Grey Knights vs Craftworlds Eldar

Ancient enemies.

Lately most of my games have been Crusade matches, in which I am playing T'au. They've been smaller games, narrative games. Very fun. Different from my usual thing. But yesterday my Eldar friend and I spent six hours playing a good ol' 2000 point Matched Play game for big boys.

As anyone who has read my past battle reports knows, I have a really hard time against Eldar. They do so many things so efficiently and get around a lot of restrictions that other armies just have to deal with. I have played so many games against this particular Eldar army over the years, and I've lost the vast majority of games against them. But yesterday I was feeling confident. I told my friend to bring his most dick-stomping list possible, and told him that I was in it to win it.

We did everything by the book. First I taped off the borders of the battlefield to comply with the new 9th edition recommended board size (44"x60"). We made our lists in private, rolled up the mission, set up objectives and then terrain, and started deployment. Our game was The Four Pillars. We put plenty of ruins on the board with the Obscuring keyword to block off lanes of fire, scattered a few craters, and called it good.

Grey Knights List

++ Battalion Detachment 0CP (Imperium - Grey Knights) [108 PL, 1,993pts, 11CP] ++

+ Stratagems +
Armoury of Titan [-1CP]: 1 Additional Relic

Agents of the Imperium +
Vindicare Assassin [5 PL, 100pts]

HQ +
Chaplain [6 PL, 113pts]: 4. Refrain of Convergence, 6. Invocation of Focus, Armoured Resilience, Storm bolter

Grand Master in Nemesis Dreadknight [11 PL, 225pts]: 4: First to the Fray, Augurium Scrolls, Dreadfist, Dreadknight teleporter, Heavy Psycannon, Nemesis Greatsword, Sanctuary, Warlord

Troops +
Terminator Squad [11 PL, 190pts]: Gate of Infinity
. Grey Knight Terminator Justicar: Storm bolter
. . Nemesis Force Sword
. 2x Terminator (Halberd): 2x Nemesis Force Halberd, 2x Storm Bolter
. 2x Terminator (Sword): 2x Nemesis Force Sword, 2x Storm Bolter

Terminator Squad [11 PL, 190pts]: Gate of Infinity
. Grey Knight Terminator Justicar: Storm bolter
. . Nemesis Force Halberd
. 4x Terminator (Halberd): 4x Nemesis Force Halberd, 4x Storm Bolter

Terminator Squad [11 PL, 210pts]: Hammerhand
. Grey Knight Terminator Justicar: Storm bolter
. . Nemesis Falchions: 2x Nemesis Falchion
. 4x Terminator (Falchions): 8x Nemesis Falchion, 4x Storm Bolter

+ Elites +
Apothecary [5 PL, 95pts]: Inner Fire, Sanctic Shard
. Nemesis Daemon Hammer: Nemesis Daemon Hammer

Paladin Squad [30 PL, 515pts]: Sanctuary
. 7x Paladin (Halberd): 7x Nemesis Force Halberd, 7x Storm Bolter
. 2x Paladin (Warding Stave): 2x Nemesis Warding Stave, 2x Storm Bolter
. Paragon: Storm Bolter
. . Nemesis Daemon Hammer: Nemesis Daemon Hammer

+ Heavy Support +
Nemesis Dreadknight [9 PL, 185pts]: Dreadfist, Dreadfist, Dreadknight teleporter, Gatling Psilencer, Heavy Incinerator, Vortex of Doom

Nemesis Dreadknight [9 PL, 170pts]: Dreadfist, Dreadknight teleporter, Gate of Infinity, Gatling Psilencer, Nemesis Greatsword

++ Total: [108 PL, 11CP, 1,993pts] ++


Secondaries: Slay the Warlord, Engage on All Fronts, Attrition

So I have a couple of oddball choices here, but they are all intentional. I brought along my usual battalion of Terminators, nothing weird there, and my indestructible unit of Paladins, of course. But for this game I also brought a Chaplain with Refrain of Convergence. The Eldar psychic power Doom always screws me over. Rerolling all wounds is too good against my very limited number of units. Refrain of Convergence would give my Chaplain +4 to denies, so hopefully I could routinely shut the Farseer down. I also brought my two regular Dreadknights, and shut up, I know you think they're bad but I insist that they are good. They each have a teleporter and I was planning on bringing them down with my GMNDK for a powerful midgame bomb. And speaking of my GMNDK, I spent a CP to give him Augurium Scrolls today. I've never tried out this relic before and I think it might be good alongside a squad or two of Terminators.

