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Dakka Dakka Campaign 2000pts Battle Report
Obsidian Legion (Necrons) vs new CSM

So, with the recent release of the CSM codex, a friend who is starting to get into 40k and I were able to get a game in. The CSM army is both of ours, and we were ready to test it out with the new rules. So, unfortunately, very little is painted of the army, and the lighting didn’t jive with the makeshift terrain, so please bear with me. I also wanted to try out a silver tide style of necrons, since I have not ran it before, and my friend is still learning the game, so the fewer types of units of mine, the better for both of us. I was also giving him several hints throughout the game, but it was a blast (and more ‘tense’ than my last two reports).

FLUFF
((Overlord Cyclonus had just touched down on the surface of Perdus. He had left his fellow overlord Reverb in search of any remaining deposits of Necron origin in the area. Sensors had picked up something but it was faint, and thus a large group of infantry was dispatched to comb the plains. However, it seemed that a war band of Chaos space marines was traveling in their direction, and there was no chance that the Legion would back out. Thus Cyclonus arrived, and with Reverb on the right flank formed the detachment into a battle line, awaiting the momentary conflict))

Lists:
CSM:


Note there are a few proxies, but everything is pretty close (making use of a lot of the Dark Vengeance models).



We used the chaos lord as Kharn the betrayer (since the DV model rocks), and the Fallen Dark Angles were used for the ranged marines and obliterators. I had originally given the havocs flakk missiles, but since I didn’t take any flyers in this list, I switched it for MoN on the terminators and Gift on the Prince (so the points wouldn’t go to waste).

Obsidian Legion list:



Mission 3: Big Guns never tire
WL traits: Cyclonus got counter attack in my deployment zone and Kharn auto-received unit hatred
We forgot about nightfighting after it not happening turn 1. We also rolled for mysterious objectives during the game, but I don’t think we remembered to use them ever.


Battlefield/Deployment:


TURN 1:


TURN 2:


TURN 3:


TURN 4


TURN 5:


TURN 6:


TURN 7:




Final views of the objectives:


Post game thoughts:

That was a pretty close game. He had me on my toes right off the first turn, when he down one ark and penetrated the other. I did enjoy playing the silver tide style, and playing necrons without any units from fast attack nor heavy support is definitely tricky. A few things didn’t go my way (like deathmark scatter, not quite finishing off Kharn), but nothing really big completely tipped the scales. I probably should have not moved up into rapid fire range on turn 2 on the left, and hugged forest, hoping for one more turn of shooting and failed charges, but the opportunity to rapidfire cultists was too great. Unfortunately, my last turn of shooting didn’t do so hot, and thus I couldn’t kill off the last three purple marines, which would have been a tie.

I also really like the new chaos. It is pretty tricky to run a bunch of Khornate units in rhinos, since you have to plan at least two full turns ahead since you can’t disembark out of a rhino and charge. Although the Deamon Prince died on the first turn, he absorbed about 3/4 of my army’s shooting (since I couldn’t risk letting him charge whatever he wanted on turn 3. Overall, I think the codex is pretty solid, so a bunch of options to make whatever style of army you see fit.
I was able to use the CSM army twice more the day after, and won against both Tau and Orks, so it is definitely doing well.

((Cyclonus began chasing the chaos space marines, eager to finish the squad off. However, he looked up and the forces of chaos in the backfield began to fall back with two safe’s of what was surely necron tech. He checked his ship’s sensors, and discovered that Imperial guard artillery had just moved into position to shell the field. The overlord gave the order, and the remaining Legion forces also began their withdraw to vacate the impending shelling. Hopefully, whatever was in the ancient codes of the only secured safe would be worth it, but only time would tell.))

Thanks everyone for reading!

Didn't even get to the report...saw an engineering pad and my eyes welled up with tears remembering slaving over those things in college...now to read the report...

Great game and glad to see the Chaos Marines working so well with such a diverse list. Really pleased with how Berzerkers work now with their axes and all.

A tough battle, I was kinda surprised the cultists ate so much shooting, but thats just me.

Tough luck there. Though, this does give me an idea of how Silver Tide may fare against certain conditions. Maybe if you had more Immortals, it might have made a difference?
Anywho, great battle report!

For the immortals at the cultists, I think i rolled below average, but nothing horrible from what I remember.

For a proper silver tide, i think the goal is to use all warriors, so that the model count is even higher. I didn't quite have that many warriors, so I used my immortals to hold down the two ends, with the res orbs/ghost arks to provide major reanimation buffs to both warrior units (but didn't quite work that way in this game). But ya, a deep striking heavy flamer is definitely not fun for necron warriors.