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Howdy all - a few of us recently picked up Epic and have been proxying with our 40k gear. We just played a game tonight, so here it is.
Edit: we used all of the Experimental Rules that we were aware of. We used Tau 4-3-3, and Ulthwe v23 right off the official site. We did not use the spirit stones alterations that are currently being discussed, though they wouldn't have made a difference.
Ulthwe Eldar -
The Avatar
1 Guardian Warhost, 3 Heavy Weapon platforms - 150
1 Guardian Warhost, Seer Council, 3 Heavy Weapon platforms - 200
2 Night Spinner Troupes - 175 each - 350
1 Falcon Troupe, 2 Firestorms - 250
2 Fire Prism Troupes - 250 each - 500
Revenant Titans - 650 (BTS)
Tau (not sure on the points) -
Dragonfish Supreme Commander thing
8 Ionheads and a Skyray
2 Morays (BTS)
2x 8 Fire Warriors in 4 Devilfish
4 Broadsides
Tigershark AX10
Deployment and objective placement worked out such that half of the board was completely out of it. The Tau side had a forest and a largish hill right up near his deployment zone, behind which one group of Fire Warriors, the Broadsides, and the Dragonfish deployed. The Morays were right smack in the middle of the deployment zone, just to the right of the above groups, and as far forward as possible. The Hammerheads and the other FWs deployed on the other side of the Morays. The middle of the board had two hills such that those Hammerheads and FWs were out of LoS, and another one almost directly south of the hill the Broadsides were hiding behind. The Eldar had two forests in their deployment zone - one in the middle and one on the left. The Revenants and the Night Spinners deployed inside one (the Night Spinners just along the edges), the Guardians deployed in the left forest, and the Prisms and Falcons deployed behind or to the left of the middle forest.
Eldar won first the strategy roll, and one group of fire prisms promptly moved up behind the left hill and shot the morays, causing two failed saves and so suppressing one of them. The other fire prisms failed a rerolled initiative check and hid behind the middle forest in the Eldar deployment zone. Slightly upset, the remaining Moray then annihilated two of the Fire Prisms that had attacked it, breaking the remaining one. At a loss for something to do that wouldn't open me up to all kinds of Ion Cannon hurt, and wary of the Fire Warriors, the Falcons just joined up with the lone survivor of the Fire Prism formation. The rightmost group of FWs then doubles forward and unloads from the Fish, marking the rightward group of Night Spinners and killing one with Guided Missiles and breaking the formation. The Broadsides attempt to achieve something, but fail initiative. The other group of Night Spinners takes aim at them, but somehow gets distracted. The Dragonfish follows suit. Guardians pass their strategy roll, but just putter around for lack of anything better to do (those Fire Warriors are a good 30" away). The other group of Fire Warriors (the one directly across from the Guardians) fails initiative and sits still. The other squad of Guardians putters around, and then the Hammerheads fail initiative and sit still. With no remaining enemy activations (excepting the AX10), the Revenants double forward and gun down one of the Morays, leaving the other with a single DC. The Tigershark then decides that discretion is the better part of valor, and stays away from the massive AA umbrella. The Eldar removed all blast markers and the Tau were left with some on the Moray (do Fearless formations keep taking BMs even when the units are all suppressed?).
Eldar got to go first again, and this time the Revenants jumped to the right and took down 4 Hammerheads, breaking the remaining five vehicles. The full Fire Prism group opened fire on the Moray, but failed to inflict any damage and left it unsuppressed. The lone Prism then tried to fire, but got managed to break itself in the process (what fun...). Being understandably grieved at the loss of 4 Hammerheads, every AT gun in the Tau force decided to turn on the Revenants. Coordinated Fire saw 4 Broadsides, the Moray, and the Dragonfish all unloading at point blank range (two Sustained Fires and a move and fire). Fortunately, the Titans saved against both TK shots and the Dragonfish missed completely, though the Broadsides inflicted a point of damage on each Titan - they were now suppressed. The 2-strong group of Spinners then failed initiative and shot the Fire Warriors that had done such horrible things to it, doing no damage and failing to hit. Said Fire Warriors failed their initiative in turn. The 3-strong group of Spinners doubled forward, landing next to the Revenants, and proceeded to lay a template over the Dragonfish and the Broadsides, inflicting a BM on both. The second group of Fire Warriors then shot over the hill before marking and firing at those Spinners, doing no damage whatsoever. The Tigershark proceeds to fail initiative. The Guardians, lacking a purpose now that it was clear that the FWs wouldn't be charging their objective, milled about in confusion, with one sticking near its objective and the other marching 18" over to relieve the 2-strong Night Spinner group of theirs. The Eldar then remove BMs, leaving one on the broken Prism and two on the Titans. The Tau have one on the Moray and two on the Hammerheads, and two or so on the Fire Warriors near the Eldar deployment zone.
Ulthwe wins strategy again, and the Night Spinners up top sustain on the horde of Fire Warriors, Broadsides, Moray, and Devilfish. The Fire Warriors take 3 BMs, the Broadsides take 3 and a casualty, breaking them, and the Moray takes two, suppressing it again. The Revenants then unload on the Hammerheads, slaughtering them to a man. Finally, the two-strong Spinner group fires on the Fire Warriors near it, inflicting two BMs and a casualty. After waiting so patiently, the Tau are at something of a loss as to what to do, and finally decide to have the top FW group sustain on the markerlit Revenants - unfortunately, those three BMs suppress most of the Devilfish (excepting a few FWs and a fish, the squad is out of LoS so only the fish can be suppressed), and the squad does no damage. Hoping to redeem themselves, the Falcons sustain on the Fire Warriors on the Eldar table half, killing just enough to leave an 8-strong broken formation. The Dragonfish tries to shoot at the still-markerlit Titans, and fails to damage them. After that, the rightward Guardian squad moves up to control another objective, giving the Eldar all three on their table half. Realizing that it's over, the Tau send the Tigershark in to deliver a parting shot, annihilating the two Spinners near the Revenants before getting focus fired by the Titans, some Prisms, and the Firestorms and going down in flames. The Eldar won 2-0.
I'm realizing that this is a bit long for a BR - will try to shorten them up in the future.
Is there any validation for me feeling like it was a close game even though I only lost 2 Prisms and 3 Night Spinners? It just seems like, had a few things gone differently, those Hammerheads could have carved up one of my tank formations, while the Revenants could have easily been destroyed by a lucky Railcannon.
A fun game for all involved, though, and the Tau player is now preparing a strategy to play against our Guard player's 8 Shadowswords (long story short, Tau won decisively against the Guard thanks primarily to the Morays, and Guard's decided that he's going to kill anything with a DC on the first turn).
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(another stupid issue in E:A that makes no sense as long as obliterators, terminators and the alike are infantry - but don't get me started) 