For a minute I struggled with the idea of adding the Vindicare to this list. It was either her or a Brotherhood Champion, but the BroChamp just still occupies such a weird niche and I don't know how to properly utilize him. He doesn't have an innate deep strike and I am hesitant to bring transports since they don't receive the benefits of Masters of the Warp. The Vindicare, on the other hand, could provide some essential psyker/Autarch removal when I needed it. But historically... the Vindicare rolls 1s. All the time. Ultimately I decided not to hold that against her and I gave her one more shot.

Craftworlds Eldar List

++ Battalion Detachment 0CP (Aeldari - Craftworlds) [78 PL, 9CP, 1,587pts] ++

+ HQ +
Autarch Skyrunner (Legends) [6 PL, 120pts]: 4: Fate's Messenger, Banshee Mask, Craftworlds Warlord, Fusion Gun, Laser Lance, Shuriken Pistol
. The Phoenix Gem

Farseer Skyrunner [7 PL, 135pts]: 2. Doom, 4. Executioner, 5. Focus Will, Shuriken Pistol, Witchblade

+ Troops +
Dire Avengers [3 PL, 70pts]
. 4x Dire Avenger: 4x Avenger Shuriken Catapult, 4x Plasma Grenades
. Dire Avenger Exarch: Two Avenger Shuriken Catapults
. . Exarch Power: Bladestorm

Rangers [3 PL, 75pts]
. 5x Ranger: 5x Ranger Long Rifle, 5x Shuriken Pistol

Storm Guardians [4 PL, 72pts]
. 8x Storm Guardian - Chainsword: 8x Chainsword, 8x Plasma Grenades, 8x Shuriken Pistol

+ Elites +
Howling Banshees [3 PL, -1CP, 80pts]
. 4x Howling Banshee: 4x Power Sword, 4x Shuriken Pistol
. Howling Banshee Exarch: Shuriken Pistol & Executioner
. . Exarch Power: Disarming Strike, Exemplar of the Banshee Shrine, War Shout

Striking Scorpions [3 PL, 75pts]
. 4x Striking Scorpion: 4x Plasma Grenades, 4x Scorpion Chainsword, 4x Shuriken Pistol
. Striking Scorpion Exarch: Scorpion Chainsword, Scorpion's Claw
. . Exarch Power: Scorpion's Sting

+ Fast Attack +
Hornets [6 PL, 120pts]
. Hornet: Crystal Targeting Matrix, 2x Hornet Pulse Laser

Hornets [6 PL, 115pts]
. Hornet: 2x Hornet Pulse Laser

Shining Spears [10 PL, 215pts]
. 5x Shining Spear: 5x Laser Lance, 5x Twin Shuriken Catapult
. Shining Spear Exarch: Star Lance
. . Exarch Power: Expert Hunter

Heavy Support +
Fire Prism [9 PL, 170pts]: Twin Shuriken Catapult

Fire Prism [9 PL, 170pts]: Twin Shuriken Catapult

Fire Prism [9 PL, 170pts]: Twin Shuriken Catapult

++ Patrol Detachment -2CP (Aeldari - Craftworlds) [19 PL, -2CP, 410pts] ++
+ HQ +
Warlock Skyrunner [4 PL, 65pts]: 0. Smite, Shuriken Pistol, Witchblade

+ Troops +
Dire Avengers [3 PL, 70pts]
. 4x Dire Avenger: 4x Avenger Shuriken Catapult, 4x Plasma Grenades
. Dire Avenger Exarch: Two Avenger Shuriken Catapults
. . Exarch Power: Avenging Strikes

Rangers [3 PL, 75pts]
. 5x Ranger: 5x Ranger Long Rifle, 5x Shuriken Pistol

+ Fast Attack +
Warp Spiders [4 PL, 95pts]
. 4x Warp Spider: 4x Death Spinner
. Warp Spider Exarch: Two Death Spinners
. . Exarch Power: Iron Resolve

+ Heavy Support +
Dark Reapers [5 PL, 105pts]
. 2x Dark Reaper: 2x Reaper Launcher
. Dark Reaper Exarch: Reaper Launcher
. . Exarch Power: Rapid Shot

++ Total: [97 PL, -3CP, 1,997pts] ++

Secondaries: Slay the Warlord, First Strike, Engage on All Fronts


As expected, this was a list full of tanks and bikes and and Aspect Warriors. A ton of bodies to chew through. The Hornets were going to be a problem, same with the Dark Reapers and Fire Prisms. Ideally I'd keep my Dreadknights away until those threats could be neutralized. The Eldar had a ton of ObSec, and a ton of firepower. I had to play this smart and cagey.

