5900pts Eldar Vs Khorne

[marklogue]

Now that we have moved to a new house where we have a lockable granny flat to leave games set up over multiple days away from the kids its time for some bigger games. We decided on 5900 pts as thats how many points of painted Eldar Kim has so far and I have that much Khorne done meaning we could play a battle with two completely painted armies on fully painted terrain. Decided not to fully bother with legal lists so Kim has taken a single revenant because its buddy isn't painted yet.



Eldar Force


Warlock Titan
Revenant Titan
Phenix bombers
Fire Prisms
Night Spinners
Night Spinners
Flacons
2 tooled up guardian warhosts
Avatar
Warpgate
5 Aspect Hosts (SS, WS, DR, HB, SH)
3 Jetbike hosts (2 with 2 Vipers and 1 with 6)
and probably a couple of things I have forgotten

Chaos Host

3x Chaos Space marines, 1 with cult marines and rhinos and the others with 3 dreads and an obliterator each
Chosen with an obliterator
3x8 CSM Bikers
2x4 CSM Land Raiders
Death Wheal
Feral Titan
Bane Lord Titan
Fighters
Bombers
I think thats about it apart from a pool of daemons.

The first turn started off with the CSM forces advancing up to the middle of the table to support the two garrisoning units and terminators that had teleported into the front line at the start of the turn.

The phoenix bombers were all shot down on their first flight of the game. The forces of Chaos were much more successful with their bombing, zooming down the flank and inflicting heavy casualties on some Jetbikers without getting any flack and flying off the opposing board edge, taking an automatic BM rather than risking any flack. The chaos fighters were too disorganized to make it on in the first turn.

Their weren't really many major casualties, the Warlock took one hit and luckily didn't loose its holoshields to a critical on the first hit for the third game running. I tried to damage the Revenant with the Bane Lord and doom wheel but found them to be not that effective at taking out such targets, next turn the Bane lord will be blasting some infantry with his huge, one shot, barrage weapon.


Photo's and subsequent turns will follow as we get time to play them and I get time to post.

End Turn 1

[onyx]

Excellent...

I love this kind of thing!

[marklogue]

Got a chance to play out turn two tonight but unfortunately the game will have to be put on hold for at least a week while I go look for locusts miles away from home.

The Khornate Horde manage to get first turn, moving up on the left flank with the Feral titan to try and get a bunch of blast markers on the Swooping Hawks (and the Exarch and Autach in the unit).

I was hoping to get in and assault them off the table with my bikers before they got to act but Kim was onto it and had two aspect formations move forwards to try and take out the Feral titan, failing only due to an unlucky role, leaving the flank ripe for the taking, it then collapsed under two assaulting CSM biker units.



On the opposite flank I shot up one of two units of Jetbikers then finished it off with an assault from my own bikers. I figured incorrectly that my bikers would be able to hold out against the counter assault and ended up loosing the flank.



In the middle of the field the Bane Lord arced up killing a heap of dark reapers and with its huge one shot barrage clipped the Guardian Warhost causing them a heap of blast markers. The Eldar titans took half the hits of the Death Wheel only suffering minor damage in return.

Both my bombers and fighters failed to come on which was a real pitty as the broken shinning spears meant killing both and Autach and Exarch and getting rid of Kim's Supreme commander re-roll would have been really easy (and their was no AA around them).

End of Turn 2

[daemonprince]

Hi marklogue, this is all looking fantastic. Well painted armies fighting over nicely modelled terrain is what its all about!

The ability to leave a game set up is a huge bonus.

Any chance of some close up photos of your Death Wheel, particularly side on? I'm currently scratch building a group of my own and am always looking for ideas to steal - I mean - inspire me.

Also, why are there no rules for Juggarnaughts of Khorne? Its fine treating them as bikes, but the models are readily available and quite distinctive.

[Snap]

Firstly, congratulations on the new house...

WOW! Those setup shots looks amazing - although it looks as though the Eldar outnumber the Chaos...

Will be following this with interest...

[Cthulhu_gump]

I have to agree with everything thats been said, I love the idea of having somewhere that can have th stuff set-up all the time, and the idea of a 5900 point game, thats great!

I know that as of yet we havent played a game that big, but maybe sometime in the future....

The Board set-up and the figures look great too.

[marklogue]

6000pts games seem to go quite quickly when we have been playing one turn per night, doesn't really take very long per turn.

I actually found out that Kim has been overcharging her self for Aspect Formations by 100pts each so my recent victories aren't really that victorious

I continued to advance up the Khorne forward, concentrating a strong attack on my left flank supported by all my aircraft, managing to wipe out the Eldar supreme commander and destroy a Guardian formation.



I also advanced up the center, hoping to break the formation guarding her blitzkrieg objective, but I just didn't have it in me.



Unfortunately the Eldar titans stayed back and shot at me from range, while my heavy titan was well protected by his shields I had been hoping they would advance because I really want to see a titan on titan close combat.



Due to a whole heap of bad rolls at the end of the game Kim wasn't able to make it onto my table edge with any units so I took victory from they shall not pass and defending all three of my objectives.

[Snap]

Thanks for posting the rest of the battle report!

Like you mentioned it would have been interesting for the Titan v Titan HtH rumble in the ruins, but we'll just have to wait for the next game...

And you'll be facing more Eldar to boot too...

[marklogue]

it would have been interesting for the Titan v Titan HtH rumble in the ruins, but we'll just have to wait for the next game...

The problem is catching them. The big titans move so slow its hard to catch up to the eldar ones unless you spend a couple of turns marching and taking a heap of enemy firepower and then pray to get the first shot in turn 3 so you actually get to do it and if so that you are still in a shape that you should be assaulting anyway.

Once we get her Eldar titan legion (the list is on the Epiccoms board somewhere) up and running there might be a few more opportunities though . 6 Eldar titans and several knights should be able to give me a run for my money.

[Ithikial]

I'm jealous mark.... real jealous.