Battle Report Eldar vs Orks (1000)

So today I played a 1,000 point game against a new ork player at the store that wanted to learn the new rules and just have a no pressure fun game. His army consisted of 8 bikers, 30 regular orks, 30 Hardboys, 5 mega-armored Nobz and a mega-armored Warboss mounted in a truck. My army consisted of 2 units of Dire Avengers, a Wraithlord, a unit of 10 scorpions, a farseer, 2 vypers, and a warwalker squadron armed with scatter-lasers. We set up the table with a large piece of area terrain in each corner and one large hill in the middle of the board. He deployed his bikes on the far right behind a building, his nobz and boss in a truck on the right behind a building and both squads of boys spread out along the back in two parrallel two foot lines. I set up both vypers on the right to try and take down the truck, the warwalkers on the hill with the farseer next to them and the wraithlord to the left. In the middle and the left I deployed my dire avengers and I infiltrated my scorpions behind the large hill in the center. With him winning the dice roll and me taking the scout move the game began.

Turn one started with the truck charging forward 24 in. in a hope for a second turn charge, his boys each moving 6 inches forward and his bikes moving 12 inches forward and unsuccesfully shooting at my striking scorpions (on a side note, are dakka guns strength 5 AP 5 Assault 3 or are they strength 5 AP 4 Assault 2 and also are they twin-linked? The codex is a little messed up there) and missing with all nine shots.

Turn one for me saw the scorpions moving 4 inches forward around the hill hoping for a charge in the assault phase. Both squads of dire avengers moved forward for eventual shots at the boys as they would come charging around the hill. Both vypers shot their scatter-lasers at the truck doing absolutely nothing but luckily the wraithlord's bright lance did the trick causing the truck to kareen 9 inches straight back and blow up. 24 guided scatter-laser shots at the Mega-nob squad later and... not ONE had fallen!!! Stupid 2+ save!!! The rest of the shooting did absolutely nothing and suddenly with the orc menace much closer and only 40 points smaller I became very afraid. In the assault face my scorpions barely made it into assault with the bikers killing one with the orcs passing their leadership test and (due to yet again amazing rolls on his part) both of us pilling in.

Turn two for the orks started with all the orks moving as far forward as possible in their WAAGH!!! with the regular boys going 5 inches, the nobz going 1 in but making their save, and the hardboyz going one inch losing the squig eater to his untied shoes. In his assault phase he did not charge the boyz into the protracted combat with the bikers and instead left them spread out along the board. In his assault phase I killed 4 bikers and he killed one scorpion, lost the combat and was caught and killed by my pursuing scorpions.

My turn two started with my vypers jetting to the other side of the board, both dire avenger units moving forward to take up firing positions, the wraithlord moving closer to the approaching nobz, the warwalker squadron moving back to put more space in between them and the nob, and the scorpions moving for a hopeful assault into the hardboyz once the regular nob was thinned by firing. After both dire avenger squads and both vypers the front mob squad was left with only 6 models that promptly broke and ran off the table. The farseer mind warred one nob giving him a womb in the psychic struggle, the wraithlord's brightlance killed one outright and the warwalkers 24 guided shots added three more wounds killing 3 nobz in total, unfortunately they passed their leadership and stayed in place. In the assault phase the scorpions charged into combat killing 6 for the loss of only one prolonging the combat.

At the beginning of turn 3 my opponent graciously conceeded with the role of a 3 for the movement of the mega-nobz.

Eldar losses: 2 scorpions
Orks: 3 meganobz, 30 boyz, 8 bikers, one wartrukk, and 7-8 hardboy

Overall this was a fun game that could have swung either way. I'm looking forward to our 2,000 point rematch next week.