Invasion of Asmodean Prime part 3!

[doctorclockwork]

Tinkernutz snapped shut the spyglass and tucked it away in his stuffed backpack. Hopping down from the roof of the speeding battlewagon, he shuffled to the rear and shouted to the surging mobz behind.

"ONE MILE TILL WE KRUMP DEM BEAKIEZ! GIT YER CHOPPAZ READY, BOYZ! DER'S ONLY A FEW A DEM, AND LOTZ A US!"

The Big Mek turned and nodded at his new bodyguard, Da 'Urty Duzzen. The 10 Nobz (Orks have little use for math) were hand-picked by Gutslag long ago, and have fought savagely through many battles with the Warboss. Now, they form a vicious circle around the Mek. For reasons unknown, Gutslag ordered them to protect him. And they can't argue with the new and improved Warboss.

Tinkernutz walked over to the starboard side of the wagon and leaned out, his eyes falling on a hulking monstrosity of metal, belching thick black smoke from the overcharged engine driving its thick treads. Gutslag was more machine now than Ork, only his fierce red eyes peering out from his tusked helm. The Mek grinned as it turned toward him. He could feel the seething pouring out from the Boss's crimson glare, but Gutslag was in no position to complain.

* * * * *

Earlier that day, Tinkernutz stood with his arms crossed, observing the final touches being added to his greatest creation to date. Three tons of steel fused together into a roaring death machine. What was once a tower of green muscle and rage is now little more than a head in a big metal jar.

The lesser Meks ran around the beast, putting the final rivets in. One of them grabbed a cart with a bank of rusted batteries and ran over to Tinkernutz, bowing as he held out the frayed jumper cables. The Big Mek took them and smiled as he clamped each one to either side of the Boss's helmet. With a shower of sparks and a surge of electicity, Gutslag came to life.

His massive power klaw shot out and sheared Gobnik in three neat chunks. The dakka gun thundered as it spun around wildly, cutting down two more of the Meks and punching enough holes in the wall to let the red rays of sundown shine in. Then suddenly it all stopped, and the Warboss slumped, his eyes still darting around fervently, the whole frame shuddering. A harsh metallic voice boomed out.

"WHYYYYYY TINKERNUTZ? WOT HAVE YOU'Z DUN TO ME?"

The Big Mek stepped closer, and pulled out an unwieldly metal box from one of his many pockets. "'Ello, boss. How iz you feelin?"

"LIKE I SHOULD BE EATIN YER ZOGGIN 'EAD, YA WEEDY ZOGGER! WOT DID YOU'Z DO?"

Tinkernutz flipped a switch on the box and stepped even closer. "I'z saw an opportunity, boss. You'z was awful krumped back der. We had ta put ya back togevva. And so we'z did. Wif a few improvements."

Gutslag's eyes rolled around and narrowed at the Mek, the whole metal contraption rattling as he shook with rage. Tinkernutz nodded. "You'z probly wonderin' why you'z can't talk." He shook the box at the boss's still mug. "You'z gunna find dat der will be a lot of fingz you'z can't do wifout my say."

"Dis fing 'ere makez it so I call da shotz in this Waaagh. You'z can keep goin' on wot like you'z da biggest and da baddest, but we bof know dat I'm da cunnin'est." The Mek flipped open a breaker to reveal a glowing red button. "You'z probly finkin dat ya can just git one of da boyz ta take me out. But if me 'eart stops tickin..." The Mek trailed off as he mouthed BOOM and waved his hand.

"Now den, good talk Boss. Git ready, we'z ridin' out at dawn." Tinkernutz pressed a button on the box and stashed it in his pack. With a groan of creaking plate metal, the Boss lurched forward, but stopped just short of the Mek. He seemed to struggle for words, and then just grunted and revved his built-in engine. Letting out a tremendous WAAAAAAGH he spun around and crashed through the wall of the workshop and roared out into the camp, to the deafening cheers of the gathered Boyz.

Tinkernutz looked out at the crowd and nodded again.

It was good to be da Boss.

[doctorclockwork]

PRE-GAME



Far from the front line of the planetary invasion, a small but vital outpost manned by a skeleton crew suddenly spots Ork Roks crashing down from the sky. They send out a desperate distress call and hunker down to wait for reinforcements. The sun has yet to rise (attacker takes Night Fight stratagem).
Four firestorms rain down from the sky, blowing off the Storm Bolters from both of the Rhinos. Another shreds the tracks off of one of the Rhinos, immobilizing it.

