The Chronicles Of Will

 Chaos Fleet 10 x Transport ships squadroned in 5 pairs 1 x Hades Cruiser 1 x Devastation Cruiser 3 x Iconoclast and 1 Infidel escort Imperial Raiders Surprise roll off! The mission is for the chaos to escort their pack of transport ships (proxied by eldar escorts) from one side to the other. The imperials get 5 + D3 "contact tokens", which are then rolled against to see what they are.  You may roll VERY lucky and get 8 cruisers by rolling 8 6's but luckily this wasn't the case.  Once the imperial player has rolled and selected his ships or fighter craft, he then assigns them secretly to each token, which are then revealed when I get too close or voluntarily by the imperial player. Turn one, I gather my transports on one side and fly them forward with the all ahead full order.  The Devastation carrier launches defensive fighters ahead of them to screen for any incoming torpedos or bombers.    My transports get too close to a marker, which is then revealed to be a grou

Chaos Fleet Despoiler + 100pt warmaster & torp upgrade Repulsive with the increased lance range and +1 shield   Hades Murder x 2 Iconoclast x 5 + x 1 Idolator  Imperial Fleet Emperor + assault boat upgrade and a 150pt solar admiral Dictators x 2 Dominator Swords x 3 Firestorm x 3 Cobra x 3 This was an upscaled demo battle. Players at my club are still relatively new so we just did a simple "kill everything" mission with a 1500pt roster.  To start the game we rolled off to see who would deploy first and then placed our most expensive ship first and then alternated ship placement. I deployed my Hades and Murder duo on the left hand side and then positioned the rest of the ships in the center of the board with a heading towards the left of the board.   The Imperials placed the Dictator and escorts on the left, carriers in the middle and the Emperor on the far right hand side.  I was worried about the nova cannon but was keen to drill through enemy lines with the Hades/Murder