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And I think that "pulling in three monoliths" means the support fire.
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@Hena and Hojyn,
Hena is correct in his assumption. In hindsight I agree with what the both of you are saying.
Plan A:
1. Engage with a monolith + obelisk formation, then use the supporting fire from the surrounding monoliths/obelisks to severely damage the Vyper/Falcon formation
2. Then since I had not put any feet on the ground, with the survivors, double or triple over to the next target
3. Then unload phalanxes to assault as that was where I wanted the knockdown fight to be
Plan B ended up being how Hojyn used his forces, although I didn't come to that conclusion until the start of Turn 3. That was effective, however and especially against the Saim Hann Eldar, with their high mobility, they are quite capable of escaping to other areas as well as using hit and run tactics to keep the "plodding" infantry off balance.
My concern was that I didn't think I was going to win the game by just out regenerating the Eldar, I needed to annihilate formations so that they didn't come back to haunt me in later turns.
So, in some respect, although my Plan A did not work the way I wanted it to, in combination with Plan B (Hojyn variant), I still see it as viable. But an assault using phalanxes in addition to "clouds" of supporting fire is what that will take.
At +5FF, you just can't depend on the monolith to do that all by itself, which some of you figured out early, I had to learn it the hard way. ?
However, and this comes from Hojyn's report (which was very good by the way), I'm not convinced that the Monolith is unbalanced or overwhelming as is.
In Hojyn's game, we saw what happens when the Necron plan works as expected. In mine, we saw different things, not the least of which is succumbing to AT if enough shots are applied, as well as the possibility of them "not" having that effective of fire.
As I am looking at it now, it would be very early in the analysis to be making too strong of an assumption one way or another.
I do know for a fact that the Necrons have been playtested in Memphis rather extensively against an array of army types and that their reported success is only at the 50% level.
Some of this will stem from their familiarity with the list, some from the implied balance.
So, I think it's good that we play and test so that more feedback can be provided...but, I do see it as early in the game.
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