Battle Report - 1000 Points - Jonathan Muller vs Liam Koﬁ Bright

Oct 7, 2026

Battle report detailing a Warhammer 40,000 match at 1000 points between Jonathan Muller’s Chaos Space Marines and Liam Koﬁ Bright’s Imperial Guard. The report lists both armies’ key units and marks, then describes the player’s first-ever game and a non-optimized, thematic approach. Strategic intent focuses on reinforcement waves, controlling primary objectives, and using Venators and demolition vehicles for secondary tasks. The narrative covers mission-specific pressures from “The Ritual,” turn-by-turn positioning mistakes, and how mid-board control swung the battle toward a CSM win, 49-34.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages8

Reading Time12 min

AccessFree to download

Armies and objectives

Muller’s CSM list and Bright’s Imperial Guard list

Pre-match plan

Reinforcements, waves, and primary control

The battle

Mission “The Ritual” and early setbacks

Turn-by-turn positioning and mid-board struggle

Recovery via secondary objectives

Battle Report-1000 Points Jonathan Muller (Chaos Space Marines) vs Liam Koﬁ Bright (Imperial Guard) CSM Victory: 49-34 Muller list-Heretic Boogaloo (985 points) Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour • Mark of Chaos: Slaanesh • Warlord + 5 x Chaos Terminator Squad • Mark of Chaos: Slaanesh 5x Legionaries • Mark of Chaos: Chaos Undivided 2 x Obliterators • Mark of Chaos: Nurgle 5x Possessed • Mark of Chaos: Slaanesh 1 x Venomcrawler • Mark of Chaos: Chaos Undivided 1 (allied) War Dog Brigand Bright List-Civil Protection (1000 Points) Commissar • Warlord + 10 man Infantry Squad • 1x Mortar Cadian Castellan + 20 man Infantry Squad • 2x Lascannon Death Korps Marshal + Commissar + 20 man Death Korps of Krieg squad 5 man Militarum Tempestus Command Squad + 5 man Tempestus Scions —starting within 1 x Taurox Prime 1 x Cyclops Demolition Vehicle 1 x Cyclops Demolition Vehicle 1 x Scout Sentinels 1 x Tauros Venator 1 x Tauros Venator 6 man Elysian Sniper Squad My ﬁrst ever game of Warhammer 40k and it went pretty well! Neither I nor my opponent brought lists that were anything like optimised for competitive play. Jonathan literally just brought along all the things he had painted, and I brought a list which is themed around being a small military police force (modelled on that of Half Life 2’s City 17 in particular!), which would be akin to a planetary PDF in terms of lore. What’s more it was literally my ﬁrst game and while my opponent was a bit more experienced he made it clear that he was relatively new as well, so neither of us were in a position to play too hard even if we wanted! As it stands this was wonderful, as it just made for a friendly light hearted experience I think we both enjoyed very much. Thinking about the match beforehand I had persuaded myself that I probably couldn’t do much to actually kill his tougher units, but I could by clever use of my reinforcement strategy and sending people in with well timed waves ﬂood the board with my chaps and dominate on primary. In particular I thought: the 20 man infantry squad led by a Castellan would move move move and push up early to contest the mid board, while the Scout Sentinel contested a safer ﬂank objective. The Krieger blob would move forward but hang back a bit, sticking to cover and waiting to contest the mid board once the ﬁrst wave was engaged. And my Stormtroopers would hang around in backﬁeld waiting for my opponent to commit one of his big units to contesting an objective at which point they would burst forth and delete it. I thus thought I would have my Venator’s run around doing secondaries, the cyclops demo vehicles were kept in reserve for any secondaries that required being in corners or backﬁelds, and I would compete for two of the primary points besides my backﬁeld (guarded by my snipers and my Warlord with his 10 man squad containing indirect ﬁre support) as described above. I sort of managed this, but a combination of my error and a bit of bad luck meant it did not go fully to plan. The Battle The ﬁrst bit of bad luck came when we drew The Ritual as our mission. The pertinent fact here is it meant we began with just one objective in the mid board, and all new objectives had to be created within 9 inches of that. The second bit of bad luck was my opponent went ﬁrst with two secondaries that rewarded him for getting stuﬀ to the centre. This basically meant that everyone had to immediately ﬁght for the mid board, and there was this additional role of “creating new objectives” that I had not really accounted for as it did not feature in most missions. Uhoh. The errors on my part were to do with positioning. I put my snipers near enough to the centre tobe easily taken out in turn one. And I put one of my Tauros Venators in a similarly exposed position. Both of those were thus wiped out before I had a chance to do anything with them. With the Venator I can say that at least if I had got th

FAQs

What were the armies and factions in this 1000-point battle?

Jonathan Muller fielded Chaos Space Marines (CSM), while Liam Koﬁ Bright played Imperial Guard. The report includes detailed unit lists for both sides.

Why did the mission “The Ritual” cause extra pressure for Muller’s plan?

The mission started with only one mid-board objective and forced new objectives to be created within 9 inches. This meant the entire game required more mid-board fighting and objective creation than many other missions.

What key errors affected the outcome for Muller in the early turns?

Muller positioned snipers and a Tauros Venator too exposed, leading to them being wiped out in turn one before doing much. The report also notes later movement-blocking that kept infantry too far back.

Oct 7, 2026

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