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so as a follow up to my last batrep, i went down to my local FLGS for a tournament practice game. i will be playing Poster Buddha with his necron/chaos. i asked him to bring a nasty list, as i need the practice for an 1850 tournament coming up and im running out of time for practice. so here goes, let me know what you all think tactically or with the batrep itself.

Necron list
Destroyerlord-Mss, weave, orb
Zandrekh
Court
stormtek w/lightning field
Destructiontek with Pulse
8ximmortals in scythe
5xwarriors in scythe
10xwarriors in ghost ark
8xwarriors
7 scarabs
6 wraiths w/2 whip coils
2x annihalation barges
2xspyders w/ gloom prism, 2xfabricator claw

Necron/chaos list
Overlord w/ mss, warscythe, weave
court
couple of stormteks(i cant remember exactly hopefully Buddha can fill this in.)
8 immortals
10x warriors w/ ghost ark
5x warriors w/night scythe
5x warriors w/night scythe
2xannihilation barge
doom scythe

Abaddon
20 something cultists
helldrake
Aegis w/comms relay

Mission
Primary is the Scouring
Secondary is Purge the alien
Tertiary is First blood-1, Line breaker-2, Slay the Warlord-3
deployment is Hammer and Anvil

Warlord traits are strategic genius for both of us. helpful to me, not so much for my opponent with comms relay haha.
We roll off for deployment and my opponent picks sides but i get second turn. Night fighting is not on.
my opponent gets the 4 point, 2 point, and another 2 point leaving me with 2-3 point objective and the 1 point.

Pre Game Thoughts
So my opponent has whipped my butt more than a few times, however in our last game I beat him with drop pod Vulkan marines against his necron grey knights. So I know it's going to be a tough game. I also know how the helldrake is going to treat my troops. Add to that Abaddon and I'm not sure what my target priorities will be. I think if I can down his flyers quickly and take the air superiority I can probably win. Having 2 extra scoring units due to the scouring is going to help as well. Also if I can get into his troops while avoiding Abaddon and the cultists with my wraiths it's probably game over. This is the first game I've played against more than 2 flyers so it should be interesting.

Overview of Board


Deployment


Chaos Crons Turn 1


Pure Crons Turn 1


Chaos Crons Turn 2


Pure Crons Turn 2


Chaos Crons Turn 3
Overview top of turn 3


Pure Crons Turn 3


Chaos Crons Turn 4


Pure Crons Turn 4


Chaos Crons Turn 5


Pure Crons Turn 5


we then roll to see if the game goes on and....



Primary Objective is the Scouring

It was a knife edge game and ending at 5 killed me but I just couldn't get lucky killin zhandrekh and his squad earlier and the fact the D.lord managed to get up twice was just crushing to any plan. Can't wait for the next bout as robot on robot violence is always acceptable

MVP for my army: The Ghost Ark, the thing did more damage to Chance's army then the rest of my units combined.
MVP for my opponent: The D.Lord, not just because he soaked up a ton of firepower, but he made sure that flank was locked down until I could actually kill the guy.

Worst performer for me: Abbaddon, he was big, he was scary, he did nothing. Part of it was my fault in using him but wasn't very effective for his points. Beater mace prince next time I think.
Worst performer for my opponent: In my humble opinion, Chance may disagree, but his annihilation barges seemed to do nothing all game (not that mine were any more effective) depsite making awesome rolls of 6s.

Haha yah, I played another game yesterday against blood angels and my Dlord was just as annoying getting up twice before staying down. And yes as we found out ending at 5 really hurt!

Great report!! I have some wound markers for you that I made using a giant hole puncher & neon index cards.

@Inquisitormack - haha nice! And thanks for the support. Unfortunately I won't be around the whiz for like 2 weeks as I have a tournament Saturday and Easter on Sunday. But we'll meet up at some point I'm sure.

Me either; busy time at work for awhile.

Lovely armies and a fun close battle reports. I'm also happy to see that it wasn't the units everyone consider op that did the most damage and that you showed how to deal with them

@fenric thanks I appreciate the kind words. And I agree it was good fun to figure out what can do what against what units, which is why we play! We've obviously taken some "powerful" units. But neither of us are all that interested in spamming 3 of each. So you use what you can where you can and become a good player not a player with a good list.

@Buddha yah my barges weren't great, I'd also add in the scarabs as they died way to fast to do anything haha, the spyders were fairly useless as well. It was like neither of us wanted to really engage and overextend haha.

Fun to read thanks for the battle report and good pictures... Keep having fun even with a big chunk of Necron Just giving you a hard time. Take care.

Excellent report. Well organized and very engaging. I must say, I really like your format.

Here are some of my tips strategy-wise:

1. You shouldn't split up your forces like that. Better to deploy them closer to each other. At least put the scarabs closer to the wraiths (and I will explain why below).

2. Because your opponent didn't have a lot of long-range shooting. You should deploy your D-lord with the scarabs. This would have saved them from the heldrake on T2 as your lord could have tanked all those shots. This is also the reason to deploy your scarabs and wraiths closer together. When you are ready to assault, you can easily join the D-lord to the wraiths.

