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So Sol and I played the new fortress mission from White Dwarf using the excellent new terrain piece he painted up.

A couple of notes on this mission first. The rules talk about occupying the fortress to win, but you can't assault into a building that has people in it already and etc etc etc. So talk about exactly what the conditions for winning are before you start. Sol and I decided that the door on the fortress led to all three pieces, each counting as a separate building, so unless some one had squads in all three, then the enemy could still enter.

Talk about outflanking and deep striking units in the defenders reserves. The 'relief column' doesn't really address this so decide what you think is fair beforehand.

Also, the one big terrain piece in the center of the board really favors jump troops and skimmers, which neither of us had. Going all the way around the thing is really time consuming. The Immortals squad was really taken out of the game by having to walk all the way around the long way. Also my Terminators deepstrike into the battle, while everyone else walks on behind the fortress, leading to the Necrons having only one thing to shoot at...

Now this was the most fun I've had in a while, a real rollercoaster of a game where I squeaked out a victory. It came down to turn six, and Sol went into phase out because of a sweeping advance that happened only because of an unlucky leadership roll at the very end.

As evidence to how much fun this game was, we talked to Pat about it for ten minutes and he still didn't know who won. We were just talking about how crazy the whole thing was...

Now the full report!!


Sol's Necrons
Lord with warscythe and veil of darkness
20 warriors x2
Tomb Spiders x3
12 Immortals

Dave's Marines

Captain with Fist
Command Squad, Plas x4, PW x4, Standard (yes I know I know...)
Termies x10 Assault Cannons
Dread with TLACs
Scout SNipers (5)

Tac Squad(8)
PW and Plas

Tac Squad(10)
PW, melta, MM

Sol's Necrons prepare to assault the beautifully constructed fortress in the midst of a barren plain.



Now the deployment of my single squad...


Tomb Spiders Assault Fortress...With Little Results Except the Destruction of the Battle Cannon...And one whole fortress section...


Reserves Arrive. Termies get killed in uncommonly discouraging fashion...Only four Necrons fall to all the Space Marine shooting...WBB


Immortals are taken out of the battle by taking the long way around the fortress. The thing is huge!!


I have a tactical squad get out of the rhino in front of the necron firing squads...I don't know why, but the dread and scouts kept plugging away while the Command Squad got into range of doing something useful.
The Command Squad pulls its own weight using the standard to force Sol to roll a three or lower after the first assault to prevent sweeping advance, and then surviving with two veterans to force the second necron squad to flee and causing the phase out. If there had been only five turns we'd have drawn, if there was a seventh turn the Immortals would have been causing some trouble inside the fortress.




The mission was a blast, the fortress is an awesome piece of terrain, and the game turned out to be incredibly close!!

Make sure you watch the whole thing for a special treat!

Nice report!!
Liked the beggining bit lol. David looks like such a valiant guy with those sunglasses
Tomb spiders seemed to flop a bit lol
The overhead views really helped
I played the fort scenario yesterday..My mate was playing Dark Angels, and I was playing csm. I won...but that's possibly because my Rhino's (3 of them) rammed the main tower and destroyed it in turn 2...
Oh, and your command squad did you proud.
(Oh, and lol at the surfing )

I haven't looked at White Dwarf in a long time, so I'm not familiar with the mission. Had a question or two though. Did the necron player have two squads of immortals, or one squad of 12? If it was the latter, was it a special setup from the mission that allowed it, as normally they have a max of 10 in the unit?

It can't have been in the mission.
Where you playing all units could capture?
Or only troops?

It was probably ten Immortals then. I was going from memory.

The mission says "whoever occupies the fortress" so we went with whoever instead of troops.

Now that is a brilliant idea... Ram with the rhinos!!

Yeah I gotta get off my but and paint them now

Seriously, I gave them plas and the power swords because I thought it looked cool, but in the future I may make another command squad and captain an use 'em both in bigger games...GO POWER WEAPONS!!

good report, love the stop motion portion! I may have to try this mission sometime...

Awesome report Dave!

I had an absolute blast!

Yeah, it was two squads of 20 warriors and one squad of 10 immortals. Oh and the Necron Lord had the Orb of Resserection.

I can not agree enough that the command squad absolutly rocked. The effectivly wiped out two slighty reduced squads of warriors due to sweeping advance!

Win or lose Dave is super opponant who knows how to be competitive and easygoing at the same time!

Thanks for putting that together Dave!

I agree with the others, the overhead stop-motion thing was a very awesome addition. And the surfing was hilarious (:

Did you just setup a camera with timed snaps above the table or did you use another specific setup?

I have a nikon with an internal interval timer, I set it to shoot every 20 seconds. Set the imported still length in Final Cut and then import 600 photos...

We've done some other reports with the same timelapse. Just look them up with my screen name.

Thanks Sol!!

yeah,
Sweet BatRep and nice Fortress.
Did the immortals run?

I love your the time lapse videos.

Panic...

Panic wrote:yeah,
Sweet BatRep and nice Fortress.
Did the immortals run?

I love your the time lapse videos.

Panic...

Well, I actually spent the first 3 rounds trying to weapon destroy the fortress weapons and then the fortress itself after coming to the conclusion that there is no way to roll a 5 or 6 with a minus 2 Then by the time I decided to run it was a bit late

Glad you like the repots Panic, hope to see more of your battles soon!

Quick question how did you actually mount your camera on the ceiling?

There is a pipe for a sprinkler system overhead and I used a Bogen Super Clamp.

No matter how secure it seems I always use a little wire safety cable too. If it comes loose it won't crush the beautiful fortress...or hurt the camera!

That was a very cool report.