As well as my Knight Warden, I wanted to field my new Dark Talon, so I went for a mixed Ravenwing and Deathwing list, instead of the usual Demi-Company etc.
We drew the maelstrom mission where both players can score any numbered objectives drawn.
Luke has the obligatory flying tyrant with a hive crone. His only other synapse was a unit of zoanthropes, but he did have a toxicrene and a tyrannofex, as well as hormagants and gargoyles.
In the end I wasted the Dark Talon trying to ground the tyrant with the hurricane bolters, but it kept passing any tests it had to make before regenerating any wounds. Of course my talon then get shot down before I got to try the stasis bomb or rift cannon. Next time then..
My other main hope for killing stuff was the Knight. It did manage to remove the toxicrene, but the Luke quickly whittled down its hull points before the Hive Crone performed a spectacular kamikaze dive to remove the last hull point. The explosion, which finished off the Crone and a whole unit of my terminators, was survived by a surprised-looking gargoyle.
I still managed to keep racking up points, including most of Luke's cards. In the end I won 14-9, but was closed to being tabled, with my warlord terminator librarian on one wound and a Techmarine both cowering in a ruin when the game ended to my relief Turn 6. Luke's tyrant, zoanthropes, hormagants and tyrannofex were still virtually unscathed.
I love close, eventful games like that. Thanks Luke!
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