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After my test game vs myself, a new guy by the name of Micah showed up to throw down. He'd recently gotten back into 40k with his old school necrons, and wanted to play. He chose 1750 points, so I tweaked my list, and off we went! The lists were as follows:

Necrons (me)

HQ
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Overlord - CCB, Scythe
Nemesor
Court 1 - 3x HOD teks w/ 1x pulse
Court 2 - 3x HOD teks w/ 1x pulse

Elites
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5x Lychguard w/ scythes (nemesor)

Troops
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5x Warriors (2x Teks)
5x Warriors (2x Teks)
5x Warriors (1x Teks)
5x Warriors (1x Teks)

Fast Attack
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5x Wraiths - 2x whips
7x Scarabs
7x Scarabs

Heavy
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Anni Barge
Anni Barge
Anni Barge

(note: all barges have tesla)

vs

Necrons (Micah)

HQ
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Destroyer Lord - all the bells and whistles

Elites
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Triarch Stalker - Heat Ray

Troops
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10x Immortals - Tesla
10x Immortals - Tesla
10x Warriors
10x Warriors

Fast Attack
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8x Scarabs
5x Destroyers - 3x Heavy Destroyers
5x Destroyers

Heavy
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Monolith

Mission: Annihilation
Deployment: Table Quarters

Micah wins the roll off and choses to go first....

I roll to seize and fail. Heres deployment:




Micahcrons T1
Movement: He shuffles forward, getting some stuff into range. His monolith stays still. I pop my first pulse.

Shooting: He rolls super well for nightfighting, and after the dust clears, hes killed off two wraiths.



Micah - 0 KP
Zid - 0 KP

Zidcrons T1
Movement: my crons shamble forward, my wraiths hiding behind the center. My lord turbos north. My lychguard get out of the ruins with nemesor. I put stealth on my CCB (3+ cover FTW!).

Shooting: Most of my stuff is out of range, but I manage to knock down 4/5 of his heavy destroyer squad. I also knock over a few immortals on the right. His WWB rolls rock, and all but 1 destroyer gets up! His immortals stay down though.



Micah - 0 KP
Zid - 0 KP

Micahcrons T2
Movement: I pop my second pulse. His top destroyers wheel around to fire at my scarabs. His monolith moves forward. His heavy D's move up, as do his scarabs and immortals.

Shooting: His triarch stalker shoots and twin links my Lychguard. Then he fires most of his army (monolith, immortals, warriors) into the lychguard, and final tally, he knocks over 3 lychguard. Nemesor soaked up like 5 shots lol. His top Destroyers unload on my scarabs, killing 3 bases. The D-lord shoots his arrow at my CCB, flubbing his roll. His Heavy D's manage to see and wreck my bottom A-barge. 2 lychguard get back up.

(this point forward Dakkadakka didn't upload the pics correctly (they were ghosted) so I do not have pics til later)

Micah - 1 KP
Zid - 0 KP

Zidcrons T2
Movement: My overlord sweeps his top D's, knocking down 2, then disembarks. Everything else shuffles for shooting. My lychguard move and might be barely in range of his right immortals. My wraiths go for his d-lord.

Shooting: I unload on his scarabs, knocking out all but 1 base. I also knock down his top D's to just 1 dude. He rolls well and 3 destroyers come back again! I also manage to wreck his stalker using all my lances lol.

Assault: My lychguard are barely in range of his immortals. I roll poorly, only knocking 2 down. He swings back and knocks 1 guard down. Nobody gets up and we lock. My scarabs charge his lith, knocking off the crystal, and stunning the hell out of it. My wraiths charge his D-lord doing 1 wound and taking 1 wound back. My overlord charges his destroyers, knocking 3 down. He whiffs, and then bails off the board. I consolidate back toward my barge.

Micah - 1 KP
Zid - 2 KP

Micahcrons T3
Movement: Most of his stuff moves away from mine.

Shooting: His immortals fire into my scarabs killing a few. His heavy d's fail to penetrate my other bottom A-barge. Warriors fire at a random warrior unit, knocking down 2.

Assault: His D-lord gets rended to death, but gets back up! His immortals charge and wipe my scarabs. His lone scarab goes to help against my lychguard, I manage to wipe out the immortals and last scarab, consolidating north toward his warriors.



Micah - 2 KP
Zid - 4 KP

Zidcrons T3
Movement: Nemesor gives my lychguard FC again. Scarabs move up to charge his lith. Lord gets back into his barge, doing a flyby on his D-lord and killing it once and for all. Wraiths move to charge his immortals up top. Lychguard prep for a multi against his destroyers/warriors.

Shooting: I unload, killing a bunch of immortals, all his destroyers, and a few of the back warriors. Lots of 6's for tesla!

Assault: I wreck his mono. Wraiths tie up his immortals. Lychguard run off his warriors in the middle, theres 2 left.

Micah - 2 KP
Zid - 8 KP

Micahcrons T4
He shoots what he can, but its game. So we call it.

Micah - 2 KP
Zid - 8 KP

VICTORY FOR ZIDCRONS!

Afterthoughts: So this game was very interesting. My first time facing another cron player, and he was running them the old school way (he recently got back into the game after a few years, hes been playing crons since 2nd tho!). I gave him some tips to improve his list. Heres my thoughts on my units:

Nemesor - Grade: B- - He soaked up a ton of wounds and gave me the initiative over my opponents crons. But, his stealing ability didn't come into play, and otherwise he did little but keep the guard going.
Lychguard - Grade: C - They killed warriors, scarabs, immortals, but nothing a wraith squad couldn't have done.
A-barges - Grade: A++ - these things once again pulled a lot of weight, killing immortals, warriors, scaarabs, and providing much needed support fire.
Overlord in Barge - A+ - Got where I needed him and got me 2 killpoints and stopped those destroyers from killing off my scarabs and probably my warriors too!
Warriors - B - They shambled forth and didn't do much, but kept my teks alive
Destroteks - C - Not a good showing for them this game, they killed a stalker and knocked down destroyers... nothing else. Thinking spamming these may not be the way to go as they make the army very one dimensional
Scarabs - C - Killed a lith and died... did their job, as they are there for anti-AV 14 for my list. Think 1 giant squad would be best.
Wraiths - B - This game showcased why I hate wraiths; relying on rending to kill hard units. But they survived and did get me those rear immortals.

Overall I think the list performed OK, but I definitely need to spice it up. Thanks for reading and please comment!

Your list can split fire better ad 3 annihilation arks is scary

Your list is more fine-tuned than his. He seems to still be playing the old-school way (or at least with the old school necron build). I'd say you take this one.

Can't wait for this report

I'll be getting this rep up probably tomorrow...

rep completed!

Well done sir.

Exalted Pariah wrote:Well done sir.

Thanks!

With a few tweeks, his list isn't all that bad. I can see him improving with experience (both his army list and his playstyle) in just a very short time.

jy2 wrote:With a few tweeks, his list isn't all that bad. I can see him improving with experience (both his army list and his playstyle) in just a very short time.

Very true, I'm sure a rematch is in order. I'll probably be using shooty crons, now that I have a list I really like.

I would consider shields, a lord with scythe, and veil for your lychguard. Lychguard are not bad, especially with nemesor buffs, but you have tools to make them faster, tougher and stronger with the cryptek and lord.

Also, what about buying nemesor a surf board and putting obyron in it for 2x the sweeping? Yeah he cant turbo on turn 1 after he gets in, but turn 2 you will be fine. I always considered that option but have not seen it playtested in nemesor lists, would be interesting to read about.

@devian: that's a huge point sink. Honestly I'm moving to. A shooty cron list