RichardL wrote:
I think there were a couple of contributing factors, both lists were played by experienced players (and in the case of David, someone who has playtested both the Net-EA and E-UK variants pretty extensively), they didn't hit any particularly rough matchups, and it sounds like neither player had particularly poor dice as well. Overall i preferred David's list, as i think it's more interesting given it uses more than 4 different units, and is stronger with the multiple missions, although i do find the unrestricted access to Covens to be a bit concerning, as is the ability to spam pretty decent and cheap fighters.
Yeah, game 1 was a bit of an odd match up. One the one hand I had to face you, which is a pretty intimidating prospect. On the other there probably isn't anyone else in the UK who has used the Dark Eldar in more games (practice, tournament or otherwise) than me (maybe Matt actually?) so I knew what to do to deal with them.
Also turn 1 with 6 aicraft activations successfully killing 2 rhinos and doing nothing else was a pretty favourable to me. An About 30% activation failure rate in a mostly Init1+ army didn't hurt either...