Thanks for the answers guys, yup Terrain sucked a bit, but I've seen worse - A nice big central piece of Cover would have been a
Good thing... On the other hand, it game me the opportunity to draw the DC in open ground, so I guess it wasn't all bad.
- Notice the BA player didn't bought Heavy Weapons to his Tac squads. I mean, who does that? No Powerfist either. Really, except for the Devastators and DC his force was subpar and I should have exploited it to wipe out the right flank early on instead of loitering around... My bad. (Yes, it hurts EGO
tm)
- Taking the fight to him was a good move I think, I like to take the initiative if I have a mobility advantage. However, I
think I should have made on the right instead of the left, same with the Lancelord as I already stated. I should have had a practice game to get me back in shape prior to the tourney... Yup.
- Perils of the Warp were awful in that game, but then having Runes of Witnessing make it more risky, although they saved me of failing my Powers 2 or 3 times...
- Rambo Yriel was a wonderful powertrip, too bad I failed 3 out of 4 saves for him or he'd be alive...
And now for the next implement...
Second Match
Second game was Mechanised Imperial Guard - Some may recognise the models from a previous batrep, one of my regular opponent...
His army as far as I remember:
HQ:- Command squad w/ Senior Officer w/ Fist and 4 Flamers, Carapace Armor
+ Chimera w/Multilaser, Heavy Bolter & Smoke Launchers (maybe X-tra Armor)
ELITE: None
TROOP:- 10 IG, 2 Plasma Gun, Sarge w/ Powersword, Carapace Armor
+ Chimera w/Multilaser, Heavy Bolter & Smoke Launchers (maybe X-tra Armor)
- 10 IG, 2 Plasma Gun, Sarge w/ Powersword, Carapace Armor
+ Chimera w/Multilaser, Heavy Bolter & Smoke Launchers (maybe X-tra Armor)
- 10 IG, 2 Plasma Gun, Sarge w/ Powersword, Carapace Armor
+ Chimera w/Multilaser, Heavy Bolter & Smoke Launchers (maybe X-tra Armor)
- 10 IG, 2 Melta Gun, Sarge w/ Powersword, Carapace Armor
+ Chimera w/Multilaser, Heavy Bolter & Smoke Launchers (maybe X-tra Armor)
HEAVY:- Leman Russ w/ Hull Lascannon and sponson Heavy Bolters (may have extras...)
- Leman Russ w/ Hull Lascannon and sponson Heavy Bolters (may have extras...)
FAST:- Hellhound (may have extra stuff...)
TOTAL: I wish I knew, around 1 500 pts?
Second Game was
Seize Ground (we rolled 3 Objectives) with
Pitched Battle deployment.
Deployment:(Left click/show image to enlarge)My opponent won the roll for First Turn and gave it to me...
I spread the Wraithguard so they could Hold 2 Objective (along with the Farseer and Yriel - and to protect them from these Pie Plates...) and put the Serpent/Avengers on the right corner in relative cover behind a wood. Keeping in mind that about everything in my force could take his pounding and kill what he had, I spread my army to cover all Objectives and hopefully get side Armor shots.
With hindsight, my Clowns weren't deployed centrally enough, which hindered their reaction capabilities as a counter assault unit... But you shall see.
He deployed his mechanised force in a kind of gunline, I couldn't know if he intended to rush me or just stay there and pound out, so...
First Turn: Darn, I forgot to take that pic - I suggest you refer to the Second Turn picture, I made some arrows to show were units got to on First Turn...
ELDAR Turn 1: PERILS!!! And fail of Fortune [sobs]. Advanced much everything to reposition in 4+ Cover (I'd need it), got VERY crappy Diffcult Terrain/Run rolls for the Harlies and WG, but that was the price to pay for having that 4+ Cover, and anyway I didn't plan to go to him, noooo my preciousss, he'd have to come and get me off there... If only I can get my Powers to work.
Khaine isn't pleased, oh no...
So both Wraithlords shot at Chimera/Hellhound but did friggin nothing. The Serpent boosted near the right Objective, can't remember exactly where (did an aproximation).
IG Turn 1: My opponent only moved a Russ and the Helly and shot mucho stuff at the Wraithguard. Well, most of his weaponry in fact, except for a Lascannon shot who took a wound off the Lancelord in Cover. After an awful amount of saves he had killed 3 of the Wraithguard and took a Wound on the Farseer (NOT lolcakes). First blood for the Imperial barbarians...
Turn Two:(Left click/show image to enlarge)ELDAR Turn 2: Fortune works! [w00t?] And the Wraithguard advance further in Cover and nearer the Objectives (notice the awful slowness of their progression?).
The Firelord moved again, getting better Cover and the Serpent got in position to get side shots on a Chimera and simultaneously block LOS to the Right Objective were it to be shot down. I've just decided to stop him dead on the right while I took the two Central Objectives...
Shooting Shook a Chimera, Shook the Command Chimera and Shook the Hellhound... Now I needed to start rolling better than that.
IG Turn 2: He didn't move anything and his entire shooting phase achieved NOTHING, he also did try his luck on the Serpent - TOTAL FAIL! Heh, Ulric got some serious badluck that Turn...
