Which 1850 is bettah? Donkey Kong or Mortal Kombat?
LIST 1
Nemesor Zandrekh
Overlord - warscythe, mindshackle scarabs
HOD Cryptek - eldritch lance, solar pulse
6 Warriors - Ghost Ark
8 Warriors
HOD Cryptek - eldritch lance, solar pulse
8 Warriors
HOD Cryptek - eldritch lance
8 Warriors
HOD Cryptek - eldritch lance
8 Warriors
HOD Cryptek - eldritch lance
6 Wraiths - 2 with coils and casters, 2 with coils, 1 with caster
3 Heavy Destroyers
6 Scarab Swarms
2 Tomb Spyders
Annihilation Barge
LIST 2
Imotekh the Stormlord
Orikan the Diviner
HOE Cryptek - chronometron
6 Warriors - Ghost Ark
Ctan Shard - writhing worldscape, swarm of spirit dust
6 Warriors - HOD Cryptek - eldritch lance
6 Warriors - HOD Cryptek - eldritch lance
6 Warriors - HOT Cryptek - tremorstave
6 Warriors - HOT Cryptek - tremorstave
6 Wraiths - 2 with coils and casters, 2 with coils, 1 with caster
6 Scarab Swarms
2 Tomb Spyders
Annihilation Barge
Earlier this evening I played a 2k of the Orikan list (took out the spyders, but added 3 scarab swarms and a monolith) against Chris' Tzeentch/Slaanesh demons and ended up losing the very tough game. I really missed having the extra bodies and gauss shots in the small squads of warriors (6 plus cryptek), and the worldscape combo didn't do much to an army full of stuff that will deep strike in close and use invulnerable saves to ward off any failed terrain tests. Plus Orikan hulked out Turn 2 with noone anywhere near enough to charge, then went back to "Ori-kant" mode Turn 3, even with the help of the chronometron. Nightfighting was basically moot, as the tzeentch heralds dropped in close enough to blast the shit out of my wraiths before they got to do anything. I think it came down mostly to me using my severely weakened linebackers (wraiths) and the scarabs to engage a bunch of daemonettes and seekers. Result: two utter failures that opened up my right flank for the bitches to just march on into the 2 warrior squads holding my home objective. One promptly broke and the other was slowly whittled down along with the C'tan. Fun game, but uphill all the way, so I'm kind of feeling the first list at the moment. But I want to play one more game with all the snarescape and stormlord bs against a different kind of army, like wolves or grey knights. That said, I am liking the look of the double pulse versus the stormlord's nightfighting. I think it would be better to control the shooting phase uncontested for a couple of turns than count on the rather chancey lightning. But Orikan and Stormlord could be so much fun! I'm torn.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Whole Lotta Shakin
After further review, I think I will try to incorporate Orikan and a couple transmogrification crypteks into my 2k list for some shake-n-bake silliness. Orikan is pretty sick regardless of his temporal snares, especially thrown in with the Stormlord and a chronometron, giving him relentless as well as a possible reroll to help keep him in hulk mode. Still lovin the Crons! Here's the list:
Stormlord
Orikan
2 Crypteks - transmogrification
1 Cryptek - eternity, chronometron
Ctan - writhing worldscape, pyreshards
5 Warriors - Ghost Ark
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
5 Wraiths - 2 whip coils & particle casters, 2 whip coils
6 Scarab swarms
2 Tomb Spyders
Monolith
Annihilation Barge
I think it still keeps some variety in there without going full-on mech MSU and it won't take too much extra painting on my part to finish up. I have some deathmark heads and a box of praetorians coming in right now to make crypteks, and I think I will use my existing cryptek as Orikan for the near future.
Monolith
Stormlord
Orikan
2 Crypteks - transmogrification
1 Cryptek - eternity, chronometron
Ctan - writhing worldscape, pyreshards
5 Warriors - Ghost Ark
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
5 Wraiths - 2 whip coils & particle casters, 2 whip coils
6 Scarab swarms
2 Tomb Spyders
Monolith
Annihilation Barge
I think it still keeps some variety in there without going full-on mech MSU and it won't take too much extra painting on my part to finish up. I have some deathmark heads and a box of praetorians coming in right now to make crypteks, and I think I will use my existing cryptek as Orikan for the near future.
