Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Suddz Necrons: Glory for the Star Gods!

Hello Hello Peeps, Its Suddz with my first blog of many on here. I didn't want to randomly start bloging on here and have people read it thinking, "Does this guy even play the game?" so our team decided to wait till after Sunday's tourny. Well, it came and it passed, we did what we do and here I am about to tell you about it.

First comes first, the army. As all my teammates know I decide everything at the last minute on what I want to play. This is always a hard decision for me to make, I have two main armies I play often being Daemons and Chaos Thousand Sons. But I also have White Scars, Orks, Necrons, Nids,normal Space Marines, and any faction of Chaos (Daemons and Marines) along with access to Imp Guard and Tau. So as you can tell I really do have a lot of armies I can Choose from. I sat down and talked to some people and emailed some people (not going to drop anyone's name *Cough* Fritz *Cough* Read his blogs he knows what he's doing *Cough* and finally decided on one of the worst armies in 40k... Necrons. Here is my list:


HQ
Lord - Res Orb, Vail
Destroyer Lord - destroyer body, Warsythe, Nightmare Shroud, Disruption Field

Troops
12 Warriors
12 Warriors
11 Warriors
11 Warriors

Fast Attack
4 Destroyers
4 Destroyers
10 Scarabs

Yep you look at my list I know what you are thinking, "This guy is a newb. No Monolith and no Heavy Destroyers." There is a mighty fine reason not to take a Monolith and there's mighty fine reasons to take it. I decided this week I would go without and take a crap ton of warriors instead. This helps in two ways, more fire power on foot and more troops making it harder to phase out. You also may be thinking “what are you going to do about Tanks”, well that's where my Destroyer Lord comes into play. His job is to run around with scarabs eating everything in there way and just to cause havoc, with 2d6 its a good thing against tanks, no so much armor 14 but it does the job. Now you know my list so lets go to the next phase: the games.


Game One
C'rons vs Mech Eldar - Mission - Capture Control Table Corners - Deployment - Spearhead

This was a bad match up for me. His list was 7 Skimmers - 3 Fire prisms and 4 Wave Serpents. It was ugly. I stepped back and looked at the table and just decided to try to hold him out of my corner and contest every other corner. We rolled and he won my heart sunk knowing he will pick second making me go first, but he didn't. He said he wanted to go first, my insides jumped and at that moment I had a chance. Turn one went by fast he zipped his guys around and I ran mine building to building getting better positioning, along with zipping my lord and scarabs to the other corner of the room. Turn two he deployed some guys and shoots some. I saw at that point he was afraid of my lord, he didn't shoot at it... he just stayed away from him. I used this to my advantage and zipped it near him making him run away from me instead of shooting my troops. This actually went on till turn 6 and he ignored my corner almost completely making it easy for me to Vail into his corner, destroyer zip into the left, and my lord was already in the right, so I win 1 objective me 0 for him.
I have 10 points.


Game Two
C'rons vs Pink Space Marines - Mission - 5 Objectives - Deployment - Pitched Battle

