Abysmal Apocalypse
A very poor apocalyptic clash took place on Eden Fall as Trazyn the Infinite suffered a complete collapse of his command and control systems. In an inexcusable display the 50th army’s 19th division in full array was defeated by Dark Eldar and Chaos forces despite deploying a force of 17,711.
Deploying at night in three groups Trazyn failed to secure his objectives or take the enemy’s, holding five out of a possible 18 during the encounter and his units could only destroy two enemy super heavies for a loss of three out of four of his own. Final score was 8-19 to the enemy. Seven of the enemy scoring points were the Dark Eldar’s, eleven went to the hordes of chaos.
Like us, Chaos deployed in three groups, but the Dark Eldar used webways to deploy entirely from reserve. Trazyn, with criminal incompetence failed to deploy his disruptor beacon to counter deep strikes and paid for his hopelessness as daemonic hordes deep struck with precision and were able to swamp our units, although in farcical scenes both sides appeared to believe that they were members of the Sealed Knot, virtually no assaults taking place despite countless units being locked in combat.
A unit by unit analysis of this disgraceful travesty follows:
Southern Group
Lord Trazyn
Lord
Tachyon Arrow, War Scythe, Orb of Eternity
10 Lychguard
Failed to do anything. Protected by a shield generator for part of the engagement then attacked by daemons. No casualties. Pathetic.
Tesseract Vault
NNV Lethal Action
Seismic Assault, Transdimensional Maelstrom
Engaged the enemy southern Baneblade and did cause some damage, however, failed to fire all its weapons and then destroyed, the explosion causing losses to both sides.
Sentry Pylon
Sepulchral Scarabs
Engaged southern Baneblade and unsuccessfully intercepted a couple of times, notably the daemon herald that effectively neutralised a major element of the southern group.
C’Tan
The Deceiver
Engaged enemy southern group and ended up locked in combat with enemy titan. Did manage a solid hit on the Baneblade wit a destroyer weapon.
Annihilation Barge
NNV Counter Punch
Did little except jink a lot. Pathetic.
Ghost Ark
NNV Onslaught
10 Warriors
Did little if anything. Pathetic.
Orikan the Diviner
20 Warriors
Did little if anything. Got locked in combat with demons.
Illuminor Szeras
10 Immortals
Attacked the enemy south western group positively though failed to use their upgrades. Actually destroyed the Baneblade making them a unit that actually did some good.
4 Wraiths
Particle Casters
Got locked in combat. Did nothing.
9 Pariahs
Suffered heavily from enemy fire for some reason after losing half of their number when the Lethal Action exploded. Eventually wiped out.
Western Group
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase shifter
10 Immortals
At least got involved, engaging several enemy units including the super heavy walker. Assaulted towards the end and lost about half their number.
Transcendent C’Tan
Wave of Withering, Antimatter Meteor, Transliminal Stride
Attacked the enemy super heavy walker after destroying a giant chaos spawn. Destroyed by some sort of cheating psychic vortex. Returned and attacked again, destroying the walker this time.
5 Wraiths
Whip Coils
Assaulted and destroyed enemy vindicator in the southern group, then locked in pointless combat with an enemy walker.
Tomb Sentinel
Gloom Prism Sepulchral Scarabs
Destroyed by cheating psychic vortex.
Nemesor Zahndrekh
Vargard Obyron
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter
10 Lychguard
Did little except take fire to the North of the western group. Failed to assault. Pathetic.
Doomsday Ark
NNV Thunderous Barrage
Engaged northern chaos forces with its gauss flayers but failed to fire its cannon. Our first ground vehicle destroyed. Pathetic.
Annihilation Barge
NNV Killer Blow
Did little. Destroyed late on.
Ghost Ark
NNV Inspiration
10 Warriors
Landed its troops to take western objective then destroyed. The warriors were put under concerted attack and destroyed after the building containing the objective was reduced to rubble. At least they tried.
Imotekh the Stormlord
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter
20 Warriors
Did nothing, pathetic.
Overlord
Tachyon Arrow, Phase Shifter
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter
Lord x3
Warscythe, Gauntlet of Fire, Phase shifter
Tachyon Arrow, Phase Shifter
Tachyon Arrow, Resurrection Orb
Did fire their tachyon arrows with no effect, suffered from heavy fire, was reduced to two lords.
Tesseract Ark
NNV Breakthrough
Destroyed early. Its fire did nothing.
Sentry Pylon
Sepulchral scarabs
Did little and destroyed.
Eastern Group
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter
20 Warriors
Held the south eastern objective until the end when assaulted by daemons. Suffered 15% casualties.
6 Tomb Blades
Shield Vanes Shadow Looms 3 Gauss blasters 3 Tesla Carbines
3 Tomb Blades
Shield Vanes Particle Casters Nebuloscopes
Heavily engaged to the north and suffered two thirds losses from chaos forces.
