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It used the win,draw,loss with battle points with a pri,sec,ter objective with 3 bonus points and 3 penalties per round.

Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4 - Summary at the end

My List:
HQ Pts
Farseer 125 Jetbike, Fortune, ROWitnessing
Warlocks 8 385 Jetbike, 2 Embolden, Enhance
Farseer 90 Guide, ROWarding

Elites
Fire Dragons 5 80
Wave serpent 110 Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones
Fire Dragons 5 80
Wave serpent 110 Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones

Troops
Dire Avengers 5 60
Wave serpent 135 Scatter Laser, Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones
Dire Avengers 5 60
Wave serpent 135 Scatter Laser, Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones
Dire Avengers 5 60

Heavy support
Fire Prism 115
Fire Prism 115
Falcon 185 Scatter Laser, Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones, Holo-Fields

Total
1845

Marines:
Lysander

5 Th/SS in Landraider

10 marines in a drop pod (PW, flamer maybe?)
10 marines in a drop pod (multimelta, melta, PF)
10 Marines on foot with a ML
10 Marines on foot with a ML
10 marines in a rhino

Thunderfire cannon and a techmarine

Mission: Spearhead, pri=KP, sec=C&C, ter= table quarters

Lost the roll to go first, but my opponent chose to go second

Turn 1:
Knowing he has a drop pod coming in with meltas I setup in a way protecting rear armor, he sets up as close to me as possible with marines in cover which he made 3+.



I flatout both dragons squads heading for their only target. I move the council over for some countercharge action which I anticipate from the Th/SS.

He drops his droppod right behind my one dragon serpent. I fail my cover (a recurring theme) and he wrecks it, they fail morale and are pinned (sweet.....). He assaults the other waveserpent and despite needing 6's to hit with grenades he plants a grenade and proceeds to blow up my other fire dragon serpent (double sweet.....). They dont get pinned though.



Turn 2:
So a terrible loss on turn 1 already for me. Pinned dragons and the other squad is tankless. I move the dragons out of the crater and shoot the termies which I kill 2 I think. I assault my council into 3 units (drop pod, drop pods unit, and the unit on foot). I blow up the drop pod, hurt the one unit pretty badly and dont do much to the other.

He assaults my pinned dragons, they die. his TH/SS go after my council instead of the dragons. My farseer gets pimped this round (yay, two games in a row), I couldnt make a re-rolled 4+. I lose lots of council members, but I think I killed one unit off.



Turn 3:
Well I feel like the game is almost over for me already. I thought this was a soft marine list and I should have handled it easier than I am. My confidence is totaly shot at this point, ive run out of steam on turn 3, which is never good. He still has 10 marines in reserve too. I try and go for his LR with my 3 remaining dragons, but im out of range and dont hurt it. All my other shooting (falcon, 2 prisms, all my scatter lasers), cant wreck a single rhino. In fact I dont ever wreck it the entire game.....(wtf dice, come on).

He assaults my dragons with his other marine unit, they die. Council dies because no fortune.

Turn 4-5:
Its already game over, im way down on kill points at this point. I try to run away into my corner, but eventually he catches me. His Th/SS wreck my falcon on the first attempt (needing 6's to hit again). He rolls double 5's on the damage table right away (kids dice were fething red hot, couldnt believe the numbers he was rolling). He shoots my DA with farseer, I lose 2, fail morale (wtf.......) and run off the board (double wtf).

Anyways, this game sucked, I shouldnt have lost as bad as I did. My dice sucked, his were on fire. I was chumped super early and it went down from there. For a basically foot marine army, he dumied me. I guess I was a bit over confident that his list wasnt that great and I was going to man handle it. 50 marines is more than I could handle lol. His thunderfire cannon did nothing all game though.

Tough break bro. I feel for you.

Sounds like the council is what is giving you problems. One thing with eldar is you have to pick your fights carefully, bull rushing the land raider might not have been the best idea. Next time hang back a bit and prioritize your targets and eliminate them.

Nice BatRep. That's a lot of blue on the table.

Tough luck though. I've come to expect that from my dice and try to strategize like they are going to fail me.