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I am having a series of games next week and I am looking for some feedback. I will be facing two other opponents, one using an Eldar fleet and the other will be using an Imperial Fleet.

Chaos Warmaster - no upgrades - 100pts

Despoiler Class Battleship - 400 pts

2 Repulsive Class Grand Cruisers (with upgraded range) - 480

3 Devstation Class Cruisers - 570

3 Carnage Class Cruisers - 540

5 Infidel Escorts - 200

5 Infidel Escorts - 200
Total: 2490

My strategy for the eldar fleet, is to spend the first couple of turns using my long range weapons batteries to herd his ships to into less and less space, therefore limiting his manuverability. To prevent him from slipping behind my fleet, I think that a deployment in depth will solve that problem: the Carnages and the Repulsives in front, the Despoiler and the Devestations behind them, and the two Infidel squadrons in the rear to provide a quick reation force to deal with any unwelcome suprises. The biggest problem I will encounter in his fleet are his two Voidstalkers, the extended range of their weapons combined with its speed they are the only ships in his fleet that have the ability to sucsessfully hit me and run away out of range of my 60cm guns.

The Imperial fleet will be much more dificult to deal with. I am reasonably sure that I will enjoy ordnace supremacy (32 torpedoes and 20 launch bays). In light of this, I plan to use my Infidel squadrons and the Repulsives to launch torpedoes, to deal with his fighter screens, infront of my fighters/bombers/assaultboats who will be aiming at his ships equiped with nova cannons. The rest of my fleet will hang back and take long range potshots at the rest of his fleet forcing it to advance closer. At this point I will concentrate my fire on one ship at a time until it is either dead or atempting to disengage.

Any feedback, good or bad would be appreciated.
Preemptive thanks,
Goruss

I like the list, it certainly has some kick behind it,

Your tacti agaisnt the eldar seems liek a sound one, I'm assuming your deployment would be 2 lines similar to the old naval warfare kind of deployments. Do you intend to turn ships out of the line to help prevent them from over taking you and attacking your stern. Something like this below ? ( each line is a shp, the last 4 are the turning out to engage ?)


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The imperial fleet, I would use the torpedoes to attack his ships not his fighters, use your fighters to intercept his and protect your torpedoes. You also want to get into combat range as fast as you can if he has a lot of nova cannons or you can be sure that you will get a pounding before you reach him. I would suggest using pairs to enage a designated ship, that way you can set out to deal as much damage as posible on a broader range of ships.

It seems like a decent list, I agree. Don't forget that you can use the Infedel's torps to remove the IN's (torpedos mutualy anihilate). This will also help you on the ordnance battle. In all honesty, I think you would be better off using your launch bays defensively at first and focusing your direct fire on the NC-armed ships; since most are cruisers, it won't take much to either cripple them or convince them to brace, both of which woudl neutralize the NC threat.

Ok thanks for the replys so far. It seems that you think my strategy against the eldar will work and I need to change tactics against the imperial fleet.

In light of this, New Plan:

I will keep the deployment the same and just change the targeting priorities. First turn, launch my fighters ahead of a wave of torpedoes, during the next turns I will launch squadrons of bombers with fighter escorts and use my escorts to snipe his large torpedoe waves. To deal with his nova cannon ships, I will target them with my long range lances and batteries. As the fleets close, my ships will team up to hit his ships as sugested by Wolf.

@Wolf
That is essentially how I want to deploy, with a few differences. I want my capital ship squadrons to be about 45cm away from each other, to provide overlapping fields of fire and to prevent torpedoes from hiting multiple squadrons. My carrier ships will hang out in the middle taking potshots at and eldar ships that get within range. My escorts will act as a mobile reserve to hold up any ships that make it around my fleet and kill them or delay them long enough for one of my capital ships to turn around

Yeah this sounds like a much better battle plan now. Since you have the weight of ordanace you need to use it to your advantage like firghter superiority and such.

I Like the idea of the lay out of your lines for the eldar, telling me where those extra ships are and what they will be doing helps me map it out better, it's a very good tactic and should go well if the dice gods are in your favour.

Effectice fleet (no Despoiler fan here).

You will lack re-rolls though. Your carriers will need them. Especially in those big battles.

Pity you know what your opponets will field (blind enemies are much cooler regarding list design).

Also, fluffwise your fleet is boring with all the same kinds of ships. But that's me. Fluffy and all.


Imperial Navy:
Emperor
2x Excorcist
2x Dictator
So we got allready 24 launch bays... with ease. So be prepared.

In 2500pts I would not be upset if the IN shows up with 5 Nova Cannon. No cheese to me.



Your fleet being so much apart? Be wary of a fast Eldar fleet picking of one side, negating the complete other side of your fleet. Use AC wisely.


Use a BIG table for this.
120x180 is perfect up to 2000pts.

But for this I recommend something bigger.