Non-Tourney Battles

[JohnnyDangerous]

Eldar Vs Necrons
Points: 750
Mission: Control Ground
Deployment:Pitched

Result: Tie

Turn 1
Both sides set up under the conditions of Ghostwheel winning roll off to determine his table edge and decision to go first.

After model placement, JohnnyDangerous steals the initiative, leaving the Immortal squad to his far left exposed to any long range Eldar shooting.




As seen in this first photo, even 24 guided scatter laser shots were not enough to put them down, but as that squad is still a threat, The Eldar continue their crafty pointy eared plan, bracing for another series of "WTF moments" courtesy of the new Necron Dex.

The next photo shows the events of the bottom of the 1st turn. Mainly the wraith wing, spurned by pointy eared hatred rolls into action, and the immortals which received the first volley of the game decide to get some cover before continuing their implacable advance.



These next two shots are just different views of the battlefield.





Turn 2

The Eldar Warwalker squad repositions, taking cover behind a building, which offers a good firing lane to possible incoming Necrons and the Storm Guardians and Dire Avengers circle around, both getting weak run rolls, as in the first round.

The Wraithwing(Destroyer Lord and Wraiths) moves forward, as does the regular Destroyers, in what appeared to be a "Pincher Mauever." The Necron Warriors also make a break for the objective located on their far left.

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Turn 3

The Eldar foot troops move towards the objective in the middle(the dice in the middle of the table). The guided Warwalkers lay waste to the Destroyers.




The reduced Immortals shoot the B'Jesus out of the Storm Guardians and the Destroyer Lord and friends head towards the objective to make sure no Eldar can claim it. The Warriors keep booking it to the objective.



Turn 4

In retaliation for their insolence the Dire Avengers shoot up the Immortals and keep heading to the objective. Following the Storm Guardians who assault the Destroyer Lord and Wraiths only to do no damage and die horribly. (Keep in mind these are the same troops that took down a Bloodthirster.... but at these low troop counts... well 4 wounds is one thing... but nine on a unit with better saves and is almost as tough... I dont think so!)



Turn 5
The Eldar Farseer Casts Doom upon the Destroyer Lord and Guide onto the Dire Avengers occupying the building. The Dire Avenger Exarch then orders a "Bladestorm," that is 33 Shuriken(Bolter Eq) shots with re-roll to shoot and re-roll to wound, which is was just enough to remove them from play....

On the Necron side, Ghostwheel plays it smart/conservative and keeps his warriors on the objective.



The roll is made to see if the game goes on... The dice gods determine round 5 to be the end...

[JohnnyDangerous]

Necrons VS Eldar
Deployment: Pitched
Mission: Annihilation
Points: 1000

Result: Eldar Victory

Necrons, upon feeling lucky, won the dice throw and gave Eldar the first set-up and turn, hoping to capitalize on an initiative stealing and the benefit of a counter deployment set up.


Failing to steal the initiative, the Eldar advanced...


...firing every thing in their arsenal minus the wraith bone kitchen sink at 5 warriors hiding in some ruins.



The Canoptek Spiders, biding their time produced more scarabs... ever plotting the Eldars demise...

Turn 2

The Eldar shifted positions to get a better shot... but are only able to put two wounds on the Spider.

Tired of sitting back, the Necrons launch their attack! The Spiders and Scarabs on both sides of the table move toward the Eldar Fleet. The Destroyer Lord and Wraithwing deep strike onto the table, and The Phareon and Retinue deep strike in behind the Falcon tanks.(firing a Strength 8 AP 1 shot and missing)



Turn 3

With the tide of iron coming in, the Eldar move into position to collect some annihilation points. However, ghost wheel has other things in mind, his Phaeron uses the Staff of Light causing the Eldar to fight as if in night fighting.

The Vipers continue their movement to their left, the Falcons rotate around to meet the six "man" group which just teleported in behind them, and the War Walkers shifted a bit to avoid a scarab attack. The Vipers were only able to destroy one scarab swarm as two of the three could not see due to the night fighting rules. The Falcon tanks, guided by the Farseers inside each of them, shot the Doomed group of Uber-Crons (that is 4 strength 8 ap 2 shots and 14 strength 6 shots in total) and the lord and two others in the retinue survive... Finally the War Walkers swatted the scarabs out of the air.

The Necrons just got angrier. The only thing that saved two of the vipers was moving cruising speed in the previous turn. The onslaught of "Personal Attention" came in the form of a Swarm of Scarabs assaulting with The Destroyer lords squad... Fortunately it still takes 6's.

