Farsight Enclave Battle Report

Hey guys. Once again I don't do as planned. It should have been a 30k battle report but it ended up with normal 40k game. So it was 1500 pts of Farsight against Renegade Guard in a non competitive set up. As I want to expend into my Farsight Enclave, I decided to brought a list with the models I had and with as much as I could painted ones.

Here's the list :

HQ:

Farsight

Torchstar

Cadre Fireblade

Troops

10 Fire Warriors

3 Crisis all with double missile pod, target lock, 4 marker drones and 2 shield drones

2 Crisis all with double fusion blaster, target lock, 1 shield drone

Fast Attack

Sunshark Bomber with twin-linked missile pod, blacksun filter, decoy launcher

Heavy Support

2 Broadsides with HYMP, SMS, advanced targeting system and 4 missile drones

Hammerhead with Longstrike and submunition round

SkyRay with blacksun filter

Renegade Guard (I'm not an expert so sorry for the mistakes in the list)

HQ

Command Squad with 4 veterans with plasma gun and primaris psycher 

Elite

5 Ogryns

Troops

2 Command platoon

4 Troops squad 

1 Chimera

1 Drop troop

Fast Attack

Sentinel (proxy Blight Drone)

Valkyrie

Heavy Support

Leman Russ Executioner with Pax in it

Griffon

Manticore

We got Big gun Never tire, Hammer & Anvil deployment. Night Fight with 4 objectives as shown. He roll for his warlord trait and get -1 to my reserve roll. We placed the 4 objective in the middle of the board so the game would be more interesting and we would have to go for it. Only one objective was closer to one board edge so one would be lucky.

As you can see, on the grim dark future, there is only Lego ;)

He got to deploy where he wanted and chose the board edge closer to the objective. He also got first turn

Here is after deployment. His manticore and griffon are hided behind buildings.

So I had the Torchstar/crisis unit in front close enough to do something. Broadside and hammerhead on one side, skyRay and fire warriors on the other side. I fail to seize.

Guard turn 1 :

Pax leman russ do 15 wounds only loose 2 shield drones

Ogrý sentinel 3 wounds on broadside but made all their cover save

Guard shoot at torchstar but save all

Guard shoot at fire warrior killing one

Guard concentrate shoot at fire warrior killing two

Manticore kill all but torchstar pinning test ok

Griffon kill 3 fire warrior pinning test failed

Here's the picture after guard turn 1

Tau turn 1 

Skyray put one markerlight on leman russ

Hammerhead penetrate but cover save is made on leman russ

Broadside on chimera put 2 penetrating and 3 glancing only one glancing go through

Here's the picture after Tau turn 1

Guard turn 2

Valkyries fell to arrive

Sentinel shoot at torchstar but saves are made

Guard shoot 30 times killing torchstar

Guard kill one fire warrior

Guard kill one fire warrior

Command squad kill one fire warrior

Guard kill one of the broadside drone

Primaris fail his psychic test

Pax leman russ put 13 wounds on broadside who make all his 2+ save

Grifon shoot at broadside but saves are made

Manticore immobolize hammerhead

Here's picture after guard turn 2

Tau turn 2

Farsight arrive behind griffon take off his big gun

Shoot dead manticore

Fire warrior and sky ray kill 4 guard

Broadside wipe out guard on objective

Hammerhaed only glance chimera...

Here's picture after tau turn 2

Guard turn 3 

Valkyrie arrive

Fusiongun team try to land from valkiry but meet their death in the scatter

Ogryn disembark from chimera

Primaris fail his psychic test

Sentinel weef

Guard and grifon do nothong to farsight

Everything else shoot at farsight and kill all crisis and put him down to 2 wounds

Guard kill last fire warrior, 1 wounds left on fire cadre

Chimera put one wound on broadside

Ogryn charge hammerhead overwatch kill one ogryn and fail their charge

Here's picture for guard turn 3

Tau turn 3

Sunshark bomber arrive

Bomb ogryn

Farsight kill gryfon

Sky ray take off multilaser and shake the valkiry

Fire cadre kill 3 guard

Sunsharj kill sentinel

Sunshark drone kill some command squad and guard with their blast

Hammerhead take off vanquisher cannon

Broadside shoot at ogryn only one guy left who fail morale test

All the other test pass thanks to banner reroll

Here's picture of tau turn 3

Guard turn 4

Valkiry go back in reserve

Vanquisher move

Guard and command squad take one wound on farsight

Guard shoot at farsight double six on save!

Chimera shoot at farsight, save passed!

Vanquisher kill both sunshark drones

Guard kill fire cadre 

Primaris fail psychic test

Guard kill three missile drones

Here's picture of guard turn 4

Tau turn 4

Sunshark doesn't generate any more bombs

Broadside kill 5 guard test is good

Skyray kill 2 guys fail morale test

Sunshark kill vanquisher

Hammerhead penetrate chimera but cover save is made

Farsight charge command squad kill the warlord and run down the rest. Consolidate 6" into building

Here's picture of tau turn 4

Guard turn 5

Valkiry arrive

Both guard and ogryn fail to rally and run to their mother land

Forgot pictures for guard turn 5

Tau turn 5

Hammerhead and sunshark kill one guard on objective they flee out of it

Broadside kill all guard on objective

Sky ray kill 4 guys but the leader hold

Here's picture of tau turn 5

And the game is over as a 1 is rolled.

Guard got 1 point for first blood, 1 point for Slay the Warlord, 1 Point for Linebreaker (Primaris psycher) and he hold 1 objective which is worth 3 points so 6 in total

Tau got 1 point for Slay the Warlord and 3 points for each Heavy Support choice destroyed, so 4 in total

Guard Victory!

So if the game would have continue I would have won but I made some key mistakes so I don't mind.

What've learned during that game :

I should have hided torchstar unit and use their mobility even if I would have wasted turn 1. They were the key unit of my list and loosing them first turn really was a big deal.

Farsight is pretty nice with his buddy to wreck havoc where's needed.

Hammerhead with long strike is still too random for the price. Next time, I will try hammerhead with ion cannon

Sunshark bomber is really nice. Despite all the "hate" our flyers are getting (I understand it might not be the best unit point for point) it is useful in ALL my games. I will continue to field it.

I love Farsight Enclave, it plays different than normal Tau and I can really see myself fielding exclusive farsight army.

I should get a 1850 pts games this week but with a more competitive set up so I might bring some more goodies :)