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So you've defeated the unstoppable? Wraithknights and scatbikes were no match for you? Share your story! What was your list like? What were your tactics? What was that defining moment of victory? Was it a close game or did you have it from the get go?

I almost did but I deployed poorly. Apparently 25 gretchin was enough to shield 3 gorkanauts but I didn't think it was. Then he blocked my table edge. If I had deployed correctly then he couldn't even have hurt the naughts since the dscythes would have to deepstrike too far from them to hit them and then be killed. Scatbikes and warp spiders fair poorly against armor 13. Also he only had the skatatch wraithknight so it wouldn't be really useful either.

What if it was a double d-knight that sees the board 95% of the time?

Then I would have had a lot more trouble. But since it wasn't I would have been good if I wasn't stupid. The board and sword could have also been handled.

http://imgur.com/a/tk3iD

The list i fought was 2x double-D wraithknights, a Windrider host with scatbike squads, a biking seer-star, and an aspect host of 3 squads of swooping hawks.

I used Harlequins with small allied detachments of both Eldar and Dark Eldar, to make a list halfway between a LD-bomb freakshow and a traditional Harlequin melee bash.

I've never actually let myself play against the super cheese, but I've played strong lists. I've never actually lost against my Eldar friend who typically plays 2 Aspect Hosts (2 Dire Avengers, Hawks, Spyders, Reapers, Dragons) in serpents, a Double-D Wraithknight, and 2+ Jetbike squads with all Shurikan Cannons. It's not the cheesy, but I've also never had a problem with it using my Necrons.

I'm guessing it works the other way round but a couple of my worst defeats.


Against an all scouting Ravenwing force with the landspeeder formation with interceptor. I have 6 scat packs, 2 warp hunters, void shield, and 4 hornets.

He rolls infiltrate d3 units and first turn and just gets within the shield with a couple of ravenwing but brings the shield down anyway and the rest of the alphastrike tables me before I get a first turn.

second game against Dark Eldar. He has 6 units 6 of Reavers (caltrops and blasters in there) and an equal amount of venoms with kabalite squads, void shield and Archon... He rolls stealth in ruins (2+ jink Reavers) and +1 toughness. He turbo boosts the reavers into my lines (in ruins) and all the scatter lasers in the world bounce off the reavers... I charge the reavers to avoid the ungodly amount of rending HOW hits, he hits and runs off , kills the vehicles and game over...

Can Eldar players share when they have been beaten?
If so, I've been tabled by a White Scar Scouting Gladius on turn 2 before.
Admittedly I wasn't playing pure Eldar but I did have a WK & 5 units of Scatterbikes with a GK NSF with 2 DKs. I went first (after he scouted 6 Rhinos & 2 Razorbacks up to the center of the board, effectively gaining board coverage with his Grav), but due to cover and NightFight, I was only able to kill 3 Rhino and not enough Marines to kill any Grav cannons.

On his turn, he dropped in 2 Pods and between all the Grav cannons (which was in range due to Scout and didn't have to move) and the Drop Melta, both my DKs died and the WK took 3 wounds. I also had 2 bike units run off the board.
My turn 2 wasn't very impressive as my WK and remaining 3 units of Scatter bikes only took out 2 Grav units and some more Rhinos. I was hoping for the WK to get locking in CC, but since Gladius is MSU, I ran through the unit I charged, leaving me open to be targeted again
On his turn 2, he killed the rest of my army.

The Gladius gave him doctrines or whatever so that for his 2 turns he got re-rolls to hit and the Grav amps gave re-rolls to wound. It was pretty devastating and I'm not sure the outcome would have been much different if I had more Eldar instead of the GKs

