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Hey folks!


You can read my other battle reports for this event here:
Round One
Round Two
Round Three
Round Four
Round Five

Coming out of Round One, I've got a 13 point victory under my belt, and am in the milling middle of the pack; I'm not out of the running, but not leading the pack yet either. Round One and Two were both paired based on initial comp score, and I found myself facing off against Blackmoor! Legendary Blackmoor, with his famous Eldar battle reports; I'd gotten fair warning that I was going to get trounced by his foot eldar, and I show up to the table and see that he's got....CHAOS! Given that we were both fighting in the name of the ruinous powers, I suggested that we instead team up and take down Hulksmash or Reecius, and we did.

The End.

Just kidding.

Purple People Eaters:
HQ: Lelith Hespirax + Wych Retinue + Raider
Troop1 - Troop6: Units of 5 Wyches, Succubus+Agonizer, Raider. Couple squads had blasters, couple raiders had horrorfexes. All wyches in the army had haywire grenades.
Elite 1 - Elite 3: Units of 5 Warriors, each with a Dark Lance, each with a raider. Two squads with a sybarite, one with a Nightmare Doll, one with a Crucible of Malediction.
Heavy 1 - Heavy 3: Three Ravagers, all with Disintegrators.


I brought a little bag of washers, and each washer was labeled twice on both sides in magic marker 1-6 so that I could denote my wych powers - I haven't thought of a better system yet. As you look through this and other of my battle reports from this tournament, that's what those washers are.

Blackmoor's Word Bearers & Thousand Sons
HQ: Daemon Prince; Mark of Tzeentch, Wings, Doombolt, Warptime
HQ: Daemonprince; Mark of Slaanesh, Wings, Lash
Summoned Greater Daemon

Troop1: 7x Thousand Sons, Mark of Tzeench + Aspiring Sorcerer; Mark of Tzeentch, Force Weapon, Inferno Bolts, Wind of Chaos + Rhino; twin-linked bolter
Troop2: 9x Chaos marines+1x Plasma+1x Lascannon + 1x Champion + Rhino with extra armor
Troop3: 9x Chaos marines, Plasma+Lascannon; Aspiring Champion with Power Fist

8x Summoned Lesser Daemons

Heavy1: 3x Obliterators
Heavy2: 3x Obliterators
Heavy3: 3x Obliterators


Mission 2 was pitched battle, with modified killpoints. You can find the full mission description on page 8 of the Mission Packet
Primary (12 points): Whomever has the most killpoints alive at the end of the game. Dedicated transports don't count.
Secondary (5 points): Destroy or cause all enemy HQ units to flee.
Bonus (2 points): One of your HQs destroys an enemy HQ.
Bonus (1 point): If your most expensive unit is alive and not fleeing.

I won the roll and decided to deploy and go first. Dark Lances are 36", but if I pick a side I'm inviting my opponent to huddle up in the other corner and outrange me with lascannons for a turn. Instead, I lined up across my deployment zone. My raiders in front give cover to those behind; where possible those are empty (warrior raiders, with warriors deployed out). If the initiative ever gets stolen from me it will hurt badly, but I take whatever precautions I can.


Here's a side shot of the table after my deployment.


Blackmoor deploys in response, picking a flank and while not exactly bulking up, he protects what needs protecting; one squad of marines in the building as a stationary lascannon/plasma platform, Obliterators up top to range across the field, his second obliterator unit behind a rhino, and his daemon units potentially getting cover depending on the angle we're looking from.


Dark Eldar Turn1:
I move up the field 12". My hope was to open his rhinos, then use my ravagers to....well, ravage the contents. Instead, all my dark lances on the right side of my table whiff! EVERY ONE! I got a shaken and stunned result on the right rhino, and that was it. Without anything to drop my ravager templates onto effectively, one targets his obliterators behind his rhinos and whiffs, while the center one targets his untouched rhino and wrecks it. On the left side of the table, between my remaining raiders out of range of his rhinos open up on his overwatching obliterators and instakill two - the ravager gets a wound on the third. I also throw out my Crucible of Malediction, and all his psykers make their saves. *sigh* One day someone important will die.


Chaos Turn1:
Blackmoor doesn't move much - he's biding his time. He reaches back across the table with his own lascannons and plasma; his obliterators actually miss twice and the third one stuns a ravager, he also weapon destroys another ravager and wreck's Lelith's ride. There are several bonus points tied up HQ stuff this game - smart move for Blackmoor to take her raider down. Lelith and her retinue spill out of their burning wreck and....trip over and fall to the ground. *sigh* Pinned.




Blackmoor also disembarked his shaken/stunned raider to get some shots downrange on me with his bolters - his thousand sons moved into the crater to get cover, although they had 4+ invulnerable saves anyway.

