November Handicap F10

Eldar v Tyranid 1500 armies (no handicap)

Mission: Big Guns Never Tire

Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Hex: F10

With mission, deployment and initiative going the Eldar way, the new-look Tyranid army was always going to find life difficult. And so it seemed, as despite unusually wasteful opening salvoes from the Eldar, the Tyranid force gradually found themselves dropping behind to First Blood and a Heavy Unit loss.

But the battle took a dramatic twist, as an audacious Deep Strike from the Tyranid Warlord and his accompanying brood, supported by their late arriving Flying Monstrous Creature, inflicted Slay the Warlord upon the Eldar with the loss of their Farseer.

Although the Eldar War Walkers rallied to inflict their own Slay the Warlord upon the Tyranids - as a single shot from the Dark Reapers brought the supporting Monstrous Creature to the ground thus leaving its leader exposed - a push down their left seemed destined to level the battle at 9 a piece.

However, the mobility of the Eldar Jet-bikes and Wave Serpents proved too much for the Tyranid swarm and with objectives lost and Heavies falling, the Tyranids had no option but to flee the field, leaving the Eldar victorious by 11 points to 4.

For the Harvest!