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This week i faced off against blood angels with my eldar/dark eldar list. He uses a desent of angels list which is quite interesting to play against

http://skulkers-surprise.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/angels-descent-eldardark-eldar-vs-blood.html

Let me know what you think, and enjoy.

Loved this battle report, detailed and pics where needed, appreciate you taking the time to put it up.

As soon as your opponent got into CC with your army it was pretty one way traffic from there. Interesting to see an assualty army doing well in 6th.

Wyches seemed pretty ineffective against T4, I've found that too. They're amazing with haywire grenades against mech but pretty average against anything above T3.

Other thing that stood out is that you made a lot of jink saves! I can't make one for toffee usually.

Thanks again for great report.

I have never even seen the eldar codex but from reading battle reports I've been impressed by the snipers that cause AP-1 hits on a roll of 5 or 6 to hit. Rangers? or pathfinders?. How many squads of them could you get instead of your guardians and dire avengers?
Also about where to put your farseer, cant he just chill in a transport and cast powers from inside?

@ Holy-heretic: In my next list im going to try to add some rangers or path finder. My only issue with them is they have let me down too often (or i just expect too much) but i could get 3 or 4 units if i really wanted to use them.

And the farseer could just chill in a tank, just seems like an expensive way to keep him alive.

@tyrannosaurus thank for the compliment, really appreciate your support. and jink saves have been pretty kind to me in 6th edition, i cant lie about that.

Oh and sorry forgot to mention, nice rep, was very enjoyable to read. Thanks for posting !

You played pretty good in this game but on turn 3 your shooting was terrible and thats when you needed it the most! Also even with Dante your enemy was quite lucky to get all his units on the field turn 2, quite.

I think that on turn three you should have put some distance between you and the enemy, turbo boosting away with your tanks could have been a good idea but really I'm not sure about that, really it was his luck of a full drop and your bad luck of shooting, if you had torn up more of his army in shooting before assault you would have won, its why I don't play decent of angels lists, fun? yes, effective? no.

Some times the dice just don't roll what you need. But that is an interesting shout, maybe i should have just boosted away to regroup, but it would have meant my falcon was left to die for sure. Next time i might try it though.

 Holy~Heretic wrote:
I have never even seen the eldar codex but from reading battle reports I've been impressed by the snipers that cause AP-1 hits on a roll of 5 or 6 to hit. Rangers? or pathfinders?. How many squads of them could you get instead of your guardians and dire avengers?
Also about where to put your farseer, cant he just chill in a transport and cast powers from inside?

Rangers get ap 1 on 6 to hit which is nice with new sniper precision shots, pathfinders get it on 5 and 6 but cost just over 25% extra. For the price of 10 guardians with a scatter laser you can get exactly 5 rangers, you can't meet the minimum squad number for pathfinders at the same cost as 10 guardians with a scatter laser. 10 Dire avengers cost just a little less than 5 pathfinders and just a little more than 6 rangers.

Also to the Eldar player, when that Assault marine group fell back did they roll 3d6 as they are jump infantry? If so 3 inches is really lucky on the blood angels part!