Zone Mortalis AAR, Death Korps vs Eldar

This Friday I had a game of Zone Mortalis for 40k with my friend Johan.

We both had 500points and played on a small 2´x 2´table.
The mission generated was to hunt killpoints, in other words destroy enemy units.

Lets jump into it.

I had a small unit of Engineers with a Demolition Charge and Carcass ammunitions. Yes yes I know, its totally not worth it to pay for Carcass ammunition on a 5 man unit but its always to fun to roll a 1 on that gets hot dice... My engineers sally fort and totally misses with the Demolition charge and instead it scatters outside the gaming table... bummer... I really thought I could inflict lots of hurt on those Eldars...

Another Eldar Guardian unit advance and my brave Engineers was caught in a crossfire and was wiped of the table.

My Commander and his unit was able to return the favour. Unfortunately an Eldar aspect warriors enters from the reserve...

My command squad is surrounded, not a good thing when you have Toughness of  3...

With just one enemy unit left to shot with I still had my wounded commander and a plasma gunner. This meant a really slim chance to survive the round. And maybe not to surprising when the Eldar squad had fired none where left alive.
 

I got reinforcements in the form of Grenadier.

I have just wiped a unit of Guardians with all my flamers and hotshot lasguns and are here trying to take cover behind a corner.

But the Eldars where fast and they run far more then I first had anticipated.
Actually it was ages ago since I last played 40k and I had forgotten they could run and still shoot with their guns...

Some of them managed to survive and with a unit of Engineers still behind a large door things were still not over.

I managed to wipe the Aspect warriors from the table but then it was my opponents turn.

His guardians rushed forward and shot my Engineers but their "thick" Carapace armour managed to save some of my soldiers. His Autarch stormed what was left of my Grenadiers and the Guardians stormed my Engineers.

 

Somehow the Engineers managed not only to hold the enemy back they even managed to win the combat against those Eldars forcing them to take a moral check that they failed.

With his Guardians on the run I rushed forward trying to take them out.

By now his Commander was finished with my Grenadiers and his Guardians had managed to recover.
My Engineers was now cough in the tight corridors of the Zone Mortalis...

Game two of the eventing. 500points again but this time I got rid of my over-expensive command squad and slimmed them down to just lasguns and laspistols... And use this points more effective.
The mission was for me to take out 3 objectives while my opponent was to keep them up and running.

Eldar forces have noticed my attack and starts to advance in the corridors.

Doors are opened.

The Death Korps infantry have barely noticed that their attack have been spotted.

The Eldar forces storms forwards with guns blazing...

With a retaliation fire many Eldars are cleaned out of the room.

Next wave of Eldars storms forth.

My lines are dangerously thin...

But reinforcements arrives in the nick of time.

My Commander is trusting the men to take care of the Eldar scums so he will dedicate his attention on the objective, taking one out with some grenades.

The Eldar aspect warriors are next to attack my lines. Charging two badly depleted units and taking what was left of them out.

The Grenadiers let their flamers work and the Aspect warriors was not to be seen after they had done what they should.
The Autarch storms into close combat with the Grenadiers wrecking havoc in my line.

The Commader deemed the situation somewhat under control and instead of helping the Grenadiers attacks and takes out another objective with more grenades.




The underground attacks on the City of Reichengrad had with heavy casualties atleast managed to take out some old computer consoles, hindering the Eldar to take advantage of the information there in.
This is a small continue of a campaign we started named "Conquista of the planet of Reichengrad" The Death Korp forces have since the last battle started to make small raids underground but a big battle have not taken place since the last mega-battle seen here http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2014/10/battle-one-of-conquista-of-reichengrad.html


Two very intense games of Zone Mortalis and it was fun to see that such good games could be thought with only 500points. I think that both the Eldar and my Death Korps played well against each other and with nether force not really able to take a punch it was a bloody affair.

It would be interesting at least initially to see how a Terminator squad with its heavy armour would just dominate the game.

Macharius Vulcan, work in progress

Here are some work in progress on my Macharius Vulcan super heavy tank for my Death Korps of Krieg (warhammer 40k)

Please notice the Schmeiser taken from a model kit, always god to have one handy when studying a map or so.

The muds on the tracks and on the tank and mudstains need to be painted. I need to work more on the paint damage and chipping. The vision slits and commanders goggles need to be painted. The maps seems bland and lifeless. Numbers or squad markings or other signs of recognition could add much to the miniature. Maybe add a banner to one of the radio antennas. The list goes on.

 In short details details details. But its at least tabletop quality now so I would dare to use it in a game.

Norse Bondi

I managed to get lots and lots of painting time last weekend, it have unfortunately taken all of this week just to get the time to do the bases...

Here we have a unit of Norse Bondi troops with the addition of some bärsärka type miniatures thrown into the lot.

The miniatures are mostly from Gripping Beast plastic Dark Age Warrior kit but with the addition of some heads from their Hirdmen kit and some plastic Warlord Games Celts miniatures as well as some metal miniatures from different makers to add that extra level of variation that I like.

I tried to keep the clothes and colouration simple as these are on the poorer side of the army.

On this unit I tried a new technique of having different colours on the basing primer and use that base in lots of areas on the miniatures as seen in these work in progress pictures. You can see what primer colours I used by the tray (?) they are glued on.

Stenkastare

I thought I could need some stone throwers to my Norse collection. These are meant to represent Drengr or other types of poorer people. Im not totally sure.

I tried to keep the colours down and not adding to much detailing on these to speed up the process and that I wanted the proper troops look even better in comparison...

The miniatures are from Gripping Beast plastic Dark Age Warrior box. Almost worth buying for the heads alone.

It would be nice to find some staff slings instead of these small slings but these will do until then.

JIHAD

Jihad, and also some Varghednar and some Ruses for my Norsemen collection.

Just in case you started to get the feeling that my collection of Saracens where getting big enough...

Gripping Beast should love me.


Here is an excellent review of the plastic arab cavalry for those interested.
http://sixtwentyeight.blogspot.se/2015/05/28mm-gripping-beast-plastic-arab-heavy.html

And another review here:
http://www.sagatapestry.com/2015/05/review-gripping-beast-plastic-arab.html