First game in god knows..... Bat. Rep.

[Rellik]

So my first game playing one-on-one in god knows how long and it’s against Necron, an army that I’ve never played against before.

 

My army;

 

Reclusiarch – w/ melta bomb   135

 

7x death company – power sword, axe and thunder hammer  200

 

-storm raven   200

 

5x Assault Terminators – w/ thunder hammers and shields   225

 

-storm raven   200

 

5x ASM   100

 

-land raider   215

 

5x ASM   100

 

-land raider   215

 

5x ASM   100

 

-razor back   20

 

Baal Pred - w/ heavy bolters   145

 

Baal Pred - w/ heavy bolters   145

 

Total   2000

 

 

 

 In his army he has;

 

3 night sythes with 5 warriors each and 2 have some upgraded character guy?

 

1 monolith

 

Ghost ark with 5 warriors

 

Command barge with his warlord

 

2 gun barges

 

6 or 7 wraiths and a destroyer lord

 

A squad of some type of guys not sure because they never got to do anything

 

1 nightbringer or some guy with toughness 7 that I found out explodes when he dies

 

Sorry that I’m not sure what everything for necrons is called.

 

 So we roll “purge the alien” I think, whatever one is just kill the other guy for victory points.  Deployment is the one from the corners.  Roll for first turn I win and let him take first turn because he has three flyers (with guys in them) that I don’t want shooting at my Storm Ravens.

 

Not much happens his first turn.  He moves up a bit and only takes one hull point off one of my Baal Preds.  He keeps his wraiths and destroyer lord behind the monolith with Nightbringer guy in the middle of the table.  His command barge behind the gun barges and ark off to his right cutting off line of sight from one of my Land raiders using cover from terrain and the monolith.  End of his turn 1.

 

My turn I don’t move much, maybe one Baal pred turns and one Land raider moves a bit.  Time to open fire.  First Land Raider opens up on one of the gun barges trying to take down the shields of just found out they had.  Gets a pen and a glance, shield gone and down to 1 hull point.  1^stPred opens up and finishes it off.  First blood J.  Second Land raider fires at the other gun barge gets a pen but he makes his cover save.  Second Baal fires his assault cannon at the same barge gets a rend and a glance, one hull point gone.  Razor back sits back in cover.  End my turn 1.

 

Turn 2 one of his flyers shows up on my left flank and drops its guys close to my land raider.  Everything else moves up a bit and starts shooting.  Between the flyer and its troops he glances the land raider to death.  The 5 assault marines get out into cover.  The gun barge does nothing but between the ark and monolith he takes out the already wounded Baal.  He moves his command Barge flat out around my left flank to support the troops there sensing a charge from the guys that were in the land raider.  End his turn 2.

 

My turn and the death company storm raven comes on.  I fly it right at his flyer keeping it close to the upcoming close combat and his warlord.  Move the razor back up hoping for something to shoot at.  Advance the assault squad out from around the wrecked land raider towards his squad on my flank.  Shooting.  Between the storm raven, land raider and the baal pred, I take down his flyer, reduce the gun barge to 1 hull point and take the shield and 2 hull points off the ark.  Assault marines make their charge and lose no one to over watch.  They take down three guys and win combat, but they pass their learder ship and two get back up. (I don’t like it when they get back up).  End turn.

 

Turn 3 his flyers don’t come on.  Monolith moves up and wraiths start to move out from behind with destroyer lord and nightbringer.  Command barge moves up to charge the assault marines already locked in combat.  Between the gun barge and ark he gets 1 pen and 2 glances on my Baal.  I make all the cover saves J then the monolith takes 1 point off it.  His shooting over and pretty much failing to do anything.  Command barge makes it into combat.  I take out 2 more of the troops they pass leader ship again and 1 gets back up.  Then I make a bunch of armor saves again and he is getting fed up with my armor rolls.  End his unproductive turn.

