Well, I attended an 1850 tournament, and after seeing how the Baron and dogs did last game, i decided to give them a real workout.
My list was:
Baron
5 beastmasters
19 khymerae
3x 5 warriors in venom with blaster (xtra cannon)
3x 5 wyches in venom (xtra cannon) hekatrix, venom blade, hydra gauntlet, haywire
2 x ravagers 3 dark lances
1x ravager 3 dissies
aegis with lascannon
farseer with runes of warding/ prescience
5 dire avengers
5 snipers
Game 1- Tyranids
First turn- nids but gave turn to DE
no night fight
Drug: +1 weapon Skill
The mission was "the relic" with table quarter deployment
His list from bad memory:
2 tervigons (or whatever makes more little guys)
some lord with 2 guards
3 warriors with shooty weapons
2 biovores
3 big units of gaunts
1 huge (20 or more) unit of gargoyles
doom in pod
Skyshiled landing pad
3 zoanthrope
Well, this was a good game to cut this lists teeth on. Why he gave me first turn i will never know.
DE turn 1 I moved and shot. his ig threats were the no cover save warriors, so they were killed, and then i took out his zoanthropes.
His turn he multicharged 2 gaunt squads at the dogs, and his shooting was sub par.
Dogs won combat easily, then hit and run back inot his lines.
De turn 2 saw almost all models off the board, and dogs charged the venomthropes.
By turn 3, all enemy models were off the board.
DE victory. 22 out of 22 points.
MVP were the dogs yet again.
Game 2- vs Grey Knights
His list:
coteaz
draigo
10 paladins (4 psycannons)
3 psyfledreads
3 razorbacks w/ psybolts
3 3 man demon squads.. dont remember their name. they got a random ability each turn.
Mission: objectives
First turn: Grey Knights
Drugs: +1 attack
no night fight
Ouch.
Well. He went first, and a lot of shots later saw 1 venom with a glancing hit, a ra vager with 2 hull points gone, imobolised and stunned.
There were a lot of ruins around, and knowing I was going second, i hid as much as i could.
So i was happy not losing anything turn 1!
I went and imobolised a razorback, and destroyed another (first blood)
Not to good. All the vewnoms, dissies and splinter rifles took 1 wound off of 1 paladin. (2+/ 5+ FNP)
He went and took out all 3 wych venoms and destroyed the dissie ravager.
My turn saw a lot of shots take out 4 paladins. The wyches charged 2 psyflemen, 1 squad of 3 dying to overwatch.
Dogs tried to charge paladins, but 6 wounds from overwatch stopped them short.
Combat saw 2 hull points on the psyfledread
He went, and shot another 2 venoms down. He then charged 2 demon units (1 of 3, 1 of 2) at the wych squad in combat with the dread.
2 wyches on dread, hydra on demons. Hydra got me 5 additional attacks, and wiped the squad of 2. 1 wych died in retaliation, and no hull points on dread. Other demon unit fled, never to rally.
My turn saw beasts go after last razorback, and warriors start taking objectives. My mobile ravager lined up shots through a window where he could only see a psycannon and banner. Both died. No more FNP for them! Without FNP, the unit started dying fast. both coteaz and draigo bought the farm, and shooting saw a psyfledread destroyed.
At this point, i was on clean up duty. he ran to contest an objective with a dread, but a blaster put an end to that threat. I held 2 objectives, he contested 1 with a small demon unit, I had first blood and linebreaker.
Victory for the DE 22 out of 22 points.
Whew. Rough one to be sure.
MVP. Hmmm would have to be a ravager. took out a dread, razorback and a banner and psycannon.
dogs did ok. not great, but were a huge detterant and thorn in his side.
Game 3-
Vs Chaos w/ Demon allies
He Had:
Demon Prince (flying)
3 units of cultists
1 unit of plaguebearers
3 nurgle oblits
2 hellbrutes
2 helldrakes w/flamer
21 seekers of slaneesh w/herald
HA Ha.. his seekers = my dogs lol
First Turn: DE
Drugs: +1 Attack
Nightfight turn 1
Objectives:
Capture and control (10 pts)
Kill enemy I/c's- (10 Pts) warlord = 2 pts
First blood/ linebreaker 1 pt each
Deployment= Hammer and Anvil
He reserved helldrakes, seekers and 2 cultists.
Well, i set up and went first. Most enemy units were out of range due to hammer and anvil, but the ravagers took out a hellbrute. (first blood )Dogs and wyches moved forward.
His turn saw a wych boat explode to his lords vector strike (4 wyches died) droping 1 wych just out of charge range of his hellbrute. His oblits shot a ravager, but with shrouding, made the 3+
His lord then cast some spasm spell on the dogs, getting past the farseers runes, and KILLED 14 OF THE 19 DOGS! OUCH!
My turn saw the single wych and a unit of 5 jump out to say hello to the hellbrute, and everyhting else jockey for better positions. remaining dogs ran to be able to charge next turn.
wyches ate the hellbrutes lunch in combat.
Tons and tons of shots at his lord saw 1 wound and him still flying.
His turn, 1 cultist and 2 helldrakes came on. 1 vectorstruck my snipers (I infiltrated) killing 2. The other lined up breath shots on my dogs.
INTERCEPTOR came in here and shot the drake closest to the dogs.
Hit
Pen
Failed invul.
Explode.
Sweet!
His breath weapon either failed to pen or was flickerfielded. Dont remember exactly.
His lord vector struck again, but flickerfield saved the day.
My turn saw His lord die to a barrage of splinter cannon fire (+2 Points, he never fall!), an oblit die, and the dogs charge the plaguebearers who were on his Command objective. Dogs won, and consolidated into ruins.
His turn saw the cultists arrive, but no seekers. the helldrake vector and flamer the avengers, and a failed look out sir and failed invul saw the farseer dead! (1 point for bad guys)
All cultists, oblits and anything with a gun shot the baron and dogs, killing all but 1 and the duke.
My turn 4 saw all models but the helldrake off the table. The drake was vector locked. I held his objective with 2 seperate wych units.
His turn 4 saw the seekers in, and helldrake off until next turn.
My turn saw the 21 seekers brought down to 4.
His turn, he came on and vector struck the barons unit.
4 hits
4 wounds.
Killed the beastmaster, and 3 2+ invuls saw a 4, 3, 1.
Insta Ganked! (+2 points to bad guys)
His seekers assaulted a 5 man warrior squad, wiping them.
So on the table, he had 4 seekers and a helldrake with 1 hull point left.
I had all 3 ravagers, 4 venoms and a 5 man warrior squad and 2 wych squads.
He rolled a "1" and the game ended!
So i got capture and control (+10, first blood +1, and linebreaker +1.) for a total of 12
He got Kill hq's (+10 and linebreaker +1) for 11.
Victory to the Dark Eldar.
! more turn. He was close to getting tabled, and 1 lousy turn would have given me 22 point. Or. if his seekers came on earlier... oh well.
MVP- Dogs.
Yup, even though most were killed, the unit still took out 2 others, got the objective cleared and took a lot of atention off the ravagers.
When it was all added up...
Dark Eldar 1st place!
2 In a row... Seems like the duke and dogs are quite the combo!
Subject: 1850 Tournament... The Baron Reurns 
Mon Jun 03 2013, 15:28
