Last night I took my Dark Eldar to league night. I faced off against a nid army. It had a tyrant with guards, 2 sets of 2 hive
guard, 2 zoanathropes, 2 groups of 3 warriors, a malloc, 3 groups of
genestealers, and a group of termaguants.
The mission was Seize ground with 5 objectives and a spear
head deployment. I won the roll off and
decided to go first.
Dark Eldar Turn 1
I started by moving my jets out and raiders forward. I unleashed 2 missles from the bomber into a
group of stealers but after the drift only 3 died and they passed their
leadership test. My razorwing unloaded
all its missles on a group of warriors and some hive guard. I took out 2 of the warriors and 1 of the
hive guard. Ishot at his zonathropes and
his other squad of guard but only killed 1 guard.
Nid Turn 1
He moved up his big monsters and his remaining stealers came
around the corner of the building they were hiding behind. In his shooting he
blew up both raiders carrying my warriors and stunned my razorwing. He then assaulted my scourges with his remaining
warrior and the stealers assaulted my warriors and reavers. I killed 3 of his
stealers and he killed 1 bike and 1 warrior winning me the assault. My scourges
finished off his warrior after losing 2 guys.
Dark Eldar Turn 2
My incubi and witches blast forward 12 inches and disembark
getting ready to kill some nids. The void raven launches it 2 implosion
missiles at the tyrant killing 1 guard and putting a wound on the other, while
the scourges shoot the tryanofex bring
it down to 3 wounds. My warriors on the
left killed the remaining guard by them.
The raider and venom shoot the other guard down. My incubi assault the zoans and the witches
go after the tryanofex. I incubi failed to wound the zoans and took a wound
then ran away. The witches failed to
hurt the fex and break as well. The warriors and bikes finished off the
stealers but I forgot to consolidate. This
hurt me in his next round.
Nid Turn 2
He rolled for reserves and nothing came in. he moved fex closer to my venom and his
zoans toward my bikes and warriors while his tryant went after my witches. In the shooting he killed 3 bikes and 2
warriors with his zoans and the bikes break. The Tryand kills all but 2 of the
witches. On the assaults the fex takes out the venom and the tryant kills the
witches.
Dark Eldar Turn 3
I maneuver my jets around.
One warrior squad falls back into the crater while the scourges jump out
behind the tyrant. During the shooting I
bring the fex down to 1 would and take out the last tyrant guard. My jets and scourges try to kill of the zoans
but after 7 strength 8 or 9 shots they
stood ther unwounded.
Nid Turn 3
All of his reserves came in.
the malloc tried to come up under my warriors but drifted off. His tryant proceeded to come after my
warriors in the crater and the fex went after the other group. In the shooting phase, the Zoans tried to
kill the Void raven but his flickerfield held out. The Fex killed all but 2 warriors and then
wiffed on the assault. His Tryant killed
off the warriors.
Dark Eldar Turn 4
My scourges went after the zoans again. While the haemonculus tried to liquidfy the
malloc. The Jets put some wounds on the
tryant while my scourges finally take out 1 zoan then they assault and killed
of the other. The warriors are then killed
by the fex leaving me with 3 scourges, a razorwing, a voidraven, and the haemonculus
in a raider.
Nid Turn 4
He repositioned his warriors to slaughter the scourges and
his fex goes for the kill on the bomber while the tryant goes after the
voidraven. He blows up the bomber but
only takes off a lance and imbolizing the jet.
The malloc wrecks the raider.
Dark Eldar Turn 5
My jet kills the tryantand the haemonculus tries to fry the
genestealers but failed to wound any of them.
Nid Turn 5
He tries to take down the jet with his fex but miss. His
warriors wound the hameculus with the malloc finishing him off in assault.
Dark Eldar Turn 6
In my turn I shoot and kill the fex with the jet.
Nid Turn 6
Not much happening
here. He moves around to try to
get to the objectives.
Dark Eldar Turn 7
Nothing happened here.
A few missed shots.
Nid Turn 7
He takes the rest of the objectives and we end Nid 5 DE 0. A sad day for the Dark Eldar and the nids go
home with full bellies.
Thoughts
First of all I was not really happy with my alpha
strike. I was hoping to take out at
least one unit but all I did was stir them up a bit. Then I kept firing at the Zoans with their
3++ save. I again should have been
shooting at the big monsters. My poor
decisions cost me this game. I also
should have switched targets for my assaults.
The witches after the zoans and the incubi at the fex. The Incubi with their power weapons had a
better chance to bring down the big boy and the witches flurry of attacks would
have been a better match. The Jets did
alright. I think I will drop the void
raven for another razorwing since the bomb never came into play and I could
have used another cannon on the field.
Also I need to find the point for a witch leader. Ld 8 hurt me as well as not having a power
weapon in their group.
With 3 weeks to go I still feel I have a lot to learn about this Army. Right now I would not call it a glass hammer more like a glass nerf bat. I really exptected too much from the assaulty bits of my army and did not pay attention to what I needed to do to win. Sure the Zoans were a threat but I could have avoided them. I should have pumped more shots into the guys without invun shots. it would have been so much better. Live and Learn I guess.
Time to fire up the old cloning pods and regrow my army for next week. Record so far. 1-1-0
have a good weekend.
Questions? Comments? Nom nom noms?
