Battle Report Test game WH 40k 5th Edition

So I got to play a test game of the upcoming 5th Edition of 40k.

I was playing a drop pod version of a Dark Angels army:

I fielded Belial, with a Deathwing Terminator Squad, a single Ravenwing Bike squad, with 5 bikes, the Sergent, an Attack Bike and a Land speeder with assault cannon, two Tactical squads of 10 with Drop pods, and a Dreadnaught with a Drop Pod.

My opponent was an Eldar players, fielding a  Fire Prism, a unit of Dire Avengers, two units of Guardians with Star Cannons and Warlocks,  A Farseer, an Autoarch.  In reserve he had a unit of Scorpians mounted in a Wave Serpent, a Unit of Fire Dragons mounted in a Falcon and another Falcon.

We rolled for scenario and ended up facing each other from the long table edges fighting over two objectives, one each placed into our respective deployment zones.

Rules we had to get use to were the Line of sight (so how do cover saves actually work for the unit or the individual).  Blast templates not rolling to hit, but rather deviating (so how is this effected by Plasma cannons which overheat on a 1 – where do you roll for the one now?).  Vehicles get shaken frequently (I mean you roll a 1 or less then they are shaken, and this is the minimum that any glance or penetrate will do).  Initial assault tends to be bloodly, but against equal opponents, they you can get bogged down like we had with a unit of space marines versus the Dire Avengers.  One of our objectives was a bunker, which would have had an armour value of 14, which would have made digging the 5 space marines out it very hard for the Striking Scorpians heading toward the bunker on turn 5.

The randomn length game came into play here by allowing the space marines to hold their objective uncontested, but due to the Dark Angel first turn terminator assault the Eldar objective remained contested the entire game.

In the end, the Eldar were able to kill Belial and his Terminator Squad, all the basic bikes, immobilize the Dreadnaught, and 1/2 of the first of the Tactical squads.

The SMs were able to kill the Autoarch, both of the guardian units, the Fire Prism, The Fire Dragons.

We got to see the armor penetration table in use a lot.  Fairly easy.  A falcon behind your dreadnaught is not a pretty site.  When you miss with a blast weapon, its not fun.

So, no more how many of your units did you kill, versus how many did I kill.  Straight forward, what was the objective.

I like 5th edition.