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No one is quite sure why they were fighting. We claim they hadn't returned the fiver they had borrowed. They claim we lost a dessert fork from their regimental tea set, either way, two loyalist legions are at arms with each other!
Michael and I agreed 2500 points of Legio Imperialis (which we both agreed after is waaaaay too many points for an evening), set up and had a lot of fun!
This time, my legion of The Emperor's Pointy Sticks (pretending to be Ultramarines) was joined by the Warlord titan Frank'n'Furter. Somewhere in the ruins in the middle, the lost dessert fork resides. Back left for me and Michael, are both our air wings, with Michael having a lot of troops ready to be deposited on table by air lift, supported by heavy armour, and on the top right his new biker contingent. I used my usual massed firepower of teh EPS, backed up by land raiders and predators and a horde of dreadnought... 
Man his armour can shift! He's on teh objectives turn 1, and my fighters are having to dogfight with his.
Three on two, this was never going to end well (we did survive interception fire, but were blown out the air again in the main firing phase)!
On the left, Frank starts firing at visible targets, wiping out two units on his own! We both advance on the objectives in the centre and on the left, with my newly painted biker squad taking their time. A thunderchicken arrives to deposit Michael's dreadnaughts down field.
We did find that my shooting had unusual effects on Michael's troops, as when hit, he had a nasty tendency to run away! Saying that, my predators aren't too happy here an leg it too.
On the left, Michael did have a squad of troops, deployed in the buildings, but the titan had put several large holes in them! His missile armed troops to their left had utterly squashed my tactical marines and rhinos I had tasked with taking the left hand objective! In the centre, his marines took a battering from the my tactical boys. On the right, he takes the objective while my Land Raiders cut through a speeder bike squad. The main boon was I took out nearly all of Michael's gunships.
The firefight around the ruins heats up. I lost a pair of landies there too. My bikers moved up to support. Frank lords it over all.
In the centre, my assault marines jump in with great effect. Taking the objective.
At the end of turn two, Michael had air superiority. Both sets of terminators had jumped into support the fight in teh centre, and both had blown their landing by scattering badly! No one was contesting the right hand objective, as Michael blew away my Tactical marines that were delivered by rhinos, then broke in the area himself! My tacticals had acted like real EPS troopers, shooting lots, hitting zero! The left hand objective had all to play for again as Frank had levelled the area.
End result after two turns was a slight win for Michael as he held more objectives turn 1. Turn 2 was allowing me to catch up, and I suspect if we had fought on past turn 3, I would have taken the centre and left. The right was to fight over. I would have moved my assault marines into his backfield, and my terminators would have had a hard fight against his. The death toll horrendous, as you would expect with the dark future. But then, we turned the lights on!
Great game, good laughs. Next time, less points.
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