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Had a 1000 point game versus Necrons at GW Brighton yesterday:-

Valkyrie's Blood Angels

Tycho

5 man Death Company
* 2 Power Weapons
* Power Fist

10 man Tactical Squad
* Rockets
* Plasma Gun
* Plasma Pistol
* Power Weapon

5 man Tactical Squad
* Power Weapon

Dreadnought
* Missile Launcher
* Lascannon

Godhammer Land Raider


Necrons

Lord
* Resurrection Orb
* Phylactery

10 Warriors

10 Warriors

3 Destroyers

3 Destroyers

2 Heavy Destroyers

Tomb Spyder

6 Scarab Swarms


We were playing on a very small table, about 18" by 36" with a couple of 1 storey high wall sections in the center as the only terrain on the board. We rolled for an Annihalation mission with Pitched Battle deployment. He deploys first, keeping the Scarabs in reserve, and deploying the Warriors close to the Lord, who joined one of the squads themselves. The Destroyers set up further back and the Tomb Spyder started on the right flank on a small plateau.

I Combat Squadded the 10 man Tac squad, deploying the Sergeant and Plasma gunner in one team, and the Rockets in the other. These deployed on the right and rear sections respectively. The Dreadnought began in the centre in front of the 5 man team, and Tycho and the Death Company began in the Land Raider on the left flank.

Because this was an Annihalation mission, the Phase Out rule was not in use

I got the first turn.

Turn One

The Land Raider moves forward and trains it's weapons on the Destroyers. The Tactical Squads move up apart from the Rocket team which hangs back to use it's heavy weapon. During the shooting phase, the Dreadnought destroys a Heavy Destroyer, The Land Raider kills one Warrior and a Destroyer, and fire from the Tactical squad takes a wound off the Tomb Spyder. The Rockets down another Warrior.

He loses one Warrior with a failed WBB roll, while the Destroyers train their sights on the approaching Tactical Marines. The Heavy Destroyer manages to stun the Dreadnought, and Gauss Fire from the Warriors destroys a Lascannon on the Land Raider. The Tomb Spyder spawns a Scarab Swarm, and the Destroyers take down 2 Tactical Marines from the 5 man squad.

Turn One Result

Green indicates units above half strength.
Orange indicates units below half strength.
Red indicates destroyed units.

Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

BA: 0
Necrons: 0

Turn Two

The Land Raider continues forward and the Death Company disembark. The Tactical Squad all advance, including the Rocket team as their LoS is now blocked by the Raider. The Death Company and Tycho down one Warrior with their ranged weapons. The Plasma gunners destroy the Tomb Spyder. Tycho and the Death Company assault the Warriors, downing 7 and taking no wounds in return, with Tycho fluffing all his attacks.

In the Necron turn, 4 Warriors from the assault get back up, and more Gauss fire remove the last weapons from the Land Raider. The Heavy Destroyer moves south and destroys the Dreadnought's Lascannon. The assault continues, with the Death Company wounding 5 more Warriors, but still Tycho fails to wound a single one. They take a wound in return but pass the FnP save.

Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

BA: 1
Necrons: 0

Turn 3

The Plasma team continue to head north round the right flank, ready to fire on the Destroyers. The Dreadnought relocates east to deal with the other unit of Destroyers, and the other Tactical teams head north. The Plasma team successfully destroy the Destroyer unit, while the Dreadnought downs another from the second unit with it's Missile Launcher. In the assault phase, Tycho yet continues to fail in combat, leaving the Death Company to down the rest of the unit. They consolidate, stopping 1" from the Lord and the second unit of Warriors.

All but two Warriors from the previous assault phase and the lone Destroyer fail their WBB saves. The other unit of Destroyers are too far away to be affected by WBB. The Lord and his unit destroy the Land Raider with massed Gauss fire, and fire from the last Destroyers take the 5 man Tactical Squad down to one man. The Heavy Destroyer misses the Dreadnought. The 3 Warriors left fire at the Death Company, wounding Tycho and felling one DC Marine.

Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

BA: 2
Necrons: 1

Turn 4

The Dreadnought approaches the last two Destroyers, while the Plasma team head east and gun down the last 3 Warriors. The lone Sergeant takes cover behind the ruined wall, while the Dreadnought downs a Destroyer in combat. The remaining Destroyer flees. Tycho and the Death Company assault the second unit of Warriors, and Tycho finally downs his first Necron. The Death Company take 3 wounds in return but pass their FnP saves. Tycho is wounded by the Lord's Staff of Light.

The Destroyer passes his WBB roll and forms another unit. The Warrior Tycho downed passes his WBB save. 1 Warrior from the 3 man unit survives, denying me the Kill Point. The Scarabs arrive from reserve and Deep Strike to the south, close to the Rocket team. The last Warrior and the Heavy Destroyer manage to bring the Plasma team down to the gunner and the Sergeant. The Destroyer kills the Plasma gunner. In the assault phase, the Death Company down the unit, and Tycho manages to wound the Lord, twice!


Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

BA: 2
Necrons: 1

Turn 5

The Dreadnought moves north towards one Destroyer, while the lone Sergeant crawls through the ruin towards the other one. The other lone Sergeant heads east towards the last Warrior of the unit. The Rocket team remove one base and wound two more. The Dreadnought and the Sergeant assault their respective Destroyers, having failed to destroy them with ranged weapons. The other Sergeant assault and easily dispatches the lone Warrior, and then consolidates towards the other unit. No damage is done to the Destroyers.

The Warrior gets back up again and, with the Heavy Destroyer easily kills the Sergeant. The Scarabs assault the Rocket team, losing two wounds, inflicting none but remaining locked in combat. In the assault phase, Tycho bitch-slaps the Lord who easily goes down. The Death Company down the rest of the unit apart from two.


Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

BA: 3
Necrons: 2

Turn 6

The last turn of the game, and it is all close combat:

* No damage is inflicted in the Destroyer assaults
* The last two Warriors are downed.
* Two more wounds are inflicted on the Scarabs, although one Tactical Marine is killed.

The Necron Lord and three Warriors get back up with one wound left, and promptly assault and kill Tycho. One more Scarab base is destroyed. No damage is done to the Destroyers or the Dreadnought or Sergeant



Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms


Final Result

Blood Angels: 2 - Tomb Spyder and Destroyers.

Necrons: 3 - Tycho, Land Raider and Tactical Squad.

Crikey! Didn't see a Necron victory coming there. Nice report

Thanks! It was all down to that damm Resurrection Orb which denied me so many Kill Points!

wow i though that it was definetly a win to the blood angles with the last turn being all assult but wow sounded like a close and tense game but fun =)

It was really tense especially as it was on such a small board, meaning that everyone got stuck in straight away.

Please correct me if I misread this, but did you put Tycho with the Death Company - what makes me think this is

"The 3 Warriors left fire at the Death Company, wounding Tycho and felling one DC Marine."

Which makes it sounds like you allocated shooting wounds from the warriors into the DC onto Tycho and he lacks the IC special rule and (like Mephiston) is always a single model...

I could be just misreading though.

How come Phase Out dont work...Dont you automatically win (no matter at game) if you remove all models from board

calypso2ts wrote:Please correct me if I misread this, but did you put Tycho with the Death Company - what makes me think this is

"The 3 Warriors left fire at the Death Company, wounding Tycho and felling one DC Marine."

Which makes it sounds like you allocated shooting wounds from the warriors into the DC onto Tycho and he lacks the IC special rule and (like Mephiston) is always a single model...

I could be just misreading though.

I was using Classic Tycho, who does have the IC rule.

RonanG wrote:How come Phase Out dont work...Dont you automatically win (no matter at game) if you remove all models from board

He said that the BRB removes Phase Out in Annihilation missions.

I thought Phase Out was always in play regardless of mission type... it's a codex-specific rule, so it should trump the BRB, right? Nonetheless, looks like it was a close match!

Valkyrie wrote:
He said that the BRB removes Phase Out in Annihilation missions.

I do believe you got played there, sir. I know of no such rule, and I know a thing or two about Necrons. I find that it's good to ask to see things like that in writing.

Good report though!

Seems I did get conned there. I checked the BRB and there was no mention of Phase Out under the Annihilation mission.

In the Necron Codex it states Phase out is waived for 'sustained attack' missions e.g. 'Meat Grinder', but these were 3rd edition missions, and thus there is no way he could claim it would apply to annihilation missions in 5th.

Yea - you won :p

Ok so here is Blangels vs Necrons V2.0

Valkyrie wrote:

Valkyrie's Blood Angels

Tycho

5 man Death Company
* 2 Power Weapons
* Power Fist

10 man Tactical Squad
* Rockets
* Plasma Gun
* Plasma Pistol
* Power Weapon

5 man Tactical Squad
* Power Weapon

Dreadnought
* Missile Launcher
* Lascannon

Godhammer Land Raider


Necrons

Lord
* Resurrection Orb
* Phylactery

10 Warriors

10 Warriors

3 Destroyers

3 Destroyers

2 Heavy Destroyers

Tomb Spyder

6 Scarab Swarms


We were playing on a very small table, about 18" by 36" with a couple of 1 storey high wall sections in the center as the only terrain on the board. We rolled for an Annihalation mission with Pitched Battle deployment. He deploys first, keeping the Scarabs in reserve, and deploying the Warriors close to the Lord, who joined one of the squads themselves. The Destroyers set up further back and the Tomb Spyder started on the right flank on a small plateau.

I Combat Squadded the 10 man Tac squad, deploying the Sergeant and Plasma gunner in one team, and the Rockets in the other. These deployed on the right and rear sections respectively. The Dreadnought began in the centre in front of the 5 man team, and Tycho and the Death Company began in the Land Raider on the left flank.

Because this was an Annihalation mission, the Phase Out rule was not in use

I got the first turn.

Turn One

The Land Raider moves forward and trains it's weapons on the Destroyers. The Tactical Squads move up apart from the Rocket team which hangs back to use it's heavy weapon. During the shooting phase, the Dreadnought destroys a Heavy Destroyer, The Land Raider kills one Warrior and a Destroyer, and fire from the Tactical squad takes a wound off the Tomb Spyder. The Rockets down another Warrior.