TURN 1- ATTACKER
Two battlewagons stuffed with shouting Nobz roll on from the attacker’s Drop Zone. Two Deffkopta duos zip onto the field, one up each flank of the battlefield. Bringing up the rear behind the wagons are two huge mobs of Boyz, waving the smog from their faces as the battlewagons leave them behind. The new and improved Tankboss Gutslag revs his engine as his treads score deep tracks in the mud. He keeps pace with the boyz…for now.



The koptas on the right flank fire their rokkits and wreck the immobilized rhino. The Grey Hunters inside are pinned as they struggle to free themselves from the twisted metal. The koptas on the left flank let fly and the other Rhino detonates, but none of the Marines inside are harmed.





TURN 1- DEFENDER
The drop pod arrives and lands by the boys with Tank Boss. No other reserves arrive. The only real movement is the grey hunters that weren’t pinned move out of the crater towards the wagon.
The grey hunters fire upon the boy squad. The bolters fail to kill any boys but the 2 flamers manage to kill 9. The long fangs manage to see the boy squad on the other side and unleash the fury upon them. With the rerolls to hit and wound from the power and amo store strategems they manage to kill 10 boys. The grey hunters fire their meltas at the wagon but don’t do anything.



The hunters then assault the wagon but get no hits.



TURN 2- ATTACKER
The lefthand battlewagon surges forward, it’s deffrolla aimed to crush the Grey Hunters before it. One brave Marine stands firm to Death or Glory with his meltagun. He succeeds in exploding the wagon, but not before the deffrolla mashes 6 Hunters. None of the Nobz inside are hurt in the explosion. The other battlewagon slams into the bastion and shakes the building. The Nobz disembark from it and face off against the pinned Grey Hunters.



Tankboss Gutslag leaves the boyz behind and zooms forward towards the bastion. His boyz mob charges towards the drop pod marines. The deffkoptas move up and swing around to wreck the pod with their rokkits. The boyz fire into the Grey Hunters, killing two of them.
Gutslag charges the bastion, but only manages to shake the foundation enough for the battle cannon to fall off.



The Grey Hunters near the wrecked drop pod are assaulted, and kill 10 Orks, only losing 4 marines in return. The Orks manage to gather insane courage to stay in the fight!



The Nobz charge from their destroyed battlewagon and wipe out what was left of the Grey hunters in front of them. The other Nob squad charges the pinned marines and slaughters them easily. Both units consolidate towards the bastion.



TURN 2- DEFENDER
The bikes and one unit of thunder wolves arrive from reserves.





The bike move in 12 in between the house and the tall ruins. The wolves move by the ruins behind the bastion.
The bikes shoot at the nobs and manage to put a wound on one.
The Boss explodes the bastion and kills three of the long fangs. In combat the grey hunters kill 2 more boys but are wiped out by the claw.
The Sun comes up!


TURN 3- ATTACKER
The deffkoptas on the right flank fly up on top of a nearby building to get a better vantage on the rapidly approaching bikers. One of them clips the edge of the building during his ascent, taking a wound. One of the Nob mobs hops into the battlewagon to join Big Mek Tinkernutz and the wagon backs up to clear a path for the other Nobz to push forward towards the 3 remaining Long Fangs. The Tankboss backs up to join his boyz again, and the other boyz surge forward.
The deffkoptas on top of the building fire upon the bikes, felling two of them. The boss’s dakkagun and two koptas fire on the thunder wolves and wound a few of them. The Nobz then charge the Long Fangs and utterly wipe them out, claiming the vital objective of the crater.







TURN 3- DEFENDER
The second squad of thunder wolves arrives from reserves and they move in next to the other squad of thunder wolves.
The bikes move forward as well as the thunder wolves. Both thunder wolf squads run forward.
The bikes shoot at the boy squad but thanks to cover only manage to kill 2.
Both thunder wolf squads roll high enough to charge the nobs.



One thunder wolf dies and the thunder wolves put 5 wounds out and the hammers manage to deal instant death to two nobs. The nobs fail both chances to get insande courage and are swept by the thunder wolves. Both thunder wolf squads then consolidate back towards the board edge.

The orks declare sustained assault and the nobs will be coming back the next turn!



