Blood Angels 4
His combat squad jumps on top of the ruins to claim an objective. 1 dies to dangerous terrain.
He decides to go to work on the right flank. Since the left flank only has 1 objective and the right flank 2, if he can claim both objectives on the right and contest the middle, then he's got the game.
His retreating unit of 2 assault marines (who were in combat with my spyders) just happens to be a little outside of 6" of my spyders and regroup. They go after warrior squad but my opponent makes a big mistake here. He shoots at them, killing the cryptek and taking them out of his assault range.
BA shoot down another warrior before the inevitable wipeout.
He manages to pull off a multi-assault between my warriors and command barge.
I kill off his single marine locked in combat with my Overlord and spyders and consolidate.
He easily wipes out my unit of warriors. Cryptek fails to get back up (I failed every single Reanimation Protocol check this game). He also pens my command barge 3 times, but on the damage charts, he rolls
!!
Necrons 4
Overview of the bottom of Turn 4. I am behind now with just 1 objective to his 2, with the center objective contested by his terminators.
Command barge flat-outs onto the ruins to contest (I made my Living Metal roll to ignore the stunned result).
Both units of warriors advance towards my objective. I am not going to give it up without a fight.
Spyders form a wall between his terminators and my warriors in order to protect them. Wraiths advances.
I get ready to take out his 2-man assault squad.
Rapid-fire and 1 lance only manages to kill off 1 assault marine.
Spyders and Overlord gang up on his assault marines.
They don't stand a chance. I didn't even get to strike as his mindshackled power fist kills off his own squad.
Blood Angels 5
Overview of the top of Turn 5.
SabrX has a plan for a guaranteed victory. Terminators go after my warriors. Assault squad go after my other warriors.
Librarian goes to Blood Lance my command barge....
....and does so successfully. No Angels die in the explosion.
He's got 1 objective locked.
His next move surprises me. Instead of assaulting my warriors with his termies, he runs them 6" to block off my warriors! Assault squad, however, does as expected and assault my warriors.
He wipes them out. I was hoping that my cryptek would get back up so that I will be contesting the objective...but he doesn't.
He's locked onto his 2nd objective.
Necrons 5
Overview of the bottom of Turn 5. I need to come back. He's got 2 objectives to my 1. The middle is contested and I doubt I can kill off 9 assault termies with what I've got left. What can I do?
Wraiths, you're my only hope.
They assault his marines on my objective.
I beat and break them!
It is now tied 1-1 on objectives. I am not out of danger yet though. He's still got his dangerous hamminator deathstar unit within easy multi-assault range. But first, we need to see if the game continues or not.
We roll to see if the game goes on and....
Blood Angels 6
....it does.
Assault marines continue falling back. Assault terminators go to prevent my wraiths from killing his very last troop choice. I then remind him that if he assaults my wraiths, that will most likely pull his terminators out of contesting range of the center objective so he rethinks his strategy. He then leaves his terminators where they originally were and instead breaks off his librarian to deal with my wraiths.
Librarian casts Blood Lance and insta-gibs 1 wraith.
He then takes a big gamble and assaults my wraiths to tie them up.
The strategy works as we tie combat, both inflicting 1W to each other.
His assault terminators do not assault my warriors probably because doing so may have pulled them off of contesting the center objective.
Necrons 6
My sneaky warriors go around his terminators. This was possible because I believe I shot down 1 or 2 terminators in my last shooting phase.
Spyders continue advancing and maintaining a wall between his terminators and my warriors. Overlord advances as well but runs because he is out of assault range.
Finally, warriors run to reach my objective.
In assault, librarian and wraiths fail to kill each other.
I attempt no other assault.
We roll to see if there will be a Turn 7 and unfortunately for my opponent, it ends.
------------------------------------------------
He's got 1 objective.
The center objective is contested by his terminators.
I've got my objective. His librarian in combat with my wraiths is about a quarter-inch away from contesting it.
And finally, I've got his objective as well.
Necrons take it 2-1.
Victory to the Metallic Dead - Necrons!!!
------------------------------------------------
POST-GAME ANALYSIS:
Necrons:
Despite some mistakes made on both sides, overall it was a close, hard-fought and very fun game. It could've been anyone's game. I thought I was for sure done when my opponent wiped out my scarabs as the scarabs were a big part of my strategy, but I managed somehow to come back behind the outstanding performances of my wraiths, spyders and Overlord.