I got to choose deployment and started deploying first. I threw my GMNDK, my two Dreadknights, a Terminator Squad, the Vindicare, and my kamehameha Apothecary into deep strike. I put everything into cover as much as I could, keeping everything out of line of site and denying him as many kills as possible.

The Eldar deployed forward, keeping his three Fire Prisms deep in the back since all my ranged weapons were max 24".

God, so much shooting.

My buddy saw that I hid everything and elected to give me first turn, which was awesome.

I spread some Terminators around to grab objectives and Engage on All Fronts, and then immediately yeeted my Paladins across the battlefield with Gate of Infinity (after buffing them with Sanctuary and Armoured Resilience, of course). They landed, chipped a few wounds off of a Fire Prism, and then made their charge.

This charge was absolutely essential. I popped Fury of the Proven in the fight phase. My Paladins obliterated one Fire Prism and then tagged another, forcing it to fall back on my opponent's turn in order for him to shoot at my Paladins with the rest of his army.

Redoubtable Defence on top of Armoured Resilience allowed my Paladins to tank an entire Eldar shooting phase and only kill four Grey Knights, even though the were Doomed. Making it so that only one Fire Prism was shooting at me (as opposed to three) kept me in his deployment zone far longer than I had any right to be.

My opponent charged in Achilraen (his bike Autarch), the Banshees, and the Shining Spears. He deliberated between focusing down the Paladins and obliterating them or just trying to avoid them for the rest of the game, since they only have a 5" move. But I had plenty of units with Gate of Infinity and my buddy knew that I could reposition my Paladins at will. He threw in all the melee units he could, and I popped Masters of Combat. He asked what that stratagem did, and I told him it let my Paladins fight on death. "Fuck that!" he said. "That sucks ass!"

We traded a few models, but mostly this turned into a big mosh pit that would last for a few battle rounds.

On my turn two I dropped in my Kamehameha Apothecary just behind Achilraen with Dynamic Insertion. I had wanted to throw him into the middle of my Paladins to both protect them and raise one from the dead, but there wasn't enough room. All the same, he could still do what he needed to from where he landed. I used Powerful Adept and Psychic Channeling when casting Inner Fire, but unfortunately still only got a 7 even with Sanctic Shard. I threw six mortal wounds at one of the Fire Prisms. I was afraid to blast Achilraen because she held the Phoenix Gem and I didn't want her to devour the souls of my Paladins.

Moving my Terminators out of cover to start grabbing objectives.

My Dreadknights came in midfield. The bulk of my opponent's forces were in his deployment zone, but he had a few units grabbing the objectives and scoring Engage on All Fronts. I debated between bringing the hammer down on his tanks and bikes while they were occupied or picking off these flimsy units on the outskirts. I opted for the latter.

Storm bolters vs Dire Avengers

To my supreme disappointment, my Vindicare Assassin came in and missed her first shot of the game against a Warlock. I CP rerolled it into another miss.

My GMNDK made his charge against one of the remote Hornets and obliterated it, claiming the objective for himself.

When my fight phase rolled around, his Shining Spears had an advantage over my Paladins since they were still under the effects of Doom and without any of the buffs I'd given them last turn. I was down to 3 CP at this point and didn't have enough to keep them alive. Their natural toughness kept a few models around, though.

This is just a cool shot that makes me appreciate Warhammer. What fun this game is. I love it so much.

I used Gate of Infinity to yeet my Chaplain into the center of the battlefield. I knew he was exposed there, unable to benefit from Look Out, Sir! or the Tide of Shadows. But this was the best position for him to deny the Farseer from casting Doom once more, and the psychic phase would come before the shooting so he would survive to at least do his job. He ended up being successful in that my opponent moved his psykers deep into his own deployment zone in order to avoid my Chaplain's +4 denial, so they were out of range to Doom any of my units anyway. Success through aversion!

He put Protect on his Shining Spears and gave them a 2++ invuln against shooting, which feels like some bullshit.

