@Irisado- Thanks Irisado! I'm struggling to determine which direction to go with my army at this point so I may change my mind if a new revelation strikes me. I know you're not playing right now but if you have any input please let me know. I'm gonna post a full list of my entire army (collection) and my counts-as ideas/WIP's so maybe you can give me some advice on which direction to go.
@Grizzlykin- Thanks Grizz. You shall soon know/see that LoW. Get excited!
@Ibushi- Thanks Ibushi! I appreciate the compliments. Did you used to post on the BoLS forum? I think I recognize your army from from the bat-rep you posted. If you have that rose themed Dark Eldar army I saw there I want you to know that I love it! Also the Autarch/Archon combo is nasty. With majority T6 and the Archons 2++ tanking and look out-sir ID rarely happens. Yet even when it does it usually means my opponent has been focusing soley on my WWP bomb and not the rest of my army allowing that noose to tighten.
@Dread- Thanks buddy. Hope you're feeling well!
@Tangi- Thanks Tangi! Looking forward to see what paint scheme you choose for your Scions.
Hey guys unfortunatley my phone ran out of memory while I was playing the game. I was only able to snap a few pictures of my opponents armies… and who feels like like at a bunch of freaking Space Marines! The game was pretty fun but unfortunatley we didn't get to finish.
I was allied with a Necron player against two Space Marine armies one of which was Space Wolves. The way the mission was structured made the Eldar/Necron "alliance" make sense. Basically it started off turn 1 with just the Necrons and Wolves on the board. Turn 2 my army came out of reserves in a suprise ambush raid trying to repel the Imperial forces from taking control of 3 ancient orbital command stations. It wasn't so much as they were allied to the Necons as much as they didn't want the Imperials to get access to the command stations. A sort of enemy of enemy is my friend situation. Not exactly ace narrative material but it worked well enough and besides the Necron player is a super guy, new to the store who I was looking forward to playing with.
The game only went 4 turns and was totally up in the air. I was rocking 1250 pts and it was a baby version of my usual list.
Autarch- Banshee Mask, Fusion Gun, Soulshrive
Avengersx9
Wave Serpent: Scatter Lasers, Shuriken Cannon, Holofields
Avengersx9
Wave Serpent: Scatter Lasers, Shuriken Cannon, Holofields
Hornets x2
Nightwing
Wraithknight- Sun Cannon, Scatter Laser
I wont give a full report but the Necrons were holding it down till turn 2 when everything arrived out of reserves. The Thunderwolf cav were rampaging and my opponent forgot a number of very important rules like Hammer of Wrath, Rending with his Wraiths and Scarabs which really hurt, and they weren't able to take them out/hold them. I focused on dealing with the Marine airforce which had a Storm Raven, two escorting Talons and Stormwolf. I took out the Raven and one of the Talons, forcing the other one of the board with my Nightwing and a snapfiring Serpent. I was also able to wipe out a number of smaller squads and wrack up some wounds on the Thunderwolf cav with my Wraithknight (who I rarely equip with the Suncannon). By the end of the game I had lost my hornets and my Wraithknight had been caught by the Thunderwolves after they broke out of combat with the Wraiths/Scarabs on our turn. Thats basically where it ended. I think it would have been very hard to take out the Thunderwolves (though all 6 had taken a wound) without the Wraithknight and Wraiths. But who knows I still had both serpents on full hull points, my nightwing 18 Avengers and my Warlord.
The game wasn't using secondary objectives (which I didn't know and didn't like!) but it was all good cause the guys I was playing with are still getting up to speed with 7th ed after coming back after a lengthy break.
Anyway I've got another 2v2 game against 2 Space Wolf armies. This time my brother is my ally!!! We're working on getting his units all painted up for the game. So expect some Imperial stuff in addition to my own units. My brother will be assigned to take out those Thunderwolves which are so dang tough… but I'm working on a solution of my own as these Space Wolf players are growing in number at my store.
Also….. I'm getting paid for my first commission and that order to FW will go in by the end of the week. Lord of War here we come! So stay tuned for that and more pix I promise.