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My usual opponent always uses these lists. I play Necrons, and he always beats me with Unbound and solo vehicle stupidity.
(Running vehicles in seperate squads and putting them next to each other prevents high RPM AV weapons from doing damage to more than one with a single volley)
He allies ALL THE THINGS together.

His Lists:

Tau:
Fireblade, 2 Hammerheads, Riptide, 3 Solo Piranhas, 36 fire warriors, 3 Suits (One proxied as Farsight), all drones are marker drones.

Orks:
Solo Kans, Deff Dreads and Lootas. As many KMBs as possible.

Chaos:
Just about everything.

GK List
HQ-
Terminator Librarian
-ML3 (Rolling on Telepathy for invisibility)

Troops-
Strike Squad (10x GKs) with 2x Psilencers and 2x Daemonhammers
Purifier Squad w/ Psilencer

Elites
Paladins w/ Psycannon, Nemesis Banner, 5 Daemonhammers, Apothecary, and Land Raider.
Librarian and Paladins are in Land Raider together.

Heavy Support
Dreadknight w/ Heavy Psycannon and DOOMHAMMER.


Please help! I have almost every Necron unit.

It's hard to beat IoM ally shenanigans as Xenos as we lack a battle brother ally (except for space pansies).

Gauss is probably your best bet against his baneblade and maybe spam flyers?

The only way to beat IoM cheese (especially Grey Knight cheese) is through using your own cheese.

SGTPozy wrote:
It's hard to beat IoM ally shenanigans as Xenos as we lack a battle brother ally (except for space pansies).

Gauss is probably your best bet against his baneblade and maybe spam flyers?

The only way to beat IoM cheese (especially Grey Knight cheese) is through using your own cheese.

Tried Flyer spam last game. I almost got wiped as soon as the game started, any unit that dropped out of the flyers was instagibbed by tons of pie plates, and the Flyers couldn't do anything to AV14.

Purifiers are Elites by the way.

How many points is this?

The only other thing that I could suggest would be going going unbound yourself and ally in some stuff. Get some Tau allies as they're allies of convenience (I believe), as although they aren't upper tier anymore they do work well against Grey Knights and mech heavy lists +through deep striking fusion blaster suits).

Or another option is to do what most other IoM players do and ally in an Imperial Knight or two.

 ductvader wrote:
Purifiers are Elites by the way.

How many points is this?

IG- 1300
GK- 1500

So what you desperately need is Annihilation Barges...that's the giant blast cannoe right?

You need S8+ AP2- and as much as possible.

Wait

Baneblades?

Bring your own Tranyshard and rofl stomp him already

if he complains than demand no one plays LOW.


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 ductvader wrote:
So what you desperately need is Annihilation Barges...that's the giant blast cannoe right?

You need S8+ AP2- and as much as possible.

Doomsythes work better.

Bypasses Invisible and is St10 ap1 IIRC

The way to beat him is to play Maelstrom missions, take plenty of troops in transports, preferably Nightscythes since he has no anti-flyer. Stay Battle-forged, so that your troops get Objective Secured. You don't need to kill the enemy, you just need to score more victory points than him. Play to the objectives all the time.

Oh, and also in the game I played there was only one peice of terrain and he wouldn't let me place any more. All of my terrain is at his house. Please help.

Verviedi wrote:
Oh, and also in the game I played there was only one peice of terrain and he wouldn't let me place any more. All of my terrain is at his house. Please help.

Tell him to go feth him self because thats bullgak.

one person having full control of terrain placement is just asking for trouble

Verviedi wrote:
Oh, and also in the game I played there was only one peice of terrain and he wouldn't let me place any more. All of my terrain is at his house. Please help.

Why didn't you start with this in the first place. This is a huge problem

 CrownAxe wrote:

Verviedi wrote:
Oh, and also in the game I played there was only one peice of terrain and he wouldn't let me place any more. All of my terrain is at his house. Please help.

Why didn't you start with this in the first place. This is a huge problem

Yeah this is "stop playing him and find better opponents" territory

nobody wrote:

 CrownAxe wrote:

Verviedi wrote:
Oh, and also in the game I played there was only one peice of terrain and he wouldn't let me place any more. All of my terrain is at his house. Please help.

