I played a 3500 point game versus Pete’s Death Guard. I don’t remember what the name of the mission, but there were 3 objectives that scattered and you had to control them at the end of a turn. I ended up loosing 9-8 for a super close game.
I got to play my Undead Legions army against Skaven this afternoon in and End Times game. We played with the new magic rules from Khaine and it really changed the feel of the game. It added a lot of time to get through the spells, but was also a lot of fun. I don’t see using them every game, but they offered a fun variant. I managed to summon about 1000 points of models and then he would remove them in his magic phase, but it was cool to drop a Terrorgheist in the middle of the table to threaten his army. I had a blast and can’t wait to get the army repaired and start painting it up a bit better.
I loved it. Pretty familiar, but we tried out one of the new missions using the tactical objectives. Absolutely great. Really made the game more interesting than kill each other or contest last minute and hope the game ends. I took a combined arms list of Lamenters primary with Sons of Medusa allies plus an Imperial Knight. Mephiston was a beat stick getting off Iron Arm plus Warp Speed almost every turn. Strength and Toughness 9, with 8 initiative 10 attacks! He would mow through whatever came near him.
We did play a bunch of stuff wrong I’m sure, but I’m feeling really positive about the addition as long as you have a nice conversation before hand on what kind of game you want to play.
I played two games today for our WFB Escalation League. They were both against Wood Elves and were at 800 points. I really enjoyed the game and it took some time to change my mindset away from 40k as that has been what I have been playing lately. Here were my lists for the two games:
1st Game:
Hero: Skink Priest with Level 2
Core: 20x Saurus Warriors with full command and spears
Core: 12x Skink Skirmishers with Javelins
Special: Bastiladon with Solar Engine
Special: Stegadon
2nd Game:
Same as above, but dropping the stegadon, 2 skirmishers, and musician. Adding in 8 Cold One Riders.
I managed to win both games, but took a real beating when Dweller’s Bellow went off on my Saurus block and in the second game on the Cold ones. The Bastiladon is absolutely pants in close combat, but is a decent support unit and managed to do some good damage with the Solar Engine. The Stegadon was nasty and really pushed combat in my favor. The skirmishers did great in both games, getting wiped out in each, but managing to do some good damage with their poison shots. The Saurus block was kind of slow and took a lot of fire and when they finally got in combat kind of whiffed it not rolling a single 6 for predatory fire with 16 attacks. Overall it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the feel of the army.
Dryads running into the middle of the LIzardmen Army
Bastiladon and Skinks in combat with the Dryads
A few pictures from my first game with the new Eldar codex. It was an odd game, as there was a new player in the store who had just assembled a couple Tyranid models so he took 500 points of Tyranids and I took 1500 Eldar and we fought a Dark Angels player with 2000 points. My list was just made to try a couple different things and isn’t really optimized in any way:
Eldar 1500
HQ: Farseer with spirit stone
Troop: 10 Guardians w/ scatter lasers
Troop: 10 Guardians w/ scatter lasers
Troop: 5 Rangers
Troop: 4 Jetbikes
Elite: 5 Fire Dragons in Wave Serpent w/ scatter lasers
Heavy: Wraithknight with suncannon and scatter laser
Heavy: 3 War Walkers with scatter lasers
Heavy: 1 Fire Prism
Tyranids:
1x Tervigon w/ some upgrades
10x termagaunts
1x Trigon Prime
Dark Angels Double Wing:
2x 10 man Terminator Squads
2x Full Bikes with Attack Bikes
3 Whirlwinds
Things were looking pretty terrible after first turn. I’ve never played Dark Angels before and didn’t realize what deepstriking Terminators could do, not scouting bikes. Everything was right in our face turn 1 and he obliterated most of our troops and my Farseer turn 1. The whirlwinds all ignored cover and each hit deleted my crappy troops that were needing cover. By the end of the turn the only troops we had alive were about 3 guardians and the Tervigon.
We decided to at least play a turn or two to see if we could do anything, and it turned out we could! The Wraithknight showed his value when he obliterated 6 of the Terminators with his 3 TL plasma cannon blasts on terminators which were bunched up from deepstriking. The War Walkers, Fire Prism, Wave Serpent and Fire Dragons then unloaded into Belials terminators and brought them down by half. Everything that could assault at that point did assault to try and be locked in combat to take cover from the Whirlwinds. The Trigon and Wraithknight charged the remained 4 Terminators at wiped them out and only taking a single wound back. It’s pretty awesome for Terminators to need 4’s to wound.
