Space wolves VS. Space wolves 3000 points a side!

Hello and welcom to another battle report!

This game was played at my friends home on the 15th. I had nearly a 3 hour drive to get there!

This was one of the best games I have played in a very long time. 

For what ever reason I have been in a Space Wolves mood lately.

My warriors were ready to sail the blood ocean that is the sea of stars and claim their glory!

WLK took the pictures and posted them in our group in face book.

Here the battle begins.

Maelstrom Mission 2

WLK: the Great Company of Lord Kjaran of the Red Sails
-Lord Kjaran with his 5 strong Thunderwolf retinue
-Rune Priest Ospak Farsight with 15 Blood Claws in a Stormwolf
-Wolf Priest with 15 Blood Claws in a Stormwolf
-2 10 strong Grey Hunters in Rhinos
-Predator Deimos with Plasma Destroyer and Lascannon sponsons
-Allied Imperial Knight Errant, the Bean Sidhe of House Macha

Steve Whelps in need of a thrashing (from memory, Steve can correct if i screw something up)
-Wolf Lord on TWM, (th+ss) with 3 thunderwolves
-3 10 strong Grey Hunter packs in Rhinos
-Vindicator Tank
-Rune Priest in TDA with 5 Wolf Guard in TDA
-1x7 Wolf Guard in TDA, all with combi-plasma
-1x3 Land Speeder Squadron
-2 6 strong Long Fang packs
-Stormwolf
-Dreadnought with plasma cannon, heavy flamer and extra armour
-Dreadnought with twin autto cannon, missile launcher and extra armour 

--------------WLK----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Uberwolve
Turn 1........0.............................................................................................0
Turn 2.......Stuff of Sagas (3)..........................................................First Blood, Sec Objective 2, No Prisoners
Turn 3......Slay the Warlord (hah).....................................................Unleash the Wolves
Turn 4......Secure Objective 6.........................................................Secure Objective 3, Ascendancy (1)
Turn 5.....Witch Hunter, Secure Obj 3+5, Hold Your Ground (3).........Hunger for Glory (1), Recon, Psychological Warfare
...............Unleash the Wolves, Hunger for Glory (3), Line Breaker.....Line Breaker
Final...........15........................................................................................10

This turned out to be an incredibly, incredibly close game between Steve and myself. Until the last turn, I was expecting a tie at best but thinking how to mitigate the potential loss. 
The cards werent friendly to either of us, but we both played smart and looked secure any advantage against each other. 

I took an Imperial Knight for the first time, and while it's guns werent terribly useful, its ability to harm anything on the table helped me negate Uber's superior speed.
I also used the Wolves Unleashed detachment rather than the standard CAD, and there were 2 times when not having Objective Secured hurt me in the scores. I wont be doing that again. I rolled up (with re-rolls...) Monster Hunter and it was pretty useless as well. With the potential to outflank, I only had 2 units eligible to actually outflank. Frankly, giving up OS for a potential Outflank is plain stupid.

The most important thing of the game is that Steve and I have a great time. We laughed, commiserated together, cheered and made very inappropriate jokes. Today was a good day.

Coments 

Uberwolve

Notes. My army list had two dreadnoughts.One with a twin auttocannon nd missile launcher the other with a plasma cannon and heavy flamer. Both had extra armour. 

The wolf guard terminators were 3 with wolf claw and storm shields one with chain fist had storm shield. Body guards for the TDA master of the runes. I think that's about it.

WLK

 i thought I listed the dread...hopefully I got it right on B&C

Steve's deployment.
Uberwolve "Crom sits strong on his mountain! 
I set up first and tried to use the buildings for cover and to block some LOS. I wasn't exactly sure what kind of shooting was in Kieran's army.
He likes that Super plasma predator and I knew he had the knight."

WLK "yea, i havent gotten over the fun of the plasma predator yet."

                                                               Steve's deployment.

                                                                      Steve's deployment

Steve's Reserves

Uberwolve " I like to keep my speeders in reserve to keep them alive beyond turn one..."

WLK " its a valid idea.

Deep striking them may be a good idea in the future, especially in Drop Pod heavy games

My deployment (WLK)

WLK deployment

WLK Reserves

View of the table!

Night fight? No.

Objectives ? 6

Draw one card on turn one.

Every turn after draw one card for every objective marker you control.

Turn 1 Steve: He rushes forward to clear LoS for his Long Fangs in the building

Uberwolve " I knew I had to move as much as I could. Had to gain objectives and get out of my deployment zone or be trapped there. I like that vehicles can move more during the shooting phase this helps out a lot."