Why didn't you start with this in the first place. This is a huge problem

Yeah this is "stop playing him and find better -Friends-" territory

 raiden wrote:

nobody wrote:

 CrownAxe wrote:

Verviedi wrote:
Oh, and also in the game I played there was only one peice of terrain and he wouldn't let me place any more. All of my terrain is at his house. Please help.

Why didn't you start with this in the first place. This is a huge problem

Yeah this is "stop playing him and find better -Friends-" territory

Doing this would bring my net total of friends who play 40k to 0.
Also, whenever I ask for more LOS blocking terrain because Gunline Tau are broken on open fields, he just says I'm whining because he can beat me.

Doesn't look like your friend brings much AA. Croissants?

Verviedi wrote:

 raiden wrote:

nobody wrote:

 CrownAxe wrote:

Verviedi wrote:
Oh, and also in the game I played there was only one peice of terrain and he wouldn't let me place any more. All of my terrain is at his house. Please help.

Why didn't you start with this in the first place. This is a huge problem

Yeah this is "stop playing him and find better -Friends-" territory

Doing this would bring my net total of friends who play 40k to 0.
Also, whenever I ask for more LOS blocking terrain because Gunline Tau are broken on open fields, he just says I'm whining because he can beat me.

Army swap for a day and let him feel your pain

He sounds like a donkeycave.

It's dangerous to play alone.

Here.

Take this.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/store_finder.jsp

 ductvader wrote:
It's dangerous to play alone.

Here.

Take this.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/store_finder.jsp

I'm aware of this.
My FLGS is a GW with about 3 regular gamers.
The nearest independent is a dingy craphole.
Every other store is ~45 minutes away.

Verviedi wrote:

 ductvader wrote:
It's dangerous to play alone.

Here.

Take this.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/store_finder.jsp

I'm aware of this.
My FLGS is a GW with about 3 regular gamers.
The nearest independent is a dingy craphole.
Every other store is ~45 minutes away.

You are not sub 17" and have access to a motor vehicle right?
45 min isnt that bad.. and a local Geedubs arnt that bad ether so long as you are not rocking 3rd parties or actively trying to provoke them.

 Desubot wrote:

Verviedi wrote:

 ductvader wrote:
It's dangerous to play alone.

Here.

Take this.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/store_finder.jsp

I'm aware of this.
My FLGS is a GW with about 3 regular gamers.
The nearest independent is a dingy craphole.
Every other store is ~45 minutes away.

You are not sub 17" and have access to a motor vehicle right?
45 min isnt that bad.. and a local Geedubs arnt that bad ether so long as you are not rocking 3rd parties or actively trying to provoke them.

Nope! I'm sub 17.

Welp You are SOL

Anyone know where I can get tons of LOS blocking terrain for cheap? I don't have much money and suck at making terrain.

Verviedi wrote:
Anyone know where I can get tons of LOS blocking terrain for cheap? I don't have much money and suck at making terrain.

your back yard

my first full on table terrain was made with 2 actual pieces of terrain, then a bunch of large rocks, limbs, sticks, ect.

Hot glue and cardboard.

Corigated for the bulk

Cardstock for details

Make it look nice.

It wont matter if your friend wont let you use it.

Otherwise found objects and books work well.

Is he really a friend if hes being that harsh on you? But honestly that terrain issue is very important and needs to be fixed.

Yeah playing on planet bowling ball not only looks dumb, he's bullying you out of a win. This guy sounds like a donkey-cave lol.

Verviedi wrote:

 ductvader wrote:
It's dangerous to play alone.

Here.

Take this.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/store_finder.jsp

I'm aware of this.
My FLGS is a GW with about 3 regular gamers.

thats 3 potential opponents right there.

BrianDavion wrote:

Verviedi wrote:

 ductvader wrote:
It's dangerous to play alone.

Here.

Take this.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/store_finder.jsp

I'm aware of this.
My FLGS is a GW with about 3 regular gamers.

thats 3 potential opponents right there.

I can only go to GW on weekends and he usually asks to go with me.

He's a tool... Shake that dude off your friends list and take the time to connect with the 3 at the store... Use the down time to paint or assemble more stuff and even make some terrain. Playing against an donkey-cave like that isn't productive or fun so ditch him and enjoy the other great elements of this game while you locate better opponents.