His list was kind of normal. 2 Iron clads in Drop pods, A Veteran Squad with Lysander in a Drop Pod, 2x10 man Tactical Squads, 2x10 man Assault Squad, 5 scout snipers, and 2 empty drop pods. I won the dice roll and had him go first. We placed our objectives and on we went. I separated my destroyers from my Warriors, 8 destroyers on the left and all warriors on the right with my lord and scarabs in the middle. His turn one he dropped an Ironclad and Vets in front of my Destroyers and the other Ironclad about a foot away next to my warriors. Assault Squads fly closer to my Warriors and Snipers and Tactical Squads sit on objectives. In his shooting phase he dropped 6 Destroyers and only 2 warriors in his turn, it really wasn't looking good for me at this moment. My time to shine, I rolled WWB making 2 Warriors and 4 Destroyers stand back up!!! Now I have two 3 man destroyer squads which zipped to the middle of the two dreads and my warriors run out to sit on objectives. My lord goes after a tactical squad squatting in a corner on a objective that I may need later. My Destroyers are on fire and pop both the dreads and a squad of Warriors pop one of the Drop Pods. His turn his Assault Squad gets closer and his vets have to take difficult terrain to get down off a cliff, they are still out of assault range. He concentrate most of his fire on my destroyers and drops 2. My turn I make my WWB and fly my destroyers another 12 away and lay into the closest assault squad, also I rapid fired into it with my warriors up on the hill that I left for bait. The other Warriors take out a couple guys in the other assault squad and the destroyers get the closest one down to one man. His turn, he takes the bait and charges the warriors. His vets pop shots and I lose a couple destroyers. In assault He whiffs and I kill 2 guys his power fist swing and get two of my guys. Tied combat, I was happy but sad all at the same time. My turn Warriors retreat a little from vets and shoot some at them. My lord get in close combat with the squad and takes it out. the Warriors in hand to hand drop the Marines down to only power fist in one squad and power fist in the other . This combat last until turn 5. Turn 6 he sits that guy on the objective to contest and is controlling 2 on the other side, 1 with scouts and the other with 5 guys. I use Vail and teleport over to the other side scattering on top of a cliff making it so I would have to roll a 4+ to make it to them. so I rapid fire into him killing only 4 of the 5 Scouts... moral check ... He rolls a 10 and runs off the bored. At that moment I need a 3+ to run my warrior and get my third objective to win and I roll a 4. I win 3 Objectives to 1, along with getting a bonus point for controlling his deployment zone at the end of the game.
I have 21 points.


Game Three
C'rons vs Imp Guard - Mission - Kill Points - Dawn of War

On this one I wanted to win the dice roll so I could go first, but I didn't and he chose to set up first. He was running a lot of Tanks, a squad of 2 Demolishers, Basilisk, Demolisher, 2 Hellhounds, 3 heavy weapon squads, 2 Penal Legion Squads, with something else. I truthfully cant remember his HQ or his troop choices because there was tons of guys. His set up forced me to be on the table edge but I was ok with that. My set up I baited my Res orb Lord and 2 Squads of Warriors as far up as I could on my right side with my Res Lord in the back squad front row to give the WBB to my front screen of Warriors. Luckily it worked. He brought in all of his tanks on the right side of the bored preparing to wipe out every man in my 2 squads. His Penal Legion walked on the left side of the board to give his Hq support.(He rolled both squads have Knife Fighters, aka Rending) He tried to shoot me but only a couple guys could see me and nothing really happened. My turn I ripped my Lord and Scarabs 24inches to get in range next turn to cause havoc. All warriors walk on the left side and run out to get better range. My Res Lord and Warriors on the right stand there popping shots off at his squads picking off half of a squad. My Destroyers move 12in on and light up 2 of his heavy weapons teams. His turn He bombards my squad in front and takes it down to 2 guys. On the left he shoots a little at my destroyers but nothing happens. My WBB are on fire this game as well, I raise back up to a 8 man Squad and get ready for another bombardment. On the left my Lord sneaks out 12in being within range for a lot if I wanna charge, I pop Nightmare Shroud and watch as he fails 3 moral checks and 3 squads run off the board... That's pretty much the Game right there. His last resort was to phase me out and with my Phase Out number being 14 that is very hard to do at this point. On his next couple turns he keeps bombing the 2 squads on the right and on the left I get my destroyers and lord with Scarabs into close combat with Penal Legion and his HQ and my guys were actually winning. By my turn 5 my left side was down to 6 guys and my Res Lord, so I pulled them out with Vail, moving them to the other side of the board to be safe as all the rest of my guys cleaned house. Turn 6 nothing happened and I didn't feel like killing more when I had clearly won, so it ended. He end up getting my Destroyer Lord and 2 Warrior squads for 3 points and I got 9 so I won. Along with that I also got 3 Bonus points making it 13 points over all.
At the end I now have 34 points.

At the end of the day we sat down and I found out that I won.... Yup C'rons did it, they Won. Next lowest person in the Tourny was Bang Bang who was 2 points behind me. The Star Gods must love me, Because no one else will.

Well that is that and I hope you enjoyed your time reading this to see that C'rons can pull out a victory, It just take some well planned out tricks up your sleeve. Also maybe a little bit of luck. It never hurts to pick up an army that is out dated and figure out new tricks with them.

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