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Space Marine List

Librarian "Epistolary", with bolter/melta-gun, fury of the ancients

5 man terminator squad: 2 assault cannons

5 man squad with missile launcher

5 man squad with missile launcher

5 man squad with plasma gun and vet sergeant with plasma and powerfist

5 man squad with vet sergeant with plasma pistol and power sword

1 land speeder

Eldar List, (Rough not sure exactly off of memory?)

1 Farseer

7 Warp Spiders

10 guardians with a warlock, and 1 fusion blaster

8 + exarch, howling banshee squad

10 man Dire Avenger squad in wave serpent

10 man squad of rangers (the ones with long rifles)

Well until I learn how to post the pictures I will be doing this long hand. 

Ok, now we begin by rolling and we get the cleanse mission, he decides to deploy first and deploys from the north west corner, he places his squad of howling banshees as close to the corner point as possible and avoids a river that splits the table mostly down the center running the long direction. 

I deploy my first missile squad in the south east corner inside some ruins giving me a clear line of fire over most of the board. 

He deploys his transport just right of the short side of the tables dividing line, this hill blockes los to my missile launcher squad. 

I deploy my terminators just north of my position in a fanning defense so I will get to shoot up his banshees, and prevent them from charging my missile squad. . .

he deploys his warp spiders behind cover in the north west corner. 

I deploy my Epistolary, just a bit south and west of my missile launcher squad letting me move to have a straight line along two squads with fury of the ancients. 

He tells me he is done deploying, I deploy my land speeder, behind cover near his howling banshees. 

I then tell him I am done except for infiltrators, and we roll off for it, he then deploys his rangers in the north east corner on a hill in some woods. 

I then deploy my other missile launcher near a bridge in the south west corner, and my final two squads in 18 inches away from his rangers and just east of my terminators. 

1st turn
Now we roll to see who goes first, and he wins deciding that he will go first, so he starts by moving his warp spiders south to engage my missile launcher squad in the south west corner, he then moves his howling banshee squad towards my terminators, then he moves the wave serpent fast down the center.

Now his shooting phase comes along and he shoots with his warp spiders at my ML squad, failing to wound, his rangers shoot down and kill one of my terminators, who pass the pinning test, his banshees move towards my terminators with fleet of foot, and his wave serpent shoots with a scatter laser at the terminators failing to hit.

Assault Phase he has his warp spiders back out of bolter range. . .

My first turn
I move my marines up the right side trying to get within range of his rangers, my ML squads stay still, my land speeder flanks the banshees on their west side, my librarian moves out keeping both the howling banshee and another squad within a line. . .

My marines on the east side fire and miss horribly with everything including both plasma shots, I actually have to take 2 "get hot checks" thankfully I pass.

My terminators lay a full barrage on the howling banshees taking out 1, then my land speeder does the same and takes out 1 as well. . .

My 2 ml squads both shoot at the wave serpent, and do 1 stunned stopping them from shooting, or deploying next turn. . .

my commander hits both the banshee and another squad with fury of the ancients, causing a wound in the other squad, but failing to do anything to the banshee squad.

His 2nd turn
He moves his banshees closer to my terminators.

he then splits the farseer off and moves closer to my librarian

his warp spiders try to move back into range of my marines. . .

his transport sits there like a lame duck. . .

the warp spiders kill 2 of my ml squad and then fall back, the farseer fails the psychic hood test, the scouts kill one of my marines that are coming closer to them

my 2nd turn
I move my marines towards his rangers and get caught up on difficult terrain. . . and then shoot killing 1 more of the rangers, the rangers passed 4 cover saves. . .

my terminators launch another barrage at the banshees and some how miss with everything. . .

my ml squads shoot and do nothing to the wave serpent 1 missing, and 1 failing to even glance. . .

my librarian hits the farseer and the warp spiders, killing 2 spiders but they pass their pin test. . .

