Retro Battle Report #2 Battle for the Mac guns

Gametype: Big Guns Never Tire
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil
First blood, Slay the Warlord , Line Breaker

During our first match it was decided that the Chaos forces would also be trying to destroy the mac cannons defending the port from the remaining chaos fleet. Big guns never tire was the only option. It was this game where we decided to use battle honors and basically it was a free 10 pt upgrade for a squad, piece of signature war gear or a roll on the old 5th edition battle honors chart. We even let vehicles have a shot at it, it really added to the flavour later on in the games.

The Chaos forces ran rampant through the streets, defensive positions were taken up as the first mac cannons were silenced. The Steel Plague had a hard battle ahead of them, the rest of the macro cannons were on the high ground. The Sentinels had dug in and already fortified, it would be a meat grinder. Led by Chancellor Gerkon, the cultists attempted to push through the defenses. In the distance the hum of Heavy bolter and hurricane bolter fire could be heard. In an instance the front ranks of cultist fell atop one of the hab blocks stood a Sentinel Centurion team. Trying to take cover in the remaining rubble of warehouses the body count started to rise. The streets were quickly starting to fill with the blood of traitors. Leading the counter charge was first captain Merrick, His quick thinking allowed the Veteran squads to push the chaos forces back. Merrick was able to chase down Gerkon but not before fighting his way through the reaming cultists, Gerkon thought Merrick would fall easily, he was mistaken. The Helldrake made his presence known by destroying one of the Thunderfire cannons before flying out of the war zone to terrorize the populace elsewhere. Having slowed the Chaos fleets momentum it was time for the Sentinels to go on the offensive.

Final Score
Chaos 8
Sentinels of Terra 8

The second game was a fairly high impact. It ended in yet another Tie. Each of us having killed each others warlord. First Captain Merrick was Lysander who 1 shot the chaos lord but failed his saves and fell in combat as well. The Chaos lord was mark of Nurgle, Blight grenades and Lighting Claw/Power fist . We manged to tie on objectives again we rolled 4 objectives, I lost a Thunder fire cannon but did snag first blood. The hell drake once again would deny me his back board objectives quickly killing my drop pod tactical squads. Being the first time I fielded Centurions,just with heavy bolters and hurricane bolters they proved to be well worth their pts cost. Having slowed in momentum , Chaos decided to pull back to the Rail yards to consiladate their quickly fading hold on the surface. Game 3 would be a break out mission.