First batrep...first victory with my DE!

So this is the third time I am trying to write this without loosing the entire thing. So a few days ago I played my DE against my friends IG.  It was my first victory with my DE!  The battle was the scouring with long edge deployment and night fight first turn. The game was 2700 pts allowing me to play everything I had.

My list:
Archon with grots in a boat
2 warrior squads
2 wych squads in boats
6 reavers
2 5man scourage squads, one AI and one AT
10 man hellion squad
1 talos
1 jetfighter
lelith
aegis with quad gun

Eldar allies (I didn't have my troop choice yet, but my friend didn't care)
spiritseer with wraithforge stone
wraithknight with dual heavy wraithcannons

My opponents list:
regimental command
ratlings
storm troopers
4x 20man squads with appropriate command squads
sentinal squad
2 leman russes in a squad
demolisher
conquerer and executioner in a squad
melta vets in a chimera
melta vets in a valkyrie
psyker


First turn: IG steals the initiative
So this turned out to be a good thing as the IG scum moved everything forward for the most part putting them in assault range.  My friend manages to wipe out a warrior squad but thankfully the spiritseer attached survives.  Reroll cover saves is a pain! My hellions take a beating and become pinned.  Beyond this I don't take any other damage!

My turn: My wych squads and grots swing forward and all disembark from their boats.  The talos swings foward cautiously and my wraithknight moves up to a ruin to take advantage of cover. My AI scourage squad swings up the right flank.  I then shoot everything I can and do essentially nothing. I kill a small handful of guardsmen across the board and shake the hellhound (that was a great though).  Assault time...one wych squad charges a blob squad and only takes one overwatch casualty! They kill many men and loose none...IG fails its morale and bam I sweeping advance the entire squad! The other wych squad failed its save unfortunately. The grots on the left flank assault the leman russ squad and destroy one and rip the turret off the other leaving with just one heavy bolter...so I ignore it from here on out.

Turn 2: All the reserves arrive
IG get deepstriking stormtroopers, outflanking sentitals and the valkyrie with vets. The IG move around a little but not much and let loose on me.  Both wych squads are obliterated and my last warrior squad looses half of their number.  A boat and the AI scourages are also mowed down. The hellions go down to two guys. The grots get unloaded on and lose only one guy! I love these guys.  The wraithknight takes one wound.

My turn: I'm worried I'm low on troops but I must press foward and hope I can beat up the blob squads which are still running rampant.  My talos moves up toward the hellhound to beat it up. My warriors move their blaster foward to try to take out a sentinal. My reavers move onto the battefield near the storm troopers which did nothing last turn besides arrive. My flyer comes on and my scourages mishap! Luckily they only delayed their entry to the battle.  I shoot and imobolize a sentinal and the wraithknight does nothing again though jumps into the middle of the battlefield. :/ A boat manages to blow up the demolisher! At this point I bladevane the storm troopers and wipe them off the map muhahaha!  Assault time! My grots charge the blob squad that shot at them and beat them into the ground and actually sweeping advance them into oblivion!  Lelith has been manning the quad gun with her monster BS and using interceptor removes a hullpoint from the valkyrie.  The talos beats the hellhound down to 1 hullpoint...a slight disappointment. The spiritseer also heals up the wound on the knight using his stone! The razorwing fires off missiles at a blob squad depleting it severly.

Turn 3:
The IG move up the chimera with melta vets and the blob squads shift foward to go for an objective worth 4 points.  The knight takes 3 wounds from snipers and other fire.  The talos is ignored again and the grots are shot at, but my friend has issues with his plasma weaponry all game loosing 2 guys in a platoon command squad to it.  Similar stuff happens to his other plasma guys across the battlefield throughout the game...tough luck for him.  His sentinals unleash hell into my warriors but fail to do anything thankfully.  My reavers had crap rolls and were obliterated from the field by the valk.

My turn: The knight jumps over towards the executioner and blows it up by shooting it up! Finally...it killed something! The spiritseer healed 2 wounds on the knight as well since I was lucky enough to get the psychic power to do this on top of the stone. This was a really mean tactic in the end and frustrated my friend a bunch. The talos moves up and liquefies part of a blob squad at AP1 and unloads his splinter cannon into them. he assaults them and kills some more but fails to sweeping advance them and they break away. The grots finish off the command squad that shot at them in CC. The wraithknight charges the conquerer and wipes it into oblivion with auto pens since it was S10 base! My flier shoots at my friends warlord and squad and actually kills the warlord since he is front in the squad and decides not to look out sir.  My friend is getting demoralized at this point at my assaulting units are really laying down a lot of pain. My scourges also came in from the table edge and together with my warrior squad and razorwing shoot up the sentinels more blowing them all up.

