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by The Other Dave » Mon May 30, 2011 12:46 am
A few thoughts on the game, while I'm at it - both Eldar and Orks are (relatively) new armies to me in Epic, and it was neat to really get to see how they played.
Orks are great until you start taking heavy casualties. Big Ork units are hard to break, shrug off blast markers like mad, and are awesome in an assault through sheer force of numbers. They roll enough dice to shoot that, even hitting on 6's or 7's, they can soften up an enemy formation pretty nicely, but assault is really where they're at. Once they're below 5 units, though, they just will not rally - this was especially evident with the stompas I brought. 4 was just not enough - even with reinforced armor they broke pretty much instantly and never recovered. Bringing along all 6 I have, and adding a Mekboy Supastompa (a war engine with a good high number of damage boxes) will probably be necessary to really make use of 'em. Jury's still out on the Gargant - shooting isn't especially accurate and it's so slow that it's not hard to avoid getting into an assault with it.
The Eldar are typically Eldar. Very slippery, very shooty, very specialized. Vehicle formations attack from range (and slice things up), infantry formations assault (and - yes, even the guardians - put the hurt on the enemy pretty nicely). Their special rules are quite nice - running and gunning is good in any game that allows it, and the ability to keep the initiative and activate 3 formations in a row with pretty good success is excellent for controlling the flow of the battle (and activating before getting fired on, while putting blast markers on enemy formations before they try to activate). Their air support is hella good - Phoenixes, though expensive, are good enough to fill both an interceptor role and a ground attack role quite well indeed. Lack of armor is a problem for the whole army, and the Eldar have trouble standing up to concentrated shooting, but fortunately Orks aren't so good at putting out concentrated shooting.
So it was good fun. As always, if anybody ever wants a game, I have enough armies that you don't actually have to have any models, and I'm always happy to walk someone through the rules.
Feel free to call me Dave!
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