Quick and Dirty Batrep: vs Eldar 1850
Hey guys,
I played a game today vs Eldar today. I was so sure that I would lose i took no pics! So instead enjoy a little vassal style batrep.
The eldar players list was like so.
HQ
Farseer on jetbike with mantle of laughing.
Troop
waveserp
x5 dire avengers
waveserp
x5 dire avengers
waveserp
x5 dire avengers
waveserp
x5 dire avengers
waveserp
x5 wraithguard
HS
wraithknight
with heavy distortion cannon
wraithknight
with heavy distortion cannon
I knew that it would be pretty tough and although I didn't know his exact list going in, i had seen him post a similar list on the forum of our club. Expecting something like the list above I resolved to come up with a list to counter it.
Azreal
Libby ML2
DWK x5
Troops,
DWT x5 cml, th/ssx1
Tacticals - x7 combimelta, meltagun Rhino
Tacticals - x7 combimelta, meltagun Rhino
RAS x3 meltagunsx2, MMAB, sgt meltabombs
RAS x3 meltagunsx2, MMAB
Predator all las
LRC w/ multimelta
Deployment.
I got to go first. It was a maelstrom mission. I took the reserve munipulation warlord trait. Azzy was placed with one tact squad and libby with the other. DWK were in LRC. I rolled psychic powers on telepathy and got invis, and shrouding.
DA1 - Some shuffling with movement and a mistake is made as i cast invis from inside the rhino. this wasn't a huge issue as i could have just gotten out and cast it. No real damage. 1 objective claimed. Total 1vp
E1 - Serpent shields go to work. Wraithknights advance (not sure why as they are armed for shooting, maybe he wanted to pound my LRC) and Azzy's rhino is destroyed. 2 HP placed on predator from Hvy distotion (both wraithknights). one objective acheived. 2vp
DA2 - LRC advances, DWT deep strike into his backfield and bikers all come on (thanks to Azzy reserve manipulaion). Libby again gets off invis on the DWK. Shooting from outflankers and DWT kills off 2 waveserpents and forces 2 more to jink. in combat the invisible DWK kill off 1 wraithknight (big game hunter achieved for 2vp). 1 one obj claimed. Total 4vp
E2 - disembarked wraith guard use ap2 flamers to toast all my bikers but one on the opposite side of the board. other serpents try to shoot as well, but jink hampers their fire. Wratih knight gets into combat with the LRC and imbolizes it twice placing 3 HP on it.
DA3 - LIbby tries to invis the DWK again but fails. The libby rhino moves forward and squad inside tries to hit a functional waveserp, but it jinks everything attack bike also fails to get through the holofields. the DWkinghts charge the second WK, Azzy charges the Warlord who is at midfield, DWT in the backfield can try to charge two dire avenger squads who are holding back field objectives. Knowing that the wraith guard pose a threat to Azzy and Co. the DWT try for a multicharge dire aveng. and wraithguard. This turns out to be a bad idea as only the sergent survives out of 4DWT and by all rights there were several invul saves that had to be made for that to occur. Incombat the WKnight takes out one DWT and takes a wound, but from here on out its gonna be tough as its the knight master that goes down. meaning every one is now AP4. In combat azzy puts two wounds on the farseer. In combat the DWT kills one Dire avenger.
E3 - With a lot of stuff in combat the Eldar dont have much to shoot at, and dire avengers get out of Wave serp and kill the last remaining attack bike. the other two wave serpents can't hurt or cant see the predator. The farsser guides the wriathknight after I am able to Deny prescience. In combat the WK slays two more DWK. the DWT kills off the Dire avengers, and the farseer makes his saves but can't even hurt azreal.
DA4 - The librarian squad tries to surround the waveserpent and the libby plans to charge the Dire avengers. meanwhile he casts psy shriek on the wraith knight and rolls a 13 bringing it down to 1 wound. the shooting from the librarians tactical squad brings blows up the waveserpent with a single pen. The predator then proceeds to 1 shot a wave serpent that shot at him last turn, LRC fires on the wriathguard. in combat the WK splatters another DWK, Azreal kills off the farseer (kill warlord, and slay the witch), and the DWT sargent charges the dire avengers that haven't been moved. The libby fails his charge. 2VPs Total 6VP
E4 - The lone surviving Waveserpent, tries move up to contest an objective, and the wraithguard move close to flame azreal and the recently freed up tactical squad. the dire avengers that had shot up an attack bike move further back. the wraithguard flamers cant get through the invul saves, and lone waveserp can only kill one marine. Wraithknight kills lone remaining DWK and moves into ruins.
