Do The Colours Hurt Their Eyes? Harlequins vs Emperor's Children

 

I ventured down to Swindon a couple of weeks ago, taking my new/old Rogue Trader-era Harlequins to face Winters and his Emperor's Children army, The Echoes of Ecstasy.

Masque of the Red, Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple Death

I've had a lot of fun building, painting and fielding this army and this is the most I've put on the table at one time so far. Hopefully the sheer numbers will mitigate the tendency of a massive glass hammer to break into tiny pieces by turn three!

• Avatar of the Laughing God
• Solitaire
• Troupe Master leading a Troupe of 11 Harlequins
• Troupe Master (with Key of Ghosts enhancement) leading a Troupe of 5 Harlequins
• Troupe Master leading a Troupe of 5 Harlequins
• Shadowseer leading a Troupe of 5 Harlequins
• Troupe of 5 Harlequins
• 2 Death Jesters (one with Fanged Leer enhancement)
• 2 Skyweaver Jetbikes (Haywire Cannon and Zephyrglaives)
• 2 Skyweaver Jetbikes (Haywire Cannon and Zephyrglaives)
• 2 Skyweaver Jetbikes (Haywire Cannon and Zephyrglaives)
• Spiritseer
• Wraithlord (Bright Lances and Ghostglaive)
• Wraithlord (Bright Lances and Ghostglaive)
• 5 Dark Reapers
• 5 Fire Dragons
• 5 Rangers
• Star Weaver
• Wave Serpent

2,500 points exactly!

The Echoes of Ecstasy

Winters is always keen to try for a fair fight and recognised that I've not exactly brought a tuned list. As such he brought out his highly unsuccessful pure Emperor's Children army. He's had a lot of success when fielding Slaanesh Daemons alongside the marines, but up until today has managed to maintain a solid 0% win rate from the unsupported traitors. Can he break that hex today?

• Lucius the Eternal leading 6 Flawless Blades
• Lord Kakophonist leading 6 Noise Marines
• Lord Kakophonist leading 6 Noise Marines
• Lord Kakophonist leading 6 Noise Marines
• Lord Exultant leading 10 Infractors (I think, the Lords Exultant might actually have been leading the Tormentors)
• Lord Exultant leading 10 Infractors
• 10 Tormentors
• 10 Tormentors
• 5 Chaos Terminators
• 5 Chaos Terminators
• Chaos Land Raider
• Rhino
• Rhino

2,500 points exactly (there were a couple of enhancements I've forgotten)

The game is live over on Winters' YouTube channel today so please do head on over to see how things went. All I'll say is that it ended up being one of the closest games I've played against Winters (and I've played some incredibly close ones), which is always the best result.