Battle Report: "A Red Buffet"

Mission Details:

The Tyranids advance into Blood Bath territory with one objective in mind. To Feast.

The Factions:

Blood Bath:
2 Captains
1 Sanguinary Priest
1 Tactical Squad
2 Dreadnaught
1 Death Company
1 Death Company Dreadnaughts
6 Vindicators
3 Land Raiders
2 Terminator Squads


Tyranids:
2 Zoanthropes
2 Carnifexes
2 Tyrannofexes
2 Trygon Primes
1 Flying Hive Tyrant
1 Bio Titan
3 (20) Genestealers
1 (15) Gargoyles

The Battle:

Courageously the last man of the Blood Bath Death Company dies in combat with the Tyrranofex.

The Genestealers swarm through the breaches in the Blood Bath's Outpost walls.
Many of the Defenders are hacked apart before getting off a shot.

The BioTitan looms over the battlespace. Many Marines have already perished in the attempt to kill the behemoth.

Not even the mighty landraider is a match for the Carnifexes Crushing Claws.

The Blood Bath reinforcements are destroyed upon entering the field as they realize that their coming here was in vain.

The last bastion of resistance is swept aside as the genestealer horde charges in.

The Dead:

Tyranids:
Lots of Genestealers but no full units are lost.

Blood Bath:
Vindicator Squadron
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Two Terminator Squad
Sanguinary Priest
2 Captains
Centurion Squad
Three Landraiders
Storm Raven Gunship
Death Company Dreadnaught
Dreadnaught and Drop Pod

Result: Sweeping Tyranid Victory.

Battle Report: "No one can stop us... no one."

Mission Details: The Tryand Strike Force has surged forwards and the Imperial Joint Strike Force has countered their advance with a combined Infantry Artillery Battlegroup
 
Fitting Song: Apocalypse Warrior - Kosinus Music 

The Factions:

Imperial Joint Strike Force
Company Command Squad
3 x Infantry Platoons
1  Storm Trooper Squad
7 x Basilisks
1 Hydra Flak Battery
2 x Baneblade



Tyranids 
3 x (20) Genestealer Broods (represented in some cases by Hormagaunts)
1 x (2)  Zoanthrope Brood
2 Carnifex
2 Trygons Prime
1 (20) Gargoyle Brood
1 Flying Hive Tyrant "Steve"

1 Hierophant Biotitan
2 Tyrannofex

Deployment:

The attack columns of the Imperial Joint Strike Force move to engage the Tyranid threat.

The Tyranid swarms onto the battlespace.

The Guard readies itself for the coming storm

 The Red Banner of the 795th waves overhead.

 The Artillery Shells crash into the Tyranid Horde.

Turn 1:

Tyranid Losses: 33 Genestealers, 2 Carnifexs, 2 Tyrannofexes, Winged Hive Tyrant

Imperisl Joint Strike Force: 22 Guardsmen

 The Bio Titan spits its acidic venom into the ranks of the guarsmen. Somehow their morale doesn't crumble and they stand fast.

 The Bio Titan Closes in and the Guard levies every shot it can into its chitinous carapace.

 The Ultima Ratio Regum "The Final Argument of Kings" 795th Baneblade

 

 The Bio Titan and all of its minions have been leveled under an unrelenting hail of shells and lasgun shots.

Turn 2:

Tyranid Losses: Bio Titan, 27 Genestealers, 2 Zoanthropes, 15 Gargoyles

 Trygon Primes erupt from the depths.

 The Guardsmen are unprepared for the horror that is about to befall them.

 Almost completely annihilated somehow the guardsmen managed to not rout in a spectacular display of courage.

 The Baneblades of the IJSF mercilessly wipe out the vain glorious assault of the Tyranids 

Turn 3:

Tyranid Losses: 2 Trygon Primes

IJSF: 61 Guardsmen

Final Results:

Though badly bloodied the Guard lost no single unit in its entirety but not only that, they IJSF has annihilated to the last bug the entire invading Tyranid Strike Force. The Bug will not forget this defeat and the Guard will never forget their grudge.

Turn 2 Opening Moves

The second turn has started with open war across the battlefront. The forces of Imperial Judgement have turned on their allies. A full invasion of the the western island has also been commenced. The tyranid infestation has begun their assault on the Blood Bath forces. Hopefully it won't turn out the way turn one did.

The rechristened Sword of Macragge strike force Indomitable has commenced a long march to invade the Tyranid Infestation. Will their forces we able to break through. The Tyranids continued their drive on the Sword of Macragge capital, with reinforcements on the way can the Sword of Judgement avoid a poor verdict?

Meanwhile in the frozen north the Joint Imperial Strike Force has begun to mobilize. Launching an assault on the forces of Blood Bath to the north. But even along their southern border the Tyranids have begun their assault. Can the brave troops of the 794th and 795th hold out? or will they meet a similar fate as those before them?