Battle Report: Orks VS Eldar

So, yesterday I played against Eldar, and I thought I would share my experiences.

(Note: It is kind of ironic, because of my recent post on power-gaming, but I used Ghazkull Thraka. Just wanted to say I made sure that was okay with my opponent first, and I only did that to try out him with my meganobz, since I just finished modeling them and hadn’t used Ghazkull with them before.)

Anyways…

Here is my list:

(Once again, 99% of it is Meganobz, since I wanted to try them out but it was a small game.)

Ghazkull Mag Uruk Thraka

5 Meganobz

Battlewagon w/ kannon, 4 big shootas, deff rolla, armor plates, grot riggas

20 Ork boyz w/ PK bosspole Nob

And here is my opponents list: (As best I remember.)

Farseer

Fire Dragons inside a Wave Serpent armed with Missile Launchers

Dire Avengers inside Falcon armed with Bright Lance

Rangers

 

So, the map was 4×4, with two city-like terrain pieces (one in each corner,) he set up first and moved first, we were playing pitched battle, and Objectives. I had a home-field objective (held by the boyz, who did nothing.) He had a home field objective, (Held by the scouts, except they managed to shoot at my, unlike the boyz.) Then, there was an objective in the middle of the field. That was it.

First turn, he moved closer and shot at me with his tanks but nothing happened. I moved my meganobz closer, and that was it.

Second turn, ditto. I rammed one of his tanks and immobilized it, but he had stopped moving anyways, and was about to deploy, so nothing really happened.

Third turn, he got out his Fire Dragons, used his tank to wreck my battlewagon, and he assaulted, (and I killed,) with his Dire Avengers, against my meganobz. (Mostly because they were about to be assaulted anyways.) (Funny story, he shot at my meganobz with everyone, out of his scouts, (all of the ranger shots penetrated armor, BTW,) and his melta guns, all of them aimed at my meganobz, I passed nine cover saves! Nine 4+ cover saves! and then, his Dire Avengers fired at my meganobz and caused 2 wounds. I then used my meganobz, (Calling a WAAAGH!) to assault his Fire Dragons, killing them. I consolidated back to the objective.

Fourth turn, he fired at my Meganobz and did nothing. I assaulted a nearby tank and blew it up.

Fifth turn, Ditto. He shot and failed, that’s it.

Game ends. I had one more objective then he did, thanks to my meganobz. What did I learn from this game? Meganobz inside a battlewagon are very good at seizing and holding an objective, whether in cover or out of cover, no matter where on the board, due to survivability and high deadliness. Also, 4+ saves are far more valuable than people assume. It was a great game, and fun to play.