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1850 Dok's Necrons versus my Eldar

Eldar
Farseer - Doom, Stones, Guide
Warlocks - 4 Destructors, 3 singing spears
(ride in falcon)


Fire Dragons - x4, Exarch, Firepike & Crack Shot
Wave Serpent - Scats & Stones

Scorpions x9
Wave Serpent - Scats & Stones

Scorpions x8, Exarch Claw
Wave Serpent - Scats & Stones

Dire Avengers x5
Wave Serpent - Scats & Stones

DAs x5 (walk on Reserve)
DAs x5 (walk on Reserve)

Falcon - ScatLas, Stones, Holof
WraithLord - dual flamers, sword EML
WarWalkers x3, each dual Scats

Necrons:
Imo
Veil Cryp
Chrono-Cryp

Necron Lord (wargear?)- Cmd. Barge

Immortals - x10 gauss
Immortals x5gauss
Immortals x5 gauss

Wraiths x6, pistol & coils

10 Scarabs
10 scarabs

Spyders x3, Gloom P
Spyders x3, Gloom P
Spyders x3, Gloom P



Mission - Primary objective is the three 25 mm bases. The secondary is Kill Points. You need to succeed in both for a Major Victory. Just one is a Minor Win.
Deployment - Dawn of War.


I win the roll, but let Dok have first go:
a. I avoid one round of Imotekh's storm
b. I gain Bottom of Inning objective securing.
c. Imo can seize on a 4 + anyway.


He deploys Imo and two immortal units, bastion and forrest (with objective). I deploy nothing. Dok walks on the rest of his army:



Necron Turn 1
After Runs and such:






Because Dok placed one objective in a deep quarter, this has become the unimportant side of the table, that is the 'staging area' for units not "on table".

'Cept the beer of course. *That's* important.



Eldar Turn 1
Not much. I came on, real shallow, made a couple NightFight LoS rolls, but managed to kill two immortals, who got back up with ResProtos.



Necron Turn 2
Movement, runs.




Imo's Lord of the Storm nails a Scorpion Wave Serpent.




Here's the roll for Pinning.




Eldar Turn 2
A good start: Here's my psy-test to cast Guide on the War Walkers.




My Movement consists of retreating to avoid the inevitable Wraith assault. Shooting is negligible.




Next up, Necron Turn 3.

Looking forward to the rest of this one, and I must say a lovely color scheme for your eldar

Those beers will prove to be this games downfall...

Turn Indicator die. '3' is readable from Dok's Point of View, so it's his Turn.







We forgot to roll for my Reserves for Turn 2. A wee bit of retcon results in *both* my DA units coming in; so I squeezed this unit in between the transports ...




... and this unit of DA clowns on the table edge. The building to the side is not actually in game play. Also, the one DA between the forks of the skimmer? It's there to show which unit is embarked in which tank. You'll see 'em throughout the pictures.



IIRC, this guy is the Chronon-Cryptek (the amputee), and because of him, Dok's first roll of a ...


... gets flipped to this:

So, Imotekh continues to play Morrissey on his ipod, more darkness, brooding and lightning strikes.

Necron Movement - Turn 3

The spyders poop out loads of scarabs with no wounds to spyders. Quite a waste of sixes, huh?



Otherwise, the movement consists of Wraiths, scarabs, spyders and the Cmd. Barge moving. Wraiths angle for the falcon or perhaps my working WaveS. for the other scorpion unit; And Cmd. Barge had Moved Flat-Out to center table on Turn 2 and now he moves it Flat-Out again just behind a small ruin ... Dok is eyeing a Sweep Attack on WarWalkers or a Wave Serpent for next Turn. His runs came in 2s and 3s and 1s, throughout the game.



Necron Shooting - Turn 3
Amazingly, Imo's Storm nets no damage!

Necron Assault - Turn 3
Yet, despite my precautions, the wraiths do get into assault range with the falcon. By a - quarter - frakking - inch. I keep under eye-balling 18 danged inches!



