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Hi all. Two new battle reports are posted up on the LS2 blog. The first features the 2012 Indy GT champ Hans Krueger (Norbu the Destroyer/Ghost Hero) vs. the 2011 midwest ard boys champ Oliver Smith. Check em out here:

http://lastsquare.com/squareblog/

Nice Reports, I liked the sped up movement phase in the first one. I hope to see more.

The Necrons vs Chaos game i took my 1850 Adepticon list, and I had yet to go against Oliver and his Chaos Marines with it, but he is really good with Chaos Marines.

How did Obyron do? I would've probably put him in the CCB instead of Zandrehk. It then makes it a threat that cannot be ignored rather than a unit that was totally ignored.

@Hans

BTW, cool night scythe. What did you use to make it?

The Night Scythe is a Sylon? raider kit from Battlestar Galactica, modified with parts from a commd. barge.

As for Obyron in the Barge. He is Ok in the barge, but against Chaos I thought he would be more effective to keep teleporting around Imotekh and the Immortals using Zahndrekh as the teleport homer. Unfortunately that squad poured like 3 turns of fire into a rhino and even with Tank Hunters they had to glance it to death. Against Chaos I needed a way to get away from Abadon/Oblits especially since Oliver had a lash sorcerer jumping around. I was trying to stay around the board edges nipping at his rhinos/lesser deamons/ marine units trying to avoid Oblit fire, termy fire, Abbadon. I cant say the dice went against me as both of our shooting was abysmal. It didnt pan out.


In hindsight I should have had Chaos go first, and use Zahndrekhs arrive from deepstrike after enemy reserves rule to combat the trap CHaos always lays. The army looks so simple with 3 rhinos being deployed, but in a turn or two CHaos has so much nasty units show up and they can pretty much land wherever they are needed. Its a tough haul for the Cron list I was running to deal with. The lash is a nightmare, and ironically he never lashed a unit all game, but I didnt know that so I moved assuming he would. It was tough.

There's just something about Immo, Zandy and Obyron that screams out too-top-heavy to me. But I like the direction you are taking with a night scythe in your army. They address the issue of the non-mobile scoring units that often can and do get trapped by more aggressive armies.

And yeah, Abaddon is a beast against the crons. Good thing he is sooooo sloooowwwwwwww.