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HQ

Farsight

Commander with 2x fusion, drone controller, targetlock, iradium armor - 2x marker drones

Bodyguard Unit - 5 suits, 2 dual plasma, 2 dual fusion, command suit with C&C, multispectrum, vector thrusters, puretide - 2xmarker, 6x gun drones

Troops

10x kroot, 8x hounds, 2x krootox

9x firewarriors

Fast Attack

3x Pirahanas with fusion

Heavy Support

2x Broadsides with high yield, SMS, targetlock and 4 missile drones

2x spotters and 6x snipers


Army Comments - usually I use a farsight/shadowsun deathstar and 2 riptides at 1500, but my opponent was new to 6th and hasn't played in a few years so I went with a new list, playing around with some new stuff. The biggest being I wanted to use a drone unit detached from the pirahanas with a commander which I did.


Eldar Army

HQ

Autarch with warp generator, fireblade relic and fusion blaster

Farseer


ELITE

8x scorpions one was an exarch with claw

TROOPS

10x dire avengers with exarch with powersword and shimmer shield

10x dire avengers with exarch with powersword and shimmer shield

5x Rangers

5x Rangers

Fast Attack

8x warpspiders with exarch with deathspinners and fast shot

Heavy Supports

Fireprism with holo field

Wraith Knight with suncannon/scatter, and scatter laser


Eldar Comments - He told me he planned to beat me with the wraith knight!



Pregame analysis - He seemed to have a good footdar list, the only thing I am scared of are the prism and thw wraith knight. I cant kill the knight without spending a lot of resources so I am going to ignore it and keep away from it as best I can and kill everything else. My target priority is the scorpions who will likely infiltrate to be a pain and the warpspiders with there insane movement and shots.



Big guns never tire

purge the alien? (whatever the kill point mission was)


Eldar won first turn opted to go second.

Tau deploy - Left side I put my snipers, then kroot wall with suits behind it, my right flank had the broadsides, pirahana who detached gun drones the commander picked up

Eldar deploy - he did a refused flank in front of the snipers with this big line of sight blocking mesa and a few buildings between his army and the bulk of mine. Directly in front of my snipers was a big blob of dires and warpspiders with the autarch in the spierrs farseer in the dires. Behind them was the prism and behind him was the knight. His scorpions infiltrated on the right right to threaten my broadsides. The rangers infiltrated into various perches with good cover in the middle of the board.

no night fight

ELDAR SEIZE INIATIVE...son of a....


Eldar turn 1

He decides my snipers are dangerous as they can easily throw some wounds on the knight and so he opens up on them with everything including the wraith knight and gets them down to one spotter. The fire prism then opens up on my kroot with his large blast, they were in cover though (forest) and he killed 2 hounds.

The scorpions move up on my broadsides and shoot them killing 2 drones.

Tau turn 1

I had very few options to shoot. I focused my commander/drones and broadsides on the scorpions and in that torrent of fire I cut them down to the exarch and one scorpion, the pass morale. The star unit moved towards his army but I had a lot of line of sight blocking terrain between me and him. The kroot and tau huddled up in the woods and fired on one dire avenger unit the commander markerd killing 5. (str 5 guns kill elder good) They pass morale.

My pirahanas move behind los terrain to wait for the prism to come out of the back corner

Eldar Turn 2

Eldar advance since the tau had pulled back. The only thing in range was the prism and wraith knight. They fired on the kroot in the woods and killed a few, kroot in woods have nice cover saves!


The last two remaining scorpions decide to charge the broadsides. The broadsides and the commader/drone unit overwatch and do only 5 wounds....HE PASSED ALL OF THEM!! scorpions eat my broadsides and then consolidate behind a wall on my side of the board to hold line breaker and they stay hidden for the rest of the game (3 victory points to eldar)

Tau Turn 2

Pirahanas come flying out and flat out to get closer to the prisms for a shot next turn I hope.

The command suit jumps around the big intervening terrain and a few drones had range on one sniper unit but do not wounds.

The deathstar hops forward and can see 3 direavengers around a building and kill them easily.

Kroot and tau with their 30" guns can see direavengers with most of the units but only kills 4

Eldar turn 3

The unwounded and the neutered Dire avengers move forward to shoot the kroot and kill 3 (4+ cover woot) The warpspiders move on my pirahanas moving 16" with the jump generators, then 6" with battlefocus.....so the autarch with his fusion gun is in melta range, him plus the 17?18? str 7 shots kill 2 pirahanas....lordy....

