Grudge Match

This is my two thousand point Illuminati Chaos Warband. A couple of despoilers, one rigged for close combat, the other has a twin-linked lascannon. A Predator rigged as a tank hunter. One unit of marines and one of lesser daemons. A small unit of chosen armed with plasma weapons in a Rhino, six terminators and a unit of possessed. The only fast attack choice is a small bike unit. The army is well eqipped with chaos undivided icons (dameon bus stops) and melta bombs. My HQ choiced are a chaos lord (I use Huron) and the daemon prince Illuminatus.

The army is quasi legal at the moment as I am using the damons as one of the obligatory troop choices. My friend, Shaun, kindly agreed to overlook this.


The Illuminati have a series grudge against the Blood Angels. The Blood Angels hate traitors and heretics. So this is a grudge match. Set up as above. We both have considerable reserves.


I swung my fast moving forces around the left flank, advanced my infantry in the centre, and tried to use my defiler and predator to hold off Shaun's vehicles on the right flank, especially the land raider.


Reinforcements arrive: There is a fall of angels.

Unfortunately, they fall too far away from the main line and fight lonely battles. One group is wiped out by the possessed and my large chaos marine unit.

The other has more luck. I charge it with my close-combat defiler. It has an initiative of three. The Blood Angel assault troops toss krak grenades into its weak rear armour - Kaboom.

Memo: Despite have three dreadnought close combat weapons and being fleet, a defiler cannot go toe to toe with decent infantry.

I move the other defiler into cover in an attempt to give it some cover against the land raiders lascannon.

Memo: Defilers lack the armour to exchange fire with real tanks.


Shaun races his vehicles forward to link up with his remaining assault marines but my chosen and newly materialising damons wipe them out. My terminators deep strike. My last defiler charges Shaun's predator to rip it to pieces with it's claws but cannot penetrate the tank's armour.

Memo: Defilers are not much use against vehicles in close combat.

At this point the Blood Angels withdrew.

Memo: What bloody use are defilers? Anyone got any ideas?

PS I am not convinced land raiders are worth the points either.

PPS Many Roles, Can't do Any.