Turn 4: Valkyrie which has one hullpoint at this point drops off the vets on the 4 point objective and everything shoots at the talos, knight and grots, killing the talos since he didn't manage to get a pain token. The grots took a wound or so and the knight just can't be hurt by whats left on the field for the most part.

My turn the grots come around and hit up the squad that was falling back from the talos fight and wipe them into oblivion. Lelith and the last two hellions move up and wipe out the melta vet squad on the 4 point objective. The wraithknight moves up and shoots up whats left of a blob squad with his scatterlasers, assaults them and sweeping advances them as they try to auto fallback since they can't hurt it.

End Of Game...we ran out of time as it was getting late and my friend conceded the game to me. There was nothing he could do about the wraithknight really...he was running out of heavier weapons and within the next turn, chances were the valk would have died and his troops would have been wiped out in assault.


Discussion:
MVP were the grots with the archon...the archon never even made a saving throw, and they rampaged across a ton of guys and tanks. The wraithknight was fun and I look foward to using wraithblades in a wave serpent for my troop choice (just got 'em the other day).  I plan on taking the suncannon and scatterlasers in the future...it was disappointing to only shoot 2 weapons a turn...something I totally forgot about. However, the mix of high toughness units was a huge boon to my army. I wish the talos did a little more but I think with my planned addition of a second one I will have a nice core of high T. units that will enable me to get close to shooty armies and bash them into the ground.  The spiritseer was fun to run around and heal up the knight which was super useful for me. I look foward to pairing him with the wraithblades as well.

Well there is my wall of text, thoughts? Also sorry for crappy grammar and spelling, I used my tablet to write this out :/

Grots are always a winner for me though I run mine with two succubi instead of an archon.
Always nice to see a new dark eldar player do well! Congtatz

I'm loving my grots for sure best of all i custom built mine using rat ogres so they are special to me

Lol I have loved every rat ogre conversion for grots I have ever see so I'm kinda envious.

Here is a couple pics of 3 of mine. I haven't done the 4th yet, just got the bits for the liquifier yesterday. I'm not the greatest painter but they came out well for me. My favorite is my "Doc Oc" multi limb guy haha.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmv77iw059yl65j/20130706_230555.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ndbx4hdobafn5q/20130706_112750.jpg

In your turn three, I take it the knight shot at the Executioner to blow it up? Because if so it shouldn't then have been able to charge the Conqueror in the same turn, as if you shot at a unit you can only charge that one in the subsequent assault phase. From the sounds of it, this wouldn't have made much difference anyway though, just thought I'd point it out  Congratulations on the win!

ah yes, sorry about that, it did indeed shoot the executioner, side armor hehe and then assaulted the conquerer

ligolski wrote:

Here is a couple pics of 3 of mine. I haven't done the 4th yet, just got the bits for the liquifier yesterday. I'm not the greatest painter but they came out well for me. My favorite is my "Doc Oc" multi limb guy haha.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmv77iw059yl65j/20130706_230555.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ndbx4hdobafn5q/20130706_112750.jpg

Rat ogres, taloi parts and green stuff? Howmany taloi needed to get 4 grots if this is the case? Looking at conversion myself just want to benchmark a bit first

Looks well nice!

I only used one talos kit to do those 3 guys...i had used the liquifier guns on my talos so I ordered that bit from ebay and will convert him tonight or tomorrow probably. So all in all I only spent probably $40-$45...$25 for two orders of the island of blood rat ogres, few bucks for the green stuff, and the liquifier bits were 8ish and then i bought the 40mm bases as well for several dollars. It's not a bad deal considering what it costs to buy the GW model.

here are some links:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WHF-SAVE-on-Warhammer-Fantasy-Skaven-Island-of-Blood-Rat-Ogres-x2-NEW-/221251701922?pt=Games_US&hash=item3383a10ca2

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251263214833?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

I use wraithblades covered in blood and spikes for my grots lol. I really may try out converting some ogres into grots after I finish my mandrakes to warpspiders conversion.

that sounds pretty sweet I just got a unit of wraithblades that I need to assemble, gonna use em as allied troops with my army along with a spiritseer, wave serpent, and wraithknight