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2014/02/20 12:35:57
Subject: Escalation - Battle Report - Baneblade Imperial Guard vs Vect Dark Eldar - 1500pts - Pics + Vid!
Welcome to another skaredcast battle report. This time I have my first escalation game vs Imperial Guard with my Vect Dark Eldar. So here is the video battle report for all those who prefer the video:
The Mission was BAO Style-
Primary - Scouring (Points for damaging the Lord of War help determine primary)
Secondary - Purge the Alien
Vanguard Strike Deployment - Night fight turn one.
Initiative? - Imperial Guard (forced by Vect)
And then some pics for all you who prefer some pictures. I dont have time to really do a proper write up but I hope this gives you a good idea of the play by play:
The dark Eldar:
Spoiler:
The Dark Eldar advance and the Imperial guard hold the line.
The wave serpent does a flanking manouver to flush troops out of cover.
The Dark Eldar sweep around the manufactorum and put pressure on the IG.
The Dark Eldar take their second turn. Focussing on the baneblade! Even Vect takes a stab at it!
The farseer and guardians stay back and provide support via powers.
IG turn 2 - The vendettas show up. The baneblade blasts vect with all its got, also blows up a raider... one of the ravagers goes down... Vect passed his shadowfield saves!
With the death of the baneblade the vulture and vendettas take a toll on the dark eldar for the killpoint secondary
The Dark Eldar focus on the troops and the flyers try to dislodge the DE from the objectives to no avail
It was a lot of fun! And did not seem unbalanced at all. I cant wait to have another game vs a Lord of War! - I accept any challenge.
I feel the IG lacked troops. And this was a great detriment to his army... the fliers did ok, but he should have had some units to place inside of them to put pressure on my back field. Vect did well... although when the baneblade went nuclear he did fail his first shadowfield save like a chump.
Well. Thanks for reading!
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2014/02/20 12:38:46
Thanks! Yeah, I embrace escalation. I had a lot of fun this game! The vect highlight was awesome and made the game that much more cinematic! Thanks for the comments
Cool report. With the BAO mission format, did you also work in the extra VPs for the Baneblade? If so, was that towards the primary mission? Overall, I enjoyed it and glad to see some folks actually using Escalation.
No earth shattering, thought provoking quote. I'm just someone who was introduced to 40K in the late 80's and it's become a lifelong hobby.
2014/02/23 19:01:24
Subject: Escalation - Battle Report - Baneblade Imperial Guard vs Vect Dark Eldar - 1500pts - Pics + Vid!
