Tau V Salamanders, purge the alien 1500 win

I wanted to test some of my methods and tactics so I picked a smaller force than my opponent. Since it was a friendly game I was happy enough to know that I could loose very easily if I messed up at all. I rolled and opted to go first. I castled all my units in the right hand corner and used Shadowsun and friends with the riptides to force my opponent into a cross fire. Straight away Longstrike blew a demolisher tank away and the path finders started killing troops in the open. I moved the riptides up into the middle of the table so I could move them to counter my opponent when necessary. My opponent's HQ arrived in a drop pod (which was glanced to death on arrival) but the unit was incredibly unlucky when it targeted Longstirke with the orbital bombardment and it scattered 12 inches back, to the HQ, 5 were killed out right and one survived thanks to eternal warrior. In my turn 2 Shadowsun and friends deep struck but ended up on my riptide and my opponent placed the unit at the far side of my deployment zone, he forgot the 3D6 movement for her and I was able to get back in the fight next turn when they killed 3 bikes. Longstrike blew another tank off the board and the nova charged iontide annihilated 7 space marines that were out in the open, the other 2 were killed from plasma fire. I got a bit worried when his deep striking assault marines killed most of my fire warriors so I moved the ion tide towards them (and into cover because his grav guns had killed the other riptide and the plasma cannon was slowly knocking off the wounds). Combined fire from the iontide and remaining path finders finished off the 2 assault marines that were wreaking havoc in my lines. Longstrike took aim again and obliterated the dreadnought. At this point the game was over, he only had a few marines scattered throughout the terrain and his warlord failed a charge and was killed by overwatch from shadowsun and friends. Long strike was by far the unit of the game by blowing up 3 vehicles with just 3 shots. I enjoyed having to be very tactful but if the orbital bombardment hadn't scattered and killed most of his HQ unit, it more than likely would have destroyed Longstrike, from this the riptide would have been killed from the dreadnought and razorback.

Tau V Eldar 2k kill points win

Yeay!!! first win against Eldar, my opponent from the previous game was eager for a re-match as was I because the previous game came down to two models. This time my opponent had 24 wraiths including a deep striking wraith knight which is terrifying when it starts on the board. I got to go first and quickly moved towards his lines (strange for Tau) but having my units very close together I took full advantage of support fire and cover saves for my fire warriors. My rolling was very hot, the path finders in cover lit up and shot the wraiths close to them. I learnt from the previous game that I should focus on killing the wraiths very quickly and began using the solid str 10 AP 1 shot from the hammerheads. The concentrated AP 1 & 2 fire from a variety of units killed a vast amount of the wraiths in turn 1 and 2. It got worse for my opponent when shadowsun and friends arrived without scattering within 12 inches of the wraiths, killing 3 wraiths and his HQ which gave his units cover saves. His Wraith Knight arrived (uh-oh) but interceptor from the 2 riptides (1 HBC and 1 ion accelerator)knocked a wound off it. Thankfully it couldn't assault when it arrived and my cover & jink saves were very helpful and probably saved the game for me. Shadowsun & friends were in turn killed when the Wraith Knight got sick of his little buddies getting slaughtered. Thankfully I had killed the bulk of his forces and was able to blast the Wraith Knight to pieces the HBC riptide nova charged its fusion guns and took 2 wounds off it, longstrike got it down to 1 wound and the iontide killed it with a blast from its weapons. The wraith knight's wounds were being chipped away at slowly, but I couldn't afford to concentrate on anything else and had to rely on a str 5 to kill off some of his units.

Tau V Eldar 2k the scouring loss

This was my first time playing Eldar and all I really knew about them is that they are very mobile and have tonne of psychic powers than can really screw with an army. I lost my Riptide from some psychic power that caused it to hurt itself. My opponent used a wraith army which had a majority of toughness 6 and all bar 1 model had a 3+ save. Once I killed off the HQ I was able to rip the wraiths apart with my AP 1 & 2 heavy army. I didn't really take note of who killed who and what moved where. It was looking at a very close win after I killed off his 20 wraiths but a unit of striking scorpions were camping in some terrain and took a huge amount of fire to kill them off but 2 remained and my opponent won, barely. I made a few tactical mistakes but if I hadn't taken them I may have lost an objective.