WLK "yea, the mission requiring objectives held to get tactical cards is inventive, if a little frustrating at times

WLK "I move my Knight Errant and Thunderwolves forward to engage the Vindicator tank that took Hull point from Knight,both fail charge.

the Knight's gun hurts 2 of Steve's Rhinos, but fails to hurt them"

Uberwolve " The vindicator needed to get closer to shoot. the ruins ahead of him saved it from two charges! I also shot to attempt to scatter beyond the Knight who has protection from his ion field. "

WLK "using the stubber to allow cheap shot charges is interesting. Im going to remember that "

WLK Moving forward

Steve drops 7 combi-plasma Terminators infront of my Rhino and Deimos pred, and he destroys both in 1 turn

Uberwolve " I very nearly fielded all 10 of my Combi plasma! but decided 7 was enough. I've been running them this way for a long time, mostly to kill nid brain bugs. They weren't really a good match were they landed but it well fairly well. "

WLK "they did vape the plasma pred. if it wasnt for them, it would have raised some hell on the thunderwolves"

Steve's Turn 2, he continues his advance while shielding his Thunderwolves

Uberwolve "Not much to say here. Just wanted to keep moving. Taking that objective was a good thing too. Not one I had to go after but it kept me getting cards. "

 WLK "very smart playing on your part.

Your constant moving made sure i had to work to nail your forces "

Uberwolve " I was mostly trying to get further away from the power of your knight and if he cam that way hope he stepped in front of my Long fangs! "

          WIL "Good plan. That building was full of heavy weapon badasses "

Uberwolve "They so nearly knee caped him from the ground floor. it was a good plan but I think I only had one hit of the three shots. too much building in the way. "

Steve's Wolf Guard do 2 hull points to my Knight in CC, but the Knight's stomp kills the remaining Terminators

Uberwolve "This hurt! It's always painful to have watch helpless as one of your best units are eaten. My TDAWG were nearly able to slay his knight. Nearly."

WLK " I was damn lucky with that "6" on the chart. I think if the Wolf Guard stayed in combat I would have lost the Knight much faster"

 Uberwolve " Part of me thinks I should have had a full unit of them. that would have had at least one more anti tank guy. maybe another power fist maybe a thunder hammer. I'll have to see what all I have already. Might have to add another might warrior to that unit."

WLK " A full 10 would be beast, but I would direct more hate at them.I would have hit them with the melta cannon then"

Uberwolve " Very true. It's hard to support units so far forward like that. I'll still be thinking on the thunder hammer. Not at the top of my to do list though."

WLK "   If I ran Pods with beacons then I'd run terminators."

Uberwolve " I was very excited about planet strike so my collection was planned more or less around that so drop pods. Sadly(?) I never did play planet strike."

WLK "  I dropped the fascination with planet when I saw the number of terrain needed to play good sized games of this"

Uberwolve " I got a good bit of it. I think a lot of people were turned off by the victory conditions but It would have been a cool way to kick off a map based campaign or something."

YEa, its getting nuts here

Uberwolve " Kieran's forces are all over the board now. My storm wolf turned up and lined up to take out it's opposite number but failed to do so. I was planning to use it as a gunship."

WLK "  it was a good plan, I just got lucky with the Interceptor gun. If your wolf wasnt stunned, I would have lost the stormwolves with blood claws+wolfpriest before they could hit the Long Fang building"

the Icarus gun on the Knight penetrates Steve's stormwolf, but fails to kill it

Steve's Wolf Lord and Thunderwolves move to engage my knight after his shooting removes all but 1 hull point

Uberwolve " The TWC thunder hammer had killed the knight effectively the thunder Lord just added to the pile of pens! Better to live one day as an eagle, not a life time as a fly!"

WLK " I would have claimed the kill for your Wolf Lord. Swinging at same I with the same S,it really could have been either and its a great start to his saga"

Uberwolve " Ah, I thought if he died it didn't count.

WLK " It counts if you want it to count. 

Just because the poison of Jörmungandr kills Thor doesn't negate Thor's achievement"

Unpredicatbly, a Wolf Lord on Thunderwolf mount with a thunder hammer is enough to kill the Knight...

Uberwolve" The Lords celebrations would be very short lived."

WLK " still a sweet one though"

who promptly goes nuclear, taking the Wolf Lord and another Thunderwolf in the following explosion!

Uberwolve "KA-BOOM! I had been hoping for a good drift...I really wanted that huge blast marker to drift back away from my unit and onto the rhino! But it was not to be."

