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New Codex for the Eldar - Road Test.
Ahhh, a brand new codex. My local game store had it in stock on Friday, so I grabbed a copy Saturday night. For a change, I decided to use my panzee army in this past Sunday’s tournament, using the new codex.
I fielded this massive 1500 point list of panzee cheese.
Farseer with Doom and Mind War
12 guardians with a starcannon platform
12 guardians with a scatter laser platform
10 dire avengers with exarch who had defend, a powersword, and a shimmershield
5 wraithguard with warlock in a waveserpent, twin linked starcannons
6 firedragons with exarch with firepike
5 dark reapers with exarch with fast shot and a tempest launcher
1 vyper with bright lance and cannon upgrade
1 falcon with a scatter laser, holo fields, and spirit stones
1 vibro cannon
Yup, no wrathlord(s).
I wanted to try a few things out, such as the changes in the rules for dire avengers, scatter lasers, the vibro cannon, as well as new stuff like Doom and the tempest launcher for the dark reapers.
I played three games, winning two handily, getting badly mauled in one. The first up was vs Elyisan Drop troops complete with vultures and a valkaryie, panzee shooting managed to down all of his flyers and mauled the infantry badly. The tempest launcher on the dark reapers showed it’s nastiness, completely wiping out a single squad over three templates.
The new rules for the vibro cannon also proved it’s worth, causing a lot of damage.
Next up was against a Dark panzee player; it was a reserves mission, and he basically pinned me in my deployment zone on turn 2. As my reserves, especially the dark reapers and vibro cannon, could not shoot the turn they came in, they were both shot up or assaulted before they could fire. The Dark reapers survived the assault thanks to their armor and beat back the DE troops, and once again the tempest launcher eliminated a squad at range. That made them target priority #1 for my opponent, who than blasted them off the table.
The dire avengers were amazing in hand to hand, they took down his archon, as the 5+ invulnerable conveyed by the shimmershield, not to mention defend, were enough to ear him down and wipe him out. Great stuff. This battle was close, but I was still about 80-100 victory points away from a draw when it was over.
Finally I played a dark angels army, and it was the perfect setup for me, as he had to come all the way across the table. panzee shooting proved it s worth, as rhinos and tac squads were wiped out with massed ap3 and ap2 firepower - not that it was needed, as the poor gentleman across the table had horrible rolls, failing 6 armor saves out of six shiruken catapult wounds with his Beakies. The tempest launcher again wreaked a heavy toll on units, killing easily 6 a turn of shooting. The combined might of arms was enough to leave him with just two scoring units on the table, while I had lost over 50% of the avengers, and had an immobilized wave serpent. These kinds of games are never fun to me, regardless of which side of the table I’m on.
So far I don’t see any mega cheese with the new rules (although the tempest launcher is arguably a very unfair weapon); the improvements to the dire avengers (they also have an 18 inch catapult) makes them really worth taking. I’m also interested enough to actually get swooping hawks and paint them, as they can now blip out of CC, and go off table to come back on as a new drop the next turn. That’s kinda cool.
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