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One of my common foes runs a list with 4 squads of Scat bikes, 3 squads of Reapers, 3 squads of Spiders, and 2 Serpents one with Dragons the other with Dire Avengers. Once in range it can pump out around 140-150 Strength 5+ shots. I was using Tyranids with 2 Tyrants, 2 Dakkafexes, 2 Malanthropes, an Aegis line, and buckets of little guys.
Turn 1 he goes first and pours shots into me but with the Malanthropes and the the Aegis my entire army has a 2+ cover save so I lose like 10 random little guys. I jump my gun beasts forward to get into range and shoot down all his Reapers and one squad of bikes while everyone else stays behind cover. Turn 2 his Spiders deep strike and he fires another volley. A Carnifex dies along with 10 more little guys. My turn the remaining gun beasts kill the rest of his bikes and the Hormagaunts leave cover to charge and annihilate all his Spiders.
Turn 3 he quits because all he has left is the 2 wave serpents and their passengers and I'm only down one monstrous creature and about 25 or 30 Hormagaunts and gargoyles.
All hail 2+ cover and 8 point guys except against Tau...

I won against a guy who took a wraithknight with ranged D a wraithknight with cc D and a small group of warlocks.

How did I win? He thought he was going to easily defeat a chaos knight and a daemon prince.

Because he thought it would be an easy victory he decided to deep strike his ranged wraithknight. (!??!!?)

Turn 1: He moves closer, can't shoot me cause no ranged D.
I psychic shriek his knight: get 17, he survives with 2 wounds. My knight charges and kills him off whilst only losing 3hp.

Turn 2: His other wraithknight comes down and misses my chaos knight.
I psychic shriek his wraith: get 18 and he dies.

Turn 3: Enter the warlock hunt.


Never underestimate your opponant people.

I'm pretty sure a Wraithknight was killed by a unit of Raveners earlier today. Right after they did a decent bit of damage to a unit of scatbikes. That was a fun game.

I played a guy that had multiple units of scat bikes with 2 farseers, multiple units of warp spiders a wraith knight, a scathatch wraithknight, a lynx and a unit of 2 warp hunters. Tourney used full D and Invis.

Wasn't even close, I was so far ahead by turn 3 that he couldn't possibly score enough points to deny me max differential. His skathatch died in overwatch.

I was playing full grav white scars battle company at the time though so...fight cheese with cheesier cheese I guess?

I was able to achieve victory over a nasty Scat Bike, Wraithknight and Warp Spider heavy list with the Crimson Hunter Formation with my Elysian Drop Troops. He had no idea what to do against a total of 8 flyers at 2000pts, especially after I focus fired down his Hunters by turn 4 and since it was Kill points and he had an MSU army the odds were in my favor. Even so I only won by a score of 11-9 as even with snap shots the amount of fire they put out was terrifying and many a brave Guardsmen and pilot died that day, FOR THE EMPEROR!

The AdMech grav servitors crush all those jerk eldar p effectively.

My fav story tho: Dark Angel Terminator Librarian with combi-plasma shoots overwatch at charging wraithknight. Rolls a 5 which hits because he has Grim Resolve, amazingly takes the last Wound off and kills Wraithknight before he can complete charge.

I've only ever played against Eldar once, and that went incredibly terrible for me. It was my opponent's second ever game, 500 points, Eldar vs Tau.

His list was something like this:
Maugan Ra
Guardians
Dire Avengers
Wraithguard

My list:
Cadre Fireblade
Fire Warriors
Fire Warriors
Devilfish
Stealth Team

I was finished in 3 turns.

First turn went well. I seized the initiative and infiltrated my Stealth Team. They moved up and used 3 markerlights on the Guardians. The rest of the squad shot into the Guardians, and I failed to wound. Everything else moved, but my Fire Warriors managed to kill a couple of Guardians.

In return he blew my Devilfish up and wiped 12 Fire Warriors off the board with Maugan Ra's bio-cataclysm special rule. My Fireblade passed his leadership test.

Next turn I kill a Dire Avenger, and my other Fire Warriors are killed. The Fireblade dies as well.

Final turn, my stealth suits are wiped from the board.

So yeah, I'm never playing against Eldar again! xD

I was running a fun list with Council of Waaagh, a few 30 man blobs of boyz, some ranged support, a few koptas and a bunker to disembark the council in the middle of the map.

He ran 2 large squads of bikes with 2 farseers in each, 2 d-cannon Knights and something else.

