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I can post a battle report from a recent Minigeddon tourney I played in.
Format was 1250 points, 80cm wide by 120cm deep board, maximum 400 points per formation.
I played Iyanden, with Wraithlords, Wraithguard, two Guardians formations with heavy weapons, Rangers, and Night Spinners. Wraithgate on my forwards objective.
Squats brought a Warrior unit in Rhinos, a motorbike Guild, a unit of the shooty Gyrocopters, Berserkers in rhinos, a Goliath, and a blimp.
We deploy across. Squat artillery breaks the Night Spinners who fall back forwards a bit. We take turns moving units up, with Rangers getting broken and playing no further part in the game. Squats intermingled his motorbike guild and the gyrocopters near my Wraithguard, while I moved my guardians into a wood near the Wraithgate. Night spinners rally.
Turn two, Squats win initiative and their IC artillery flattens a Guardian unit. I then sustain the Spinners into the intermingled Gyros/bikers, retain, and assault with the Wraithguard, rolling well and wiping out both units but getting broken myself (and never reforming).
We then had a few assaults involving the Warriors, Berserkers, and Blimp against the Wraithlords and remaining Guardians, in which the Squats come out ahead. At end of turn three the Squats aren't winning on goals yet but practically all Eldar units are broken or down to 1-2 models, so we call it since Squats can just walk onto objectives.
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Both players played decently, but Squat units are so cheap that I never felt like I could land a knockout blow. Losing two units equivalent to the Gyrocopters + Bikers would probably have crippled any other army, but Squats still had the Berserkers, Guardians, Overlord, and artillery. It just seems like the Squats have everything - bulky, cheap, fast formations, fast and shooty scout skimmers, long range artillery, plenty of Macro Weapon firefight.
This was primarily using a slightly older version of the Squat list (which had free transports for infantry). Forcing them to pay for that might have forced them to drop a unit somewhere for points and take a few upgrades, which would have helped but only on the margin.
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