Mood:  accident prone

Army List

 Space Marines

Commander -60

    Boltgun 

Tactical Squad (10) 161

    1 Heavy Bolter

    1 Flamer

Tactical Squad (6) - 106

    1 Rocket Launcher

    1 Flamer

    Sergeant w/ bolt pistol and power sword

Total: 327

Tyranids 

Termagaunts (8) - 72 pnts

    Flesh Borers

    Without Numbers

Genestealers (8) - 160 pnts

    Scything Talons 

Warriors (3) - 96 pnts

    Scything Talons

    Rending Claws

    Leaping

Total:  328

 Backstory: Hive Fleet Tritan has begun its infestation of Harogath V, a small mining planet.  The emperor has sent the Ultramarines to counter the hive fleet.  A small patroll of Ultramarines encounter a fraction of the hive fleet near old ruins, infested by the Tyranids.  

Nids won the first move (damn) 

TURN 1 

    Tyranids:

            Move Tactically (no shooting on their part)

            Some decent fleet of  foot rolls (3 for genestealers and 5 for termagaunts)

   Marines:

           Run for cover. Smaller squad and commander tries to get around building to avoid shots from termagaunt.  Larger squad attempts to find cover whilst staying out of range of the genestealers.  No shots were fired due to being out of range. Moving was a possible tactical error, but we'll see.

TURN 2 

        Tyranids

            Warriors move toward cover attempting to close the gap between them and the large tactical squad. Genestealers run at the  10 man tactical squad.  Termagaunts take cover inside the ruins and fire twice at the smaller tactical squad. Shots bounce harmlessly.  

       Marines

           Both tactical squads focus their fire on the genestealers.  A marine fires his missle launcher, yet misses totally.  The small squad takes careful aim and fires at the genestealers, eliminating two of them.  A third genestealer peeps his head above the crashed land speeder as a bolt rips his face in half.   The heavy bolter fires into the brood of genestealers downing two more.  

TURN3

        Tyranids

           Termagaunts fire their fleshborers at the smaller squad. Living ammunition kicks in getting an addional chance to wound.   A single marine dies a very painful death.  The three remaining genestealers assault the larger tactical squad as the warriors leap in to engage.  A genestealer immediately rips out the heart of a single marine, however all other attacks miss or are too weak to injure the marines.  Excited for battle, the Tyranid warriors fling themselves haphazardly at the marines, missing every slash.

          Marines

            The marine with the missle launcher takes careful aim at the ruins and hits them dead center, killing 5 termagants.  The tactical squad in combat takes advantage of the Tyranid warrior's random flailing and kills 2 of them.  The Commander, obviously not suited to lead this detachment, completely misses every shot at the termagants.  

TURN 4

       Tyranids

               The only effective genestealer in the brood guts a space marine while the other two lightly graze their armor.  The remaining warrior sticks his rending claw through another marine killing him instantly.  

        Marines

               The small tactical squad advance on the ruins killing all remaining gaunts with a flamer and bolter fire.  The assaulting marines down two genestealers.

TURN 5

        Tyranids

              Another brood of termagants arrives.  Both the warrior and the genestealer prove useless in melee and miss all of their attacks.  A space marine lands a solid blow on the warrior giving him a wound.

       Marines

                 The smaller tactical squad joins the melee and assaults  the warrior killing him.

               The remaining squad members from the larger tactical squad finish off the genestealer.

MARINES WIN!

    The nids have lost their infestation site at the ruins, however, the true strength of Hive Fleet Triton has yet to be witnessed.  The Ultramarines buckle down and prepare for even harder fights to come.

Mood:  a-ok

This is the first entry into our Battle Report.  We will be posting here more often as we add to our armies and fight more battles.  At the moment we have 3 unamed armies: Iron Warriors, Necrons, and Tyranids.

Current Tyranid Hive Fleet:

1 Hormogaunt Brood (8)

1 Termagaunt Brood (8)

1 Genestealer Brood (8)

1 Warrior Brood (3)