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Necrons vs Blood Angels Batrep 1250 points
So, it was an un-eventful day at the local GW. I had been sitting for two hours, painting my newly purchased C’tan, waiting for an opponent, however none was forthcoming until a gentlemen entered the store and un-boxed his blood angels force. After a short conversation, he asked me if I wished to play a game, which I jumped at the opportunity to escape my boredom.
Match was 1250 points
Necrons


Blood angels


We rolled for mission, and got a pitched battle, with 4 objectives, which were placed in the building in each of our deployment zones. (The terrain was shaped like a 5 on a die, the four corners being buildings, and the middle being a large statue, blocking LOS)
I deployed first, setting up a warrior blob on each objective with their orb lords
Lychguard started between the objectives
C’tan started on the far right. next to my objective
Destroyers started on the far left of my objectives

He set up in a similar fashion, his tacs in the two buildings on the objectives. Vehicles starting behind the buildings for cover, and sanguinary guard ready to deep strike
He attempts to steal and fails with a two

Necrons turn one
Movement
The lychguard with overlord and c’tan move to cover at mid-field
The destroyers move 12, to gain a clear line of sight on the stormraven.

Shooting
The C’tan fires his pyreshards at the tac squad on the right, causing a single casualty
Destroyers open up on the stormraven. One of the heavies manages a glance, only managing to prevent it from shooting (damn)
Warriors fire at the tac squads (and are barely in range with parts of the squad, causing a few wounds, but all are saved.

Assault
N/a I was far out of range.

Blood Angels turn one.
Baal pred moves to counter the destroyers…why?
Stormraven moves up to my c’tan and lychguard, he disembarks his dred, death company and reclusiarch.
Drednaught only has a heavy flamer.

Shooting
Lord of fire makes the infernus pistol on his death company to get hot, however he makes his armor save.
Baal predator is actually out of range on my destroyers.
Missle launcher fires into my lychguard, killing one who does not return
Tacs return fire on the warrior blobs, killing one, who stands back up

Assault.
Death company charge the C’tan with the Reclusiarch
They manage to inflict two unsaved wounds so far, C’tan and reclusiarch go at same time, I kill two of his death company in return, taking another wound. His thunder hammer goes last, causing two wounds, and causing the c’tan to explode, killing all but one of his death company, and causing a wound on the reclusiarch. (That’s almost a fair trade right? )
Drednaught couldn’t make it into melee we determined, so he sat tight.
Necrons turn two
My lychguard prepare to multi-assault
My destroyers move into a better position.
Warriors chill with popcorn in the back

Shooting
Warriors rapid fire into death company, leaving one standing with one wound on the reclusiarch as well
Destroyers fire into the baal predator, blowing its assault cannons off, and immobilizing it (eh, good enough, I have a stormraven to kill now!)

Other warriors fire at their tac squad across the way, killing one.

Assault
Lychguard and overlord multi-assault into the death company and drednaught (overlord goes toe to toe with him) The result is I kill the reclusiarch and remaining member with my power weapons. His drednaught wounds my overlord once, who in return makes the drednaught unable to shoot…(Greeaaaattt)

Blood angels turn two.
Stormraven moves past the melee to lay down some pain on the warrior blobs protecting my objectives
Sanguinary guard are a no-show this round, much to my relief (thank you dice gods)

Shooting
Tacs fire at my destroyers, and I pass my armor saves.
Tacs fire at my warriors, killing the same warrior again, who once more rises with a headache at the end of the phase (I named him Jim for the rest of the combat)
Stormraven kills four warriors, two fail to rise once more

Assault
Dreadnaught attacks and fails to wound my Overlord, who in return, immobilizes the blasted thing TWICE (I groan in agony for my unit, fearing his sanguinary guard arriving and joining the fray.

Necrons turn three
My destroyers ignore the tacs on the objective, and line up the stormraven all the way across the map near my objectives

Shooting
Heavy Destroyers roll double pens, and the stormraven explodes twice. (ouch)
Warrior take some more pot shots, managing to kill the dude with a rocket launcher (hooray for the small victories!)
Assault
Nothing…nothing happens in the melee with the drednaught. I immobilize it two more times, and he fails to wound me. (oh brother)

Blood angels turn 3
Movement
Sanguinary Guard deep strike in between objectives with minimal scatter, nearby the melee with the drednaught
Tacs hold fast in their buildings, hoping the arriving elites can change the course of the battle.

