[Epic]Battle Rpt Part II

From: Alun Gallie <gallie_at_...>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:07:21 +0930

Hi again,

Turn one.- Morale Squat 34 - Eldar 32
Eldar declared Ground attack against the artillary with one flyer det.
Artillery placed on special orders.Squats won inititive, invited Elder to
move first and prepbombed largest falcon det. with Goliaths for 3BMs and
three casualtys (2Falcon, 1 Aspect). Squat Flak sent ALL FIVE flyers home
with their tail between their legs after rolling 6,6,6,5,5,4 with 6
die.Unfourtunatly the die then failed me when rolling to shot down and all
escaped to be repaired. The Eldar forces then rolled forward and at the end
of their movement a prepbomb from my Colossus (see Questions arising post)
added another BM.
Squats then rolled forward, infantry disembarked. Warriors on left flank and
Hearthgaurd screening the artillery.After bm removel,Morale 34 - 29 . Turn
2.
Eldar declared Ground attack against iorneagles, all other eldar units to
asssualt, squat artillery on special orders. Squats again won inititive and
invited eldar to move.Prep bomb placed another 3 bms and killed more
pointyheads.Flyers accounted for 2 iorneagles, whilst one nightwing strayed
to close to the thunderfires, but escaped to tell about it. Squats attempted
to win shooting inititive using Divine Insp. but where Curses Folied Again,
however with the halfed firepower for being on assualt and the bm's the
elder fire was fairly ineffective although it accounted for 2 iorneagles
reduced it to below halfstrengh.
In the squats shooting they piled on all the fp the could which together
with the Collosuss 2 megacannons saw all 3 eldar units with at least 5 blast
markers and reduced the jetbikes and smaller falcon det. to half strength.
All eldar units failed there leadership test in the assualt phase so could
not move. The collossus then broke the jetbikes in a firefight.After bm
removal 29 - 7. At this stage the eldar gathered their wounded and headed
for home.

I have one question which arose from this and have posted it . Any comments
or questions please.
Elder player feels he had too many points tied up in flyers, and I tend to
agree with him, esp. the way this battle went. Feel he would have been
better served by Nightspinners or EOVs.
Cheers
Alun
Received on Mon Dec 15 1997 - 23:37:21 UTC