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Howdy all,

So Sunday is the grand finale game of our escalation league. I'm pitted against Egan, whom I've played many times against his space wolves winning 3 and losing 1. He's using his new Eldar army which is looking snazzy. Were both at the top table, I need to pull off a minor win at least to win the league. I've been painting furiously to try and finish my 2k list, so we'll see if I can do it! Here's the lists:

My Chaos Daemons
hq
Skarbrand
Fateweaver

elites
5x fiends - unholy might
5x fiends - unholy might
5x crushers - full kit

troops
5x plaguebearers
5x plaguebearers
5x horrors - bolt
5x horrors - bolt
5x horrors - bolt, changling

heavy support
Daemon prince - mot, bolt
Daemon prince - mot, wings, bolt, might

Vs

Egans Eldar

HQ
Eldrad

Elites
10x Warlocks - 4x Destructors, 4x spears, 1x embolden, 1x enhance - Wave serpent w/ SS and TL Scatters

Troops
10x Dire Avengers - Exarch - Wave serpent w/ SS and TL scatters
10x Dire Avengers - Exarch - Wave serpent w/ SS and TL scatters
3x Guardian Bikers - Shuri Cannon
3x Guardian Bikers - Shuri Cannon
3x Guardian Bikers - Shuri Cannon

Fast Attack
Vyper - Scatter Laser

Heavy Support
Nightspinner - Holofields, SS (not sure if these are upgrades)
Nightspinner - Holofields, SS (not sure if these are upgrades)
Falcon - Holofiends, SS, Scatter Laser, Pulse Laser

Full army pics...







Primary Mission: Kill Points
Secondary Mission: Mark a unit for termination and kill it (he chose Fateweaver, I chose a unit of bikers)
Bonuses: Opponent has no troops controlling terrain at game end, have 2 units in reserve during the game, most expensive unit is still alive at game end

Deployment: Pitched battle

Egan wins the roll off and gives me first....

Deployment: I choose the side with lots o' buildings, giving him the open end. He deploys in a straight line, and after about 15 minutes explaining what all my army does and answering questions, I roll and get my primary wave: Weaver, 1 fiends, crushers, 1 horrors, winged prince, and 1 plagues.

He rolls to seize and fails... turn 1 is a go!

Daemons T1
I drop in and EVERYTHING scatters badly. Luckily, run rolls see most stuff in bubble range. My Plagues camp the top of the middle building. I also create a wall of cover for the fiends and things.

Shooting I launch bolts, penning the vyper and blowing the scatterlaser off it. I also manage to pen one of the nightspinners, but I roll a 1 and a 3... pah! So it can still move due to SS.

No assaults.




Daemons 0 KP - Eldar 0 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit alive - Eldar highest unit alive

Eldar T1
His vehicles shuffle around. Both DAVU serpents move up and the dudes get out. His vyper runs away.

Shooting he unloads 1 DAVU squad into weaver... he rolls 7 wounds. I think "ok, should be fine!" I pick up my dice, failing 2 saves. I reroll my saves... guess what? double 1's! So I yet again pick up my dice for my LD test... Oh hey look! 2 6's! First shots of the game and weaver bites it.... FFFFFFFFFF! With weaver dead, his Davu wipe out my prince, and he puts wounds on a few things. He also kills 3 fiends.

Daemons 0 KP - Eldar 2 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Daemons T2
I roll up reserves and get: other fiends, skarbrand, plagues, 1 unit of horrors. Not bad! Horrors land off to my right, scattering a bit. Plagues land off the banner, as do the fiends and skarbrand. Movement I move my blue horrors for one DAVU squad, my fiends move to charge a serpent (with skarbrand, good chance to hurt it). Crushers move to kill the othe DAVU. I roll bad for dangerous terrain here, wounding 2 crushers (due to NS's web thing).

Shooting I fail to finish the vyper, he makes all his cover. My horrors kill all but 2 DAVU.

