Doomsday Devices and Shipboard Raids

This post does double-duty, as the recent phase of the Crusade of Fire featured players doing two different special missions. One was struggling to find the Doomsday Devices that were revealed the last phase, and the other was one of the campaign participants pursuing the Shipboard Raid special mission.

I'll start with the efforts to find the Doomsday Components first. Here's the mission:

Most of the photos are from my match (against Jeff's epic old-school Ultramarines force). We played 1,500 points per side, with the Ultramarines as the "discovering faction."

The Ultramarines arrived in force, with tactical and devastator squads spreading evenly across the battlefield, supported by a Land Raider Crusader, a Whirlwind, a Landspeeder, and a Dreadnought. 

The forces of the Necrons array behind their defensive walls. In addition to the C'Tan in their midst, a Monolith loomed in reserve to teleport into the midst of the enemy formation. 

The scarabs advanced under cover of the ruins. 

The Heavy Destroyers took pot shots at the Land Raider, but didn't land a scratch on it. 

It was the Scarabs, however, that finished the mighty metal behemoth. 

The scarabs formed the bane of all the Ultramarines armor--their tiny deconstruction lasers annihilating with a thousand cuts. 

The wounded C'Tan faced off against the Dreadnought, but was ultimately destroyed, leaving the Ultramarines in possession of the critical objective in the center of the board. 

Even with the Monolith joining the fray, and the Necron Lord slicing Ultramarines with his Warscythe, it was too little too late for the Necron forces to triumph. 

I got some pictures of the other games as well:

Inquistiorial-allied Imperial Guard advanced through the rubble. 

The Eldar war-host they faced off against. 

The beautiful Sisters of Battle and their tanks--what an amazing Exorcist tank in the background!

At another battle site, Dark Angels Ravenwing squared off... with a massive defense cannon turret fortification on their side. 

The resilient Skitarii faced their nominal allies in a clash over which faction would control the Doomsday artifact. 

Meanwhile, in space above the planetary systems, another clash was happening. The Eldar finally made a push to wipe out some of the opposing spacecraft--they set their sights on a Necron Scythe Harvest Ship that was landing Necron forces on the planets. To allow this, the Eldar player spent some of his campaign points on the special mission--enabling him to make the attack. If successful, he would establish a special spot for the Eldar space superiority on the campaign map.

Dire Avengers stalked the halls of the Necron ship, where heavily-armed Immortals waited. 

The Necrons posed a significant threat--especially the Lychguard that defended their territory in the face of overwhelming firepower. 

The Dire Avenger Exarchs were crucial in breaking the stalemate of combat, as the sturdy Necron foes were tough to displace. 

Warp Spiders, who traversed the exterior of the ship with their warp jump technology, managed to strike the final blow to the Necron defenders. 

The Eldar managed to triumph, and thus they gained a special position on the campaign map--represented by the Eldar ship in the lower right. As other races seek to establish their control of land and sky, it will be fun to see where the campaign spreads (and what will happen when the remainders of the solar storms retreat)!

Battles (40k):
Total 2015: 7 (Win/Loss/Tie: 1/6/0)

Necrons:
1 Win (Grey Knights 1)
6 Losses (Ultramarines 1, Eldar 1, Imperial Guard 1, Nurgle Chaos 1, Grey Knights 1, Chaos and Ultramarines team 1)
0 Ties