The patron saint of Stupid People, the god known as "Holofield", grants me a reprieve on the falcon. Dok gets loads of pens and glances, but it suffers no worse than a Stun, which is reduced to Shaken because of the falcon's Spirit Stones. 175 points of nigh-indestructable transport!


You can see a Warlock in the fork, but again, this just shows Dok which unit is embarked in it.

A lot of seesaw Fortune continuing to toy with me.

Dark Eldar Turn
My farseer's psy-powers are successful in giving the War Walkers Guide and the Wraiths are going to be on the business end of Doom.







I hop the falcon forward and unload the Warlocks with their 4 Destructor templates. I was thinking of possibly getting 6 swarms per warlock, but I got 5 each (maybe 6 for one or two IIRC)



No pix of Movement and Shooting, but the wraiths took it like Sonny Liston did on meeting Ali. Me being Ali.

Guide & Doom combined for an average volley from the WWs, however, there was so much more from the couple of DA units, Wave Serpents and 2 flamers from the WraithLord. I even had to hold off took make sure the WL had some Wraiths left over to assault. After all of the shooting, the ones with Whip coils were gone! Perfect for now getting assaulted by the WraithLord.




A bit out of sequence, but I moved up my Fire Dragons, and thanks to the Crack Shot and one failed Cover Save, the Cmd. Barge becomes slag. The Lord is unhurt and unpinned.



Back to the Wraiths versus WraithLord. With continued Doom, and thanks to the WL's Sword -


And STR 8 ...
- - lookit all those 1's he rolled for saves! - -


... those filthy pains-in-the-neck are gone!



A nice big COnsolidate will get my WL into the ruin.




Turn 4 Next.

That is one stunning Eldar army you have there.

El-Torrminator wrote:That is one stunning Eldar army you have there.

Thanks! The vehicles are done with Liche Purple "stippled" to ever lighter colors. It's brutal on your brushes.


Turn 4 for the Necrons:


Dok's roll for Load of Storm: Imotekh's atmospheric goofery continues:





Dok moves up Spyders after spawning loads more scarabs.





And the Lord's storm gets in some sickening blows; the Dark Reapers are Scorpion proxies. Each die you see is the number of hits those units are about to suffer. Both scorpion crews will be okay, but both Dire Avenger squads will be vaporized. I despise Imohtekh.





More seesaw luck: the Warlocks make some great saves after getting nailed by the immortals' gauss guns. The big red dice are for the non-Singing Spear Warlock, while I lose only one of the others.





But they're gonna get p'wned by a tide of scarabs. amazingly, the falcon will escape with no more than a Shaken result. The god 'Holofield' once again grants me the boon of another turn with it.




The Lord decided to bypass the FireDs and take his Warscythe to my War Walkers.



He will whack two, but take two wounds in return. Boot to the HEAD!



IIRC, these are the rolls to wound from the spyders.



What the spyders can't do, the scarabs manage in volume.


No more Warlocks. Oh, the WraithLord is supposed to be under that ruin, but you know, GW made the model too tall.



Next Eldar Turn 4:
Sorry to dole 'em out so slowly, but it's a lot of pix!

Great battle report so far!

Eldar 4
No pix:
Movement - the falcon with the farseer Flat Outs away from the scarabs. Wave Serpents Move Cruising speed into the enemy's heart as I need to begin to get position on objectives. Yeah, it looked stupid to me then too.

The War Walker will shoot a few Necron Warriors, not netting much. Wraith Lord doesn't get much done ... either I forgot to do something with him, or his difficult terrain roll was really poor. Fire Dragons might've shot spyders. Can't remember. 'Twas not much whatever it was.


Necron Turn 5

IRCC, I think the Storm failed. Here's an overall shot at the beginning of Turn 5, (just after Dok Veils).




Dok decides to have Imo bug out on the heavy side of the table, and the Nemesor Veils over to here.







With double taps form the gauss Rapid Fire thanks to Imo being a phaeron, the falcon gets nailed a lot, but the god Holofield continues to grant my Farseer a ride.




