Hey Guys

I’ve got an upcoming tournament (see the UPCOMING TOURNAMENT topic for details) and want some advice for with the list i’ve come up with. It’s pretty typical of the sort of list i run normally.

HQ
Anrakyr the Traveller – 165
Catacomb Command Barge – 80

Royal Court
Ho Despair – 30
VoD – 30

Ho Destruction – 35
Solar Pulse – 20
Gaze of Flame – 10

Lord 1 – 35
Res Orb – 30
MSS – 15
Warscythe – 10

Lord 2 – 35
Res Orb – 30
MSS – 15
Warscythe – 10

Lord 3 – 35
Res Orb – 30
MSS – 15
Warscythe – 10

Troops
10 Phyrrian Eternals – 170
Tesla Carbines

9 Warriors – 117
Ghost Ark – 115

10 Warriors – 130

10 Warriors – 130

Elites
5 Deathmarks – 95

Triarch Stalker – 150

Heavy Support
Monolith – 200

Total: 1747

Tactics
Anrakyr goes off and does his thing.
Ho Despair goes with deathmarks.
Ho Destruction goes in the ghost ark. Pops the pulse straight away.
Lords spread out between the other 2 warrior units and the eternals.
Monolith serves as distraction and pulls units onto objectives later in the game.
Stalker makes the most of his heat ray and twin linking, then goes to tie up something that can’t hurt it easily.
Deathmarks aim for units that’ll be a pain in the arse like termies and big beasties. If there isn’t anything like that then aim for something i just don’t like the look of.

Thoughts?

So … the list is fine? what about Gaze vs Shroud?

yeah but put it where? it’s most useful place is with the deathmarks and there is already one in there.

yeah but the stalkers been useful in the last few games i’ve played. twin linked death and despair is awesome

2 reasons.

1) it’s WYSIWYG and i don’t have a zahndrek model.
2) i prefer using characters not a lot of other people use and everyone uses zhandrek.

i gave the list a try on saturday against a friend who isn’t going to the tourney. I didn’t take GoD i took the Nightmare Shroud instead.

I can’t give a full batrep but i’ll mention the highlights.

death and despair work amazingly. he brought on a large snikrot unit with ghazghul attached (cheating, he knows now. i didn’t have my BRB to prove it to him at the time and i couldn’t be bother with arguing it). death and despair took the squad down to the 2 characters and 1 commando from just the abysal staff.

Anrakyr didn’t survive long but he got an amazing shot off in turn 1. he zooomed up and took over a battlewagon. the battlewagon then fired it’s Zzap gun at a looted wagon, hit and rolled a 3 and a 5 for the strength. penetrated the wagon and rolled a 5. EXPLOSION!!!! (open topped). the explosion then took out 3 ork bikers (not nob bikers just normal bikers). OK anrakyr’s barge then got deff rolla-ed to oblivion but that was a nice shot!! unfortunately he went down to the rest of the bikers in combat the next turn and didn’t reanimate.

Units Lost
Me: Anrakyr, Command Barge, Ghost Ark, Triarch Stalker, 2 immortals and a couple of warriors here and there (but not a full squad). (4 kill points to him)
Him: I don’t know exactly but all he had left was a trukk that was immobilized and had no weapons left and a deff dread that was stuck in combat with a warscythe and mindshackle scarabs. (more than 4 kill points to me)

Next saturday i’m having a game against either SW or CSM so that will be a bit more of a challenge.

@tushan10 the main idea with this forces i normally run are focusing the majority of my firepower against 1 unit at a time then moving on to the next so i have little need for CC. as an “old school” necron player this has worked out for years now.

although i can see where you’re coming from (and, admittedly, i would like to test wraiths out at some time) i’d prefer to stick with what i know works. it’d take me a couple of weeks to work out what wargear goes best with them for my play style and my list needs handing in saturday evening at the latest to be checked over and verified by the judge.

as for lychguard i’ve never really rated them. 225 points for 5 guys with a 4+ invul save and a power weapon when SM get 5 guys for 200 with TH and SS that’ll do the job better. it just seems so over priced for little return. ok the shields can re-bound shots but only AP3 or better and that’s IF they save it.

hmm…. now that does sound tempting unfortunately though i’ve got a lack of cash at the moment (thanks a lot GW). maybe there will be some put up as prizes that i could win.