Crusade

[Frostglaive]

Simply because I'm curious, who here has made a Crusade list for their Necrons? If so, tell us about it. What's it name? Who leads it? What kind of battles have they faced and emerged victorious or were destroyed?

 

I'm just in the mood for narrative and fluff. And I wanna hear more about what everyone else is coming up with.

 

For mine, I've only recently built my Crusade list. No battles yet (at least until Saturday or hopefully tomorrow). The Scarothan Dynasty, led by the recently risen Overlord Obnudevos. Still working on backstory and whatnot.

[01RTB01]

I'll expand later but totally love crusade. Played 3 games so far...

[Emissary]

Atenakhen, Wrathful Lord of the Crystal Empires, Bane of the Vyggh, Despiser of the Yabi-Yabi, Butcher of the Five Hundred Worlds, and Phaeron in the Szarekhan Dynasty.  He and his trusty advisor, the technomancer Khetep, have been traveling out to recruit or reclaim other dynasties under the Silent King and to erase the vermin on their planets.  So far they've won 4 games, against the Death Guard, Tyranids, Ultramarines and Blood Angels.  It sounds like bragging, but none of the games were close.  All were huge victories for the dynasty.  We still had fun which was the important thing.  They're really good in crusade.

 

My initial list:

 

Overlord with Voidscythe, Ressurection Orb, Hand of the Phaeron, Sovereign Coronal and The Triarch's Will
Technomancer with Canoptek Control Node and Voltaic Staff (The Node has been traded out for a Canoptek Cloak when the Doomstalker got the +1 to hit to its weapon)
20 Necron Warriors with 10 reapers and 10 flayers (since upgraded to 20 reapers)
5 Immortals with gauss blasters

5 Lychguard with sword and shield

5 Triarch Praetorians with rods

Canoptek Doomstalker

6 Canoptek Scarabs

 

Few things:

 

1) Undying Revenants is really, really good.  It doesn't sound good at first, but its hard to delete 20 warriors with one other unit, so it can be used multiple times a turn.  It's especially good on Lychguard since if only one is killed, you'll roll 2 dice to see if they can get back up.  If you roll one 5 or 6, then you can change the other to a 6 and get him back up.  It's really caused some heartburn for my opponents once the warriors, immortals and lychguard all had it.  The minute my opponents loses their high firepower unit or units, they usually give up trying to kill the warriors.  Against the tyranids, he was just laughing when he realized his single floating spore mines were about to do nothing as I walked through them and they all detonated 1 at a time in melee but the warrior was immediately and automatically standing back up.

 

2) Supremacy Through Annihilation can be really good for experience. You pick it at the start of the round and if they have a large force of infantry you can get a lot of experience quickly.  In my game against the tyranids, I picked a unit of 20 gaunts first turn, then the immortals, warriors and doomstalker fired into them and killed gaunts and then were finished off in melee by the Lychguard.  Each unit got one experience and the lynchguard also got a kill point.  Next round they picked a unit of 3 tyranid warriors.  Praetorians fired and killed one and wounded the 2nd for 2 wounds.  Immortals fired and killed the wounded one then the warriors finished them off.  1 more experience for 3 units.  He then brought the gaunts back because he needed bodies for the mission.  They were promptly wiped out like last time earning the immortals, doomstalker, praetorians, lychguard and warriors another experience point each.  You have to plan out your attack plan so you don't damage the unit before the round starts, but it is by round so if they go first and you pick their melee unit.  When they charge and fight back it will count and then on your turn if you back out of combat and wipe them out, the unit charged and all the shooting units will get it.  Just remember you have to kill a model in the unit to get it, so you can only get 1 experience point for 1 unit if they are a monster, character or vehicle.  It's better than nothing though.

 

3) The weapon enhancements that let you use Disintegration Capacitors and Malevolent Arcing stratagems can be a nasty surprise.

