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I went to my gaming club and a guy wanted to test out his new tournament list to get some practice with it before his tournament in a few months. I happily helped out with my eldar/dark eldar and this is my battle report. It was a nice change fighting on a snow table, never played on it before.

http://skulkers-surprise.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/rumble-of-engine-eldardark-eldar-vs.html

Hope you enjoy.

Great Report! And i thoroughly enjoyed the discussion in the comments!

I look forward to the next (oh boy, do i )!

Peace Out!
Jonny!

Nice job. That hit and run really messed up those mega nobs. Wraithcannons are incredibly effective against stuff like that, and being able to let a guided volley of them fly is brutal.

I think you played fairly well, just be mindful of model placement to prevent interceptor from ruining your day.

Did you remember to overwatch with your walkers? Might have saved the last one.

The comments did get a little oht of hand haha but its good to have a discussion.

And I did over watch the walkers. 16 shots 1 hit and hs saved it. Unlucky but it happens

I apologize for derailing and getting in an argument on your blog. I just felt the need to have to set him straight because he did not know what he was talking about. Even when we present the argument in a clear and concise manner, it didn't matter.

Haha dont worry dude it was good to have so many comments on one post.

Haters are gonna hate the intentional loop hole left for the Eldar/Dark Eldar alliances that are the re-rollable shadowfield saves. It isn't an exploit - it was intentionally worded as such so that Eldar/DE COULD use it. What's broken is doing it with 6 shadowfields in 1 unit in an apocalypse game.

Enjoyed the report - your wraithstar is quite different from the one our team tested but shares alot of common elements ... nice to see wraithwalls doing well.

We used two scatterlaser guardian squads, baron, eldrad scatterwalkers ... I use a large GJB squad with farseer and warlock (eight total) as my mini-deathstar. My only DE are splinter/blaster warriors. The big difference is i use no flyers or skimmers at all. So my opponents heavies are going after my warwalkers only. They generally do not last past turn two, lol. But we expected that ...

We almost opted to use a wraithwall list over the beastpack list for tournaments- I think both have merits. They both wills truggle some against certain lists and run over others.

I think Wraithwalls are very hard to play ... when and if Wraithseers are allowed we can revert to a five MC wall - Avatar/Seer/3 WLs - now that would be fun. I certainly hope the new codex has some of these units.

5 monstrous creatures would be horrible to face so I hope it happens.

Im curioys what did your wraithstar list have in it?

Play at your own peril

== Dancing the Monster Mash ==

HQ: Wraithseer, D-Cannon 225
HQ: Avatar 155
HQ: Haemonculus, Liquifier, Shattershard 80

Elite: 5 Wraithguard, Warlock, Conceal, Singing Spear 218

Troop: 16 Storm Guardians, 2 Flamers, Spiritseer, Conceal, Singing Spear 189
Troop: 10 Guardian Defenders, Scatterlaser 95
Troop: 10 Guardian Defenders, Scatterlaser 95
Troop: 10 Guardian Defenders, Scatterlaser 95
Troop: 15 Kabalite Warriors, Splinter Cannon, Sybarite, Venom Blade 160

HS: Wraithlord, Shuriken Cannon, Wraithsword, 2 Flamers 110
HS: Wraithlord, Shuriken Cannon, Wraithsword, 2 Flamers 110
HS: Wraithlord, Shuriken Cannon, Wraithsword, 2 Flamers 110
HS: Talos Pain Engine, Splinter Cannon, TL Liquifier 105

Total: 1747

Actually we tested a 6 MC lit in the belief that certain lists will have headaches trying to prevent at least 4 MCs hitting their lines ... hello 4ed Nidzilla, lol. There rae a heck of a lot of tough units on the board. The temptation is to use Eldard - he is a great force multiplier but fearless troops are not shabby either and the Avatar is a beast. The WG are the tax but fearless, conceal, and FNP still makes them potent. They are surrounded by T8 monsters (well one T7). The number shots required to take down all six is more than 90% of the lists out here can muster. But it is slow - painfully at times. Splinter Cannons. a D-cannon and scatterlasers help with range issues.

As to why we opted for a different list - pure DE poison lists slowly punish you. Necrons can avoid you and will go after the Wraithseer first who is not an IC and must therefore cast FNP on himself. Multi-flyer lists (stormtalon/stormraven) are tough as are the ubiquitous Heldrake lists. Even dual Flyrant Nids become an interesting match up. Biomancy MCs are no joke but this list has its weapons.




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