Busy night last night down the club, we had 4 tables on the go and 11 players. I managed to get in a game with my Necrons, should really have tried out one of my balanced lists but instead opted for the silliness of armour spam with a Monolith, Doomsday Ark and Doom Scythe in my 750pt list. My opponent was running a Grey Knights Inquisitorial Henchmen list of some type with loads of troops to hold objectives, a psyker squad to dish out the pain and a Stormraven bringing nasty melta death from above.

Fortunately for me we rolled Big Guns, so my heavy support based list could actually hold some objectives, but even then it was a struggle. Especially with 5 objectives on the table! I had to be extra careful placing terrain, setting up as much of a wall as I could between his Aegis Defence Line and my armour to prevent that lascannon tearing me up.

I had been looking forward to sitting up the back with my Doomsday Ark and tearing him apart at range, but it seems that may have been a bit obvious as his Stormraven raced in on turn 2 destroying the Ark in a firestorm of melta. I’d hoped to avenge it when my Doom Scythe showed up, but it wasn’t meant to be, my Scythe didn’t turn up until turn 4 and I was forced to wait until his Stormraven went into hover mode to blow it up.

When the Doom Scythe did turn up it made its presence felt, killing the enemy warlord in turn 4 then wiping out a squad of Inquisitorial Stormtroopers on a dangerous Skyfire Nexus objective in turn 5.

When the game finally drew to a close at the end of turn 7 I was sitting on 2 objectives with a bonus point for killing the warlord while my opponent had 1 as well as points for my warlord and for first blood. Final score: Necrons 7, Inquisition 5.

I’ve got some more photos from last night to go up later; expect a set from the other 40k games followed by a set of Warhammer Fantasy.