Howdy all,
Previous Battle Reps
Using my BA Stormraven list:
Mini Battle Reps while developing my list:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/338682.page
NOVA Tournament #1 (
DE, Marines, Tau):
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/346986.page
Game 1 can be seen here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/354756.page
Game 2 can be seen here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/356538.page
Game 3 can be seen here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/358256.page
NOVA Tournament #2 (
BA, Tau, Chaos):
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/364313.page -- has 1 mini
DE battlerep as well
Using my Dark Eldar:
DE/
SW vs
IG/Nids:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/369083.page
Using my Daemons:
Daemons vs Mech
IG:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/369083.page
Daemons vs Space Wolves:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/372644.page
So today I was lucky enough to get in a game against my good friend Jess. Hes a damn good player, with other 13 years under his belt, and pretty competitive. I really wanted him to play his T-wolf calv list, but he lacks rhinos at the moment, so he decided to try something different... which is one of the worst matchups for my kinda list
lol. Heres the lists:
Dark Eldar - 2k wyches
HQ
Baron Sathonyx
Haemi - liquifier, shattershard
Haemi - liquifier, crucible
Elites
3x Trueborn - 3x blasters - venom with dual
SC
3x Trueborn - 3x blasters - venom with dual
SC
Troops
7x Wyches - hydra gaunts, agonizer, haywire grens - Raider w/
FF, TGL
7x Wyches - hydra gaunts, agonizer, haywire grens - Raider w/
FF, TGL
7x Wyches - hydra gaunts, agonizer, haywire grens - Raider w/
FF, TGL
7x Wyches - hydra gaunts, agonizer, haywire grens - Raider w/
FF
7x Wyches - hydra gaunts, agonizer, haywire grens - Raider w/
FF
11x Warriors
Heavy
Ravager - 3x
DL's,
FF
Ravager - 3x
DL's,
FF
Ravager - 3x
DL's,
FF
NOTE: I was testing the baron with a unit of warriors to fill it to get my list to 2k...
Space Wolve Horde!!!! 2k
HQ
Rune Priest -
LL, The 5+ cover power, ability to cast 2 powers/turn, runic armor
Rune Priest -
JoTWW, The 5+ cover power, ability to cast 2 powers/turn, runic armor
Rune Priest - Murderous Hurricane, The 5+ cover power, ability to cast 2 powers/turn, runic armor
Ulrik the Slayer
Elites
10x Wolf Guard - all power weapons, 1
TH
Troops
10x Grey Hunters - 2x melta, plasma pistol, power fist, mark of the wulfen
10x Grey Hunters - 2x melta, plasma pistol, power fist, mark of the wulfen
10x Grey Hunters - 2x melta, plasma pistol, power fist, mark of the wulfen
10x Grey Hunters - 2x melta, plasma pistol, power fist, mark of the wulfen
Heavys
6x Longfangs - 5x
ML's
6x Longfangs - 5x
ML's
My army is set up to dominate tanks and kill off weaker units after whittling them down... how the hell will I deal with over 60 marines all with cover saves all the time and lots of punchiness? Stay tuned!
The mission: 3 objectives
Deployment: Pitched battle
Space wolves win the roll to go first... (yes, I rolled a 1
lol... fail!)
Heres what deployment looked like:
Mistake 1 on my part: I tried to go balls out for the longfangs, but being as he has first turn and a lot of bodies and anti-tank infantry... I probably should have did a denied flank maneuver on the left
I roll to seize and fail, and I get Painbringer for my drugs... off we go!
Wolves Turn 1
The horde shambles forth, all his priests cast storm caller and make it. Not much else to be done.
Shooting! Ugh... here goes! His middle longfangs split fire and open up, exploding my middle wych raider killing 3 they're good, and blowing the lance off the raider next to it. His right side longfangs open up as well, blowing a dark lance off my middle ravager and failing to hit my other middle raider. Living lightning Fails to scratch my ravager in the middle. Everything else runs.
