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So this Saturday I headed down to the local flgs to get a game in. I had decided to bring my new camera and make my first battle report. I brought my necrons since they're 90%+ painted and wanted to put on a good showing. My opponent was playing an amazingly painted traitor guard and chaos army.

Necron list
Destrolord MSS, weave, orb
Zandrekh
Court
Destructek with pulse
Stormtek with lightning field

8immortals in scythe
5warriors scythe
8 warriors
10 warriors ghost ark

6 scarabs
6wraiths 2 coils

2xspyders gloom prism 2x fab claws
2x anni barges

Chaos/guard list
Khornlord on jugger with blind rage axe and some other stuff
10x chaos marines with 2 melta guns
10xcultists
3x nurgle spawn
3x bikes
Helldrake
Land raider
Vindicator
Maulerfiend

Officer of the fleet(whichever adds to your reserve rolls)
Penal legions
Vet squad with all plasma in chimaera
Vendetta
Manticore

So we rolled the scouring on vanguard. I placed objectives first, and my opponent got first turn.

DEPLOYMENT

RESERVES - I kept my immortals and warriors with stormtek in reserves, he kept his drake, vendetta, penal legion, and cultists in reserve.


TURN 1
I attempt to seize but fail so my opponent keeps the initiative. He moves his spawn, khornelord/bikers, and mauler fiend up 12. His land raider moves to the side for better shots at my army that I deployed as out of sight as I could. His land raider shoots at my spyders doing 2 wounds. His manticore fires at my wraiths, it gets 2 shots but the first scatters and second flips to nowhere only getting 2 hits, both of which I save. He turbo boosts/runs the bikers Klord, runs both the spawn and mauler fiend.


BOTTOM ONE
On my turn i take away counter charge from his lord, and give one of my barges tank hunters. I move my warriors with zandrekh back away from his bikers otherwise they will get butchered by his lord. I move my wraiths over to try and intercept what I can while staying out of immediate danger. I move my scarabs up to charge his mauler fiend the spyders follow to get out of line of sight of the vindicator and hopefully spawn more scarabs. I move my barge and ghost ark to the left to try and get shots off at his vindicator. My shooting is fairly inneffective, firing a barge at his vindicator, and a barge at his lord. I then charge his mauler fiend losing 3 bases but taking it down to armor 6 and then wrecking it doing 6 pen results.

TOP OF TURN 2


Chaos/guard turn 2
My opponent rolls his reserves and gets all of them in. The helldrake flies over to target my scarabs, his vendetta comes on to get shots at my front barge, his penal legion outflank right behind my warrior squad with zandrekh. His veteran squad moves up to get some plasma in range of my spyders. His vindicator moves up to shoot my left most barge and ark. His land raider stays put. And his spawn move around to charge my spyders.


My opponents shooting is moderately effective as he wipes out the scarabs, puts 2 wounds on the front spyder, his vindicator and vendetta shoot at my front barge doing a glance. His manticore again fails to kill anything, and his vindicator gets his 2 las cannon pens jinked away. He then turbos his bikers/Lord and charges my spyders with the spawn. His spawn put a wound on my spyders killing one, I pass my leadership and we stay locked.

Necrons turn 2
I'm on my back foot now despite the only moderately effective shooting and assault from my opponent. He has both his flyers in a prime spot to really hurt me if I'm not careful. I again give the barge that's targeting the vindicator tank hunters and take away his lord counter attack. I roll my reserves and get BOTH scythes in, what good luck! I move my stormtek scythe to drop off passengers at his land raider, the other scythe targets his helldrake. I move my warriors back a little further to stay away from the bikes and to shoot the penal legion behind me. I string my wraiths a destrolord out to dual charge his spawn and LORD. My barges move slightly for jink, as does my ark.

Necron shooting is quite effective as I destroy his land raider with 5 glances from the stormtek warrior squad, he then piles the 10 guys out toward my warriors. I then target his manticore with the scythe and BAM!

3-SIXES! The manticore goes down before it can fire a third rocket What luck!! I then fire everything into his penal legion squad with my warriors and zandrekh doing 9 wounds

My rear barge fires at his helldrake and does nothing, the barge shooting at the vindicator does 1 glance. I then make my charge on both targets of the wraith's. he challenges with his biker sergeant and I accept with my destrolord, he passes mindshackles but I kill his Sargent and a spawn but he does a wound to the wraiths I win by 3 but were all fearless so nothing to see here.


