40k Battle Report: Necrons v Imperial Guard

Last TNG, we had a epic battle. One that shall be told for months to come, well by me at least.

My Necron force, fresh from 2 deafeats, finally pulled through. The Imperial force was large, much larger than mine, with 75+ models adorning the table compared to my 35. Did superior tactics, guile and bravery put me to victory? Maybe some, but it seems the curse of the dice also fell upon the Imperium that night.

I am not going to do a move per move report here (mainly as I forgot to take photos, and it all got a little mixed up in the excitement of it all), but here are some main points.

• From the beginning, the Necrons had a advantage of getting a objective worth 5 vp right in their deployment zone, on top of a building. A 10 man squad, lead by a lord, took and held this the whole game, surviving round after round of ordinance from a Basilisk and Leman Russ.
• The scarabs went on the rampage. Using the secret hatch special rule we came up with, they dashed right across the board and popped up infront of the Basilisk. With enrtropic touch rules, needless to say the Basilisk did not last long.
• On the other side of the battlefield, Traysin the Infinate, a lord and a 10 man squad marched their way towards another objective, one that was being held by a 25 strong IG squad. Suffering only 2 casualties on the march the warriors unleashed a volly of gauss fire, killing 12 of the IG...
• ...and then Trayzin charged. Unleashing mindshackle scrarabs, one IG turned and killed two of his own. Trayzin only scored one unsaved wound in combat, but that was enough. With 11 troops still around, the Empathic Obliterator released a blast.. and hit 6 troops, all but one saving their armour save. With that the IG turned and ran, only to be cut down by Trayzin as they attempted to escape.
• That being the fifth turn, Trayzin, the lord and the troops hold the objective.
• The Imperial Guard storm forward, and shoot a volly of 63 lasgun shots at the Necrons. (orders had been issued). All but one survived, who stood strong. Trayzin took the body over of the second lord, but that put him back in the deployment zone, much to his dismay.

The Imperials, I feel had no chance in this match. There was to many of them, and were not mobile enough. With the Necrons ability to get back up after they have been defeated, it really is like fighting a never ending wave with dwindling resources. If this had been a out and out destruction match, I think the IG would have won, but the Necrons appear to be doing very well at objectives, only losing to the Grey Knights by 2 points the week before...

After the smoke

The heretics were slowly advancing, and the Ork rabble behind them following closely. The Grey Knight Paladins looked on, rage filling them as the watched one noble battle brothers pairing up with the Orks.

Standing resolute and brave, the Paladins heard their Tech Priest behind them call down yet another orbital bombardment, and they felt the ground shake beneath their feet. The battle would soon be over, at one cost no one knew.

Out of a thick cloud of dust a smoke screamed a Dakkajet, its guns blazing and the pilot screaming a tirade of obscenities, audible even over the roar of the jets. The Paladins took no action waiting for a opportune moment, but were shook as a rogue bullet from the supa-shooters struck the Tech Priest between the eyes, his body slumping under the weight of his Artificer armour. They looked back, eyes to the sky, powerless against the might of a jet powered aircraft, even as it swooped around to make another strafing run. They had already accepted their fate, and knew their brothers would avenge them with the might of the Emperor behind them himself.

The pilot saw Paladins and took a direct line straight at them, guns blazing.

The Icarus blast vaporised the top half of his body. Behind the lines was a lone Icarus Lascannon, which had just been woken by the Tech Priest, now with a enraged machine spirit. The second blast destroyed the tail, and sent the Dakkajet is a wild death spiral, right down towards the stricken Paladins.

The Paladins saw what was about to happen, and felt a force flow through them. Somehow, maybe the God Emperor himself had sensed what was about to happen, and sent his spirit to protect them. As they were one, the braced, and threw their arms up as the Dakkajet dropped onto them from above, and as a unit threw it further behind them, destroying the bastion, but saving their lives. From the dust and fire emerged 5 Paladins, ready to take on the the enemy all by themselves, fuelled by the Emperor himself.

This is a short fiction based on possibly one of the most memorable things that have ever happened in a game of WH40k that I have played, from Thursday Night Gaming. I don't know a lot about the lore of the Grey Knights, so there may be some creative license here, but I just could not let this go without a good write up!