New Month, New Army

WIP Sanguinary Priest...

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I’ve been neglecting my Angels recently (for a couple of months!) in favour of a return to Space Wolves. I have seriously enjoyed the SW return, my armies are working incredibly well.

However, it is time to return to the sons of Sanguinius. The mech/tank Spear of Sanguinius has been a wicked performer for me, but I want to try the ‘other’ way to run Angels.

The general consensus is either mech or jump, with a couple of other funky builds in between such as Kirby’s Blood Rodeo, Sand-Wyrm’s Emo-Wing, my own Storm of Death…

So, time to fully exploit Descent of Angels.

You can see the list I am running currently here in its army page (these are to be expanded slowly to contain pictures of all the units, group shots etc as well as tactics for use…but that’s a long term project)

I got in its first 2 games last night and managed to pull out a victory in both.

First was seize ground with 4 objectives, Spearhead. I fully reserved and went first (not by choice) and he played full reserve too (a mistake as even though he was Eldar, he was not playing Reserve Mechdar – he had no reserve manipulation at all).

By combat squadding 2 of the Assault squads I was able to load up the goodies into one squad and leave 2 sets of 5 marines on objectives in the backfield, whilst Honour Guard, Vanguard and the large 12 man Assault squad (Priest and Libbie) got stuck in with support from the combat squads.

Second was Capture and Control, Spearhead. I fully reserved, he set up on the table this time, and created a good deepstrike defence in his corner on his objective – No obvious gaps and no space to drop in other than on the outside edges of his set up where he wants me to.

It is worth pointing out at this time that the Eldar set up meant that at best, they could draw. My objective was on the other side of the table, out of range and sight for all his units and at least 4 turns of movement as the crow flies. 

So to the point of the blog post; I won this game and my objective was never under threat ( Its the small yellow smilie face in the top left of the picture. I think 1 plasma missile from a Wraithlord hit my 5 ASM at extreme range and dubious LOS…but failed to do anything).

I tied up his army with all of my units, the last of which fell in turn 5 when the game ended.

This was extremely bloody game, leaving me with just 5 ASM left on the table.

So here’s what I need – What would you do?

This is a picture of the Eldar set up.

The Eldar list is: 

Eldrad

Maugan Ra 

2 x 8 Harlequins all w. Kisses, Death Jester, Shadow Seer 

3 x 5 Rangers 

3 x EML, Scatter Laser, Dual Flamer Wraithlords 

I can handle it cool, but for all my knowledge of how to go about this game, I was momentarily flummoxed when facing this setup......

My plan was to create a semi circle ring at 18” from the Eldar lines, interspersed between terrain elements meaning the Harlies could only assault if they fleet 6”. So not likely. But this did mean that I was going to be in for assault on my terms in my turn. The VV were to smash into a Wraithlord (on extreme left) and remove it with S5 Power weapons and Lightning Claw…after the Honour Guard had stripped a couple of wounds with Melta fire.

This plan roughly stayed in place, although 2/3 of my army did not show up on Turn 2…damned DoA! So it was not as effective as I wanted and allowed him to focus fire on a smaller number of targets.

End of the day, I took a win. 

I stuck to the plan. 

But it was very bloody and extremely costly in marine blood.

How would you guys handle this situation?Could I have saved some precious Astartes blood from being spilt?

Let me know what you all think…