When this didn't work, a group of 5 warriors showed everyone else how it was done, immobilizing one of the Vypers, but since it was in a squadron that counts as dead.

The Lord and fellow Warscythe carriers decided to take apart one of the Falcons in retaliation for shooting up their squad, forcing the Dire Avengers and Farseer to evacuate.



Turn 4

Oh yah, this was an anihilation match both Farseers secretly said to each other psychicly. The Farseer that got squeezed from his sky taxi Dooms the Warscythe toting beatstick bearers who made him walk and gave his Dire Avenger body guard his blessings by guiding their shots. As fortune would have it, this was enough to phase out the royal group. The Vypers moved flat out to escape their attackers, as did the not destroyed Falcon tank which wasn't going to wait to get greeted by the teleporting welcoming committee. Lastly, the War Walkers fired a volley at the Destroyer Lord and Wraiths killing one of the Wraiths.

Not to be out shined, the Destroyer Lord and Co bring the beatstick to the Vypers after one of the Vypers is Damaged by a Canoptek template of evil.




Turn 5

The Falcon fails to kill the Canoptek spider. The War Walkers shoot up a squad of Warriors.

The Canoptek Spider Immobilizes the Falcon tank with Twin Linked "Bad Thing." The Lord Bigins heading back to finish off remaining Eldar "baby" tanks.

Turn 6

The Falcon and Team of Dire Avengers finally kills the Spider.



The Destroyer Lord moves Daringly into attack position.... but the game does not go into the seventh turn...

[JohnnyDangerous]

Necrons vs Chaos
Point Size: 1000
Deployment: Spear head
Mission: Capture and Control
Result: Tie

Ghostwheel won the initiative roll and JohnnyDangerous received preferred daemon wave deployment after first getting verification from the chaos gods.

Turn 1
So with all of Ghostwheels Necrons(minus Dethmarks) deployed... there were still no Daemons on the table so with a few minor tactical adjustments, getting ready for something to rip through the warp, he was ready.

Starting with the largest model, I began deep striking my first wave of Daemons. The Soulgrinder scattered 10 inches towards his scarabs, just barely keeping it over an inch from them. The pink horrors also scattered 7 inches at a slightly different angle avoiding a deepstrike mishap... although narrowly. Lastly, the Keeper of Secrets scattered 4inches in nearly the opposite direction... leaving him kinda out in the open.

This gave Ghostwheel an excellent opportunity to use the Dethmark special ability and come in targeting the Keeper of Secrets.(KoS)

Yah, maybe that is close to the average of eight inches talked about in forums for deep striking... but when your largest model scoots the farthest... well it was a nail biter.

The soul grinder hit the scarabs with its phlegm template and unleashed its harvester cannon... taking out several bases. The horrors then used warpfire on the scarabs taking a few more of the little buggers down.... but as they just deep striked... sadly the daemon engine could not assault:( The Keeper tried to run but warp travel proved difficult for even a monstrous creature. He was able to limp an extra couple inches closer to the fight.









Turn 2
The Dethmarks open fire on the KoS... Almost killing it flat out... oh and it was pissed.

Due to a misinterpretation of the rules the scarabs survived against the Soulgrinder who was reduced to only fleshy bits after the hungry Canoptek bugs finished chewing on him, but just after he killed the Canoptek Spyder. Finally the Horrors were able to hold the wraiths for a turn...but they had just been very lucky!.... The Necrons were angry at this intrusion... and ready for this daemonic assault!!! That was certain!

On the bottom of the turn the KoS charged the Dethmarks and although he gets like eight attacks... still only managed to kill two after reanimation protocols were initiated((Slaanesh sent him the uber worm)... The Deathmarks lived up to their title and finished the job with some excellent hand to hand against the greater daemon.

Also of note, a second Soulgrinder and a daemon prince entered play... though a bit too late...



Turn 3
The Wraiths finally put the nail in the coffin of the horrors... who were just surprised to be alive at that point anyway. The Deathmarks fired at the daemon prince who just laughed it off, and the immortals fired in vain at the Soulgrinder who the previous turn had shot them with acid phlegm and the Scarabs see no point in hanging around headed towards the next tasty meal.

The Daemon Prince taking it as an offense to be attacked charged down the Dethmarks, who were surprised he was coming after them, and the DP was able to consolidate back towards the Wraiths who looked delicious. The Red living Soulgrinder tried again to kill the immortals, but the res orb proved again to be awesome...

