Sunday my friend (who plays Eldar) learned I had finally gotten my Dark Eldar army. After much poking, he agreed to an epic rivalry style game! Our lists were as follows;
Alex (Eldar)
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Avatar
Farseer
- Runes of Witnessing, spirit stone, guide, doom
- riding w/ striking scorpions
8x striking scorpions
- exarch, stalker, scorpions claw
- Mounted in
WS w/ Shuruken Cannon,
TL BL, spirit stones
2x Dire Avenger Squads (10 strong)
- exarch, two Shuriken Cannons, Bladestorm
- mounted in another Waveserpent w/ same as above (each squad)
2x Ranger squads (5 strong)
Falcon
- Scatter Laser,
HF (whats this?), spirit stones
Eldar
Me (dark eldar)
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1x Archon
- Punisher, Drugs, Shadow Field, Tormenter Helm, Animus Vitae, Plasma Grenades
w/ 5 incubi and Drazhar retinue
- Plasma Grenades
All mounted in a Raider (no upgrades)
8x Wyches w/ Succubus
- Plasma Grenades/Wych Weapons
- Agonizer
- 2x Blaster
- trophy rack
- Mounter in Raider w/ horrorfex
8x Wyches w/ Succubus
- Plasma Grenades/Wych Weapons
-Agonizer
- 2x Blaster
- trophy rack
- Mounted in Raider w/ horrorfex
Warp Beast Pack w/ Beastmaster
3x Ravagers
- 3 Disintigrators on each
- Night Shields
3x Raider Squads
- 5 warriors mounted in each w/ 1 dark lance each
4x Heavy support Warrior squads
- 10 man squads
- 2x Dark Lances in each
Dark Eldar
We roll for mission/Deployment and get Table Quarters/Capture and Control! So he gives me a wraithlord to be my objective, I was gonna give him a raider (he never blew one up, just wrecked em all game ><
. I win the roll to go first!
Dark Eldar deployment
Eldar Deployment. Rangers are in towers, the wrecked tank-thing is the objective (where the raider woulda been)
Dark Eldar T1
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The wave of raiders moves up 12". Warp beasts move up behind the raiders.
For shooting the
DE take a heavy toll on their good breathern! The dark lance squad in my tower targets his left tower, blowing it up! in the resulting explosion he loses 3 rangers and takes a wound on the avatar (yay for 6's!). Now that the tower was out of the way, I shoot half my raiders at the white falcon and half at the black
WS. After all is said and done (stupid holo field) I get crew shaken on both vehicles. All 3 ravagers bombard where his tower once was, 6 disintigrators targeting the rangers, and 3 on the avatar. After scatters/saves the avatar takes a second wound and he loses 1 more ranger. The last ranger passes leadership! Beasts fleet up 5".
Dark Eldar advance!
Eldar T1
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His last ranger moves out of the cover of his crater, hiding behind the hill. Avatar moves up into the crater. His vehicles don't move much.
In his shooting phase he shoots his rangers at my middle ravager... scoring a penetrating hit! He blows off one of my disintigrators! Thats a good sniper if I say so! His black wave serpent blows the dark lance off my warriors raider. Nothing else really happens
lol...
Dark Eldar T2
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Move up everything 12". Warp beasts move up. I don't move my dark lance warrior raiders, sticking back to shoot.
Shooting phase sucks this turn.... I shoot both my
DL raiders + squads, the archons raiders
DL, both my wych raider
DL, AND my two
DL in my tower at his falcon... scoring only 1 glance and no pens after cover >< It can't shoot yet again! Two ravagers bombard his avatar, killing it off with some good hits (and wounding it 4 times!). Last ravagers glances the black
WS, causing it not to shoot again.
Dark eldar... doing nothing really -_-
Eldar T2
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He moves his falcon up to block in his wave serpent. Both his blue/black
WS move out on my right. His ranger moves/runs into cover behind his objective (damn troop choice!)
In shooting the eldar take a toll on their evil brothers! His falcon wrecks my wych raider in front of his pass. They pass their pinning test, get shot up by the rangers (losing 1), and pass their second pinning test. His blue
WS blows off my archon raiders dark lance! Nothing else much happens as everythings still in transports ><
Eldar making life for a dark eldar no fun :*(
Dark Eldar T3
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Two ravagers move 12" up into the crater where his tower once was, one immobilizing itself! Wyches move toward the rangers tower. Warp beasts move up, nothing to attack yet :( Archons raider
TB's up between the serpents and ranger tower. My last ravager moves to the right.
Wyches make the rangers in the building stunned.... a lot. Between assault and both my blasters pinning I rolled 4 1's and 2's.... Dark lances shoot all over at wave serpents, finally pinning and his grey and blue ones lose their bright lances.
This was actually during eldars T3
LOL!
Eldar T3
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Falcon moves behind the tower, facing my wyches. Striking scorpions disembark and move 6" from his grey
WS, the
WS moving away to the right. All his dire avengers disembark, the
WS moving into positions to target raiders.
Shooting this turn is brutal, simply put -_- Striking scorpions kill off 3 warp beasts with pistols, they pass leadership. Pulse laser + all other weapons on falcon wrecks my raider by the serpents. Both squads of Direavengers shooting together wrecks the archons raider after cover saves. Wave serpent with its
BL still in tact wrecks my second wych raider. I forget how, but he kills off all but 2 wyches by the tower (I'm missing something somewhere!)
In the assault my warp beasts are wiped off the face of the earth. They consolidate 2", not enough to get into cover!
Eldar showing evil WHATS UP!
Dark Eldar T4
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Archons group moves up near
DE's. Wyches move behind his falcon. Other squad of wyches moves up. No other movement really!
In shooting the wyches immobilize the black wave serpent (take that!). I blow up the wave serpent near my wyches with their blasters... and the resulting explostion kills 4! damn >< I pass leadership. Ravagers bombard the scorpions, scoring 15 wounds and wiping out the squad.
In the assault my archons squad plows through a squad of avengers, consolidating into cover near the ranger!
Another pic on the eldars turn
LOL! But
DE are slowly working their way into the game!
Eldar T4
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Falcon moves up to block the wyches. Blue
WS moves up to shoot archons group, as does his last group of avengers.
In shooting he shoots his blue wave serpent, both squads of rangers, and blade storms his dire avengers.... and after all is said and done I lose 3 incubi and take a wound of drazhar! I pass my leadership! Falcon shoots at wyches, killing a few.
The killing field
Dark Eldar T5
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Seeing as I control my corner (hes been defending the whole time!) and he sees there is no way to draw out a tie unless we go to T7 and he can turboboost his vehicles across the field without getting blown to bits, alex concedes.
Aftermath: BRUTAL game! Some poor rolls in the beginning, along with some great rolls by alex, almost resulted in disaster early! If he'd rolled a little higher on his pens instead of blowing off weapons all the time the game could have turned out very differently! All in all was an excellent game, and I learned that even though I had the advantage of numbers, eldar is still a tough cookie to crack!
Field at the end of the game
it was one of the best games I've had in a very long time! I'm really glad he played it through haha (he typically concedes early in our games cuz he has no faith eldar will ever win ><
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