WLK " 

 I was damn lucky with that explosion. Losing my Knight was tough, but it's killing of the Wolf Lord and thunder hammer armed TWC was essential to me"

Not having Objective secure hurt me here, as my GH move to engage the last of Steve's Thunderwolves

Uberwolve " The surviving TWC meant to cause as much trouble as he could!"

WLK " he did.

Not having Objective Secured hurt me in this game. I wont do it again"

My Wolf Priest and 15 Blood Claws come out of their Stormwolf, but fail the charge to the Long Fangs on the ground floor

Uberwolve " Looks scary! all those Blood claws with the wolf priest!"

WLK " luckily the Blood Claws got distracted by butterflies or something and left in a very, very bad spot"

Yea, the combat continues

Steve's Long Fangs make my Blood Claws for their advance, killing 9 in a single volley of plasma cannon and lascannon fire

Uberwolve "The long fangs tally the butchers bill. The cranky old fangs wish to slay all who challenge them!"

WLK " OUCH!"

Steve uses his Land Speeders to deny me the Objective

Uberwolve " Not sure I did this the right way. the plan was to draw Kierans army to this objective away from my own forced on his side of the board. this objective was named to be held for two turns. so I knew he would want it for the points. it was worth D3 and he also had a card for it. Its final value was 4 points! which was a huge prize to be had!"

WLK "  it was a good plan for you. if you managed to disrupt me holding the objective, which you nearly did, i would have not gotten the 3 points for the objective. 

again, not having Objective Secured hurt"

My Stormwolf moves behind Steve's Rhinos and unleashes hell

Uberwolve " My lower left rhino was immobilized. It was time to start making the harder choices. His Storm Wolf was still transporting blood claws in large number! And they would bring my doom!"

WLK " yea, i love cramming maxed out claws into the Stormwolf. Its the perfect delivery vehice"

Steve's Dread is laughing so hard at the Blood Claws that he fails his charge...now my Blood Claws move into the building

Uberwolve " Earlier the dred lost the use of his power fist. But I needed the charge to stop the blood claws from gaining assault with my long fangs! But he was far too busy to bother with it.

WLK " damn those butterflies..."

Lord Kjaran moves to engage the enemy Rune Priest and Wolf Guard escort

Uberwolve " The wolf guard are actually on the ground floor."

killing off the Long Fangs on the ground floor, the Wolf Priest and surviving Blood Claws move to the second floor

Uberwolve " Things had gotten grim for my Long fangs! the pack below killed and the pack above reduced to a single man.   He would frag more blood claws, from the other Storm wolf be fore he was to die!"

WLK "  "It is a good day to die""

a lone grey hunter standing among the wrecked land speeders, as they required both a melta gun shot (who's explosion killed 2 of his packmates) and his power fist

Uberwolve " My speeders lasted just a little longer than I thought."

WLK "Yea, they were probably the "Man of the Match"

they stripped hull points off of the Knight, and even in death killed 2 of 3 of a Grey Hunter pack"

Uberwolve"  I need to reread fast skimmers. Just in case I missed out on moving further when they went flat out. I think if they had been able to move past your objective I might have had another turn of use from them. but I'm not sure they would have been far enough away from your TWC to have made a difference. So I guess everything happened as it was suppose to."

WLK " I am pretty sure they could have moved further, but then they wouldn't be denying me the obj I needed"

Lord Kjaran takes a wound, but kills off most of the Wolf Guard

Uberwolve "The Wolf lord is very tough."

WLK " He doesnt compare to yours.

a Thunder Hammer+Storm Shield thunder lord is probably the best kitted out Lord"

Johan Hegg approves of the violence

Johan Hegg approves of the violence

"impressive!"

I start to encircle Steve's surviving Grey Hunters

Uberwolve " Prior to this my Grey hunters had managed to destroy the near and threatening Storm wolf. But we were now trapped! Lots of shooting just to plink off a few of Kierans grey hunters."

WLK "  I forgot about the melta'd stormwolf. That what happens when I upload stuff so late"

Uberwolve " Fair enough. It was a high point for me your "Gun Ships" had seemed untouchable previously."

WLK

The Wolf Priest charges toward the last Long Fang, takes a krak missile in the chest which is ignored by his armor, before killing the lone senior citizen

Uberwolve "  The long fang fought as well as he could but his time in this mortal realm was up."

WLK " Yea, my Wolf Priest was on a rampage. 

                                                                            I think his Crozius needs it's own name"

                                                                      Uberwolve " Head cracker! Skull Cruncher!

                                                                     WLK " frankly, Im surprised the Ap4 weapon did so much damage"

                                                                           Uberwolve "Just the luck."

                                                                       WLK " And digital weapons helped"

THIS!

IS!
FENRIS!

