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Eldar v Imperial Guard Assault Battle

 Post subject: Re: Eldar v Imperial Guard Assault Battle
PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:28 pm 
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No problem Bissler.

When I play bigger battles 15K+ the battlefield gets crowded very easily.
Now my room was always limited, so most of my battlefield were not longer than 3m
now 3m x 1.5m is a good size to play big really big battles.
Sometimes you want to go really big, though. ;D
When I play battles with 50.000 points(total) and more on the battlefield
you get a full table(floor)
Sometimes I increased the width up to 2m
but with 20-30 cm deployment zone you still have about 1.7 m upto the other edge
too much for most units.

I tested once a different deployment to get all units into combat, and make use of the table(floor) as much as I can.


I sat up a city table and choosed to set up both armies at each half of the table
just with a small "neutral" zone(20cm) in the middle.
Like a frontline through a city, one side of the road is controlled by one side the other one from the enemy.
Now both side could make use of all unit types (cc, medium range, long range)
you still can break through the enemy lines and reach the other edge
while you can spread your troops more around the table.
Worked very well and was a bloddbath


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 Post subject: Re: Eldar v Imperial Guard Assault Battle
PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:39 pm 
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Bloody hell Ulrich, 50k battle?! That must take you about a week to play! I can imagine that you would need to expand the battlefield massively. I'm reluctant to play on the floor as I tend to be a bit clumsy from time to time and end up breaking things (you may have noticed some of my Eldar infantry in particular are the worse for wear). I also find I am more likely to miss units and make tactical errors when I don't use the gaming table.

Anyway, is there a report on one of those mega-battles? I'd love to see it, it would be mass carnage right enough!

I've no idea what size of battle I could have if I fielded everything. Once I finish painting all of my armies I'll have to do a post where I set out my army lists to get an answer to that. If I had to guess, I think it would end up being somewhere around the 30-40k mark. It'll be interesting to find out one day!

I don't really know anyone who would be keen to play anything more than a 6,000 (each side) battle. Maybe setting aside a weekend and a bit of arm-twisting would do the job to get a bigger battle going!

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 Post subject: Re: Eldar v Imperial Guard Assault Battle
PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:46 am 
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I can imagine that you would need to expand the battlefield massively. I'm reluctant to play on the floor as I tend to be a bit clumsy from time to time and end up breaking things (you may have noticed some of my Eldar infantry in particular are the worse for wear). I also find I am more likely to miss units and make tactical errors when I don't use the gaming table.

I am used to play on the floor but I will looking for a table solution in the next future
you know I am old and my back hurts :-[

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Anyway, is there a report on one of those mega-battles? I'd love to see it, it would be mass carnage right enough!

No I think not, played such games just 3-4 times during my (epic) life.
Here on the board is a 30K(in total) batrep http://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/viewtopic.php?f=85&t=20889
I have a 40K batrep on hold but its not the nicest one.
I plan to play a really big battle with my Tau(25K) defending against a combined Guard/Marines assault.
I also will set up different, table will be 2x3m.
I hope evrything will work out nice.


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