Achilraen charged my Apothecary and took him out, and I made a mistake. I had a beautiful plan leading up to this. I was pretty certain that Achilraen was going to finish my Apothecary up in the fight phase, so I saved a CP to use Only in Death Does Duty End and fight back. Where we situated, there were no other units within 3" so Achilraen's Phoenix Gem would have had no life force to devour and she would have been slain permanently. But like a fool I spent my last CP on a reroll the phase before! So Achilraen slew my Apothecary without consequence. I almost had Slay the Warlord.

There were once many Eldar here.

I used Gate of Infinity to sneak one of my Dreadknights into his backline. With a combination of Vortex of Doom and some fortunate shooting rolls, he annihilated the Farseer, the Warlock, and some Howling Banshees all before charging.

Striking Scorpions sneaking into my deployment zone.

Get off your fucking phone.

On her second shot, of the game (round three), my Vindicare missed again. She was really not pulling her weight.

After finally finishing off the Paladins, my buddy's Shining Spears moved around the battlefield picking off Terminator Squads. Their lances are designed like they had Terminators in mind.

On my fourth turn, I yeeted my GMNDK into his backline to try and finish off Achilraen and the Fire Prisms. At this point, all I had left were my three Dreadknights and my Vindicare.

My Vindicare actually hit something on my fourth turn, but the Dark Reaper in her sights made its save which was infuriating.

Fortunately my GMNDK was ready to pick up the slack and make his 9" charge out of Gate of Infinity. I put three attacks on Achilraen and three on the Fire Prism, expecting to kill both and succeeding in killing neither. I mean, technically, I did kill Achilraen. But the Phoenix Gem went off and she sucked a wound off of my Grand Master and returned to life.

At the end of my fourth turn, my four models got me Engage on All Fronts which was kind of funny.

My buddy made a nice play here on his fourth turn. He kept the Fire Prism engaged with my GMNDK and fell back with Achilraen, placing her on the other side of the ruins so that even if my GMNDK killed the Fire Prism  he wouldn't be able to shoot or charge the Autarch. It was a smart move. Denying me Slay the Warlord was essential in what was such a close match at this point.

But behold, he moved into direct line of sight of my Vindicare. My assassin had been so ineffectual all game that my opponent had forgotten about her entirely. My Vindicare took the shot...

... and slew the warlord. Six points!

Satisfied with a job well done, my Vindicare went back to checking her Instagram while Shining Spears descended upon her in vengeance.

My final score was 63, not 6.

The game ended 53-52 in favor of my Grey Knights. It was a close match, an awesome match.

Edit: Forgot my wrap up.

Some questionable elements to my list helped, and some didn't. The Dreadknights proved instrumental, being just tough enough to stay alive on objectives and in corners to gain me points from Engage on All Fronts. I stayed in Tide of Shadows the entire game and that basically allowed all of my Terminators (everything) to ignore AP-1 -- that extra bit of survivability helped tremendously. The Chaplain couldn't really find a purpose and he never denied a single spell, but the threat kept the Farseer from using Doom on my units for one round so that was helpful at least. I might take him with another Litany next time, maybe the one that extends weapon range. There were a couple of times where 30" storm bolters would've really helped. The Augurium Scrolls were very nice, for the single turn that I remembered that my GMNDK had them. I forgot that he had that relic when he was fighting Achilraen and the Fire Prism, and he didn't have anyone else around to benefit from the aura with him. Might need to keep him with his bodyguards if I want to use the Augurium Scrolls in the future. Last, my Vindicare. She was entirely useless until the moment she won me the game. I still don't know what to think of her. Worth the 100 points? Maybe. We'll see.

vs Craftworlds Eldar

Welcome back to another installment of the Grey Knights getting absolutely dunked on! This week I once again played against Dustin's Asuryani. This was our first game since Chapter Approved 2019 and we were both eager to get our now cheaper units on the table and try out some of those tasty new missions. I wanted to play the new Maelstrom ones with Schemes of War, but I forgot my Tactical Objective deck at home like a dummy so we just rolled up Eternal War.

We settled on the mission Ascension, using Hammer and Anvil deployment. Pretty straightforward mission that places all the objectives on a center line, which I hoped was going to favor me and discourage him from using an immobile tank line.

My forces.

