Erik wrote :
>
>
>Quick update on the Imperials vs. Orks campaign we are testing thus
>far. We have fought the first two campaign turns and the Orks are
>doing very well. Bart chose to start with the Goffs and has already
>convinced the Evil Sunz and Bad Moons to join his Waaagh!
>
>Turn 1 2500 Orks vs. 2000 Imperium
>
>After receiving an unorthodox command directive, the Imperium went
>on
>the offensive. This caught the Orks offguard. The Imperium was
>able
>to capture one Ork territory that had been left undefended in
>response
>to other attacks.
>
>The defended Ork territories beat off the imperial assaults. The
>Warlord Titan Reaper was destroyed by a gargant with a chainsaw and
>the
>super heavy tanks of the Anacreon Guards 10th Company, 1st Platoon
>were
>annihilated by a combination of Flyboys and the Warlord's Great
>Gargant.
>
>Battles in other sectors were going well for the Imperium, however,
>so
>they managed to gain two victory points. The Orks gained one. This
>gave them a one in six chance of convincing another tribe to join.
>They succeeded (!) and the Evil Sunz roared into the campaign with
>500
>points worth of Kult of Speed and Battlefortresses.
>
>Imperium: 2 Orks: 1
>
>Turn 2 3000 Orks vs. 2000 Imperium
>
>The Imperium received another attack directive and spent a victory
>point to ignore it. They used up their second victory point to
>requisition some strategic reserves (a 250 point detachment of Leman
>Russ and Hellhound Tanks) to aid in the defense of the front line
>territories.
>
>The Orks happily rolled over to the attack and invaded two Imperial
>territores. The Evil Sunz roared up from their lands and attacked
>the
>Imperial forces in the Ork territory they had taken the previous
>turn.
>
>After a tough fight against Imperial Armor and Artillery, the Evil
>Sunz
>carried the field with some brilliant maneuvering - albeit losing
>their
>battlefortresses in the process. In the meantime, the Warlord in
>his
>Great Gargant singlehandedly wiped out another superheavy tank
>platoon,
>a heavy infantry platoon and an artillery battery in the process of
>steamrolling the center of the Imperial defensive line. During this
>battle some Ork flyboys single handedly downed three Thunderbolt
>fighters in one pass, suffering no losses in return!
>
>On the Imperial right, the Warlord's cousin led his Warband to ever
>increasing glory (They went up to 8 experience after this battle and
>their second dead Warlord Titan. They are now Stubborn.). With
>another warband in support and that gargant with the chainsaw they
>once
>again destroyed a Warlord Titan (this time the Scimitar). The
>reactor
>meltdown destroyed the gargant and a large part of the cousin's
>warband
>but did not bring it to half strength. In the meantime the other
>warband of shooty boyz and big gunz pounded the detachment of armor
>from the strategic reserve. Flyboyz bombed the artillery and soon
>brought Imperial morale low enough to cause a general retreat.
>
>The Orks had regained their territory and wrested control of two
>minor
>Imperial territories in one turn! Of five battles so far, the
>Imperium
>had won none (we came close in two, though ;-). Moreover, the Orks
>had
>destroyed enough of the Imperial superheavy tank company that the
>remaining crews to be put into the field were no better than green
>recruits (experience 0, removes d6-2 blast markers instead of d6-1).
>The Orks had air superiority and ground superiority. Things were
>looking good. So good, in fact, that the Bad Moons decided to join
>up!
>
>The Imperium is in a desperate situation. The Orks hold most of the
>first line of resistance. A fortified major territory is in the
>second
>line and there we must hold!
>
>Imperium: -7 Orks: 3
>(For a net difference of 9 victory points on the turn, the Orks get
>four momentum effects to use in their next turn's battles. This is
>gonna hurt.)
>
Wow! What a campaign!
You're in a bad position, Erik. Do you think that the
Shadow Skulls will come before the destruction of your last troops ?
Francois Bruntz
Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
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