Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Sixth Edition

Hey internet, long time no see.
I've been busy working 10 hour days and as such have not had much time for hobby stuff.  I have however got in one game of sixth edition, which I will briefly relay here.  I used a slightly tweaked version of my dark eldar list against my brother's jumping Blood Angels.



My list:

HQ
Archon with djin blades, clonefield, phantasm grenade launcher, soul trap, haywire grenades, combat drugs                                                                                              145
Haemonculus with liquefier gun                                                                                    60
                                                                                                                                       205
                                                                                                                                               
Elites
Incubi: 4 incubi                                                                                                              88
            Venom with 2 Splinter Cannons                                                                        65
                                                                                                                                       153
Troops
Wytches: 9 wytches with 1 hydra gauntlets and hekatrix with agoniser, haywire        148
            Raider with dark lance, nightshield                                                                   70
Warriors: 10 warriors with shredder and splintercannon                                               105
            Raider with dark lance, nightshield                                                                   70
Warriors: 10 warriors with shredder and splintercannon                                               105
            Raider with dark lance, nightshield                                                                   70
Wracks: 4 wracks                                                                                                           40
                                                                                                                                       608
Fast Attack
6 Reaver Jetbikes with two heat lances                                                                         156

Heavy Support
Razorwing Fighter with monoscythe, Dlances                                                              145
Ravager with dark lances and night shield                                                                    115
Ravager with dark lances and night shield     115      

As you can see, it is a fairly standard setup.  The wracks gave a pain token to the Archon who then joined the incubi, and the Haemonculus gave the witches a token.  The Blood Angel army had two large melta assault squads, some Sanguinary guard, a rifle dread, a librarian dread, a vindicator, a priest or two, and Dante.

Lessons:
Haywire grenades are awesome now.  My witches took out both dreadnoughts easily.  Don't forget to throw a grenade before you charge.
Dark lances kill marines quite nicely when there are no tanks to shoot at.  I melted the Sanguinary guard from a safe distance with them.
Watch the charge ranges!  I don't think there was a charge less than nine inches in this game, so I quickly lost my bikers to that.
Look out sir is annoying.  Dante deepstriked with some assault marines and absorbed a tonne of shooting.  Positioning is very important in dodging this.

In the end I managed to table him, as he just couldn't get to grips with my army.  It was a good game, if a little one sided.
This weekend I should be having my second game of sixth edition 40k.  This time we are exploring allies.  I've got a stationary Imperial Guard force with some deepstriking Space Marines, and my opponent using an all infantry mix of Tau and Space Marines.  Hopefully I'll get an update of that in a timely fashion.  

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