Ghaz rolled +1 str, +1 BS and some other useless trait. I stole ini, slingshot the star forward, ran everything else, shot my lobbas and lootas at one squad of bikes and killed a farseer and a few bikes. Than shot ghazstar at another squad. tl shootas killed a bike. Than Ghaz shot his mighty bigshoota and killed another 2 forcing a ld 10 check which they promptly failed.

The rest of the game was me running around capping points cause i couldn't catch him as what was left was STILL enough to annihilate all the boyz and half the ghaz squad from afar. I barely managed to win that game even with such insane luck.

Hehe 2.5k points elder with three 6 or 8 man scat bike squads with a farseer on a bike in one of them, Wraithknight, and d-scythe wraithguard in serpents and a couple other odds and ends vs my 30k Night Lords no primarch. Didn't know what I was playing against so I brought a TAC orbital assault list. Highlights were my first turn support squads dropping next to his bike squads. Six flamers in one pod torching a bike squad with farseer in cover(did not kill the farseer but he was the lone survivor after a round of LOSs and getting him to one wound and he fled off the table), the other two were ten volkites each unloading point blank into the other two bike squads all on turn one. I think he had a bike left on the board. A melta team dropping and killing a wraithlord on turn two. Game ended with a multi-turn close combat with my praetor and his assault squad jumping the wraithknight. The Sgt and lord were the lone survivors of the approximately 20 who started the fight while the rest of the army cleaned up his survivors.

I've faced eldar with my Renegades and Heretics artillery lists.

I can't recall my list exactly, as it was quite a while ago. However I am pretty sure it had around 60 zombies, probably +30 infantry, around 4 earthshakers, probably 2 wyverns, possibly a medusa artillery piece, rapier laser destroyers, quad mortars and heavy mortars, then some chaos spawn, also a blight drone.

I know my opponent had loads of bikes, at least 1 wraithknight, and I think 2 wave serpents with Dscythe buttholes.

The game was basically, "I target X" and X decides to jink, moving from unit to unit until everything was jinking. Moved the zombie blob up the field, then killed bikes. I ignored the WK, for the most part, because honestly, whats the point?
Wyvern was able to take out some bikes, I think I killed his warlord with a lucky earthshaker hit, but I know his psychic phase was gone, or perils.. I can't remember. Then it was just killing bikes. Rapier lasers popped a wave serpent mid field, Dscythe dudes got hit by an earthshaker or two and died. Another unit killed like 10 zombies, then 5 more or so on overwatch, then were stuck forever.
So it was just too many zombies and too many big guns for him to handle. His army was always snap firing except the wraithknight.
There was late game luck shenanigans I specifically remember. Its like turn 6 I think, blight drone hovers for line breaker and for some reason a dscythe is in range. It ends up stripping the last HP, but blight drones always explode, which ends up killing the single Dscythe dude.


I had a recent game against eldar where if I hadn't had to quit do to time constraints I believe I would have won. I did the same thing. Ignored the WK (there is always a WK, had people switch lists to include one after seeing my list, wtf?) and made everything that could jink, jink. Then try to kill it.

Don't have a story yet, but working in my eldar killer list.

Right now I'm aiming for the 1500 point range.

It's going to have 2 10 man tac squad, 1 5 man command squad, a company master in a razor back. And a war hound Titan with 2 double barrel turbo laser destroyers.

Just gonna sit back and pop them and go for table, to hell with objectives

 Backspacehacker wrote:
Don't have a story yet, but working in my eldar killer list.

Right now I'm aiming for the 1500 point range.

It's going to have 2 10 man tac squad, 1 5 man command squad, a company master in a razor back. And a war hound Titan with 2 double barrel turbo laser destroyers.

Just gonna sit back and pop them and go for table, to hell with objectives

That went 0-100 pretty fast...

pm713 wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:
Don't have a story yet, but working in my eldar killer list.

Right now I'm aiming for the 1500 point range.

It's going to have 2 10 man tac squad, 1 5 man command squad, a company master in a razor back. And a war hound Titan with 2 double barrel turbo laser destroyers.

Just gonna sit back and pop them and go for table, to hell with objectives

That went 0-100 pretty fast...