DA5 - The librarian casts invisibility on the tactical squad and prepares to charge the dire avengers. Azreal and his squad prepare to charge the wraithguard. The LRC fires on the Wraithguard killing one, and forces the waveserpent to jink. The predator fires on the WK who cant make its cover save and loses its last wound. Azreal and Co. charge into combat with the wraithguard. Librarian and tactical squad fail their charge.
E5 - The slightly defleated eldar player decides to conceded defeat.
Final score 7 - 2 Dark Angel's
I'll post some vassal pics in a little while.
Summary well i wish i had taken some pics, cause that was amazing. Albeit my opponent was still learning the rules to 7th, but hey when you come with fire power like that, no mercy. I forgot to tell him that you could discard, which was an honest mistake, but I dont feel too bad as he did have a copy of the rule book himself. Apparently he had two four point objective cards that he couldn't claim since azreal and the tacticals were in combat right on top of it. Im sure that may have made the game closer but I was controlling alot of turf by that time.
Multicharging the wraithguard was not smart, and that is something that I will have to think about for next time. Then again since my attacking power was reduced by so much I was able to stay locked in combat and not get fried by wave serpents or AP 2 flamers.
I was quite lucky not to lose vehicles to the WKnight shooting as those things are nasty. This was my first time playing against eldar and i was pretty happy with my performance. I knew i would need some luck versus those two wraith knights and I got it with the knights killing one with smite. After that i knew that they were on a suicide mission to just hold up the other big fella. Otherwise by having multiple small squads threatening and making those waveserpents jink I was able to do pretty well. bringing multiple melta guns made the list a bit more threatening while azreal made the tacticals very durable. Man I wish azreal had an assault weapon. Overall a great result against a powerlist that I really had no buisness beating, but i think good strategy and a little list tailoring and I was able to make a game of it.
I played a game today vs Eldar today. I was so sure that I would lose i took no pics! So instead enjoy a little vassal style batrep.
The eldar players list was like so.
HQ
Farseer on jetbike with mantle of laughing.
Troop
waveserp
x5 dire avengers
waveserp
x5 dire avengers
waveserp
x5 dire avengers
waveserp
x5 dire avengers
waveserp
x5 wraithguard
HS
wraithknight
with heavy distortion cannon
wraithknight
with heavy distortion cannon
I knew that it would be pretty tough and although I didn't know his exact list going in, i had seen him post a similar list on the forum of our club. Expecting something like the list above I resolved to come up with a list to counter it.
Azreal
Libby ML2
DWK x5
Troops,
DWT x5 cml, th/ssx1
Tacticals - x7 combimelta, meltagun Rhino
Tacticals - x7 combimelta, meltagun Rhino
RAS x3 meltagunsx2, MMAB, sgt meltabombs
RAS x3 meltagunsx2, MMAB
Predator all las
LRC w/ multimelta
Deployment.
I got to go first. It was a maelstrom mission. I took the reserve munipulation warlord trait. Azzy was placed with one tact squad and libby with the other. DWK were in LRC. I rolled psychic powers on telepathy and got invis, and shrouding.
DA1 - Some shuffling with movement and a mistake is made as i cast invis from inside the rhino. this wasn't a huge issue as i could have just gotten out and cast it. No real damage. 1 objective claimed. Total 1vp
E1 - Serpent shields go to work. Wraithknights advance (not sure why as they are armed for shooting, maybe he wanted to pound my LRC) and Azzy's rhino is destroyed. 2 HP placed on predator from Hvy distotion (both wraithknights). one objective acheived. 2vp
DA2 - LRC advances, DWT deep strike into his backfield and bikers all come on (thanks to Azzy reserve manipulaion). Libby again gets off invis on the DWK. Shooting from outflankers and DWT kills off 2 waveserpents and forces 2 more to jink. in combat the invisible DWK kill off 1 wraithknight (big game hunter achieved for 2vp). 1 one obj claimed. Total 4vp
E2 - disembarked wraith guard use ap2 flamers to toast all my bikers but one on the opposite side of the board. other serpents try to shoot as well, but jink hampers their fire. Wratih knight gets into combat with the LRC and imbolizes it twice placing 3 HP on it.
