Tournament: Chaos vs Ultramarines, 2017.09.30

Ultramarines army list:

• ++ Super‐Heavy Auxiliary Detachment (Imperium ‐ Space Marines) [360pts, 18 PL] ++ *Chapter Selection*: Ultramarines 
• Roboute Guilliman [360pts, 18 PL] Warlord
• Vanguard Detachment +1CP (Imperium ‐ Space Marines) [1639pts, 85 PL] ++ 
• Chief Librarian Tigurius [7 PL, 130pts] Psychic Scourge, Psychic Fortress, Null Zone 
• Scout Squad [6 PL, 55pts] . Scout Sergeant: Boltgun, Chainsword . 4x Scout w/Boltgun 
• Aggressor Squad [258pts, 12 PL]: 5x Aggressor, Aggressor Sergeant, Auto Boltstorm Gauntlets/Fragstorm Grenade Launcher 
• Apothecary [3 PL, 55pts] 
• Company Ancient [4 PL, 63pts]: Boltgun, Standard of the Emperor Ascendant 
• Centurion Devastator Squad [38 PL, 804pts] . Centurion Sergeant: Hurricane bolter, Two Lascannons . 5x Centurion: Hurricane bolter, Two Lascannons 
• Stormraven Gunship [274pts, 15 PL]: Twin assault cannon, Twin heavy bolter, Two Hurricane Bolters, Two Stormstrike Missile Launchers 
• ++ Total: [103 PL, 1999pts] ++

Mission: Cleanse and Capture / Scouring

Deployment: Vanguard Strike

Ultramarines, turn 1

Some shuffling around for better turtling, and long range shooting into the Plaguebearers.

Chaos, turn 1

Reinforcements land behind the Stormraven.

The lines advance. Smite kills an Aggressor.

Plasma fire downs the Stormraven. I also killed 1 Centurion, which in return killed a Terminator.

Plaguebearers launch forward by assaulting the Scouts. No casualties inflicted.

Ultramarines, turn 2

I thought that by taking out the Stormraven, I would severely cripple the enemy's firepower. I was wrong.

The Centurions shuffled around, to get in rapid fire range with their Hurricane Bolters. The Aggressors turned to face the Plaguebearers. And then they opened fire.

1 Plaguebearer managed to stay alive, in order to protect the Daemon Princes. I left the icon bearer, hoping for that lucky 1 (even rerolled the morale check), but it wasn't meant to happen. The Terminators also died to a man.

Chaos, turn 2

With both screening units gone, I called in the Bloodletters. Unfortunately, this time I could not avoid the Auspex Scan.

And a good number did die.

Then more died to overwatch as I tried a multicharge to tie down and kill as many units as possible. The worst of all was the failure of the Daemon Princes. All 3 charged Guilliman, but none of them got in. At least the combined efforts of the Bloodletters and Be'lakor killed both squads of Aggressors.

Ultramarines, turn 3

The Centurios fell back and killed Be'lakor and the Bloodletters.

Chaos, turn 3

This time, the Daemon Princes did get the charge - and left Guilliman standing with 1 wound. he then proceeded to kill both of them.

Turn 4

A last ditch effort by the Sorcerer, summoning a screen of Brimstones was shot down by the Centurions.

Turns 5-7

The remaining Ultramarine models (Guilliman, 4 Centurions, Tigurius and the Apothecary) then proceeded to spread out all over the map, shoot down my backfield Brimstones, and take all objectives. With all the turtling in the first turns, I may have won by points if the game ended after turn 5. Alas, the game went on to turn 7, and I just avoided tabling by having the Nurglings tucked away in a ruin where they weren't visible. Defeat 6 - 14.