Turn 1: I begin this game by seizing the initiative. He attempted to deploy 2 bike squad and keep the rest of his army in reserves. I moved the wraithknight up on turn one and took down two of his bikes on the nearest squad but the last one was out of LOS and passed his leadership. My deathjester had a chance to make an impact early as he took a bike off of his farseer squad but they passed the leadership 8 test and then a leadership 10 test. He doesnt really do that much as his army is off the board.

Turn 2: I bubble wrap the center ruins in attempt to protect my wraithknight from being killed. I cast veil of tears on both harlequin squads but forget to put invisibility on the wraithknight. I manage to shoot the last of his bikes off the board. He needs reserves to keep the game going. He gets all but one unit of spiders and one unit of LotD on the board. He sends two units of spiders after my farseers squad and one unit after my starweaver which is transporting 5 harlequins up one of the flanks. All 3 of his LotD squads target my voidweaver. They crush the void weaver and the deathjester that was hiding in the ruins. The starweaver jinks and manages to save one of two dice that make it through, it only takes a glance. The two units next to my farseer squad fire at the bikes and do a whopping 21 wounds. I jink with a +1 cover from the objective and manage to make a ridiculous 19 saves on the squad. His autarch wit hthe swooping hawks decide to target my 3 bikes that arrived from reserves the previous turn and manage to kill 2. I think my opponent might have been shocked or just confident in his units ability but he does not make assault moves away from my harlequins.

Turn 3: My harlequins move out and run towards the spiders, the starweaver drops 5 harlequins out to face his spiders on the right flank. The solitaire moves out while blitzing and heads for his autarch + swooping hawks. The result is devastating as both harlequins squads in the middle kill the spiders before they can strike. The 5 harlequin squad on the right flank kills 4 spiders and the spiders fail to wound the harlies. They fail their leadership and are swept. The solitaire takes a challenge with the autarch and kills him before he can strike, The swooping hawks fail to wound him and they fail their leadership and get auto swept. I have effectively tabled my opponent in one turn as he only has 2 units in reserves and the Lotd guys cannot run. He can no longer win the mission and we call it here.

RESULTS: Harlequins win primary, secondary, and claim all 3 bonuses. 18pts for game one!

Post game analysis: I suppose my opponent made a serious tactical error on turn 2 but I think he meant to consolidate away as I shot him. He did move the squad on the right flank as I shot at them but they only went 4 inches. I was able to still reach him though thanks to Rising Crescendo (Run + Charge in the same turn). Even if he had assault moved I am not sure he would of made it far enough away. One of the harlequin squads hit a 23" movement that turn. The Harlies didnt need to move that far but they moved 6, ran 6, and then rolled an 11" charge. I dare to hope that I might actually do well in this event. Everything went relatively smooth in a game that I expected to get tabled.

Turn 1:
I fail to seize the initiative. Then i continue that luck right into my saves. My opponent manages to kill the shadowseer with a stormtalon. The tactical squad the snipers and the other storm talon fire into the farseer and jetbikes. Despite jinking for a 3+ save I manage to fail all but 2 saves this entire turn. My opponent even manages to wound the wraithknight with cassius's flamer as it has fleshbane, this also leads to the solitaire failing a save as he is under the same template. On my turn one I move the solitaire towards his scouts for a turn 2 charge. The wraithknight shoots at his centurions but he makes the one save he has to take there. I charge cassius with the wraithknight and manage to wound him but he makes his 4+ invul save. I deliberately miss with my stomps to keep the combat locked.

Turn 2:
He brings in his tyrannic vet squad on the left flank where they help finish of the solitaire. In combat the wraithknight fails to wound with both the stomps and his CC attacks as a mix of bad rolls + some decent saves keeps the combat going. He even manages to cause a wound to the wraithknight. He moves one stormtalon off of the board. My Harlequins begin to come onto the board but have no real target as the blob has a 3+ invul save thanks to forewarning+sanctuary. I move them onto the flank in an attempt to keep them away from a turn 3 charge/dakka from the blob. My starweaver comes in and gets immobilized. I do get a lucky shot off which kills a wyvern. I do get one unit of bikes in and turbo them across the board to take his objective but find out that his platoon command squad is not a company command squad (i.e. Obsec).

Turn 3:
His stormtalon comes in and he manages to kill off the starweaver. He moves the other stormtalon off the board. The ig blob manages to get some dakka off of the squad despite veil of tears. In addition, the blob gets off foreboding and the 3+ invul save. He charges his tactical squad on the left flank in to help cassius out. I finally mange to get a stomp off and roll a 6 killing cassius and the 4 tactical marines off in one blow. The wraithknight consolidates and tries to kill off the cent squad but fails miserably, he does manage to kill 3 of the tyranic vets. My last harlequin troupe comes in and gets laugh of sorrows off on the scouts killing them off. My squad on the right flank fails to get veil off which means the wyvern can see me just fine.

