Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

In this battle Steven takes his Tau out on his awesome new, custom terrain vs. Reecius' Junkticrons on a Blast Zone Mega Mat! Check out our Mega Mat KickStarter!

haha that was awesome! All hail the mighty Vacuum

Nicely painted Tau steve, your necrons are great as always reecius!
Nice battle report! Btw the terrain rocks guys! Nice to see people caring about fair terrain..

@Darkcloud

Yeah, it's a rare day when the Monolith is the Man of the Match!

@avedominusnox

Thanks! I am really happy that they came out nicely considering it was literally a box of smashed up bitz when we got them.

And yeah, Steve is a super nice guy.

THIS is what 40k is supposed to be like. Friendly and considerate games on great tables with awesome armies. A+ as always mate!

Bah-weep-granah-weep-nini-baaan!

Love that movie!

 Red Corsair wrote:
THIS is what 40k is supposed to be like. Friendly and considerate games on great tables with awesome armies. A+ as always mate!

Bah-weep-granah-weep-nini-baaan!

Love that movie!

Indeed! And yes! I love it when people get the reference! That was one of my all time favorite movies form Childhood!

My kid and I just watched, the terrain looks great! Still bothered by how effective Tau are, but I didnt know how it would swing.

I had really bad dice, and if it went to turn 6 I think I would have had it, but oh well.

Yeah, Tau are one of the easiest armies in the game to win with right now. Great for a new player!

That looked like a really fun game, glad you guys had lots of good terrain and you guys were using units that people normally don't use like the monolith which is always cool to see.

I love it when wacky things happen like the monolith sucking up units into the dimensional rift or whatever. Always good for laughs.

Yeah, I like using "bad" units. It's fun and challenging. Anyone can win with a Taudar list, for example. I have nothing against those lists, I just prefer more of a challenge.

It was a fun game, for sure.

Thanks Steve for being a great tau player! i hate when they complain about LOS blocking terrain. I want to play you some day hopefully

 Red Corsair wrote:
THIS is what 40k is supposed to be like. Friendly and considerate games on great tables with awesome armies. A+ as always mate!

Bah-weep-granah-weep-nini-baaan!

Love that movie!

God how much I hope that all people watched non tourney games like that. Ok its a game and like all games everyone wants to win, but hey smile when you lose. Better have friends than rage for loss and bad luck. And frontline's battle reports are full of fun and laugh. GJ again, on my next trip to the US I ll make sure I ll contact you and come by for a game.

JFF games are the best

Great batrep and looks like a great time.

Th scenery is fantastic too. I am very impressed.

Great Batrep. The Monolith is a much-maligned vehicle, still stuck with a bad rap ever since it lost it's immunity to lance and melta.

In 6th ed books I've seen a noticeable drop in armies' abilities to handle AV14. Whether it's the meta of s7 spam lists, or the reduction of S10 weapons, AV14 is becoming more resilient (from range. MCs still eat it for breakfast). That said, I think a monolith is a great choice for it's S8 ap3 pie, LOS blocking ability (to hide an advancing c'tan, for example), utility (teleport door/vacuum door), and they look really cool.

Good job, you'll get him next time Reece.

 tetrisphreak wrote:
Great Batrep. The Monolith is a much-maligned vehicle, still stuck with a bad rap ever since it lost it's immunity to lance and melta.

In 6th ed books I've seen a noticeable drop in armies' abilities to handle AV14. Whether it's the meta of s7 spam lists, or the reduction of S10 weapons, AV14 is becoming more resilient (from range. MCs still eat it for breakfast). That said, I think a monolith is a great choice for it's S8 ap3 pie, LOS blocking ability (to hide an advancing c'tan, for example), utility (teleport door/vacuum door), and they look really cool.

Good job, you'll get him next time Reece.

If I were to build necrons right now I'd spring for the Tesseract vault. Its 160 but you can cut out the leeches and use the wraith inside to make 9 destroyers/tomb blades or wraiths with minimal conversion skill, you get a C'tan, and can glue the vault shut and patch the holes with card and you now got a monolith as well. Its a crazy affective way to save some money if you like to kitbash.

3 wraith boxes, a C'tan and a monolith are ~230

Great video! Awesome paint schemes!! Maybe next time show the roles and the actual procedure of the turns so we can see those amazing roles rather then just take your word for it. No disrespect intended.

Not a big deal, but pretty sure the troop of crisis suits can rally on natural leadership roll for farsight enclave because the whole army has to take bonding knives.

I think the best unit in this game were the scarabs. By far they did the most damage and held off the Tau firepower

Awesome, fun list Reece! Looked like a great game.

 jackflashultra wrote:
Great video! Awesome paint schemes!! Maybe next time show the roles and the actual procedure of the turns so we can see those amazing roles rather then just take your word for it. No disrespect intended.

"Banter Batreps" are fantastic, but I think they may take more work than this top/bottom of each turn type.

Thanks guys, glad you liked it! It was good fun.

We do a little bit of the banter but we try to keep the videos short and informative if at all possible.

Scarabs rock! I love taking the little Scarab Farm in the backfield, easily my favorite part of the list.

I have actually been thinking about going with 60 Immortals! Haha, just for fun.

The more terrain, the better the game!
Great report and a very good "beer and pretzel" match, as it should be!

Hey Reece, any chance your bud would like to show us how he made his terrain? It's quite excellent.

@Exhumed

Yes, it was good fun!

@Thokt

We are making a tutorial, actually! Probably have it up in Jan.

Hey reecius, since you help organize the las vegas tournament, can you answer this for me.

How are you guys ruling on grav guns shooting at vehicles. No cover save or cover save allowed? It only affects vehicles on a 6 up to begin with. Cover saves would mean for one glance, you need an average of 18 hits.

nice games guys, I llike how it was a friendly game.... with trip-tide

Reece your opponent is a boss. he may play tau, but he plays the game in the spirit of collegial competition, a very refreshing site. amazing terrain, good looking armies. bad luck with the scarabs but hey what can you do. im wondering how a unit of wraiths might help you in the speed department. thanks for the batrep.

Thanks for that great report! Its awesome to see a close and fun game between two nice people! The models and the terrain looked wonderful!

Great report! I love the lesser used Necron stuff. Monoliths are *not* bad at 200 pts.

But! Can't Scarabs not wound Riptides with Str3 vs T7? I was going to use them as a bit of an anti-Riptide tech at a local event but decided against it because I couldn't hurt them unless Zandy put on furious charge for a turn.