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Alright, it's been months since I have gotten a game in, and this one was rather spur of the moment. A couple of the gang came over last night, and I talked them into some 40K. None of them brought an army (Alex was supposed to bring his marines), so we pulled out my Imperial Guard for Alex to use, and I used my Necrons that I had been waiting to use for about a year.

Here are the lists (from memory).

Necrons

Lord with Staff of light, Veil of Darkness, Resurrection Orb
Lord with Warscythe, Destroyer Body, Phylactery, and the 4+ save thingy (i forget the name ops: )
5x Immortals
10x warriors
10x warriors
2x Wraith
3x Scarbs with disruption field
3x destroyer
1x heavy destroyer
1x tomb spider
1x monolith

Imperial Guard

Company HQ wth Heavy Bolter, Grenade Launcher, Plasma Gun, Master of Ordinance, Astropath.
Veteran Squad with Plasma Gun in Chimera with multilaser, heavy flamer, hunter killer missile
Platoon consisting of:
HQ with HB IIRC
Squad with Auto Cannon, plasma gun
squad with flamer
Squad with Autocannon, plasma gun
HW squad with Missile Launchers
HW squad with Lascannons
HW squad with mortars
Sentinel with multilaser
Sentinel with multilaser
sentinel with lascannon
Griffon x 2 in squadron
Leman Russ with Lascannon/HB sponsons
Leman Russ (Punisher? Hvy 20 gun) with hull Lascannon

As you can see neither force is ideal. My Necrons were an army done purely for fun in painting them up, so they have a little of everything (not the way to go tactically!). The guard army was put together under late second and early 3rd edition, and hasn't changed since. With a few additions it would be ok for 5th though.

We ended up playing Annihilation with the table quarter deployment. Kill points were bad for both armies with several little units that were fairly easy to kill. We rolled for deployment with the Guard winning the choice. Alex chose his corner and crammed everything but the Chimer into it. I deployed opposite, and tried to steal the initiative and rolled....a 6! Initiative stolen! Here's the deployments. The picture of the guard deployment isn't the best.

Necron Deployment


Guard Deployment


I'll summarise a bit from here. The guard did the gunline thing and held back (since they didn't need to move for any reason). I moved the wraiths, destroyer lord and scarabs forward as fast as possible (turbo boost) since the best they'd get were cover saves anyway. Everything else that had range took up firing positions if they had range. The monolith drifted forward and sling shot teleported a warrior unit into the ruins at the center of my board edge (like an idiot I forgot the Veil. I could have gotten more than one unit up there right away if I had thought of it).




Here the Wraithwing flies forward in the face of the guard firepower. In my shooting phase the destroyers zapped the lascannon squad deployed in the big rectangular ruin inflicting 3 wounds. Since they were Str6 the three weapon teams suffered instant death and were removed. The Heavy Destroyer shot at a Leman Russ and missed (this would be a trend )

In the Imperial Guard turn the Missile Launcher squad dropped one of the destroyers, and the guard squads on the Necron left flank opened up on the Lord and his escorts. With Lasguns alone (and abyssmal saves on my part) both Wraiths dropped and the Lord took 2 of his 3 wounds. I was feeling disheartened. In addition, the MotO, the punisher, the Leman Russ, and the griffons combined to take out about ten of my twenty warriors. Remarkably at the beginning of my turn all but 2 got up again.

Everyone made their morale checks and we went to my turn. In my turn the two remaining destoyers took out the missile launcher squad (again with three ID wounds). The destroyer lord (with his one remaining wound) charged the regular Leman Russ, and cut into itty bitty bits (but barely--out of 4 auto hits with 2d6+5 penetration I only got one pen, and no glances). The scarbs charged into a squad of guardsmen to tie them up from shooting, and did that for the next two turns as they got whittled down and eventually destroyed. The monolith ported the unit of warriors that had been knocked down from 10 to 2 to grant WBB rerolls. It helped a lot as I ended up with 7 in the squad at the end. I didn't take a lot of pictures in this part of the game since not much went anywhere. Here's a few that include the scarab combat, the Lord vs LRBT, and an overview of the board (which might be from 1 turn later)









From this point the armies pretty much flailed away at one another. Following the destruction of the LRBT the IG concentrated all their fire on the Destroyer Lord. He managed to survive 63 shots from various things (about 45 were FRFSRF lasguns) without losing his last wound. It took him two turns to kill the second Leman Russ since in the first round of combat I got three pens, but rolled 1,1,2 for the damange result :roll:

The monolith got within range of the Co HQ and dropped a pie plate on it (it also failed its difficult terrain test and immpbilized itself at the middle of the board). The Co fled the field after taking fire from the monolith and the Immortals (who finally made it to the fray after running from the backfield). The Heavy Destroyer finally hit something and killed one of the two griffons. The sentinels showed up on the flanks, and together with some other squads eliminated the regular destroyers in one volley of shots.

Having dealt with the battle tanks the Necron Lord charged a unit of guardsmen. I thought no problem sure thing. Not quite. What heavy weapons galore couldn't do 6 guys with bayonets did and the Lord was dragged from the sky.



Going into the bottom of 5 it was 6 kill points to 4 in favor of the Necrons. My Lord was down, and as the last act the multilaser sentinel gunned down the Heavy Destroyer. This made it (for the moment) 6 to 6. If we got a turn 6 the Lord Might get back up.

Alex rolled the die.......and got a 2. The game ended at a 6 to 6 draw. Just for fun we rolled to see how the Lord would have done on his WBB+phylactery roll. It came up a 6. If we had a turn 6 the Destroyer Lord would have come back at full strength, and that likely would have doomed the remaining guardsmen (since I also had my second Lord, 15 warriors, and 4 immortals closing in as well.

All in all it was a great game and we were both happy with a draw. Hope you enjoyed the read.

Dan

Well painted armies, a solid showing by the Guard despite losing the tanks, and a good read to boot!

Great to see all painted armies on the field. I am also one who loves draws. Both players get a chance to think about what they could have done to pull off the game and in a way they really both won

I like the old Guardsmen, I've seen a handful but never full squads of them.

Great report!

Both armies look great and the game itself looked very even Sounds like it was a lot of fun.

Great Report.

I love seeing the painted armies. They look great. I get tired of seeing pictures of unpainted armies on the table. Great Work!

Thanks for reading everyone. The game was a lot of fun, and obviously nail bitingly close. As for the painted armies, I wouldn't have it any other way. Without color it just doesn't look right, and loses a lot of the enjoyment for us.

the IG look good but the cron models look amazing!

I really like the choice of a bronze color for the Monolith especially. Agreed all of it looks fantastic.

Hollismason wrote:I really like the choice of a bronze color for the Monolith especially. Agreed all of it looks fantastic.

Thanks! I wanted the Monolith to stand out from the rest of the army, and to actually look more ancient. I also didn't really want a bright silver giant pyramid floating around.

Nice battle report and nicely painted armies aswell

the terrain was also great and painted! this is a game we all should aspire!

The monolith looks fantastic, i saw a similar one painted by one of the 'eavy metal team at games workshop in lenton/nottingham. looks great!

looks like a good game

That was a good game. We had a lot of fun. I didn't do pics and a batrep of our next game since one of the guys was trying his new IG roster and it was only about 1/3 painted. I didn't see a reason to put up pictures of white minis, and I'm not much of one for batreps w/o pics. That'd my main purpose for reading them anyway. I'm hoping to get the guys over again sometime in July for another game. Keep watching.