Obelisk
NNV Majestic Fury
Destroyed early, contributed to the destruction of giant chaos spawn to the north.
C’Tan
The Nightbringer
Inflicted some losses on plague marines but then stalled and failed to contribute.
Annihilation Barge
NNV Vigilant
Did engage daemonic forces but failed to inflict significant losses.
Triarch Stalker x3
Heat Ray
Particle Shredder
Heavy Gauss Cannon
Engaged the northern forces but did little and were picked off, not used effectively given their formation.
Overlord
Phase Shifter, Warscythe, Gauntlet of Fire
Lord
Void Blade Tachyon Arrow Resurrection Orb
10 Triarch Praetorians
Particle Casters Void Blades
Did nothing, pathetic.
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter
5 Triarch Praetorians
Rods of Covenant
Did little, ended locked in assault.
Tomb Stalker
Sepulchral Scarabs, Gloom Prism
Destroyed early.
Annihilation Barge
NNV Nova
Destroyed.
In addition the following unit infiltrated to take the central south objective which it held until the end when assaulted and contested. Took 15% losses.
Lord
Tachyon Arrow, Resurrection Orb
20 Flayed Ones
Reserves
1st Wave
Night Shroud
NNV Thunderclap
Did little: Bomb failed to damage enemy defiler to the North West and her shooting was ineffective when engaging enemy fliers. Damaged by heldrake.
Doom Scythes x3
NNV Jaws of Terror
NNV Knife Edge
NNV Undefeated
The Undefeated was shot down by interceptor fire, attacks on southern and central enemy units largely ineffective and poor, the Jaws of Terror was damaged losing a weapon system.
2nd Wave
Night Shroud
NNV Chaos Wreaker
Following the Thunderclap, failed to wreak chaos.
3 Destroyers
Heavy Destroyer
3 Destroyers
Heavy Destroyer
3 Heavy Destroyers
5 Destroyers
Destroyer Lord
Phase shifter War Scythe
Deployed in formation to the south west attacking various units of both sides but not used effectively and disappointingly poor. All five destroyers with the lord were destroyed and the lord was badly wounded. The unit of heavy destroyers was also destroyed.
3 Heavy Destroyers
Deep struck to the south east but failed to make significant impact. Destroyed.
Heat Pylon
Sepulchral Scarabs Teleportation Matrix
Deep struck centrally to the north. Destroyed a landraider.
Death Pylon
Sepulchral Scarabs Teleportation Matrix
Deep struck to the north and attacked northern Baneblade Vindicator and others. Destroyed one enemy unit.
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter, Veil of Darkness
10 Deathmarks
Deep struck to west and eliminated unit of scourge. Ended up locked in futile combat.
10 Deathmarks
Deep struck to south and ended locked in futile combat.
10 Deathmarks
Deep struck to south and ended locked in futile combat.
5 Deathmarks
Deep struck to North, did nothing. Pathetic. 20% losses.
3 Tomb Spyders
Particle Beamers Gloom Prisms, Fabricator Claws
3 Scarabs x3
Deep struck to west of centre damaging and destroying several defence installations, did nothing except lose two spiders and ten scarabs leaving two scarabs and an injured spyder.
Monolith x3
NNV Deathbringer
NNV Uncompromising
NNV Splendid
Deep struck around the centre and failed to even open fire. All destroyed. Pathetic.
9 Aconthrites
Deep struck centre north and destroyed a tank, then took two thirds losses.
3rd wave
Night Scythes
NNV Stubborn Defence
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter
14 warriors
Landed its troops north west where little happened.
NNV Robust
Anrakyr The Traveller
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter
10 Immortals
Landed its troops to the north east where they did little.
NNV Deft Manoeuvre
Cryptek
Chronometron, Phase Shifter
14 Warriors
Landed its troops somewhere where they did little.
NNV Insightful
10 Immortals
Landed its troops north east but shot down by interceptor fire.
So in conclusion, overblown, disorganised and disgraceful. Of other stratagems one turned out to be useless and one was not used. The damage report of the 93 units deployed follows:
Deployed Damaged Destroyed
Southern group 15 0 2
Western Group 24 3 11
Eastern Group 14 2 4
Infiltrators 2 1 0
Reserves
First wave 4 2 1
Second Wave 22 5 8
Third Wave 12 0 1
Total 93 13 27
Total losses were 7048 or 40%, enemy losses included a Baneblade, Imperial super heavy walker and at least four armoured vehicles including a landraider, flak tank and vindicator and two chaos spawn.
A few daemonic units suffered some losses including spawn and plague marines, a unit of scourge was destroyed and one or two vehicles including a raider and ravager suffered minor damage. 2000 points would probably be a generous estimate; the enemy seemed to be able to operate at twice our speed apart from anything else, we were lucky to contest a few objectives to prevent their winning score being even higher.
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