As promised, here’s the in-game photos from Eternal Warrior. Write-up is based on memory, so may be a bit off in places.

Game 1 was Purge the Alien against Tzeentch Daemons. The amount of shooting psychic attacks was a worry, but I was able to stick with my plan, going to ground behind the defence line any time my main block of Warriors came under fire. I got a solid start when I took out 2 small units of Screamers in turn one which also got me First Blood, then was able to focus fire a unit at a time while protecting my smaller vulnerable units inside Ghost Arks. Kairos was a pain to try and deal with, so I mostly ignored him, and he eventually did more damage to himself (through miscasts, if I recall) than I did to him. 

Game 2 was Crusade (3 objectives) against Iron Warriors. Some great luck on turn one let me shoot down his Daemon Prince for First Blood and Slay the Warlord both at once. His forward Marine squad fell to mass firepower, and the one back on his objective was later hit by my Deathmarks and Despairtek popping out of the Night Scythe. If I remember it was a lucky penetrating hit from either my Annihilation Barge or Quad Gun that took out his Forgefiend, and after his Helldrake spent two turns burning down my units I managed to track him down in range of rapid-fire Gauss, Voltaic staffs and a lot of Tesla from my Barge and Night Scythe. That was when his Obliterators turned up to attack my main Warrior squad on my objective, and after a couple of rounds of combat an awful Morale Check had my squad, including my Overlord, run off the board. Fortunately I’d cleared his squad off his objective and had a small squad of Warriors parked on the central objective, and they managed to hold there and ensure I won that game.

Game 3 (no pictures of that one, I’m afraid) was Relic against a Necron air force list. I got very lucky when his Wraiths and Destroyer Lord failed the charge against my Scarabs by only 1”, and that let me catch them in the open claiming First Blood and Slay the Warlord. More lucky rolls over the course of the game meant his flyers turned up only one or two at a time, and some good shooting by my forces meant that even if they survived shots from my Quad Gun on intercept they’d be taken out in my turn by the Annihilation Barge or lucky Voltaic Staff shots. That ended in another wipe-out when I caught his last squad of Necron Warriors hiding in a building on his table edge.

Game 4 was Emperor’s Will against a Tau list with 2 Riptides and a bunch of missile Broadsides. This got messy, as his Pathfinders were able to markerlight my Warriors behind the Defence Line denying them the 2+ “Go to Ground” cover save most turns. I thought I’d run into a bit of bad luck in turn 1 when I failed to get First Blood leaving a single Pathfinder from a 5-man squad, but lucked out when he failed Morale and ran off the board. That proved to be decisive, as the brutal game ended at a victory point score of 2-1, where I had First Blood and Slay the Warlord to his Linebreaker. I’d killed off all his Troops, denying him the ability to score on his objective, but he managed to finally finish off the squad of Deathmarks that had tied up a Riptide in combat and used it to contest my objective and get Linebreaker.

So, 4 games down I’d somehow managed to go undefeated and took 1st place (out of 16 players). Now I need to decide whether I take this list down to Conflict in July, or use the new Eldar codex.