Adam (Capnmoe) and I decided to do a test game of the new Eldar Codex vs my 1850 Astra Militarum DieCon list. I have never seen so much D in one game. Before I go into what happened in the game, lets take a look at the army lists and a few notes about the units:
Bill's (VaderSeven's) Astra Militarum CAD
No Force Org Slot-
Commissar (Attached to Sabres)
Priest (Attached to Conscripts)
Priest (Warlord) (Bellowing Voice Warlord Trait [can issue orders]) (Attached to Lascannon Infantry Squad)
HQ-
Company Command Squad with Lascannon, 2x Sniper, Camo Gear, Carapace Armor, Krak Grenades, and Officer of the Fleet
Elites-
none
Troops-
Infantry Platoon
Infantry Squad with Autocannon and Chimera
Infantry Squad with Autocannon and Chimera
Infantry Squad with Lascannon
50x Conscripts
3x Sabre Defense Platforms with Lascannons and 3x extra crew
Platoon Command Squad with 3x Flamers and 1x Heavy Flamer (Inside Vendetta)
Veteran Squad with 3x Meltaguns (Inside Valkyrie)
Fast Attack-
Valkyrie (In Reserve)
Vendetta (In Reserve)
Heavy Support-
Wyvern Squadron with 2x Wyverns
Lord of War-
Shadowsword
Fortifications-
none
Adam's (Capnmoe's) Eldar CAD with Dark Eldar Allies
HQ-
Farseer with Singing Spear (Warlord) (Conqueror of Cities) (Mental Fort, Terrify, Hallucination, Psychic Shriek)
Farseer (Terrify, Invis, Mental Fort, Psychic Shriek)
Archon with Webway Portal
Elite-
10x Wraithguard with D-Scythes (All three HQ are attached to this Squad and it is in Reserve)
Troops-
5x Windrider Jetbikes with Scatter Lasers
5x Windrider Jetbikes with Scatter Lasers
5x Dire Avengers in a Waveserpent with Scatter Laser
5x Dire Avengers in a Waveserpent with Scatter Laser
5x Wyches
Fast Attack-
8x Warp Spiders
Heavy Support-
none
Lord of War-
Wraithknight
Fortifications-
none
Since DieCon is quickly coming up we decided to do one of the missions from the packet that was recently released. We settled on Mission 2. The Primary Mission was Kill Points with a modification of being able to earn an extra 2 points for every force org slot type eliminated from the primary detachment. If players did not have a unit in a slot they gave those points up. The secondary was a modified set of Maelstroms. Bonus Objectives were Slay the Warlord, Solo Blood, and Line Breaker. To see the mission in detail, visit this link and check out mission 2.
Adam won the roll off to decide who deploys first and choose to deploy first. He then decided to go first and I failed to seize. There was three Maelstroms objectives which I have circled in the below picture (they are number 1, 2, and 3 from left to right). We rolled for Night Fight and there was in fact Night Fight. Let's get into the actual game now.
Battle Report After the Jump!
