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We played a rockin' game this weekend - OGBM v Eldar. I didn't take notes because i didn't expect it to turn into the barn-burner it was.
This is the nastiest Eldar list I've played against. Ever. It's the Swordwind list, but it would actually be better with the v1.8 changes. It would be more efficient in how to get the flak coverage (Shield of Vaul) and/or the Falcons would get a firepower boost (2x v Pulse). I've played it three times now. I resigned on turns 1 and 2 in the first 2 games. This one went to Turn 4 because of an Eldar error with a 3-2 loss. It could have been a 2-1 loss at the end of Turn 3.
GT Scenario. Urban terrain. Blitz objectives near mid-board on each side. 2 clustered objectives (including wraithgate) on Eldar left/Ork right, 2 objectives scattered far apart on the other side of the board.
Eldar
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Guardians w/ 3 Wraithguard
Dire Avengers w/ Autarch
DA w/ Exarch
Warp Spicers w/ Exarch
Warlock Titan
Stormserpent
Stormserpent
Stormserpent
Falcon troupe w/ 2 Firestorms
Falcon troupe w/ 2 Firestorms
Nightwings
Wraithgate
OGBM
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Krawla w/ mek (+3 FF attacks) and 2 Flakwagon
- Big Loota mob w/ 2 Nobz
Krawla w/ mek (+3 FF attacks) and 1 Flakwagon
- Big Loota mob w/ 2 Nobz
Krawla w/ mek (+3 FF attacks) and 1 Flakwagon
- Big Loota mob w/ 2 Nobz
Landa
- Loota Mob w/ nob, 2 boyz, stormboyz
Landa
- Loota Mob w/ nob, 2 boyz, stormboyz
Landa
- Loota Mob w/ nob, 2 boyz, stormboyz
First turn, Krawlas ease up through the streets, keeping cover against a double-move-shoot from the TK barrage on the Warlock. Very tentative, as I've seen how blindingly fast this Eldar army is.
Warlock breaks right with one Stormserpent.
Landa drops Mob to surround wraithgate. Takes 1 BM from flak.
Second Stormserpent moves towards gate and pops up to hit Landa but only places BM.
Second Landa moves to assault Stormserpent and is shot down (2 damage from Nightwings + crit).
Falcon Troupe moves to near Stormserpent for AA support, pops up and places 3rd BM on Landa. Landa is ~14.5cm from the Stormserpent, so the Landa is hacked down.
Third Landa again comes in to assault Falcons. Takes a few BMs, and destroys them completely. Orks are out of activations.
Guardians exit from Stormserpent to assault the warband and (last) landa that just crushed the Falcons. They win and consolidate to within support range of the Warband guarding the wraithgate. Jetbikes assault out of the wraithgate. They lose but do substantial damage with the Guardian support.
Final Stormserpent moves up but Eldar opt not to assault out of it.
Crushed warband fails to rally. All other Ork formations rally. Guardians fail to rally. Jetbikes rally.
Turn 2 - Avatar appears right in front of Guardians. Orks win Strategy (WAAAAGH!).
Assaults - o - doom ensue.
Left flank krawla (closest to the Warlock at this point) double moves, unloading boys and shooting at Guardians. Wraithgate Warband assaults Guardians, Stormserpent, and Avatar, intermingled. They lose (not unexpectedly), but kill the Stormserpent and break the Guardians. Even the Avatar takes a point of damage.
Warlock titan moves up to fire at the Krawla and surrounding mob. Bad roll results in low casualties. The Krawla even still has shields left. Warp Spiders in the Webway fail to activate, use the Autarch reroll and fail again. They choose to move and set up in building to support assault.
I should probably give a quick diagram. 90% of all casualties, including 3 krawlas and a Warlock titan occured in a courtyard and the surrounding buildings, maybe 45cmx30cm total.
Eldar side
Open----bldg-bldg-bldg-tower-bldg-bldg
Open-----courtyard------ruins-ruins
Open----bldg-bldg-bldg-ruins-ruins
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-------------------Krawla-krawla
So... DA in the buildings on the Eldar side. Krawla in the courtyard in the tower corner. Warlock on the other end of the courtyard. krawlas on roads that lead up between the buildings.
Right side Krawla double moves and shoots, keeping boyz loaded. A lucky shot and critical meant the holofields droped. Left side Krawla assaults the titan. The Krawla is just out of range, but the warband can dismount.
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For those keeping score at home - YES! The Orks just did a clipping assault against an Eldar titan! : 
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With support from both other Krawlas, they win, inflicting 4 more hits on the titan (Oh, so close!). The titan withdraws into base contact with the courtyard Krawla and the Boyz consolidate back into the assaulting Krawla.
While it was a mighty effort and yielded amazing results, the Orks are now out of activations.
The next bit is a blur. The Krawla in the courtyard was assaulted by gating DAs, with the entire world being drawn into the assault. The Warlock titan died. The Warp spiders take so much damage they break. The Warband is destroyed to an Ork. The Krawla is destroyed. A formation of DAs makes it onto the board to support against the Krawla on the right. The Avatar assaults and draws in DA support. Then the bikes assault and draw in DA support. The Krawla survives, but is damaged (~6DC left).
Somewhere in there the other DA formation took up residence in the building near the tower on their side of the courtyard. Darned if I can remember, though.
The broken Spiders are screening the entire courtyard with their ZoC but do not rally. The Guardians rally. all the unbroken Eldar rally. The Krawlas and the mobz inside all rally. The 2 lone warband stands which have now retreated to the hindmost objective still fail to rally.
The courtyard is ankle deep in gore. The steam from the Krawla's boiler mirrors the smoke rising from the cracked hull of the destroyed krawla and the shattered pieces of wraithbone jutting skyward.
Turn 3 - Eldar win. The guardian formation assaults the Krawla with 2 DA formations in support. That's 39 dice.
thirty...nine...dice... all hitting on 4+.
The krawla survives and WINS, breaking the Guardians again. The DAs assault, this time with a mere 34 dice total. I decide that it's time to unload the boyz because they will likely die anyway. In the end they lose but gut the DA formation. Sure enough, thus endeth the brief glorious life of the Krawla.
After that, the lone remaining Krawla assaulted one of the remaining Stormserpents that had been lurking about between the buildings ringing the courtyard. Boyz stayed unloaded so they could make a run for the objectives, but, alas, it was too late.
With no activations left on the Ork side, the pansies sent their skimmers scooting for objectives.
Bad placement made it go to another round and the Orks almost won due to a series of failed activations. However, the final Eldar Hold action managed to barely break a 2-unit Ork formation that was contesting an objective and took it from 2-2 to 3-2.
Shoulda been 2 (BTS, Blitz) to 1 (BTS)
Was 3 (BTS, T&H, Blitz) to 2 (BTS, Blitz)
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Neal
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. That would have been one to see!
