Played 3000 point game vs the Tau.  Had to call it a ? at the beginning of turn three of a very tight game but it seemed like it might go for the Necrons.  

One Phalanx was barely touched by the Tau on turn 1 due to a successful clipping assault through the woods.  It lost nothing nothing so regeneration was not an issue.  I brought two Eques as well to see how the Destroyers faired.
-The first formation was cut to three units and broke.  Regeneration brought back one automatically and then removed two BMs when it rallied.  No regeneration meant off board it was coming back turn 2 with 4 Destroyers and 2 BMs off board.  
-The second formation took two casualties of which one came back automatically in the rally phase.  It successfully rallied which meant it had five Destroyers and 1 BM on board.

Turn two has the following consequences:
Phalanx #1 took no damage as it activated late in the turn.
Phalanx #2 assaulted out of a portal and lost nothing (bad rolls even for the Tau).
Phalanx #3 took 3 Infantry losses and almost broke (Tomb Spyder and Pariah with formation meant it had 3BMs for the assault losses, 1 BM for coming under fire (total 4 BMs), and 5 units.
-Under the rules proposed in the Necron Regeneration thread, it received one unit back automatically and I was able to successfully rally which meant no BM's and 6 units ready for turn three.

Eques #1 took one casualty and broke.  Later gun drones swooped in and slaughtered them, wiping out the formation.  

Eques #2 took one casualty in a sucessful assault so it was at 4 units and 2 BMs.  One unit came back and it rallied to remove one BM meaning it had 5 units and 1 BM going into turn 3.

EDIT- correction on fate of Eques #1.  Ron had to remind me that he wiped them out toward the end of turn 2.

The Necrons also suffered losses of one Maniple and one Monolith Maniple used to a single Monolith that wasn't coming back for turn 3.  And one Monolith lost from the Monolith Phalanx.  Ron did a good job focusing on my portals but he unfortunately had to deal with 4 viable infantry formations on the board, one of which had speed and three of which that were in great positions to take / contest objectives.  

The game was never completed but it was great to play the Necrons with the new rule and not have any issues with the regeneration rule.

I know MNB also played two games yesterday and had no problems with the new rule.  He crushed Cameron's Dark Eldar twice but the regeneration had absolutely nothing to do with it.

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author of Syncing Forward and other stories...

It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I've got my Milkbone underwear on.

so, which options were these two games using?

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Necron Army Champion
"Do not come whining to me because you are weaker than your enemy." - Alexander Corvinus

interesting. I'll try and get a couple of Necron games in this week, opponents willing. I'm taking it that the "regeneration via regrouping may only occur on board, either by units already on board or by those marshalling out of a portal onto the board" option is the one being playtested? Is that using the void shield-esque "bring back units or remove BMs or any mix of the two" rule? Does the automatic 1 unit back to successfully rallied units occur even to those off board?

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we were playing w/ option 2, only regen on the board. also using the void shield rule.

sorry to be dense matt, but I'm still not 100% clear on the auto regen.

Is it:
a) all units with the Necron ability automatically regain 1 unit in the end phase, rallied or not, on or off board

b) all RALLIED units with the Necron ability automatically regain 1 unit in the end phase, on or off board

or
c) all ON-BOARD RALLIED units with the Necron ability automatically regain 1 unit in the end phase

Just want to get it straight before my next game

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This is the rule we used:


Here would be an applicable set of FAQs:

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author of Syncing Forward and other stories...

It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I've got my Milkbone underwear on.

ah okay, that clears things up a bit. Just to drive it home though - the autoregen is independent of rallying, right?

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numquam culum es

Correct.

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SG

Ghost's Paint Blog, where everything goes that isn't something else.

awesome, roll on the undead

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It's definately an artificial limitation, but it seems to work out so far

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"Do not come whining to me because you are weaker than your enemy." - Alexander Corvinus