He said he was at 1500 on the dot, so I believed him. He might have had more rerolls or something to make up the points; as the ringer, he didn't have any printed list I could take home. If he didn't, he's only 90 "battlefleet" points behind me. The extra 120 for transport upgrades was a tournament thingy, and he simply didn't want to upgrade anything to keep it simple. Besides, the ringer isn't supposed to dominate (his words).
As for Mr Eldar, he could have only flown at my transports at 10cm a turn, with the transports only going 15 cm a turn; doesn't really make for a quick kill
. He had also told me that his escorts with the lances were special and hit Ordnance on a 4+...since he didn't have his rules with him and I didn't have them to check either I just went with it with severe doubts. I guess it's true though! He still played wrong though as far as I can tell, because Yriel's flagship is Corsair but the rest of the fleet was Craftworld; the ships from one of the lists should have been in Reserve! Unless it doesn't work like 40k/Fantasy Reserves. Also, he was working under the assumption that his ships had 8 hit points each, and Yriels had 10. UGH. Lessee, how many VP should I have gotten then...640, instead of 549. Meh.
Also, just spotted that rule about grand cruisers.