Kluctmier’s Last Stand

THE SHORT VERSION

Phil Kelly’s 2,500-point Tyranid swarm attacks Owen Rees’s Imperial Guard while Inquisitor Kluctmier tries to carry a potentially decisive biological weapon across Granica IV to his shuttle. Owen deploys three infantry-and-tank groups, counterattack troops and a costly Deathwatch escort; Phil sends fast broods into the line while monsters and infiltrators converge on the fleeing Chimera. The transport falls and Genestealers kill the Inquisitor, securing the Tyranids’ primary objective.

The attempt to destroy every surviving infantryman stalls against the Deathwatch. Their Librarian nullifies repeated Warp Blasts and kills a Carnifex, while the squad survives successive assaults and destroys 734 points of aliens. Phil wins the mission but regrets feeding attackers into them piecemeal; Owen praises target selection, Close Order Drill and mutually supporting strongpoints. A final fiction scene has the Marines teleport away while planning to recover Kluctmier’s lost canister.

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Find this article in White Dwarf 306, pp. 32–51.

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