@Cavalier: Oh don't worry I don't ask myself if I post something when you do because, if I did, I would not have posted anything to begin with.
@Ynneadwraith: Yes it does feel that way with troll slayer. Since it's called a layer I'm not to surprised though, it's in the name. Well troll slayer work best so far with a load of thin coat of it. What ever the color under, haven't tried yet with red but with either iriel yellow or ratskin flesh, nothing really seems better, it's better than pure black primer that's for sure.
@Everyone: Cav mentionned the board so here, have some info about it and the rules for the game.
About the board, it's a gaming mat from gamingmat.eu 48*72 inch (we played on 48/48), if I'm not mistaken (not mine), and 2 set of macrage basic terrain. About the LoS blocking terrain it's something I was thinking aswell, but concidering what we had (at our disposal) it was not possible. I will need to discuss that with my friends for the next few games. For cover we decided to go with: if you are on it you get cover, and if you stand just behind it you get cover aswell. Ok let's roll then.
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ELDAR CRAFTWORD VS ORKS ! 500 pts, no real scenario to speak of. We only played for the fun, no kill point just a basic: Slay the warlord, line breaker first blood and it's all. (now that I think about it should have played with some kill point aswell. We didn't have the big rule book at hand so it was hard to determine what to play.
Onto the list then.
Eldar was:
Batallion (3CP) - 500 pts
- Hq: 2 (separate) Warlock - Singing Spear
- Troops: 10 guardians (shurycan plateform), 10 gardians (scatter platefrom), 6 dire avenger (5 +1 exarch double Avenger shurycat)
- Fast Attack: 6 Swooping Hawks (5 + 1 Exarch with Sunrifle)
Orks was:
Batallion (3CP) - 500 pts
- Hq: 2 Warboss with mega armor(not sure of the english name but 2+ save) - Energetic claw(?) and Fling Kustom (or something like that).
- Troops: 10 Boys, 10 Boys (Big Gun, or something), 15 boys Rocket launcher.
Well I got to deploy first but as I have unit more than he does, so I started second.
Judging from the wording I assumed "Placing the hawks into the skyes" counted as one deployement action. If I was wrong then what can I say.
TURN ONE !
ORKS: All orks forward. Everything said, for movement. Shooting phase saw the rocket launcher doing one dammage to the guardians, with shurican, the big gun dealt one dammage to the same unit. Nothing more for orks.
ELDAR: Repositionnning a bit of the units, forward for the shurycan team to get in range and get some cover, backward for the other expect for two guardian and the plateform so they can fire at full bs. Avenger moves forwards to get in range. And the hawks come in behind the orks line just in the corner of the table... this probably was a mistake, but we shall see that later.
Psichic phase was... glorious... Basicly I tried to used bravour with the warlock close to the shurican team (the one not painted closest to the camera). Failed miserably... even used a CP to sill miss. And for the fun of it, I used enhance on the other team... PERIL... Luckily I only did one on the mortal wound role leaving my warlock on 1 HP, I could have lost the game just there with a first blood/slain the warlord on first turn (he was the warlord yes). Shooting phase saw me go crazy. Fired avenger, scatter and shurican in the closest 10 man boys squad, left only two of them alive... and that's where it went down hill. Swooping hawks shot. 5 guy's rapid fire 2, so 10 shots ( the autarch was one inch out of range). 9 hit, one wound. THERE IS ONLY ONE ORK ALIVE between me and the first blood point! I was cursing at my dice roles (EVEN USED A CP TO FAIL AGAIN THERE), and the bullamphetamine parrot rules of orks moral. I gotta admit that's one of the most intresting rule I have ever seen and one of the strongest if used correctly.
Side note: Could someone be kind enought to remind me of the rapid fire rules? That's something we were not sure about.
End of turn one.
TURN TWO !
ORKS: Orks all move forward expect for the lone boys trying to move back and a warboss who thought It might be a good idea to go and kill a bunch of swooping hawks (he even ran toward me). The shooting phase saw the rocket launcher hitting again, killing one avenger (my friend said he killed thor, wich made me think that from now on every exarch I have in an Avenger squad will see it self with a marvel avenger paint job, but this is for a later date). The lone warboss desided it was time for a one man waaaaghhhh, and charged my hawk. No damamge on overwatch and only one kill in cc, but the hawk could do nothing to him.
ELDAR: The hawks fled from over the warboss shot the lone orks left, giving myself first blood in the process. The shurican team moved back a bit and the scatter team did not move. Avenger moved to be just at max range. Scatter and avenger unload on the rocket launcher boys squad. Killed a bunch (can't recall exact number). Shurican killed a couple in the other squad.
End of turn two.
And I'm going to bed. End of bat-rep hopefully twomorrow, when I stop being lazy and do it during the day.