Our last encounter at J'migan bridge ended in a draw. This one went differently with an emphatic victory for the forces of the Imperium in a 6,000 point Kill Point game. This was the first time that we had played kill points with two large armies so the scene was set for utter carnage.
There were two cinematic sequences that would do any action movie proud. The first was watching 24 Ravenwing bikes follow the banner of devastation into the Eldar gun line and wreak initial havoc. The second was watching a single ninja-like Wyche, dance in hand to hand combat with the lumbering Imperial Knight. The Knight finally stomped the Wyche, but not before she managed to attach one final sticky Haywire grenade...her dying vision would have been of her final grenade creating a catastrophic explosion from the Knight and leaving a stadium-sized hole in the surrounding area. Very Epic.
All in all, this was a great game and it proved that even when you play the same factions on the same board, the feel and experience of the games can change tremendously.
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| Dark Angels, emboldened with 2 new squads of Ravenwing (totalling 4), and the first turn, take the unprecedented step of lining up for the charge... |
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| ...on the other side, an immense Eldar gun line occupies the fallen Imperial base. |
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| Dark Angels begin with a dramatic Raven Wing charge on the left.flank |
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| In the centre an Imperial Knight leads an armoured assault forward, his thermal cannon wrecking a Dark Eldar ravager in the first salvo. In the back ground, a similar armoured force can be seen advancing along the river bed |
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| The banner of devastation is carried forward. This caused carnage amongst the eldar dug in on the left flank, breaking or destroying three squads in turn one. |
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| In the rear the Eldar wraithknight has been felled by a command squad in a suicidal drop pod strike. In the centre, Eldar return fire wipes out one Ravenwing squad and an assault by Wyches, eliminates a further one. |
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| Dire Avengers wipe out the drop pod command squad but foolishly leave Asriel alive. In the next turn he charges and cuts them down |
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| One of the Dark Angel's most valuable units on the day. This Whirlwind harassed the Eldar gun lines from turn one. |
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| Eldar jet bikes whizz onto the battle field, ending any notion that Azrael is utterly un-killable. |
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| Deathwing assault! Terminators drop in around the right flank, so that pressure is now being exerted across the entire Eldar line. In the centre, Wyches charge the Imperial Knight, whilst on the left flank, jetbikes howl in to cut down the isolated Lord Asriel. |
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| Deathwing Assault from another angle...what were the Deathwing thinking! |
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| Dark Angels air support comes on to engage the Dark Eldar Voidravens, downing one on the first pass |
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| Carnage! The Ravenwing and the Deathwing are wiped out and the Knight has blown up in a titanic explosion, but the Eldar line is shattered. |
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| Ravenwing flyer, supported by speeders begin to think that they night just be the only people left, in existence...on the entire board. |
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| Things go worse for the eldar on the left flank and the only remaining infantry unit withdraws ahead of the assaulting Deathwing knights |
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| Dark Eldar jetbikes rush in to plug holes in the line |
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| After three turns of delay the Ravenwing land speeder squadron arrives and begins to hammer the Eldar jetbikes with missile fire |
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