In assault I charge with my blue horrors, losing 2, and losing combat. Luckily I make my fearless saves lol. My 2 fiends wreck his top DAVU serpent. Crushers wipe the floor with the last DAVU squad, causing them to run.




Daemons 2 KP - Eldar 2 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Eldar T2
One squad of guardian bikers comes in (its my termination target!). They come into some ruins to get some shots... but he fails 1 DT test, then fails LD! They run off the board... lulz! Lucky break for me! He shuffles around for some firing lanes, his last DAVU serpent turbos away, and vyper does as well.

Shooting he unloads on my 2 fiends, wiping them. He does some wounds on crushers, kills a couple horrors, but otherwise very little damage.

In assault my blue horrors tie his DAVU. Nothing else happens...

Daemons 3 KP - Eldar 3 KP
Both of us have termination...
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Daemons T3
I roll and get the rest of my reserves, changlings squad drops by his vyper to try again. My DP drops off the banner. Everything moves and gets into position to get to work!

Shooting my green horrors whiff on whatever they shot at, changlings squad fails to kill the vyper again, and my DP fires and fails to hit anything.

In assault I manage to reach his DAVU serpent with fiends, exploding it and taking no wounds. Horrors wipe his DAVu out finally!



Daemons 5 KP - Eldar 3 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Eldar T3
He castles up, but eldrads ride moves up to block my prince. He rolls in 1 more biker unit.

Shooting he unloads and manages to wound my DP 3 times... whew! He also wounds a couple more crushers.

Daemons 5 KP - Eldar 3 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Daemons T4
My DP moves up to charge eldrads ride; I need it dead! Everyone else basically shuffles, I'm honestly stuck on half the board with little to do.

Shooting I fail to kill the vyper once again... I don't do crap else.

In assault my prince explodes eldrads ride, killing 2 warlocks. They pass pinning.

Daemons 6 KP - Eldar 3 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Eldar T4
His last bikers stay off. He moves up eldrads unit to destructor some of my horrors. Not much else.

Shooting he kills my DP off, kills 1 blue horror, and wipes my green horrors. I've officially lost all momentum I had.... ugh :(

Daemons 6 KP - Eldar 5 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Daemons T5
My last hope is to wipe that vyper as I doubt he'll be able to do enough ranged damage to wipe more than 1 unit... I move up to get at eldrad.

Shooting I kill a couple more warlocks. Lots of running.

Daemons 6 KP - Eldar 5 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Eldar T5
Last bikers come in and shuffle. Eldrads unit gets into position to accept a charge from skarbrand. His WHOLE unit aims at changlings squad.

Shooting he unloads tons of stuff, and 2 horrors liiiivvveeeee! yay! run away >.>

Daemons 6 KP - Eldar 5 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Daemons T6
My pink horrors hoof it, losing 1 to dangerous terrain. Everyone else runs and hides, Skarbrand and my last fiends move to try and eat eldrad and his buddies. My pink horrors make it into the building (we agreed at game start its AV 12).

Shooting I don't do a thing.

In assault Skarbrand makes it to eldrads unit, but the fiends don't. Skarbrand wounds eldrad 6 times, but he makes all his saves... we forget to have him reroll his hits, but skarbrand takes 2 wounds.

Daemons 6 KP - Eldar 5 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar DO NOT have terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

Eldar T6
He shuffles. Not much else, bes been castled in a corner where I cannot get to him all game.

Shooting he unloads everything into the blue horrors... they go to ground, and through some miracle, they live.

In assault Skarbrand insta-gibs Eldrad before eating the dirt. His bikers hop into terrain finally and keep me from a bonus.

Daemons 7 KP - Eldar 6 KP
Daemons HAVE terrain - Eldar HAVE terrain
Daemons highest unit DEAD - Eldar highest unit alive

In the end I felt bad we forgot to have him reroll hits against Skarbrand, so instead of taking a win (as I had first place in the tourney either way, I just needed at least a few points) I agree to give him the Draw. I still take first, but this gives him second place. However, for the books I took the win... lol

VICTORY FOR THE CHAOS DAEMONS!!!

