BR2 Dark Eldar V Necron

My List

1 Succy VB HW

4 Grots, Aberation, VB, Raider, Aethersails (Succy goes here)

5 wyches HW venom SC
5 wyches HW venom SC

9 Reavers, 3 HL, Arena Champ, VB
9 Reavers, 3 HL, Arena Champ, VB

1 Ravager
1 Ravager

His List
1 Overlord, warscythe, CCB
2 Harbingers of destruction

7 Immortals, gause, night scythe
7 Immortals, gause, night scythe
6 Necron Warriors Ghost arc(1 Harbinger here)
6 Necron Warriors Ghost arc(1 Harbinger here)

1 Annihilation Barge
1 Annihilation Barge

Purge the Alien, 3 on combat drugs, acute senses of outflank for warlord trait, he got stealth in ruins, he got first turn

Deployment


I deployed out of range and site

Necrons turn 1


Crons aggressively moved up

Dark Eldar turn 1


Ravagers opened fire on a ghost arc and exploded it.

Reavers both bladevaned the survivors and killed them, one killed the harbinger the other the last remaining cron, earning a pain token each.

Both venoms and raider moved flat out forward.

Necron turn 2


One night Scythe came in dropped its immortals and stunned a ravager down to its last hull point.

The immortals shot at the other ravagers and couldn't get past the jinx

Annihilation Barge 2 exploded a venom along with 2 wyches. Bouncing lightning took the raiders dark lance and reduced it to 1 hull point.

The Ghost arc crew wrecked the other venom.

The Overlord swooped the reavers, the annihilation barge and ghost arc fire at them and the overloard charged them, killing them all.

Dark Eldar turn 2


My Wyches threw haywire then assaulted the annihilation barge, destroying it, then consolidated into cover.

The reavers lined up the overlord in the CCB and fired three heat lances at it, two jinx rolls of 6 saved it from harm.

The grots and succy disembarked from the raider, the haywire did nothing, the reavers and grots all assaulted the overlord, 52 attacks later and the cron lord has lost only 1 wound, and the command barge has 1 hull point left.

Both ravagers failed to glance or pen the ghost arc.

Necron turn 3


The immortals opened up on the ravager exploding it with one pen.

The ghost arc killed the raider, and took two wounds off the grots.

The annihilation barge took another 2 wounds off the grots.

The Overlord swooped, shot and charged the reavers killing all but 4 of them.

Dark Eldar turn 3


Reavers tried to melta the annihilation barge and failed before moving behind the house.

Ravager failed to pen or glance the ghost arc.

Wyches advanced threw a haywire and took the last hull point off the command barge.

The grots and succy charged and killed the overlord.

Necron turn 4


The immortals killed the ravager

The night scythe killed 4 wyches who went to ground and failed all their saves

The annihilation barge killed two reavers

The ghost arc failed to kill any grots.

Dark Eldar turn 4


The lone reaver melta hit and penned the ghost arc however jinx saved it.

The wyches threw a haywire at the ghost arc which also caused a pen but jinx saved it. They then charged and one died to overwatch, and cause two glances on the ghost arc.

The grots did not make the 8 inch charge on the ghost arc.


Necron turn 5


The Night scythes came on and one dropped the immortals next to the grots.

The ghost arc opened fire on the two wyches and killed them, as well as the two reavers and killed them.

The annihilation barge, immortals and night scythe opened up on the grots and when the smoke cleared, the succy and the aberation remained on one wound each.

Dark Eldar turn 5


The lone wyche failed to haywire the ghost arc.

The succy plasma grenaded the immortals killing two, the succy and aberation then charged the immortals and killed another two, and don't take any damage in return. The Immortals passed their leadership test.

Necron turn 6


The ghost arc killed the last wych.

The warriors in the ghost arc with the harbinger disembarked and assaulted the succy and aberation.

The succy and aberration killed four Warriors and did not take any damage in return. Both the immortals and the necron warriors passed their leadership test

Dark Eldar turn 6


The succy and grots killed the remaining three warriors, and take no damage in return, and the immortals fled

Necron turn 7


The succy and aberation killed the lone warrior and harbinger.

Dark Eldar Turn 7


The succy threw a grenade at the immortals which couldn't wound, and declared a charge on the immortals which failed.



Game ended:
Purge the Alien
Necrons: Kill points 9
Dark Eldar: Kill points: 8, Firstblood 2, warlord 2 = 12

If the game went on another turn i am tabled.

I love the fact that you were nearly tabled and still had teh victory! Looked very hard fought, my one thought was about the ravagers dancing with the immortals. May have been worth it to move them to a distance and deal out the threat at hand, though that arc was also a bit of a pain.

