Yesterday I went to a 1850 tournament with a List based for a Turn 1 Alpha-strike. It worked okay until a Couple things happened.
First, After a stellar opening against Mech Marines (exploded Vindicator, shook and stunned 2 Razorbacks, stunned another Vindicator, and Immobilised a Land Raider)Turn 1 my Antivehicle capabilities under preformed(only killed one rhino, and kept the Twinlinked Lascannon from firing for whole game)
Other Highlights, Vect and 9 Bloodbrides(3 Hydra Guantlets) took out 5 Assault Terminators, Vulkan, And a Combat Squad getting their points backwith 8 consecutive invulnerable saves made by the Bloodbrides.
Lesson Learned: Vect is worth his weight in gold if he is in CC, Flickerfields should be used only on the flyers and Ravagers, to expensive on Raiders even if they are staying still with Dark Lance warriors inside, and it is better to kill one vehicle than shake/stun 3
Next Game, Tau He had first turn, I redeployed my beasts in response to his Kroot infiltrators, and seized the initaive on him. Blew up his Broadsides and stripped a couple drones off his bodyguad units. Broadsides Ran off the board. Beasts lost combat to his Kroot and were wiped out, everything spiraled downwards. After a poor fleet roll Vect and Co. were kept out of assaulting his Fire Warriors.
Lesson Learned: Going to ground with a unit that will die other wise is okay; execpt when it keeps your fearless IC from charging into Fire Warriors forcing him to eat another round of shooting. Also Dark Eldar warriors are not good in assault, even against Fire Warriors, (especially going through cover when the Tau have Defensive Grenades)
Final Game: Tyranids, the matchup I was praying for!!! but it was DoW and against the ringer so even with my best possible matchup I was the underdog even if it was not DoW, but it was.
Lesson Learned: DoW sucks for Alpha-strikes and GW thinks that the Imperial Fists CAPTAIN( not even Chapter Master) and EVERY Daemon deserves Eternal Warrior but not Vect a 1000 year old Eldar having survived Thousands upon thousands of attempts on his life, and who is the most Cunning Being in the 40k Universe does not.