Monolith
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Tournament: Dragon's Lair 3/04/12
I crammed a bunch of painting and basing on the NDGs in on Thursday and Friday so I could get them all done before a 1250-point tournament up at Dragon's Lair last Sunday. I took the following list:
Imotekh the Stormlord
Cryptek - Chronometron
5 Warriors - Ghost Ark
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
6 Scarab Swarms
6 Wraiths - 2 lash whips and particle beamers, 2 lash whips, 1 particle beamer
2 Tomb Spyders
Annihilation Barge
I took the Stormlord because he's always been fun for me and usually changes up the game quite a bit. I also guessed the nightfighting might foil other 1250 point armies. Wraiths are my favorite Necron unit so I decided to max out on them.
Game 1 - Space Wolves
Deployment - Pitched battle
Primary Mission - 4 objectives, 2 along the center line, 1 placed by each player
Secondary Mission - Have the most units within 6" of the enemy table edge
Tertiary Mission - Control the most table quarters as determined by killpoints
My first match was against Brandon, he of the incredibly articulated and beautifully painted Bjorn model. He was playing with a rune priest, iron priest, and servitors inside a standard land raider, 3 grey hunter squads with plasma guns in twin-linked LC razorbacks, one dreadnought with a multimelta, and one dreadnought with plasma cannon. He decided to hold everything but the land raider and one razorback in reserve. With nightfighting going strong, two of the objectives along the center line of the table, and most of his stuff arriving late, I decided to charge headlong into the breach with the wraiths, scarab swarms, and one of the warrior squads. I got across the board fairly quickly with the scarabs and wraiths, the scarabs eating both dreadnoughts and the wraiths taking down a razorback squad or two on the way. I never had any lightning strikes, but Brandon was having bad dice luck and I ended up getting all three missions in the end.
Game 2 - Grey Knights
Deployment - Spearhead
Primary Mission - Capture and Control
Secondary Mission - Control objective that moves randomly each player turn unless controlled
Tertiary Mission - Control terrain pieces with any unit type
Aaron was playing with Draigo, 10 paladins, 6 purifiers, and a storm raven. Unfortunately I left all my AP1 and AP2 at home with my catachans. I'd have to make do with a solid castle and hopefully a nice counterattack from my wraiths. I ended up taking out his storm raven with the scarabs, but a small space was left for Draigo and the purifiers to disembark and they got out and made mincemeat out of most of my forces. A few warriors and the tomb spyders managed to hightail it to some distant terrain pieces while the wraiths and swarms sacrificed themselves to keep the grey knights busy. I had held the stormlord in reserve with the cryptek, warriors, and ghost ark, and they came in just in time on the left side of my long edge to grab the moving objective just as it came within reach. On his last turn, he made it to my home C&C objective to contest. He won the primary but I came away with the secondary and tertiary.
Game 3 - Space Wolves
Deployment - Dawn of War
Primary Mission - Killpoints
Secondary Mission - One objective each in opposite quarters
Tertiary Mission - Have the most units within 12" of the table center, not including dedicated transports
So, Space Wolves and Grey Knights all day long. Oh well, at least Jon C had a different style wolves army, with one drop pod full of grey hunters, one drop pod full of terminators, and one drop pod full of multimelta dreadnought, all dropping into my necrocastle within the first two turns. He also had a rune priest with lightning and jaws, two more squads of grey hunters in rhinos, and rocket launcher long fangs. Nightfighting kept the long fangs and rune priest from being very effective for most of the game. In the final turns, I had just fought my way clear of the drop pod salvo (wraiths, scarabs, spyders, and mass gauss fire in combination makes for a decent castle) when his rune priest rolled up and world wolfed both spyders, three scarab bases, and two or three warriors just like that. Wish I'd paid for that gloom prism after all! In any case, I was extremely pleased to finally be able to inflict a kill with Imotekh's staff of the destroyer (zapped a wolf termie!), and everyone else performed admirably as well. We drew the secondary mission but I won the primary and tertiary missions.
