Friendly game played with me and my mate, all my vehicles are currently in the workshop so here is a complete Eldar strikeforce on foot
Space marine commander experimenting a few units aswell.
Inspired to make this post by SabrX, love reading your reports!
Marines Cheif librarian Tigurius
Space marine librarian
5 Tactical squad
10 Tactical squad,Heavy bolter, flamer, seargent, plasma pistol, powerfist
10 Tactical squad,Lascannon, flamer, sergent, boltpistol, powerfist,rhino
10 Tactical squad,Flamer, missile launcher
10 man Scouts squad
7 man Devastator squad,4 Plasma cannons
Vindicator, siegeshield
(not certain on his units/upgrades)
Eldar
Farseer, Fortune, guide, Spirit stones, singing spear
Farseer, fortune, doom, Spirit stones, runes of warding, singing spear
5 Warlocks embolden, 3x singing spear
10 Dire avengers, Exarch, Bladestorm, 2 Dire
SC
12 Guardians,
BL, Warlock, embolden, singing spear
5 Harlequins, Shadowseer,4x kiss
5 Striking scorpions, Exarch, Shadow strike, scorpions claw, stalker
6 Howling banshees, Exarch, Executioner, warshout, acrobatics
6 Warp spiders, Exarch, Spinaret rifle, power blades, withdraw
5 Dark reapers, Exarch,
EML, crack shot
Deployment: spearhead
Space marines choose table edge and 1st turn
Mission: 3 objectives, (Space marines guard 2 alien artefacts, while the eldar hold an imperial locator beacon)
Farseer Dave steals the initiative and leads the Eldar to a swift attack, ordering fire on the imperial armour.
Eldar TURN1
Psychic powers
Fortune on Farseer Dave
Fortune and guide on
DA
Movement: Guardians step forward slowly crouching by the wall lining up their bright lance at the vindicator. Farseer Dave and his retinue creep forward cautiously keeping his distance from the imperial tanks.
DA move up to cover, entrenching themselves ready for a hail of bolter fire. Harlequins dart through the difficult terrain graciously. Banshees move up the left flank and begin their march to combat.
Shooting: Guardians flawlessly (roll a nice
) penetrate the vindicator shaking the crew, guardians cheer a small victory. Dark reapers let rip on the Librarian’s squad, taking a few casualties. Banshees pick up the pace and sprint forward, harlequins run a little bit.
Marines TURN1
Movement: Rhino moves forward, vindicator crashes through the ruins siege shield making easy work of the rubble and is not hindered. Space marine sergeants give the order for all tactical squads move forward through the difficult terrain to get into bolter range while tactical squad 1 stays back.
Shooting: Tactical squad 1 targets the banshees, lascannon fails to wound as the aliens move swiftly, bolter fire takes down one heretic. Librarian 1 tries a psychic power and fries his mind with eldar interfering in the warp. Devastators unleash their plasma barrage onto Farseer Dave and his warlocks, after some poor scattering and some fortune only one warlock is lost, Dave inspired by his protector holds his resolve, and remaining tactical squads run through the ruins.
Eldar TURN2
The warp spiders arrive from the warp, place them in range of the devastator squad, they scatter 5” towards them.
Psychic powers
Tigurius Hoods all psychic powers except fortune on Dave.
Movement: Farseer Dave sets his eyes on the rhino sensing a powerful psyker and strides forward. Banshees continue to sprint forward crying out for combat, Dire Avengers leap over the wall with much grace putting them into range off the nearest marines, Farseer Putin breaks off and heads toward the Dark reapers to give them some guidance.
Shooting: Warlocks hurl their singing spears into the rhino, the smoke is no defence against the precision of the eldar witches and the driver is struck, causing it crash and detonate wounding nearby marines. Farseer Dave, battling Tigurius in the warp fails to notice the explosion and a warlock heroically gives his life as a piece of shrapnel pierces his chest as he safeguards Dave. The Marines furious, pass their pinning check and disembark facing Dave and his 2 remaining warlocks. The Guardians inspired by the explosion of the rhino line up their brightlance and with eerie accuracy hit the fuel tank of the vindicator, BOOM! another explosion sending shrapnel in all directions wounding many space marines, but the infuriated marines refuse to fall. Exarch Jimbo unleashes the command for a bladestorm and the
DA take out all but the librarian from the line of fire and hastily reloads. Dark reapers notice the marines out in the open as the smoke from the wreckage clears, one marine manages to survive the eldar heavy weapons by hitting the ground. The banshees continue their sprint covering immense ground. Farseer Putin runs towards the Dark reapers. The newly arrived warp spiders unleash their hail of razor wire onto the devastators taking 2 lives.
Assault: The howling Banshees after their long run leap into combat lead by Exarch Kate, the marines startled by their psychic screams make easy prey for the banshees, one marines refuses to die, is ran down by the banshees but makes a stand and is not overwhelmed by the dealers of death. Farseer Dave charges at Tigurius and with minds locked in an even battle neither side scores a successful wound. The warp spiders jump through the warp and reappear metres from the devastators.
