Fully Painted Dark Eldar (coven) vs Alpha Legion (maulers) Battle Report

Welcome to another Skaredcast battle report, this time you see Matt and his gorgeous alpha legion chaos space marines take on the dark eldar coven. You can see all the other reports that I have done here:

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The mission, The scouring with vanguard deployment.



And the army lists up for discussion:
The Alpha Legion:

The Chaos Lord in terminator armour
3 Terminators with combi-plasmas
10 Chaos Space Marines, 2 flamers, Veteran with Powersword
Rhino with a dirgecaster
10 Chaos Space Marines, 2 flamers, Veteran with Powersword
Rhino with a dirgecaster
Maulterfiend w/ magmacutters
Maulerfiend w/ magmacutters
Helldrake w/Baleflamer
2 Obliterators, mark of nurgle, veterans of the long war.

The coven Dark Eldar:
Heamonculus with a liquifier
3 Grotesques, aberration and liquifier
Raider
8 Wracks, liquifier
Raider
10 wyches, hekatrix venomblade, haywire grenades
Raider
5 Warriors, Blaster
Venom, dual cannon
5 Warriors, Blaster
Venom, dual cannon
5 Scourge, 2 x haywire blasters
Talos, TL liquifier gun, TL Splinter Cannon
Chronos, Vortex, Syphon, Injector
4 Mandrakes

Thanks a lot for tuning in. Comments are appreciated
Cheers.

Ouch! Yes, once the wyches went and the maulerfiends and heldrake had a free rein you were in serious trouble!
Nice report, but I have some comments.

I think you should have protected your wyches better - maybe surrounded them with other units to prevent the terminators gettings to them so easily. They were the only thing that was going to take out the 'fiends. Also, after their raider blew up (& you unluckily lost most of them), could they have reached the nearby maulerfiend? They looked fairly close. Then I would have sent the talos to kill the terminators, hoping for a good AP roll for the LG. Maybe you were just unlucky with the talos - I assume you made a smash attack and fluffed the rolls?

Did you take the mandrakes just for fun? They were never going to beat the obliterators, but there was nothing else for them to go for. A small squad could be useful for countering your opponent's infiltrators, or outflanking for a late-game ambush or objective denial. But mostly they are poor!

I think a 2nd talos is a better (and cheaper) buy than the cronos - better melee, better shooting, better better!

Scourge with heat lances could have killed a 'fiend (or the heldrake) in a single shot, and were close enough to get into melta range so far as I could tell.

I think you should modify your list a bit before taking on the Alpha Legion again. Revenge is needed!

I agree. In. retrospect getting into the mauler with the wyches would have been key. And yes the talos would have dealt with the termies. The mandrakes could have beaten the oblits. Had they, they would have provived some valuable str4 shooting. But they did ok, cheaply keeping t hem from shooting. I like the mandrakes, but you need a larger squad really, 8 would be perfect.

The chronos is usually my other talos, I just did not have all the bits build and painted, so he became a chronos for the fully painted batrep. And yes, I have seriously considered heatlances on at least one unit of scourge to be able to deepstrike and threaten heavy infantry and tanks.

Yeah, second talos and heatlances on the scourge would help especially now that you are running only a single unit of scourge. That being said his mauler fiends were terrifying... again.

Thanks for sharing the pain.

Well. This was just a smaller game. But yes, the more I consider it the more the heatlances are appealing. And the maulers effectively mauled my army.
Lol