After the dust settled, I won first place! Hurray, prize support! Alas no, apparently that's not a thing anymore. I did get a medal, but I bit it and it is made of not gold. All in all I was most happy to have three challenging games against friendly opponents. Seldom was heard a discouraging word and the skies were not cloudy all day.
Imotekh the Stormlord
Cryptek - Chronometron
5 Warriors - Ghost Ark
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
6 Scarab Swarms
6 Wraiths - 2 lash whips and particle beamers, 2 lash whips, 1 particle beamer
2 Tomb Spyders
Annihilation Barge
I took the Stormlord because he's always been fun for me and usually changes up the game quite a bit. I also guessed the nightfighting might foil other 1250 point armies. Wraiths are my favorite Necron unit so I decided to max out on them.
Game 1 - Space Wolves
Deployment - Pitched battle
Primary Mission - 4 objectives, 2 along the center line, 1 placed by each player
Secondary Mission - Have the most units within 6" of the enemy table edge
Tertiary Mission - Control the most table quarters as determined by killpoints
My first match was against Brandon, he of the incredibly articulated and beautifully painted Bjorn model. He was playing with a rune priest, iron priest, and servitors inside a standard land raider, 3 grey hunter squads with plasma guns in twin-linked LC razorbacks, one dreadnought with a multimelta, and one dreadnought with plasma cannon. He decided to hold everything but the land raider and one razorback in reserve. With nightfighting going strong, two of the objectives along the center line of the table, and most of his stuff arriving late, I decided to charge headlong into the breach with the wraiths, scarab swarms, and one of the warrior squads. I got across the board fairly quickly with the scarabs and wraiths, the scarabs eating both dreadnoughts and the wraiths taking down a razorback squad or two on the way. I never had any lightning strikes, but Brandon was having bad dice luck and I ended up getting all three missions in the end.
Game 2 - Grey Knights
Deployment - Spearhead
Primary Mission - Capture and Control
Secondary Mission - Control objective that moves randomly each player turn unless controlled
Tertiary Mission - Control terrain pieces with any unit type
Aaron was playing with Draigo, 10 paladins, 6 purifiers, and a storm raven. Unfortunately I left all my AP1 and AP2 at home with my catachans. I'd have to make do with a solid castle and hopefully a nice counterattack from my wraiths. I ended up taking out his storm raven with the scarabs, but a small space was left for Draigo and the purifiers to disembark and they got out and made mincemeat out of most of my forces. A few warriors and the tomb spyders managed to hightail it to some distant terrain pieces while the wraiths and swarms sacrificed themselves to keep the grey knights busy. I had held the stormlord in reserve with the cryptek, warriors, and ghost ark, and they came in just in time on the left side of my long edge to grab the moving objective just as it came within reach. On his last turn, he made it to my home C&C objective to contest. He won the primary but I came away with the secondary and tertiary.
Game 3 - Space Wolves
Deployment - Dawn of War
Primary Mission - Killpoints
Secondary Mission - One objective each in opposite quarters
Tertiary Mission - Have the most units within 12" of the table center, not including dedicated transports
So, Space Wolves and Grey Knights all day long. Oh well, at least Jon C had a different style wolves army, with one drop pod full of grey hunters, one drop pod full of terminators, and one drop pod full of multimelta dreadnought, all dropping into my necrocastle within the first two turns. He also had a rune priest with lightning and jaws, two more squads of grey hunters in rhinos, and rocket launcher long fangs. Nightfighting kept the long fangs and rune priest from being very effective for most of the game. In the final turns, I had just fought my way clear of the drop pod salvo (wraiths, scarabs, spyders, and mass gauss fire in combination makes for a decent castle) when his rune priest rolled up and world wolfed both spyders, three scarab bases, and two or three warriors just like that. Wish I'd paid for that gloom prism after all! In any case, I was extremely pleased to finally be able to inflict a kill with Imotekh's staff of the destroyer (zapped a wolf termie!), and everyone else performed admirably as well. We drew the secondary mission but I won the primary and tertiary missions.
After the dust settled, I won first place! Hurray, prize support! Alas no, apparently that's not a thing anymore. I did get a medal, but I bit it and it is made of not gold. All in all I was most happy to have three challenging games against friendly opponents. Seldom was heard a discouraging word and the skies were not cloudy all day.
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