Flood Tide on Fathom

This narrative battle report contains pictures and narrative summary of the events of a game played between Chris Rice's Eldar and Mike's Death Guard on October 9th.  Written by Chris Rice.

The discovery of the Death Guard’s plague tanks represented an urgent strategic threat. They were accumulating a contagion to unleash on the human forces, designed to render the vast numbers of dead more susceptible to becoming corpse puppets of chaos. The suffering decay of those who survived would feed the power of the Death Guard as well. This threatened to break what paltry useful resistance the imperials were providing. Due to the urgency of this mission, the Bloodcrafters strike force met with additional elements of the Glasper squadron and new aspect warrior reinforcements to aid in the assault.

The Aeldari forces quickly gained control of the facilities and set to draining the vile poxwaters that were amassing in the storage vats. Karash led the aspect warriors initial maneuver to quickly to outflank the ponderous chaos host. Poxridden corpses and cultists alike fell in a wind of shurikens, half of them rising again only to be cut down a second time. But these were mere pawns; their masters remained hidden from sight. As the autarch soared onward, his search found the sorcerer hidden amidst their ranks. A single shot from his expertly crafted pistol ripped the plaguecaster’s bloated body apart into a flaming husk.

As the psychic resistance of the vile sorcerer faded from Prydain’s mind, the farseer’s vision reached forward to reveal the enemy’s true plans. Their leader and his personal retinue standing ready in the teleportarium stepped through the warp and to the heart of the battle. With Aeldari speed these moments of foresight were more than enough to greet these warriors with a storm of blades and heat. Despite their bulwark of armor and their unfeeling hides, the barrage of high energy weapons staggered the leaders of the plague hosts. Many fell in the first instants of their arrival with their momentum crippled, and only an unnatural and disgusting resilience prevented total annihilation. However, the rising flood waters increasingly bogged the entire battlefield, and the surviving chaos warriors were far too slow to save their facility. Remaining Aeldari forces swiftly withdrew from the increasingly toxic waters of the site, victorious.