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eh its all good. You can just say your lord has an epic custom warscythe. Fluff tweaking FTW!


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its all good, all you have to do is say that your destroyer lord has a sweet custom-designed warscythe. Give the necron fluff about how little is known about their weaponry, it makes sense. Fluff tweaking FTW!

Seems like a cheap plug, but I'm not about to break this guy down for WYSIWYG. If it comes to nessescity, I'll just clip off the end of the staff and take the end of the warscythe and glue it on.

Need... more... FOB Echo 40k. Keep posting fellas!

diesel7270 wrote:Seems like a cheap plug, but I'm not about to break this guy down for WYSIWYG. If it comes to nessescity, I'll just clip off the end of the staff and take the end of the warscythe and glue it on.

Diesel don´t fall in the WYSIWYG trap, there are a lot of weapons, equipment upgrades, psyker powers that do not have an equivalent miniature wise. So if you say that in your army Warscythes are like X and you have a consistent and distinctive design for X (a light spear or whatever in your case) it should be good enough for most players, and those who do not agree are not worth of the headache you´ll have playing against them.

M.

yeah generally people who are WYSIWYG nazis are the kinds of people who aren't fun to play against anyway

yeah generally people who are WYSIWYG nazis are the kinds of people who aren't fun to play against anyway

I ended up clipping the end off and crazy gluing the warscythe end on it. So it's going to have two green rods. I'll post another picture when I finish it.

Another guy bought a huge box of Blood Angels and his own supply of tools and paint. I'm starting to lose count of how many of these guys we have playing now...

E is learning how to pulverize me. He drops my destroyers with lascannons so that I lose my fast attack, and then even with my squads spread out as far as possible and still in coherency, his Manticore and plasma LRs tear me a new one as I try to advance in range. I'm going to think on how beat those tanks...

And losing 3 each of H. Destroyers and Destroyers before I even get to move has not helped my confidence in that unit.

..Well if the dice are hating you there's not a lot you can do, but try putting them in reserve maybe if this keeps happening.

Or maybe when you deploy them intermix the units to give them a cover save.

lol that's just what happens to Necrons these days. Their best anti-tank (heavy Destroyer) has a nice gun and is fast but just too fragile to stand up to the armored slugging matches that characterize 5th Edition. Same with regular Destroyers. Awesome unit, but a tempting target. All it takes is one Str 9 AP 2 large blast and half the squad is gone with no hope for WBB.

Cannot wait for Necrons to get a new codex.

Corvus wrote:lol that's just what happens to Necrons these days. Their best anti-tank (heavy Destroyer) has a nice gun and is fast but just too fragile to stand up to the armored slugging matches that characterize 5th Edition. Same with regular Destroyers. Awesome unit, but a tempting target. All it takes is one Str 9 AP 2 large blast and half the squad is gone with no hope for WBB.

Cannot wait for Necrons to get a new codex.

Wrong, it would take str 10. AP has no affect on WBB.

I just got done playing a 2000pt. match against E and it came to a draw on turn 6 with Seize Ground. His Vendettas gave me the same problem with my Destroyers, but I actually did pretty well after losing them.

I'll try to post the batrep tomorrow, but it's really late here and I need to get some sleep before I have to work. I know we've been slacking on the pictures and Batreps, but I'm going to try to pick up the pace before we have to pack everything up. It's just hard with as late and spontaneous as the games run. Plus I'm usually more interested in playing than in taking notes and uploading pictures.

hey everyone,schedule has been crazy!liv`in the dream...pssf yeah right. anyways here is a batrep of my battle against Lt. krick i havve been meaning to post it for awhile.time is like gold around here and i dont have much of it.but anyways we played on the lava map.forgive me if i skip some stuff i cant remember all the details.this is the deployment.i played 3 vandettas,2 veterans squads with sniper rifles and autocannon,creed and kell, a manticore and deathstrike,and a 30 man platoon.plus a 10 man and a 5 man stormtrooper squad.red1 (Lt. krick) play his daemon prince,a rhino,a landraider,a defiler,choosen space marines, possesed space marines, raptors squad and a berserker squad. oh yeah and a terminator squad.he used the scout rule on one of his squads.

after turn one it was a pretty fair exchange,his landraider took out a vandetta my other vandettas killed a few raptors,and my command squad with a lascannon got a good roll and destroyed the landraider which exploded and killed a few berserker,his defiler dropped a few guys in my 30 man platoon not many.my snipers on the ridge dropped one possesed marine.the manticore rolled horrible and continued too the whole game.i learned to sit back put out lots of rounds and soften all targets before i make any tactical moves.it works..lol

at the end of turn 2 i have given his daemon prince 2 wounds.i killed most of his regulars chaos marines down by the rhino.his raptors make to my platoon and lock them into combat,his possesed marines make to the the fight also and and wipe out my platoon.leaving only a aspiring champion and 1 possed marine left after the exchange.my vandettas immobolize the rhino.i deepstriked a stortrooper squad with melta guns behind the defiler,they damaged a weapon i took of his lascannons to save my vandetta.my stormtroopes then get demolished.bless they`re brave souls,may they walk with the emperor.i rolled so terrible this turn.