Turn Three:(Left click/show image to enlarge)ELDAR Turn 3: Fortune Machine, the Wraithguard took position on the Objectives, continued to move the Firelord to go CC, slowly but surely, Harlies shuffled a bit (assume Shurican fire from the DJ every Turn of the Game...
) and Serpent shuffled a bit too.
Shooting was better: Command Chimera was Wrecked, Shook a left field Chimera and the Serpent blew the Multilaser from another...
IG Turn 3: The Shaken Chimera raced center field and blew Smoke, Helly retreated a bit from the Firelord, lot of shooting followed, best he could do was Shake the Serpent - Everything else either scattered, missed, didn't wound or was saved. He may have got a wound on the Firelord, not sure... A sad day for the Imperium of Mankind...
Turn Four:(Left click/show image to enlarge)ELDAR Turn 4: Fortune worked! With the game possibly ending soon, I wanted to get some action and delaying on the Imperial side, so I got Yriel rushing out of the Wraithguard to Assault a Chimera: guess what, rambo Yriel didn't work that time - Missed with all 5 Attacks.
But LO! Both Wraithlords accounted for a Chimera each, one Wrecked and one Blowned - 1 Trooper died in the BOOM! And Double LO! The DJ blew off the Helly's Inferno Cannon with a lucky Glance!
Good...
IG Turn 4: Left off pic Chimera moved forward a bit and the disembarked squads from the destroyed Chimera both shot at the Serpent (can't remember if they were Plasma or Meltas or both) band Shook/Imobilsed it. Some more shooting from his depleted firepower at the Wraithguard/Wraithlord that achieved nothing...
Left (off pic) Chimera then Instagibbed Yriel with a Multilaser shot...
Turn Five:(Left click/show image to enlarge)ELDAR Turn 5: Fortune Machine up, Wraithguard shuffle a bit but I want to keep them in 4+ Cover, so only two are in reach of the Chimera, though they managed to Shake it. Avengers Disembark and Bladestorm en entire squad out of their boots.
The Lancelord also managed to Immobilise the off pic Chimera (left).
Then the Firelord Assault the Russ but only Shake/Immobilise it after three Penetreating...
IG Turn 5: Guards disembrak from their (still) off pic transport and approached the Eldar line, their shooting added to the Russ to pick on the WG but results were FAIL.
Shaken Chimera rushed my line to get at Objective and popped Smoke.
On the top, combined shooting of what could still shoot sent many Avengers to meet their ancestors, but the survivors hold their position.
CC Phase, the Firelord finally put the final nail in the Leman Russ. At last.
I rolled... and there was a Turn 6!
Turn Six:
(Left click/show image to enlarge)ELDAR Turn 6: Fortune Machine and Doom on the left Guard squad. We were rushed to finish the game and I made some mistake in prority targetting, so...
Wraithguard shot at the Doomed squad and warped out 3, Lancelord blew the Chimera, killing 3 in the Boom but is too far to Assault, DJ shoot the at the now exposed IGs and kill 1 and Pin them...
Avengers walk toward the right Objective but I totally forgot to Run them, so they ended up a bit off it... Meh to me.
And the Firelord tried to destroy the Hellhound but failed to hit at all.
IG Turn 6: At the top/right the Helly and Guard squad shot at the Avengers and killed a couple more, Russ/Chimera shooting was pretty innefectual, but the left Guardsmen forego their shooting and tried to draw the Wraithguard off the Objective (smart move) but they were horribly slaugtered, thus the Wraithguard ended Holding an Objective and Contesting the other.
Conclusion: I got cocky in the last Turn, being rushed and thinking the game netted and forgot to run the Avengers, that almost cost me the game. If the Wraithguard hadn't won that fight...
Like stated earlier, the Harlies weren't deployed at the right place, at all, at all as they should have been in am ore central position where theu could have Assaulted anyone getting near the main Objectives - As they were, they didn't contribute much to the battle, my bad.
Same with the Lancelord, I should have moved him to protect the central Objective on the 4th Turn instead of letting him hang to dry behind that tree [shake head]...
All in all, the attrition battle worked for me, Ulric just didn't have the firepower to dig out an entrenched (4+, Fortuned Cover) unit of Wraithguard and deal with my other units, but then I managed to keep that Flank attack going and he could very advance his Troops too much forward too early near the Objectives due to the nasty WG/Yriel, although admiteddly I think he should have moved a Turn earlier to try get that Objective (one squad more).
That and he should have used his HQ as fodder to shield his Troops... Oh well, he tried the gunline that time around, as the last time we played he rushed me and just got slaughtered...
All in all t'was a relaxed game, since we both got a Draw on the First Round it was pretty sure we could get Top 3 anyway...
Tourney's Result: There was no comp but Painting was rated - Placed 4th on 16 players, had I not played crap in the first game I'd have been 2nd (Winner's painting was better)... Or first if I had actually battled the Winner and overpowered him, and know what, we will find out in the next and last batrep of this series as we clash together for supremacy at home...
Result: Win
Starky