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Last night, I managed to beat myself with a Wraith Eldar list I found on the internet. It was a close game, (not really sure if that's a good thing or not ), but I felt that it shouldn't have been. Please feel free to make any comments about either side. I would be happy to PM someone the game file, if they would like to show a different approach.

1500 pts
Spearhead
Seize Ground-3 objectives

Eldar List
Eldrad Ulthran @ 210 Pts
w/10 Wraithguard @ 396 Pts
1 Spiritseer; Witchblade; Conceal

5 Dire Avengers @ 60 Pts
Falcon @ 180 Pts
Holo-Field; Spirit Stone; Missile Launcher; TL Shuriken Catapult; Pulse Laser

Yriel, Prince @ 155 Pts
w/ 10 G Storm Squad, Flamers(x2) @ 237 Pts
1 Warlock; Witchblade; Destructor
Wave Serpent; Spirit Stone; Shuriken Catapults; TL Shuriken Cannons

1 Wraithlord; Flamer (x2); Wraithsword); Scatter Laser @ 120 Pts
1 Wraithlord; Flamer (x2); Wraithsword; Bright Lance @ 140 Pts

Tau List
HQ
Shas'el
TL FB, CIB, HWMT, HWDC, HWTL, Stims, BK, 1 Shield Drone, 1 Gun Drone
Shas'vre
TL PR, Flamer, HWMT, HWDC, 2 Gun Drones
Shas'vre
TL PR, Flamer, HWMT, HWDC, 2 Shield Drones

Shas'el
MP, AFP, PosRel, HWMT

Elite
Shas'vre
TL Flamer, BC, HWMT, HWTL
Shas'ui
MP, FB

Fast Attack
7 Pathfinders
1 Shas'ui w/ BK

Pathfinder Devilfish
DP

Troops
6 FW

6 FW

11FW
1 Shas'ui w/BK

Heavy Support
Broadside Team
Shas'vre
BASS, BK, HWDC, HWTL, 2 Shield Drones
Shas'ui
BASS
Shas'ui
BASS

Hammerhead
RG, BC, MT, DP

Sniper Drone Team


Eldar won the roll-off and elected to go second
Tau attempted to steal the bacon and failed

Deployment
Got a little trigger happy. Look at the movement lines in the movement phase. The orange fire warriors are in the Pathfinder Devilfish, the blue HQ crisis team is waited for deep-strike coordinates. Eldrad is in the wave serpent and Yriel is in the Falcon. I felt like I deployed both sides pretty well, but I felt like I was a little conservative with the Eldar.

Turn 1 Tau Movement Phase

Moved the FW into cover, set up the Railhead for a submuntion blast at the Dire Avengers, moved devilfish into cover, supported the FW with the Crisis HQ and got ready to obliterate Storm Guardians.


Turn 1 Tau Shooting Phase

Killed one DA with the submunition round, less successful that I hoped. On the upside, obliterated the SG with flamers and beams killing 8. JSJ’ed the Crisis team out of the ruin in the assault phase


Turn 1 Eldar Movement Phase

With their options limited by the commanding fields of fire of the Broadsides, the eldar creep out of their deployment zone with the falcon hopping into the ruin to preserve the guardians and the wave serpent acting as a shield for the Bright lance Wraithlord.


Turn 1 Eldar Shooting Phase

The wraithlord missed with the Bright Lance

Here is the rest too tired for commentary
Turn 2 Tau Movement

Turn 2 Tau Shooting

Turn 2 Eldar Movement

Turn 2 Eldar Shooting and Assault

Turn 3 Tau Movement

Turn 3 Tau Shooting

Turn 3 Tau Assault

Turn 3 Eldar Movement

Turn 3 Eldar Shooting and Assault

Turn 4 Tau Movement

Turn 4 Tau Shooting and Assault

Turn 4 Eldar Movement

Turn 4 Eldar Shooting and Assault

Turn 5 Tau Movement

Turn 5 Tau Shooting and Assault

Turn 5 Eldar Movement

Turn 5 Eldar Shooting and Assault


Any thoughts on how to improve my play

just to comment on pictures... i dunno, you maybe recognize the units and the actions that are performed in the pics, but i got completely lost... maybe a description would not hurt, and use of pics just at the end of each round to show the position...

A brief account of what happend in each player's turn would be sufficiant. They're great looking pics, but i think we could get by with less than half.

I was about to mention that Tau can't steal the initiative, but a google search indicates you already know this. Looks like that error steered the last thread away from any actual tips.

Were you playing any particular deployment type?

Mission was seize ground with 3 objectives with a spearhead deployment

Tau need to set-up closer to the objectives and get those transports across the field faster.