at the end of turn 3,i wipe out his daemon prince that thing is a pain in the cheeks.his regular marines made they`re way to my vetsquad,the kill all but my heavy weapons team,they fail a morale test and fall back to the edge of the table.they are saved from falling off the table by a successful order of get back in the fight.i drop storm troopers in the middle of the bord to support my efforts against his charge and the did some decent dammage.the defiler is stunned.the rhino became usless without a weapon.one of his squads fails a morale check and lost over half the squad and falls back.his aspiring chapion and single space marine scale the wall and lockinto close combat with my vet squad and wipes the out,the rconsolidate towards my command squad.

no pic for turn for but he deepstriked terminators right by my downed vandetta and and wiped out my last heavy weapons team.WAIT BUT THEN! t- minus 5,4,3,2,1 we have liftoff! the deathstrike missle launches my ace in the hole and nails the terminator squad right where the good lord split`em and wipes them off the map.booyakasha!and for his retaliation move his aspiring chapion and solo marine fire at my command squad killing 25% and creed fails his morale check and falls back off the board.i know lame right,i looked all over my codex for fearless with creed and kell but notta.

and in the final turn i used my vandettas to finish off as many units as i could,i i can`t remember the exact score but it turned out to be a draw.it was dissapointing but i had fun nontheless.my deathstrike is proving more and more useful.i love it.i have used it 3 times and 3 times it was devastating. the first time it was used in a clean sweep board victory.the last turn if y`all look back in the thread it blew up the last remaining tau crisis suits.in this game it wiped out a squad of terminators that would have wrecked shop on my vandettas,and in the game i play against deisel last night it blew up the monolith with a 6in blast radius also hitting some immortals,and the explosion from the monolith hit the immortals also,it was like art in motion.just beautiful..lol

well i hope y`all enjoyed,this is E from the bunker signing out...
Imperious Dominatus

Lol E, that Guardsman is awesome. Reminds me of this ork

I was going to say, you should coat that plywood with pva and then a liberal sprinkling of sand to make it look better...but you guys are probably sick of seeing sand!

roger that jihadnik,very sick of sand,hahaha corvus that ork is dope.I dont know why these pics are gray but if you click on them they show up fine.Well about two more weeks and it will be time for us to put the gaming on hold til we get to the states,kinda sucks but once I get home I have plans to make an awsome terrain board!I`ll have all the right materials.But after we pack dont worry we will still have material for y`all to look at.We`ll document batreps for all games ,that way we can post batreps during our time in between.I just finished playing against PFC delaney and his blood angels in his tutorial game.He learned the rules and I board wiped him ,but that happens to all of us first time out.well stay tuned,more to come from FOB Echo!E from the bunker signing out!

Imperious Dominatus

E_ninja13 wrote:roger that jihadnik,very sick of sand,hahaha corvus that ork is dope.I dont know why these pics are gray but if you click on them they show up fine.Well about two more weeks and it will be time for us to put the gaming on hold til we get to the states,kinda sucks but once I get home I have plans to make an awsome terrain board!I`ll have all the right materials.But after we pack dont worry we will still have material for y`all to look at.We`ll document batreps for all games ,that way we can post batreps during our time in between.I just finished playing against PFC delaney and his blood angels in his tutorial game.He learned the rules and I board wiped him ,but that happens to all of us first time out.well stay tuned,more to come from FOB Echo!E from the bunker signing out!

Imperious Dominatus

Sounds awesome! I can't wait!

Poor H. Destroyer necrons, i came across a group of three last night, my 15 Templars poured out of the LRC to assault em, the Emperor's champion ent first.. and killed all 3 himself...the neophytes were very upset, so, since i was winning, I had them make him walk back when they got in his landraider and left...

H.Destroyers have almost never proved useful for me. :(

They would be better if they had more than one wound and a better armor save

More than one wound and/or higher squad size like normal destroyers. Or hell, if heavy and non-heavy d's counted as one another for WBB that would be great too!

hey folks! well whats been goin on around here is about a game everyday! dont worry we are documenting.i played a 3 way game, seize ground the other day.blood angels,space wolves and my IG.it was interesting.i`ll post a batrep soon.plus deisel played against blood angels lastnight,and he said he was gonna post that too.im slowly yet surely trying to finish painting my army.i`m pretty close to being finish.but i made a decision that when we get to the states,i`m buying two manticores.actually everyone has been doing a bit of painting.i`m out numbered by space marines but i think i have a formula to beat them pretty consistantly.plasma tanks with artillery and air support while small troop squad chip away at them.seem to be working pretty good lately.IS THERE ANY OF YOU WARGAMERZ NEAR THE COLUMBUS/FORT BENNING AREA?we are looking to grow the circle when we get back.i`ll be on leave soon but i`ll prolly post some stuff from home.we have a space marine rivalry tommorrow.blood angels and space wolves ANNIHILATION!.these guys have been talkin smack for the last week!all talk aside tommorow.let the weapons do the talkin.tak`in all bets now!WHO WILL WIN?

well sorry bout the short post gotta sleep when possible.E signin out!

