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Dark Angels Librarian with Book of Secrets






Connecticut

Summary
This is a battle report for the first round at the Battle Standard Tournament is Manchester CT this past weekend. In this tourney, there were three games, and I brought the Mech'Dar list shown below.
My first match up with an IG player named Will. His list consisted of
* 4 foot vet squads in carapaice armor. One had a LC, 2 with ML, and 1 with an AC. All had an extra gernade launcher
* One CCS with a ML
* 2 demolisher LR,
* 1 LRBT
* 2 basalisks
* 1 armored sentinel armed with a PC
My army list is shown here : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/416039.page



Game Type
The game was sieze ground, with a pitched battle deployment. All special rules applied.

Before the Game / Deployment
The IG won the roll to deploy and go first, and he set his army up across the board. I castled into one corner to provide as many cover saves as possible, with one exception of a avenger serpent I placed behind cover. I set my nightspinner to fire indirectly all game. I set the dragons in the front, and the avengers behind them. Eldrad was put into the white tank with the EML and avengers.

Will placed his CCS and demolishers in the center of the board. His basilisks were behind a hill to one side. He placed his troops across the board in various areas of cover.


Overall Strategy
As the Eldar player, I held quite the advantage in this game. My plan is to go first, then move forward at fortuned speeds, weather the fire for one round, destroy all his tanks and then shoot or tank shock his units off the board. He will have a very hard to capturing my objective, and will have a hard time even contesting.

Turn One
Will moved his IG a little bit. He pushed his demolishers up to get close to range, and he fired everything at my army and failed to do anything. I either made the obscured cover save, or he failed to damage the vehicle.

On my turn, Eldrad cast fortune on 2 serpents, then I moved the suicide squads up.all the fire dragons. With the avengers I shot up some vehicles with scatter lasers but had no effect. I targeted his CCS with my nightspinner, which caused him to take a pinning test, which he failed.




Turn Two
On his turn, he again had just no real shooting to do. All my skimmers were moving flat out, and he failed to do any real damage to them. One of the skimmers holding the dragons was stunned, but I wisely put spirit stones on them.

On my turn two, I began to wreck face. Three of the warlocks left their serpent, fleeted and assaulted. Two of them assaulted demolishers and the third assulted the CCS. One of the demolishers exploded, and the other was damaged. His CCS squad then beat and killed two of the warlocks.

I took a gamble and assaulted his squad of vets with my dragons, and beat them in the assault, then drove them off the board. In the picture below, I know they are closer than 1 inch from his models. We put them there for the shot to show them about to assaut.

On the other side of the board, my dragons did good. One squad of them killed the two basalisks. The other one blew the battle cannon off the LRBT.

My serpent in the back shook his armored sentinel.





Turn Three
Will shot the LRBT at my dragons and killed the squad with HB and a LC. I had forgotten to assault the LRBT with my melta bombs and paid the price. His HB sponsons and LC demolished the dragons.
The other squad of dragons was shot to pieces by the vet squad next to them. Only one lived after going to ground. I was impressed with the stats of the grenade launcher.
Will killed the last warlock int he assault phase, and shook a serpent.
At this point, I lost 2 dragon squads and my warlock squad. I also had a weapon destroyed result on a serpent.

On my turn, the dragons that were still at full strength boarded their ride again and headed to the remaining LRBT. While they were going across difficult terrain, I tank shocked the squad sitting near it while passing to no effect. I also shot them with the scatter laser on it and killed a few of them.
With the vehicle that was shook, I tank shocked the remaining 2 squads. One of them failed their test and fled off the board. The other serpent tank shocked the remaining squad and shot them with its scatter laser.
One serpent shot its scatter laser into the back of a demolisher, but failed to have any effect. My doomspinner killed a few of the models in the squad I tank shocked. My remaining 2 back field serpents shot at his vet squad on the other side of the board and killed all but 3 of them.


Turn Four
Will's demolisher took out Eldrad's ride with an epic shot. His remaining LRBT shot its LC at the nearby serpent full of dragons to no effect. The vet squad with a LC took a shot at a serpent to no avail. The ML on the other vet squad hit but did not do any damage.

On my turn 4, I tank shocked the remaining vet squad 2 more times, it failed the second one and fell off the board. I then shot the remaining sentinel on the side armor.
The last surviving dragon that went to ground got up and shot the demolisher in the rear armor, and killed it.
The serpent near them shot at the CCS and insta-killed the commander and his remaining bodyguard.
My other serpents killed the final few vets in the remaining squad.
Eldrad and his avenger bodyguard ran forward to claim his objective on turn 5 or 6.
The other dragon squad hopped out of the serpent and destroyed the LRBT.

