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Battle Report….

1500 point Capture Objectives (#3), Dawn of War (yuck)
Saim-Hann Eldar (Eiluj the Farseer) vs. Imperial Guard (Dajobe)

Planet Soelus
Be’Varsalth the Farseer of the Saim-Hann Freihl Wild Riders Family looked upon the remains of a burning human building. It was one of the thirty something buildings in this town that now were mere shells of what they had been nearly an hour before. The slaughtered remains of humans or what were humans were scattered about the debris. Be’Varsalth’s eyes through her visor picked out on individual human in particular. A child, probably around 10 terran years ( a blink in the life of the Eldar) lay motionless. Pity and sadness pulled at Be’Varsalth’s heart, but she quickly reminded herself of the vision that Eiluj had had and the choas taint that she could see, smell and feel throughout this village. The skeen had shown the Eldar seers that this city would be the source of a large chaos army that would devastate the systems around the Eye of Terror as well as risk assault on the Craftworld of Saim-Hann herself. Her helm relayed a message telepathically from the Autarch Hyrael’Keal that three survivors had been found however a small force of Imperial Guard stationed to defend this planet had been dispatched to answer the human mayday call that had been sent. Be’Varsalth’s orders had been clear, remove the choas taint from this planet at all costs. As Be’Varsalth mounted her jet bike she signaled her Warlock council members to intercept the survivors………..

The following is the Video Batrep of the battle



1500 pt Eldar List
300pt - FireDragons 7 + Exarch Crack Shot, Wave Serpent TL Brightlances(forgot I had this and played it as Shuriken Cannon TL - oh well), Shuriken Cannon

160 pts - Fire Prism Spirit Stones, Holo Fields

160 pts - Fire Prism Spirit Stones, Holo Fields

205 pts - Guardian Jet Bike Squad - 6 (2 Shuriken Cannons), Warlock Spear + Embolden

129 pts - Guardian Jet Bike Squad - 3 (1 shuriken Cannon), Warlock Spear + Embolden

549 pts - Farseer Spirit Stones, RoWit, RoWarding, Autarch Fusion Gun, power weapon, 3 warlocks + Destructor, 2 Warlocks spears + Embolden, 1 Warlock Enhance + spear


Dajobe can add his list in


Post Battle Report

Saim-Hann Craftworld near the dome of crystal seers. Eiluj the Farseer sat in his meditation chamber a little over a dozen runes levitated, glowed and revolved around his head as he concentrated and guided his psychic being across the Skeen searching the possible futures. He had earlier received news that the mission the human planet of Soelus had met with some success, but also failure to complete the mission. In addition many lives had been lost including the farseer Be’Varsalth and the Autrach Hyrael’Keal. Their losses would have affects in the future in addition to the one survivor of the village. One survivor had been culled by the Saim-Hann Warhost, one succumbed to injuries taken during the battle, however the misguided Imperial Guard had managed to save one villager. Eiluj searched the skeen with determination and hope that the losses felt by the craft world today were worth the risks that they took and that the loan survivor of the village would not unleash the chaos god of “She Who Thirsts” out into the galaxy…….



The game resulted in a draw 1 objective controlled by each side and one contested…. Good game

Seems like a good game mate. Very nicely painted eldar army. One thing I will say about the execution: the picture is clear and you are giving a pretty good explanation of what's going on, but the camera is just moving about very close in. It would be a LOT easier on the eyes if you get the camera set up on a tripod or just resting on something (even a friend's shoulder should work fine if he can stand still) and pan it around, zoom in where needed etc. It's easier for people to concentrate and to see where units are in relation to each other. Sorry if that sounds negative.

No does not sound negative at all. I will try to bring a tri-pod with me next time. Thanks for the input, always welcome!! This was my first video attempt, will do better the next time. Thanks for the post. I was begining to wonder if anyone was going to post anything. Cheers

Cool bat rep, i was glad to see my forces in one that did not involve them getting rolled over lol. Also, in the video i liked the background bag pipe/scottish sounding music, it made me feel like i was watching braveheart.

Also, tell Farseer elluj not to worry about the taint of chaos, the survivor and all soldiers on the planet will be inspected by my commisars for any sign of the taint of chaos as my regiment is firmly in the service of the emperor and abhors chaos.

Hey Dajobe,
Thanks for the game and looking at the Batrep. I will tell Eiluj to relax, but he is weird about chaos, but I am sure your commisars will do their work. The background music funny enough was from Braveheart, so that is why you probably felt like you were watching the movie. You did a good job with this battle, had the game gone on longer, there was a good chance you would have wiped me out as I only hada small biker squad, some fire dragons and 1 fire prism left. Take care and cheers.

I was hoping for more comments for this batrep...oh well

i think alot of people dont really comment that much on most of them, Gits just gets alot because he has all of those followers on his mantis warriors thread, dont feel bad, i like looking at em.

thanks

Very nicely painted(I'm jealous). Sucks that your seer council got pwnt.

they may have gotten whittled away that game but they did their fair amount of damage against me in the prior game and still took out a leman russ and squad of vets and command squad, so they almost got their point value that game.

Really nice video battle report. I really dig the colorful basing material you used on your seer council. It made me think about them zooming around defending an eldar maiden world. Cheers!

Interesting report and good looking Eldar army. One thing to note, however. In DoW, you can set up 1 HQ unit. The Warlocks may not count against the 2 max HQ choices, but the Farseer and Warlocks are two distinct HQ units making DoW a pretty significant pitfall against Seer Councils on Jetbikes. (IE: you can't place the Farseer and Warlocks on the table for DoW deployment). I can't tell, but the same would apply to the Autarch on Jetbike.

