The Thethrock Quay Counter

Points: 2,500 (no handicaps)
Mission: Purge the Alien
Planet: Tethrock Quay
Deployment: Dawn of War


The new age of Eldar-Dark Angel hostilities dawned, yet the encounter seemed akin to the struggles of old; a plethora of heavies with high strength weaponry saturating the field.

Tireless diplomacy between these two warring factions ended with the Eldar removing their War Council's restrictions on army formation to balance the Dark Angel's removal of their Lord of War status for their Imperial Knights. In addition, neither side would take a handicap. These agreements were to remain in place between these two forces only.

The two armies continued with their alternative mission rules (see entry below for update on this mission experiment).

The Eldar returned to Thethrock Quay to attempt to retake the planet they were forced to abandon in recent times. Using their knowledge of the terrain and a sizeable portion of the Dark Angel host, the Eldar were able to pack their unbound force with four Wraithknighs and three units of Brightlance bedecked War Walkers, shunning their preferred Psykers in favour of heavy armament. For their part, the Dark Angels took three Imperial Knights and held Psychic superiority.

Pausing beneath their Void Shield Generators, the Eldar came through the preliminary bombardment, but a poor reply denied the Eldar of First Blood and left them ruing their decision to cede Psychic advantage to the Dark Angels. 

It is important to trust the faraway Farseers who see it all. The Dark angels replied with a salvo to match the Eldar's previous poor efforts and worse was to come from them when a lucky overwatch shot from a walker, detonated the weakened Imperial Knight Warlord, with its flailing hulk completely destroying a second Imperial Knight.

The Eldar deployed around the remaining Knight in huge numbers and when the Dark Angels were unsuccessful in an average length assault, they knew that the day was not destined to be theirs and retired from the field.

Final Score Eldar 6 (First Blood, Slay the Warlord, Linebreaker, 3x units destroyed) Dark Angels 1 (unit destroyed)

For the Harvest!