2000 points raven guard vs eldar cities of death

[RavingGuard]

2000 points.

Mission: Urban Assault

Opponents:

Space Marines consisting of....

HQ: Master of sanctity, jump pack, crozius, rosarius, bolt pistol, furious charge, frag grenades, terminator honours

Elites: Venerable Dreadnought, Assault cannon, storm bolter, extra armour, tank hunter

Dreadnought, assault cannon, heavy flamer, extra armour

Dreadnought, twin linked lascannon, storm bolter, extra armour

troops: 6 scouts, 5 sniper rifles, 1 missile launcher

8 marines inc. vet sergeant with power fist, frags, plasma gun

8 marines inc. vet sergeant with power sword, frags, plasma gun

6 marines inc. vet sergeant with b.pistol / ccw. flamer, frags

Fast Attack: 2 Landspeeder Tornados, assault cannon / heavy bolter

8 assault marines incl. vet sergeant with power fist, 2 x plasma pistol, furious charge

8 assault marines incl. vet sergeant with power fist, 2 x plasma pistol, furious charge

Heavy support: 6 Devastators, 3 x missile launcher 1 x lascannon

Whirlwind with smoke launchers / extra armour / vengeance missiles (?)

strategems: infiltrate, medicae facility, power generator.

Eldar consisting of...

hq: Farseer, runes of warding, fortune 2 x warlock bodyguard with singing spears, spiritseer

fuegan of the burning lance

elites: 6 striking scorpions, exarch with shadowstrike, stalker and scorpions claw

5 fire dragons with falcon, vectored engines, bright lance, spirit stones

10 banshees with exarch + executioner. in wave serpent with twin linked shruiken catapults. vectored engines, spirit stones.

troops:

6 dire avengers

10 wraithguard with warlock

5 rangers

fast attack: 6 swooping hawks with exarch and skyleap

heavy support: wraithlord with bright lance, 2 x flamer

war walker with 2 x scatter laser

stratgems: medicae facility, infiltrate, rapelling lines

Deployment:
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Space marines defending the building on bottom left of screen. ELdar defeding building on top right where an alien hand can be seen.

another view of the battlefield:
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The space marines were the first force to arrive on the battlefield, the two largest tactical squads occupying the edge of the hive buildings, with assault squads besides and flanked by two dreadnoughts.
the key building was defended by devastators and was a medicae facility.
in front the small ruin was held by the scouts, forsaking their chance to infiltrate for larger fire lanes and a defensive role. the landspeeders and dreadnought (ass cannon / heavy flamer) lining up on this flank too.
The whirlwind parked behind the main key building (proxied for razorback)
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The eldar force swiftly deployed into the ruins of the emperors cathedral.
Wraithguard occupying the lower levels joined by the farseer and his warlock bodyguard.
Swooping hawks and dire avengers running forwards to occupy the edge of the hive building opposite the space marine tactical squads.
the wave serpent hung back behind the cathedrals ruins.
on the far side the falcon deployed.
the rangers and scorpions emerged from the shadows having infiltrated into the building in front of the eldar deployment zone.
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The tension mounted until finally the devastator marines saw a target appear, they voxed in a signal to the chaplain and the order to begin battle was given.

[RavingGuard]

SM turn 1:

we cannot tolerate these foul xenos, kill for the living, kill for the dead... for the emperor

As the word was given the marines began moving forwards, the two assault squads jumping forwards, one claiming the spire of the hive buildings, the other moving into the cover in te centre of the hive. One from each squad succumbing to dangerous terrain.
The two tactical squads picked their way through the crumbling ruins of the hive, progress for the squad with power fist on the lower levels being particularily slow.
The lascannon dreadnought moved forwards, getting the wraithlord into his sights.
the venerable dreadnought in the centre moved forwards behind the assault squad.
Landspeeders shooting off to the marines left flank lining up the infiltrators in the building.
finally the order to shoot was given.
the devastors opened fire on the eldar falcon, 3 missiles screwed wide of the mark but the lascannon hit with full force. The super charged laser beam tore through the tanks armour, destroying the vehicle and leaving the fire dragons and phoenix lord inside pinned as they escaped the wreck. even as they escaped from the vehicle the fire dragons came under fire, the assault cannon of a dreadnought tearing two apart.
the landspeeders opened fire on the striking scorpions lurking in the cover of the building, 3 fell to the hail of bullets.
the scouts trained their weapons on the eldar rangers, the sniper fire all bouncing off the building until a frag missile finally brought down a single ranger.
the only shooting on my right flank came as the dreadnought aimed his lascannon at the wraithlord, scoring one wound.

eldar turn 1:
a mass of movement on the eldar front in response to the serious damage suffered in the last turn.
taking to the air the swooping hawks skyleaped.
the wraithguard moved to occupy the whole of their building, taking up shooting positions along the galleries.
the war walker moved out of cover, fixing the landspeeders in its sights.
dire avengers used fleet of foot to move back into the cover of the main building.
the wraithlord moved back to open up a clearer shot on the dreadnought, its bright lance striking the ancient vehicle but to no effect.
the war walker opened fire on the landspeeders, stunning one but having no effect on the other.

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space marine turn 2:

the space marines occupying the hive tower continued to move through the cover towards the eldar lines, again the squad on the lower floors finding the movement particularily slow.
both assault squads continued their forward movement, now reaching the edge of the eldar deployment zone.
all three dreadnought continued their advance forwards.
as the shooting commenced a further scorpion fell to the single landspeeders shooting, the remaining aspect warriors began falling back towards the eldar edges.
the lascannon dreadnought once again set his sights on the wraithlord, wounding it again.
both the devastators and scouts opened fire on the exposed eldar rangers, 2 falling to the combined fire.
the whirlwind finally struck its target and 1 dire avenger fell in the explosion.
from the gallery of the cathedral one wraithguard fell to earth as the venerable dreadnought hosed the building with a spray of bullets from his assault cannon.
the other dreadnought opened fire on the fire dragons once more, only fuegan now remained as the final fire dragons died.