TURN 4- ATTACKER
The destroyed Nobz are replaced by identical reinforcements, who move on in the center of the board. The left flank deffkoptas move behind the Thunderwolves. The Big Mek’s battlewagon rolls forward into the Wolves, but none of them are wounded by the churning deffrolla. The Nobs hop out. The boyz on the right flank run towards the bikers as a mighty WAAAAGH! Is declared.
The boyz assault the bikes, losing 6 of their number in return for destroying 3 bikes. Meanwhile, the Nobz and the Tankboss go into Wolves. The Thunderwolves put a few wounds on the Nobz and killed one off. Their thunder hammer slams Warboss Gutslag into oblivion, but the Nobz take their toll and completely wipe out the Thunderwolf Cavalry.



TURN 4- DEFENDER
The thunder wolves move towards the nobs and then assault into them.



The thunder wolves take two wounds but the thunder hammer combined with the normal wound manage to win combat by a lot. The nobs proceed to be sweeping advanced. In the combat with the bikes the marines kill 4 and then the power claw kills two bikes. The orks pass morale and the combat continues.



TURN 5- ATTACKER
The deffkoptas swoop down from the building behind the bikers, one of them taking a wound as he lands. The boyz hop into the battlewagon to join the Big Mek and the wagon rushes forward into the Thunderwolves, crushing two of them.



The Nobz continue to trudge up the board towards the smoking crater of the bastion.
The deffkoptas join the fray against the blood claw bikers. All of the bikers miss and they are wiped out by the combined effort of the koptas and boyz. The Wolf Priest is the last man standing, down to his final wound from his fearlessness.





TURN 5- DEFENDER
The thunder wolves move for the battle wagon and assault it. The regular attacks bounce off but the hammer manages to get three penetrating hits. The hits manage to wreck the wagon. Meanwhile the wolf priest kills two boys but then the nob snips his head off with the claw. All the orks consolidate toward the center of the board.



TURN 6- ATTACKER
Everyone piles onto the Crater, the nobz and boyz toward the center.



The 4 remnants of the bike assault move to try and screen their fellows. The koptas fly up behind the wolves and one dies landing in the ruins. All 3 deffkoptas assault, the single one dying before taking a swing as his tailpipe gets caught on a lamppost. The wolves make short work of the koptas, and consolidate towards the crater.

TURN 6- DEFENDER
The thunder wolves move through the wrecked wagon.



They then assault the nobs and the smaller boy squad with the thunder hammer going against the nobs and the other two left against the boys. The two thunder wolves wipe out the boys and the nob before any get to attack. The nobs then make their attacks and kill the two thunder wolves that had already taken wounds. The thunder hammer then attacks and kills two nobs. The nobs lost by quite a bit and were swept by the last thunder wolf. The thunder wolf consolidates towards the center and now all that is left is one last boy squad with only a few left and the big mek.

We roll to see if the game ends, and it does end! The attacker wins with the boy squad in the center still holding the objective (there are no contested objectives in planet strike).



Attacker wins!

[droofus]

haha! I loved the fluff! Gutslag is now the ork equivalent of Darth Vader.

The battle was crazy. Looked like a lot of fun. Any game that comes down to less than 10 models on the table was probably a good one.

I lolled when I saw the counter-attacking hunters killing 10 orks. That's just brutal!

Also, again that the reinforcement strategem is just awesome.

[ross]

It's pretty much confirmed that the bikes aren't very good and the thunder wolves just performed so well that it didn't matter that much. The rolling a 6 on the difficult terrain test to charge 12 and get both wolf squads in on that first nob unit was so crucial.

[doctorclockwork]

Yeah, it was a great game. It looked like I was completely slaughtering him until those thunderwolves showed up. They are not to be fucked with!

Also of note is that Ross was required to split his army in half for this battle, and I got to choose which half started on teh board and which was in reserve. I could have forced him to run on long fangs, but I thought it was thematically awesome to have a small force get saved by the cavalry.

[kraxxus]

that was totally epic. I hate orks, but have to give you some props man... you really skull F**ked some rhinos that first turn. And ross, don't use them bastardo wolves agenst my necrons plz. I will give you a cookie if you dont.

[Monster Rain]

Waaaaaaaaagh!

Dem furry beakies putz up a proppa scrap, not like dem ovva gitz. They still ain't no match for da boyz. Hurr hurr.

I really need to start an ork army.

Looked like a great game though! Loving the reports.

[doctorclockwork]

Nov 3, 2010 22:40:06 GMT -5 Monster Rain said:

Waaaaaaaaagh!

Dem furry beakies putz up a proppa scrap, not like dem ovva gitz. They still ain't no match for da boyz. Hurr hurr.

I really need to start an ork army.

Looked like a great game though! Loving the reports.

Yessss, join uz. Feel da powa of da Gork Side!