After turn 1: My daemon prince is trying to distract the lord unit while my rhino unit and defiler go for the (comparetively) squishy C’Tan and warriors.
The mission had us deployed in wierd, vertical lines throughout the battlefield and it also prevented Rob’s lord unit from deep striking anywhere else than the deployment zones. This was a great advantage to me since he was kind of relying on his teleportation ability (which worked like deep strike) to get to the important combats.
Turn 3: Rhino unit with lord kills the warrior units and makes contact with the C’Tan. Epic combat between chaos lord with murder sword and C’Tan begins.
The lord unit managed to take out an obliterator and a daemon prince while my rhino unit and defiler took out the 2 warrior units and the C’Tan. The C’Tan combat was unusually epic though. The C’Tan was locked in a challenge with my lord and between his initiative test forcing bolt, my activated murder sword and his wound regenerating ability, the combat lasted at least a full 4 rounds. In the end my lord died to an initiative test right before he was about to knock of the C’Tan’s last wound. The defiler came in afterwards and cleaned up the mess though.
C’Tan kills chaos lord. Defiler is not amused.
Once the C’Tan was dead, all I could do was grab as many objectives as possible and keep his lord unit from doing anything. I had to use some tricky tactics but with his assault rolls sucking balls I managed to accomplish all of this and bring it home for the win.
This fine tactic is called my ‘lets grab this objective but keep just out of range of those necron lords’-maneuvre.
So, since it took so much time to post this report you might have guessed it already: there haven’t been much other battles for the campaign since. I never heard the full story, but some people wanted to quit the campaign while other people then also didn’t want to keep it going anymore and basically: drama.
Daan of War 