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Last Thursday i played a 1000pts 40k 6th edition together with Miquelsan.
He was proxying his Warzone/infinity as Eldar and i was "proxying" my Hello Kitty
marines as Space Marines

Rough army list

I had an captain

1 A 10 (or 9?) man tactical squad
2 A 5 man tactical squad
3 A 5 man jump pack assault team
4 A 6 man assault team with drop pod
5 A predator (with lascannons)
6 A dreadnaught (with assault cannon)

Eldar
A A warlock leader
B With 4 a 5 Wraithguard
C Around 5 scout eldar
D A swooping hawk squad
E A warp spiders squad
F A Pathfinder squad
G A flyer

This is not really a battle report but just a small synopsis of the battle.

We rolled the Scenario and it was an objective battle
We put down scenery one at a time, chose a side and rolled for initiative.
I lost initiative, which was not a big deal as getting the enemy closer was not an issue!
Although i was worried about the flyer, and i have experienced the nastiness of warpspiders.
Miguelsan chose the saide which had 2 objective in them, i chose the side with the objective in my deployment zone.

My plan was to keep on objective from the beginning to end and try to keep Miguelsan from getting the other2 near his

deployment zone, luckily as always i am very good at making my save, so i survived a lot of fire (also Miguelsan

threw some bad rolls when using his most nasty weapons)
His warpspiders killed most of my second tactical squad, My main tactical squad with Captain had only a few

casualities, my jumppack squad killed his scouts and killed themselves on the Warlock and his Wraithguard (with

initiative 4???) My droppod landed spot on near Miguels Pathfinder squad near one of the objectives. My assault

marines killed most of the pathfinders with my flamer and only 2 (i think) where killed by return fire.
I think i killed his warlock but i am not sure (or by what)
In was getting late, Miquelsan finished his turn trying to dislodge my marines, but i only lost a few marines and my

tank by only 3 glancing hits? (tanks have hit poinst now?)
According Miguelsan, i won the game (he knew more about the Victory points system) i think i won because the flyer

didn't do much damage, if he had succeeded most of his flyer shooting rolls my army would have been swiss cheese. My

shooting at the flyer was totally ineffective (hit only on 6+ WTF!), also i was really contesting his ability to gain

the other objectives, Miguelsan must tell himself what his plan was (it was not clear to me )

Conclusion;
Although it was only one battle, i don't like 6th Edition! To many random roles! We wavered some of order of rules

because they were illogical, Drop pods have a BS of 4 really? Machine spirit was only 2 i think.
But what irks me the most is that Flyers are (at least somewhat) overpowered ( i got lucky this battle) but i didn't

have anything that could harm the flyer (yes my tank dreadnought and HB in the tactical didn't do any thing thanks

to the 6+ shooting restriction). So i have to put in a flyer to combat an opponents flyer. (at least some weapons

shoulds have an advantage shooting at flyers, anything with a high fire rate should have a higer chance to hit a

flyer).

But what really won the battle was off course was Hello Kitty Cuteness!


Set up


As much in cover as possible!


Flyer making it's attack run, My Jumppack marines just killed the Eldar Scouts


Last shooting CC of the game my Little Pink Tank destroyed by swooping hawks

Rather than a full on game it was more of an introduction to 6th Ed and the numerous changes for Jehan-reznor. I only got a few games with the new rules so I wanted to try different stuff than my regular IG. It goes without saying that we probably got many of the rules wrong.

My list for this game was:

HQ: 1 Doomseer inside
5 Wraithguard squad.

Troops: 6 Dire Avengers with Exarch
5 Pathfinders

FA: 1 Nightwing.
6 Warp Spiders with Exarch
6 Swooping Hawks with Exarch.

Warlord traits were useful for me (reroll reserves) but not for Dennis (reposition units after deployment), I won initiative and went 1st and we forgot to roll for Night Fighting.

From the begining I had planned to leave the troops near the Farseer and use my FA to weaken the SM through hit and run, but forgot how flimsy are pathfinders when the Assault Marines managed to charge them on the 1st turn due to my squad being to far away giving the marines First Blood.

Second turn saw all my reseves coming with both the SH and the WS landing spot on, the SH took to the skies again dropping a large blast and the Spiders took the small tac squad to 50%, on the other hand the Nightwing moved 18 (should have been 36 on hindsight) and shoot the lances against the Kittypredator managing to hit with both but as usual with me and BLances I got
for armor pen. The spiders went behind cover and the Farseer and WG braced for the assault marines as I didn't felt I was going to get charge distance. On their turn the Tac marines shot the spiders but thanks to cover and their 3+ only one was killed. The Dread and the Predator went trigger happy against the Nightwing but jinxed and passed all saves. The drop pod was spot on and killed half my DA but thanks to the new no assault after DS rules they survived. The jump marines charged and I forgot to told Jehan-reznor about hammer of wrath that might have been useful against WG, despite going first and having initiative rolled badly and forgot that Doom was active on the marines (I always forget, I need some token to remind myself when i doom units) both units tied. The WS were charged by the remains of the tac squad and won their combat consolidating forward.

Third turn started with the Hawks returning behind the predator and deviating 11 inches to the center of the table but killing 2 marines with their grenade blast, the spiders advanced to shot the second tac squad for 1 marine, the Nightwing shot the Dread for nothing again on assault the SH managed to make it to the predator losing one member to overwatch but killing it with glances. The engaged Farseer took a fist to the face when I decided to go all on nothing on the last combat.

At this point we called quits due to the hour and Jehan-reznor won having 1 objective plus first blood and slain warlord. I still need many 6th Ed games under my belt to get better grasp of the rules and I don't see them coming in Japan using a flier was kind of meh also but I had find with the FA attacks options jumping around instead of my usual triple WL brute forcing their way through the enemy lines.

M.

Those marines are MAGNIFICENT

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