{"id":3992,"date":"2016-01-29T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2022-07-01T22:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T02:09:40","slug":"40k-battle-report-necrons-vs-kingbreakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2016\/01\/40k-battle-report-necrons-vs-kingbreakers\/","title":{"rendered":"40k Battle Report: Necrons vs Kingbreakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil and I had a\u00a0great game of 40k last night at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcapscorner.com\/\">Redcap&#8217;s<\/a> Thursday night fights, so I was inspired to draw up a map and post some photos.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3996\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938472.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3996\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938472-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Nagash brings oblivion! Phil's Transcendant C'Tan.\" width=\"530\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938472-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938472-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938472-60x80.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nagash brings oblivion! Phil&#8217;s Transcendant C&#8217;Tan.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3994\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938382.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3994\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3994\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938382-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Top of Turn 2, Necron move.\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938382-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938382-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938382-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938382-60x45.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top of Turn 2, Necron move.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3993\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/map.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3993\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/map.png\" alt=\"Glorious combat.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/map.png 600w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/map-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/map-60x40.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glorious combat.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Setup<\/h2>\n<p>A relatively lightly terrained board, 1850 points each. I continued my experimentation with the Stormlance formation aided by\u00a0a 1st Company formation. The Stormlance requires all your foot dudes to start embarked but lets them run after shooting, and to use that run to embark even if they disembarked in the movement phase. So it&#8217;s great for moving forward in a Rhino, popping everybody out to let loose a full round of shooting, and then hiding back inside. The mission was Emperor&#8217;s Will (just two objectives on the board), Hammer and Anvil (long table).<\/p>\n<h2>Battle<\/h2>\n<p>Things went something like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wraiths move forward\u00a0a bit hesitantly, then rush\u00a0forward.\u00a0Tacticals move up\u00a0enough to concentrate fire into each of the two units in turn, making full use of their recently learned transport\u00a0embarkation skills. Landspeeders fortuitously come on to help from reserve, and the Wraiths are eliminated with minimal losses.\u00a0Devastators meanwhile cripple The Nightbringer, enabling Tacticals\u00a0to finish\u00a0him with opportunistic long range bolter fire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Captain Angholan and a\u00a0Deathwatch team drop onto the Necron objective, but the Lychguard defending\u00a0it shrug off the waves of flamer fire and fail no saves\u00a0from almost two dozen wounds. In response\u00a0they obliterate the Kingbreakers veterans just before\u00a0Oberon\u00a0warps all his friends across the battlefield and\u00a0onto the Kingbreakers&#8217; objective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kingbreakers Ghosts drop onto the Necron\u00a0objective, attempting to assassinate The Deceiver lurking nearby. They\u00a0cripple the supernatural ghoul\u00a0and nearly succeed, but he&#8217;s rescued\u00a0by a Transcendant C&#8217;Tan\u00a0who wracks the Marines with energy\u00a0attacks\u00a0before pummeling\u00a0them\u00a0into Oblivion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Terminators waiting in the Kingbreakers&#8217; backfield charge in\u00a0to\u00a0tie up the Lychguard, but are completely eliminated before inflicting any wounds. The Lychguard are somewhat off-footed by this though and fail a critical charge on Squad Harbinger also coming at them. This enables the entirety of the remaining Kingbreakers to turn and pour fire into the Necron, cutting them\u00a0to shreds. It&#8217;s not enough to clear the field though, as Oberon, a Necron Lord, and a few Lychguard survive to continue battling the Emperor&#8217;s finest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Outcome<\/h2>\n<p>The Emperor&#8217;s Will mission is notorious for typically coming down to the secondary objectives.\u00a0With just two objectives, in each other&#8217;s deployment zones, it&#8217;s just so hard to claim or contest both. So Phil basically locked this one up early by claiming First Blood and Slay the Warlord. My only hope was to somehow contest his objective while holding mine, possibly while also slaying his warlord.\u00a0By Turn 4 this looked possible with some very tight play, if I could clear the Lychguard and then flat out the Landspeeders across the board and onto his objective. Unfortunately I came up a few models short on clearing out the Necron menace, and the game ended on Turn 5 anyway while I&#8217;d decided to hope for a Turn 6 in order to get in a few more shots with the &#8216;Speeders before boosting across the board.\u00a0That left\u00a0us tied\u00a0on objectives with each holding our own, but Phil still up those 2 points&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>Putting the Landspeeders into reserve but flying onto the board rather than deep striking was, as usual, a good move. I was hesitant about that because deep striking would enable me to get across the long Hammer &amp; Anvil board. With the shorter player table edge\u00a0reserving them is also less useful than usual\u00a0because they can just fly across it anyway, as compared to entering on the flanks of the usual table orientation. But here they were able\u00a0to come on precisely where they needed to in order to shoot right at the most menacing Wraiths before they could obliterate all the Tacticals nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Throwing down the Sternguard piecemeal first to the Lychguard and then to\u00a0The Deceiver and Nagash was unfortunate. But I&#8217;m not sure what else I would have done. That seemed\u00a0my best chance to get on top of Phil&#8217;s objective, as the Rhinos would have had a hard time making it across the long table without being blown up. I did also think they&#8217;d do better\u00a0against the Lynchguard.\u00a0Their sacrifice did also basically take\u00a0both of the C&#8217;Tan out of the game, as they were forced to turn around and take care of the drop team, keeping them away from\u00a0my objective.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;m a big fan of the Stormlance formation from the Kauyon campaign book, thematically for the White Scars but not actually tied to their Chapter Tactics or characters. It&#8217;s quite a change of pace for me having to equip and embark\u00a0<em>everybody<\/em> in Rhinos rather than most in Drop Pods and the others largely on\u00a0foot. But being able to jump out, shoot, and hop back in is a huge boost to the effectiveness of basic\u00a0Marines. Bringing 20 bolter shots to bear is quite a bit different than\u00a04 out of the hatches. Sheer weight of fire\u00a0did a lot here to overcome the Necron&#8217;s\u00a0intrinsic survivability&#8212;overall I had just under 50 Marines on the board.<\/p>\n<p>The big immediate thing I should\u00a0change army-wise\u00a0is adding another Drop Pod to the 1st Company formation with some unit complementing the others, e.g., another Sternguard squad, so that I have two pods coming down Turn 1. Currently\u00a0the two units individually can go after a good variety of either squishy or vehicular units, but against a sort of middle ground hard target like the Lychguard their\u00a0attack\u00a0needs more oomph. In general I could also use more of the newer firepower units in the army. Centurions are of course the leading candidate.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, I need to change something up as\u00a0I&#8217;m now 0 and 2 against Phil in 2016, though this game\u00a0was much closer than our last. To the future!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3997\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938232.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3997\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938232-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Deathwatch flame the Lychguard on their home objective.\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938232-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938232-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938232-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_1938232-60x45.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deathwatch flame the Lychguard on their home objective.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3995\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_2114132.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3995\" class=\"wp-image-3995 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_2114132-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Kingbreakers surround the invading Necron.\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_2114132-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_2114132-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_2114132-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160128_2114132-60x45.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kingbreakers surround the invading Necron.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil and I had a\u00a0great game of 40k last night at Redcap&#8217;s Thursday night fights, so I was inspired to draw up a map and post some photos. Setup A relatively lightly terrained board, 1850 points each. I continued my experimentation with the Stormlance formation aided by\u00a0a 1st Company formation. 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