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.

Just getting back into the game after a 10+ year break so I purchased the SM/Necron Elite edition starting box.

I've been playing with my wife and no matter who controls the SM army they win every single game. This is 10+ games at full army strength for both.
We don't have any new codex/large rule book, but are these armies balanced points wise?

General rules we are playing with are only the ones supplied with the boxed set:
Move.
Shoot/advance.
Charge into melee if able.
Charging army attacks first, each turn after that the person's who turn it is attacks second.
Pistols can still shoot while in melee.
Saving attacks are modified by attackers -AP.

I believe these are close point wise and I don't think they are fundamentally unbalanced but I assume the box doesn't contain any of these factions special rules, and playing without these would probably tilt things a bit.

Should get better once you get a hold on the rules & codexes.

I really hope so....these Assault Intercessors alone kill nearly everything on the field each battle.

hmm. It seems like the game ought to come down to whether the necron warriors get a good shooting attack off on the assault intercessors, or whether th destroyers get to charge the intercessors rather than vice-versa. Either could really take a big chunk out of them, and as annoying as those bikes can be I don't think they have it in them to take out all the 'crons.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
If you want to try adding a rule that would probably tip things in favor of the necrons a bit:

All necrons have a rule called Resurrection Protocols. Every turn you roll a number of dice equal to the number of dead necrons in each unit, and if you roll a number of 5+s equal to the Wounds the unit has, one of them gets back up. The necron warriors in particular since they just have one wound and a special rule that they re-roll 1s for that roll tend to bring back a bunch of dudes with it.

04paynem wrote:
I really hope so....these Assault Intercessors alone kill nearly everything on the field each battle.

Ah would have thought the bikes would have been the issue here considering they are roughly the same deal as the Assault Intercessors but with better shooting and faster

If you need ideas maybe the board can help if you tell us how these games are played ? Is there any kind of "mission" involved or is it a "slay them to the last one" kind of thing ?
Also, are you playing on the cardboard thing play area in the box or are you playing on a bigger area ? With the base terrain only ?
Is there even rules for the terrain in this box ?

Edit : Wait, it's a full rulebook in there (without fluff), isn't it ?