3. I'm not sure if you did this (kind of hard to tell), but you need to take advantage of terrain whenever possible, especially to deny some of your opponent's shooting. Wraiths should try to get closer to LOS-blocking terrain to protect themselves from enemy fire or to at least deny LOS from some of his units. Not sure if that was possible in this game, but nonetheless, it is a tip worth considering.

Your opponent made a couple of mistakes as well.

1. He deployed his Aegis line with quad-guns too far back. He needs to deploy them up front to give his cultists some cover. Also, the way Aegis is currently deployed, there is a "blind spot" where your flyers can come in safely. Basically, his quad-guns don't have the range to cover up the board so you can easily avoid them if you had wanted to.

2. Abaddon needs to be deploy in the front of the cultists, not in the back. With his 2+ armour, he is better utilized in tanking enemy shots and doing Look-Out-Sirs with the more dangerous shots to the cultists.


This tips aren't meant to criticize how you guys played. It is merely observations to help you guys improve on your tactics. Great report and keep up the good work.

Hey thanks for popping in JY2. Im glad you like the format, it's basically a modified version of yours as you are a big reason i started wanting to do batreps /endbrownnosing haha.

To address some points, I never thought of putting the Dlord with the scarabs at deployment but that is such a great idea. And yes I realized after the game as I was doing the report that splitting my forces was a terrible idea haha. I would have felt much more comfortable charging the cultist Abaddon squad with the scarabs alive to combo charge with the wraiths.

I tried to utilize cover for what I could, I could probably have done a better job, cant we always ;p. I felt i did well using LoS blocking with the wraiths and Dlord till I started forgetting to move them and failing charges.

The quad gun wasn't actually there. It was a comms relay for his 4 flyers this game. I believe my opponent glued the quadgun on though so we just turned it backwards.

Yah I believe the previous games me and Buddha have played against each other hurt him. In almost every single other game we've played I come at his army fast and hard. With drop pods, melta, Lysander, and Vulkan. then in this game when I kind of stayed back and tried to bait him he kept away and it left him too far out of it. I believe Buddha even said after the game he wishes he deployed the aegis and immortals farther up as he was expecting me to try and rush him and I didn't. I'm sure he'll be in here again at some point to address his stuff.

And seriously it's totally cool, both of us appreciate the tactical support/advice/constructive criticism/whatever else. So feel free to fill us in on anything you see that we didn't!

 jy2 wrote:
Excellent report. Well organized and very engaging. I must say, I really like your format.

Here are some of my tips strategy-wise:

1. You shouldn't split up your forces like that. Better to deploy them closer to each other. At least put the scarabs closer to the wraiths (and I will explain why below).

2. Because your opponent didn't have a lot of long-range shooting. You should deploy your D-lord with the scarabs. This would have saved them from the heldrake on T2 as your lord could have tanked all those shots. This is also the reason to deploy your scarabs and wraiths closer together. When you are ready to assault, you can easily join the D-lord to the wraiths.

3. I'm not sure if you did this (kind of hard to tell), but you need to take advantage of terrain whenever possible, especially to deny some of your opponent's shooting. Wraiths should try to get closer to LOS-blocking terrain to protect themselves from enemy fire or to at least deny LOS from some of his units. Not sure if that was possible in this game, but nonetheless, it is a tip worth considering.

Your opponent made a couple of mistakes as well.

1. He deployed his Aegis line with quad-guns too far back. He needs to deploy them up front to give his cultists some cover. Also, the way Aegis is currently deployed, there is a "blind spot" where your flyers can come in safely. Basically, his quad-guns don't have the range to cover up the board so you can easily avoid them if you had wanted to.

2. Abaddon needs to be deploy in the front of the cultists, not in the back. With his 2+ armour, he is better utilized in tanking enemy shots and doing Look-Out-Sirs with the more dangerous shots to the cultists.


This tips aren't meant to criticize how you guys played. It is merely observations to help you guys improve on your tactics. Great report and keep up the good work.

Observations are always appreciated. Chance and I play each quite often and we both except playstyles from each other, even though the armies and lists change. As said above I expected Chance to rush forward with the wraiths and scarabs so I positioned my lord w/immortal and aegis line to hopeful get him out of position with the anvil part of his army but instead we kinda stared down each other waiting for the other to blink and charge. Also, as noted, I just proxyed my quad gun as my comms relay since I didn't have the piece.

I totally screwed up using abbaddon (was actually my first time using him ever) so there's no question of a mistake there. I usually run a jugger-axe khorne lord so I'm used to having the cultists be bullet wounds since said lord only has a 3+ but I won't make that mistake again.

Just as an aside, total fan of your battle reps JY2.

Thanks for the background info on the matchup. Now it puts the tactics more in perspective when one can see the history behind it. And sorry about the comms relay. It's interesting how sometimes the mind disassociates what it reads from what it sees (visually). Lol.