 

4) Lastly, Disintegration Capacitors is really good.  The army looks like the doomstalker is the only threat against monsters and vehicles, but the DC stratagem turns the warriors into vehicle/monster killers.  In my last game against the Ultramarines, in turns 1 and 2 the doomstalker would fire at a Redemptor dreadnought and do 4-6 wounds (wasn't rolling good), but then the warriors would do the other 7-9 wounds and killing them in 1 turn each.  Losing 2 redemptors really hurt my opponent.  

 

Here is a picture of the army:

 

Edited November 5, 2020 by Emissary

[Nusquam]

Had 2 games this far. My Overlord gained the title All-Conquering Master of the Billion Blades.

 

We roll for traits. My 20 warrior reaper phalanx has a 6+++ and my Skorpekhs get +1 to charges .

 

I'm running an Overlord, Cryotek, 20 reaper blob, Skorpekhs, lokhusts with a heavy, reaninator, warden, and 2x10 flayer units. I think I'm going to add scarabs and a doomstalker next.

[01RTB01]

3 games in my roster:

 

Royal Warden

Skorpekh Lord

Warriors (Reapers)

Warriors (Flayers)

Skorpekh Destroyers

Scarabs

Triarch Praetorians

Canoptek Reanimator

Lokhust Heavy Destroyers

Canoptek Spyder

Chronomancer

Monolith

 

Working up to including an overlord, currently the minions running the show but due to the ineptitude of the royal Warden, Sheelal the Skorpekh lord will be unleashed to push back the living.

 

Played raven guard twice, first game wiped them out and "captured his captain" game 2 was a rescue mission, they got him back :D game 3 was against ultras who were crusading against the crons, stalemate!

 

Tomorrow, playing ad mech as they're investigating "martian like readings" on a necron planet...

 

Totally loving the narrative driven games.

[Get Thokt]

Four games with Bynarakh Dynasty so far.

Games played in order: Black Templars, Grey Knights, Genestealers, Orks.

 

A small Elite force led by Nakra, rose from a ruined Crownworld, attempts to awaken its twin Crownworld within a hostile system of Imperium, Chaos and other Xenos forces. Mission is to locate the cartograph (a moon orbiting the Crownworld) that can pinpoint the activation system for the dormant world. Inside, lies Arkum, brother of Nakra and Phaeron of the Thousand Warrior Tide.

 

That is the story so far for my guys.

Edited November 6, 2020 by Get Thokt

[Tyriks]

I've been playing Crusade a lot lately.  We started at 500pts, and Warriors with Reapers in a Ghost Ark are extremely effective at that size game

[01RTB01]

To each their own but I hope people are taking crusade as intended.

 

I've gone with an awakening tomb style force which will be added to. I would have included a Doomstalker by now but still hasn't arrived...

[Tyriks]

To each their own but I hope people are taking crusade as intended.

 

What do you mean?

[01RTB01]

Fun, narrative driven forces rather than just taking "what's best". Not a dig at yourself so please don't think it was :)

[Mr4Minutes]

I had a few crusade games before the codex dropped, and they are a lot of fun. The best being victory is not the most important thing.

 

I’m now creating a new crusade army to utilize the codex rules, and am using it to test the new rules I’m not yet using for competitive play.

 

Lore:

I have good chunk of background, but tl;dr my dynasty is under the umbrella of the Silent King. Independent, but part of his Royal Court, so to speak.

 

At his return, The Silent King bestowed one of his Sovereign Coronal relics to my Phaeron, who placed it on display with all his other precious relics.

 

The Nemesor recently enveloped a large dynasty that mainly consisted of Reclamation Legion phalanxes. Ie: mainly core units. Unfortunately, Overlord Sha’Seshem and his Royal Court are suffering from severe damage to their dynastic protocols, leading them to struggle with control of his legion.

 

At the behest of the Phaeron, the gifted Sovereign Coronial has been implanted in Overlord Sha’Seshem. This great relic has overridden his prior dynastic code with the Szarekhan dynastic code. It has also exponentially increased his command protocols. While he is still completely autonomous and free thinking, he’s now a Thrall to the Silent King.