My land speeder shoots and fails to wound the banshees. . .

his third turn
he moves his wave serpent back up to use as cover for the dire avengers and drops them behind it, near the hill he started it at. . .

his banshees reach my terminators and kill 3 of them flat out, I attack back and miss horribly with all 4 attacks i had left. . .

his dire avengers are trying to use cover so they can hold 2 corners. . .

his wave serpent shoots at the south west ml squad but is out of range. . .

his farseer moves into hand to hand with my librarian and dies instantly from my force weapon. . . (he forgot that librarians have force weapons, the army had broken off in transport but I had shown him the list prior to game)

my 3rd turn
I consolidate moving my librarian towards the banshees attempting to get within range of using a storm of the emperor's wrath on them still out of range I forget to use fury on a target. . .

My marines up the east side have finally made it into assault range of the rangers. . .

my west ml squad both fire frag missiles at the warp spiders, who promptly make all their saves. . .

my terminators assault phase and the banshees kill my terminators to a man and consolidate by spreading out as much as possible so that my storm of the emperors wrath won't be able to hit more than 1 and 1 partial. . .

his rangers and i exchange some hits, i kill 2, he kills 1 he makes his leadership test. . .

my ml squad on the east corner shoots a frag missile and 8 bolter shots at the banshees killing 4. . . he makes his leadership. . .

his 4th turn
his warp spiders close on my land speeder and make 4 glancing destroy vehicle hits on it. . .

his wave serpent shoots at my west ml squad and kills 1 more, then the warp spiders kill the last one. . .

his rangers kill 1 of my marines, I kill 2 of his and then wipe him out with a lucky initiative roll. . . I consolidate towards his dire avenger squad. . .

my 4th turn
I move my librarian towards his warp spiders, my marines on the east side move to shoot at the rear of his wave serpent, over heating to lose 1, and then failing to glance. . .

my ml squad shoots up his banshees dropping it to the last man and then it still makes its leadership roll. . .

my librarian then uses his fury of the ancients to kill 2 dire avengers but they make their pinning tests. . .

his 5th turn
he keeps his dire avengers to try and take both quarters and shoots at my few marines left on the east side and kills one dropping the squad down to 2. . .

his banshees fail there stand alone test, and flee off the board, (couldn't have made the test anyway)

his warp spiders are getting low on strength so they pop back over and kill off my west ml squad but their so low on strength they can't hold the quarter. . .

he goes and hides his wave serpent to make sure he gets the extra points but since it can't contest quarters i am not worried. . .

my 5th turn
I try to but i just can't cut down his dire avenger squads enough with my ml squad or my librarian and then my last 2 die where they were but they are able to kill one which he takes off of the far side stopping him from taking both corners. . .

his 6th turn
He tries to take cover but just can't move far enough and ends his turn after shooting at me with his warp spiders and doesn't get any kills. . .

my 6th turn
I try once again to kill off enough of his avengers but they pass the pinning test, and i make a mistake and say frag instead of krack since i could only hit one model because of their spread, I then fail to wound. . . .

the game ends with him only holding 1 corner with 6 dire avengers, i am holding a corner with my original 5 man ml squad, we tie with me actually having 20 points more because of my librarian. . .

THIS WAS A FUN GAME!!!

What happened to his gaurdian squad? I didn't see a single referance about that in the deployment or game play. Did he just forget about it?

Sorry, your correct I forgot about it since I wiped it out completely with my second turn, he basically used it to screen his Farseer, and his howling banshee's, (He placed the farseer in the squad and then seperated before they charged the terminators)

He kept using his guardians as a moving screen in front of his banshees till they could get into combat. . .

A) you roll very badly. Your Speeder and ML should have killed everything they shot at. You really need to get an assault cannon on that thing

B) Squads can only hold 1 corner. If they are in two, then you roll a D6 to see which one they are in.

Good report, good to see Santa's Helpers loose.

Santa's Helpers? Sam Hain?

Just a note but I don't think he couldn't use the Wave Serpent to provide cover for his Dire Avengers.  Mobile skimmers never count as blocking line of site if I am correct.

Just from looking at the list you should have blasted him off the board, especially since his whole army but the Dire Avengers(the wrong squad to put in a serpent unless he wanted to copy the "fish of fury" tactic) was walking. suppose the terrible luck with your shooting gave it to him.

Skyfire's right. It's one of the reasons I haven't bought the
new-ish Wave Serpent from GW.