Death From Above

 I got together with the Lord Solar of the Tempestus Aquilons, Tinqiu, for a vicous game of Kill Team with my Blooded getting its first look at a real opponent. 

The Blooded ready for action.

The back of the Aquilons minus their Tempestor who was hiding in a bag at the desk. We found him.

The crit op was Sabotage: hold objectives for VPs, or sabotage the objective in the opponents territory for a VP.

Official Mascot of the Aquilons.

The Aquilons kept most of their models in reserve, giving me very little info to go on in TP 1.

I sent 4 Blooded to contest the big chamber, while the rest would flood in and try and hold the point 3 chamber.

Lots of barricades in the big point 1 chamber, but where are the Aquilons?

There they are, securing chamber point 2 and making sure no one opens that door.

With the sniper and plasma gunner ready to lay down supporting fire, and the Trench sweeper and Butcher ready to charge, the Aquilons avoided entering chamber 1 right away.

The servo sentry arrived ready to blast through the door into chamber 1.

Turning point 2 and the Butcher uses the portal barricade to guard the point.

The Aquilons surprise attack chamber three buy dropping directly in, the Grenadier throwing his meltabomb on the Orgryn who did not survive. The Enforcer charged the Grenadier but failed to quickly dispatch him while the Precursor then dropped in and killed the Traitor Grenadier who dyabolic bomb did not cause any harm. It took the Flenser's knives to finish off the Grenadier Aquilon.

The casualties begin to mount.

The Corpseman and the Vox operator reinforce the reeling Blooded in chamber 3.

Meanwhile, in the corridor the Aquilons debate opening the door to Chamber 1 while the Tempestor and friends secure chamber 2. The Blooded leader sliced the gunfighter stem to root as he tried to rally the troops.

More mounting casualties.

The melta and plasma gunners drop in and sabotage the point! Scoundrels! But the Enforcer survived the onslaught as he orders the Flenser to charge.

At the beginning of Turning Point 3 I could feel the tide turning against me, and I forgot to take more pictures until the end because it was so intense. 

The 4 Blooded in the chamber 1 tried to reinforce chamber 3 but the advantage of the Aquilons started to gain momentum. While many Aquilons died in Chamber 3, all of the Blooded were sacrificed.

At the end the Aquilons held the field and sported a dominating 17-8 victory.

Lessons Learned: 

I should have tried to use guard more to prevent the Aquilons from dropping in and toasting so many of my guys, and my failure to kill them as quickly as they dropped in meant I fell behind quickly, I also had my melta gunner way out of useful position and he did nothing, while my four guys in the chamber 1 were also overcommitted preparing for an attack that did not come. 

Next time there will be (more) blood!