Shooting
Tactical Marines fire on my destroyers, killing one, who doesn’t come back. I lose a warrior to the other squad.

Assault
It happens. It FINALLY happens. My overlord slices off the close combat weapon on the dred, and then wrecks it (thankfully not blowing this one up), I consolidate towards the sanguinary guard with him and my 4 remaining lychguard, with an evil look on my face. He knows what I have in mind

Necrons turn 4
Movement
My destroyers move to line up the sanguinary guard
My warriors spread out from the buildings to prevent anyone contesting the objectives
My lychguard line up to get ready to charge into the fray and cause havoc

Shooting
My warriors open up, since more are in range now, and kill off the rest of the tac squad on the right side, leaving the objective open, and unclaimed (this also marked the end of 1 of his two scoring units).
My other warriors reduce the other squad to three members
My destroyers/heavies open up on the sanguinary guard, insta-killing one.

Assault
My lychguard storm into the fray with the sanguinary guard, losing two before they retailiate. They all die from multiple power weapon wounds in return. Lychguard consolidate towards his remaining objective, and he surrenders with 3 tactical marines remaining on the board.

Necrons win 2-1 at the bottom of turn 4

Post game
Necrons
I feel like I got a huge amount of mileage out of my lychguard and destroyers, as each performed their tasks extremely efficiently, even with minimal warrior support. I guess it was the power weapons, and his lack of invuln saves Combine that with the c’tan eating up that charge from the death company
I didn’t really get a great feel for how strong the C'tan was this game. I’ll have to try him again some other time, maybe make smarter wargear choices for him.

Blood Angels
I didn’t quite understand why he sent a Baal predator to deal with my destroyers, it never got a chance to fire, and seemed to be a tactical error.

He also didn’t have much luck trying to move my warriors with the stormraven, since I kept re-animating and making cover saves in the buildings.

Overall, a good game, and a great sport of an opponent, whom I would very much enjoy playing against again.
I hope you all enjoyed!

Nicely done.

That said, your opponent's list is terrible. I can't fathom why he would deep strike the Sanguinary Guard either. It isn't like you had a lot that can easily deal with 2+ armor. I would have forced you to decide between shooting at the Stormraven and the SG.

The first immobilize result immobilizes, the second takes a weapon off and so on until no weapons are left... then either a weapon destroyed, or immobilized result becomes a wrecked result

GREAT game btw

His list isn't legal: you can't take a heavy weapon on a 5 man tactical squad

Mechanized Space Corps wrote:His list isn't legal: you can't take a heavy weapon on a 5 man tactical squad

Im guessing it was a 10 man tac squad which he decided to split into combat squads. The DC would be his other troops choice.

Holy Heretic nailed it, he combat squaded a ten man squad, and the death company were his other troops, apologies if that wasn't clear

I'm confused, what kind of dreadnaught was it? If he wounded your lord once, then he should be dead from instant death. If it was a talons dread, then why didn't he get more wounds on you?

Just a regular dred. He said it hit at str 8...overlord is T5, so no instant death. No talons on that one

The dread should have died from the 4th immobilised.

I am wanting to try a lord of fire C'Tan. Is it good?



BTW, no saves alowed vs a lord of fire 'gets hot'

@IhateNids
eh, it was okay, I mostly took those wargear choice, due to it being what I had points for. I didn't get a great feel for how powerful the C'tan actually was. He did more damage in death than in life lol. I plan on fielding him next time i play, see what I come up with.

@iGuy
C'Tan shards are brilliant. Not a patch on the old dex HQs, but they are still brilliant. I usually run a Gaze of Death. Its great because you smash some guys then kill more guys to regenerate wounds. Or you explode and kill a lot of guys.
Win vs Win.

Yeah, I was like 15 points short to get that, I probably should have just dropped a warrior or two to get it, I'll have to give that one a try

It's really good.

I once ran a Thunderbolt/Gaze C'Tan and threw him at a draigowing Paladin blob. He ID'd two paladins in the shooting phases leading to assault, survived turn 1 on 1/4 wounds but killing another 2 palies. Another Paladin died to the gaze putting the C'Tan back to 3/4 wounds (and 5/10 Paladins dead)

Second turn of assault the C'tan blew up before he could strike, killing all but one paladin (one wound left) and injured draigo (2/4 wounds, one from combat last turn).

