Guest 40k Battle Report!

My friends recently had a 40k battle report. I thought it would be a good idea to get them to write up a battle report for a bit of variety for my blog. I don't play 40k myself but love all the fluff and stuff that comes with it. So without further or do from my good friend Spartan Dave here is Tau vs Ultramarines.

Operation Cathedral Defence.

It was a cold evening as the forces of the Tau army strategically deployed themselves to protect a derelict cathedral from the superior forces of Roboute Guilliman.

With the Tau army deployed Guilliman started to deploy his reserves. Starting with his Storm raven loaded with a venerated dreadnought and a squad of space marines followed by a crusader tank loaded with a squad of six space marines one of which was a commander.

Next an assault squad of Terminators tried to deep strike onto the field. Failing their drop, they ended up at the furthest edge of the battlefield.

With no more forces deploying this round it was over to movement. The storm raven moved first flying right over the top of the Tau emplacements with the plan to drop the dreadnought into the fray, it made its move dropped its payload which scattered to outside the encampment.

Following closely was the crusader tank armed to the teeth with weapons.

Now to combat the Crusader shot first taking out 2 of a 12-man fire warrior squad, following this the Storm raven opened fire on another 12-man fire team on the roof of the cathedral ruins. The plasma cannons charged.... and with a failed roll to keep the cannons cool they exploded causing one wound and saving the fire warriors from certain death.
With that it was the tau’s turn to strike, not needing to move they went straight to shooting.
The tau opened fire and caused no damage to the space marines
Back to the marines, this time the crusader and the storm raven caused no damage
Now the Tau were fired up raring to cause harm.
The riptide battle suit fired its ion cannon causing no damage to the storm raven
Next a battle suit commander fires his railgun at the crusader piercing its armour causing one wound.
Noticing that the tank was injured the tau’s Hammerhead gunship commanded by Longstrike opened fire... but failed its hit roll luckily he had tank hunter meaning he could re-roll a miss which turned out to be a blessing finally penetrating the crusaders armour it exploded killing 3 of the HQ squad inside. Listening to the burning screams of their comrades the remaining squad members rallied together and pushed onwards.

Now noticing the dreadnought at the edge of the compound the Tau’s crisis team opened fire at it making an incredible roll and succeeded in destroying its main weapon leaving just its power fist.
Now suffering significant losses, Guilliman deep strike in another squad of marines but they scattered to the edge of the battlefield too, The storm raven left the battlefield but not before dropping its payload at the rear entrance to the compound.

With this squad dropped they made short work of the unaware battle suit commander killing him instantly. Next the dreadnought and the terminator squad with their captain tried to charge but didn’t quite make it.
The Tau retaliated firstly by launching a barrage at them from the riptide taking out 2 of rare squad.
Following up, the crisis team fired upon the dreadnought and with some luck they managed to wipe it out. Also providing cover fire at the heavily wounded terminator squad advancing the fire warrior squad managed to pick off 2 of them leaving just the captain to defend himself

And with that the battle was over time had not been kind to the space marines but could they push on and win the next battle


That was it guys. I hope you enjoyed it, always good to try a bit of variety and adds more content to the blog.