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2014/07/02 18:59:20
Subject: 1850 Practice Beaststar vs Unbound Dark Eldar/Eldar - 7ed Maelstorm DeadLock (completed)
Mission Primary: Dead Lock!
Deployment: Vanguard Strike
Secondary missions: Slay the Warlord, Line Breaker, First Blood
My Powers: Eldrad (Telepathy): 0,2,3,5,6
Farseer (Fate): 0,1,5,6
His Powers: Farseer, Guide, Shrouded, Hallucination
Beside having Baron in my army I failed roll off and Unbound DE deployed first
Spoiler:
Eldars deployment and Overview
I deployed in ruins. My beastmasters/khymeras to soak first shots with 3+cover. Everything else in reserve! I refused to put my serpent/bikes/knight on the table. No easy first blood! Even Maelstorm..
Spoiler:
After deployment I failed to seize initiative and game start. No Invisibility or Fortune first DE turn! How much he can kill ? Game starts!
Dark Eldar I
Spoiler:
Swooping Hawks skyleap.
Per mission rules we start with 6 Tactical Cards. My opponnent rolls pretty good initial cards and he manage to get 3VP by moving his staff around.
Combined shooting kills 7 Khymera's. Not bad but could be much worse for me.. Good/bad for me was fact that he focused on objectives so not many beast died this turn
Unbound DE:3, Beaststar:0
Eldar
Spoiler:
To be honest my deployment and having just beast cause that I couldn't score any VP this turn. I had 7 cards and couldn't score anything. I get some cards that I couldn't score this game this game will be fun!
I casted Invisibility and Fortune ! on my star and run 1" in shooting phase.
Unbound DE:3, Beaststar:0
Dark Eldar II
Spoiler:
1 Flyer comes in. Shooting does nothing to my star but my opponent secured again two easy VP by doing flat-out on his Fire Prism
Unbound DE:5, Beaststar:0
He moves back his Talos's one more turn before I get there..
Eldar II
Spoiler:
with some luck beside 1 Wave Serpent I got everything on the table
I go here for some big play coz I have few funny cards:
-46 (D3+3 if i control every objective on the table)
-45 (D3 if i control at least two objectives and as twice as many as my opponent)
-64 (I need to kill charakter) - Laughing Seer? 2+ reroll cover?
-11 (secure objective nr1)
Bikes did what they do .. 48" move to secure objective on Unbound side. Unbound isn't so scary if you can score objectives with Objective Secured rule..
in same shooting phase my Raider+Knight exploded near Ravager. First Blood! for beast star
Unbound DE:5, Beaststar:1
I also killed Seer on jetbike with my two wave serpents. Basically I made 4 my cards this game and rolled 6 +4 for my D3 rolls. It was really brutal. Until this game my opponent was fine with D3 rolls instead of steady 2 as in most tournaments.
Unbound DE:5, Beaststar:11
Dark Eldar III
Spoiler:
His other Flyer still stays in reserve. As expected my jetbikes pays for last turn
He still got a lot of fire power left. He popped out my raider and puts 3 wounds on Wraithknight
one Talos prepares to assault Beast (I think he was hoping that i fail hit&run), other Talos going for other jetbike unit.
Lucky for me I failed morale due to Talon shooting and he failed charge on 2 remaining jetbikes. Other Talos made his charge but I didn't failed Hit&Run. He also made two additional cards this turn for shooting my staff but poor rolls on D3 and he got 2 more VP.
Unbound DE:7, Beaststar:11
Eldar III
Spoiler:
My Serpent still stays in reserve. I secured 2 more objectives with my serpent + knight
Unbound DE:7, Beaststar:13
After Hit&Run I prepare here for multi assault on his 3 Talos's. Last one is behind LOS blocker.
During psychic phase I casted Fortune on start, Invisibility on my Knight and activated Force Weapon!
I got card for killing unit in assault and get 1 more point for his Talos.
Unbound DE:7, Beaststar:14
Dark Eldar IV
Spoiler:
Last Flyer auto came in. Other Fly out
Hawks deep strike to claim objective
In shooting 2 venoms, ravagers puts only 1w on Invis Knight
Fortunately for him his Flyer slays him down with SplinterCannon+Bright Lance combo
He made here 3 more VP due to D3 roll.
Unbound DE:10, Beaststar:14
Worst thing for me was fact that I failed here Hit&Run. We play here for no reroll as Baron is not in Helion unit.
Eldar IV
Spoiler:
Serpent auto came in. This turn I also rolled 61 card for killing his Warlord. He is already dead but I still got additional points for him. 3 more.
Unbound DE:10, Beaststar:17
Dark Eldar V
Spoiler:
Flyer came in from ongoing reserve. Serpent hunting begans This mission slows down.. We have like 2 cards to made at this point.
As this is turn 5 he is securing Line Breaker. Anyway he made additionali 3 VP this turn + Line Breaker
Unbound DE:14, Beaststar:17
Eldar V
Spoiler:
Main thing this turn was fact that I failed Invisibility (check next turn lol) but I manage to multi assault his ravager and 3 Trueborns on one objective
I secured here two more objectives using serpents and khymeras
Unbound DE:14, Beaststar:19
My bikes are securing Line Breaker
Unbound DE:14, Beaststar:20
Dark Eldar VI
Spoiler:
ofc games continues ..Time for 4 missles combo as I failed Invisibility on my star last turn. He made here like 16 wounds
And as my khymera is closest from his flyer we start tanking on 4+ reroll
Do you believe rolling one dice is better than rolling multiple dices at once? well in this scenario my khymera was before Eldrad (he is not warlord) so i was forced to doso but anyway.. I made all 16 saves on stupid dog. It doesn't change anything but was pretty unlikely..
He doesn't score this round any points as he needs to kill building .. He still manage to explode my serpent using FirePrism (I didn't jinked ) AP1 hurts
Unbound DE:14, Beaststar:20
Eldar VI
Spoiler:
It was getting pretty late and our local shop was about to close so we end at this point. I claimed one more point from my card and games ends...
Unbound DE:14, Beaststar:21
Beast Star Victory !
Thank you for reading!
This message was edited 14 times. Last update was at 2014/07/02 22:39:43
yea...
) AP1 hurts
