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Our first battle report! Phil's Seer Council vs. Matt's Thunderstar in this ITC Format Mission.

Phil's List: https://goo.gl/9Dh7lq
Phil's Powers: https://goo.gl/r6Pqk8
Matt's List: https://goo.gl/3bgJRw

Im always glad to watch competitive play bat raps

Interesting report. I know the Thunderstar type army exists, but I've yet to encounter one, so this is good to see. Not quite sure how to handle it in an ITC build format as an Eldar player.

Hemlock fighters will tear it up.

 Dozer Blades wrote:
Hemlock fighters will tear it up.

Tear up TWC? I think you are flat-out wrong. TWC are too fast and by the time your fighters come on theres a good chance the TWC are in combat or have completely switched sides of the field. That unit is so big (33 models I believe) that if he wants to he can make it EXTREMELY difficult to land your flyer and get off a desirable shot. You are really overestimating the power of D-lite.

I thought Hemlock fighters can drop their SD while zooming. If I'm wrong forgive me.

The WolfStar army is extremely one dimensional even though it can Voltron. I felt like the eldar player threw the towel in very early.

 Dozer Blades wrote:
I thought Hemlock fighters can drop their SD while zooming. If I'm wrong forgive me.

The WolfStar army is extremely one dimensional even though it can Voltron. I felt like the eldar player threw the towel in very early.

It can but its only two 3" blasts plus it can shriek. They wouldn't do too much. Armies like that are the reason why battle bros should disappear IMHO.

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Dozer Blades wrote:
I thought Hemlock fighters can drop their SD while zooming. If I'm wrong forgive me.

The WolfStar army is extremely one dimensional even though it can Voltron. I felt like the eldar player threw the towel in very early.

It can but its only two 3" blasts plus it can shriek. They wouldn't do too much. Armies like that are the reason why battle bros should disappear IMHO.

Its an extreme army that has counters and can suffer from things going really wrong (stomps can really mess it up), I think getting rid of battle brothers because of TWC lists is pretty crazy.

Thanks for the intersting batrep! I've never seen those two hardcore builds in action but it looks a little boring I fear. Oh well, still good rep!

hmmm first off I thought I turned on notifications for people posting in this thread. Apparently I didn't so apologies for ignoring the thread!

 Mrstealthrttt wrote:
Im always glad to watch competitive play bat raps

Thanks! I plan on doing more but real life is getting in the way

Sarigar wrote:Interesting report. I know the Thunderstar type army exists, but I've yet to encounter one, so this is good to see. Not quite sure how to handle it in an ITC build format as an Eldar player.

Yeah Thunderstar is a beast. So I ended up taking Thunderstar to LVO and I can say that D-Scythes in nerfed invis environment really hurt it. Also since you're eldar you can get a lot of MSU going on. Which means you can be in 15 spots at once on the board, while the Thunderstar can only be in one.

 Dozer Blades wrote:
I thought Hemlock fighters can drop their SD while zooming. If I'm wrong forgive me.
The WolfStar army is extremely one dimensional even though it can Voltron. I felt like the eldar player threw the towel in very early.

The reason why I called it early was because that particular Thunderstar I couldn't really do anything against. I could engage it in combat but with nerfed Invisibility and rerolls it wasn't going to be pretty. I said the same thing in the video, if those two things weren't nerfed I would have gone into melee with it. And I couldn't cast any psychic powers at it because of the Null Rod, which is what does most of the damage dealing for a council.

As I'm always looking for ways to get better do you have any suggestions of what to do versus this particular Thunderstar (null rod and grenade caddy inquisitors)?

BlackCadian wrote:Thanks for the intersting batrep! I've never seen those two hardcore builds in action but it looks a little boring I fear. Oh well, still good rep!

Thanks! And yeah one big unit can be boring to play with or against.