I brought two Dreadknights tonight! They dropped almost 50 points in CA2019, and I'm really excited to try them out. They've never been good, but maybe now they will be meh enough to not be considered an offensive choice.

This is the rough draft of the list I will be bringing to LVO in late January. The goal here is to have a very durable teleporting force that can claim objectives and hopefully hold them for a while. Almost exactly 1000 points will be sitting in deep strike, with the rest of it on the table and moving to secure midfield objectives. My biggest concern right now is that all of my anti-tank is in the form of melee weapons, with the exception of that single Razorback and its twin lascannon. I'm hoping that the melee threat will be enough, though. I have so many storm bolters to just shred any light infantry I encounter and hopefully mitigate the number of competing Troops on any objectives I try to claim.

Eldar Tanks Out The Ass

He brought so many tanks! Look at that! That's three Fire Prisms, a Wave Serpent, a... Falcon, I think, and two Hornets. I knew he was going to place those Fire Prisms on top of buildings and just use Linked Fire every turn to delete my guys. I just had to put significant pressure on him and play the objectives, try to weather that storm.

The battlefield.

The crew in deep strike.

This version of my Paladin bomb includes a Brotherhood Ancient to give more attacks, an Apothecary to cast Sanctuary and revive, a BroCap to act as Warlord and provide First to the Fray, a GMNDK to give rerolls and also draw aggro, and Inquisitor Lorea Gyzan to turn off overwatch for anything my boys need to charge. I like this one!

Everyone who started on the board.

I was slated to get first turn, but I knew that if my opponent Seized with my guys in the open like this then I'd be fucked. He got a 5 and I exhaled.

I Gated one of my Dreadknights up the field right off the bat and had him cast Vortex into Dustin's cluster of bike characters and tanks. I spent a CP to cast with 3 dice in the hopes of getting that 12+ on the psychic check, but to no avail. Even so, Vortex fuckin slaps. I killed his bike Warlock, took three wounds off of both his Autarch and his Farseer, and killed a Shining Spear. It felt like a really solid opening move and obviously made Dustin nervous. I then moved to shooting, though, and this Dreadknight whiffed all of his shots. Heavy weapons hitting on 4+ with no rerolls is not great.

I didn't snag a picture of it, but my Razorback moved to grab an objective and then missed both of his lascannon shots. So all of the enemy tanks remained undamaged.

Grabbing an objective.

On our way to the center objective.

On his turn his Falcon pooped out the Fire Dragons I had forgotten about. They moved up into the center with their eyes trained on the Dreadknight that had decimated their frontlines.

Fortunately they suck at shooting and missed everything. I was so worried about that Dreadknight, but it looked like he was going to survive!

Achilraen and the Shining Spears moving upfield to steal that objective from me

Farseer claiming the other objective.

Dustin was running a custom Craftworld, and chose the trait that gives his shuriken weapons -1 AP within 12". This proved to be extremely powerful over the course of the game. Changing a 2+ save to a 3+ is a huge detriment for me. All those small arms in the picture above just stripped away my Razorback, removing my only lascannons from the game turn one.

These guys made the charge and swarmed my Terminators.

AP -4 and D2 lances just obliterate my Troops.

His tank line.

As I thought, the Fire Prisms did what they do best and Linked Fire'd everything. The Dreadknight that had survived the abysmal rolling of the Fire Dragons was erased, and the other Dreadknight that was still moving up the field had been killed by the Autarch's fusion gun and the Shining Spears' laser lances.

Turn one I was down a squad of Terminators, two Dreadknights, and my Razorback. Quick math shows me that's almost 600 points. Oof, but not unexpected. That is how Eldar do.

Deep striking in.

At this point Dustin held two of the three objectives, and both were held by characters. In this mission (Ascension), if a single character holds a point for consecutive turns you gain increasing points. He was going to start running away with it if I didn't remove them. But I knew that splitting up my deep striking units would make each little group weaker. All of them rely on each other to reroll charges, reroll hits, and cast spells. If I split them up, they'd be slaughtered. So I had to make a decision. I figured the Farseer would be easier to kill and also was surrounded by the most meaty targets, so I sent my Paladin bomb that way. I then Gated a single squad of Terminators to deal with the Autarch and her Shining Spears.

