Turn 1
Setup and Teleports:
The Objectives were set up, with a noticable triangle of objectives around a central cluster of buildings. Clearly this would be a key area of the battlefield.
The Guard lined up in two blocks, each screened by a garrisoned scout formation. On one side were the two mech companies and the warhound screened by the storm troopers, and on the other the artillery, russ and shadowsword screened by the sentinels.
The Necrons teleported 4 formations to the right flank, 2 to the left and 2 to the middle, mostly behind terrain. The Pylon teleported behind the buildings in the center of the board to protect it from enemy fire. The Warbarque stayed offboard to protect the BTS goal from being targetted early.
Action!
The guard won the Strategy roll (2 vs 2) and advanced the Warhound up the center of the board to shoot at Phalanx 5, firing both plasma barrels. 2 Obelisks dropped, and since they'd taken some BMs teleporting this was enough to break them, so they retreated behind some buildings for a safe phase-out.
The guard retained, sustaining fire with the Basilisks at Phalanx 1, killing an obelisk.
The necrons then responded by advancing Phalanx 6 into the open and firing upon the valkyries, dropping two of them. They then rather daftly handed the activation back to the guard.
Taking the chance they'd been given, the leman russ doubled towards the center of the board to get a clear line of fire at Phalanx 3, and opened up dropping 3 of them and breaking the formation. The Obelisks were proving pretty brittle so far!
The mechanised company retained to double towards the key central area and opened fire at the exposed phalanx 6, dropping one obelisk.
Phalanx 1 then began its flanking mission by advancing to fire on the sentinels, shrugging off their overwatch fire to kill 2 of the walkers and break the formation, which retreated further up the board edge.
Phalanx 3 retained to double behind the leman russ formation, putting them in a crossfire between Phalanxes 3 and 6. The resulting fire took down 3 russ.
The HQ company burnt off their supreme commander reroll to sustain fire on the now exposed Phalanx 3, but despite getting 5 hits none dropped.
The Shadowsword then began its game by failing its activation, and missing with the volcano cannon, merely laying another BM on Phalanx 3.
Phalanx 4 then advanced to encircle the russ and mechanised companies in a crossfire from a second direction, but failed to lay a single hit on the russ.
Phalanx 8 retained but failed its activation, and was unable to reroll since the warbarque was offworld, so it took a potshot at the valkyries, dropping one and leaving the stormtroopers pretty exposed.
The guard called in their thunderbolts, but the message was obviously scrambled along the way, as no help was coming as the thunderbolts failed their activation and stood down.
Phalanx 7 then popped up over their building to hose the storm troopers who had lost the cover of their valkyries, killing 3 and breaking the formation.
With the guard now out of activations, the necrons put their pylon on overwatch just in case, since it couldn't see anything to fire at.
Rallying
Phalanxes 3 and 5 phased out, but both rallyed, as did all necron formations with BMs.
The shadowsword and storm troopers failed to rally for the guard, but everything else did.
