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There's a team tourney coming up, and I'll be playing alongside one of my friends.
I've thought about it, and I've yet to come up with something really viable.

There's a few things that jump to mind that could play well off of one another:
- Imotehk and Majority Dark Eldar Night Vision special rule. Would make for an interesting first couple turns, possibly provide more fragile CC units the cover they'd need to get across the table and not get totally demolished by shooting before they get there, not to mention to additional advantage of being able to shoot when your opponent cannot (or is much more limited in any case).
- Imotehk and Baron Sathonyx, which would mean +1 to the Deployment determination dice, AND 4+ to seize, so it would be almost impossible to not go first if that's what we wanted.
- If we wanted, we could take ALL THE FAST SKIMMERS.

At this point it's a question of who should focus on shooty, and who should focus on CC, and if one or both of us should take anti-vehicle. I'm always partial to my Heavy Supports myself, but I fear a highly anti-mech army would then tear us to pieces. I expect to see most of the codices at this tournament, though it will most likely be power-armor-centric, with plenty of vehicles, and most likely only a couple of swarms.

Anyone have any suggestions, general, combinatory, composition, or otherwise?

Where's the tourney?

I might be going to the same one

I would have the Necrons handle the short range shooty, and the objective claiming (they are great objective sitters), while the DE zoom around dealing Darklance-y death and dropping off assault units.

I do like the idea of camping with some Immortals backed up with OrbLords, but I fear that we will see some GK Paladins, and that the DE will struggle to bash them fast enough, which would be easily dealt with with the inclusion of a Whip Coil Wraith squad/Destroyer Lord. Then again, so long as nobody outflanks, a Doomsday Ark could just as easily quash Paladins, but it's such a fragile beast.

I really do like the Imotehk/Night Vision combo, and the extra random S8 AP5 lightning could help thin some armies.
At this point I'm looking for more unexpected combos found in the synergy between the armies.

And it's in Medford, I'll be the one with the Hello Kitty 'Crons

I'll be able to spot you then, if i make it

I have several coming up, and funds are low, so i might not be able to make that one :(

It's a shame that heamonculi don't just hand out FNP like candy like the BA priests do. Can you imagine the whining from FNP'd necrons with RP?

Oh lawds. Almost as bad as the last team tourney when I played against Blood Angels with FnP bubbles teamed with Fateweaver's save rerolling bubble.
Total madness.

My favourite was BT teamed with orks

KFF'd Lanceproof LR's... yeah...

So allies share bonuses?

Lucre wrote:So allies share bonuses?

Technically they never do in standard rules. However, at our FLGS, it has been house-ruled that anything that affects friendly units/models affects all units/models on the allied team. This does not extend to things like the DE Webway portal, which states that friendly Dark Eldar units may deploy from it (or something like that).

Man I'm imagining a lot of fun with necron night fighting, tervigons and a cc tide. Maybe even some whacky necron super duper extra tough assault units with fnp.

Lucre wrote:Man I'm imagining a lot of fun with necron night fighting, tervigons and a cc tide. Maybe even some whacky necron super duper extra tough assault units with fnp.

Blood Angels and Necrons together already crush Tyranids, if the fluff has anything to say about it
But yeah, something like double Wraith Squads with Whip Coils in a BA Bubble. Can you say "OH GOD WHY MY FACE" That'd be S7 I3 A4 on the charge, with two 3+ invuln wounds with FnP. Ow.

But anyhow xD
I think I've worked out a cap-camp force pretty well, with a bit of beastly long-range hurt to boot. Not to mention Night Fighting for my DE buddies, AND Imotehk's lightning

Do you have to split any force org/ other special rules?

No, just legal rules for each team member.
1000pts + 1000pts, 1 HQ and 2 Troops required for each.