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So I met with Fred last night to have a game of 40k. His Necrons against my Dark Eldar! We rolled up for mission and "Purge The Alien" jumped out from the page... great. Kill points.

And on to the game! Vote before you watch!




Here are the armies:
The Dark Eldar:



The Necrons:



The Table was set... the Dark Eldar won the roll and decided to go first! It was night fight. I am editing the video this evening and it should be up today or tmr. Who do you think has the upper hand?

This was the table:
The Dark Eldar are in the far corner, with the bastion and the manufactorum.


Cheers!

Skari - out.

Tbh, the Necron army is nicely done but to unfocused, if you dont spam the star units Necrons are mediocre at best.

I think it will a bloody, close fight, but I think the Necrons have the staying power to be more effective late game once vehicles are all crashing and burning.

I say Necrons. Teslas are DE's worst enemy.

@ Velek - True, there is some focuss required, but he does have a good mix of units. All of them are nasty against DE.

@ iGuy91 - That is a good thing to consider, the reanimation protocols, high toughness and damage output means he can stay around for the grind.

@ jy2 - Tesla indeed! Here is a little tesla jem:



First post updated with the table pic and the army pics.

Cheers!

Ok. Batrep has been uploaded! It seems like the verdict is slightly towards the necrons in terms of popular oppinion. I'm not surprised as they are a resilient force. What do you thi k would tip the scales?

For the Dark Eldar - Not doing enough damage early on, if they fail to do much before the night sythes arrive they will be in trouble.

For the Necrons - letting the dark eldar run circles arround the army. Loosing the annihilation barges early on will mean a great deal of firepower will be lost. Also, necron warriors are squishy and should be kept safe till the time is right.

I shall post the vid when I get home. Have at er!

That was a close game and one hell of a battle! Nicely done!

Great report was a really close game in my opinion,
do you think the DE player had enough DL to kill the armour?
Also does DE have anything good enought to take out enemy fliers?

@Dr. Serling

"That was a close game and one hell of a battle! Nicely done!

Thanks! Yeah, it was a good one.

@Arbiter:

Great report was a really close game in my opinion,
do you think the DE player had enough DL to kill the armour?
Also does DE have anything good enought to take out enemy fliers?

Thanks for the comment! Yeah the game came down to the wire! And could have gone either way for sure. The one disadvantage of the coven list I have run into is the lack of a lot of anti armour... I usually use ravagers, but chose to move away from relying on them with this style of list and has proven challenging and fun. I have actually dropped the scourge and added blasterborn to add some more AT.

DE dont have any set AA defense units... the void raven is pretty good... or a quadd gun... IMO i just try to ignore the fliers and play to the mission as much as possible. I have experimented with a crimson hunter, IMO the vector dancer makes it all the more worth it!