Weekend Tournament

Yesterday I attended a small one day tournament and played 3 games. I won 2 and lost 1 game ending 4th overall. I had a real blast.

Game 1:

I played against a really good Mechdar army. The mission was holding table quarters, but it didnt really matter. He had a couple of fire dragon squads, small council, 3 3-man jetbike squads, two lone vypers and 3 2-man squads of warwalkers. His army could pump out over 70 s6 shots a turn. He was fully entitled to his win.

Game 2: Killpoints.

The good ting in being tabled is that the next game is always ridiculously easy. This was no exception. I paired up against a marine army, that was clearly built from whatever models he had.

If it wasn't for my wraithlord failing his wraithsight and failing to bog down a squad of assault terminators (they can't wound him) I would have gotten full 20 points. The assault terminators however got 2 killpoints off me and the final killpoints difference was 4. I got 17 out of 20 points.

Game 3: 3 objectives.

This was my first game against a competitive nid list from the new book. He didnt have a tervigon, but he did have two trygon primarises. He also had a flyrant, two squads of Ymgarl Genestealers, three squads of Gaunts, 2 zoanthropes in a myscetic spore and a squad of warriors.

I didnt actually realise that I was going to table him until the last turns. Luckily the trygons came one at a time. The Genestealers and one trygon came on turn two. I baited one of the Ymgarl Genestealers by giving them a very juicy pathfinder squad in area terrain. He probably thought I was an idiot. His genestealers came and killed the pathfinders, only to be flamed and charged by one of my wraithlords.

I shot at the trygon and finished him off with my avatar. The second Ymgarl unit charged my avatar later and were killed by him. When the second trygon came I was ready and charged him with both my banshees and the avatar. I doomed him and managed to take him down.

In the end my avatar had killed 2 trygon primarises and a squad of super genestealers, but he died to spinegaunts...

My monstrous creatures really carried me through this game, meating the genestealers and monstrous creatures head on. Even the Flyrant didnt stand a chance against my wraithlord. I won 20-0

New revised 1500 points list

I got some pretty good feedback from a couple of forums, that I posted my list on. Mainly get more models and get more troops. Since I happened to have a converted Avatar model lying around I encorporated him into the list. This is transforming more and more into elfzilla.

Avatar and Wraithlords charge together causing panic and confusion. The banshees and farseer go in the falcon to charge out at scoring unit or easy killpoints. Harlequins give the dire avengers modile cover and a counter assault element. Pathfinders sit on objectives. jetbikes go in reserve and arrive to hold or contest objectives. In killpoints the jetbikes will be pretty worthless, but maybe I can use them to lure my opponent into making mistakes, like deploying them stranded on one flank and then turbo-boosting them on turn one behind cover where my main army is, hopefully leaving some enemy units useless.

THE LIST:

Avatar@155pts.

Farseer@175pts. Runes of warding and witnessing, spirit stones, doom, fortune guide

5 harlequins@140pts. 5 kisses, shadowseer

5 Howling Banshees@107pts. Exarch w/ mirrorswords, acrobatic

8 dire avengers@138pts. Exarch w/ power weapon and shimmershield, blade storm

5 pathfinders@120pts

5 pathfinders@120pts.

3 Guardian Jetbikes@66pts.

Falcon@215pts. Eldar missile launcher, spirit stones, star engines, vectored engines, holo fields

Wraithlord@130pts. Brightlance, 2 flamers

Wraithlord@130pts. Brightlance, 2 flamers

Total: 1496

Eldars 1.5k List

Autarch@155pts. Jetbike mandiblasters, laser lance reaper launcher.

Farseer@175pts. Runes of warding and witnessing, spirit stones, doom, fortune guide

5 harlequins@140pts. 5 kisses, shadowseer

5 dire avengers@97pts. Exarch w/ dire sword and shuriken pistol, blade storm

5 pathfinders@120pts

5 pathfinders@120pts.

4 shining spears@217pts. Exarch w/ starlance, shuriken cannon, withdraw, skilled riders

Falcon@215pts. Eldar missile launcher, spirit stones, star engines, vectored engines, holo fields

Wraithlord@130pts. Brightlance, 2 flamers

Wraithlord@130pts. Brightlance, 2 flamers

Below is a picture of how I would deploy the army. Autarch+shining spears in reserve, farseer and avengers in the falcon and the wraithlords will charge forward and tie enemies in combat somewhere around midfield. Also I'm hoping they will take high strength shots, preserving the falcon towards the end game, where star engines will kick in. Harlies are in the far right corner protecting the pathfinder unit and ready to move out to objectives or enemies that might be on the right flank. You can click on the pic and it will enlargen