 

My turn and the Terminators and Storm Raven do not come on again.  I drop the Reclusiarch and death company and move them in range to charge his command barge.  The Storm raven then moves off towards the monolith.  Still happy with the placement of the tanks left I go into shooting phase.  The storm raven splits fire, firing the multi-melta at the monolith(at melta range) and the assault cannon, blood strike missile at the gun barge.  The barge goes down and the monolith blows sky high taking 3 wounds off the wraiths (bad saving roll there).  The land raider drops one more wraith, and the baal finishes the ark.  The razor back does 2 wounds on the wraiths but he saves them.  Shooting done, and done well.  Death Company charge the command barge take his warlord down to one wound and blow up the barge.  The assault marines finally break and over run the warriors.   End turn.

 

Turn 4. His 2 flyers come on, on my left flank, drop their guys and look to gun down the storm raven.  The warriors that bailed out of the ark now come around and join up with the warriors from the flyers.  The wraiths, destroyer lord and nightbringer all move to charge either the land raider or Baal pred.  His warlord stays where he is ready to charge back into combat with the death company.  First flyer unloads on the storm raven and it spirals off to the ground.  The second flyer shoots at the death company and rolls three 6’s and gives him 10 hits and 9 of them wound (golly gee).  I only lose 2 death company after armor and feel no pain, but then he tells me that the shot jumps to the next unit within 6” on a roll of (?+), and it does.  It then hits them d6 times.  He rolls a 6 (golly gee).  4 wounds on the assault squad and I make all the saves, LOL.  He is getting mad at the seemingly invincible assault squad and shoots 2 squads of warriors at them.  They do a handful of wounds and once again I make all the armor saves, he is now texting other people about this matrix bullet dodging assault squad.  The nightbringer and the wraiths fail their charges on the tanks but the destroyer lord makes it to the Baal Pred and destroys it.  His Warlord charges the death company and issues a challenge, I decline.  Mind shackle gets the guy with the power axe.  The first four guys attack and he passes all his saves.  He attacks back and kills one guy, I take the guy with the axe out.  The thunder hammer attacks and he makes his invulnerable saves.  Locked combat. End turn.

 

My turn 4 and the Strom Raven and Terms come on and go right at his flyers.  The “matrix bullet dodging” assault squad moves to charge in with his warlord and the death company.  The assault marines in the land raider and the razor back get out too shoot and assault the wraiths.  The Storm Raven split fires at the two flyers.  Melta at the close one and assault cannon, bloodstrike missiles at the other.  They both light up like fireworks and crash to the ground.  The land raider, razor back and one of the assault squads bring the wraiths down to only two left.  The squad from the razor back shoots at but does nothing to the destroyer lord.  The death company and the assault squad bring his warlord down and he does not get up again.  The squad from the land raider charge and bring down another wraith.  They pass all armor saves against the last wraith.  End turn

 

His turn 5 and he needs some points.  He moves the squads of warriors from the crashed flyers, ark and whatever the other squad at the back was, up to try to get them into range of something.  The nightbringer heads toward the death company and assault squad, and the destroyer goes for the razor back for an easy point.  He takes a hull point off the Storm raven with some gauss fire and that’s about it for shooting.  The destroyer lord blows up the razor back and the nightbringer doesn’t make it into combat.  The lonely wraith passes his armor saves and so does the marines, draw.  End turn.

 

My turn five.  I drop the Assault Terminators and ready them to charge the nightbringer along with the Death Company.  The storm raven moves to shoot at one of the warrior sqauds.  The assault squad near the Death Company move away from all the warriors and into cover.  The squad from the razor back and the land raider move to shoot at the destroyer lord.  The lord takes 2 wounds.  The storm raven drops 4 out of a squad.  The Terminators and the Death company charge and kill the nightbringer, the explosion kills 2 death company.  Assault marines take a wound off the wraith and I fail my first assault marine armor saves of the game, 2 fall.  They pass leadership and keep fighting.  Everything moves towards last wraith and lord.  End turn.

 

 

 

Games ends in Blood Angel victory.  Something like 12-7.

[Sanguine_Knight]

For Sanguinius and The Emperor!!

[Kanis]

Well fought and with a very unusual list to me, because my foe is mainly Necrons and he has so much Gauss I fear running the number of tanks as you did here, but congratulations on besting him!

 

 

This is encouraging as my list is very similiar to yours in way of amount of troops, and the Raven carrying DC plus Reclusiarch. Just I have razorbacks instead of Raiders! My last game saw me win but it was very close and has made me go back to my former faith in more infantry and fire power.