Uberwolve " Wolf priest victorious!

WLK "  It was a good end for his game"

Uberwolve " There was a heavy toll to pay for Objective 3."

WLK "  damn heavy. 

Frankly, I should have ignored it as well as you had it secured, but I got tunnel vision'ed on it. 
the # of times you pulled "Secure Objective 3" was funny/irritating.

Uberwolve " Ya, I think twice. I don't know how many of those cards are in the deck but twice did surprise me! 

We've had bloody battles for objectives before.

                                                                             WLK " Yea, they are a blast

Rune Priest Ospak Farsight challenges and kills the Grey Hunter pack leader

Uberwolve " The duel! My pack leader leapt to the challenge banking on his shield and sword ability. His fury of blows deflected by the priests runic armour! My fearless hero laid low by the priests furious axe!"

WLK " I really love that Pack Leader. He's pretty badass looking"

Uberwolve " He was one of my early models, 5th edition."

WLK " he should become a Battle Leader"

an empty table despite having 6k of points on the table

an empty table despite having 6k of points on the table

an empty table despite having 6k of points on the table

"Not exactly empty..."

"The Battle draws to an end"

Uberwolve " Several combats occurred. My grey hunters collectively loosing 2 of the three. We won on giving us another point!"

WLK " My fleeing GH pack got you psychological warfare. Damn him, rather he'd die in CC

Uberwolve "But he'll live to run again another day!"

WLK " Not after the Priests get done with him. 

                                                                                      COWARD! COWARD!

Where the last of the action is as the game is called

Uberwolve "My army would have been tabled had the game gone another round"

WLK " My Wolf Lord failing that last charge was critical. My understrength GH pack was supposed to support his charge, but instead got beat down by the larger pack"

Uberwolve "  My grey hunters did their best to soften your squad up. At one point I thought I would have to charge them but with counter charge shooting seemed better...and it worked out ok.

WLK " It was a good trap. 

I get too dependent on dual charges and such I planned for them connecting at the same time, With the Fleet re-roll I still failed.

                                                                      Uberwolve "That was very unexpected."

Lord Kjaran thanks you for your time!

My Wolves may have lost this game but we had an outstanding time and a very good showing on the table!

It was a very close game until the end WLK managed to score. so many points on his last turn that my wolves were defeated!

Thank you for reading! 

More project Orks.

A slow week last week.

This ones really cool!

These guys look crazy.

Not sure about this guy but I like him.

As you've seen some war paint is in progress.

It does add too these models just a bit.

This next week looks to be missing a Wednesday.

So I think i will be looking for some make up time this coming weekend.

I am trying to set out the models left to paint and build to get done.

It is moving along even if a little slowly.

I know I am fighting burn out and plan to take a few months off from painting when I get this project completed.  Arthritis is no one's friend.

Last weekends games. (Space wolves rule! part one of two)

I was fortunate to play two games last weekend.
No pictures for the first game, sorry.

Game one Space Wolves vs Orks.
We decided to play a 1500 point games and I took my wolves up to play.
The Ork player wanted me to bring my Orks up but I've been in a mood lately and wanted a game I could manage and bring out an army I had at that point not played in nearly 2 years.
(Ork Vs Orks is an all day event if done well.)
His list was much as I had expected. a 30 strong mob of shoot boys, 30 slugga boys 2 deff dreds 2 pain boys 3 MANZ the Mad Dok and Gazghkull. Just a hammer when it hits.

My list was.
3 packs of blood claws with pack leaders each with two wolf claws, 6 models strong and in droppods
One pack had a power fist.
7 grey hunters with a flamer and a power axe in droppod.
2 Land speeder typhoons 2 land speeder tornado.
6 long fangs. 4 heavy bolters 1 lasscannon.
1 LvL 2 rune priest in TDA
1LvL 1 rune priest in runic armour
4 TDA Wolf Guard with wolf claws and combi plasma.
Lastly, 6 or 7 sky claws one with a power sword.

Lots of deep striking units.

Now, the Ork player isn't really one for difficult missions so we set up across from each other and played for kill points. this went on for 4 turns and he called the game. points, a tie? 1 to 1 I may have had one more then him with linebraker but  didn't look to see as we simply ended the game.