Assault:
Scarabs will gobble up FireDragons like that scene in Indiana Jones and the Skull Kingdom .


Scarabs & spiders head for denuding my remaining Wave Serpents.



The resulting carnage, including a few dead DAs and their buddies who spend a turn crying over them (the failed Pin check is there). My Dark Reapar Scorpions survive well enough.



If I read this right, my Exarch survived, but blew Morale ...



And was Swept.


In further comedy that single War Walker that was still tangling with the basic Lord? Well, he managed to boot him in the head again, and win the fight!


Eldar Turn 5. Soon. Really.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
As per a campaign rule, we know the game goes to 6 full turns, but will end there.

Eldar Turn 5

Here's what I have to deal with ( a bit blurry )



First, I Flat Out my remaining Wave Serpent (DAVU) for the one objective, nudging just up to the forrest's edge. No D-Terrain tests, thank you!





I decide to Tank Shock his primer black warriors. It works! Failed Morale Check! They Retreat pretty far too, Good and Bad.


When his scarabs Consolidated after defeating my FDragons, he got a good roll, and had them surround the WraithLord, so I had a little bit of movement to maximize my flamer throwers. Again, the model is supposed to be under the ruin, on the first floor.



Assaults:

The scorpions wade in, and Dok directs most of the attacks on the green crew, and they die to the last. My Dark Reaper Proxies hold.



After flamage and a few Monstrous Creature thumps, there's 1 wounded scarab base left out of the 10 or so at the beginning of my Turn!



Necron 6

The chrome - painted warriors get out of the bastion/ruin. The others rally.



Imo and crew Veil back to squat the objective.



Spiders going in for the Kill Point on the two Dire Avengers.



Then several of the blighters go after my last DAVU.



Damnit! Exploded and killed 4 DAs. The last guy holds his morale.




This DA manages to survive two spiders. The most they've done is add to the scarab count. And bag that last skimmer.



Yay. WraithLord is free. Consolidation roll is a 1 or 2. Not enough to help with my last Turn.


The scorpions will finally die to crawly bugs.





Eldar's Last Turn

I Tank Shock Imo's unit with the Falcon, a wee bit risky Flat Out into Terrain, but I need to contest it. They pass Morale and the objective is contested.


The thing is, Dok made one of his few mistakes. He didn't Run his chrome - painted unit. - he shot at the falcon instead, only Shaking it. They're gonna be out of range on the Objective.


I was hoping to get the WarithLord in range for a Kill Point or something, but nope.


The Objectives are contested, but the Necrons are ahead on Kill Points.

Minor Win for Dok!

Thanks for hanging in there.

good game. Nice win for the Crons! Well painted Eldar you got there

Great game, great paintjob!

You might have lost, but you took out an overlord with walkers in CC. Moral victory.

Woo necrons!

Dr. Serling wrote:Great game, great paintjob!

Thanks!

Dr. Serling wrote:You might have lost, but you took out an overlord with walkers in CC. Moral victory.

Yeah, boots-to-the-head are amusing.

This was the last week of an Escalation League (April & May). I've faced Dok's necrons twice, and another dude's similar list, twice. Lost all. Imotekh/scarab/wraith Necrons are a brutal list to face with eldar or skimmers. I made it to the finals (no biggy) and pulled Dok as my first round. Lost big (last night). I managed 2 KPs, the Cmd. Barge & one group Spiders (go WraithLord!). Otherwise the scarab ate nearly everything else.

Dok goes on to face the winner of the other finalists, BA Jumpers vs. Leaf Blower.

For me, I'm done with skimmers. I have a few games of DE to play with another league, and likely, a 1500 GT in San Diego in the beginning of June. After that, daemons or BAs. I'm ready to get back to *not* dealing with flying stands & MSUs.

With the paintjob, it is one of my better looking armies.

Yeah it's definitely more visually striking than your DE. The DE are a bit more subtle. Well done on the stipling!