Dark Eldar Turn 1
Time to move! My warriors with baron move a measely 3 inches further into the woods on my back left. Both my middle raiders turbo boost out to my left, ready to intercept the horde. My raider in the back with my warriors moves from behind the forest there. Both my middle ravagers move up 6" or so, aiming at the middle longfangs. Both my venoms scoot around the cover they were behind and let out the trueborn. My right ravager moves from behind cover, and my right raider turbos up behind his right side longfangs. the 4 wyches on foot move and run, trying to get to the ruins.
Shooting! Both middle ravagers open up and kill 2 longfangs from his middle group (1 missle/sergeant), they pass
ld :/ Both venoms open up on his right longfangs along with my ravager on the right, and in the end I take down 2 missles... they pass
ld! ugh. My blaster trueborn plink 3 or so wolfguard out of ulricks group.
End of turn analysis: So I really should have killed off more longfangs... 5 lances into one squad and 24 poisoned shots and 3 lances into the other :/ bad luck. I'll probably focuse the ravagers on them for the next couple of turns and put the venoms to plinking away some from the squads; I really can't afford him to get the change. If he does I'm screwed!
Wolves Turn 2
The horde advances! His wolf guard squad spreads out behind the large terrain piece on the right, trying to keep cover. His squad next to that moves up. All three squads on the left side of the field move up, 2 roll low on the hill for
DT and don't progress very far.
Shooting! His right longfangs open up on the raider behind them (yes, I know its illegal) and explode it, killing 2 wyches and 1 more longfang! I pass
ld as does he. His middle longfangs open up and wreck one of my middle ravagers. His squad in the middle was about 18" from my left venom so he opens up on it, managing an immobilized result with his living lightning. On my left side his meltas open up, exploding one hamei raider and killing 2 wyches (I go to ground) between the explosion and another squad shooting. He also wrecks my other raider on that side, the wyches spread around the raider to be outside his charge range.
Assault! His leftmost squad's priest and power fist are JUST within 4" which is what he rolls exactly on his
DT lol... He gets about 4 guys into
BTB with my squad. I swing... and kill 1 dude and put a wound on his priest. He swings... kills my hamei off and 1 other dude. I pass morale and he piles in.
Dark Eldar Turn 2
My disembarked wyches by his longfangs spread around them, ready to charge. My right flank vehicles stay put, as do my trueborn. My last middle ravager scoots around to get a clear line on his backfield. My 4 wyches on foot hoof it into the ruins bottom level. My left side raider moves up and spits out my wyches, ready to charge his middle squad. My warriors scoot up a little more.
Shooting! Combined venom and blaster shooting on my right whittles his wolf guard squad down to Ulrick and 2 guard. My ravagers shoot and kill 1 longfang... ugh. He passes
ld. Lots of warrior rapid firing into his left middle hunter group knocks it down to just 3 guys. They pass
ld. I kill 1 hunter from his other unengaged group. I also plink a few from his middle squad.
Assault! I charge into all his hunters on the left side. Heres how it went:
- On the leftmost assault I manage to whiff on his runepriest with my agonizer, leaving him alive with 1 wound. He, in turn, wipes the squad and consolidates toward my warriors.
- The middle assault I smash him, leaving me with a squad with 2 pain tokens.
- I wipe his longfangs in the backfield
- I manage to kill 2 geryhunters in the other assault. In an astonishing feat of rolling he puts like 6 wounds on my squad. I lose 3, pass morale.
End of turn analysis: So, I lost an assault I really shouldn't have. I lost an assault I knew I was going to, and now I'll probably lose my warriors. My right flank is looking good, though. I have 5 wyches, all my vehicles, and a bunch of trueborn! I'll probably charge my super pain tokened squad into his leftside greyhunters, charge my 4 man squad into the combat my other wyches are tied in, and shoot his middle squad to bits...
