Castle Anthrax Megabattle, April 11th

[FaithandFire]

So, what was the final outcome? No AAR coming from me. I fell victim to some dastardly Eldar perfidy it seems. Some sort of vibro cannon cleverly tuned to the aural cycles of Orks. It sent me, my boyz, and my dice reeling and spinning. One mob of boyz manages only 3 (saved) wounds on 44 attacks and then runs around in circles only to be run down by a few warp spiders. My last vague, spinning memory was of Warboss Chobo himself with his last two remaining nobs hurling themelves into the castle ruins to assault a Tau Hammerhead.

[droofus]

Hope you're feeling better, Steve.

Final score was
Orks and Chaos: 125
Marines, Eldar and tau: 25

Chaos and Orks destroyed the communication center (thank god for Devin's hit and running daemon prince) and killed Ashurbanipal but left one(!) wall section still standing.

Meanwhile, the defenders were able to kill Grubbynutz. They were not able to get any models off the board or keep attackers out of the castle.

Grubbynutz roared as he vaulted across the front prow of his battlewagon, his 8 nobz only a pace behind. Clattering down on the concrete ruins of the wall section, they overtook the slower meganobz and slammed into the assembled fish’eads. It was a massacre as the nobz seized the fragile Tau warriors and trampled them into dust and wreckage. It was not all easy however. To his left, an Eldar Wraithlord – an undead veteran of a thousand battles, grabbed Gronik and Thalk and smashed them together, their green heads bursting and their choppas falling uselessly to the ground. The Wraithlord’s victory was short-lived however as Bitin leapt up and slammed his power klaw into the thing’s head until nothing but powder remained.

Downing their last opponents, Grubby and his lads began making their way up into a more intact wall section. Firepower began blistering them from a terminator squad located in the courtyard, and several of the nobz were hit. Doctor McOrky kept the injuries to a minimum however and none fell. A group of marines blocked their way but his nobz made short work of them, sending the lone survivor fleeing deeper into the castle.

Looking to his right, Grubbynutz saw the two remaining Mega-Nobz finish off a blue-beaky dread. Roaring a command to them, he sent them barrelling into the terminators along with a bunch of spikey boyz. Grubbynutz was overjoyed to see his hated nemesis, “da beaky librarian wit da funny name”, get smushed by some spikey terminators. The megaz and the chaos forces were quickly dispatched by the terminators, but that did nothing to lessen the Warboss’s grin. Farther out, a dull explosion marked the end of the relay station that was the whole purpose of this raid in the first place.

Looking back around again as he scaled the wall section, he and his lads casually swatted another beaky squad that attempted to bar their path, sending broken blue-armored bodies falling from both sides of the wall.

“Dis is too easy ladz! We’ze krumping em good! Da kastle is zogged to hell and we’ze got da beakies and fish ‘eads and panzees on da run”

Leaping triumphantly on top of the ramparts, he abruptly shuddered to a stop. Da ladz likewise were taken aback by what they saw.

Apparently, an entire warband of beakies and panzees had gathered outside this wall section and were looking quite angrily at him. Grubbnynutz had sent two mobz that way under the command of his mek, but the carpet of green bodies spoke to what had happened to them. As one, the xenos and astartes raised their various weaponry and began firing.

Regluk, the banner bearer was the first to go, a smart missile bursting his ribcage beyond even the doc's prodigous skill. Urluk and Kansnapper were next, blasted apart by a wave of lead from the vengeful terminators lurking inside the walls. Shots from a group of beaky devestators made a mess of Nizrog, a lascannon sawing clean through him. The doc bent down to tend him, but was blasted apart by an anti-tank missile. Bitin’ was last to go, flayed alive by a hail of shuriken fire.

Grubbynutz now stood alone. He was bleeding in two different places and totally deaf from the cacophony of shots. A panzee vyper pulled up alongside the wall, its star cannon glowing as it spat plasma fire at him. Then everything went white. He screamed “WAAAAAGHHH!” at the top of his lungs as the plasma fire hit home. His only regret was that he hadn’t got to krump anyone else.

Abruptly, the white light fell away. The panzee had stopped firing and Grubbnynutz still stood! He thanked Mork. Then he realized why the panzees had relented. Turning, he saw the black armored forms of the five remaining Hands of Vengeance terminators climbing the wall towards him, their red eye-slits burning with the need to avenge their leader. Grubbynutz leapt down to meet them, swinging his klaw in a vicious arc even as they raised their crackling power fists to meet it.

He punched his power klaw through the helmet of the first Astartes, causing the bulky warrior to fall dead from the walls. He swung again, punching into the torso of another terminator and killing the veteran warrior instantly. He pulled at his klaw, eager to kill another beaky, but it was not to be. His klaw stuck fast in the chest cavity of the marine. Howling in rage and firing his slugga uselessly into the remaining three terminators, he could only watch as their fists swung down towards his head.

Then everything went black.

[FaithandFire]

Despite the death of Doc McOrky (or maybe because of the death of Doc McOrky), I am doing much better, thanks.

Yet another glorious episode in the tale of Warboss Grubbynuts. He must be running short on those body doubles by now.

[darkathy]

Farseer Am’Teris had called himself back to the ship just moments before the Ork knuckle draggers axes came down onto his mentors Ghost Helm, and so had Great Autarch Melfan Des’Turanyi, only a handful of Iyanden’s brave warriors had made is back to the Aurora class ship Light of Eldanesh thanks to the teleporting system… sadly the battle was a fruitless massacre, Grubbynuts had destroyed the beacon on this world, and now the area it protected was at Grubbynuts' mercy.

He removed the Ghost helm and placed it on the table within the temple, and collapsed, he had failed the Eldar of Iyanden, who even now were within the zone that he had just failed to protect. Ashurbanipal had asked for his help, the human psycher had realized that this battle was greater then any hatred against aliens that he had, Am’Teris had agreed to help, knowing that Iyanden was near and the warboss posed a direct threat to her.

Am’Teris spoke to nobody in particular “I have lost the right to dawn this armor, to take the nantle of Eldrad and lead the armies of Iyanden against the Orks in this sector of space.” Am’Teris stood, and placed Eldrad’s armor on its stand, and turned to his former armor. Again, he spoke to nobody, “Today I leave behind the name Eldrad Ulthran, and return to the name Am’Teris, Fire-spear of Iyanden.”