Great rep, great fight! Keep it up!

Looks like it was a great fight! Sounded like a lot of fun.

I agree with Baku on turbo-boosting the ravagers away from the immortals. Btw it's great to see a report with so many big white arrows!

One little thing I believe you don't get victory points/pain tokens for killing cryptecs as they become part of the unit they are assigned to and are not independent characters (similar to wolf guard). But I think that still leaves you with a win as it would only be -2 Victory points (if you got victory points for them that is)!

Thanks for posting the report (linked it to the stickied thread on illustrated battle reports).

Thanks for a very interesting report! I don't know squat about Necrons, but I'm playing them tomorrow so this report was well timed indeed! Well done Grots and Succubi who managed to survive and win you the game

Does the overlord have Hit and Run? I was just surprised he could escape the combat with the Grots.

That game kept me on the edge of my seat. Awesome.

On another note, remember that any models not on the table at the end of the game = dead. So is the sythes were off board then they are kp's in this mission.


Well done! Sticking to ones guns when all seems lost is the way to do it.

Setomidor wrote:

Does the overlord have Hit and Run? I was just surprised he could escape the combat with the Grots.

if one model has hit and run, the entire squad has hit and run, but that isnt how he did it.

The command barge has been made a chariot, which increases the rider's armor save by +1, but also allows him to charge and be attacked like he was in combat (you may also choose to attack the chariot instead) Unlike regular combat though, the chariot may choose to leave combat at any time.

Also technically there is another way, if the Lord was to die in close combat, his Ever-Living rule may bring him back out of combat.

Great battle report man! Awesome illustrations too. That was really enjoyable to read, especially because the 'crons lost. They are my main opponents and I lose regularly.

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My Wyches threw haywire then assaulted the annihilation barge, destroying it, then consolidated into cover

Are you allowed to consolidate this edition after combat with a vehicle? i know you couldnt last edition, and thought you couldnt this one either, but that rule may have slipped by me.

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Blind_Baku
I love the fact that you were nearly tabled and still had teh victory! Looked very hard fought, my one thought was about the ravagers dancing with the immortals. May have been worth it to move them to a distance and deal out the threat at hand, though that arc was also a bit of a pain.

One of the ravagers was stunned so it couldn't move, i figured they would go for the easy kill and shoot that one instead of hitting my other ravager which was on full, and i desperately needed to drop that ghost arc which was absolutely tearing up my lines. My big mistake was exposing the rear of my rav so they could get one lucky pen and explode it. Lesson learnt.

My ravagers after turn one also failed to glance or pen a single thing thanks to poor rolling and jinx saves...with something like 15 shots not one glance or pen. Stupid useless party boat ravagers.

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Mushkilla
One little thing I believe you don't get victory points/pain tokens for killing cryptecs as they become part of the unit they are assigned to and are not independent characters (similar to wolf guard).

Ah buggar, o well good to know i guess. Those two pain tokens early were handy, even tho my one reaver squad once again bit the dust straight away lol.

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Well done Grots and Succubi who managed to survive and win you the game

They did really well apart from failing to kill the command barge on turn two, but that was more a reavers melta failing, where he rolled double 6's for his jinx save...but after that they tanked so much and still did damage, my MVP for sure. The command barge leaving combat doomed my second reaver squad as well. Fear that thing, its pain.

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The Searing Wind
Great battle report man! Awesome illustrations too. That was really enjoyable to read, especially because the 'crons lost. They are my main opponents and I lose regularly. Sad

After my uneventful turn two where i failed to kill his command barge it was all down hill and i only just managed to hang on. 2 wounds on the board, i only barely got the win.

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Skulzbonz
Are you allowed to consolidate this edition after combat with a vehicle? i know you couldnt last edition, and thought you couldnt this one either, but that rule may have slipped by me.

I think you are right, good catch.

Steffo wrote:

Ah buggar, o well good to know i guess. Those two pain tokens early were handy, even tho my one reaver squad once again bit the dust straight away lol.

They died straight away, and you still would have won by at least 1 victory point, so it wouldn't have changed anything. Not to mention as Skari said anything not on the board at the end of the game counts as destroyed.

You still got a well deserved victory and played a great game! No one can take that away from you.

Steffo wrote:

My ravagers after turn one also failed to glance or pen a single thing thanks to poor rolling and jinx saves...with something like 15 shots not one glance or pen. Stupid useless party boat ravagers.

I hate that... I've had more than one game go sour from repeated horrible shooting... which just makes a hard fought win all the sweeter.