This was a real tough decision, because I knew that the Termies were going to have a hard time taking that point alone. On top of just making the charge, that Autarch has a 4++ and could fall back and eliminate my Termies if I didn't kill her outright. Realistically, my jumble of Paladins and Characters should have gone to deal with her. But in my mind's eye I saw my Paladin bomb touching down on that objective, killing the Autarch, and then spending the rest of the game moving 5" and never reaching any other targets or objectives. At least on the Farseer side of things they had some tanks they could chop up after they did their job.

9"

But then my Gated Termies failed their charge. So the Autarch was staying where she was.

Once there was a Farseer here. 

On the other side of the battlefield, everyone failed their rerollable charges except for the GMNDK. Remember, that is 5 Grey Knights units, so 10 chances to get a 9" charge -- and I only succeeded one. Oof again. Those Paladins were going to be footslogging no matter what now.

On his turn the Shining Spears moved to take the center objective, leaving the Autarch to farm points down below.

Laser lances! Damn them!

My GMNDK was shot down to 1 wound by the Fire Prisms. I had mistakenly used my CP reroll for the phase on trying to make a 5++ for the Terminators in the previous photo, when I should have saved it to reroll my GMNDK's 3++ against the tanks. Then the banshees moved in.

So many attacks. Wounding on 6s, yes, but all at AP-3. All it took was one failed save on my part to lose my GMNDK.

My turn three. Here is where I experienced one of the most insane things I have ever had to do in 40k. Prepare yourselves.

I slogged my Paladins forward. I had to get to the point that the Banshees were on in order to try and keep up with VP. I would figure out what to do about the Autarch on the other side of the map next turn, whatever. For now I needed to get a character to this objective. I moved everyone up to easy charge range (but still more than 3" from the objective) and began my psychic phase.

I had a lot of damage dealing powers, but the Banshees were closest and I needed them to remain alive so that I could charge move onto the objective. Everyone buffed up the Paladin squad. I didn't want my Inquisitor to do nothing, so I let her do a smite to soften up the Banshees. That squad of elves had 6 wounds, so 1d3 mortals wasn't going to wipe them.

Well, my Inquisitor decided that now was her moment to shine, and she rolled an 11. A super smite. I rolled the die and watched as she dealt 6 mortal wounds to those Banshees.

I stared unbelieving. I'd been rolling like shit all game, and only now did my Inquisitor think that she was going to actually start pulling her weight. Remember: I play Grey Fucking Knights. I don't even know what a super smite is! This was legitimately the first time I had ever rolled a super smite in my entire 40k career. I had 1 CP left.

I needed to get to that objective.

I spent my last CP to try and hope to do less damage with a smite.

Fortunately, I only got a 5 on the reroll, so the Exarch remained with 1 wound.

I charged with everyone and beat the hell out of that Banshee.

On the other side, my Terminator squad failed to kill Achilraen. On his turn she fell back and zapped them into dust.

This was his turn three. I had a squad of 10 Paladins surrounding my precious characters. I wanted to deny him Warlord, and also make sure that my Brother Captain could start farming victory points. Maybe next turn I could teleport someone else over to slay his Autarch and  start denying him his points. If the game pushed into turn 6 or 7, I could catch up if I just had a single character on two different points. It was a gamble, but I could protect my guys pretty well if I kept them buried in Paladins.

He started shooting at them with his tanks and Shining Spears, and I failed fully fifteen 4++ invulnerable saves in a row. Seriously, I didn't make a single one. I dropped 8 Paladins.

His Shining Spears moved in and started mopping up my characters. I had three models left at the end of round 3.

I am normally super composed. I normally want to play a game out until at least turn five just to see what might happen. But I had an immobile group of three characters and I was behind by 5 points. I conceded in the shadow of his tanks.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF

That was such a rough one! I didn't get to make any melee attacks with my Paladins or either of my Dreadknights the entire game. Blah! I want to say this one was an eye opener about this list, but I don't know quite what I learned from it. I definitely need more anti-tank. The Razorback didn't do enough, and the fact that he is not a psyker really hurt. I think I'll switch it out for a Dreadnought with Astral Aim. Which, like, I know is the right call, but I really like how my Razorback looks and I wanted to give it a chance.

I am... not yet convinced that the regular Dreadknights are still bad. I think I didn't play them right this game. They are each ~150 points, which feels good. I'll try them in my game next week and see if they perform better. I think this was just a bad matchup. Lots of flying heavy armor with multi-damage weapons against Terminators.

Fun game though! I always enjoy playing against Dustin's Eldar.