Iyanden Civil War!!!

Game 10 of the Spring / Summer season of the Northeast Ohio 40k League pitted Eldar against Eldar in "Fire from the Sky" in a bloody battle to Purge the Alien. Calling this a civil war fails to fully describe this "mirror match" of Iyanden Eldar versus Iyanden Eldar. The similarities of the two armies was startling. The alien being purged was apparently the Tau, who had allied themselves with Iyandenish Spiritseer and his wraith constructs. The other citizens of Craftworld Iyanden did not take kindly to this and sought to destroy Tau, heretical Spiritseer, and tainted wraithforms -- all toghether. The armies both included a Wraithknight (mine was a proxy made of Legos), 10 Wraithguard, at least 1 Spiritseer, and 2 or more Waveserpents. Initiative went to the pureblood Eldar. Those allied with the Tau attempted to steal the initiative, but failed. Turn 1 favored the pureblood Eldar, who pinned a group of Tau Firewarriors and destroyed one of their allied Waveserpents, stranding a group of Wraithguard in the Tau backfield. At the bottom of Turn 1, the Tau returned fire, inflicting minimal damage. Turn 2 continued to be hard on the Tau Firewarriors, killing another squad and reducing another to 2. At the bottom of Turn 2, the momentum shifted slightly because the pureblood jetbikes unwisely decided to chase the Tau Firewarriors (attempt to assault) rather than move safely away from the approaching Wraithguard. 5 D-scythes put 20 unsavable wounds on one squad of 7 jetbikes. Bye bye. Turn 3 was hotly contested, with Monstrous Creatures blasting away at each other, Serpent Fields flickering and shooting across the battlefield in both directions. In the chaos, the traitor Warp Spiders got lost twice while attempting to Deep Strike. The large number of Distort weapons must have disturbed the Webway paths that the Spiders were treading. During turn 4, one of the pureblood Spiritseers managed to cause the opposing Wraithknight to Hallucinate (Ermmm?). This was repeated on turn 5, with a group of Wraithguard and their attending Spiritseer becoming hypnotized (also Ermmm?). These two halucinations certainly cost the Tau and their allies the game. At the bottom of 5, the pureblood Eldar were ahead 9 kills to 4. Although the Tau would certainly close the gap in kill points slightly, they were very, very unlikely to catch up. The Tau honorably conceded the battle. Game 10 resulted in Eldar 21 to Tau 0. This mirror-match was largely decided by a few dice rolls -- initiative, halucinations, some key rends, and the Warp Spiders failing to arrive until bottom of 4. Good game, but it is unfortuneate that so many Eldar souls passed into the Infinity Circuit during this civil war. Maybe they too will return some day as Wraithguard.