Afterthoughts: Wow, that was a knock out, drag out fight. I honestly thought after that brutal T1 I was going to lose hard... That was 553 points of my army! So I basically played 500 points down from the get-go lol! That said, i managed to BARELY pull a win out, and it was mostly due to me hiding after getting all the KP's I could... I had no way to combat him running away, and Holofields are friggin OP against an army whos only shooting is single str 8 shots. That said, his Spinners really did a number, they did quite a few wounds, and greatly slowed my advance. I REALLY needed to get my fiends to the front, and they basically prevented that from happening. Skarbrand helped a ton with the rerolls, hes the sole reason I knocked out so many transports lol!

Overall a pretty enjoyable game and a great way to close out 5th... see you guys in 6th!

besides his fire dragons his army cant really do anything against you. Youll tarpit if not whipe his HQ unit easily, 4++ armor saves arnt good.

If you play and roll decent and loose Ill be surprised.

Smitty0305 wrote:besides his fire dragons his army cant really do anything against you. Youll tarpit if not whipe his HQ unit easily, 4++ armor saves arnt good.

If you play and roll decent and loose Ill be surprised.

Personally I think it'll come down to saves. If he cannot do enough damage to my fiends and weaver on the drop, ill mow through his armor like nothing. 30 rerolling hit str 5 rending swings? Pewpew! Bolt though won't be too effective though, a single shot works ok against rhinos, av 12 skimmers not so much

The day has come! Ill have a full rep up by mid this week. Onmy way to the store in t-minus 45 min and counting

I think eldar takes this one if he plays it correctly. Good luck!

@Jy: It was a rough, back and forth game, but well fought. Lessons learned on both side, and lets just say... I thought I was going to lose hard after T1, but you'll see!

Update: Added proper lists

Finished! Sorry so few pics, I sold my camera and cannot do vids anymore.... and my wifes ]Nikon is a beast to try and use @_@

Yeah, Skarbrand is often under-utilized but actually brings a lot of synergy to a daemon list. He's actually quite good, especially against mech lists. And he's a big FU to the GK's as they already get PE against daemons.

Good job against eldar, one of the few armies that IMO give daemons problems. As long as they don't mishap too much, daemons will be a force to reckon with and deadly foe against any army.

Now let's see how they fare in 6th. My feeling is that they are going to get better.

jy2 wrote:Yeah, Skarbrand is often under-utilized but actually brings a lot of synergy to a daemon list. He's actually quite good, especially against mech lists. And he's a big FU to the GK's as they already get PE against daemons.

Good job against eldar, one of the few armies that IMO give daemons problems. As long as they don't mishap too much, daemons will be a force to reckon with and deadly foe against any army.

Now let's see how they fare in 6th. My feeling is that they are going to get better.

I've always thought daemons were good, and many do underestimate them. My issue with them is they're entirely too luck driven sometimes (getting that second wave can lose you the game at times!), but they can be a pita with a few good rolls.

Skatrbrands ok, I still prefer a thirster for the main reason he can fly and gets that 2++ vs psykers in cc. Skarbrands ability really wrecks fast vehicle driven armies for sure though! I feel I may have done far better having more vbeast units to get at those serpents.... Skarbrands abilities lend themselves better to lots of smaller stuff rather than the big guys.

I'm just glad I pulled a W after that horrendous T1. I really figured I was going to lose swathes of my army after that first volley, but luckily I was able to take down the avengers and keep the score tied

Nice report

Thanks jordan!

Yeah, nice batrep. Your Daemon army is beautiful by the way.

Rampage wrote:Yeah, nice batrep. Your Daemon army is beautiful by the way.

Thanks bud! I put a lot of work into 'em. Liked how they came out. Oddly I get more compliments on the bases than the models... lol! Goes to show though, this is my 3rd fully painted army and you can see the progression of skill haha