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Made in gb
Frightnening Fiend of Slaanesh





Leeds

So I managed to at last get a game of 40k in since I moved back up to sunny old Yorkshire, my list was as follows;



The Tau Empire
HQ
-Coldstar
-Fireblade

Troops
-10 Fire Warriors with pulse rifles
-8 Fire warriors with pulse carbines
-10 Breacher team fire warriors

Elites
- Riptide with Ion Cannon
- 3 Crisis equipped with flamers

Fast attack
- 5 pathfinders

Craftword Eldar
HQ
-Asurmen
-Farseer

Troops
10 - Dire Avengers
10 - Dire Avengers

Heavy Support
2- Eldar walkers with scatter lasers
5 - Dark Eldar reapers

So my army for this match is really badly optimized, I basically grabbed the models I had assembled and headed off down the store to give them a go! The basic plan was to form a gun line with the strike teams while taking out key objectives with my suits. Leaving the riptide for antitank and the breachers to clear out anything that gets to close. However as a clever man once said, plans never survive first contact with the enemy. I won the roll off and decided to pick the side of the board with a nice set of ruins in it, I placed my fist strike team in the ruins which took up the centre of my side of the board, giving them a good firing arc across large parts of the board. I placed the rest of my army around this anchor point, placing my Pathfinders on the top of the ruins and my breachers on the bottom floor ready to meet the first attackers. My riptide was hid just behind another of set of ruins to the right of the main building I had chosen to defend, with my commander just behind him. The elder player who managed to place his models down first, mirrored my placements, but remained in the open. At this point I was feeling rather confident, I could just plink at him from my cover and all would be well. My crisis remained in reserve.

So the Eldar go first, scouting ahead with his walkers he pushed down my extreme left flank, getting into a position where he had a good view of my army. Next he advanced his dire avengers covering a good amount of ground, bringing him happily in range of tau who were busy cowering in their fortress, Asurmen and the Farseer followed closely behind. During the physic phase he managed to cast doom on my first strike team and guide onto one of his Dire Avenger squads. The shooting phase is where the real trouble began, his opening salvo from his reapers destroyed seven warriors from my eight man strike team, failing all of my saves apart from one. Next came his Dire Avengers putting all their shots into my healthy unit of fire warriors, after two giants volleys my warriors too begun to wilt away leaving again just my squad leader alive. His walkers then fired with their scatter lasers and killed all of my pathfinder to boot, things weren't looking great for the Empire. With over half my infantry whipped out I knew I'd have to abandon the defences and go on the attack.

Tau Empire turn one, so first thing I did was drop in my suits! I dropped the crisis suits down next to the Dire Avengers ready to get some much needed vengeance! But that's when I realised that I had eight inch range on my suits and could only land nine inches away, goofed. With a sigh I moved my coldstar forward and into range with his burst cannon, my riptide was already in range, and could see over the buildings to shoot and I was ready to move onto the shooting phase, leaving my breachers in relative safety. So I activated the nova core on my Ion Accelerator and rolled a five on my number of shots, at last something positive! I opened fire and failed to hit with all but one of my shots, killing one Dire avenger for my trouble. Opening up with my commander and my fireblade I managed to pick off two more from the same Dire Avenger squad, seventeen to go... Not wishing to charge the fire avengers with my crisis suits with Asurmen so close by I decided they'd have to weather the storm. A terrible round for me.

Eldar turn two, The Eldar moved up once again, moving closer to the ruins the scraps of my army occupied, the walkers however remained still happily sitting in optimal range. The Eldar had the riptide in their sights this round and cast doom on it during the Physic phase. Everything apart from the walkers then fired upon my riptide cutting it down to three wounds by the end of the storm. The walkers then opened up on the Crisis suits and the dice gods were merciful to me, losing only one wound for my troubles. Not wishing to charge the riptide the Eldar finished their turn

Tau turn two; at this point I was losing hope the game had been running for an hour nearly due to the amount of time I spent checking my units wounds and new toughness values, so I decided to go for an all or nothing strategy, I had my breachers advance forward from the building bursting out from the doors, luckily I rolled high letting them get into optimal range with their shotguns. I then moved my coldstar up alongside my breachers using the Mont'ka tactic to disregard the penalty I would have otherwise taken for advancing. My fireblade fired his marker light into the nearest Dire Avenger squad and I moved my Crisis suits into range with their flamers! Again I nova charged the riptide knowing that it wouldn't last another round either way, once again it came up short with it's Ion cannon even with it's respectable 4 shots. The Breachers however did much better firing into the Dire Avengers they killed all but one of the unit, my commander fired into the second unit killing a couple more of the Dire Avengers. The flamers did surprisingly little damage only killing a single Avenger. Eager to finish of at least one of the Dire Avenger squads I charged my breachers into the last Dire Avenger, wounding him once for their effort I was disheartened to see Asurmen join through a heroic intervention. I called it a day after that round, but I'm quite curious to see how it could have ended, I imagine my breachers were doomed but my Commander and Crisis suits were rather healthy.

Either way I was quite happy with how patient my opponent was as I spent a lot of the game scrolling through my phone looking for rules.

My first ever battlereport on here! So please leave feedback


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McCragge

I enjoyed the report. If you played this game over again what would you do differently?

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Leeds

Thanks ^^

If I played it again I'd have deployed my Crisis on the field to start with and have them advance and assault the foe on turn 1! I'd also spread my army out a little bit more so that I could take advantage of my range

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