I deployed first he deployed after me, it was night fight which helped his more then it did me.
I had deployed my long fangs in some ruins to my right side just off center with my sky claws deployed to my left about 18" from the Long Fangs.
He deployed in blocks one in front of the long fangs and the other to the left of the first out of sight of my Long fangs.
My first turn brought in two of the four droppods. grey hunters landed in range to shoot his shoota boys who were his left most unit behind a ruin and in a ruin. my blood claws tried to land more in front of his slugga boys but drifted back to my side of the ruins, toward my Long fangs.
My sky Claws jumped off to my left and then ran more in that direction.beyond a building.
(Bait for his Deff Dreds...Which he took.)
His shooting was really good. he did 7 wounds to my grey hunters killing 5 of them!!!!!
(Russ's teeth!)
His Deff Dreds moved way out to his right (around that building I mentioned ...) And ran! His Sluggas moved up! failed his charge on turn on, but not by a lot. Or he made it..Can't remember we did end up in a large game long combat.
My next two Droppods land one drifts way back to my Long Fangs! way out of range the other lands behind his slugga boys, so me must have been in combat at that point.
AH! we were! Now I remember. His boys charged my blood claws! my Pack leader issued a challenge. he accepted it with his power claw nob..I inflict one unsaved wound and waited to die!!!
The Nob missed all but one and the fails to wound! (Russ is pleased with the pack!)
The next turn the pack leader would kill the Nob! My speeders arrive as well. some pot shots are taken at the shoota boys mob hardly worth note. My sky claws jump back toward my long dangs and the action. Having drawn the Deff Dreds out of action (Way away from the battle!)
My shooting starts to kill and wound his mega nobs. I loose all the blood claws except for the insane pack leader who had slain the nob! The heroic pack leader is killed the next turn as the combat continues. His shoota boys try to kill my wolf guard but fail. Gazghkull and his Nobs try to assault my wolf guard out over watch kills the closest nob who had been wounded earlier. the charge is now a failed attempt! ( To be fair those Mega nobs took a beating and passes loads of saves and Feel no Pain rolls.) He shoota boys also attempt the charge but need to roll 11 or 12 and fail, they were well away from the wolf guard. My Marines on the Ground now attempt to charge his slugga boys! my sky claws fail with a horribly low roll! my blood claws make it in my wolf guard make it in !
We issue a challenge but his pain boy shrinks away  With all my shooting His Mega nobs are now killed, his spirit braking...
Combat sees him loosing  lots of boys but not running and on his turn his shoota boys also charge in.
Gaz Never makes combat. My opponent had earned first blood but I wiped out his MANZ and his slugga boys were next And it's turn 4 his mind is wandering he's board and we call it. We'll play again in a year, it took us about a year to play this game, I had to start to get to know him and I do hope he learns more of the rules and how to count his dice and is more attentive in our next game.
I think win lose or draw the next time will be a lot more fun for me, if he can put in just a little more "work".  Oh well, at least I got to roll some dice!

Thanks for reading. I know it was not as fun as some of the other reports I've posted.
But if you've got through it, I hope it was a little entertaining.
Part two next week, with pictures!
(Yes that means I plan to post twice next week!)

Weeks end post.

This week was very unproductive. My headmovies were broken down and I felt rotten. But what no matter. I still have Orks on my table that are slowly coming along. But not today.
Today I am mucking about cleaning my brushes and looking through my stock of hobby stuff.
My good friend called me this morning and has asked to buy the Tau at the end of the month. He's just be burned by a "local painter" he knows and thought was his friend. I heard about his troubles not long ago. It's a shame really. I am glad my friend has woken up to the fact that his money belongs to him and he can take it where ever he wants. I have been telling him this for a few years now. I don't live hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck. I can turn down a commission and not worry about loosing money. Typically I don't turn many projects down unless I just have too much going on to take on a project. We spoke about the TAU today and he isn't committed to anything until tells me he is sure he wants it at the end of the month. That gives me plenty of time to finish up a few models and bases.  I very nearly gave it to him. But that would be silly. As much as I like the idea of just giving him an army ..... Not that one. Really I like the thought more than the action of giving. It's a fanciful idea. It is also not realistic. That army should command a good price and we have worked out our price. I'm good with it and he can make a few payments after the first down payment. He's good for it. The real question is can I hold onto that money until I'm paid in full. Not easy to do. But like most of my armies this one will just buy a new one, what ever it will be. For my own collections I have a huge back log of mini's to work through and I plan to paint them all. Things just take time.
I've sent out some PM's today and have a game set for Sunday..it's been two months and I needs my fix. I hope that a good game or two will help reset my mind and fill me with motivation.

I'm starting to find a little interest in Warhammer Age of Sigmar. I may order a set. The plan would be to treat it as a board game and not collect much beyond the boxed sets. (I expect a campaign set before the end of they year or early next year.)

I guess that's it for now. I plan to get some pictures of the battle tomorrow and maybe a small report.
The Wolves are headed to battle!
Thanks for reading.