Gettin' Pegs off Da Vox

I realized I had some jpegs of some games still on my phone from two games last month - I've been too busy with stuff!  So here they are before I delete them.  They were from two games that I've tracked as losses, but both were not serious games, but stuff we thought we'd do to just "see what could happen".  Both games involve Eldar, so if you like "them pointed ear gits", this post may become your favorite of the week!

The first game - only three pictures.  We wanted to see how effective an unbound, all Eldar skimmer tank army list would be - its not often you can put 1850 points of just skimmers on a table - including some from Forgeworld!  All I had was a BA 1850 list typical for what I was playing at the time - in reality, the game was alot of fun, with BA's on foot trying their hardest to get the best of a fleet of Eldar skimmers.  If I was to try the game again, it would have been better with all the buildings as ruins, as the BA's struggled with the terrain at times, which more favored the Eldar.  I tried to mitigate that by keeping much of the BA's in reserves turn 1, which helped a little bit. The ability for jinking though.....jeez....

Here we are around Turn 2 - The BA's are trying desperately to clear the left flank.  The pod had come in Turn 1, and acted as a beacon for the other units arriving turn 2.  Eldar strength was weaker on this flank, and their skimmer tanks and lighter elements were jinking everywhere.

This is in the Eldar turn 3, and you can get a broader view of the game.  

Just another view. The Eldar probably could have forced the issue and tabled the BA's, but ultimately kept good discipline to focus on the Maelstrom points.  I think at the very end (Turn 6?) the score was maybe like 14-9, Eldar winning.  The BA's mostly kept concentrated on the left flank, but eventually fought their way to the center, taking out about half of the Eldar skimmers in total.   Like I said, lots of LOS blocking terrain, but no real terrain offering cover.  If you hid behind a building, it was easy for Eldar skimmers to just move to the sides and get viable shots down range into the BAs.  Slay the warlord was given to the Eldar when the Librarian Angelus periled himself twice...

Now for something totally unexpected - I broke out the 555th Cadian "Triple Nickles" for a test game vs Eldar to try out a scenario for a fall-winter campaign.  Again, the though was, try out the scenario and see "what might happen".  I set up the terrain more in a narrative fashion, and we played the scenario for the first game as originally written - the defender (AM) would deploy first in a box bound by 4 objective markers, and go second.  The defender could deep strike then using mission-specific mechanics, and then start the firefight - as a "surprise" attack.  No real surprise here...it was a bloodbath.

Here is the Eldar army at 1850 Points ready to deploy.

Here is the 55th, happily laagered and awaiting more supplies to be delivered.  In reality, I'd apparently left another Chimera at the house, so had adjusted the army slightly to account for that - as an improvement, I should have had swapped a veteran squad to the command squad - instead left the commander in the open around the barrels in the center.  

Here we are with the Eldar now deployed.  Dice will start to roll, and models head back to their Army Builder foam cases...

The Warp Spyders jump forward and get ready to start the shooting...

Meanwhile on the left flank...

Here we are around the end of Eldar Turn 1. Daisy the Demolisher exploded.  manticore wrecked.  Command squad eliminated. Three veteran squads on foot decimated.    

End of AM Turn 1.  Some damage to the Eldar - but not nearly enough.  Not a single eldar unit could be eliminated.  

Up on the high ground, destiny awaits. 

The Eldar advance into the perimeter. This fight is going hand-to-hand.  Radio calls frantically go out for evac and for Spooky and Puff.  

I hate Spyders.  They tell me if you shoot one, it will rain...

It's now down to trench knives and rifle buts. 

Dorris the Demolisher is getting the haywire treatment...

The Mantis warriors finally get to swarm on that last Chimera...

Wytches in a frenzy...

Overflight arrives, but its too late...

Brrrrrrrp......Brrrrrrp....

Brrrrrrp....

"Eldar looting...not entirely unheard of....I heard they have a penchant for taking watches and those little keys you open canned rations with.  They seemed fascinated by them, and tend to collect them on gold chains. Well, that's what the sarge tells us..." Corporal Smithson, 555th Cadian

Scoring for the mission yielded a 24-0 Victory for the Eldar.  

Overall, based on this, we got the CO to change the deployment for the attacker, just to give the defender a bit more hope.  We'd decided that if the game had been played with the Eldar as the defender, the results very much would have been the opposite.  The overall first strike was just way to overpowering.  

Hope you enjoyed the photos...now I can get them off my phone!