No Quarter Chapter 3 – To Calm the Storm, The Plague Worlds

Points: 1,250 Eldar (+100, upgrades spent: 60) vs Orkz (+150)

Mission: To Calm the Storm

Special: Terrain: 2-4 natural terrain per section
Vehicles: No wheeled or tracked vehicles, no walkers.
Skimmers, jet bikes or aircraft only
Night fighting
Primary Objectives: Eldar - to capture the objective
Ork - to hold/contest the objective
No Slay the Warlord, First Blood or Line-Breaker
Choice of End/Placing of Objective: Ork
First Deployment: Orks deploy first, Eldar move first (no steal initiative)

Deployment: Hammer and Anvil

Knowing that the Orkz would be dug in around the Objective, the Eldar arrived at The Plague Worlds with assault troops and as much heavy weaponry as it could muster without their War Walkers. For their part, the Orkz brought a balanced army with air cover, shock troops and ranged heavy weaponry.

Early exchanges took out the Ork Kopters, minor casulties from the Ork defensive position and provided unresolved aerial combat. Both sides knew that the hand-to-hand struggle around the Objective would determine the fight.

Being wary  of the Ork Big Shootas and the assault capabilities of the Ork infantry, the Eldar Wave Serpents held back and were crucially running out of time to contest the Objective.

A desperate move from the Wraith Guard and Blades was met full on by the Ork Warboss and the HardBoy reserves. They kept the Eldar from the Objective with heavy losses and had done enough to win the encounter by the end of Turn 5. But fate is a fickle mistress and the strands of time conspired to prolong the struggle, just as the Farseers had foreseen they would. 

In Turn 6 the Eldar were able to contest the Objective, remove the Ork scoring units and be in position as the battle ended, thus finally capturing the Ork Floa'y Fing.

The Eldar Spiritseer Aralyn, thanked the distant Farseers for delivering victory and opened the battered and soiled container of Der Floa'y Fing. Inside, she found, hastily scribbled on the back of a discarded Mon Keigh ration pack, a crude drawing, as of an Elderling, with the inscription, "dis iS Der Floa'y Fing It sendz stuff up" (sic) 

Believing this to be the same technology (mentality) of the Orks "paint it red and its goes faster" Spiritseer Aralyn contacted her Farseer mentor with haste concerned that if the Orks could write anything, believe it and make it happen, then Der Floa'y Fing could happen again at any time.

Farseer Abraxas replied, "Worry not my child, they won't think of doing it a second time..."

For the Harvest!