Ran a game at KublaCon last Friday. We had signups for eight players, so I opted for 2000 points per side. As is fairly normal only four players showed up, but three of them had played before so we kept it at 2000 points. We played Planetary assault, with my Nurgle fleet attempting to assault the planet.
Death Guard
Terminus Est
Retaliator Grand Cruiser
Styx
Desastation
2 x Murder
Carnage
Slaughter
6 x Iconoclast
8 x Transports
Imperials
Emperor
Mars
Armageddon
Lunar
Tyrant
Dominator
Gothic
Dictator
6 x Sword
5 x Cobra
5 x Planetary Defense Platforms
Per the scenario rules, Imperials could set up in the gravity well of the defended planet or on patrol. They opted for a battlecruiser and four cruisers on patrol and rolled badly, allowing the Chaos players to set up one battlecruiser and one cruiser anywhere in the Imperial deployment zone.
Imperial start (Death Star is the "planet")
Chaos deployed the wayward cruisers nearest the Chaos deployment zone facing away from the Chaos fleet.
Chaos turn one: chasing (and blasting) the cruisers:
Imperial turn one. Torpedoes fired from both sides
Chaos turn 2. Battlecruiser is now a drifting hulk and the other cruiser has blown up.
Turn 3. Fleets engage at close range
Turn 4. Two more Imperial cruisers are destroyed and explode. Terminus Est and escorting cruiser launch fighters (to take out Imp bombers from from Emperor) and assault claws at the Emperor. After a large number of hit and run attacks, the Emperor has damaged engines, prow and dorsal weapons and port weapons leaving it only starboard weapons. At this point the Imperials conceded the battle. In addition to the lost battlecruiser and three cruisers, two more of the Imperials cruisers were crippled and only one Sword and two Cobras remained. Chaos losses were five Iconlclasts and one transport. Slaughter and one Murder were crippled. Did not recover the Terminus Est sheet, but I think it had four or five damage. Chaos made very good use of lock on orders, although reloading ordnance was a problem for all but Terminus Est. Everyone was a bit rusty on the rules, which probably led to tactical mistakes on the Imperial side. Chaos tactics were just move and shoot...We did use all my blast markers so I will need to get a few more...
