'Eh, tat's nuthin', I 'ave that all the time wif me boyz, jus walk it off!' -Ork Warboss. I'm starting to suspect the Dark Eldar societal ladder is determined by the amount of spikes and other OSHA hazards that poke out of you. When they weren't busy chasing tail my defenseless builder units, that is. the fact the place was swarming with them probably didn't help. Tau kept letting the Mandrakes engage them in melee. Putting the barrel of your expensive gun into her face is always fun though. So far for their 'fragile speedy glass cannon' shtick. Not that it really helps, that thing is really darn powerful with lots of health. 'You think it's gonna rain today?' 'I dunno, let's look.' Mandrakes, the standard Dark Eldar unit, in all their ball-gagged glory. It was beautiful.Īnd, as promised, here's the results from a Dark Eldar vs Tau match: I swear, seeing those gatling guns just tear into the horde, cutting down the lesser spawn like so many blades of grass. What's cool is that, in this game, you can airdrop these tanks, and they are delivered by an actual transport, all very nicely modeled. Valkyrie gunship to the rescue!īut the real fun started when a Stormhammer came out to meet the horde head-on. Luckily, they had mortar support from the high ground. Which doesn't mean they didn't come to annoy my conscripts from time to time. The nid ai decided for some reason that it was perfectly content with just amassing more gaunts in its base, letting the others do the brunt of the work. Unfortunately, they only brought their plasma wallpaper. Tau, deciding that, yes, that ork base did need some redecorating. (Don't worry, she lived to shoot orks another day.) Also notice the spontaneously appearing second guardsman (how did he fit inside that backpak o.OĪnd this is the ork mekboy backhanding the lieutenant into next week. Notice the fine autocannon they're toting to blast apart heretics and aliens alike.

Which, of course, ends in their summary execution. Guard (me) and 2 Tau AI helpers vs nids+orks+chaos: The Tau commander with his pet hormagaunt, Biters. Mandrake bopping a gaunt right in the face. Gotta hand it to them, Tau firepower can kill a lot of nids very fast. Said Grots deciding that, nope, fuck this noise, we're out. Also pictured: fire warriors who know by now how these end, and are wisely bugging out. 'Hello sir, can I interest you in becoming organic slush to feed my hivemind?'Īnd then there's this joker right here, who killed far more gaunts than he had any right to.Īrchons are notorious for their situational awareness. I really wanted to post the replay but apparently you can't save campaign replays.But! It seems these genestealers take issue with that. Now, Tbf I'm no DOW veteran and I've only recently gotten used to how the strats in skirmishes work, but holy fuck this was something else. My recommendation, play vanilla campaign and save UA for the skirmishes. I've been playing skirmishes with UA for a few days and never experienced anything close to this. I had all my Chaple-barracks and Machine Cults pumping out as many troops as possible, but even then they were just going straight into the meat grinder and dying in seconds. An hour of pushing into enemy territory amounted to nothing in less than 8 minutes as first my main, then secondary forward and then finally my second main base where completely swamped in a wave of Orkz so big I literally couldn't see them all in the areas not covered by FOW. I literally have no clue where on the map this Ork Megaarmy was hiding because I had assumed that I had destroyed the bulk of their forces, but within literally 5 minutes my main base was completely destroyed by Flask Gitz, Weird boyz, a Squigoth and smashas. And then out of nowhere came the biggest, most bullshit, zerg-rush WAAAAAAGH out of fucking nowhere. I thought it was in the bag and began pushing troops down the East side of the map.

Now from my experience UA tends to make matches drag out quite a bit longer, because by this point I was an hour and killed what felt like thousands of Orkz. I conquered the entire West and North of the map and pushed the Orkz out of their initial stronghold. I started off well gathering my forces and conquering the map, by about 20 mins in I had squads filled with Sternguard/Vanguard vets and 7 ironclad dreadnoughts on the field. By the fucking Emperor I just got my arse handed to me on my first move.I was playing Blood Ravens against Orkz in the Trivian Jungle (a 2 on the map screen and pretty much the expected first move).

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