Had a recent game VS space marines with my DE. Was not the most exciting game as my opponent played very defensively. The mission was victory points and there was only about a 70 point split at the end (in my favour)
I took a Duke list. All in all the game only lasted 5 turns. A few highlights:
The more I play against a gunline army the more I wish I had a WWP. In the list that I wanted to play I had the grotesques and the WWP... sadly I forgot them at home and therefore had to run my old "kabal" style list. Although I did run the razorwing, once again it proved to be quite effective and did not die at the end of the game! I was quite happy about that result.
Cheers!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
WhIP Hellions
On this installment of WhIP :D (see how I gave it a Dark Eldar spin?) I have the first hellion of 15... I have decided to do all the skin first as I have no clue what to do the rest of the armour or army for that matter yet... So this will get me started.
I know the camera is not the best. But what do you think?
The recipie:
3:1 Elf Flesh:Khomando Khaki
Devlan mudd wash
base coat of Elf Flesh
gryphone sephia wash
elf flesh (very light and watered down)
And I still have not done the last step but its a final blend of elf flesh + bleached bone.
Thoughts?
Cheers!
I know the camera is not the best. But what do you think?
The recipie:
3:1 Elf Flesh:Khomando Khaki
Devlan mudd wash
base coat of Elf Flesh
gryphone sephia wash
elf flesh (very light and watered down)
And I still have not done the last step but its a final blend of elf flesh + bleached bone.
Thoughts?
Cheers!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
1500pts Vs White Scars
This was a game I had the 27th of December against my friends white scar army in progress. We were testing our tournament lists for the upcomming tournament season at Spellbinder in Woodstock ON.
This was the DE list that I was using:
I ran the 3 grots (friggin awesome) and the hellions with the Baron.
This was the table:
Turn 1 was non existent to both of us as we entirely reserved our armies. I won the roll off and made him go first, after all, it was an objective based mission:
Turn 2 saw his WW and two bike squads arrive. I had some raiders, and ravagers show up.
Turn 3 Saw the Khan show. And my hellions, that then shot at the bike command and killed the apothecary! (yikes)
The 3 grotz were shot at by almost the entire army, and then assaulted by the Khan and the remmant sarge of one of the bike squads... the grots did awesome, and did not lose any of their number (each left with one wound!) the only casualty was the heamonculus... and then they successfully ran away! HA!
All in all. My opponent tapped out turn 5... with only a whirlwind left on the table, far from any of the objectives. He did note that the addition of poison to the DE arsenal has made this match up a lot tougher than it used to be (its true, we used to play all the time before and the games were a lot closer... but the poison really leveled the playing field.)
Cheers!
This was the DE list that I was using:
I ran the 3 grots (friggin awesome) and the hellions with the Baron.
This was the table:
Turn 1 was non existent to both of us as we entirely reserved our armies. I won the roll off and made him go first, after all, it was an objective based mission:
Turn 2 saw his WW and two bike squads arrive. I had some raiders, and ravagers show up.
Turn 3 Saw the Khan show. And my hellions, that then shot at the bike command and killed the apothecary! (yikes)
The 3 grotz were shot at by almost the entire army, and then assaulted by the Khan and the remmant sarge of one of the bike squads... the grots did awesome, and did not lose any of their number (each left with one wound!) the only casualty was the heamonculus... and then they successfully ran away! HA!
All in all. My opponent tapped out turn 5... with only a whirlwind left on the table, far from any of the objectives. He did note that the addition of poison to the DE arsenal has made this match up a lot tougher than it used to be (its true, we used to play all the time before and the games were a lot closer... but the poison really leveled the playing field.)
Cheers!
Friday, December 31, 2010
New Year Mega Bash!
So, last post for the year! Just some pics to feast your eyes on. Mega Battle last night 14000pts a side. The Kabal did well taking on a whole flank with over 4000pts on it. Some outflanking stealers and a unit of bloodcrushers did arrive to help out.
Cheers and see you in the new year. Lots more to come :D
Oh and I won the raffle for the mega battle and this allowed me to purchase my next raider. I think I will convert one up to be the ride for my Grotz!
Cheers and see you in the new year. Lots more to come :D
Oh and I won the raffle for the mega battle and this allowed me to purchase my next raider. I think I will convert one up to be the ride for my Grotz!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Grotz are commin to getcha!
So, an update for today. I worked on making some Grotesques last night. There are three of them: one regular, one aberration and one with a liquifier gun. I have decided to give these chaps a try. Seems like they would make a good WWP delivery service and they are tough and can take return fire. The question now is do I run them with an archon or a heamy? Im thinking the archon if I want them to get stuck in... but the heamy might do nicely as well although he will die as soon as they hit combat... ah Anyhow.