Dark Eldar Turn2:
Everything that can moves 6-12" up the field to optimize firing angles.


Wyches boil out of 4 of my raiders; two are going into the bottom of the building to get the chaos marines, and the other two are picking up the marines that spilled out of his wrecked rhino. I open fire for another round of whiffs - all the raiders on the left side needing 3+ to hit, 2+ to wound his wounded obliterator, and I get 1 wound through, which he makes a cover save against. On the right side of the table, every dark lance whiffs against his rhinos. My ravagers open up on the Thousand Sons and beat on them brutally. The sorceror lives (he'll flee for his rhino next turn).

My wyches jump into the building and pull his chaos marines into the bottom floor to fight.


On the other side of the board, two more of my wych squads boil into his marines and take down four. I think he killed one in return.


Chaos Turn2:
Blackmoor's summoned greater daemon explodes out of his aspiring champion I'm in combat with - leaving one of my wych squads out of combat. At the same time, his lesser daemons land right next to my wyches. Mother Mary of Jesus mingling with Tzeench while Khaine video-tapes it, Blackmoor is slinging a warp-timed daemon prince, a greater daemon, a unit of horrors into the combat I've got going on with his space marines. His obliterators don't make it out of reserve.


His other daemon prince is headed over to join the other combat. For giggles, his obliterators light up a couple more raiders; I think he exploded one of my ravagers here. His lone sorceror jumps into his living rhino for protection.

Glorious close combat begins. I'm I6, and his daemon princes are too - so while he'll get to brutalize me, I'll get to strike back. The lesser daemons seem the easiest target, so I split my attacks up as best as I can - I three space marines and 5 lesser daemons. In return, he got 2 wyches from one squad and four from the other - the succubus thankfully made her invulnerable save.

That left him with four units in combat with me....and he lost by three in each of them. His greater daemon took two wounds, his daemon prince took two wounds, his chaos marines finished themselves off, and his lesser daemons committed ritual suicide - leaving me in combat just with his greater daemon on one side and his daemon prince on the other.



In the building combat, I ignored the daemon prince and worked over the chaos marines - killing them all. His daemon prince ended up taking two wounds from lost combat here as well, giving him a close combat round where he took 6 wounds to his daemon lords that I didn't have to put there.

Dark Eldar Turn 3:
Lelith got unpinned and rolled well enough to get up into combat with one of her greater daemons so that I could get the HQ vs HQ bonus. My shooting phase finally took down the remaining sniper in the belltower; by now he's absorbed 8-10 dark lance shots. The other rhino predictably dodges my dark lance shots from the other side of the table, but the ravagers over there put a dent into his obliterators and they fall before the combined wrath of all the firepower I have to offer.

Lelith joins a combat, and between all the wyches down there, both daemon princes and the greater daemon fall.


Chaos Turn 3:
Blackmoor has a rhino with a sorceror inside left on the table, and attempts a last ditch effort - his obliterators come out of reserve, and he attempts to drop them on his board edge: I have three wych squads in the open, and if he can roll on target, he's pretty much guaranteed with his flamers to take three of my killpoints in one shot. He scatters off the table, rolls a "destroyed" mishap, and concedes the game.

I ended with a 20 point massacre. Blackmoor was a capable opponent and a good sport - the fact that I got to go first combined with the mission (benefiting MSUs), combined with the fact that my army is designed to kill MEQs worked against him. Hopefully we'll play again and his famous Eldar will b

His famous Eldar will b?

It was a ballsy move of him to try to overwhelm the Wyches like he did. That combat really shows Wyches doing what it is they do best, locking up and wearing down units. Very good use of combat resolution to advantage on your part.

Thor665 wrote:His famous Eldar will b?

It was a ballsy move of him to try to overwhelm the Wyches like he did. That combat really shows Wyches doing what it is they do best, locking up and wearing down units. Very good use of combat resolution to advantage on your part.

Awwww.....

The Dark Lord of torture and suffering looks kindly upon my hedonistic mutilation of a less worthy worshipper of the ruinous powers!

Nice report and congrats on the win. And for the record, that is a sweet DE army you got there


//Edge

Dashofpepper wrote:less worthy worshipper of the ruinous powers!

Careful there, good sir, the DE do not worship the powers of Chaos.

That is a very nice army you've got there.

It's nice to see competitive Dark Eldar. They were my first army and I lost every game due to lack of moneys for Raiders... heh.

Ok, let me get this straight…I need to kill 5 units that are hiding in raiders and not lose any units to 13 Dark Lances and 9 Plasma Cannons? Um yeah.

What Dash could have done is just fly around in circles, and I would not have been able to kill enough to win this mission.


IMO he made a huge mistake that made it a game. He could have stayed back and shot me off of the board, but he played aggressive and assaulted me with his wytch elves. Normally wytch elves do a number on marines, and they were doing a good job with mine. He assaulted both of my CSM squads with 2 wytch squads each.

