Eldar, Lizzardmen and random thoughts.

Phew - what a absolutely exhausting week. Lots of good stuff happened this week, I got a really good deal on some Eldar, attended a Fantasy Tournament and got to travel some. Lets' start with the good stuff and move our way through shall we ?

I played 4 rounds in the fantasy tourney at 1999 Points. I took the following list with me:

Level 2 Skink Priest on Engine of the gods with Diadem of power
Saurus Scar-veteran on cold one with Sword of Battle and maiming shield.
Saurus Scar-veteran on cold one with Sword of might and Enchanted shield.

20 Saurus with handweapon and shield + full command
20 Saurus with handweapon and shield + full command
11 skink skirmishers
12 skink skirmishers
10 skinks with 1 Kroxigor.

5 Coldone cavalry with Banner
5 Coldone cavalry with Banner

1996 Points
5 power dice
6 Dispel dice if I store 2 power dice.

It was a blast the all stars of the list being my Scar-veterans and the Cold one cavalry. You could tell where I was at the tournament from the cries of anguish about the scar veteran. Highlights included:

Holding up a High Elf flank byhimself for 4 turns after getting hit by a Lion Chariot in the rear, Dragon Prince cavalry in the front and the enemy general + lance on horse from the flank. 7 Combat phases later the chariot was nothing but a splintered wreck, The Princes where almost all dead and I had put a wound on the enemy general.

In another game, he was in a unit of Cold one Cavalry. They get double charged by 2 units of Bretonian knights. I pass every single armor save, break both units in combat and run both of them down. Simply fantastic.

The skinks lived up their name running around, annoying people, assassinating enemy mages and in one fantastic turn Putting out 11 poison hits to cripple a enemy unit. Beware the skinks indeed.

Overall I only won 1 game, but I had such a blast I really didn't mind. The Guys (and Gals) from East London where very friendly and accomodating and I look forward to many games with them in the future. As for my list In the future I'd like to add a BSB and perhaps some Salamanders, providing the next tourney is at this points level, otherwise it's back to my slann again.

On the Warhammer 40K Front I bought a ton of Eldar from somebody so I'm going to be stripping eldar for the next several months and respraying and painting vehicles. So it looks like my Imperial Guard will be on hold indefinately. I'm planning on playing a very odd semi mechanized list with my eldar once finished, so be prepared for plenty of theory hammer in coming weeks.