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So this is where I get to show off what I managed to get done in the 2 weeks prior to the tournament. Not as pretty as I had hoped, but certainly functional. So onto the batrep. My list after some tweaking looked like:

Overlord
Warscythe
CC Barge

Overlord
Warscythe
CC Barge

2 Royal Courts w/
2x Solar pulse teks
2x Despair teks with Veils

5x Deathmarks w/ Night Scythe
5x Deathmarks w/ Night Scythe

5x Warriors w/ Night Scythe
5x Warriors w/ Night Scythe
5x Immortals w/ Night Scythe

Doom Scythe
Doom Scythe

I know from experience resilient models or models with multiple wounds give me a huge headache. BA and Paladins would be the 2 armies I fear the most. First round match-up...BA! From memory his list is:

Sanguinor
Mephiston

5 Assault Terminators
3x LC, 2x TH/SS
Land raider dedicated tranpsort

Sanguinary Priest

10 man Tac squad
PF sergeant, flamer and Lascannon

5 man scout squad
sniper rifles

5 man scout squad
PF

5 man Dev Squad
1 Lascannon, 3 ML's

2x Vindicators

Not an entirely optimized list, but 1 that if played correctly can potentially knock out a lot of vehicles quickly and has the resilience to ignore a lot of my S7 tesla. While his most potent threats are most definitely CC orientated and thus less likely to hit, his units put out a lot of attacks and are fast, allowing him to catch me and perhaps get some damage results which I could do without.

We roll for missions and get Kill Points, pitched deployment. I win the roll off for first turn and we do all the pre-game stuff. I mark Mephiston and his Terminators with my Deathmarks as I deploy them. My opponent rolls for red thirst, gets nothing. He then gets his terminator sergeant buffed by the Sanguinor and chooses my painted Necron HQ as his chosen target for re-rolls to hit and wound with. That's fine by me. If I get disembarked from my CC Barge, I'm probably dead anyway.

My deployment looks like




I have lined up as far back as possible. The models are pretty big and I have seen bad results in the past when deploying aggressively and having the intiative stolen. This way if he deploys aggressively and steals he might struggle with fast vindicators getting alpha strike shots on.

His deployment originally looked like:





but then changed his mind just in case he didn't steal to:





BA then failed to steal and I decide to scoot forward just over 12" forward with everything. I want him to struggle with night-fight Turn 1 while getting cover saves and preparing for my Turn 2 alpha.




His Turn 1. Not much moves and he tries to inflict as much damage as possible before I hit him. 1 Vindicator fluffs and I make my cover saves against the other. His Landraider and Dev Squad fare better though as they both see in night-fight, get through my cover saves and manage to wreck their respective targets (2 left-most Night Scythes - 1 with Warriors, 1 with Deathmarks). Ouch! Sanguinor moves to support the single Vindictor flank (and leaves the FnP bubble) and Mephiston moves to assault my CC Barge that went maybe a bit too far forward. He reaches it but then fails to hit. He is now exposed as well as no FnP!

No pics of that though(getting into the game at this point and leaving my camera on the side a bit too often), sorry!

My Turn 2 alpha begins!
Everything pushes 12" forward for shots.



I then move both CC Barges over his Vindicators. The result:




So 1 is stunned and immobilized, the other 2 weapon destroyed (he added a strombolter). In other news I torrent the Sanguinor with torrent of fire and manage to kill him. Doom Scythes do very little this turn with me aiming at his Devastators and him making all cover saves. Tesla destructors elsewhere manage to put 2 wounds on Mephiston and knock out a couple of tac marines.

He's up 2 KP's to 1 and I'm now in his face so night-fight isn't so important. He lost some guns but he still has plenty of fight left in him. Things may have gone horribly wrong for me here. The resilience of his army is frustrating me a bit.