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eldar turn 2:

with a whine the star engines of the wave serpent maxed out, the vehicle shooting over the centre of the battlefield and landing at the edge of the marines key building.
seeing the ship pass over head the wraithguard began moving out of the cathedral.
the war walker manouvered slightly to maintain its target lock on the landspeeders.
fuegan disentangled himself from the wreckage of the falcon and moved into the cover of the old mechanicus building, training his sites on the hulking form of the dreadnought who had just slaughtered his brothers.
the shooting began with the war walker destroying one landspeeder.
fuegan destroyed the dreadnought, melting through its ancient sarcophagus.
one assault marine from the chaplains squad fell to the shruiken catapults of the dire avengers.
the wraithguard also kill one assault marine from the other squad.

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[RavingGuard]

space marine turn 3:

with the distance closing to the emperors cathedral, the assault marines moved into positions for charging.
tactical squad with power fist took up a holding position in the centre of the battlefield.
the other squad moved into the hive in eldar deployment zone.
the tactical squad protecting the space marine building moved into position to face banshees when they emerged. the dreadnoughts continued their advance.
shooting began with the devastators unloading into the wave serpent, they had no effect.
assault marines shot the wraithlord with their plasma pistols, killing it.
other assault marines shot the war walker with plasma and stunned it.
The order to charge was given, chaplains squad assaulted the dire avengers and massacred them for no loss.
the other assault squad was held to a stalemate by the wraithguard, with 2 casualties on each side.

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eldar turn3:

the swooping hawks arrived from their skyleap. to the right of the space marine base.
the scorpions finally fled from the board egde.
with a loud war cry the howling banshees disembarked the wave serpent and charged into the tactical squad defending the SM base.
The farseer and his retinue threw singing spears at the chaplains assault squad who were in cover. one more marine fell.
the rangers registered a kill, one scout falling to their sniper fire.
fuegan managed a glancing hit on the remaining landspeeder, making it unable to fire next turn.
the bandshees charged the tactical squad, killing four marines despite their feel no pain special rule.
the assault squad and wraithguard continued to wear each other down, suffering minor losses on each side.

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space marine and eldar turn 4:

the chaplains assault squad moved into position to charge into the wraithguard and help their brothers whose numbers were dwindling.
the devastators in their last turn of shooting destroyed the twin linked shruiken cannons on the wave serpent.
tactical squad with fist moved back to main building to support devs and scouts. shooting the hawks on the way and making the exarch flee.
the assault squads destroyed the wraithguard and consolidated into the cathedral. moving into combat with the farseer and his warlocks.
fuegan charged into the fight between a warlock and the remaining sergeant from one assault squad whilst the chaplain was fighting the farseer higher in the building. although the chaplain didnt manage to wound the farseer his sergeant smashed the eldar leader to a pulp with his power fist.

turn 5:

fuegan is shot and assaulted by space marines, power fist sergeant claims his second big kill of the day.
the scouts charge the banshees who are now engaged with the devastators, 3 devs are dead, but the banshees numbers are also getting low.
the war walker is finally brought down by massed fire from a tactical squad.

turn 6:

the tactical squad with power fist roll a 6 for assaulting into difficult terrain so make it back into the banshees combat.
the banshees are reduced to an exarch only, who promptly flees.

result:

with scoring units in both key buildings and only a damaged wave serpent left on the table its a resounding victory for the space marines, the city has been purged off the taint of xenos.

[hiveminion]

Well this game was sure all the more interesting because of the cinematic moments, Fuegan avenging his fallen disciples, the Raven Guard sergeant on a killing spree, and the assault marines locked in constant combat with the Wraithguard.

good work, I enjoyed reading this.

[RavingGuard]

cheers dude.

i enjoyed playing it. those wraithguard lost the game for the eldar, massive point sink and no range on their guns. coupled with terrible deployment of the falcon at the start.

excellent game though, first time i've used the necromunda scenery in 40k.

[The Song of Spears]

Great game. You have a tough battle on your hands.

In case you are open to the idea, some Harlequins instead of wraithguard in this situation might work well, or the wraithgurad might still be ok, but in a falcon that is hidden on turn 1.

[RavingGuard]

the wraithguard were an experiment, my eldar friend would normally go for harlequins. he'd probably be able to afford a decent size squad of DA's too. dont think the wraithguard will ever be used again.

i'm eldar for the next game, so have to see how that goes.

[fwacho]

intereseting battle report. easy to read and understandable(thankyou)

Only caught one mistake that woudl have helped the eldar. The medicae facitliy only works against shooting casualties. (I actually used banshees to dislodge 2 tacitcal squad from one in my last cityfight game.)

Nice report overal

[RavingGuard]

i'll remember that rule next time, i was sure it worked on assaults as well. would probably have made it a much closer game if i'd known this.

[Brockafally]

but wraithguard can't be taken in a falcon.

Ever thought of taking a 5 man wraithguard squad in a waveserpent with twin-starcannons mounted on it?

Gets you where you need to be with little worry for range of guns and whatever the unit (both waveserpent and wraithguard) shoots that will be slagged almost instantly.

Just a thought though

[0ld1eye]

The unpainted armies always lose