Necron Sautekh Legion (Developmental V1.1) and Dark Eldar (2017)..

Well we manage another game of epic. It was 3000 point per side and it was between Necron Sautekh Legion (Developmental V1.1) and Dark Eldar (2017)..

I played the Necron Sautekh Legion (Developmental V1.1) and Jim played the Dark Eldar (2017)..

Link to the Necron Sautekh Legion (Developmental V1.1) thread…

http://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=28893

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Armies used

Necron Sautekh Legion (Developmental V1.1)
WARRIOR PHALANX IN GHOST ARKS [350]
3 Ghost Arks, 6 Sautekh Warrior unit, Necron Overlord
WARRIOR PHALANX IN GHOST ARKS [275]
3 Ghost Arks, Necron Lord, 6 Sautekh Warrior unit
IUDICIUM MANIPLE [250]
5 Doomsday Ark units
IUDICIUM MANIPLE [250]
5 Doomsday Ark units
NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER [275]
2 Night Shroud Bombers
NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER [275]
2 Night Shroud Bombers
NIGHT SCYTHES [175]
2 Night Scythes
BLADE MANIPLE [200]
6 Tomb Blade units
BLADE MANIPLE [200]
6 Tomb Blade units
VENATOR MANIPLE [200]
6 Flayed Ones units
SPACECRAFT [325]
1 Scythe Class Harvester
WARRIOR PHALANX [225]
Necron Lord, 7 Sautekh Warrior unit,

Dark Eldar (2017)

KABAL COTERIE [250]
4 Incubi, 1 Archon character

WEBWAY PORTAL [50]

PORTABLE WEBWAY PORTAL [50]

KABAL SYNDICATE [275]
6 Warriors, Dracon, 2 Venoms

KABAL SYNDICATE [200]
6 Warriors

HEAVY BARGE [250]
1 Vessel of Pain

HEAVY BARGE [250]
1 Vessel of Pain

HEAVY BARGE [250]
1 Vessel of Pain

RAZORWING FIGHTERS [200]
2 Razorwings

RAZORWING FIGHTERS [200]
2 Razorwings

TALOS [325]
4 Talos, 2 Talos

MANDRAKES [200]
6 Mandrakes

SCOURGES [250]
6 Scourges

TORTURE CLASS CRUISER [250]

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Deployment

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Turn 1

• Dark Eldar win SR and goes first…
• Dark Eldar: Active TORTURE CLASS CRUISER and do orbit bombardment and manage to hit IUDICIUM MANIPLE, killing 1 and giving it 3 BM’s..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Bring in NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER and target KABAL COTERIE and manage to clip the HEAVY BARGE. Placing 2BM’s on each and taking shadow field down on the HEAVY BARGE.
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Bring in NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER and target KABAL COTERIE and manage to clip the HEAVY BARGE. The KABAL COTERIE lose 2 and is broken and flees forwards.The HEAVY BARGE is broken due to BM’s and flees..
• Dark Eldar: Do intercepted of NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER with RAZORWING FIGHTERS, giving them a BM..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Move BLADE MANIPLE up..
• Dark Eldar: Do intercepted of NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER with RAZORWING FIGHTERS. Managing to kill 1 and giving them 2 BM’s..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Do intercepted of RAZORWING FIGHTERS with NIGHT SCYTHES.Managing to kill 1 and giving them 2 BM’s..
• Dark Eldar: Double move KABAL SYNDICATE through web way and then shoot WARRIOR PHALANX IN GHOST ARKS(SC),giving them a BM..
• Dark Eldar: Do engage action with TALOS, by using the PORTABLE WEBWAY PORTAL and target the WARRIOR PHALANX IN GHOST ARKS(SC),Support from BLADE MANIPLE.The dice are rolled and the TALOS win, consolidate 5 and the WARRIOR PHALANX IN GHOST ARKS(SC),is wiped from the board and the BLADE MANIPLE gets BM for failed support..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Double move IUDICIUM MANIPLE and shoots TALOS, giving them a BM
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Retain and fail to activate BLADE MANIPLE, so take BM and move back..
• Dark Eldar: double move HEAVY BARGE up and shoots BLADE MANIPLE,killing 1 and giving it 2 BM’s
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Marshal IUDICIUM MANIPLE, so move and remove BM’s
• Dark Eldar: Double move HEAVY BARGE up and shoots IUDICIUM MANIPLE,giving it a BM..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Double move WARRIOR PHALANX IN GHOST ARKS up and shoots HEAVY BARGE, giving it a BM..