A squad of Daemonettes came in deepstrike and ran towards the daemon objective(not pictured)



Turn 4
The Scarabs finally, of their own accord bite off more than they can chew on this daemon engine and perish to the Soul Grinder. But not before lowering its armor.
Ghostwheel says, "its on," and advances his immortals, who do not cause any damage this turn with shooting. The wraiths finish off the Daemon prince like it was a joke, and move towards the big daemon engine making so much much noise.

The Daemonettes scale the building nominated as the objective and go to ground. The Soulgrinder shoots another volley at the advancing Necron Immortals and does the equivalent of nothing. The Necrons continue their advance...


Turn 5

Well this pic pretty much sums it up... That guy died. Leaving only the Daemonettes on the objective very far away...

and the game ended luckily for the daemons... who could have been super killified by Wraiths had it gone into 7 turns!!!

I would like to add this was my first game against Ghostwheel since he had his cold steel hands on that new dex.... It was awesome to see the Necrons really be able to hand out the beat down for once... although a lot was to be said for tactics!!!

Great Game!!

[JohnnyDangerous]

Necrons vs Footdar (Eldar on Foot)

Mission: Seize Ground (5 Objectives)
Deployment: Pitched Battle
Turns: 7
Points: 1000

And as I have received certain scrutiny for reliance on mechanization I sought to find a list which while having a sporting chance also included nothing with an armor value... yes it was difficult. I would say that by and large these results are not typical and had I chosen one of my previous lists things could have gone far differently.

Additionally, there was a lot of lucky rolling on my part and at least one chance I took ended up panning out.

Point being, I got pretty lucky. The game could easily have gone either way. That being said....

I won the initiative and gave it to Ghostwheel. He set up in a castle like formation. I set up my troops and pair of infiltrating squads, leaving my jet bikes in reserve.



Turn 1
Ghostwheel made few initial movements, perhaps his generals had been alerted to infiltrators. He also swung his scarab swarm around to clean up after his initial ballistic assault. Ghostwheel blasts my Scorpions with effectively lascannons several times. Fortunately they were in cover and were able to avoid too much death.

I charged his Scarabs with one squad of Scorpions and his Destroyers from the right flank with my second squad of Scorpions... who barely made it into assault. Both squads did not engage reanimation protocols at the end of the turn. The Harlequins continued to run across the board and the Autarch and crew continued to teleport down the flank.



Turn 2
The Necron commander ordered a full "kill those guys" order to evaporate the Scorpions which took out the Destroyers, greatly reducing their numbers. In addition, he sent his Warriors after objectives... It was the mission after all... and though he had lost some troops he was far from out of it!

I decided to take a chance and just run my Scorpions out into the open after the Warriors on my left side. My Scorpions on the right flank went and hid so that the bad men couldn't hurt them anymore. As per other rounds The Harlequins continued to run across the board, stopping in difficult terrain to take advantage of a slightly better cover save then their usual. The Autarch and crew continued turned toward the battle center and teleported into what was significantly more dangerous!



Turn 3

With the Scorpions racing after them, the Necrons surely had them, except that some magical way, with all of their shooting, the Scorpions armor proved too strong. Yes, you read that correctly, apparently under certain circumstances Eldar armor is better than a t-shirt! The second lascannon squad opened fire on the Harlequins, killing a couple but not enough.

In order to save the team from another round of shooting the Scorpions charged both the hq squad and the Warrior squad of the Necrons. The Warriors didn't make it till the end of the turn. The HQ squad on the other hand proved a fierce force to dispatch. It was really the ever living... Its good... The Autarch showed up to the party, hoping to warp the next couple turns and assault the second squad of evil super weapon Necrons after giving them a taste of their fire power. On the right flank the remaining Scorpions saw the Warriors heading for their objective and cut their trip short.



Turn 4

The Necrons were ready to end the assault, but the tree huggers were proving to be a problem. Several Necrons perished in the brawl, but others just shook it off and repaired.

Ready to end the close combat, the Harlequins jumped into the fray, helping to turn the tide in a major way. The Autarch could see the next turn being his moment to shine... warping, shooting, being a badass...

The Jetbikes also showed up this turn and moved to the objectives, or as close as they could get.



Turn 5

In his meticulous realm of calculations Ghostwheel decided to take the path which would yield the best results... Instead of let the Autarch bathe in the glory of defeating or possibly just damaging his last squad, he sent them into the fray as well!!! More Eldar fell, especially Harlequins, but also a Scorpion felt the wrath of a Necron scorned.