At this point, the only model he had left was his sentinel, and so we called the game.



MVP
In this game, the dragons were the MVP of the game. Their ability to deliver death to IG forces is unparalleled. In this case, I give it to the dragon squad that assaulted a squad of vets, killed them, and then killed a demolisher. A great use of 80 points.

Game Notes
This was an extremely hard match up for him. He basically had one turn to stop the dragons/warlock assault, and as two of the dragon serpents were fortuned, they were HARD to take down. Even with going first, he just did not do the job. Once I saw the top of turn two end, I knew that this was going to be a short game.

The doomweaver did a good job overall. While it did not kill that many guard, the ability to cause his CCS to be pinned is extremely nice. It never got shot at, so I think the holo-field on it was a waste of points.

The warlock squad did OK. It killed a demolisher and stunned another, so they did their job. They managed to tie up his CCS for a little while, which prevented him from giving orders. Were they worth the 75 points? In this game, yes.

On turn two I had Eldrad still near my objective, and all my suicide units moving forward. This was not helpful, as Eldrad was then out of range to do a lot of good. As such I moved him forward at that piont. I think I should have moved him up with the other tanks.

Not assaulting with the dragons on the turn I shot the LRBT was a stupid mistake. Each dragon also has metla bombs, and they should have used them.

Tank shocking IG squads is extremely effective.


   
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Nice report. Seems like a fairly easy win with how you played. Dragons did their duty, serpents tanked shocked the infantry, profit. Nice work.

I'm interested in the next games, and how well your nightspinner does throughout
   
Made in us
Dark Angels Librarian with Book of Secrets






Connecticut

Will was a fairly new player so this game was not much of a challange. My next two games were considerably tougher.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





US

Mmm... IG on foot vs Nightspinner, nom nom nom.

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Made in us
Dark Angels Librarian with Book of Secrets






Connecticut

In the 2nd battle report the spinner did even better.

If I have time today, Ill post the 3rd result. The spinner did a fantastic job of neutralizing a scarab farm. Every turn I was killing as many as were spawned, and the difficult terrain signficantly slowed its progress.
   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut





US

Surprised you didn't wipe out the whole scarbs pack in a single shot. Large blast that deals 2 Instant Deaths per unsaved wound = wiped scarabs lol.

Craftworld Uaire-Nem pics "Like shimmering daggers of light our fury shall rain down and cleanse this battlefield." Autarch of Uaire-Nem
BlueDagger's Nomad pics - "Morality, my friend, is merely a price tag." - BlueDagger, Contraband Dealer. Holo-recording played during the murder trial of an undercover PanOceania officer. Court Record 9002xaB, . Infinity Nomads - Come see what it's all about!
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Dark Angels Librarian with Book of Secrets






Connecticut

He had his scarabs Congo lined and spread max distance apart. I was only tagging 3 per hit. When the closed and killed a serpen the spinner finished 6 of em
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





US

Ah, yeah that is rather annoying. Did he try to pull the spawn congo line toward you?

Craftworld Uaire-Nem pics "Like shimmering daggers of light our fury shall rain down and cleanse this battlefield." Autarch of Uaire-Nem
BlueDagger's Nomad pics - "Morality, my friend, is merely a price tag." - BlueDagger, Contraband Dealer. Holo-recording played during the murder trial of an undercover PanOceania officer. Court Record 9002xaB, . Infinity Nomads - Come see what it's all about!
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Dark Angels Librarian with Book of Secrets






Connecticut

No. All spawned scarabs he placed within 2" of the inital unit, so he did not try and congo-line them out twords me.

Actually he played them defensively, to keep me from rushing at him early in the game, and I was more than happy to keep dropping spinner shots on his scarabs and spiders. I did 2 wounds to the spiders and kept his scarabs from growing. Eventually he just moved his spiders away before they died.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





US

Not sure on the board placement but if he was smart he would have moved the congo line within 12" of your spinner to halt the shots.

Craftworld Uaire-Nem pics "Like shimmering daggers of light our fury shall rain down and cleanse this battlefield." Autarch of Uaire-Nem
BlueDagger's Nomad pics - "Morality, my friend, is merely a price tag." - BlueDagger, Contraband Dealer. Holo-recording played during the murder trial of an undercover PanOceania officer. Court Record 9002xaB, . Infinity Nomads - Come see what it's all about!
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Made in us
Dark Angels Librarian with Book of Secrets






Connecticut

I just posted round 3 up for you to see.
   
 
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