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The Battle for Angrod
The eldar began by changing the center objective for a Warp Gate (a decision which will prove critical during the battle), and deployed only two falcon gravtank units behind buildings in his wings. The rest of the army lied in the Alaitoc Craftworld, prepared to go through the portal at any time.
The squat player, in turn, deployed one guild biker unit and 6 spartan full of berserkers in his right flank. The center was occupied by a thunderer unit (deployed behind some buildings to avoid early eldar fire) and a Leviathan (which, unknown to the eldar player, had a full tactil squad inside it). The left flank was defended by a gyrocopter unit and another guild biker unit.
Turn 1
 Battle initial deployment. Right flank gravtanks are out of the picture
The battle started with the eldar gianing the iniciative. In his first move, one eldar guardian host with a full compliment of wraithguards and warithlords crossed the gate and began attacking the Leviathan. Holding the initiative, the eldar played continueds atacking the Leviathan with his two Falcon units using double moves. Although he didn't manage to destroy it, he broke it and left it with only two damage points intact. As it was a "fearless" unit, the squat player decided to flee AHEAD. The squat player seized the initiative and made and advance move with his thunderers, occupying the nearby buildings and decimating the guardian host. Maintaining the inciative, he then made a charge with the tactical troops inside the Leviathan against the remains of the guardian host, winning the assault & killing all but the wraith-things, which, being feraless, moved towards the thunderers, as to prevent them from making sustained fire next turn.
 Tacticals overruning the guardian host
The eldar then made his another warhost appear thorugh the portal, getting position inside the ruins which surrounded it and firing against the tactical unit, which stubbornly refused to break. Again, he maintained the initiative and a jetbike squadron razed through the gate in order to engage the squat tactical unit, scoring five hits which where saved by the squat player, who in turn killed two of the bike squadrons. Incredibly, the eldar won the assault, and the remaining tacticals fled to a nearby hill, behind which were lurking the guild bikers. The jetbikers seemed not impressed by the guild bikers, as they followed the tacticals up to the hill.
At this point, the squat players sent his gyrocopters to try to kill the jetbikers, but inflicted not a singledamage point on them. The eldar tried to retaliate with another jetbike unit from the craftworld, but maged to roll a 1, and decided te regroup them. There was no more combat for the rest of the turn: the squat gave march orders for his bikers and his berserkers, although his right wing bikers failed their initiaive roll, just like the third eldar jetbike unit, which didn't manage to get through the portal.
After the rally phase only the wraith-things remained broken
Turn 2
 Start of turn 2
The eldar summoned the avatar almost 5 cm from the berserker formation, & again won the initiative. The avatar engaged the berserkers suffering two wounds, but managed to break the berserker formation, which ran towards the eldar right flank objective. Retaining the initiative with that flank's gravtanks the eldar finally destroyed the Leviathan. Then, the eldar tried to get another of the jetbike units out of the warp gate, but he didn't pass the initiative check. The squat made an advance move with his thunderers and managed to kill two stands from the second guardian host. Retaining the initiative, he used his gyrocopters to attack the same unit, but to no avail. The eldar left flank gravtanks advanced towards the nearest biker unit, killing 4 of the 6 stands thus breaking the enemy formation, which fled to where the tactical unit was. Another bike unit appeared through the portal, firing against the broken berserkers and managing to kill one berserker unit and one spartan transport. Then the squat made his rallied tactical squad to try to retain his left wing objective, firing against the nearest jetbiker unit but making no damage. In response, the eldar engaged the tacticals with the jetbikers, breaking them again and conquering the squat's left flank objective. The remaining guildbikers tried to engage the eldar gravtanks, but failed their initiative roll. The guardian host succesfully marshaled.
During the rally phase only the berserkers managed to rally. All squat broken units fled to a part of the battlefield (which became known as "El Corralito")surrounded by eldar forces.
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The (in)famous Corralito
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