My green-stuff-fu is not so good. But I am slowly practicing, and actually using it.
Anyhow, hope you like them. Should I make more?
Cheers!
My green-stuff-fu is not so good. But I am slowly practicing, and actually using it.
Anyhow, hope you like them. Should I make more?
Cheers!
Monday, December 27, 2010
Latest Game: Vs IG 1500pts
So, had another game today. 1500pts, getting ready for the new tournament season at Spellbinder http://www.spellbinderhobbies.com/?page_id=59 on Jan 8th.
Vs Joaquins IG. 1500pts
Highlights of the game:
- The 9 hellions rocked a blob squad (in the turn they charged they did 20 wounds!)
This was a good game for the Dark eldar, I tried a few different things out this time. For once I decided to go first, I did a few pot shots but only managed to kill a few guardsmen and soft-kill a chimera... the return IG turn saw my bloodbride raider go down... and kill 5 out of 8 :O. The razorwing lived up to its name... unloaded all its rockets and then died... I also tested the Duke, and although I did not use his deepstrike rule I did use the drug choosing and got to pick the re roll wounds drug.
The triple lance ravager did well, killing the valk, and then not dying after 3 pen hits. Lucky bugger.
Anyway, WIN for the DE killpoint mission.
Some pics from the game:
Dark Eldar Deployment, the hellions and the jetbikes were kept in reserve.
IG deployment left:
Ig Deployment right:
You will notice that the biggest mistake he made was splitting his army... he did want to have a "bait" force (the right) but it was quite jucy in a killpoint mission, having 3 KP close to it. I would have deployed the large footslogging blob squad there... and harassed the DE flank, forcing them into a war of attrition.
Turn 2:
The hellions moved on:
and then assaulted the blob turn 3, doing 20 wounds (then again my brother made 9 saves on 5+!)
IG T2:
The valk shows up, but falis to do anything to the ravager on the back right Dark eldar flank:
and then the ravager blows the valk up and kills 6 of the veterans within on turn 3:
T4:
The hellions hit and run against the blob squad on IG turn 3 and then combined shooting from a closeby raider squad and the help the the remaining reavers the massive blob is finally dead and the survivors consolidate to face the executioner:
Towards the end of the game the remaining DE forces converged on the Imperial Guard position. Here the ravager moves up and lines up a shot:
Hope you liked it! Cheers.
Vs Joaquins IG. 1500pts
Highlights of the game:
- The 9 hellions rocked a blob squad (in the turn they charged they did 20 wounds!)
This was a good game for the Dark eldar, I tried a few different things out this time. For once I decided to go first, I did a few pot shots but only managed to kill a few guardsmen and soft-kill a chimera... the return IG turn saw my bloodbride raider go down... and kill 5 out of 8 :O. The razorwing lived up to its name... unloaded all its rockets and then died... I also tested the Duke, and although I did not use his deepstrike rule I did use the drug choosing and got to pick the re roll wounds drug.
The triple lance ravager did well, killing the valk, and then not dying after 3 pen hits. Lucky bugger.
Anyway, WIN for the DE killpoint mission.
Some pics from the game:
Dark Eldar Deployment, the hellions and the jetbikes were kept in reserve.
IG deployment left:
Ig Deployment right:
You will notice that the biggest mistake he made was splitting his army... he did want to have a "bait" force (the right) but it was quite jucy in a killpoint mission, having 3 KP close to it. I would have deployed the large footslogging blob squad there... and harassed the DE flank, forcing them into a war of attrition.
Turn 2:
The hellions moved on:
and then assaulted the blob turn 3, doing 20 wounds (then again my brother made 9 saves on 5+!)
IG T2:
The valk shows up, but falis to do anything to the ravager on the back right Dark eldar flank:
and then the ravager blows the valk up and kills 6 of the veterans within on turn 3:
T4:
The hellions hit and run against the blob squad on IG turn 3 and then combined shooting from a closeby raider squad and the help the the remaining reavers the massive blob is finally dead and the survivors consolidate to face the executioner:
Towards the end of the game the remaining DE forces converged on the Imperial Guard position. Here the ravager moves up and lines up a shot:
Hope you liked it! Cheers.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
VS Imperial Guard
it is hard to talk about tactics without talking a look at what as a dark eldar commander i have come to dread the most on the other side of the table. the imperial guard are one of those armies that have tools for every job in every list at such a reasonable price that they can have a lot of whatever it is. chimeras and hydras come to mind as they auto trump a lot of the dark eldar strengths at the baseline. over the course of the next week i will be looking at the ways that i have personally worked against this army as it has made me a better commander.
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