City Outskirts - First light

1500 points - Rik's Necrons VS Rottimus's Scorpions (using BA codex)

The Battle: The Emperor's Will - Both sides have an HQ which needs to be captured!

Both forces deploying as such:

The forces meet!

The Scorpions deployed a tactical squad in the abandoned precint, which would serve as the HQ. Their bolters ready to guard it. Lazarus (corbulo), ten terminators and a ten man assault squad with meltas deployed on the ground, ready to leap into action. A death company and a chaplain were in reserve aboard a storm raven.

The necrons deployed 1 overlord, 2 lords, two 10 man warriors squads, 10 immortals, 5 triarch pretorians. a stalker and a Ctan Shard near their HQ, ruined Tavern. 3 Wraiths and an annihilation barge deployed on the far left of the Necron deployment zone.

Turn 1

The assault marines leap into action, powering towards the ruined tavern. Slamming into the ground, they immediately run forward in an attempt to get into cover. Everything else stays put. The terminators open fire on the warriors in front of them. The torrent downs 8 necrons. Further fire from the tactical squad, downs the other 2. With the squad wiped out, their reanimation protocols fail to kick in. First blood, and 1 victory point to the Scorpions!

Bolter fire smashes through a squad of warriors, leaving only shards of junk metal on the ground.

The necrons, unperterbed by the slaughter of a full unit, march forward in true necron style. The Stalker moves forward further into the ruins with 5 pretorians.The Ctan also shifts through the old tavern. Immortals take up positions in the ruins in the middle and the wraiths skim towards the marines objective.

The annhilation barge opens fire on the tactical marines. Scoring 4 wounds. The marines' armour holds true. No casualties. The warriors and immortals target Lazarus and the Terminators. Gauss flayers fire in, tesla weapons crack. Many wounds are scored. A single terminator falls to the fire.

The assault squad runs into trouble!

The stalker fire at the assault marines killing 1. The triarchs also fire, now gaining re-rolls due to the targetting array on the stalker. 2 marines die. The Necrons then charge in with the Triarch pretorians. Overwatch downs one before they clash in close combat. 1 triarch dies along with a single marine. They stay locked in combat.

Turn 2

The Terminators move forward, supporting the advance. A Stormraven zooms into play!
The Stormraven targets the Stalker in the ruins, scoring 4 hits with missiles. The rockets slam into the stalker wrecking it!, the assault cannon strafes with warriors, downing 4. The Terminators open fire on the same warrior squad. 2 Assault cannons and 7 stormbolters wipe it out completely.

withering fire slays the second warrior squad.

 The tactical squad on the Precint fires into the immortals in the ruins. 2 bolters score wounds and a well placed frag missile scores 3 wounds.

The frag missile explodes amongst the tightly packed immortals

 Rik rolls the following for his 5 3+ armour saves:

ERMAHGHERD!

 

Rik thrice damns the dice gods

1 of his immortals does get back up... but it's still hard to swallow. The close combat phase ensued:

Another marine falls to the warscythes (consistent bad rolling from Rik allowed this assault squad to live much longer than they probably should have). The sergeant strikes one down. Stalemate yet again. The Ctan lurking in the ruins would soon change that.

 The Necrons strike back! The wraiths move dangerously close to the Scorpion HQ. The annhilation barge targets the zooming stormraven with tesla destructor fire! Rik scores 2 hits, two sixes. Which gives an extra 4 auto hits!!!! 6 hits on a flyer, strength 7! My chaplain and deathcompany inside the raven held on for dear life as the lighting took its toll! 5s and 6s were need to damage it. Rik proceeded to roll a 5 and a 6, taking 2 hulls points off it and destroying the twin linked assault cannon. I opt not to evade in order to use it's weapons next turn.

The Ctan finally enters the fray along with a lord. They both charge into the assault marines. The assault marines slay a pretorian before being ganked by an effective Ctan.

Turn 3

Lazarus and the Terminators move out toward the Ctan, Revenge will be taken! The stormraven enters hover mode. The Chaplain and the Death Company move out to engage the overlord and the immortals. The tactical squad move to meet the wraiths threatening their position.

The terminators fire full force at the Ctan, scoring only 1 wound. The death company rapid fire their bolters killing only a single immortal (20 shots!, 2 wounds!, terrible rolling). The storm raven attemtps to support the tacticals and unleashes a fussilade of missile fire. The wraiths shifting forms dogde and evade all damage. The tacticals fire a flamer and bolt pistols at the wraiths scoring no wounds.

The Terminators move to engage!

The assault phase begins. Terminators move into combat with the Ctan, Death company engage the overlord and immortals, the tacticals engage the wraiths.

The Ctan strikes out, scoring 3 wounds.Lazarus ran away from the challenge! the coward! Luckily a terminator saves 1 wound with his invulnerable save and amazingly, I roll 2 5's 'feel no paining' the other two! The Ctan is slain under the barrage of strength 9 (furious charge) powerfists. It explodes killing the lord with his Ctan blast death and wounding several terminators. Lazarus (corbulo) absorbs the wounds 2+ feel no pain FTW!

The Death company charge in. 40 strength weapon skill 5, strength 5 attacks with re rolls to wound and to hit! (chaplain is the ultimate death company leader). Needles to say, the unit is wiped out! the lord goes head to head with the chaplain. The chaplain inflicts one wound and the lord fails to entrap the chaplain in a tesseract labyrinth. He promptly fails his morale check and is slain (failing his everliving rolls) Thats 1 victory point for Slay the Warlord and 1 for linebreaker (denial unit in the enemies deployment zone)

The combat by the HQ is a turgid affair, one marine is slain and one wound is inflicted on the Wraiths. Stalmate.

At his point Rik concedes defeat. The results:

3 victory points for Rottimus - Slay the Warlord, First blood, and Linebreaker
vs
1 for Rik (linebreaker due to his wraiths being in my deployment

Both HQ's are contested or denied.

Conclusion:

An emphatic victory for the Space Marines. The concentrated assault of the Terminators, assault squad and death company into to the heart of Rik's forces was too many bodies to fight off. In hindsight the day was won by unit placement, concentrated fire and maybe some unlucky rolling on Rik's part. I've learned quickly that if you can wipe out individual squads of Necrons, you really rob them of one of their best attributes, reanimation.

I'd say Rik made an error by spreading his forces out too much. His wraiths spent 3 turns moving across toward my home objective. Maybe combining his warriors into one squad of 20 would have prevented their quick destruction.

If were Rik I would have screened the warriors with the immortals. This mega unit would camp the middle (or the objective) with the Stalker. The Ctan, triarch pretorians and wraiths can move forward and take on some nasties. Credit to Rik for a positive attitude and an educational approach.

At the risk of sounds like a sanctimonius wankstain.... Rik has a way to go when it comes to handling Necrons. I see the remants of an imperial guard commander in his tactics. Warriors arent for sacrificing! =)

Good game!