apologies for the time taken to write up but have been having exams and so all my time has been focused on revision
After pouring over the codex in my room for a couple of hours I rose from my pit to have a game
Orks Vs Eldar - 600pts
It does sound like a small game but I wanted to try out my old list with the new codex although I did make some small alterations.
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| (The only painted model in the Ork army) |
Eldar-Ulthwe;
Farseer with singing spear
10x Dire avengers, no exarch
10x guardians with scatter lazer
Wraithlord with duel flamers and ghostglaive
Vaul's Wrath Support Battery with shadow weaver
Aegis defense line with quad gun
Orks;
Warboss with bosspole, powerklaw, eavy armor and a cyborg body
3x Nobs with eavy armor and big choppas
2x 10 boys with 1 big shoota and a nob with eavy armor, bosspole and big choppa
trukk with big shoota, reinforced ram and grot riggers
3x deffcoptas with rokkets
Setup and Deployment
We both roll and Eldar deploy first, the mission is purge the alien.
My Farseer generates the powers Guide, Fortune and Eldrich storm.
I set up as far away from the Orks as I can so not to get caught up in the assault, everybody is behind the defense line apart from my wraithlord who wants to get up and into combat.
Orks deploy on the other side of the board as close to me as they can, although small in number a squad of boys can do a lot of damage.
Orks win the roll off to go first and Eldar fail to steal the initiative and the coptas make some scout moves.
Turn 1-Orks
Well in traditional Ork fashion they all move up and run as well as the trukk turbo boosting although the coptas take some pot shots at the wraithlord and manage to take a wound off with the AP3 missiles and he fails his 6+ cover saves.
Turn 1-Eldar
for the first time in a long, long time I rolled 2 dice when making a psychic test but i still passed, my luck holding for now.
everybody stays where they are apart from the wraithlord who moves up.
The Farseer fires the quad gun at the trukk, taking all hull points away and it explodes on the ramshackle chart, taking 1 wound off the nob inside.
the shadow weaver fires at the non trukk boy squad and kills 5 with its large blast AP 6 shot although they do pass their leadership.
guardians, with there new found shooting abilities fire at the trukk boys, killing one with the scatter lazer and 4 with the shuriken volley due to the Orks making 5 6+ saves.
In the assault phase the wraithlord assaults the Deffcoptas, one wound is taken off in hammer of wrath and unfortunately not instant killing as the lord is now only strength 8 (9 with the ghostglaive),he takes another 3 wounds away in his initiative step and the last Copta runs away because 'his weapons are usless' and the wraithlord overruns it.
Eldar - 3
Orks - 0
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| (The Warboss looks longingly at the wraithlord) |
Turn 2 - Orks
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
As shown by the previous picture the warboss decides the wraithlord looks like a tasty target and moves up in front of it. All the boys move up and the back boys run trying to get closer to that combat.
The front unit of boys take pot shots at the guardians killing 2, not enough to make a leadership test.
invigilator.
In the assault phase the warboss assaults the wraithlord, he tries to flame them but all saves are made. The boys assault the guardians with one dieing in overwatch and then 4 guardians falling to the mighty ork assault. the warboss challenges the wraithlord and whilst the wraithlord gets no wounds through the warboss slices through T8 like sliced bread.
At the end of the combat the Guardians fail leadership and get overrun by the orks for a reason i am yet to fathom?
Turn 2 - Eldar
Fortune and guide are both casted trying to keep the avengers alive mabye for one last turn although it is looking pretty bad for the Ulthwe strikeforce.
Nobody moves so to get the best firing positions and the shuriken is let loose.
The shadow weaver fires killing 4 ork boys from the rear squad whilst the quad gun fires by its self at the nobs killing one. At the back the Dire avengers fire at the boys in the back ranks slaughtering them all.
Eldar - 4
Orks - 2
Turn 3 - Orks
The hoard moves up and the Orks manage to kill 2 dire avengers and then proceed to charge over the barricades.
Overwatch is made against the Warboss and no wounds are caused, whilst the Warboss and his retinue get to the barricades the boys fail and the slaughter begins...........
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| The result of the charge :( |
after the mass killing ended the dire avengers resolve broke and they fall back 4 inches (not quite off the board) and the Warboss consolidates 3 inches over the wall.
Turn 3 - Eldar
Regroup happens and phycic powers go off.
shadow weaver shoots at the boy squad and the nob and a boy dies only leaving one boy left who proceeds to pass morale.
the quad gun and avengers fire and remove another 3 wounds from the warboss squad leaving both models with one wound.
Eldar - 4
Orks - 2
Turn 4 - Orks
the last boy moves towards the shadow weaver whilst shooting but as usual fails to hit.
the boy declares an assualt on the support battery and the warboss on the dire avengers.
the support guardians kill the ork boy in overwatch.
meanwhile the avengers miss with everything and in a moment of pure triumph the farseer's singing spear hit the Warboss killing him after a failed save.
in the assault that followed the nob is killed by the dire avengers and........
The Eldar clear the board
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| The war torn battlefield at the end of the game |