The Autarch... pissed he was robbed of his glory, warped in behind the skirmish and assaulted... The resulting battle left only a Necron lord, surrounded by Eldar.



Turn 6



Turn 7

This was the last assault in turn 7... I men, how many times can one of these machines repair? It must have been like dust reconstituting!!

[JohnnyDangerous]

Necrons vs Deathwing

Mission: Annihilation
Deployment: Pitched Battle
Turns: 5
Points: 1500

Score: 7-0 Deathwing

So it was to be old school!!!

The Deathwing win the dice of going first roll, but seeing as they had so few models(19 including Landraiders), they decided to let the Necrons set up first so that they could position themselves in such a way to avoid being shot by what looked to be potentially many dangerous Necron shooting attacks.



Turn 1
The Necron Canoptek Spiders begin the game by creating two new scarab swarms. The Necron troops move forward heading toward the two Landraiders on the table. As it turns out, nothing in the Necron's arsenal can penetrate armor 14:( Well as far as shooting is concerned at least. This is a cc Necron force, ready to take the Deathwing in hand to hand combat.

The Deathwing dont like this at all. If they get out, its tesla weapons and multiple saves. It makes even a 2+ hard to keep rolling. They are safe in their super rhinos. They move closer, on the edge of charge range on the right side, and open fire on the scarabs... the unit which can let the Landraiders be compromised by every Tesla in the Immortals arsenal. The Scarabs perished. The left side Landraider fires at the Wraiths and Destroyer Lord killing one Wraith.



Turn 2
The Destroyer Lord and Remaining Wraiths advance toward the right Landraider, ready to make it their fun box... but come up short to make the charge. The C'Tan and Immortals move forward headed to destroy the left Landraider. The Catacomb Destruction Barge moves in to release Tesla maddness... but cannot penetrate...
The Deathmarks materialize next to the Godhammer Landraider ready to snipe some termies from the outside.

The Chaplain and Shooty Terminators show up... ready for a tussel.
The Deathwing see their opportunity. The Landraider Crusader opens its maw and releases Belial, Master of the Deathwing and his dangerous companions. The Left Landraider discharges its payload of Termies and war begins!

The Destruction Barge gets hit eith the Assault Cannon which scores a rending result along with a direct hit with the multi-melta a combination which sends the skimmer hurdling toward the ground even with its special shielding. The Landrider on the right sends two lascannon shots and a volley of Heavy bolter shots at the C'Tan causing it to take two wounds.

The assault begins with Belial and company dishing out the pain to the Destroyer Lord and the Wraiths accompanying him... and on the left side, the second Assault Terminator squad dishes out the pain to the Deathmarks who were simply surprised they even got out of the Landraider.



Turn 3
The Canoptek Spiders move in to attack! Killing another member of the Deathwing! The C'Tan Moves in to assault the shooty Deathwing squad, killing four but taking another wound... The battle continues.

The Spiders are finally dispatched. The Assault squad moves to remove the C'Tan, succeeding, and braces for the shooting aftermath.



Turn 4
The remaining Necron forces shoot at the Deathwing...Terminators are killed...

The Deathwing gets into their Crusader and Heads toward the new battle ground...
In the thick of it, the Assault termies on the left charge into the less Warscythy group of Necron Immortals, killing many, but it is not a total victory, its going to go another turn for sure.

In the bottom half of the turn, all Immortals in the charged group get destroyed... But the Lord holds strong...



Turn 5
The Crusader continues to draw closer to the battle. The Second squad of Immortals pour into the combat!!! Two Deathwing Terminators fall to the warscythe of the Lord!

On the bottom half of the assault... There is still a terminator left from the squad and the Chaplain. Immortals live up to their name being extremely hard to kill.

and the dice... they decide game is over...

The Deathwing Triumphs!



To Ghostwheel's defense... he had some awful rolls... for example a roll of 8 dice which came up 1s and 2s... and after we decided it was a bull*&%$ roll and should be rerolled... it came up the same again...
In addition, he has never played against a Landraider and has seen little or no Terminators on the opposing side of the table...

In essence... this was a totally new experience for him and I thank him for being such a great sport.

[ghostwheel11]

dude...it was fun...it's always fun! I'm lucky that I get to play all these different types of armies to be honest, so whatever the outcome is fine with me. The C'Tan did some pretty good damage, but the terminators are absolutely tough! I give made props to the deathwing and the way you took them, I totally agree with the thunderhammer/stormshield config, cuz those invulns made the difference.

Good games...great time as usual.