Horus Heresy - Sons of Horus & Emperors Children vs Word Bearers & Ruinstorm Daemons
Oliver opened up his gaming room for a huge game of Horus Heresy 8000pts per side on a 8' x 6' table.
On one side was Sons of Horus (Oliver) and Emperors Children (Chris) versus Word Bearers (Max) and Ruinstorm Daemons (Phil).
Oliver had setup the table and so was time to determine mission and deployment - Mission was Dominion while the deployment map was Ambush!
Rolling for initiative, the Word Bearers and Ruinstorm Daemons won and decided to deploy first in the centre zone, leaving the Sons of Horus and Emperors Children to take the two short ends.
With deployment finished, Horus rolls for seizing the initiative and after a re-roll succeeds.
Led by Horus - can Lorgar and his infernal allies breakout of the ambush?
View from Horus end of the table, looking at Lorgar in his Spartan
From the other end - Archeron Knight and a Shadowsword super heavy, on this end three Warp Rifts appear
Initial turn Fulgrim drops down next to Lorgar
In the Daemon turn, the foul hordes exit the warp rifts. Straight away the winged Greater Daemons and Shrikes fly out and vector strike the Knight, four swipes later each either glancing or penetrating its side armour (including two explosions) - the Knight detonates over the Word Bearer Terminators killing them all.
Meanwhile Lorgar reverses away from Horus, unfortunately the Spartan gets immobilized on the wreak of a Rhino, so Lorgar, Praetor and two 20 man units of Word Bearers decide to surround the Emperor Childrens Anvilus Drop pod.
Shooting on the Anvilus, it is wrecked and Fulgrim has to sacrifice his bodyguard to escape the wreck
Horus finally makes it into combat and takes on Lorgar from challenging Fulgrim - who will win this fight?
Daemons continue to rampage across the battlefield, finally managing to claim an objective.
Eidolon takes on a Nurgle Behemoth, which slowly chomps through his bodyguard
The Ruinstorm Daemons rampage through the defenders on the far side of the battlefield.
In a big surprise - Lorgar takes down Horus, seems the combination of psychic powers - Forewarning / Sanctuary and Precognition was too much for the Warmaster.
After this I forgot to take any more photo's, Lorgar went on to take down Fulgrim by the end of the game.
Man of the match - Lorgar defeating two of his brothers.
Final Score was 14 v 12
Even though we had only taken 5 vp for objectives while Horus\Fulgrim took 12 vp
The loss of two Warlords and four Lords of War and 'Attrition' provided 9 vp.