Don't worry I just made it better, I'm taking a tech marine with 5 servators and a harness and 3 whirlwinds and I can repair any of them on a 1+

:3

Filthy eldar won't know what hit em.

But you just bought a Warhound to beat Eldar. Who really won? Probably not the guy with a big resin paperweight that cost him a weeks wages.

 #1ShieldBrother3++ wrote:
But you just bought a Warhound to beat Eldar. Who really won? Probably not the guy with a big resin paperweight that cost him a weeks wages.

ITS NOT AN ACTION FIGURE!!!!

Half a week, but not the point, same reason I would, if I had the sanity to build it, a 2k cultist army when ever some one brings eldar cheese.

Yeah your gonna win, but I'm gonna make you work for it

Besides, you can never not have a use for a Titan.

Warhound loses fast to dual wks.

Martel732 wrote:
Warhound loses fast to dual wks.

To ranged WK's yeah...

<--- this plonker tried to rush two melee knights against a warhound and it didn't work out to well!

That's just bad playing. I had someone who couldn't kill a dreadnought with their Wraithknight. Granted there were some lucky saves but still...

 Backspacehacker wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:
Don't have a story yet, but working in my eldar killer list.

Right now I'm aiming for the 1500 point range.

It's going to have 2 10 man tac squad, 1 5 man command squad, a company master in a razor back. And a war hound Titan with 2 double barrel turbo laser destroyers.

Just gonna sit back and pop them and go for table, to hell with objectives

That went 0-100 pretty fast...

Don't worry I just made it better, I'm taking a tech marine with 5 servators and a harness and 3 whirlwinds and I can repair any of them on a 1+

:3

Filthy eldar won't know what hit em.

Jet Farseers on with Scatbikes, supporting Wraith Guards in wave serpent will make short work of Warhound Titan. Make the serpeant invisible to survive your 1st round of fire, then down your Void shield with a ton of S6 shots. Followed by 5 guided D shots from disembarked WG. Killing a unprotected titan in one turn is not difficult for Eldar. If they have an idea of your army and get prepared accordingly.

I've only seen this from the other end, as an Eldar player myself. The Wraithknight loses to an Imperial Knight with the D-strength chainsword if it has to charge into cover, use that. Most games I've played it in my opponent parks a Knight in cover, the Wraithknight goes and kills everything else, and the Knight's battle cannon doesn't do enough to save anyone. Grav-cannons are the only reliable and efficient way I've seen my Wraithknight die, I hesitate to recommend anyone actually spend money on a Centurion box but they're an effective tool for this situation.

Jetbikes have range, 3+ armour, and the jink going for them; they can't do a lot to heavier vehicles, though, and if you have a tool that kills Space Marines with volume at a good threat range it'll go through them just as fast.

We won't get into fire dragons. LOL

Neophyte2012 wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:
Don't have a story yet, but working in my eldar killer list.

Right now I'm aiming for the 1500 point range.

It's going to have 2 10 man tac squad, 1 5 man command squad, a company master in a razor back. And a war hound Titan with 2 double barrel turbo laser destroyers.

Just gonna sit back and pop them and go for table, to hell with objectives

That went 0-100 pretty fast...

Don't worry I just made it better, I'm taking a tech marine with 5 servators and a harness and 3 whirlwinds and I can repair any of them on a 1+

:3

Filthy eldar won't know what hit em.

Jet Farseers on with Scatbikes, supporting Wraith Guards in wave serpent will make short work of Warhound Titan. Make the serpeant invisible to survive your 1st round of fire, then down your Void shield with a ton of S6 shots. Followed by 5 guided D shots from disembarked WG. Killing a unprotected titan in one turn is not difficult for Eldar. If they have an idea of your army and get prepared accordingly.

True ture, but thats what i brought the WWs for, they have the ignore cover shot, so they cant jink, and it has shred on it. So i would pretty much force them to take their armor saves on scatter bikes, not sure if scat bikes can be pinned but if they can, they need to deal with that as well. + the tac marines are there to block them and if they did get in melee, i would just stomp on them. 3 blast templates that on a 6 anything under the blast template, they our right die, on a 2-5 they take a STR 6.