Hello Folks,
Played in a 3rd ed 40k tournament today! I took an eldar list with the avatar, fuegan, Swooping hawks, dire avengers, guardians, and some war walkers.
First mission was cleanse and I had to face the Speed Freak Orcs.
Part way through the orcs first turn, getting ready to charge the avatar.
I move out, really hoping my war walkers can get rid of the basilisk but they miss, fuegan also misses. Dire avengers have to charge the bikes with is mostly a wash. Not the best start.
Orcs charge my banshees, the other fights on going, and the artillery shells my walkers get a stunned and a weapon destroyed.
My turn again, fuegan failed to kill the big truck with shooting, but charged and did ot with bombs! I forgot he gets to reroll armor pen, ops. Hawks finally come in as well. Oh and the avatar is fighting a warboss and his novs now.
Getting diwn ti the end now. Only thing left that can claim a quarter are the vehicles and guardians. But 1 war walker is immobilized. Fuegan in the end walked accross the table and blew up the badilisk himself!
Orcs wipe out the Eldar, and have a bigger that can claim a quarter so victory for them!
Game 2: Night Fight vs Imperial Guard
Deployed for a night fight, my plan is fire guardians and dire avengers to fan out and claim the sort of flank quarters, while the rest kill! I realize after the first game I actually don't have many troops or vehicles.
Advance, to dark to see much.
Guard have some scattered mortar fire but nothing crazy.
More advancing starting to get some shit now but nothing super effective.
Guard gets a perfect battle cannon shot right on the war walkers, despite their shields with go. Mortars whistling away my guardians. But the Eldar net is closing in.
Eldar turn, fuegan does his thing and kills a russ, and the avatar forces back a unit of conscripts, who only just manage to rally at the board edge.
Guard time to do some damage, they really need to kill the avatar. But thd demolisher cannon shot goes wide, the rest does some damage but not enough.
The avatar crashes through a tank, and the Hawks arrive, that's the killing blow really.
Dire avengers and guardians snag a quarter each do we manage a win.
Game 3: Rescue vs Genestealer Cult
Turn 1, sadly the objective closest to the cult turns out to be the real one, so I'm in trouble.
Cult brings in some reserves to try and secure
I'm advancing up as fast as my Eldar legs can, also drop in with the Hawks. Manage to kill the first squad holding the package.
The Cult shoots back and their genestealers head for the objective.
Get greedy and assault the magnus with my Hawks, a few die to suicide vests, shooting would have been much smarter. Also banshees arriving to late.
Try to win but to my army is a bit to slow for this. The war walkers had poor luck killing chimeras as well which doesn't help sadly. Few key mistakes as well of course.
Anyway a win for the Cult.
Very few games, enjoyed all 3 scenarios quite a bit, look forward to the next 1!
Thanks;
Mike