 

The Nemesor has now unleashed Sha’Seshem and his awakening Reclamation Legion upon the planet nospacemarine to assist the 3rd Decurion be deployed there earlier.(my original crusade army)

 

Basically, I wanted to try and push the strengths of command protocols and see how strong a mostly core army could be. Szarekhan gets the most buffs and uses out of command protocols , in my opinion, and I’ve haven’t tried them yet. So I picked them lol.

[Get Thokt]

For sure, I think everyone sees that Crusade is made for fun play. That was just my narrative before our dex even came out.

[Nusquam]

Have a crusade game tomorrow against Sisters. Decided to add my Triarch Stalker to it. Will be the first time I use it too. I'll report what Mr Billion Blades gets up to.

 

 

Decided on an outline for fluff. A Tomb World far above the galactic plane that is stuck in temporal flux. Time passes, fractures and repeats on it. Future and past can meet (Opportunity for the Same Character to meet a destroyer self). It is localized to the planet and this crusade is to secure the rest of the system to 'escape' the flux and join the battle in the galaxy proper.

[Frostglaive]

Managed to get 2 games in yesterday with my Scarothan Dynasty.

 

First one was 25PL against Alpha Legion in a Supply Drop mission (not a Crusade list. He was "NPCing"). My Royal Warden and his strike team captured all of the supplies, and Warden Morinatri himself achieved his agenda of killing the enemy Sorceror warlord.

 

Second game was 55PL against who will be my most frequent opponent: Salamanders. Did the Sabotage mission, with me as the Defender. Overlord Obnudevos himself led this fight. Fighting was brutal, my Reanimation saves were ABSURDLY good, opponent's beefed up Terminator Captain simply REFUSED to die. But in the end the Scarothans dominated the victory defending all 4 of my objectives.

 

The Scarothan Dynasty has begun awakening en masse. We have a foothold on the planet. And we have received reinforcements in the form of Illuminor Szeras himself after our two victories.

 

Hail to Phaeron Obnudevos! Hierarch of the Ghoul Stars!

Edited November 8, 2020 by Frostglaive

[Nusquam]

Had the game, very uneventful. We did Flanking Maneuver and killed both sides forward elements. Stalker just died to an exorcist. So did the reanimator.

 

Overlord did get a title so now he is All-Conquering Master of the Billion Blades, He Who Spits Upon the Ancient Codes. One more title until the gets a rule.

[Frostglaive]

Got another 2 games in with the Scarothans. A 50PL game against the Alpha Legion again, and a 65PL against the Salamander player running a new roster (he plans to have 3 or 4 different rosters so he can play different styles for his Marines).

 

The game against the Alpha Legion was the Supply Cache (?). Obnudevos fell in this fight by the same Chaos Sorcerer from the last fight, who Warden Morinatri once again took down, this time out of vengeance rather than spite. That match ended in a tie. Alpha Legion brought too much heavy firepower for the Dynasty to simply overwhelm them like last time. Supplies was both lost and gained, no additional foothold on the planet... yet.

 

The next match was against the Salamander player again. This time as a Successor utilizing Born Heroes and Hungry For Battle traits in a Terminator-heavy list, supported by a Land Raider Redeemer. The mission was the Ritual, with the Marines as the Defender... this game took two attempts to do. The first attempt, I managed to get first turn... Obnudevos and his forces curbstomped the Marines into the ground top of turn 1. So we reset, started over, and the Marines went first this time.... granted, this time it took 2 turns to do, but the Scarothan Dynasty still utterly annihilated the Marines. The Ritual (or as we declared it, the vox-relay the Marines were trying to set up to call in reinforcements to the planet) was stopped. In addition, Obnudevos achieved his agenda to collect a lost Dynastic Treasure.

 

With his latest victory, Obnudevos has become Battle-Hardened, earned his place as Phaeron (I spent the 2RP to officially make him one), gained the title of Bladethief of the Kalahtei, and continues to gain momentum in reawakening and retaking the Scarothan's Crownworld.

 

Glory to the Dynasty!