Last night I played a 3k game with Biel-Tan Eldar versus a friend's Orcs. It was his first game in months and as a result it was one of the slowest games Ive ever played
He also brought a list that was representative of what he had assembled, as opposed to what I thought would have been a more competitive list. But that aside, it was a blast.
Turn 1 was a little frightening for me as I chose some bad spots to be and was losing in the shooting game (seriously, dont ask).
The end of Turn 1 I had launched a Guardian unit out of my central Wraithgate and set up what I was hoping to be the opening assault of Turn 2. Before the roll I had the Avatar arrive next to the Guardians.
I won initiative. The orcs had a nice juicy target of a 'Uge Warband sitting in a reachable spot, so I had to try! I opened with a unit of Windriders (4 Jetbikes and 2 Vypers) coming out of the gate and swinging to the right of the mob, landing one blast marker. Then I declared the "Steal Initiative" and "Combined Assault" with the Avatar and the Guardians.
I was outmatched. I made a number of errors, including forgetting that the Orc Transports could counter-charge 10cm and THEN deploy their cargo another 5cm...which meant I was to be based all over the place.
My opponent asked, "You sure?"
"No, really, you sure?"
"OK, are you really sure you want to do this?"
Finally even the bystanders convinced him that I was foolish enough to continue my folly, and this ensued:
You can see in the closeup, this is my Windriders on the right, the Farseer and 7 Guardians occupying the ruins in the center, with the Avatar on the left. The orcs have 12 Transports and, oh, like five hundred THOUSAND orcs piling out of them. Seriously, this was 350 points of Eldar (plus the free Avatar) versus 920 of orcs?
The pain began. BUCKETS of dice were recruited for the battle, and Gork and Mork turned their eyes from their greenskinned children. When all was said and done, the Eldar had done 4 kills to the orcs's 5 (WHIFFS galore on the orcs!), and final count: The Eldar won by 3! The mob jumped back into their trucks and ran screaming...and during the rest of the turn were shot into oblivion and complete annihilation by abusing the "Blast Markers and Broken Units" rules...
It turned the game around, but the Eldar had done it. The win was brutal, fantastic, and amazing. And completely and totally improbable.
Wheeeee!
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