A very swift attack from the mighty Eldar
Marine TURN2
Scouts dismayed by the slaughter of their brethren decide to delay their arrival.
Chief Librarian Tigurius opens up a hole in the warp and escapes the grasp of Farseer Dave and his warlocks.
Tigurius fails to control himself in the warp and miscalculates his opening and tries to reappear in the squad of Harlequins, the shadowseer sees the opening and seals the warp hole leaving Tigurius spinning out of control and reappears far from the battle.
Librarian 2 sets his mind into the warp and with a bit of trickery from the Eldar the Librarian's mind is haunted and quickly melted and he falls in writhing mess to his death.
Movement: Tactical squad 2 move through the ruins spying the vulnerable eldar council, while Tactical squad 3 move towards the harlequins readying their boltguns.
Shooting: Tigurius attempts to draw power from the warp before being disrupted by Farseer Dave and takes his final wound. The Devastators aim for the
DA at range set aim with their plasma cannons, Exarch Jimbo anticipates the attack and orders his squad to hit the ground, one unfortunate dire avenger frantically reloading his gun takes a plasma bolt to the face, leaving the headless body rigid for a few moments before sliding to the ground. Tactical squad 2 flank the council burn the witches and prep their pistols ready for combat, the 2 warlocks are scorched to the wraithbone
. Tactical squad 3 open fire on the harlequins, but the agile outcasts prove a difficult target to hit and only 1 falls.
Assault: Tactical squad 2 close in on Farseer Dave and with a mighty blow sergeant Mishlak punches a hole through Farseer Dave, and the marines let out a mighty battle cry of revenge. Exarch Kate finishes off the last marine of combat squad 5.
Eldar TURN3
Striking scorpions after a long flanking run arrive, but without Farseer Dave's guidance are out of position far from the artefacts. Farseer Putin takes command.
Movement: The warp spiders surround the devastator squad, Farseer Putin continues on his journey towards the dark reapers, harlequins move up prepping their exotic weapons ready for assault. The guardians feel their part in the battle is done and head toward the Imperial locator. Banshees creep around the ruins sticking to the shadows.
Shooting: The warp spiders unleash their assault weapons on the devastators killing two marines. The banshees fire at the heavily armoured marines, entrenched in the ruins with no effect, harlequins use the covering fire to close in on the squad. The dark reapers rain death upon tactical squad 2, avenging Farseer Dave, but one marine survivor emerges, Dave's killer. Not so eager for action the scorpions lurk forward, as well as the guardians.
Assault: The warpspiders launch their assault led by Exarch Octagonapus who tears through 2 marines with his specialised weapons, the remaining sergeant takes one warp spider out and keeps his ground. The harlequins leap into combat but these marines enraged by the death of the librarian show immense courage and win the combat by successfully parrying all the attacks and dealing out 2 casualties, the harlequins fight on.
Marines TURN3
Scouts receive no communications from their commander and do not know where to turn up so delay their arrival.
Movement: Sergeant Mishlak moves toward the alien artefact.
Shooting: -
Assault: Devastator sergeant falls to Exarch octo, while tactical squad 3 beat down the remaining 2 harlequins, taking one rending wound.
Eldar TURN4
Movement: Exarch Jimbo gives the all clear and the dire avengers march forward spotting marines in the ruins ahead, banshees close in from the side and the guardians march towards the home objective. The warp spiders appear from the warp behind tactical squad 2. Farseer Putin continues his journey to the reapers.
Shooting: Warp spiders fire on the combat squad of marines, Exarch Jimbo remaining cautious orders sustained fire contemplating an ambush. Banshees fire their shuriken pistols as they close in on tactical squad 6. Exarch Grim lines up his missile launcher loaded with a crack rocket right at the chest of the lone sergeant and shoots to kill.
Assault: Banshees launch another assault and take the marines down without taking any damage.
Marines TURN4
Scout commander Arnie realises the lack off comms means that they are on their own and launch their flanking attack
Movement:-
Shooting: Demoralised scouts can’t believe the sight of the dead marines spot some eldar guardians take aim with their pistols, but the aliens are moving too fast and slender to make a good shot.
Assault: Another marine falls against the banshees.
Eldar TURN5
Farseer Putin guides the reapers
Movement: Dire avengers pick up the pace and head towards the artefact, warpspiders enter the warp and head for the newly arrived scouts, Guardians continue towards the home objective, Putin joins the reapers.
Shooting: Exarch Grim takes down the last marine in the ruins, dire avengers obtain the artefacts as ordered and guardians run onto the Eldar home objective.
Assault: Banshees hack down 2 more marines in hand to hand combat.
Marines TURN5
Movement: Scouts head towards the warp spiders.
Shooting: Heavy armour of the brave spiders deflects the bolter fire
Assault: The last tactical marine falls to the banshees.
The Eldar obtain their objective and Farseer Putin opens a webway and the eldar are quick to disappear.
Arnie and his scouts search the battlefield for survivors but the aliens left none.