He loses one Warrior with a failed WBB roll, while the Destroyers train their sights on the approaching Tactical Marines. The Heavy Destroyer manages to stun the Dreadnought, and Gauss Fire from the Warriors destroys a Lascannon on the Land Raider. The Tomb Spyder spawns a Scarab Swarm, and the Destroyers take down 2 Tactical Marines from the 5 man squad.

Turn One Result

Green indicates units above half strength.
Orange indicates units below half strength.
Red indicates destroyed units.

Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

BA: 0
Necrons: 0

Turn Two

The Land Raider continues forward and the Death Company disembark. The Tactical Squad all advance, including the Rocket team as their LoS is now blocked by the Raider. The Death Company and Tycho down one Warrior with their ranged weapons. The Plasma gunners destroy the Tomb Spyder. Tycho and the Death Company assault the Warriors, downing 7 and taking no wounds in return, with Tycho fluffing all his attacks.

In the Necron turn, 4 Warriors from the assault get back up, and more Gauss fire remove the last weapons from the Land Raider. The Heavy Destroyer moves south and destroys the Dreadnought's Lascannon. The assault continues, with the Death Company wounding 5 more Warriors, but still Tycho fails to wound a single one. They take a wound in return but pass the FnP save.

Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

BA: 1
Necrons: 0

Turn 3

The Plasma team continue to head north round the right flank, ready to fire on the Destroyers. The Dreadnought relocates east to deal with the other unit of Destroyers, and the other Tactical teams head north. The Plasma team successfully destroy the Destroyer unit, while the Dreadnought downs another from the second unit with it's Missile Launcher. In the assault phase, Tycho yet continues to fail in combat, leaving the Death Company to down the rest of the unit. They consolidate, stopping 1" from the Lord and the second unit of Warriors.

All but two Warriors from the previous assault phase and the lone Destroyer fail their WBB saves. The other unit of Destroyers are too far away to be affected by WBB. The Lord and his unit destroy the Land Raider with massed Gauss fire, and fire from the last Destroyers take the 5 man Tactical Squad down to one man. The Heavy Destroyer misses the Dreadnought. The 3 Warriors left fire at the Death Company, wounding Tycho and felling one DC Marine.

Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

BA: 2
Necrons: 1

Turn 4

The Dreadnought approaches the last two Destroyers, while the Plasma team head east and gun down the last 3 Warriors. The lone Sergeant takes cover behind the ruined wall, while the Dreadnought downs a Destroyer in combat. The remaining Destroyer flees. Tycho and the Death Company assault the second unit of Warriors, and Tycho finally downs his first Necron. The Death Company take 3 wounds in return but pass their FnP saves. Tycho is wounded by the Lord's Staff of Light.

The Destroyer passes his WBB roll and forms another unit. The Warrior Tycho downed passes his WBB save. 1 Warrior from the 3 man unit survives, denying me the Kill Point. The Scarabs arrive from reserve and Deep Strike to the south, close to the Rocket team. The last Warrior and the Heavy Destroyer manage to bring the Plasma team down to the gunner and the Sergeant. The Destroyer kills the Plasma gunner. In the assault phase, the Death Company down the unit, and Tycho manages to wound the Lord, twice!


Blood Angels
Tycho
Death Company
Tactical Squad
Tactical Squad
Dreadnought
Godhammer Land Raider

Necrons
Lord
Warriors
Warriors
Destroyers
Destroyers
Heavy Destroyers
Tomb Spyder
Scarab Swarms

At this point he Phases Out and the game (should have) ended.

Final Result

BA: 8
Necrons: 2

Necorns only phase out when their army has lost 75% of its necron units, this is after we'll be backs happen during the next necron turn ( I'm pretty sure anyway).

He had 29 necrons which mean he phases out at 7.25 rounding off to 7.

If one unit of warriors was above half strength and a destroyer squad was along with one destroyer squad being under half I'm pretty sure he hasnt phased out just yet.

Sorry but up till turn 4 victory still goes to the necrons.

Pretty good considering the table is less than 1/2 the correct size..

Glad you played the normal one, I have seen a lot of people throw DC Tycho in with the DC and I just wanted to be sure

Well played, too bad about the whole Phase Out shenanigans.

ShasO Ben wrote:Necorns only phase out when their army has lost 75% of its necron units, this is after we'll be backs happen during the next necron turn ( I'm pretty sure anyway).

He had 29 necrons which mean he phases out at 7.25 rounding off to 7.

If one unit of warriors was above half strength and a destroyer squad was along with one destroyer squad being under half I'm pretty sure he hasnt phased out just yet.

Sorry but up till turn 4 victory still goes to the necrons.

It was either Turn 4 or 5 where he (should have) phased out. Either way, he would have phased out by the end of the game.

Well at least now you know that he can't wave the phase out rule. All in all good job on busting some necron heads, I figured once you got into close combat he was done. Oh and as far as phase out goes, it happens after he rolls his WBB saves, so if you knock him below 25% and then WBB gets him above then he is still good.