Wolves Turn 3
With his forces slowly whittling jess makes a move to try and get to the rest of my infantry. He casts stormcaller successfully on his right unengaged priest, but his left priest bites it when he rolls double 6's! His left group moves into assault range of my warriors. His right hunters move up to about 8 or so inches from my venoms. His remaining 2 wolf guard with ulrick move to get my 5 wyches in his backfield.
In shooting he shoots my warriors, but I go to ground. With the baron my 2+ cover save from the forest saves all my dudes. His middle group fires everything they have at my left venom, blowing off a splinter cannon and immobilizing it. His longfangs shoot and fail to damage my right side ravager.
In assault my warriors and baron put down an amazing 7 wounds! This drops a melta and normal marine. However, in return, he kills 8 warriors, causing the baron and co to flee. At this point we weren't sure if I'd flee
2d6 or
3d6 so we just went with
2d6. I only run 6", staying on the board! Ulrik and co. get 1 guy into my wyches. After spectactularly flubbing and killing 1 dude, he eats 2 wyches. I pass morale. In the scrum in the middle I manage to kill 1 marine, leaving just the priest, mark of the wulfen, and 1 normal guy. He eats 1 wych as well. I have 2 dudes against his 3 now :(
Dark Eldar Turn 3
So he has 2 large hunter groups, a few fangs, ulrik and his buddies, and I'm failing horribly in the other scrum... ugh. Not good! I move my raider with haemi inside to shattershard his bottom left group of hunters. My wyches on the left move to assault them afterward. My 4 wyches that have been in the ruins all game move out into the open to try and bail out my remaining 2 guys locked in
HTH. My venoms, ravagers, and trueborn all gun at the other large group of hunters. My warriors run only 4" so they're still on the board one more turn!
In shooting both venoms, all 6 blasters, and 1 ravager unload and cause the entire right side hunter group to disappear. I also manage to kill all but 1 longfang in the backfield. Shatteshard from my haemi kills 3
GH, including the
PF. They manage to hoof it even with the reroll from ulric!
In assault my large wyche group dominates his
GH's, giving me a third pain token. My 4 man wych squad charges in and 7 agonizer attacks and a lot of other normal attacks later... I manage to kill nothing. In return he kills the 2 man wych squad. I pass morale :/ Ulric and co go to work, killing 2 more guys and I whittle it down to just ulric vs my agonizer.
End of turn analysis: So after failing spectacularly in the middle, he has 1 grey hunter left, 1 priest, ulric, and a couple missile longfangs. I have this in hand!
Wolves Turn 4
Everythings locked in
CC, so onto shooting!
Longfangs blow a lance off my right ravager.
In assault, I flub horribly in the middle... killing just the
MOTW guy. His priest goes insane, killing 3 wyches. Ulric rapes my last wych on the right side and hides.
Dark Eldar Turn 4
Because we were playing like it was turn 5, I move my back wyches onto the objective.
In shooting I kill the last 2 longfangs and insta-gib ulric
In assault he kills my last wych, consolidating behind cover
- Note: at this point we weren't sure what turn it was, so we decided to just play it out as it was close anyway
Wolves Turn 5
His priest uses jaws on my last wyches, I pass every
init test
The rest of the game was 2 turns of me shooting my ENTIRE army at this damn priest to finally kill him on bottom of 6.
VICTORY FOR THE DARK ELDAR!
Afterthoughts: That was a damn close game. Jess said he was playing a "fun" list, he expected me to bring my
BA or Daemons. Oddly enough, this list was a lot harder to beat than his Thundercalv would have probably been. The sheer number of marines with rerolling morale, and Grey hunters hit damn hard as it is, made it rough for me. Topped with my bad cover and flicker saves, on top of my agonizers whiffing sooooooo much (against the priest in the middle I missed a total of 9 agonizer attacks between 3 turns) really could have turned this game on its head. Was a definite learning experience for us both! Plus the warriors really sucked, they accounted for 2 kills the entire game. Hope ya'll enjoyed it!
