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Earlier today I played 3 games at my local GW Store, The first of which was a 750pt game between my Thousand sons, and my opponent George's Dark Eldar. In hindsight I should have taken my camera with me, something to remember for next time though.

My forces consisted of:

Daemon Prince
-Wings
-Mark of Tzeentch
- Bolt of Change

8 Thousand Sons led by their Aspiring Sorcerer
-Bolt of Change
-Personal Icon
- Rhino

5 CSM
-Flamer
-Rhino

2 Obliterators

The dark eldar's forces consisted of something along these lines:

Haemonculi with a squad of 10 wyches in a Raider

3 squads of 10 Kabalite Warriors in Raiders

A ravager


The two forces crossed paths in a sparsely wooded clearing at the bottom of a shallow valley between two bombed out abandoned towers.

Dark Eldar Turn 1:

The Dark Eldar, upon spotting the forces of chaos, dropped a squad of warriors to defend their rear, fanned out their formation, and deployed their wyches to engulf the patrol. They proceeded to dark lance the Thousand Son's Rhino, leaving it's passenger's stranded. The other chaos rhino came under lance fire, but escaped unscathed. The remaining venom and the ravenger, spotted the daemon prince, and unloaded 4 lances against him. He shrugged off all but one.

Thousand Sons Turn 1:

The Daemon prince was enraged by the offending Raider, charging forward. The thousand sons, shell-shocked from their transport being wrecked, stumbled forward slightly. The remaining rhino cruised forward attempting to close with the dark eldar. The obliterators spotted the ravager and unloaded a pair of lascannon shots, exploding it. The Aspiring Sorcerer fired off his bolt of change at a distant Raider, hoping to de-mobilize his foes. Still shell-shocked apparently, he missed by a mile. The daemon prince also conjured his bolt of change at the Raider that had wounded him, failing to destroy the vehicle, he charged it and tore it asunder.

Dark Eldar Turn 2:

The Dark Eldar, being under this most unholy assault, kicked into high gear. The two remaining Raiders that contained warriors turned their attention, and their weapons, to the prince. The wyches, fueled with their combat drugs, closed with the thousand sons. The warrior's Raiders unloaded 2 dark lances against the prince, but failed to harm him. He was not so lucky with the hail of splinter rifle fire that followed however, suffering 2 more wounds. The wyches' Raider fired it's lance and wounded an obliterator. The wyches themselves unloaded upon the sons, felling two of them, and following with a brutal charge that utterly annihilated the Sorcerer and his minions. Upon destroying the sons, the wyches consolidated into a small cropping of bushes.

Thousand Sons Turn 2:

Upon seeing the sorcerer and his cabal fall, the remaining chaos marines unloaded from their rhino to pursue their attackers. The prince charged relentlessly towards the nearby entrenched warriors. The obliterators renewed their fire of lascannon shots but could not hit the nimble Raiders. The marines unleashed a flamer and several bolters against the wyches, dropping several of them. The prince charged the warriors, but they struck him first as he fumbled his way through the forest. One either extremely brave, or absolutely insane warrior lept up from his postion, and punched the prince square in his chin, killing the mighty beast. Suffice to say, said Prince has fallen out of Tzeentch's favor.

Dark Eldar Turn 3:

Upon felling the mighty prince, the Dark Eldar's vigor was renewed. The wyches returned fire upon their assailants, while the remaining Raiders closed with the obliterators. With a salvo of dark lances, the obliterators, and the remaining empty rhino, were reduced to nothing more than swiss cheese, and a smoldering crater respectively. The wyches followed their fire by charging the foolish chaos marines, but much to their dismay they only managed to kill one of the chaos minions. The marines desperate to fight to their dying breath fought back viciously and slaughtered the wyches.

Thousand Sons Turn 3: The four remaining members of the enitre chaos force turned and fired against the Raider that had deployed the wyches, but their bolters were of little use to them.

Dark Eldar Turn 4: The remaining Raiders circled their prey, and deployed the remaining warriors, who unleashed a relentless hail of splinter rifle fire. Dropping the few marines with ease.


Well as I'm sure you can see, I certainly was roughed up by George and his dark eldar quite a bit, but even so, this was a fun game. We got more than a few laughs at the daemon prince being punched out. This was my first time playing 5th edition against anything other than deathwing terminators, and my first time even seeing dark eldar played. I played two other games following this one, so I got some decent experience in for the day I think. Let me know what you guys think, I'm open to all comments and criticism.

Link to the second game: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/448031.page

Link to the third game: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/448038.page#4250432

Sorry to nitpick, but when you said venoms I think you meant Raiders. Venoms are smaller, less transport and 2 splinter cannons instead of a lance. Still, a good batrep.

Painbiro wrote:Sorry to nitpick, but when you said venoms I think you meant Raiders. Venoms are smaller, less transport and 2 splinter cannons instead of a lance. Still, a good batrep.

Hey It's all good, they definitively all had lances so you're probably right. Fixed it up to avoid further confusion.

Nice, I read about this DE Build. It is fast and powerful and exactly what I am going for in my DE army list.

As for Chaos, I run the Daemon Prince with Slaanesh, the I+1 would have helped a little, maybe, but the lash of submission might have saved the day. Throwing Wyches out of range. . . that would have gave you an upper hand. Although the Daemon Prince did keep the blood flowing, it wasn't enough.

Cool. I do have one thing though. Why didn't the Dark Lance from the wyche's raider kill the obliterator. You said it suffered a wound. He is only T 4 and the Dark Lance is S 8. That should have been instant death.