Post by Hoshi on Jun 1, 2016 14:35:54 GMT
Attacker: Hoshi (Craftworld Eldar)
Defender: ZJ (Orkses)
Mission Type: Cruiser Clash (1000 pts)
Battle Description:
It had been supposed to be an easy enough mission. Just attack a handful of ork ships close to the system's sun, where the tempestuous solar flares should give us ample cover and speed. The enemy fleet was just a surprisingly small amount of ships sitting amidst a group of asteroids. Then the asteroids started moving. When we sent in groups of aspect warriors to investigate, they were not so much shot down but rather died in a collision when the area in front of them momentarily turned into a solid wall of ork shells. The fleet sought to outflank these semi-mobile battlestations around a nearby planet, only to run right into the fangs of the rest of the ork fleet right when there was a lull in the solar flares. It was only a single squadron of escorts, but somehow they managed to utterly annihilate the Vengeance of Khaine in one fell swoop, and afterwards even had the temerity to avoid retribution as they sped away through the chaos left behind by the Vengeance's overloading warp reactor.
The remainder of the fleet at least managed to destroy one of the enemy's carriers, but that was not even close to evening the scales. The Ghost of Isha, in her first deployment, had great trouble launching and reloading its squadrons in a timely manner, and so the fleet had little opportunity to effectively engage the remaining Roks. We could only watch as they pulled away, singing their barbaric shanties all the while. Isha willing they eventually drifted into the sun, but this doesn's seem like the day for lucky breaks.
Outcome: Orks win
Orks
Ravager destroyed
Gitnappers crippled at 1 HP/ship
Dakkaboys at 3 HP/ships
Grotz on Roks +1 LD, two Roks down to 4 HP
+8 Renown
Eldar
Vengeance of Khaine destroyed
Ghost of Isha down to 7 HP
Striking Falcons crippled at 2 HP/ships
+1 Renown
Defender: ZJ (Orkses)
Mission Type: Cruiser Clash (1000 pts)
Battle Description:
It had been supposed to be an easy enough mission. Just attack a handful of ork ships close to the system's sun, where the tempestuous solar flares should give us ample cover and speed. The enemy fleet was just a surprisingly small amount of ships sitting amidst a group of asteroids. Then the asteroids started moving. When we sent in groups of aspect warriors to investigate, they were not so much shot down but rather died in a collision when the area in front of them momentarily turned into a solid wall of ork shells. The fleet sought to outflank these semi-mobile battlestations around a nearby planet, only to run right into the fangs of the rest of the ork fleet right when there was a lull in the solar flares. It was only a single squadron of escorts, but somehow they managed to utterly annihilate the Vengeance of Khaine in one fell swoop, and afterwards even had the temerity to avoid retribution as they sped away through the chaos left behind by the Vengeance's overloading warp reactor.
The remainder of the fleet at least managed to destroy one of the enemy's carriers, but that was not even close to evening the scales. The Ghost of Isha, in her first deployment, had great trouble launching and reloading its squadrons in a timely manner, and so the fleet had little opportunity to effectively engage the remaining Roks. We could only watch as they pulled away, singing their barbaric shanties all the while. Isha willing they eventually drifted into the sun, but this doesn's seem like the day for lucky breaks.
Outcome: Orks win
Orks
Ravager destroyed
Gitnappers crippled at 1 HP/ship
Dakkaboys at 3 HP/ships
Grotz on Roks +1 LD, two Roks down to 4 HP
+8 Renown
Eldar
Vengeance of Khaine destroyed
Ghost of Isha down to 7 HP
Striking Falcons crippled at 2 HP/ships
+1 Renown