1850pt Dark Eldar vs Necrons

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**shamikebab**

Shamikebab's Dark Eldar vs JHeaton's Necrons – 1850pts

A General note before we begin:

Some background to the battle, me and five friends have recently got back into 40k after a long time out (we play over Vassal due to geographical remoteness) We played a 5th edition tournament earlier this year where I won undefeated with Necrons. My friend Joel played with Dark Eldar and said he wasn't sure how Dark Eldar could beat Necrons....naturally I then said let's turn the tables, I'll take a Dark Eldar army, you pick a Necron one. We've switched to 6th edition recently (this is actually our second game) so we're still quite shaky on the rules, I know there will be some mistakes so please go easy on us!

A couple of things to note:

This was most definitely a casual game, neither of us are pros or tournament players, nor do we claim to be tactical masters. If you see something we've done wrong, please let me know but don't accuse either of us of cheating.

We don't play flyers, neither of us like them so that's why there aren't any there.

Sathonyx sighed as he looked across the icy plain at the advancing Necron army. This was supposed to be a simple raid, the local populace didn't provide much sport but slaves are slaves. Then from beneath the ice the Necron had emerged, gauss fire flaying the lightly armoured Eldar vehicles. Ordinarily he would have just left them and returned to Commarragh but if he didn't return with the slaves Vect would have his head.

We rolled The Scouring with a Vanguard Strike deployment (deploying on the diagonal, up to 12” away from the centre line) For Necrons this meant both the Wraiths and Tomb Blades would be scoring, for Dark Eldar it meant the large Beastmaster pack was scoring. Thanks to Sathonyx, Dark Eldar won the roll and chose to go first, taking the top left deployment zone. You can see how we deployed below.

We rolled for Warlord Traits, Sathonyx rolled Immovable Object letting him score. The Necron Overlord rolled Strategic Genius letting him re-roll any reserve rolls.

At this point we revealed the Objective values (In the Scouring objectives have different values)

Army Lists:

Dark Eldar:

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Necrons:

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Deployment:

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Turn 1:

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General Aftermath:

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This is my first Battle Report on here so I'd appreciate any constructive feedback

**nonowho**

I don't play either dark elder or necrons, so I don't have much to say about the battle. but just out of curiosity, how did you make those pictures? - they look really good

**shamikebab**

It's a program called Vassal that lets you play over the internet.. Then I used Photoshop to add in the information on top.

**jy2**

Necrons really are a bad matchup for the traditional, competitive "mech-spam" DE. Your list had very little fat to trim, but your opponent's list was anything but optimized. It could've been much worse for DE had he brought a slightly more competitive list.

In any case, congrats on a job well done and a very welly written battle report.

**shamikebab**

Cheers, yeah some of my regular opponents have a bad habit of picking lots of minimum size units.

Those annihilation barges though, I hadn't played with or against them in 6th before and they take a ridiculous amount of punishment. Despite basically being targeted by multiple Lance weapons each turn in the end I only managed to take a hull point off one and a weapon off another!

**nonowho**

shamikebab wrote:
It's a program called Vassal that lets you play over the internet.. Then I used Photoshop to add in the information on top.

cool! I'll have to check it out

**MarkyMark**

By any chance Shamikebab, did I talk to you on vassal the other week?, you was in a locked room and asked for advice on 6th ed rules?

**shamikebab**

Not me I'm afraid! I play as Shamikebab on Vassal.

**MarkyMark**

Ah not to worry, I remember talking to someone after asking them for a game and they were playing a friend and both hadnt played 6th much.

Have to say, your bat reps were very good!, first vassal report I have sat down and read all the way through on dakka thanks.

**shamikebab**

Oh hang on a minute that was me! (it's been a long day...)

Thanks. Takes a while to write but I enjoy it, helps me realise what I did wrong and can change in the future

**tanuvein**

Great battle report, really enjoyed the overlay you made for the deployments. Might I suggest, however, that with a white background you don't use red text? Perhaps it's just me, but I found it difficult and unpleasant to read.

Fortunately the rest of the images were great, not sure how much editing you did on them but they went along well with your text descriptions. I haven't fought Necrons with my Dark Eldar in 6th edition yet, and probably won't soon now that the CE Eldar Codex just came out, but I always found them to be a good challenge. Definitely can be difficult for the Dark Eldar, but not nearly as brutal as, say, the Tau.

Did you enjoy giving them a try?

**shamikebab**

Yeah you're right about the writing, it looked a lot better on the bigger images before I shrunk them down.

I did enjoy trying them, don't think they could ever be my mainstay though. I much prefer Craftworld Eldar just because they seem to have more options, I find too many of the units in Dark Eldar useless.