  Rally Phase

• Dark Eldar: Don’t rally KABAL COTERIE and don’t remove BM ‘s from HEAVY BARGE..
• No AC were shot down in the disengage section

END OF TURN SHOT

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Turn 2

• Teleporting: Necron Sautekh Legion teleport in VENATOR MANIPLE(3BM) and Dark Eldar teleport in MANDRAKES and SCOURGES(BM)

• Dark Eldar win SR and goes first…
• Dark Eldar: Do engage action with MANDRAKES, and target the WARRIOR PHALANX IN GHOST ARKS. They get support from SCOURGES and HEAVY BARGE.The dice are rolled and the MANDRAKES(BM) win and the and the WARRIOR PHALANX IN GHOST ARKS,is wiped from the board. Then consolidate 5
• Dark Eldar: Place RAZORWING FIGHTERS on CAP..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Do sustain fire with IUDICIUM MANIPLE, and shoots Talos,killing 1 and giving it 2 BM’s..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Retain and fail to activate BLADE MANIPLE, so take BM and move back..
• Dark Eldar: Fail to activate HEAVY BARGE(SC Reroll used) and shoots and shoots IUDICIUM MANIPLE,killing 1 and giving it 2 BM’s..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Bring in NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER and target broken KABAL COTERIE, killing 3 all up..
•  Dark Eldar: Do engage action with SCOURGES and target the IUDICIUM MANIPLE.The dice are rolled and the SCOURGES win the combat.The IUDICIUM MANIPLE is wiped from the board.SCOURGES consolidate 5..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Bring in NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER(1K/2BM, from CAP) and target Talos, killing 3 and breaking it, so it flees back..
• Dark Eldar: Do engage action with KABAL SYNDICATE and target the BLADE MANIPLE.The dice are rolled and the KABAL SYNDICATE(2BM) wins the combat and the BLADE MANIPLE are wiped from the board.KABAL SYNDICATE consolidates 5.
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Bring NIGHT SCYTHES on…
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Retain and do engage action with WARRIOR PHALANX, through portal and target the MANDRAKES.After two rounds of Combat the WARRIOR PHALANX(BM), wins the combat and the MANDRAKES are wiped from the board.WARRIOR PHALANX consolidate 5.
• Dark Eldar: Do engage action with KABAL SYNDICATE(web portal) and target the VENATOR MANIPLE.The dice are rolled and the KABAL SYNDICATE wins the combat and the VENATOR MANIPLE, is wiped from the board.The KABAL SYNDICATE consolidate 5
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Active Scythe Class Harvester, the orbital bombardment, does nothing.The 2 pin points attacks target HEAVY BARGES. One HEAVY BARGE, lose all it shadow fields and suffers 2DC and is broken and flees forwards.The other loses shadow field and gets a BM..
• Dark Eldar: Move HEAVY BARGE, and shoots IUDICIUM MANIPLE, killing 2 and breaking it,It flees down the baseline.

RALLY PHASE

• Necron Sautekh Legion: Don’t rally IUDICIUM MANIPLE..
• Dark Eldar:Don’t rally Talos,HEAVY BARGE and KABAL COTERIE.
• No AC were shot down in the disengage section

END OF TURN SHOT

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Turn 3

• Necron Sautekh Legion win SR and goes first…
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Bring in NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER and target broken Talos, killing 1 all up..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: fail to bring in NIGHT SCYTHES
• Dark Eldar: Move HEAVY BARGE and shoot WARRIOR PHALANX, killing 3 and breaking it, so it flees forwards..
• Dark Eldar: Place RAZORWING FIGHTERS on CAP..
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Do engage action with BLADE MANIPLE and target the
  KABAL SYNDICATE.The dice are rolled and the KABAL SYNDICATE(BM) and the BLADE MANIPLE is wiped from the board..KABAL SYNDICATE consolidate 5
• Dark Eldar: Do intercepted of NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER with RAZORWING FIGHTERS, killing the last unit...
• Necron Sautekh Legion: Fail to bring on NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER..
• Dark Eldar: Double move HEAVY BARGE and shoots broken WARRIOR PHALANX, wiping it from the board.
• Dark Eldar:Double move KABAL SYNDICATE and claim to objective markers..
• Dark Eldar:Double move SCOURGES and claim to objective markers..
• Dark Eldar:Move KABAL SYNDICATE and claim its own Blitz marker..

RALLY PHASE

• Dark Eldar: Don’t rally Talos and HEAVY BARGE..
• No AC were shot down in the disengage section

Victory Condition	Dark Eldar	Sautekh Legion
1. Blitz	Yes	no
2. Break their sprit	Yes	NO
3. Defend the Flag	Yes	no
4. Take and Hold	Yes	no
5. They Shall not Pass	Yes	no

END OF TURN SHOT

 

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Summary

 

Yeah OK wonderful vassal dice..I could not make most of my armour saves and rarely did I hit, in engagements..I rolled three six's for the SR roll for the game, I believe…Yes the only thing on the board for me at the end of the game was a IUDICIUM MANIPLE and off board the Air force..

 

Anyways this game got me think on some things on how to tweak the list more….so change might be in order..

 

On to other things…

 

BLADE MANIPLE: Well they did shit all tonight, fail to active a few times…Still feel they should go to 225 points, but they may need to be more, but again more games will help..

 

 

NIGHT SCYTHES: Tried the portal the new way and I think it’s better, but it early days, so more test runs..

 

 

DE:

 

It was also my first game against the DE since the new update and second game all up against the DE..So hoping to have some more soon, if Jim will be in it..Rematch  

 

 

25/3/2017-Following from Jim..

 

This game was a good example of dark Eldar being able to pick and control the assaults of their choosing.  It was also a fine example of the dice gods abandoning Greg.

The crons list is pretty hard core. I agree with Greg that the tomb blades are under costed.

Also the doomsday arks got smashed this game,  but that's cause I had 3 vops,  so you didn't really get to see how lethal they are,  but they would be worth a points rise too.

Rematch for sure!  Everyone losses their first game against dark Eldar! 

 

Regards

Greg