This weekend I went to see my friend Dan down near Brighton. I don’t remember the last time we had a battle together, but I was assured that it was a long time ago (six months). We sat our other halves down in front of a film and got on with organising a small skirmish. I had brought my Necrons along with me this time (it had been a while) while Dan had sifted through various boxes and put together a force of Chaos Space Marines. We set the limit at 1500 points, in which I got to take the following:
“Lefty” the Necron Lord with Resurrection Orb, Veil of Darkness and Warscythe.
10 Immortals.
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
11 Warriors
5 Destroyers
3 Heavy Destroyers.
Dan wasn’t sure about whether his Codex was up-to-date (plus I haven’t played 40k in a while and have been concentrating on WM), so he picked a list from the newest looking book and picked the following (I am not sure of the particulars as this was just an extremely relaxed friendly):
Chaos Lord
Sorcerer
Champion
1 unit of Thousand Sons Marines
1 unit of Plague Marines
1 unit of regular Chaos Marines
1 unit of Raptors
3 Obliterators
The game was played rather tentatively as we were playing on a 3’x5’ table.
Dan won the roll-off and gave me the first turn, and I wasted no time in drawing a bead on the Obliterators. The Heavy Destroyers shot first with causing three wounding hits which went unsaved. The first turn also saw a rather foolish move on my part, which involved “Lefty” use his Veil of Darkness to transport himself and his Immortals behind the chaos lines and wreak some havoc there. When they appeared from nowhere they opened fire with their Gauss Blasters, but only managed to kill one of the regular CSM. This proved to leave them awfully vulnerable during Dan’s first turn where everything except of the Chaos Lord, Raptors and Obliterators turned to face the undead rust buckets and opened fire with everything they had. I do not need to point out how much of a stupid mistake it was to do this. Nor do I need to present the outcome of such a mistake. So with a third of my points cost down the drain, I set about making a killbox with my Warriors and Destroyers.
Second turn saw a complete on Obliterator fall and not much else. Dan charged his Raptors into one unit of Warriors and not much else.
The rest of the game saw us both edging towards each other until we were both in firing range. The close combat was indeed that – close, with neither side gaining an advantage (this actually stayed like this up until the penultimate turn).
The Obliterators fell in the third turn, while we both executed rather poor displays of long range shooting. The Raptors wore down the Necrons bit by bit, but eventually needed help from the Plague Marines and Chaos Lord.
The Thousand Sons and regular CSM all succumbed to my deadly Gauss weaponry Leaving the Sorcerer and Champion alone. I lost a fair number of Necrons who eventually got engaged en masse by the traitor marines (my Dark Angel heart was screaming) as soon as the Raptors and Plague Marines were free of their opponents. The Necrons saw the futility in sticking around so Phased Out.
This was a fun little game to play but I was hoping that the Raptors finished off their unit of Warriors in Dan’s turn meaning I would be in position to open fire on him right away. As it was the combat was finished in my turn, leaving Dan to charge me without obstacle. The badly thought out move of teleporting directly into enemy territory could have gone a lot better if I hadn’t presented my self to more than on unit. Jumping back and forth over the table would have provided a much needed distraction.
Still it was fun to give my Necrons a little run around, but it made me sad for my Dark Angels. They haven’t been let out of their box for even longer. They may not actually see the light of day unless GW releases a new Codex. But ultimately, they won’t see any action for the foreseeable future as I’m very much into Warmachine currently with the upcoming club campaign and the Scrap Metal II tourney I’ll be attending.
One day it may be different.
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