And it went badly

Was a massacre to be honest.  I lost everything except the valkyrie, which had 1 hull point remaining.

Killed all the blood angels, except Mephiston, 1 guy with a missile launcher and a heavy bolter devastator squad in some ruins.  I think two termies survived also.

I was against mephiston, a large unit of assault termies with sanguinary priest.  1 Devastator squad with missiles.  1 devastator squad with heavy bolters. Three 5 man assault squads with various upgrades.  And a 30 man unit of death company with boltguns.

So what happened?  We had the relic mission, that was sitting on top of a hill, right in the open.  Anyone who went near it was mercelessly gunned down.

I have just now realised we forgot Night fight, meh.

Turn one saw a failure of shooting.  killed a couple of death company, a lucky ordnance barrage from the master of ordance took out half the missile launchers.  Only thing of note.  Demolisher totally failed to kill anything.  Assault squad jumped onto the objective.  My infantry platoon took some heavy fire from heavy bolters.  They had formed a combined unit.  Kasrkins were toast from Bolter fire.  Good job useless carapace armour. (first blood)

Valkyrie and marbo showed up.  Marbo rolled 4 1's to wound the termies with his demo charge, only killing two.   Massed fire killed the squad with the objective.  And most of a second squad was almost taken out, leaving one survivor.   Mephiston made short work of the demolisher.  Marbo was gunned down by an assault squad.

Valkyrie flew onto the objective, letting the veterans out, who promptly scattered losing a guy and winding up miles from the relic.  Killed many more death company with the leman russ.  The veterans from the chimera took a frag missile to their tight deep strike formation, killing all but three. Termies killed the chimera, and I lost most of the platoon command from the explosion.  Two assault squads assaulted the Valkyrie, it survived with a remaining hull point and stunned (extra armour took it to shaken)  Mephiston charged into my command squad.  Cheesiness happened as my advisors one by one challenged Mephiston to a duel.  Holding him up for four combats.  First up was the astropath who was massacred by the librarian, the squad held. 

Executioner took out all the assault marines near the objective.  At the very least, that was all the blood angel scoring units destroyed.  The officer of the fleet was the next to be killed by Mephiston  Death company took their toll with their bolters, gunning down most of the a veteran squad with little bother.  Sanguinary priest split from the termies.  The preist charged the remains of my platoon commnad, and was killed by overwatch flamers.  The termies assaulted my Infantry platoon (which was down to two autocannons)  which they swiftly destroyed.  Master of Ordnance was lost to the rampaging librarian.

What was left of my units made a desperate advance for the objective.  The death comapny were all killed by this point, never making it to cc.   4 men made it to the hill.  Only to die.  Mephiston destroyed the command squad.  And then promtly made for the leman russ which stood no chance.  Whilst the termies took out the executioner. 

 I was left at this point with my valkyrie, my lascannons teams (about to be eaten by the librarian)  and a single veteran with plasma gun.  Lascannon shots into Mephistion resulted in 1 hit, and 1 to wound :(  Killed a couple of terminators with the valkyrie.  Plasma dude ran towards the objective, to no avail.  He was charged by the terminators, attempted overwatch resulted in his gun metling, killing him and my hope for victory.  Overwatch fire at mephiston from the lascannons again got a hit, but a 1 to wound.


I think looking back It would of gone a lot different if I had gone second.  Most of my guns were out of range turn one anyway.  And it would of allowed me to make a last turn grab for the objective without taking fire.