7th Ed - Dark Eldar vs Chaos Space Marines - 500pts

[skari]

Well, hold on to yer horses! Im back. This time with a 7th edition battle report. The FIRST one. My brother came over and we had a small skirmish.




For once here are the lists and what not:

Dark Eldar Cult Troops:
Succubus - Haywires, Power Weapon (lance)

5 Wyches
Venom - Dual Cannon

8 Wyches- Hekatrix, Venomblade, Phantasm GL.
Raider, Grisly Trophies

6 Reaver Jetbikes

The Chaos Space Marines:

Sorceror, Mark of Tzeench, Force Staff, Sigil
- Powers:
Tzeench Storm (primaris)
Biomancy (Primaris), 6 and 1
we assumed that both battle focus and the chaos FAQ both apply unless otherwise stated, does anyone know any differently?

10 CSM - Flamer, Plasmagun
5 CSM - Mark of Nurgle

3 Terminators - Combi Flamer

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We chose to play an Eternal War mission, and rolled crusade, 5 objectives, and dawn of war deployment. We played on a 4 by 4 table.

I Chose to deploy first (as this then gave me the choice to go first or second) after seeing his deployment, I took second turn because it was an objective based game and he lacked any real long range firepower.

Thanks for watching!

[Frosty the Pirate]

Your wyches in the open shouldn't of gotten cover like that for a couple of reasons:

1) Conqueror of Cities only provides Stealth (Ruins) when the unit is IN ruins. AKA you must be within the ruins to receive the stealth USR. (It's under the Stealth rule)

2) Saves are on a per-model basis, so only the wyches who were physically 25% obscured by terrain from the firing unit would of gotten a cover save. (obviously it's hard to tell from the camera angle you present tho) So some may of been eligible for a 4+, while others may not have.

Also, that is the intended way that Psychic Powers work, He generates his powers from a table. If he Generates all of them from 1 table he gets the primaris for free. He then is marked, so he then gets the Primaris of his god for free. (The only argument is that when he gains the his power from the mark, does he lose psychic focus, and from my reading of the rules the answer seems to be no. Because the rule states if a psyker generates additional powers he loses psychic focus, which you are not generating any extra powers.)

Good intro to 7th report tho!

[Jack Shrapnel]

As always, thanks for the report!

nice to see a small scale battle too!

[skari]

Thanks for the comments!