TOP TURN 3


Things have just swing heavily in my favor and if I can keep things locked up its looking good. But I still have to be careful.
My opponent vector strikes my barge with his helldrake and gets ready to flame my warrior squad with zandrekh who is out of position to tank the AP3 wounds. His vendetta moves to shoot my rear barge. He moves the newly piled out marines toward my warrior squad I blew up his land raider with. His cultists move up behind the chimaera. He the. Proceeds to blow up my rear barge with his vendetta and immobilizes my front barge with his vindicator. The bale flamer on his helldrake does 6 wounds to my warrior squad. And his chaos warrior shot down 4 warriors and cryptek leaving 1 alive! Only one would get back up.


We now move onto assault where his warriors without a raider butchers my lone warrior. In the wraith combat his lord challenges and I accept he fails his mindshackle and does a wound to himself, my lord then proceeds to do another wound. His last biker kills a wraith then dies. My other wraiths kill off another spawn who fail to wound me back. I win by a few but again were fearless Thus staying locked again in combat.


BOTTOM 3
I again give tank hunters to my barge, and have nothing to take away. I don't move a whole lot except to get zandrekh in position to take baleflamer wounds and move my ark back to attempt to shoot something down. I move my 2 scythes to try and fire on his vet squad chimaera and cultists they don't do much damage killing a few cultists and immobilize the chimaera. I kill off his last penal legionnaire with zandrekh's squad, the barge fires at his vindicator and again BAM!

3 sixes!! The vindicator goes down in a hail of ZzZap tesla! The rest of my shooting is in effective and nothing even gets glanced. Onto combat my opponents lord passes mindshackles but does no damage and neither does my lord. MY wraiths finish off the last spawn and pile in towards my lord.

BOTTOM TURN 3



And unfortunately I now have some daily plans to attend to and will finish up the report later tonight.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Chaos/guard turn 4
In this turn my opponents helldrake and vendetta are forced into hover mode or to fly off the board. My opponent goes into hover mode and uses the vendetta to blow up my ghost ark killing 4 in the explosion. Then kills another 5 with his helldrake. Unfortunately he leaves 1 alive and I make a few res protocols.


With nothing else too shoot at we move to combat. Where his lord fails his mind shackles and puts a wound on himself. My lord hits twice but fails to wound. But wait not only do I have preferred enemy, but I have 5 wraiths for a reroll so I end up wounding twice and.... The Lord fails his final save!!!


Bottom turn 4
So now with my wraiths free, and spyders within striking distance I move to punch his planes out of the sky. I drop my immortals out of the scythe on the middle objective before moving into position to clean up if the wraiths and Lord fail. I fail to do damage with the scythes so it's up to The Lord and wraiths. Who each blow up a vehicle. The Lord takes the vendetta the wraiths kill the drake.


TURN 5
My opponent is running out of options now, he moves his chaos warriors, and veteran squad to get better moves on my immortals I dropped on the middle objective. He unloads with everything and wipes the squad even with me going to ground....


BOTTOM 5
All I do here is fly my scythes off the table, and move my wraiths toward one objective, and zandrekh toward the other.


We roll to see if it goes on and it does so my opponent moves some to try and capture another objective and doesnt quite make it. then i take my turn to bring on the wcythes and fire on his small cultist and vet squads. i dont really kill anyrhing and my turn ends. we roll again and the game goes on, but we decide there's really no point and conclude here.

Overview of objectives


Chaos/Guard


We add up the objectives and its a TIE 6-6. But wait we add up FA kills and the 3 secondary objectives. Giving the necrons a 13-7 win (vendetta, helldrake, spawn, bikers, first blood, and warlord).

Afterthoughts
Wow this was not as close as I was thinking at turn 5. I forgot about the fast attack choices. Great win against a great opponent.

On the report itself. Wow this was a lot more intensive than I thought. Now that I know what to expect ill need to be a bit more organized and make sure there is a turn reference in every photo(despite being told this ahead of time). I also need to take a single picture of everything that happens to the units, instead of just general turn stuff and bigger events. I might need to take notes as well becaude I know there is stuff I forgot.

What do you all think for a first timer? Any comments and criticism welcome as I know this isn't the greatest report haha.

Great report- double check some of your photo links are incomplete.

I think I got it now! Yah I will be much better prepared for the next one I do. This was a lot of learning experience and wayyyy more intensive than I expected haha. Glad you enjoyed it!

One of the best games I've had in awhile- hoping to go down tomorrow depending in the weather.

That was a really good and enjoyable batrep, the pics were great as well nice and clear.

Cool game you guys. I thought it was closer as well. Those wraiths are just disturbingly good in your hands.

Thanks guys.

@Buddha yah they're everything I've ever wanted in a squad. Super durable, fast as crap, hit like a ton of bricks, and the fear factor they bring make them possibly my favorite unit in the game ATM in contention with Lysander and sternguard. As long as I don't run into TH/SS used as a counter assault force I'm good haha.

Very well photographed and explained battle report.

Also two nice looking armies. I like the wraiths and scythes in particular.