DA3 - LIbby tries to invis the DWK again but fails. The libby rhino moves forward and squad inside tries to hit a functional waveserp, but it jinks everything attack bike also fails to get through the holofields. the DWkinghts charge the second WK, Azzy charges the Warlord who is at midfield, DWT in the backfield can try to charge two dire avenger squads who are holding back field objectives. Knowing that the wraith guard pose a threat to Azzy and Co. the DWT try for a multicharge dire aveng. and wraithguard. This turns out to be a bad idea as only the sergent survives out of 4DWT and by all rights there were several invul saves that had to be made for that to occur. Incombat the WKnight takes out one DWT and takes a wound, but from here on out its gonna be tough as its the knight master that goes down. meaning every one is now AP4. In combat azzy puts two wounds on the farseer. In combat the DWT kills one Dire avenger.
E3 - With a lot of stuff in combat the Eldar dont have much to shoot at, and dire avengers get out of Wave serp and kill the last remaining attack bike. the other two wave serpents can't hurt or cant see the predator. The farsser guides the wriathknight after I am able to Deny prescience. In combat the WK slays two more DWK. the DWT kills off the Dire avengers, and the farseer makes his saves but can't even hurt azreal.
DA4 - The librarian squad tries to surround the waveserpent and the libby plans to charge the Dire avengers. meanwhile he casts psy shriek on the wraith knight and rolls a 13 bringing it down to 1 wound. the shooting from the librarians tactical squad brings blows up the waveserpent with a single pen. The predator then proceeds to 1 shot a wave serpent that shot at him last turn, LRC fires on the wriathguard. in combat the WK splatters another DWK, Azreal kills off the farseer (kill warlord, and slay the witch), and the DWT sargent charges the dire avengers that haven't been moved. The libby fails his charge. 2VPs Total 6VP
E4 - The lone surviving Waveserpent, tries move up to contest an objective, and the wraithguard move close to flame azreal and the recently freed up tactical squad. the dire avengers that had shot up an attack bike move further back. the wraithguard flamers cant get through the invul saves, and lone waveserp can only kill one marine. Wraithknight kills lone remaining DWK and moves into ruins.
DA5 - The librarian casts invisibility on the tactical squad and prepares to charge the dire avengers. Azreal and his squad prepare to charge the wraithguard. The LRC fires on the Wraithguard killing one, and forces the waveserpent to jink. The predator fires on the WK who cant make its cover save and loses its last wound. Azreal and Co. charge into combat with the wraithguard. Librarian and tactical squad fail their charge.
E5 - The slightly defleated eldar player decides to conceded defeat.
Final score 7 - 2 Dark Angel's
I'll post some vassal pics in a little while.
Summary well i wish i had taken some pics, cause that was amazing. Albeit my opponent was still learning the rules to 7th, but hey when you come with fire power like that, no mercy. I forgot to tell him that you could discard, which was an honest mistake, but I dont feel too bad as he did have a copy of the rule book himself. Apparently he had two four point objective cards that he couldn't claim since azreal and the tacticals were in combat right on top of it. Im sure that may have made the game closer but I was controlling alot of turf by that time.
Multicharging the wraithguard was not smart, and that is something that I will have to think about for next time. Then again since my attacking power was reduced by so much I was able to stay locked in combat and not get fried by wave serpents or AP 2 flamers.
I was quite lucky not to lose vehicles to the WKnight shooting as those things are nasty. This was my first time playing against eldar and i was pretty happy with my performance. I knew i would need some luck versus those two wraith knights and I got it with the knights killing one with smite. After that i knew that they were on a suicide mission to just hold up the other big fella. Otherwise by having multiple small squads threatening and making those waveserpents jink I was able to do pretty well. bringing multiple melta guns made the list a bit more threatening while azreal made the tacticals very durable. Man I wish azreal had an assault weapon. Overall a great result against a powerlist that I really had no buisness beating, but i think good strategy and a little list tailoring and I was able to make a game of it.
Nice. I don't support the list catering but it is DA vs a heavy duty Eldar list. Solid performance. I actually thought you were going to be handed a serious ass-whupping.
ReplyDeleteSince I was playing a powerlist, i have to say i felt no qualms tailoring against it. Even with the tailoring, I was taking azreal who's so non'competitive its not even funny. Maybe this list could function versus all comers, I don't know. It was fun to try out though and the result was amazing.
ReplyDeleteand the other thing is if he had changed up his list, (which is something I often try to d.) then the list tailoring could completely backfire. I feel that firendly games are all about bringing the unexpected.
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