Turn 2 was very little shooting for the Dark Angels as most everything was hidden or locked in combat. The bikes did manage to shoot and then assault the Tervigon to death and put a wound or two on the Trigon. On the Eldar turn, the suncannon obliterated the other bike unit, while the Trigon and Fire prism whittled down Belials terminators. The Crimson Hunter came on and killed a whirlwind, but just barely. The Exarch upgrade saved it as he rolled 1,2,2,4 to hit and managed to strip the hull points off. The Trigon charged in and killed Belial, but the last two terminators managed to take his last two wounds. We ended up calling the game at that point as we were both pretty much out of troops and the new guy had to run. It was fun, and the parts that did survive the beginning were really fun and effective. Sadly I didn’t get to try a bunch of things as they all died early on.
A few observations. I think we are going to see a return of mechanized Eldar. Wave Serpents are really good, and the troops are just to squishy to be out. The Wraithknight is amazing, and while there are some bad match-ups (poison) it is just extremely hard to kill. Plasma guns need 5’s to wound! I like the suncannon upgrade, but it runs 300 points to kit it like that. I can see a place for the stock models though at 240 and it seems a fair price for the incredible toughness. Guardians were pretty lackluster. There is too much cover ignoring weapons and I wouldn’t count on them as my soul troops choice. I think a unit or two of Wraithguard might be needed to provide some survivability along with Jetbikes for mobility. The crimson hunter is pretty nice, but I really think it needs to exarch upgrade to make sure it can fill it’s roll. Finally the Heavy slot is just amazing. Pretty much everything in the slot will be effective.
To close, the game was a blast to play, and it really seems like the codex will have a lot of different builds that will be fun to play. I can’t wait to explore it more as I get more games in.
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| Eldar deployed |
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| Eldrad and Fire Warrior in close combat with Riptide |
Battle of Epsilon Corvi – Mission 2.
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| Initial board setup |
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| Lamenters Deployment |
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| Tyranids Deployment |
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| Additional Deployment |
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| Flying Hive Tyrant moving forward first turn |
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| Assault Squad getting assaulted after flaming Genestealers |
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| Lamenters advancing forward |
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| Mephiston taking on last Zoanthrope and two Genestealers |
Deployment: Vanguard Strike (Diagonal)
Points: 1750 (kind of)
Lamenters list is here.
The Tyranid list is below. Sadly there was a mistake on the expected points value, and the Tyranids were only 1500 points. This definitely skewed the game in my favor.
HQ:
Hive Tyrand (wings)
Troops:
8 Genestealers (toxin sacs)
1 Broodlord
8 Genestealers (toxin sacs)
1 Broodlord
24 Hormaguants (adrenal glands, toxin sacs)
Fast:
12 Gargoyles (adrenal glands, toxin sacs)
1 Harpy
Elite:
2 Zoanthropes
2 Zoanthropes
Heavy:
Trygon Prime
Tyranids had first turn and they slowly advanced up the middle. Nervous about the flamers in the front of my army, they tried to stay back a little, but not far enough, as the flamers were able to move in and wipe out one of the units of Genestealers. A couple marines got killed by the force dome psychic power as there shots bounced back.
The next turn the Gargoyles, Hormaguants and Trygon wiped out the two squads. The free overwatch hits with the flamer managed to thin out the Gargoyles pretty well, but didn’t do much to the larger creatures. The other unit of Genestealers assaulted an assault marine squad in cover, and with the lack of grenades, were fairly ineffective. The Vanguard Vets came in and assaulted a unit of Zoanthropes and killed one, while Mephiston made a huge 10″ charge and killed the Trygon, Mephiston with Iron Arm and Warp Speed made him super nasty in combat.
Third turn the Hormaguants charged into Mephiston and managed to bring him down to one wound but the Sanguinary Guard joined in and wiped the unit out. The flyrant charged into the vanguard veterans and killed two, but the return attacks finished off the big bug. The genestealers lost combat and ran, though they managed to get into cover.
Fourth turn was mostly re-positioning and the movement toward objectives. While a few smaller combats finished up. Going into the last turn the Tyranids were down to the Harpy, one Zoanthropes, and a couple Genestealers. Mephiston was stuck in combat with the Zoanthrope and genestealers, and an assault squad managed to ground the Harpy and the TH/SS Terminators pounced on it out of the Land Raider. The game ended on turn 5 with a great victory to the Lamenters. They of course had a huge upper hand since they were playing with 250 more points! Always check lists before you start a game.