Initially, my strategy was to pick apart his assault marines while trying to avoid his terminators. Unfortunately, because my opponent castled up and put his terminators right in the middle, that strategy didn't work. After he ate up my scarabs, I knew I had to split up his army in order to have any chance for a victory. So I flanked both units of wraiths and made him choose. Either go after the right flank and lose the left flank, or go after the left and lose the right. Divide and conquer. To my delight, it worked out quite well and as I expected, he went after the right flank (because there were more objectives there). I was then able to wipe out his troops with combo-charges, while only giving up 1 squad of wraiths and the destroyer lord. It was a trade-off I was more than willing to make.
While last game, my wraiths didn't do to much against Abaddon and his obliterators, they were golden here against the assault marines. They held the assault marines in place for the spyders to come and finish them off. Spyders did well this game as well, finishing off several squads as well as a sanguinary priest. My Overlord also did better than normal, holding off and killing 2 combat squads along with the spyders. He also killed the honour guards to get rid of their
FNP bubble.
Scarabs were disappointing this game, but that was more my fault than theirs. They were meant to tarpit assault marines here and not get into combat with the assault terminators. Unfortunately, I assaulted them prematurely and left them open to the assault terminators' counter-charge.
Warriors in this game were actually a threat! Not in killing enemy units, but in claiming objectives. So my opponent had to choose....should he kill my units but be vulnerable to my warriors taking the objectives, or should he take out my warriors and let my fast units take apart the rest of his army. Because of how extended his terminators were, if he had assaulted any of my units, he risked moving out of contesting range of the objectives. That was why he didn't assault my guys in the late-game.
Anyways, we both made some mistakes this game. My mistakes included:
- Assaulting his assault marines too early with my scarabs.
- I contested his objective too early with my command barge. This led to it getting destroyed on Turn 4 by his librarian's Blood Lance. Should've held back and contested on Turn 5.
- I should've changed the facing of my command barge when it went to contest his objective. Instead, I exposed by weaker rear armor to his Blood Lance.
- Didn't need to assault his 2 marines with my Overlord and 3 spyders. That was overkill. Instead, I should've moved my Overlord to help out in the middle sooner and let the spyders take care of his marines.
- Should've rolled 5-6's on all my Reanimation Protocols.
Blood Angels: (by SabrX)
Just as I expected, the Scarabs wasn’t an issue. The real issue was the Wraith Rings mobility combined with the Spyders high volume of attacks. I did jy2 a big service in destroying his scarab army early on. His Spyders no longer had to inflict wounds on themselves and focus more on assault.
I made multiple mistakes throughout the game.
My first mistake was overextending to the right flank, where all the Spyders and Wraiths were concentrated. My left flank did well getting rid of the Destroyer Lord and Wraiths, but my right flank didn’t have the needed close combat support from the Termiantors. Wraiths and Necron Overlord came in and locked up my Assault Marines in close combat. Spyders swooped in and cleaned out the house.
Second mistake was not bad placement for my Sanguinary Priest. When I assaulted the Necrond Lord, I accidentally misplaced my priest away from the two Assault Marine units locked in combat with the Wraith unit. Sure enough, they lost combat after failing couple armor saves. One squad was forced to fall back, never to regroup, while the remaining squad at the mercy of the Wraiths and the approaching spyders.
My third mistake was when my 2 Red Assault Marines regrouped and flew over towards the right objective to intercept the advancing Necrons. They shot, and jy2 expertly allocated the wound on the Cryptek. By sheer fate, it failed its armor save leaving the Assault Marines out of charge range. What I should have done was forgot shooting and assaulted them.
My fourth mistake was towards the end of the game where I had a wall of Terminators blocking movement to the back Necron squad from reaching back objective while contesting the middle objective. I should have multi-charged middle spyders and back Necrons, rather than ignoring the back Necrons. The back Necrons would have been decimated in assault and the Terminators would most likely consolidate back towards the middle against the Spyders.
My fifth mistake was assaulting my Librarian into the last unit of Wraith, but not leaving him close enough to contest the back objective. To be honest, I didn’t think he would survive, but if he did the back objective would have been contested and the game would end in a draw.
Despite various judgmental errors, this was a very close game. Despite my many amateur mistakes, I’m quite satisfied with the results. My Blood Angels army has what it takes to go toe to toe against the new Necrons.
.....Bay Area Open GT 2013 - Best Tyranids 
.....LVO GT 2014 Team Tournament - Best Generals
Did you know? The Reach belongs to the Forsworn. 
). It's too easy to get rules mixed up when you're learning a whole new book worth of 'em (I've also been forgetting about being able to target sweep attacks on a 6...gah!!)
(worked great actually)