What power did you have on your Farseer? I'd assume Fortune. The Seer Council is a ton of points in this list, but can be a real rock. Since you have Embolden, this gives you a re-roll on psychic tests for your Farseer, which you could probably drop Runes of Witnessing as it serves very little purpose.

You are definitely bolder than I with Jetbikes. I have horrible luck with dangerous terrain tests. Using them to shoot and skoot works nicely, but I always tend to roll the '1' for either my Warlock or a Shuriken Cannon bike.

The pictures were fairly clear, but there was a whole lot of movement from sections of the board which was very distracting. Possibly giving a bit more wide angle filming would alleviate some of the jumpiness. You lose a bit of the detail on the models, but when describing what happens overall in a turn, being able to fully see the table and different units may be a workables solution.

Thanks for posting. Always interesting to see other Eldar armies.

Thanks everyone for your replies and comments I will take then into consideration - actually got a tri-pod to use next time. The problem with the video camera I have is that it does not zoom well.

One question though... I was under the understanding that the Farseer was a HQ choice and the Warlocks were a bodyguard of sorts - in the codex they do not count as two HQ choices as I can still take another HQ choice, which was my autarch... So I was under the understanding that they formed one unit so they could be fielded together in DoW.. Another player that plays them a lot out in New York reported to me that he did this as well. So if you have more clarification --- please let me know... I do not want to be a cheat...
Once again thanks for all the posts and thanks to Dajobe again for the game..

Hey Eiluj! Nice video batrep... I see (or hear) that I inadvertently talked over you final narrative on the video... sorry mate, didn't realize what you were doing.

- Yes, you have very pretty eldar. All smooth and soft and pink on the inside... just right for a bolter round to make that wonderful *thud*-*squish*-*pop!* sound in.
- I like the video (which I'll admit I usually don't), but I want to echo the need for a static shot of the whole battlefield so your viewers can put everything into context. Can you take a wide shot and make it a still in your editing software? I few seconds of the still at the beginning and end of each turn would be very helpful, and then we could see the transition from the still at the end of the previous turn to the still at the beginning of the next turn.... which would help us keep track of movement and flow.
- The fact that the video is an embedded youtube video makes it much more accessible. I don't like having to go outside of dakka to some other site to see the bat rep (just a hassle, site may be blocked, etc.)
- Your narrative was quite good. Even in my written reports, I tend to use words like "thingie" and "guys" rather than the correct terms (usually because I don't know them) so I thought you did quite well.

As wyfox mentioned, don't worry about people not commenting on your report. I read and enjoy many battle reports but only comment on a few if there's something I think I can contribute. Remember, this isn't a developing P&M blog... it's much more of a spectator activity. And you don't have a monster like my MW blog to funnel people into your batrep. I'd keep your eyes on the "views" number rather than worry about the number of replies.

Thanks gits,
That is a great idea too and I can do freeze frames so maybe that will help the bat rep too. Hope this weekends will hit Dakka and look great!
One can dream!
Thanks again for everyones input. Cheers and happy gaming!

did the guard deploy 4 troops units in dawn of war?

No, he just did Farseer Council but i think that counts as 1 HQ even if it has an IC in also, but i could very well be wrong

The IG just deployed 2 troops and a HQ in deployment everything else came on in turn 1. I just had my seer council deployed and I brought the autarch in on turn one and had him join the council. He was not fortuned until turn 2 as he did not come on and join the squad until the spell had been cast.

Regarding your question about the Farseer/Warlocks. The Eldar codex states that if you get a Farseer, you have the option to get a squad of Warlocks that do not take up an HQ slot. The Warlocks are not obligated to be joined with the Farseer. They are two units, however. For example, you when you purchase Eldrad, you are able to purchase a Warlock squad, and upgrade them to have Jetbikes. Eldrad is not obligated to join the Warlocks.

On page 93, Dawn of War is fairly explicit when they indicate only 1 unit from HQ and 2 units from the Troops may be deployed. In the example on p93, one player places a dedicated troop transport, the troops inside as well as an IC inside the transport using up the 1 HQ, 2 Troop allotment. The Rhino, despite being a dedicated transport, is considered a unit and was taken from the Troop FOC.

Dawn of War is kind of a strange mission deployment in my opinion. A lot of the time, I simply opt to have my army arrive on the table on turn 1 rather than set anything up.

This is where Bike Councils are kind of challenging as the Farseer can't cast Fortune on the council in turn 1. However, you can try to go first, get everything on on turn1 utilizing flat out and rely on Night Fight + cover save to mitigate the turn 1 shooting. Then, cast Fortune turn 2 and go to work.

Thanks Sarigar. I always assumed when reading that that since the Warlocks were not a HQ choice that they could be with the Farseer, but I see you point and interpretation of it. Thanks for all the time in posting, I always learn something on Dakka every day. Thanks to everyone for the posts and watching the batrep.. cheers

So I just randomly picked this battle report to look at, didn't check the poster name or anything, and as I'm watching I think "Wow, I just saw a Guard army that looked a lot like that." And then I recognized some of the terrain from the Square. I think I was actually there the night you were filming this. Hilarious.

OT, great battle report, good information, any critiques I would have had have been covered. Looking forward to seeing another one, maybe I'll even be in one sometime...

thanks for the comment. Hope to see you sometime.. If we are ever playing introduce yourself.. Both myself and Dajobe (the IG player) are easy to talk to and would love to get in a game...

Cool report I enjoyed the music aswell

Thank you for viewing it and your comments. I have 2 more coming, but I am making them into better videos, hopefully more enjoyable. Take care.