What this did was allow himself to be exposed to assault where I can kill the units I need to kill. The weakness of wytches is monstrous creatures. They halve your WS unless you have strength 6, and they take off the extra attack for 2 CCW. Demon Princes have strength 6, and all of their attacks are base attacks, and wytches can’t hurt them with their puny strength of 3.

So to counter Dash’s mistake I made a bone head mistake of my own. Now I have never played with lesser demons, and I will go on the record as saying that I will never use them again. So I assaulted the wytches with my DPs and my lesser demons, and the wytches butchered my lesser demons and that cause a ton of fearless saves on my Demon Prince and my Greater Demon, and that almost killed them. I killed the wytches in the next round, but I was so crippled that they were easy pickings for Dash.

Dash wrote that I did well to shoot down Lelith Hespirax’s raider and in hindsight I should not have. I can kill her and pick up the secondary mission objective and that should have been my priority since there was no chance that I was going to get the primary mission objective, and I should have just tried to end the round getting what points I could.


Just to recap: At the 2 tournaments that I played my chaos in after over a year layoff, at Adepticon I only lost one game out of 7 and that was to Dark Eldar, and at the Slaughter in Space II the only game I lost out of 5 was to Dark Eldar.

It is time to put my Chaos back into retirement until they get a new codex.

Nice report Dash, but my frilly decadent space elves take offense to being called chaos worshipers! We are malice filled, evil soul stealing plotting bastards, but we hate chaos!

Nice report! Funky dark eldar colours too.

I didn't say anything about being a chaos worshiper - Thor665 is secretly a cultist!

I said that Blackmoor was a less worthy worshiper of the ruinous powers, which is why he was cast down from favor. My Dark Eldar worship the Dark Lord of torture and suffering (aka Thor665).

Very good report. Dash, are you going to go to the tournament at Treefort games on the 22nd of May?

Great report again, I think I would chalk that game up to playing someone that does not play against DE much. Charging multiple fearless unit into squads of wyches that are engaged in combat with meq, is not a great idea.


Well congrats on the win again, I am looking forward to your next report.


Oh on a side note were is the shot of the booze you were drinking? I thought it was a prereq for your battles

They're... not... elves!!!

RAGE!!!!



Anyway, good battle report, it looked like you had a LOT less raiders in the 1st round, I see why 13 dark lances wasn't that much.

Blackmoor did not have much of a chance looking at the scenario, the terrain, and the army lists.

Clthomps wrote:Great report again, I think I would chalk that game up to playing someone that does not play against DE much. Charging multiple fearless unit into squads of wyches that are engaged in combat with meq, is not a great idea.

Not a lot of people have any experience with Dark Eldar, but I do. I have never used lesser demons before and I thought that being toughness 4, and 5+ inv save I would not lose that many, but he rolled a lot of wounds, and I made only one save. I should have just had them stand around while my Demon Princes butchered the wyches.

Gotta agree with Blackmoor. Other than removing the extra CCW attacks from the regular CSM, the wych weapons don't actually affect anything else in the combat (unless the squads got +1 WS).. Lesser daemons / CSM still hit on 4's and wound on 3's when they swing.. Wyches still need 4's to hit & 5's to wound with the regular members (depending on their drugs).

Blackmoor wrote:Now I have never played with lesser demons, and I will go on the record as saying that I will never use them again. So I assaulted the wytches with my DPs and my lesser demons, and the wytches butchered my lesser demons and that cause a ton of fearless saves on my Demon Prince and my Greater Demon, and that almost killed them. I killed the wytches in the next round, but I was so crippled that they were easy pickings for Dash.

I'll have to agree with this one. Lesser Demons never seem to do it for me. That 5+ Inv doesn't ever seem to cut it. I know people that run them to some success all the time, but they never seem to work for me, ever.

On the other hand, I hardly think you need ot shelve your chaos army. Just don't bring the lesser demons next time!

I don't remember precisely, but I think I had a squad with +1 attack in there, and another squad with +1 WS.

Nice report and a very cool looking army you got there. The purple scheme with blue contrasts looks quite interesting.

I can feel a little bit with the Chaos player here...having faced your Wyches once over Vassal, they have become one of my least favorite units to be in combat with That 4+ invuln in CC really goes a long way and Fleet is nasty, too.

Witzkatz wrote:Nice report and a very cool looking army you got there. The purple scheme with blue contrasts looks quite interesting.

I can feel a little bit with the Chaos player here...having faced your Wyches once over Vassal, they have become one of my least favorite units to be in combat with That 4+ invuln in CC really goes a long way and Fleet is nasty, too.

And since you play IG, I generally am needing 3+ to hit instead of 4+, and 4+ to wound instead of 5+. I like it very much.