Wednesday was another Eldar day, where I took 1750pts against a great-looking Iron Hands army. 

After getting jumped by two Dreadnoughts each with a pair of heavy flamers in Drop Pods in turn one I was on the back foot the rest of the game. My Wave Serpents and Jetbikes did a good job of dancing around the board using their jink saves to avoid the worst of the damage but there was little else I could do to kill enough Marines and tanks. 

The game may have gone a bit one-sided but I had a good time getting my Eldar back on the table. 

Guardians and Fire Warriors hold the objective and the defence line.

Marines in the trenches

Marines moving up the trenches

Space Wolves advance

Battlesuits and Warp Spiders push up the flank

Dead Blood Angels. He was a bit unimpressed when I cast Misfortune on his Assault Marines and we shot everything at them.

Moving into enemy territory

Closing in on the Long Fangs

Surrounding the Longfangs.

Brought my Eldar back out Tuesday night, and teamed up with Tau against three Space Marine players in a game of Emperor’s Will. 

Night Fighting slowed things down turn one, but some good shooting on a Misfortuned squad of Blood Angels in turn 2 gave us plenty of breathing room from then on to pick off remaining threats while our reserves pushed up the left flank cleaning up any stragglers there. We over-extended slightly at the end, with my Warp Spiders caught out by the Long Fangs and my Jetbikes assaulted by the last few Space Wolves from their main squad as well as a bunch of Dark Angels, but it was too late for them to turn it around and we were able to gun down the last of the Long Fangs while the Jetbikes managed to keep them locked in combat.

I think the final score was in the region of 8-1 in our favour, so a solid result. I’m on something of a “voyage of rediscovery” with my Eldar, I didn’t enjoy them hugely when the new codex came out but had a much better feel for them this game and have plans to use them more in the near future. 

I’ve still got a few units in need of painting and almost everything else needs tidied up a bit, so I’ve got no shortage of painting I should be doing from now on.

Finally motivated myself to finish painting my other three Wraiths, so once I’m done basing these guys I’ll have the squad of 6 painted. I love my lazy simple paint scheme!

After a good game with them on Tuesday I did some work painting my Executioners.

Got my first game in with the new Dark Elf army book on Tuesday. 1700pts, most of mine was spent on 14 Executioners with Tullaris, a Death Hag and a Supreme Sorceress of Life. They were total overkill.

Looking forward to getting more games in and trying different builds. Spoiled for choice at the moment!

Only a few days late, here’s photos from Tuesday’s game down at Games Workshop. My Necrons teamed up with Imperial Guard to take on Chaos Marines and Daemons with 1000pts per player on Purge the Alien.

I think I may have overestimated the abilities of my Wraiths and Destroyer Lord, they rushed the Great Unclean One, but were charged the next turn by almost everything else in the 2000pts they had. They were, of course, wiped out but only just.

My Scarab farm didn’t work out hugely well, and I think I’ll save this for playing a Maynarkh list where I can get rending Scarabs and put them to more use.

Final result was them: lots, us: not so much.

A couple of things I’ve been working on recently. I’ve now finished building my Wraiths, including magnetised claws so that I can add whip coils, so these guys are ready to spray and paint. That’ll bring me up to 6 Wraiths.

I’ve also been building the first of my two Canoptek Spyders. It’s mostly there, just a bit of magnetising to finish off before I get started on the second one. So far the Particle Beamer and Gloom Prism are magnetised, that just leaves the Fabricator Claw Array which shouldn’t take too long.

As well as that I’ve picked up some more supplies to finish off my gaming board, so I’ll hopefully get myself sorted on the other half of that soon too.