They are great, play them right and you do to a 10-man LC Termie squad what a blendernaught does to an ork mob.

Sounds downright vicious, thanks for the friendly tip!

You're welcome

Im surprised the sangunary guard were so bad - whenever I see them or honour guard in action they are doing crazy stuff like 4 attacks each with power weapons and wiping out a squad a turn in CC

iGuy91 wrote:Just a regular dred. He said it hit at str 8...overlord is T5, so no instant death. No talons on that one

Just so your friend knows for next time, regular dreadnought CCW's are str 10!

Nice bat rep btw =)

Thank you Holy Heretic, you are both a scholar and a gentlemen.

Very good batrep! Just curious, but what is your opinion/experience for Lychguards with scythes vs. sword and boards? Maybe you could use regular ones and open up more points to give your C'Tan more goodies. Just a suggestion, really, but otherwise looks like you did good here.

I've never actually fielded the scytheguard. I find the +4 invuln save is worth the drop in offensive power. Think of the scythe guard as a necron lord with a warscythe. Statistically, they are identical if I am not mistaken, minus eternal warrior.

Only downside to sword and board is they can't pop vehicles like eggs.

iGuy91 wrote:I've never actually fielded the scytheguard. I find the +4 invuln save is worth the drop in offensive power. Think of the scythe guard as a necron lord with a warscythe. Statistically, they are identical if I am not mistaken, minus eternal warrior.

Not quite. Guard don't have Ever-Living and only have A2 W1 as opposed to A3 W3, but S T WS BS I are all the same (unless you are reffering to lords and not overlords, in which case you are correct).

Only downside to sword and board is they can't pop vehicles like eggs.

Actually, if you can cheesball two royal courts so that each gives to sword/board guard a lord w/ scythe, it means there is a cheap(ish) invun net for the scythes as you go for tanks.

But then if you want Invuns on vehicle poppers, just take five lords w/ scythes & shifters (two of which have MSS the other three have resorbs) and a VeilTek for transport. Or take Vargard Obyron for an extra scythe and a veil that can be used to get out of a lingering combat. This will tally up at about 700 points (5 tricked out lords w/ wound allocation + Obyron), alomost 200 points cheaper than a 10-man board squad w/ 2 scythe lords

EDIT: bad math

oof stom raven at 1250 points is very rough. I use a fun list at 1500 and it barely fits in anything else useful. Blood angels also do somewhat poorly with really low model count at those points levels, i'd have done some other cheaper things like drop pod 2 dreads and definately not enough points for a death company so just reg assault marines if he needed the choppy. Probably not even use a pred and just have some land speeders with missles for anti-tank support fire.

Great bat-rep and yes I agree that Ctans can be amazing, I particularly like writhing worldscape with tremor stave crypteks.

Grimnarsmate wrote:I particularly like writhing worldscape with tremor stave crypteks.

Yeah tremorcrons are good, but if you want a 'worldwide well known' list, then wraithwing wins, followed by Imotekh scarab farm, then tremorcrons. Theres also night scythe spam, but thats not all that good. (speaking as a previous fielder of such a list -__-)

@IhateNids
Yeah, i was trying to compare them to the regular lords
@Grimnarsmate
Yeah, ive read several Bat Reps with tremorcrons. Seems quite effective. I honestly don't know what "flavor" of list I really have....combined arms perhaps?
@sudojoe
Yeah, I kinda got that feeling after the fact that he would be suffering from a small number of vehicles. Heck, my army looked swarmy by comparison.

Ok the day when crons look swarmy is the day leviathen isn't hungry

Just saying, i think I had as many troops as he had units in his force seems to be a common theme with Sphess Marines i suppose

Good report, I am facing BA in a friendly touney soon so thanks for the insights.

couep of points - the Dread woudl have hit at S10 (normally S6 which the DCCW doubles) so woudl have insta-killed the Lord.

Also, with 4 immobilised the dread woudl have wreacked wouldn't it? That is 1x immobilised and 3x weapons destroyed.

Yes, you are correct on both counts praxiss.
Don't know how much I would take away from the report, his list wasn't really tournament-grade, but then again, I wouldn't say mine was either.
He had fewer games under his belt than I did, and I don't have all that many, so neither of us really thought about it, he said STR 8, and I foolishly believed him haha.

Meh, his loss i suppose. i'm sure that, as a good sportsman, if you had realised his error at the time you would have corrected him.