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Got together this past Saturday for my first game of apoc using the new rules.

Necrons:
Whole bunch of warriors, BUNCH of tomb blades, Transcendent C'tan, Tesseract Vault, 3 Pylons and like 6 sentry pylons.

Assets: Precise coordinates, Blind Barrage

Chaos:
Reaver Titan, Warhound titan, Zarakynel, noisemarines, cultist formation, assorted vehicles, 3 chaos daemons princes

Grey Knights:
Broherhood Dread Knight formation, 2 terminator squads, like 5 independent characters and Draigo, 4 strike squads, 8 razorbacks, firestorm redoubt

Assets: Precise Coordinates, Daemonic Allies


We got the Exterminatus Mission, which made everything on the board fearless and have hatred. And we got the long table deployment style, so we had pretty deep zones.













Things went fine until the necron pylons showed up (their first turn...) and blew up the reaver. The rest was downhill from there.



We continued through turn 4 but then it was pretty much over. Necrons won solidly, with their special toys making mincemeat out of us. All of our big things were handled in short order, and the rest of our forced couldn't contend with things like their sentry pylons, fliers, or even the few squads of wraiths wandering about.

Yeah.... The Pylon is Really OP. looks like a cool game none the less

not in its damage potential overall, it's just REALLY good at killing superheavies for its cost. A little over 400 points to easily bring down half a reaver costing 4 times as much? Ouch.

Then again, put a group of cultists or some marines with meltaguns in front of it and it just can't seem to do much at all against them.

Its real potential is its deep striking ability and the new apoc rules. It needs no asset or tactic to keep it safe - just deep strike it turn 1 and you WILL get to shoot unless the enemy has pylons of their own and you're going second.

It's always been a beast, but otherwise Necrons would have nothing to contend with superheavies.

The New C'tan however has some killing potential to. It does die to 2 D shots which is bloody shame.

They overdone the power of Destroyer weapons...

I can see one atleast your GF or wife is bored lol

I'm not positive they've overdone the D weapon's power that much. I think they maybe should have been just +3 on the damage table, a step above being AP1. And auto-penetrate like before. That would mean most vehicles are dying on a 3+, and superheavies take an additional d3 hull points on a 3+. That rolling a 6 means you do SIX plus an additional d6 hull points is just.... most of the new superheavies (baneblade rerelease, necron and lord of skulls kits) are one-shotted on a 3+.

But the problem is, the larger titans would have little to fear from D weapons then. It's hard to balance such things.

And ignoring invul saves makes the gargantuan creatures just crumble. Problem is, if you don't ignore invul saves you get the silly storm shield squads that die to bolter fire MORE easily than they die to a D weapon, and that's just wrong.

As for the young lady, she was actually not bored. She was busy building a skull cannon or whatever it's called, the new khorne chariot. She's an avid builder. And both of those young ladies are very supportive of their friend/bf's hobby!