His Turn 2.
No pics since nothing moved and nothing happened. He had a pretty abysmal turn. Landraider shoots 2 lascannons at 2 different Doom Scythes and rolls double 1's to penetrate. Tac squad does the same with his lascannon. The Dev Squad fails to see 12" in front of them with a night-fight roll of 3. Scouts with sniper rifles get a rend but then fail to pen. Mephiston moves to assault a Night Scythe and though he misses with his plasma pistol, in cc he manages to immobilize the vehicle.

My Turn 3.
This is going to be ugly. I close for the kill.



1 unit of Deathmarks comes in from reserve and thanks to Mephsitons speed I can rapid fire him from my table edge with them.
Elsewhere I finally get the KP's from his vindicators with my CC Barges and blow away a number of Tac marines. Deathmarks fell Mephiston all on their own with 3 rends. Dev Squad loses their lascannon to Doom Scythes...he's rolling real hot on cover saves for these guys. Then to top it off at the end of the phase his tac marines fail morale and take their FnP bubble away with them off the table. I'm now up 5KP's to 2.




This is where my opponent decides to call it. He figures although hes till has stuff left it's not enough for a decisive comeback. After the game he was a bit depressed my army had nothing to assault. Although I dealt with Mephiston and the Sanguinor early I didn't really have to since they will usually hit on 6's. Terminators were also wasted points. An enjoyable game, though a bit one-sided. Felt bad for the guy at the end and apologized for his Turn 2. Sometimes that's just the way the dice roll.

Onto round 2 for me though and my next opponent...BA again!

hrm... not sure why I can't see the pics. Maybe it's photobucket. Works when I go to properties and look it up via copy paste.

hmmm. Will try re-doing it completely tomorrow. Sorry everyone.


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Ok, got them working!

Pics work. The BA player's set up is very revealing.

Go foamcrons. I have a feeling you're going to make a mess of his army.

Love your list and your conversions! So awesome to see it on the table!

Thanks for the kind words. As I stated at the beginning BA are definitely a weakness of the list. Army-wide FnP really makes the Tesla destructors unreliable VS even basic marines. Turn 2 in particular was painful. I believe I threw 3 Tesla destructors into his tac squad. The result...2 dead marines.

Fortunately for me this list wasn't entirely optimized. The original list I thought he had was a lot scarier with 2 Priests allowing him to go on the offensive with a FnP bubble at the front and back. The next list I face also seems very friendly. I can't recall the exact details, but it seems a bit over the place. Dante, Mephiston, a Priest, some DC, a DC dread in a pod, some assault marines, sniper scouts, a Vindicator and a dev squad. Looking forward to it.

lol the rise of the necron airforce! Pretty scary if you ask me to see that much blackness headed your way. Sad to say it but BA really needs to mech up alot now a days just because so many things move so fast and it's so predictable what's going to head your way. Also with things so expensive, I find it impractical to field more than 1 BA named character in a single list. It's just too much points and there's not a lot of synergy between most of them.

Lukus83 wrote:Thanks for the kind words. As I stated at the beginning BA are definitely a weakness of the list. Army-wide FnP really makes the Tesla destructors unreliable VS even basic marines. Turn 2 in particular was painful. I believe I threw 3 Tesla destructors into his tac squad. The result...2 dead marines.

Fortunately for me this list wasn't entirely optimized. The original list I thought he had was a lot scarier with 2 Priests allowing him to go on the offensive with a FnP bubble at the front and back. The next list I face also seems very friendly. I can't recall the exact details, but it seems a bit over the place. Dante, Mephiston, a Priest, some DC, a DC dread in a pod, some assault marines, sniper scouts, a Vindicator and a dev squad. Looking forward to it.

Tell me about it. You can sink so much tesla fire into one normal combat squad before killing it. In the larger games I've played, I've been surprised to see that it takes 2 destructors and a block of immortal firing to make 5 marines disappear. And that takes coordination at 24 inches and poping a razorback.
I still love it though, just need to remember its versatility only goes so far. Thank god opponents consistently overestimate it though.

Cool game. The BA players deployment is sort of what doomed him.