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Hi Dakka!

So I've just come back from October's TOS (first week) after taking my crazy eldar list. And after some great games, was pipped to the title of best Eldar by a single favourite army vote. I scored one more point in games than the guy who won my category, but he had an extra favourite army vote and pipped me. Gutted, as I thought that my army was quite different, and it would have been nice to win!

My list was:

Eldrad

10 x Wraithguard w/Spiritseer + Singing Spear (Conceal)
10 x Wraithguard w/Spiritseer + Singing Spear (Conceal)
10 x Wraithguard w/Spiritseer + Singing Spear (Conceal)

Harlequins w/Kisses x 6

Harlequins w/Kisses x6
Harlqeuin x 1

I know this looks insane given the current meta, but I had great success with it (and fortunately avoided dark eldar all weekend!).

Game 1 was Capture + Control / Dawn of War vs Imperial Guard. Nasty list with lots of plasma + Melta vets, as well as 2 Leman Russes, and an Executioner with no less than 5 (thats FIVE) plasma cannons. Fortunately I got to go first, so Eldrad and 2 units of wraithguard were 3/4 accross the table by the end of turn one. If the game had ended earlier than turn 7 i'd have won, but the final shot by the final veteran on the final wraithguard on my objective sealed the draw.

Game 2 was Annihilation / Spearhead vs Raven Guard. After Shrike's infiltrating terminators finished powermashing 2 units of harlequins, I managed to take them out with some concentrated wraithcannon fire. Nailing another tactical squad got me the narrow 3-2 win.

Game 3 was Seize Ground / Pitched Battle vs Blood Angels. This game was quite interesting, as I hadn't came up against the sanguinor in quite some time. Deep striking Furiosos with blenders got blown to pieces quite early on, and the harlequins managed to take out a nasty terminator squad as well. I ended up getting the wipeout at the end of turn 5.

Game 4 was Annihilation / Pitched Battle vs Blood Angels. This was another interesting game, but I was lucky that my opponent didn't play very aggressively. More deep striking dreadnoughts got shot, in what turned out to be quite a cagey game.

Game 5 was Seize Ground / Dawn of War vs Blood Angels (again!!). This game was easily the most exciting and enjoyable game of 40k i've ever played. The chap I was playing also won the best painted army, which was absolutely stunning. His sanguinor was done as sanguinius, and it's honestly one of the nicest paintjobs ive ever seen. After 3 turns of nip + tuck positioning, he went into overdrive, tank shocking 2 units of harlequins with Land raiders! Both units (to my utter horror) fell back, leaving the wraithguard to get charged by angry terminators + an assault squad. The wraithguard held though, and when the harlequins rallied, it literally turned into one almighty scrap in the centre of the table. After 3 turns of literally clubbing each other to death, The Sanguinor jumped out to assault Eldrad's unit. The whole game basically boiled down to my turn 7 - 5 Wraithguard needed to kill the sanguinor (with one wound left), otherwise he would charge me and pull me off both the objectives I was holding. Eldrad failed to cast Guide, Guide, and doom, thanks to the earlier immobilised Librarian Dreadnought. So it was down to pure blind luck! 5 hits, 5 wounds, and.... JUST dying! Literally the whole game rested on that unit's shooting. An amazing game which I just sneaked 2 objectives to 1, and worth the price of admission alone.

So i'm really delighted with how the Wraithguard got on. I'm really disappointed not to have won best Eldar, but I know that the Wraithguard are a force to be reckoned with. That having been said, I think Eldrad is long overdue a holiday. Next up for me, are my Necrons!

So any other GT stories from the weekend? I'd love to read more!

Hi,

Nice report mate, I think i remember seeing your army there!

Cant really remember my battles that well, but can say armies and result.

My List (Necrons):

Deciever

Necron Lord w/Destroyer Body, Warscythe, Phase Shifter and res orb

3 x Wraiths
3 x Wraiths
3 x Wraiths

11 x Warriors
11 x Warriors

2 x Monoliths

Game 1 was against an ork kan wall. Result win to Crons!

Game 2 was Sisters Of Battle. Result was another win for Crons

Game 3 was a Tau army with 9 Broadsides! This was one of my favourite games and was a great opponent, end result was a draw.

Game 4 was a very elite Grey Knight army on kill points :( was a really close game, and I just managed to scrape the win in the end

Game 5 was blood angels which was another win for the Crons

End result was 4 wins and a draw, which meant I got best Cron player and got best overall as well!

I think I was actually playing neext to you in round 5! Good job mate on winning with a tough army. It's good to see the outdated codexes doing well - thats why I went with my Wraithguard!

I don't think ive ever seen so many grey knights in one place at a time...

Interesting, you guys did well against some elite opponents! Cron 01 I'm stunned that you did so well with crons, from what I've seen they are the hardest dex to win with. Well done!

Cheers mate

Indeed, well done to you both.

How relaxed did you find your opponents ? In the old format the ToS was always fairly chilled and gentlemanly, one would assume that the current format really only encourages this ?

I think it's a shame that it's dropping back down to 1500 for next year.

Everyone I played was pretty chilled out, had a really good weekend yeah it is a shame, it was really good at 1750.