The game was Spearhead with two objectives. His tactical squads and scouts hung around in his deployment zone not doing much all game while he attacked on his right with a Landraider and a 5man tac squad, while on his left he deepstruck 5 termies led by a Chaplain and a Dread in a drop pod which blew up one of my waveserpents in turn 1.
I made a serious error as i jumped Eldrad and 10 dire avengers and a 10 strong harlequin squad out to waste them. Shootig killed two terms even with doom and bladestorm, and then I realised I couldn't assault them in the same turn as hopping out of a moving vehicle (used to playing Deathwing). He proceeded to butcher the dire avengers and Eldrad turned and fled the board. oops. I managed to finish them off with the harlequins on their own, who then got pounded by a whirlwind shot and also fled the board.
Cutting a long story short, I contested his objective with a 5th turn flat out waveserpent, whille I held my own with a guardian squad coming in from reserve turn5. He got distracted shooting things with his Landraider so he didn't reach my objective (5 fire dragons jumped out of a falcon and at point blank range caused 3 hits, followed by all 3 failing to penetrate or even glance it. They then died horribly, incinerated by his flamestorm cannons.
Was fun playing with the Eldar, even tho the victory wasn't something to shout about against an inexperienced player. Not sure Eldrad is best with the dire avengers due to vulnerability in an assault, and I might try a normal farseer in future since I think Eldrad requires a bit of finesse I don't have yet. The wraithlord didn't do muchh but then he was protecting my objective, while the harlies were good but very vulnerable to firepower - these eldar are a bit more flimsy than the Deathwing...
Next week I am playing my Deathwing against a double autarch eldar army with 6 war walkers and 2-3 squads of fire dragons with lots of waveserpents, led by a guy who came midtable at the Caledonian uprising last weekend.
My Landraider isn't finished yet, in fact I have started on my second one as well so am doing two simultaneously, trying to get them tabletop ready. Your campaign sounds good, how's it going?
meant howling banshees not harlequins
ReplyDeleteHi Chris,
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you had an eldar army!
Yes, any eldar vehicle with an assault ramp would be sweet. It's pretty tricky deploying assault troops like striking scorpions and howling banshees from wave serpents. Eldrad wants to be somewhere where he can cast 3 powers a turn safely. That can be in the middle of a squad with fortune and a good armour save like scorpions or warlocks, but in this circumstance I would probably have left Eldrad in the wave serpent and just disembarked the dire avengers.
Our first campaign games are tomorrow. My eldar are assaulting a tau fortress at the same time as tyranids try to do the same. I have gone for long range shooting with 2 fire prisms and some high-end assault capabilities with banshees and harlequins. Later that day Mike's grey knights are battling with some orks that they encounter during a salvage operation.
We're planning on videoblogging both battles, so expect some uploads shortly!
Hi Paul,
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've got a 1500pt Eldar army but only undercoated at the moment. Makes a nice change from Deathwing.
I jumped Eldrad out to try and Mind War his Chaplain but failed and in hindsight it wasn't a good idea even if the Chaplain had been brain-fried! I could have moved out of charge range before disembarking.
Sounds cool, looking forward to seeing those videos.
Videos up:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/TeamClueless40K?feature=g-u-u