2011.10.29 - Space Wolves v. Dark Eldar

I played my Loganwing list against a reserve heavy Dark Eldar list. I forgot to grab a list from my opponent, but from memory it looked something like this:


A Challenger Appears: All out of bubblegum...
Haemonculus
Duke

~10x warriors, raider, blaster
~10x warriors, raider, blaster pistol
~10x wyches, raider, 2x hydra gauntlets

5x Wracks
5x Trueborn
5x Incubi
5x Scourges
6x Reavers

2x ravagers, one with lances & one with disintegrator cannons.
1x Razorwing

Pod, pod, pod, pod, pod: You have how many terminators?

Logan

3 squads of 5x terminators in pods
1 squad of 4x terminators in a pod

4x Long Fangs w/ ML
4x Long Fangs w/ ML
4x Long Fangs w/ MM, pod


I will note here that the actual match didn't happen as it is pictured. I got a little forgetful about notes and pictures during turn 4, and I think Logan actually died then. Another example is that I am pretty sure I popped the raider that started on the board, but can't remember when. Instead of guessing as to what happened I just made up a new story from my notes and the pictures.

My opponent rolled game type and deployment: we ended up at annihilation and pitched battle. I won the roll to go first, but opted to go second. After deploying, I decided to try and seize, but failed.

TURN 1

Top of the first was pretty empty, seeing as how most of my army was sitting on the side of the table, but my opponent had plopped down his wracks, a squad of warriors and his incubi so he had something to shoot with. He also put down a raider near the wracks, which looked like a juicy target for those podding long fangs. Lastly, he put his small group of trueborn into the other structure. On my turn, I put the first missile long fangs into the cover near the table corner and the other behind a decrepit building, hoping to climb up turn 1 and get a good vantage over the table.


The fangs got shot at with a hex gun or what have you, along with a splinter cannon, but they survived unscathed.

At the top of my turn, my pods make their assault. I put Logan in with the multi-melta long fangs and dropped them next to the raider on the board; Team Arjac dropped in to harass the incubi and warriors hiding in cover; the G team dropped in behind the other ruin where my opponent's trueborn were chilling. Shooting saw 4 out of 5 incubi demolished, along with 3 of the trueborn scrubbed out from Team G. A most excellent beginning. The raider also took a face full of melta and survived to write home about it, but fortunately was immobilized.

Logan moves in on the left while Arjac demolishes the incubi. Not pictured is Team G laying waste to some trueborn scum that thinks buildings beat missiles.

TURN 2

My opponent got extremely lucky with his reserve rolls, netting his razorwing, his wych raider and a ravager. His fighter almost scattered off the board, but the other two landed roughly on target. The ravager shot at Team G and dropped one with a lance, but the storm shield absorbed the rest. The razoring decided the long fangs hiding in the bush were a bit too much dakka for its all around armor 10 and popped off two with a couple missiles and its ridiculous amount of firepower, though to be fair both missiles went wide. The warriors popped off a terminator as well, and the pod Logan rode in was similarly decapitated. Not to be outdone, two of Logan's long fangs died to S1 attacks from the warriors.

Assault saw Logan get charged by the wracks. He made his counter-attack, which was good, but he also took a wound. His squad crumbled around him.

On my turn, I miss both rolls for my pods and shooting was awful. I think the only thing that hit was a missile against the raider near Logan, which immobilized it. Assault wasn't much better, but Logan ended up chewing up a significant portion of the wracks. Note I forgot to shoot my pods yet again.

TURN 3

The rest of my opponent's reserves came in, which included a reaver squad that made farting noises in the general direction of my entrenched long fangs but not much more. The ravager shot its entire payload at Team G, but Team G was celebrating their partial victory over the trueborn with a conga line at the time, which coincidentally let them all line up behind the storm shield and take not a single wound. Poor ravager.

The wych deploy and shoot, but they bounce as well, though the recently arrived scourges drop two long fangs hiding in the bush. The razorwing polishes off two more long fangs and they break towards the board edge.

Assault saw Logan demolish the remaining wracks, leaving him to face the haemonculus alone. Arjac traded one for one with a warrior--amazin--but Team G did a bit better, killing two trueborn for one of their chainfisted brethren.

My turn saw Team O drop in from the heavens, right next to the wych raider. Lone Wolf Long Fang regroups as well, and pops a shot off at the razoring which does nothing. The other long fangs carve out a fat chunk of reaver flesh for dinner, leaving two surviving by the end of turn 4. I can't remember when they all died exactly, but I know the drop pods lit a few up as well.

Team G throws down its melta at the ravager and hits a fuel line, causing it to explode in a brilliant but not quite deadly fireworks display. Arjac shoots, whiffs and decides to take his anger to a more personal distance, not quite killing any warriors. Disgraceful. Team O charges the wych raider and kills it, because charging into wyches would've been silly, right?

Logan finishes off his friend and cowers in the smoking crater that was his chariot.

TURN 4

Warriors shoot and charge my long fangs, killing two. The jetbikes whiff again, but a raider polishes off Eyjolf's long fangs that had previously inhabited the bush. The razorwing has no luck either, and whiffs 12 shots. The wyches charge, roll a bajillion attacks and end up killing three out of four Team O terminators. They consolidate towards Team G, while the scourges hang out in the open. Delicious.

The northern close combat sees Arjac die, leaving one terminator to hold the line.

Thankfully on my turn my pod comes in to unleash Team S: five very drunk wolf guard. They were so drunk they hit every scourge, annihilating them. This was a big mistake for me I believe, but compounded with all my other mistakes this game it was really just par for the course. I shoot and charge Team G into the wyches, not realizing how much they hurt, but end up killing three in shooting and zero in close combat.

TURN 5

Shooting saw the razorwing continue its harrowing existence by leveling two more terminators.

 Team G knocks out two wyches, finally, and takes no casualties in return. The warriors close into close combat and drop a long fang, while the sergeant plays with himself. The lone cyclone terminator of Team Arjac dies as well.

On my turn, Team S goes wide with both of its melta shots, but drop pods go for broke and take out two of the warriors from the duke's squad, which had previously been in combat with Arjac. Wyches steamroll another terminator with 27 attacks, which I suppose really says more about terminator resiliency than wych ferocity, leavin two terminators facing four wyches.

Thankfully, my opponent rolls a 1 for game length, ending the match somewhat prematurely.


RESULTS

In the end, I had 7 KP and so did my opponent, leaving us at a draw. Had the game gone on and without a lot of lucky rolling in the next turn, though, I would have lost by at least two, likely three points.

For me, my MVP was absolutely my drop pods. They wiped out the reaver squad, sucked up a ton of high S/AP fire and three lived to tell the tale. They even got two glancing hits off to stun the razorwing and immobilize a raider.

The hero of the game was definitely Bjorgulf, the sergeant in the ruins. Although I have written it like he got assaulted in Turn 5, it was actually the top of Turn 4, which means that he survived alone against 10 warriors for four assault phases.

Review

First off, my deployment of drop pods was fucked. I overexaggerated Logan's abilities and it cost me a lot, namely Logan and a squad full of S8 AP 1 dakka. I think I played too reactively, and I can tell you now I had no other plan than to get stuck in combat. This did not end well. After looking at the pictures I took during the match I am pretty sure I killed twice as much outside of combat as in it.

I also need a better system of notes and pictures. And to paint to stuff.