Imperious Dominatus

Hey guys. It's been crazy, and I've gotten a game or two in the past couple of weeks, but I'm usually too disheveled to post pictures. I only get a few hours of free time a day these days, and I hate to spend them waiting for pics to upload and writing down notes from a book.

Well, here's an update on the happenings here...

My battlefoam case has yet to arrive. I did not order a custom tray setup so I had assumed it would be here by now. I am worried... I go on leave on the 7th and I don't think my stuff will be here by then unless we have another mail call perhaps. What I will likely do in that situation is pack all of my miniatures in bubble wrap, and keep them here in my connex room until the cases get here. When I return from leave in 3 or so weeks, I'll put the minis in the case, and ship the case home. Once I go on leave, E goes with me, so that will pretty much end the WH40K gaming until we get back stateside.

I plan on playing a game tonight with Erickson. We're going to try for 2000 points. But my leadership has me attending meetings LATE at night and I don't know if it's going to be a fool's errand to attempt to play. This whole new First Sergeant is really cramping my style.

Other than that, Early got some new Terminators for his space wolves. And here's a picture of a couple of other guys who frequent the bunker. The one on the right had blood angels, and the one on the left just paints models out of scrap parts to kill time.



It's the home stretch once I get back from leave. We'll have moved into the bunkers to make room for the new unit coming in to relieve us, and start flying out of here shortly after that. Anything that I don't absolutely have to carry with me is being mailed home so I don't have to carry four 60 pound bags in my body armor and helmet through three airports.

I'm still having a hard time with the destroyers, but I plan on giving them a shot one last time.

congrats on the rank up. Keep up the good battle reports and I hope your battlefoam arrives soon. Have you tried deepstriking your destroyers into isolated positions where they can only see one unit, so they can decimate that unit, then move to a different position where they can do another surgical strike while not putting themselves at much risk?

Well, here's the goings-on today:

I've got a particular recurring medical problem that upon an unexpected examination as I was going to get pain medication for, the medical officer determined (after some very painful procedures) that the infection causing the problem has likely resurfaced, and so I was IV'ed a bag of levaquin and enough valium to pacify a bison. That put me out for the majority of the day until I woke up this evening and did a little bit of painting on my models.

I am running into an issue that has always plagued me when I try to paint the inside ribs of my necrons green: the paint clings to the edges of the inside ribs and leaves open holes in the paint coat where the drying paint has separated due to viscosity. Multiple coats only make the problem look less pronounced. I need to try to find a way to fix that.

I did have a match with Erickson last night. I've got to be frank with you guys... I'm having a hard time motivating myself to post batreps these days because by the time I get done with a match and get to my room I'm already past my bedtime. Plus it's almost always the same board, just with the terrain mixed around. I keep trying to convince E to play against me on the lava board, but he isn't having it. Perhaps because it would be such a pain to move that huge sheet of cardboard and terrain parts over to the primary table.



Here is an image of my necrons clambering between ruins to get at the command squad in support of the wraiths attacking Commisar Yarrick. His stormtroopers stand to halt their advance.

I had suggested to E that if posting full-picture batreps are such a pain, then we could at least post dynamic pictures of our game. We'll see how well it sticks.

Also, I comissioned E to use one of my destroyers to make the model's hand give the middle finger like he had done for one of his models and one for the XO's. He's supposed to do it tonight as I type this. I figured I have 10 destroyer models now, and it won't be a huge deal if one modding experiment turns out bad. But E is particularly good at modding, so I'm not worried.

As expected, now that enough players have joined the flock, we've got more than our share of Imperium armies... E's IG, XO's Space Marines, Early's Space Wolves, and Delaney's Blood Angels. Three SME armies. The few that do or had played non-imperium armies are barely around. The Ork player was moved elsewhere, the Tau player's platoon keeps him far too busy, the Eldar player had to stop before he had even enough models to fill a FOC due to a wrecked car back home, which leaves me with the Necrons. And to an extent, Tyranids. But I'm saving the 'nids for when I get out of the army and move in with Melissa, and the money gets tighter. I'll have a stack of models saved up for when I can't afford any more for some time.

I was lamenting the day before though, about how both armies I've put together lack any squad-based cohesion or teamwork. Some of our imperium players have names and stories and decorations for their squads. I play two armies where the individuals are nothing but cannon fodder. But I definitely wouldn't want to play Space Marines just because I am so tired of them. What does that leave me with? Tau? Sisters of Battle?

3 words: Eldar Aspect Warriors. Eldar in general can be made like you are describing (stories, squads markings, etc.) and they can easily be given background on a model by model basis. Join us and profit! (See, you get pointy ears...)

Sucks about the medical problem though :/ I hope that clears up.