Escalation in the Man Cave round 2: 500 points 1-on-1
Here are the results of the second round of the Campaign. This time it's the forces of Nurgle vs. the Necron.
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Chaos Daemons of Nurgle:
8 Plague Bearers w/ Icon (team A)
7 Plague Bearers (team B)
9 Nurglings (team B)
1 Bight Drone (team A)
Special Rules: All but the BD have +5 inv. sv. and FnP. Blight Drone is a fast/skimmer and treats it's own destroyed - wrecked as destroyed - explosion.
The Necron:
1 Lord +Res Orb
10 Warriors
3 Destroyers
Special Rules: Necrons can resurrect on a 4+ the controlling player's next turn. Lord equipped with Scythe that can ignore invulnerable saves.
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Round 1 Necron: He won the initiative and decided to go first. The Warrior and retinue moved to the left flank and the dstroyers to the right.
Round 1 Nurgle: Again praying to the dice gods I was denyed the 3+ I needed and deployed team B instead. The Nurglings and Plague Bearers landed on target and ran to cover ending my turn.
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Round 2 Necron: The Destroyers moved 12" to the right flank to gain line of sight on the Plague Bearers and opened fire. The PB made their saves. The Warriors, wanting to remain out of assault range, fired 10 shots into the nurglings but were also denied any kills.
Round 2 Nurgle: Again needing 4+ to bring in reserves the gods granted my wish as Team A now came on the board. Again the Bight drone deviated the same direction barely missing the Nurglings in cover. The other Plague Bearers landed on target and ran to join their brethren.
The Blight Drone opened up first with Phlegm with a direct hit causing 4 Necrons to burt apart. The Reaper Cannons failed to penetrate.
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Round 3 Necron: Kyle rolled his We'll be back roll, but all the damaged Necron failed to stand. His Destroyers moved further to the right flank and opened up on the Bligh Drone, causing a shaken result and denying it the chance to shoot again next turn.
The Lord and his retinue moved further back into cover and fired again into the swarm of nurglings, but again we're denied any wounds thanks to a 3+ swarm cover save and 4+ FnP.
Round 3 Nurgle: With the Blight Drone unable to attack he retreated to the farthest back left corner. He faced towards the right side of the table to deny any side hits. With any luck the destroyers would flank the left side instead which would bring them into assault range of the two PB squads hiding behind the middle pillar.
The Nurglings and Plague Bearers made their move and ran towards the Lord and his retinue. Still out of assault range they managed to keep themselves partially behind cover to soak up some more potential damage.
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Round 4 Necron: The Warriors remained where they were and opened up on the Nurglings. This time they were rewarded with 4 unsaved wounds scoring a kill for the Necron and the first of the game.
The Destroyers moved to flank the Blight drone and managed to score one penetrating shot, destroying the drone with a roll of 5. Out of assault range he ended his turn.
Round 4 Nurgle: The Nurglings managed to close the gap and got into assault with the Lord and his warriors. The Plague Bearers, on the other hand, rolled poorly on their slow-and-purposeful roll and we're slightly out of range of assaulting the destroyers.
The Lord went first and with four attacks causing 3 wounds to the Nurglings. Another squad of Nurglings went down. During their counter attack they caused 1 wound to the lord and one more death to the warriors.
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Round 5 Necron: Realizing his Destroyers were about to be assaulted he moved them as far away as possible and opened up on the plague bearers, but again was denied any wounds.
The assault continued as the lord managed to score another 2 wounds and the Nurglings, with their poor WS, finding it difficult to land anything at all.
Round 5 Nurgle: This time all the Plague Bearers were in range and joined the assault. Again the lord attacked with his scythe, this time to the plague bearers causing one more kill point. The warriors and nurgle forces exchanged blows leaving 3 necron dead and another plague bearer the same.
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a 4 is rolled and it continues to turn 6
Round 6 Necron:
With nothing to target his destroyers join the fray as all models are now tied ino the same assault.
At this point it's the same result throughout. The Necron Lord causes another death as do the plague bearers, but this time all previously killed warriors get back up, denying any kill points from the previous round.
Round 6 Nurgle: Now with the Destroyers in assault everyone focuses their attacks on them, as they are worth more in kill points than the warriors. Two Destroyers are taken down as the Nurglings take another wound.
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a 6 is rolled and it continues to turn 7
Round 7 Necron: The final turn of the game. One of the two Destroyers gets back up, leaving two still alive and most of the warriors intact. Attacks are exchanged again as the lord kills another plague bearer. The forces of Nurgle strike back killing a warrior and the remaining destroyers.
Round 7 Nurgle: With the Destroyers out all attacks are focused on the warriors. Although the Lord is worth more points, he has managed to shake off all but one wound the entire game. Killing warriors would up the kp tally a little, making it a close game.
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The game ends with the Necron scoring 205 points and Nurgle with 150. Denied the kill points of the warriors (since they were just over 50% strength) put the Necron over the top. The Nurgle lost by 5 points lol
Summary: This was a pretty close game. The changing factor was that the Lord was carrying a scythe that ignored invulnerable saves. This denied the Nurgle forces unsaved wounds. Every round the Lord was putting up about 1 kill, but it was enough to edge them to victory.
This was a fun experiment running mostly nurgle troops. They managed to soak up a lot of damage, though due to the low ws and str. made it hard for them to kill anything without support. They are great at tar pitting strong enemies until your stronger units can join in to the fray.
