40K Battle Report: Space Wolves vs Chaos Daemons

One of Manolo’s two longfang squads take advantage of the fortress and their long ranged weaponry by deploying towards the back behind some cover.

The toughest part of the Spacewolf army deploys in the centre of the deployment zone. These thunderwolf cavalry try to leave as little distance between the enemy and themselves, preparing to scout move forwards.

Wow! What a spectacular sight! For the first time on our reports, Kairos Fateweaver himself, painted beautifully by Chema. Making good use of the crates in front, he conceals himself as best as he can as he is the deamon warlord.

The numerous part of the daemons force scatter themselves throughout the deployment zone. Love the classic horror models, especially with their almost psychedelic scheme. Apologies for the mischievous one at the front!

Turn 1 (Space Wolves) With Chema failing to seize the initiative, even with a re-roll from his HQs formation, Manolo begins to drop down from orbit. This alpha strike is of utmost importance as the deamons won’t have a chance of buffing themselves up in their psychic phase. The first pod arrives and immediately poses a threat to the heralds on their discs.

Turn 1 (Space Wolves) After scouting forwards the Wolf Lord leads his pack forwards towards the closest enemy. They hope to get close enough to charge next turn which should be simple enough. Chema really has to deal with this tough unit fast as they can also pack a massive punch once they get close.

Turn 1 (Space Wolves) The longfangs take aim with their lascannons and open fire at the Soulgrinder on the right and manage to penetrate twice but some lucky rolls see both of them saved. Tzeentch is watching over you Chema!

Turn 1 (Space Wolves) The pod and its passengers open fire with everything they’ve got. Some plasma and melta shots, along with a lot of bolter fire convince Chema to jink. Along with some look out sir rolls the damage was limited to two screamers. A decent start for the Space Wolves.

Turn 1 (Chaos Deamons) The denizens of the warp begin their advance. Here is a clearer picture of what the Chaos Deamons deployment looks like.

Turn 1 (Chaos Deamons) With a massive flap of its wings the Lord of Change flys forth, targeting the most threatening of the Space Wolf units, the thunderwolves. A wave of his staff emits a volley of flickering fire. 13 hits which wounded a total of 8 times leads to two wolves biting the dust…OUCH!

Turn 1 (Chaos Deamons) Seeing how well the multi-coloured fire had worked, Kairos attempts to copy his Lord of Change. His Flickering fire hits a few less times but still manages to cause 5 wounds, one more Thunderwolf cavalry is removed. This is turning out to be a good turn for Chema, the cavalry were amongst the most dangerous of the opposition.

Turn 1 (Chaos Deamons) The Warpstorm rages on and apparently that last psychic phase was not good enough for the dark gods. Chema is punished with a minus one to all of his invulnerable saves.

Turn 1 (Chaos Deamons) Chema orders his closest Soulgrinder to fire upon the newly disembarked Space Wolves. With relative ease, three are removed.

Turn 1 (Chaos Deamons) The Tzeentchian Prince attempts to manifest yet another flickering fire but rolls a perils. Failing his save, he takes a wound leading swiftly to a second as he also manages to fail his grounding test. Tzeentch doesn’t wish to make things easy for Chema it would seem! Awesome conversion here!

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) Njal Stormcaller and his retinue drop down from orbit. The marines ready their bolters, taking aim as the air around Njals staff becomes thin and sparks start to crackle.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) The first of Manolos infiltrators, a lone wolf, enters the fray with his sights set firmly on one of the Soulgrinders

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) The other Lone wolf takes a similar path along the other flank with his quarry, a Soulgrinder, before him.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) A unit outflanks but is unfortunate enough to arrive on the emptier of the board sides.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) Njal swings his staff infront of him and summons the wrath of mother Fenris. Alas poor rolls meant that only three hits were achieved. The Grimoire however, saves the deamons from any harm

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) Seeing him on the ground, the Thunderwolf Cavalry waste no time and rush to surround the Prince as best they can.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) The Razorback picks up the scent of the Souldgrinder and faces him. The twin-linked lascannons line up straight at him as the shot charges up….

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) BOOM! As bits of daemon flesh disintegrate and pieces of armour plating fly into the surroundings, Manolo picks up First Blood for killing the Soulgrinder.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) Njals unit open fire at the heralds and their screamers. The jink saves go well and only one screamer is taken out with a wound also being allocated to one of the heralds.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) Prioritising Slay the Warlord (as this scenario awards 3 points), the Long Fangs use their anti-air missiles in an attempt to take down Fateweaver. A total of two saves are forced and Chema only saves one of them.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) The outflanking unit try to fire some quick shots at the flying psychic beast and luckily enough manage to force another save which results in a wound.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) Taking advantage of the fact that a Prince fell from the sky, the Thunderwolves are prepared to do their thing as they charge straight at him without a second thought.

Turn 2 (Space Wolves) The Prince is challenged by the Wolf Lord who soaks up all of the wounds inflicted by the prince with his Stormshield. The thunderhammer wielding cavalry retaliate making the resilient demon hide look like wet paper. The Prince is banished to the warp for another thousand and one days

Turn 2 (Chaos Deamons) The Deamon reserves arrive and elect to appear as close to the two Long Fangs at the fortress as possible as it is them who are dishing out the pain to Chemas monstrous creatures with their high strength weapons.