Last week Atension and I played a game using the developmental Sautekh vs Imperial Guard Steel Legion at our local game store, Dueling Grounds here in Toronto Canada.
This is the first battle report we are actually recording so bear with us as we figure out how best to convey how the game played out. This was the first time I was going up against the Sautekh Necron list although I have played Atension’s Nercons several times before using the older rules (I never came close to beating the old Necron list in Atension’s capable hands).
My IG Steel Legion list:
REGIMENTAL HQ [550] - Supreme Commander, 12 Infantry, 7 Chimera, Hydra
MECHANISED INFANTRY COMPANY [450] - Commander, 12 Infantry, 7 Chimera, Hydra
INFANTRY COMPANY [350] - Commander, 12 Infantry, Fire Support Platoon (4 Fire Support)
FLAK BATTERY [150] - 3 Hydra
ARTILLERY BATTERY [250] - 3 Manticores
ARTILLERY BATTERY [250] - 3 Manticores
SENTINEL SQUADRON [100] - 4 Sentinels
DEATHSTRIKE MISSILE BATTERY [200] - 2 Deathstrike Missile Launchers
THUNDERBOLT FIGHTERS [150] - 2 Thunderbolts
WARHOUND TITAN [275]
WARHOUND TITAN [275]
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Atension’s Necron Sautekh list:
INFANTRY PHALANX [300] - Necron Lord, 7 Warriors, Tomb Spyders
INFANTRY PHALANX [300] - Necron Lord, 7 Warriors, Tomb Spyders
IMMORTAL PHALANX [400] - Necron Overlord, 7 Immortals
EQUES MANIPLE [350] - 6 Destroyers, Necron Lord
MONOLITH PHALANX [275] - 3 Monoliths
MONOLITH PHALANX [275] - 3 Monoliths
VENATOR MANIPLE [200] - 6 Flayed Ones
PYLON [200]
NIGHT SCYTHES [175] - 2 Night Scythes
NIGHT SCYTHES [175] - 2 Night Scythes
NIGHT SHROUD BOMBERS [350] - 2 Night Shrouds
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Here is the table:
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PRIOR TO DEPLOYMENT
Necrons win choice of side and decide to deploy in corners.
Necron Blitz in in far corner
Imperial Guard is in middle of long table edge deployment zone.
All other objectives are along dividing line of table halves, 2 necron objectives in Ork village, 2 IG objectives near abandoned human town.
Sentinels deploy in Ork village on overwatch contesting two necron objectives.
Infantry Company sets up on overwatch surrounding Blitz objective.
SETUP
Necrons do not deploy any units during setup
Imperial Guard deploy as seen below:
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TURN ONE
Monoliths teleport in behind woods and get 2 blast markers
Pylon teleports in at the middle of the necron long table edge
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IG WIN INITIATIVE
IG – Thunderbolts go on CAP
N – Monoliths marshal, remove all blast markers and move towards war hound
IG – Hydras go on overwatch
N – Night Scythe ground attach Manticores, cause 1 blast
IG – Deathstrike sustain on Monoliths, cause 1 blast
N – Night Scythes ground attack Regiment HQ, cause 1 blast
N – Retain with Immortals, use Night Scythes and Engage Regiment HQ, win combat (6 hackdowns)
IG – Warhound sustains on Immortals, breaking them, 1 kill, they retreat to Ork village.
N – Warrior Phalanx engage out of Monoliths and assaults Warhound, Hydras fire on overwatch and kill 2 warriors, Warhound counter charges, Monoliths support. Warhound wins combat with 1 wound left, Phalanx retreats, Tomb Spider only unit left and retreats to woods.
IG – Manticore sustains, shoots Immortals with 2 units and kills one more Immortal
N – Eques Manifold moves and shoots out of the Monoliths at the Infantry Company, the Infantry Company shoots them on Overwatch, kills 3 and breaks them before they can shoot. They flee to the human ruins.
IG – Warhound Marshals and shoots at Monoliths, kills 1 and breaks them
N – Night Shroud Bombers ground assault Sentinels, CAPed by Thunderbolts. Pylon shoots down one Thunderbolt, Thunderbolts shoot down one Night Shroud, Night Shrouds kill 2 Sentinels and break unit.