The game was a blast, and we have two more missions in our mini-campaign. Learned a bunch of stuff about 6th edition and the army, and I’m really enjoying the new mechanics and play-style. We played with mysterious objectives this game, and they really didn’t have any impact on the game. Even the sabotaged one never blew up the entire game. We never remembered challenges, and I keep forgetting to throw grenades, something I’ve been wanting to try and always forget! Can’t wait for another game.
Troops:
Assault Squad
7 Assault Marines
2 Assault Marines with Flamers
1 Sergeant (Power Fist)
Assault Squad
7 Assault Marines
2 Assault Marines with Flamers
1 Sergeant (Power Fist)
Elite:
Sanguinary Priests
1 Sanguinary Priest in Power Armour (Jump Pack)
1 Sanguinary Priest in Terminator Armour
Sanguinary Guard
5 Sanguinary Guard (Chapter Banner)
Terminator Assault Squad
5 Terminator with Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield
1 Land Raider Crusader (Multi-melta)
Fast Attack:
Vanguard Veteran Squad
1 Sergeant (Jump Pack; Power Fist)
4 Vanguard Veteran (Jump Pack)
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| Eldar castling in corner |
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| Genestealers finishing munching on some Guardians |
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| Avatar versus Genestealers |
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| Dire Avengers hiding on roof of building |
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| End of game result |
So I managed to get a game in today after a month and half or so of not playing. I played Mark from The Overlords Podcast and we played all three mission types in Bay Area Open style. We did do a few things wrong, in that we did all five objectives for Seize Ground rather than just three, and we did an even distribution Nova style instead. I would be interested to play the “correct” way in the future.
HQ: Librarian in Terminator Armour – Epistolary, Unleash Rage, Sanguine Sword
Elite:
Furioso Dreadnought – Heavy Flamer, Talons
2x Sanguinary Priest – Jump Pack, Power Sword
Terminator Assault Squad – 5x Lightening Claw, 5x Thunder Hammer
1 Land Raider Crusader – Multi-Melta
Troops:
Assault Squad – 2x Melta, 1 Power Fist, 1 Infernus Pistol
Assault Squad – 2x Melta, 1 Power Fist, 1 Infernus Pistol
Fast Attack:
Baal Predator – Flamestorm Cannon
Heavy Support:
Stormraven Gunship – Lascannon, Multi-Melta
On turn three he wiped out both of my troop squads, one with a Trygon, the other with the remaining Shrikes. His Swarmlord charged into my Terminators and killed two, leaving one lone Terminator to fend for himself. It was looking nasty for the Lamenters but both the Storm Raven and the Baal managed to come-in from reserves. The predator outflanked into his deployment zone and roasted the 5 termagants the Tervigon has pooped out on the first turn. The Storm Raven moved on and split the Terminators off to one side and the Dreadnought off to the other. The Furioso toasted the Genestealers with a heavy flamer and then assaulted, and I got to see the magic of the Blood Talons which chewed through the entire squad. The Terminators charged the Trygon and brought it down, while the Land Raider zoomed up to shoot at some Termagants that were running away to grab an objective.
At this point my only hope for even a tie, would be to kill off his troops remaining: 3 termagants on the other side of the board, and the Tervigon on the other side that was down a couple wounds from pot shots. He charged in and immobilized the Land Raider, while I made a desperate gamble and jumped out the Sanguinary Priest inside to shoot and charge the Tervigon. Brought him down to one wound, which he then destroyed the Land Raider and priest in retaliation. The Baal zoomed up and flamed the Tervigon as well bringing him down to a single wound. He immobilized the Storm Raven and killed off all but one Terminator as well. On turn five I was down to one Sanguinary Priest, One TH/SS terminator, and an immobilized Storm Raven. I shot and killed the Tervigon from across the board with the Storm Raven’s Lascannon and then made a beline across the board with the Sanguinary Priest in the hopes of catching the two termagants still alive to kill of his last troop. It went to turn 6 and I managed to shoot and kill one gaunt who fled off the board bringing the game down to kill points. After counting up KP’s I had killed 10, while Mark had killed 9. Victory was mine. Though at a horrible cost. Only a lone Sanguinary Priest was alive! He will definitely be getting his paint job improved as a reward!
I had a ton of fun playing, and Mark really helped me play better. He had a bunch of suggestions as we played and helped me understand the army much better. He’s a real stand up guy and a ton of fun to play against.
