): Felled a chaos cultist with his bolt pistol, slew another in CC, then with lightning reflexes dodged 3 shots from las pistols. Fought and killed 2 of the cultists in CC, Rignus obliterated the 3rd with his mighty blows. Krag proved himself an asset to the space wolves in this battle.
Tunrida: Tunrida has developed a mighty fellowship with Surma! He failed to gun down a cultist, however with a tag team duo with Sruma, filled 3 cultists.
Surma: Was fired upon and stuck by cultists, but his armor saved him. Fighting alongside Tunrida, he felled 3 cultsists.
Varvus: Had an eventful fight, failing to cause damage with his bolt pistol, Varvus assaulted, he saved against the overwatch and killed the cultist who fired upon him. Another cultist attempted to charge, but with quick reflexes was able to gun him down in overwatch. Afterwards he held his own against a chaos space marine for 3 rounds until Rignus felled the chaos scum with his powerful blows.
Moordenaar: A quick fate for Moordenaar, after failing to land a shot with his bolt pistol, he was shot by 6 cultists, falling to one of the many las shots.
Volharding: Laid a chaos marine to rest with his bolt pistol, then after failing to hit another chaos marine, took to overwatch bolter hits to the face and shrugged them off. After a round of combat with a chaos marine, he found himself facing both a marine and a cultist. The cultist found an opening and felled Volharding in CC while the Chaos marine distracted him.
Aartappel: With his powersword proudly held, he fired his bolt pistol directly at a chaos marine, failing to wound him. He was unphased by the overwatch, and managed to fell the chaos space marine leader in CC, however, the tainted marine took Aartappel with him to ground.

Many blood claws proved their worth, while others came up short handed in this battle. In the following battles we will see which blood claws earn the title of Grey Hunter. Also, I will have some picture soon tomorrow.

4 comments:

  1. Krag for Banner Bearer! Inspiring all others around him to greater feats of glory and death!
    I had seen the Kill Teams rules but never thought about how PERFECTLY these rules would fit the 'Trials' that you're putting your claws to.
    You mentioned that they're modified rules. How are you playing them differently than written?

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    1. Honestly it was more of an assumption that I was playing the rules differently. I only know the basics of kill teams. Some examples are that I did not use specialist roles or warlord traits. I did have the Wolf priests abilities confer to all of the blood claws (hatred) even though they are not in a unit. I also allowed all models to charge a different unit if they shot and killed the first one.

      Well see how Krag does in the next battle!

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