Sons of Magnus vs Dark Eldar

Was a 2000 pt game played at Birds of Paradise in Duniedin we used the Beakycon missons which can be found on Greenblowfly's (Steve Turner) blog.

My list
Brother captain w/ warding Stave and incinerator
Librarian w/ Warding stave, Psybolt ammo Powers: Warp rift, Summoning, Shrouding, Quicksilver, and Might of Titan

5 man Terminator unit 3 halberds, deamon hammer, Banner and psycannon

6 man Terminator unit 2 deamon hammers, 3 Force Sword, Banner and psycannon

5 man Strike squad 4 swords and psycannon in Razorback with twin lascannon and warp stabalization

Vindicare assasin

Psyflman Dread

Land raider w/ warp stabilizaton

Land Raider Crusader w/ Multi melta



Dark Eldar

Vect and 5 incubi in a Venom

5 units of 5 warriors with blasters all in venoms

2 units of 5 trueborn with 4 blasters in venoms

10 wychs in raider

3 Ravagers with dark lances



We rolled and got 4 seize ground objectives and Spearhead deployment.
ended up with one in center of table and other 3 around it so was one in 3 of 4 zones within 12 of center in a circle.


I won first turn so set up with my Assasin in building with my c&c objective underneath it. Put Razorback next to building so it was holding a seize ground and my c&c. Put the Dread behind a wall and flanked it with to Land Raiders.

He deployed everything in his zone with Warrior venoms up front forming a screen. Filled his whole zone up. Was rather intimidating staring at 12 vehicles

He then proceeded to steal initiative with vects 4+

Turn 1
Dark Eldar
He moved most of his stuff up and started shooting he got a glance and a pin on my Dread with a Ravager. I attempted to cast shrouding and rolled box cars then failed the invuls so wounded my librarian. None of his other shooting did anything either missing or failing to pin.

Sons of Magnus

Moved Crusader up 6 in for better shots and pivoted other raider everything else stayed put. Shot ravager with vindicare and razorback but he saved both with flicker field. Land Raider managed to kill the first ravager  and Dread a second. Crusader killed the third and immobilized the Raider
KP- DE: 0   SoM: 3

Turn 2
Dark Eldar
With Ravagers gone he had to get his blasters in range. He moved up again flew one venom over to zone on my right to claim the objective and dumped the guys out. Moved wyches out of immobile raider and towards me. He then proceeded to do nothing but shake the Land Raider although he did manage to kill assasin with fire from warriors and a venom.

Sons of Magnus
I sat still and shot 3 venoms down one of which had vect in it one incubi died in blast and the 2 warrior squads lost 2 and 3 guys to thier explosions and immobilized 2 others

KP- DE: 1  SoM: 6

Turn 3
Dark Eldar

He moved toward me with the wyches and Vects squad. Finally destroyed crusader with Blasters from trueborn. I deployed in front of it. Vect and Incubi fleeted and assaulted me. Vect was based with the 2 characters and failed to wound them while incubi killed the Justicar and a force sword My characters failed to hurt vect while squad killed 2 of the 3 Incubi for a draw.

Sons of Magnus

Land Raider moved up and dropped termies out so were shielded from everything but the 5 man warrior squad on objective which they mowed down with shooting. Killed 2 more Venoms with Raider and Razorback. Combat saw Vect and Characters do nothing to each other as squad lost banner to the Incubi but killed him in return for another tie combat.

KP- DE: 2  SoM: 9

Turn 4
Dark Eldar

He moved his 3 remaining Venoms up to try and kill Land Raider
Shooting just saw him shake it again.
Combat wyches finally made it and ran in to help vect.ches managed to kill the 2 deamon hammers while vect could not hurt my characters. Killed one wych and vect finally failed his save and died thanks to 2 hammerhands making me S 6. Won by 3 and wyches ran. I consolidated in range to keep them running.

Sons of Magnus
I split the 2 characters and termie off so all 3 were alone raider made fortitude. Librarian warp rifted a warrior squad killing one and termie shot the 2 man warrior squad killing one. Captain used incinerator to kill 3 wyches thanks to 3 1s on my wound rolls. immobilized a venom and shook another but could not kill one this turn. wyches ran after shootin but both warrior units stood. Librarian ran in and killed last 3 warriors in squad he shot and termie finished of lone warrior next to him

At this point my opponent decided to call the game as was not much he could do to win I was way ahead on KP and controlling center of table with all his troops dead or fleeing except 2 units in immobile venoms.