IG – Manticore sustains, 1 unit shoots at Immortals, killing 1.
IG – Mechanized Infantry Company doubles and shoots at broken Eques Manifold, eliminating them.
END PHASE
1 Night Scythe shoot down in disengagement phase
Sentinels fail to rally
Warrior Phalanx fail to rally
Monoliths fail to rally
END OF TURN ONE CASUALTIES
TURN TWO
Necrons teleport Monoliths in front of Infantry Company.
Necrons teleport Venator Maniple beside Infantry Company.
NECRONS WIN INITIATIVE
N – Warrior Phalanx engage Infantry Company from Monoliths, Warhound and Monoliths support, lose 2 warriors, break Infantry Company.
N – Venator Maniple engages Hydras and wipes them out.
IG – Manticore sustains on flayers and breaks them.
N – Monoliths engage Regiment HQ intermingled with Warhound. IG win combat, Monoliths 2 killed and break.
IG – Thunderbolts fail to go on CAP and stand down
N – Immortals marshal, bring back 6 immortals and move through gate.
N – Retain with Night Scythes and ground attack Regiment HQ, breaks Regiment HQ.
IG – Manticore sustain on Immortals
N – Night Scythes ground attack Regimental HQ, destroying it.
IG – Warhound sustains on Immortals, kills 3 Immortals, breaking them.
N – Pylon goes on overwatch
IG – Deathstrikes double move and shoot Warrior Mantiple destroying them.
IG – Mechanized Infantry Company triples and controls Necron Blitz
TURN 2 END PHASE
Sentinels fail to rally
Monoliths fail to rally
END OF TURN CASUALTIES
TURN 3
NECONS WIN INITIATIVE
N – Warrior Phalanx marshalls (brings back 5 warriors) and uses the gate to contest 1 objectives
N – Warrior Phalanx marshalls (brings back 7 warriors) and uses gate to contest 2 objectives
IG - Warhound moves and shoots Warrior Phalanx, uncontesting objective and controlling it.
Game called because Necron did not have enough ground units to win at that point. Air power would be insufficient to dislodge units controlling objectives.
IG WIN
IG Player thoughts:
Going into the game my goal was to destroy his infantry units to remove his ability to both regenerate as well as contest objectives. I was confident that I could hold my blitz with the Infantry Company and Hydra units on overwatch. I was surprised at how easily the necrons were able to break my Regimental HQ, which was my BTS, as I had expected it and my Mechanized Infantry units to do more during the game. One big shock to me was the ineffectiveness of my anti air units. I had a total of 5 hydras and 2 thunderbolts which I thought was adequate air cover but I was unable to touch his air units to my satisfaction.
I really enjoyed playing the Necron Sautekh list. Lots more variety, everything didn’t seem unkillable. New models look AWESOME. The necrons still have there dirty tricks but I really enjoyed what there air power and changes to both the infantry and monoliths brought to the game. I endorse these changes and I will give more thoughts on the individual units in the Necron development forum (have some issues with the point cost and abilities of the flyers). Still think Living Metal needs to be tweaked to make Macro and Titan Killer shoots somewhat more effective against it.
I made several mistakes, namely I forgot that the Manticores have disrupt ability after the first turn, did some retaliatory fire instead of picking more strategic unactivated targets and forgot to put Regimental HQ back into unit coherency after rallying in the end phase (resulting in me removing 3 more units because they were out of coherency at the end of the end phase after their withdrawl move which they did not take advantage of).
Necron thoughts:
Atension will add his perspective of the game shortly I am sure
Battle Report thoughts:
This is the first time we recorded a game with the purpose of posting a Battle Report. As such I realize that we need to take more pictures throughout the turn to string the narrative a long a bit better. We also need to be more meticulous with record keeping, which quickly falls by the wayside when things get interesting during the game. Also I note that the file size of the pics is large and therefore the message won't support more then 5 pics (need to take smaller size pics). More pics in next message (due to lack of space in this message).
Any and all comments are appreciated, especially anything to improve our game (ie any rules that we may be playing wrong).
