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As mentioned previously, in Shanghai, the tournament format for finals and semi finals is best of 3... Grey Knights dominated the first game, and Necrons won the second game by the skin of their flayed ones. So, now it is time for game 3

The lists:

GREY KNIGHTS

Draigo (Warlord)
Coteaz

10 Paladins
- 4 psycannons
- 4 hammers
- 1 MC hammer
- Banner
- 4 swords

2 Paladins
- 2 MC Hammers

2 Paladins
- MC Hammers

Storm Rave
- t/l MM t/l Assault cannons
- hurricane bolters
- psybolt ammo

Dreadknight
- teleporter
- H incinerator

Dread Knight
- teleporter
- H incinerator


NECRONS (i may mess up some of this but i hope you understand)

Nemesor
Oberon


Over lord
- Warscythe
- CC Barge
- mind shackle scarabs and res orb

2 x royal courts (one has 3 one has 4 guys)
- 2x flamer that wounds on LD (go with death marks)
- 2 4 shot S5 guns
- 2 lances (maybe 3)

7 Immortals
- tessla
6 Immortals
- tesla
8 Warriors

5 death marks

5 wraiths
- 2 whip coils

1 night scythe (with death marks)

2 doom scythes




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MISSION: THE RELIC

DEPLOYMENT: DIAGONAL

INITIATIVE: GREY KNIGHTs

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Pre Game - Relic very much favors the death star armies, so GK has a clear advantage in this. Basically move up, take the objective and that should be it. As in the past two games, the Necron has very little it can throw at the GK army, so, honestly I (the GK player) am pretty confident.

Let the Game Begin...

GREY KNIGHTS TURN 1 -

First Turn is night fight.

The scoring Dread Knight moves forward to seize the Relic

Paladins move up behind

Other Dread knight moves up to block any potential charge (this may have been a mistake, which you will see in the Necron turn 1)
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NECRON TURN 1


The CC Barge is close enough to my dread knight to do a sweap attack (my mistake was moving him too far forward), which caused two wounds on the knight.

Rolled for the two wounds on the same dreadknight by the rest of the Necron army

First Blood to Necrons


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Necron shotting also caused a wound on the other dreadknight

GREY KNIGHTS TURN 2

1 unit of paladins and the storm raven come in.

Move the dread knight toward Draigo, hand off the relic...and shoot

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NECRON Turn 2

All flyers come in - he plays conservatively and does not bring his death marks at yet.

Overall, very tough turn for the Grey Knights

GREY KNIGHT TURN 3

other paladins come in

Overall the GK Fire power is quite diminished. cast re-roll to hits on paladins and they shoot at a doom scythe... unfortunately (for me) i only knock off two hull points and it gets locked velocity.

NECRONS TURN 3

two doom scythes go off the board

night scythe moves forward and unloads the death marks...

rest of the army shoots at me

necron overlord assaults my two paladins

GREY KNIGHTS TURN 4

So, the necron turn 3 was quite devastating. At this point i need to grab the relic and hunker down. So i do that. I move and grab the relic...and in the mean time blast the hell out of the death marks. I assult them as well whiping the squad out.

The 2 paladins vs. the overlord resulting in a 0-0 draw this round.


sorry, no real pics of my turn

NECRON TURN 4

Death Scythes come back in - army opens fire on the paladins.

Grey Knight Turn 5

One thing i forgot to mention, Necron turn 4 Oberon teleported behind me to get line breaker... so my turn five was basically shooting at him in the off chance i could kill him. The lone paladin moved up - another alternative is to assault the overlord (nemessor) so oberon would have to teleport back.

well, Oberon lived..

NECRON TURN 5

night scythe takes off, two death scythes are able to shoot at me and so is the rest of his army...


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NECRONS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!


The necrons managed to wipe out the entire grey knight force by turn 5. This was rather shocking for me honestly as i thought i had the game in the bag. Relic really favored my army.

Of course, the GKs made some pretty drastic mistakes, and the Necrons (ian) played an excellent game, knowing which units to target first.

It was a fun game and a learning experience.


Any comments regarding the GK tactical blunders are welcome