Patrol: Dark Eldar vs Tyranids

Played Dec. 6, 2007.  Battle report by Stephan (Splinter fleet Black Tide).

Setup faced a squad of Warriors (with two Splinter Cannons and two Blasters), accompanied by a squad of Wyches, with a leader, and accompanied by a Haemunculus, against my three Tyranid broods of nine Termagants, supported by a brood of six carapace genestealers and led by a Warrior brood with two Deathspitters and a Venom Cannon (with Enchances Senses, carapace and Toxin sacs).

On the first turn, the gaunts charged forward, while the Warriors hugged terrain and the Genestealers stayed out of sight. The Eldar warriors cut down 5 gaunts in one brood (not very good shooting) with splinter fire, and advanced the Wyches.

The Wyches charged the advance gaunts, and while the occasional Wych fell, it was clear that he gaunts would lose - but held by Synapse, they stayed fighting nevertheless, holding the Wyches in position...

... while another brood of Gaunts pinned the Warriors in close combat long enough to let the Genestealers arrive unscathed. The Warriors died quickly, and the two survivors fled for their lives, whereupon the Tyranids all consolidated into the Wych close combat.

There was no more firefighting, everyone was engulfed in the melee. Even the Genestealers were defeated by the Wyches close combat prowess - rending attacks mostly saved by their inhuman acrobatics. In the end, the Tyranid warriors entered the fray, and through sheer mass of attacks managed to bring down the last Wyches.