The farseer who had eldritch storm also dropped a big ol pie plate on my kroot killing 2 and 1 firewarrior (he also guided the prism every turn)

The knight shoots at my star which was spread out to limit blast damage but also meant his suncannon became a sunsniper rifle...He would hit with the scatterlaser, killed one drone, then he dropped 3 consecutive blasts on farsight, but for only 1 wound (thank you invuln)

The prism shot at the suits as well and even with guide it deviated away from everyone (rolled a 10" then an 11", haha!)


Tau Turn 3

Deathstar and commander/with drones move further towards him (we were that far...) but they are now in range of his spiders who warped a country mile for the pirahanas. The drones actually kill 4 (he rolled 4 1s for saves from6 total wounds) the all those plasma guns and fusion guns knocked them down to just the autarch. The pirhana then tried to insta gib him and he saved.....

The kroot and the firewarriors move out of cover and moves towards the dire avengers (no idea why I did that...to charge?) they then tried their best to shoot at the dire avengers but a lot had no sight (big mesas in the way) and I only killed 3.

Eldar Turn 4

He starts things off with his wraithknight, and after seeing the amount of twinlinked ignores cover shots my deathstar did he finally realized farsight is not the target. Sun cannon sniper rifle then goes for my command suit and dropped all 3 small blasts his way to kill him (the second one deviated I think) the third also deviated and clipped the command suit (killing him) and put a wound on a plasma suit. ((no idea why my kroot were not bubble wrapping me instead of hiding in the bushes)

His sniper rifles and 3 man dire avengers open up on the deathstar as well and manager to kill the leading 4 gun drones leaving me with 2 and 2 markers.

the autarch tried to pop the last pirahana and fails

The mostly full direavenger squad with the farseer moved up as well and unloaded eldritch storm and a ton of shuriken cats at them killing 6. The fire prism decided to join the fun and pie plate them as well killing another bunch (don't remember how many it deviated and clipped a few)

Tau Turn 4

The pirahana finally gets in range of the prism for rear shots even! He is not in melta range though and fails the glance/pen.

The commander with the drones continue the death march from one end of the board to the other in hopes that next turn they come around back the prism and help the pirahans kill it, but for now they unload into a 5 man ranger squad removing it from the game.

The kroot, tau and deathstar unload and remove from the game the remaining dire avengers

Eldar Turn 5

Remaining Forces - Autarch, Farseer, 5 man snipers, Fire Prism, Wraith Knight

Wraith knight who has been hiding in the back corner ALL GAME finally realizes he is a T8, 6 wound behemoth with an invuln save and the best strength my tau have is an 8.....He decides to jump up and assault my death star. First though he fires on them killing 2 drones with the laser, the wounded plasma, and put a wound on another plasma.

Farseer fails guide and takes a wound from perils so he can eldritch storm the kroot. He kills a lot with a direct hit...gets them down to 5 I remember that since...The fire prism pie plates the kroot with a direct hit and kills the rest...which was 5

The autarch rolls doubles and kills himself with his warp generator!

5 snipers shoot my drone unit and kill 2 drones

The wraith knight makes his charge into the deathstar taking 3 wounds on the way in which he saved 2....Then rolls like...all 1s to hit, he hit once and pasted a suit. I soon realized my str 5 could not even scratch him....and since he had killed my command suit I was no longer stubborn but I passed leadership. Thankfully I had vector thrusters on another suit and used it to run.

Tau Turn 5

Deathstar passes leadership

Pirahana and commander with 2 fusions pop the prism

Drones kill the 5 snipers

Fire warriors gun down the farseer

At this point he has his 2 cowering scorpions and the knight left and I am up by 1 victory point, we were going to end it anyways and the roll game up game ends!

Eldar - 5 vps

First blood
Line Breaker
Sniper Unit
Kroot Unit
Broadsides

Tau - 8

Slay warlord
Farseer
Rangers
Rangers
Prism
Dires
Dires
Spiders

After action - This was my opponents first game in a long time and first game vs new tau with his new eldar...yeah he was out of his depth in some of the nuances of 40k 6th edition. He did well and learned a lot! Number 1 think is don't believe the internets in all cases. He was convinced his knight was going to die (from what?) so he hid it in the corner all game. Afterwards I showed him how many sniper/ str 8 shots it would take to drop it and that it was not worth it for me to spend the shooting from all my army save troops to try and kill it. If all 8 snipers were in rapidfire they could put maybe 2 wounds through his saves/invuln. The deathstar could do....2, plasmas at rapid fire? could do 1? maybe...ALL OF WHICH he has a 5+ invuln for....

I would rather ignore it.....

Anyways, next game we play this weekend I expect to see that thing rushing at me turn 1 to put the hurt on!





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