Turn 4:
With neither squad passing their veil of tears I am left in the open for shooting. His wyvern kills off the troupe squad on the right flank and leaves the shadowseer with one wound. On the right flank he shoots his stormtalon at the harlequin troup and kills off half the squad. He manages to get the 3+ invul save off again for the blob squad. On my turn the voidweaver comes in via deepstrike and scatters a little bit on the left flank. The deathjester comes in on the right flank and attempts to kill the pcs which happens to be his warlord. He passes a leadership 6 and then a leadership 8 to stay put. The wraithknight shoots and kills 2 centurions as they are now in the open. The wraithknights scatter laser fails to kill off the last tyranic vet. My harlequin squad on the left flank attempts to kill off the drop pod but I do not roll to hit so I cannot auto glance the pod. Both shadowseers peril this turn and the shadowseer on the right flank kills himself in the process. My skyweavers come in on the right flank and attempt to kill enough guardsmen to get coteaz. They only manage to kill off 2 or 3 guardsman as the blob has the 3++.

Turn 5:
He switches the stormtalons to hover and finishes the last harlequin troupe + warlord. He once again gets the 3++ invul on the blob as he one dices sanctuary succesfully for the 4th straight turn. The guard blob charges the skyweavers and kills them off with ease. The centurions shoot their bolters into the deathjester and kill him off. Alas the only two things left standing are the wraithknight and the voidweaver. I attempt to kill off a stormtalon but fail in the process. The wraithknight kills the last centurion and then charges cypher. We fight the battle out and I would kill cypher in the next turn. Ide like the dark angels to pay my reward in soul stones please.

This game was rough from the beginning. I really needed to go first or at least survive turn one better then i did. In the end it was a complete massacre 18 to 0 in favor of the space marines. However, the tournament did not sell out so I am theoretically not out of the running. I will need to max my points in just about every game to stay in this one. I hope you all enjoyed game two and as before please let me know if you have any suggestions and/or critiques to improve the reports.

I roll to seize and manage to not roll a which is the only way I could not seize. He scouts up his units of hounds and I infiltrate the solitaire and the shadowseer while outflanking the deathjester. I also reserve one unit of 3 bikes.

Turn 1: I fortune and guide my wraithknight as it moves up and gets a lucky on the damage table to kill off his soul grinder. I move up all 4 shuriken cannons in my army to target his skull cannons but fail to even get a glance. We actually make some game mechanic mistakes in this turn as he charges his flesh hounds that just scouted... this results in me losing my solitare and the farseer + 3 jetbikes as they fail their leadership and get swept. I didnt even notice this mistake until now. Funny what watching reports will show you. He moves up his bloodthrone and charges into the wraithknight in an attempt to lock me up. I get a pen result and explode the bloodthrone with my normal attacks. His skull cannons target the bikes with the farseer and kill 2 of them. The other skullcannon targets the harlequin vehicles but fails to penetrate and the other makes a 4+ mirage save.

Turn 2: A unit of harlequin troupe move up the middle ruins and kill off the hounds that were threatening the shadowseer. My wraithknight moves up and takes down a skull cannon while charging in to kill off his possessed squad. I charge and lock up a skull cannon with the unit of 5 harlequins which started the game embarked in the starweaver. My last unit of harlequins moves over and kill off what remains of his hound squad that charged and killed my farseer. My voidweaver pens one of his skullcannons and stuns the vehicle preventing it from shooting the next turn. He has a unit of bloodletters arrive from reserves and it deepstrikes on one of my objectives. The key thing that went my way in this turn was when he attempted to bring in a bloodthirster but failed the leadership test resulting in a failed summoning. I hit and run with my 5 man harlequin troupe to clear the way for other units to shoot his skullcannon.

Turn 3: My deathjester comes in from reserves on the left flank and fires into the rear of the wounded skullcannon and helps bring the vehicle down. My wraithknight moves to the center and fires both DCannon shots back at the last skullcannon killing it off. The wraithknight then shoots a scatter laser into some cultist before charging in to wipeout the squad. My harlequin troupes continue to advance and one squad charges in to wipe out his last unit of flesh hounds. He moves in two units of cultist and shoot + charge the harlequins in the open. I take a few casualties but win the combat and sweep both squads. His warlord dies in combat with the wraithknight and a bloodthirster is summoned on his side.

Turn 4: The wraithknight advances past the new bloodthirster and heads for his 15 man cultist squad. I send a unit of Harlequins after his bloodthirster. The harlequin troupe kill the bloodthirster despite losing 4 models before striking blows. The other harlequin troupe squad moves over to kill off his bloodletters. On the left flank the last 2 harlequins of the smaller harlequin troupe continue to hold onto his objective. After killing off his bloodthirster we go ahead and call the game.

Results:
Primary: Harlequins
Secondary: Harlequins
All 3 bonus: Harlequins
18-0 Victory for Harlequins/Eldar

This game really showed the strength of harlequins vs another dedicated assault army. I may die in droves to dakka and/or mass amounts of hits but if I can just strike first then its likely that nothing survives to swing back. The wraithknight did well in this game but the harlequin troupes carried the day. They killed off all 3 units of flesh hounds, 3 cultist squads, 2 bloodletter squad, and 1 bloodthirster. If I can just keep these guys alive enough to get to combat then I can win any game.