Video Battle Report 3 - Blood Angels vs Dark Eldar

A 1,850 pt Battle Report between my Blood Angels and Brodie's Dark Eldar

My list:

HQ:
Captain Tycho (not the DC one)

Elite:
2x Sanguinary Priests with Power Swords
Chaplain
8x Sternguard (2x Combi-Meltas, Sgt w/Combi-Melta & Lightning Claw) in Rhino with Extra Armor

Troops:
10x Tactical Marines (Meltagun, Lascannon, Sgt w/Power Sword) Rhino
10x Tactical Marines (Plasmagun, Plasma Cannon, Sgt w/Power Sword) Rhino
10x Assault Marines (2x Meltaguns, Sgt w/Power Sword) LRC w/Multi-Melta

Fast:
Land Speeder Typhoon (w/Multi-Melta)
Land Speeder Typhoon (w/Multi-Melta)

Total: 1850 pts



Brodie's List:

HQ:
Archon (Husk Blade, Combat Drugs, Phantasm Grenade Launcher, Shadow Field, Soul Trap)
Lelith Hesparax

Elite:
9x Incubi (Klaivex w/Bloodstone, Onslaught) Raider

Troops:
10x Warriors (Blaster, Dark Lance, Sybarite with Blast Pistol)
10x Warriors (Blaster, Dark Lance, Sybarite with Blast Pistol)
10x Warriors (Blaster, Dark Lance, Sybarite with Blast Pistol)
10x Wyches (2x Hydra Gauntlets, Hekatrix w/Blast Pistol & Power Weapon), Raider
9x Wyches (Hydra Gauntlet, Hekatrix w/Blast Pistol & Power Weapon), Raider

Fast:
6x Reavers (2x Heat Lances, 2x Cluster Caltrops)

Heavy:
Ravager

Total: 1865 pts

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• blood angels
• dark eldar
• sanguinius
• sons of sanguinius
• eldar
• raider
• ravager
• reaver
• reavers
• red thirst
• tycho
• lelith
• hesparax
• lelith hesparax
• incubi
• wyches
• sanguinary
• sanguinary priest
• land raider
• typhoon

[Peanut96828]

I have an original blood angel chaplain looks like it has a bolter as his secondry weapon, is it still legal to use this model?

[SonsofSanguinius]

@Peanut96828 Yes it is! According to the current codex, both the Reclusiarch (high-level Chaplain) and regular Chaplain can replace their Bolt Pistol with Bolters for free. Even if it didn't say that, you could easily say it is just wielding a Bolt Pistol, and no one will give you grief for it. :)

[ZWDrix]

How to beat DE as blood angels:

1. Use more cover. Your vehicles can make great cover.

2. You have cheap transports. Razorbacks, particularly las-plas razorbacks are a better choice. Additonally against DE's armor saves, you might be able to do serious damage against them if you throw on free TL heavy flamers on a few of your razorbacks.

3. Dreadnaughts with blood talons eat incubi for breakfast. Use a storm raven to turbo boost the d-naught into assault range.

[SonsofSanguinius]

@ZWDrix Thanks for viewing and replying!

Since that epically horrible game haha, I have learned how to deal with Dark Eldar quite effectively, and it matches your suggestions closely.

I just took 2nd in a local out here (only missed first by one point) with my current list that is 4 razors with las/plas, 2 baals, 2 auto/las preds, and a stormraven with death company, a reclusiarch, and a death company dread inside. Played Dark Eldar in the 2nd round and won 10 kill points to 5.

[fliptthescript]

paint your dam army a hole geez

[SonsofSanguinius]

@fliptthescript Um, go die in a fire.

[SonsofSanguinius]

@bushwhoopi I have 15,000 points of Blood Angels (soon to be 20,000 points when I get my tax return), 7,000 points of Tyranids, 7,000 points of Chaos Daemons, and 5,000 points of Necrons. If you'd like, you can paint them for me for free. Otherwise, shut it.

[Rampertshammer]

radier, radier, radier, reavers, ravager.... yep thats a dark eldar army all right.

[warpcrafter]

It's too bad you don't get any sort of bonus after your third pain token, or otherwise those Incubi would have been gods. Oh well, very interesting batrep. I'm just starting Dark Eldar and these sort of videos are very educational.

[Peanut96828]

@SonsofSanguinius So I could just use it as it is?

[bushwhoopi]

Hey, I feel your pain.  I've got about 20k+ myself and have over 3 companies worth that are completely painted and correctly modeled. And I have a full time job and family. But, I've never done a battle report as nice as this one you have posted. So, thanks for posting, I guess.