Some points of interest:
And this is our objective.
These towers are plagued by a pestilence that I am here to cure! With steel and fire!
We salute your fervour, commander Bernhardt
Here are our troops. As you can see, we now have three farseers
Also, it turned out I was a little ronk last time when I said we have no new places in our army. We actually had one empty spot, so I took a vibro cannon
Some enemy dudes.
Some enemy dudes dying to our dudes.
And some more enemy dudes.
All attacked enemies are wiped out. Aerial units will move east to crush the incoming hordes of genestealers and then proceed north. Going through both the river and the hills would slow down our ground troops considerably, so only aerial ones will take this way.
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Fortunately, terminators are fat against conventional weaponry, and those sucky tyranid warriors can't do shit against them (especially when there's 3x support fire heading their way)
Enemy sighted!
We keep mopping up the genestealers.
And we proceed with heavy rape.
The friggin lictors kinda suck, but they can do lots of direct damage from time to time.
The derelict fortress seems well-guarded.
The genestealers are defenceless against our long-ranged forces stationed on the other side of the river and quickly die.
Some venom warriors pop out of nowhere and blast half the sob squad away.
More hybrids come join the fun at the fortress.
Oshit.
Well, that hurt. Both the dire avenger and the assault termies are at 4 hp.
These genestealers either try to flank us, or go for our dropships. Either way, they shall be intercepted by the Avatar.
One of the land raiders is wrecked, the other flees for its life.
Now, take a good look at this screenshot. Nothing wrong can happen here, huh?
Hah! The Avenger eludes death yet aga-
The dumbfuck sufferred a morale failure and ran straight into the firing range of biovores. He probably would have survived if not for the retreat.
I somehow expected this to happen, but was too much of a jew to use insane courage, and placed all my hopes on battle fortune, fuck
Farewell, dire avenger! You escaped death countless times during the campaign, only to be brought down by my jewishness almost at the very end (casualty #18)
Avatar engages the genestealers.
Wraithlord wipes out a carnifex.
more adversaries eastwards.
We shall have violent retribution for the death of our dire avenger. Friggin biovores have a warp field and refuse to die, obviously.
Also, btw biovores, I noticed that they seem to be somewhat bugged when it comes to lethal ability. It works against some infantry, like SoB or Seraphim, but Wraithguard and assault terminators seem to not suffer kills when facing biovores. Weird.
Seraphim check the city, but find nothing.
Holy shit, those warriors really are deadly when well-entrenched. The second dire avenger miraculously evades death.
Right, there are three enemies with 1 hp, two of which are broken. Still, I am not fucking risking it this time and the dire avenger gets restored to maximum hp.
The biovores finally die (after being attacked 4 times)
Ah, shit. A shame we no longer have any imperial units that can take artefacts, although the power field is sorta... iffy. It provides +4 ranged defence at the expense of -1 movement. It's probably worth assigning to a land raider, or something with similarly huge movement.
The friggin genestealers finally die.
We can assault the objective now.
Wraithlord
The southern area of this hill is mostly populated with genestealers and lictors. A perfect hunting ground for our aerial units.
During the enemy turn, the zoanthrope uses horror upon the fire prism. The fire prism fails its leadership check and becomes broken...
FFFFFFFFFF
Well, fortunately, it ran away after the venom warrior attack. If it didn't, another squad could get into range and blow it to bits.
The assault here proceeds as planned.
Let's check what our aerial dudes are up to!
WHAT THE FUCK
WHATTHEFUCK WHATTHEFUCK WHATTHEFUCK WHATTHEFUCK?!?!
The swooping hawk dies while assaulting a half-hp biovore division but also takes it with him. How the fuck could this shit happen, don't ask me.
We salute you, Swooping Hawk Exarch, one of our finest and most useful units, killed by a retarded set of circumstances (casualty #19)
But that is not the end of our problems. As you can see from the last screenshot, the seraphim is down to 9 hp and in the neighbourhood of a land raider. I calculated the distances to get a good spot to retreat, but everywhere south I go, the raider can follow, and that's bad news. The seraphim will have to try retreating to the very heart of the enemy - north - and hope nothing shoots it down.
More biovores. That's bad.
The fire dragons are not meant for close combat.
That concludes the warriors.
I retreated the seraphim south again, to the vicinity of the magi. The magi are usually too dumb to attack, but they did get close to block our squad's resting. We'll try moving even further south to rest properly, hoping the land raider went away... somewhere.
And indeed it did! At least we won't lose the seraphim this scenario.
The zoanthrope fires a psychic scream at our dudes. This is basically a tyranid version of the librarian's armageddon.
The lower farseer suffers 4 wounds from it, so it can be pretty dangerous.
Then the biovores assume firing positions and kill the already wounded farseer...
...
Well, fortunately it was not the mission-critical farseer, and since we already have two, not much harm done. Still, we salute you, casualty #20
VENGEANCE!
The avatar cuts through the land raider like a knife through butter.
Zoanthrope is wiped out.
Wait, what?! There were lictors still active in this area? It's a miracle they never stealth captured our dropships.
Land Raider is turned into scrap.
The magi are nuked, and the death jester investigates the settlement, invoking a powerful explosion, taking it down to 2(!) hp
Steadfast, men, it's a trap. The dead grow weary of their tombs.
Fortunately, commander Bernhardt is wrong, and nothing emerges from the city. Just a trap and nothing else.
The farseer captures the citadel, and we are victorious!
And after that, we are presented a cinematic, narrated by Farseer Badass, who happens to be the best friggin Farseer in the Warhammer 40k universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzeY60avRRg
The briefing follows:
The Master Tyrant is calling out to the hive fleets. We have to stop it before it is too late. This shall be the last mission, and it shall also be a timed mission for added racism.
Inspecting our army, you can see we are short of two squads. Checking the barracks, you can see that we are nearly dried out when it comes to auxiliary troops. I guess I'll take the terminator devastators and the space marines for the last mission, although none of them are really too well suited for it, and you shall see why.
Fuck, losing the Dire Avenger and the Swooping Hawk was actually a tremendous blow. The Avengers form pretty much the very bulk of our army, being able to tackle just about everything you throw at them, while the Hawk had awesome movement, and I had one very specific plan for it in this last scenario, that would make it our ultimate weapon. Guess we'll have to... improvise, then
Stay tuned, for next time, we shall end the Tyranid threat on Davinuus once and for all!