Battle Report: Tyranid Vs Dark Angels

The Swarm takes to the Skies!

Holiday Monday my chum and I managed to squeeze in an 1860 match! (The extra 10 points was for a multi-melta/ Toxic sacs) It was a vicious match, I wanted retaliation for a previous game where he tabled my Crimson Slaughter list rather handily. My Tyranids hungered! and I was out for blood. My friend did make one mistake which was combat squading his bikes but it actually was what got him a quick lead. The game was not a blow out by any means but the dice started to roll against my opponent early on.

Game Type: Purge The Alien
Secondary: The Scouring objectives 1,2,3 points
First blood, Warlord, Line Breaker
Deployment: Vanguard
Night Fight Turn 1

Ravenwing outflank

Turn 1: 
The Landraider and speeders make a move to cross the table quickly knowing the Terminators can take out the Tervigons handily. The searchlights open up the Venomthrope and he quickly falls to a hail of assault cannon and bolter fire. First blood and a kill point goes to the Dark Angels. The Tyranid respond by passing out catalyst to the Crones and Hive Tyrant. The Land raider goes down to some lucky shooting by the Crones. The rest of the Tyranids run.

Turn 2: The Jet fighter fails to arrive. The land speeders move back sitting at arms reach and begin to try and bring down the Hive Tyrant. The last of the gunfire brings the Hive tyrant down and he suffers a wound. Unfortunately for the Terminators the Hive crone blocks the path to him. The Devastators pour rockets onto the Tervigon. Inflicting 2 more wounds. The Mawloc arrives but mishaps and gets placed across the map. He runs into the Difficult terrain making the marines work to assault him. The Tyranids respond by ripping the Land speeder and Dark Shroud apart with vector strikes. The Hive tyrant flanks to the right of the ruins and unleashes a hail of brain leech worms upon the devastators losing 2 rockets. The Crone runs to clear the ruin jockeying for position. The Gants continue to run.

Turn 3: The Jet Fighter fails to arrive yet again. The Dark Angels go on the offensive, putting more shots into the Gants closing the gap. The Devastators put 2 wounds onto the Zoenthropes and insta kill 2, failed invul saves! The Bikes move across the back board and put a wound onto the Mawloc. The remaining speeder puts another round of shots to the Tervigon but she makes her saves. The Marines put 2 more wounds onto the Mawloc before he makes his Hit and Run. The second Mawloc appears and Manages to kill 3 Terminators before dying to Mishap.The Hive crones and Hive Tyrant all make a beeline for the edge of the table. Vector striking 3 squads on the way by Killing 2 of them. The reaming mawloc makes his instinctive behavior and also burrows.

The Ravenwing try to quickly push the Gants back.

Devastators have a great view of the carnage. 

The Gants try to slow the RavenWing.

The Mawloc claims a few Deathwing victims before being slain. 

Devastators weathering the storm of fire.

Azzy carries his wound of shame.

Turn 4: The Jet Fighter arrives and heads towards the remaining Venomthrope, killing him quickly. the Gants get assaulted by the bike squads. The Dev's fire onto the Tervigon. The Dark Angels hopes of salvaging this battle are coming back. The Crones arrive, as well as the Hive Tyrant. The Crones only glance the Jet Fighter, the Hive Tyrant puts more shots into the devs, killing the other 2 rockets and wounding the libby. The bike squads thinking they are safe from shooting are surprised when the mawloc bursts into the combat. Killing a handful of Gants. The remaining Gants make it across the board withing striking distance of azzy. The tervigons spawn Gants onto their objectives before Moving to secure other objectives.

Turn 5 The Jetfighter moves to contest a objective and to try and finish the Tervigon. Rallying from their hit and run tactics. The bike squad with the power fist prepares to charge the Mawloc, only to lose the power fist to dangerous terrain. The Crone moves to take out the lone speeder. The other Crone contests the Deathwing claimed objective. The Hive Tyrant fires into the Libby and Sgt killing both.
with that the game ends. No extra turns.


Final Score
Dark Angels: 6 pts
Firstblood, Linebreaker ,4 Kill points.
Tyranid: 13 pts
Line breaker, 7 Kill points, 1 Scouring point , 4 objective points.