Fall of Orpheus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSku1oKFc1M&feature=youtu.be

Tesseract Arc *squeee*

I'm also kind of blown away by having an entire Realm of Battle tile count as a Fortification.

With the proper order page for the text now up, we have access to the table of contents for the text.

The Necron "Dark Harvest" gets the following:

HQ:

• Kotlakh the World Killer
  
• Toholk the Blinded
  
• Maynurk Overlord
  
• Royal Court of Maynurkh

Troops:

• Maynurkh Warrior Phalanx
  
• Maynurkh Flayed One Pack
  
• Maynurk Immortals

Elites:

• Canoptek Tomb Stalker
  
• Charnel Lychgaurd

Fast Attack:

• Canoptek Acanthrites
  
• Maynurkh Canoptek Scarab Swarms
  
• Canoptek Tomb Sentinel

Heavy Support:

• Tesseract Ark
  
• Sentry Pylon
  
• Night Shroud Bomber

Super-heavy:

• Gauss Pylon

Fortification:

• Necron Tomb Citadel

For the Minotaurs Chapter:

HQ:

• Lord Asherion Moloc
  
• Minotaur's Chaplain Ivarus Erkomi
  
• Hecaton Aiskos
  
• Damocles Command Vehicle

Heavy Support:

• Vigilator Sergant Hamath Kraatos
  
• Storm Eagle Assault Gunship
  
• Storm Eagle Assault Gunship - Roc Pattern
  
• Space Marine Sentry Gun Battery
  
• Deathstorm Drop Pod
  
• Space Marine Predator Infernus
  
• Space Marine Deimos Patern Predator Executioner
  
• Spartan Assault Tank

And the Death Korps of Krieng "Assault Brigade" get the following:

HQ:

• Death Korps Marshal Karis Venner
  
• Death Korps Company Command Squad
  
• Death Korps Quartermaster Cadre

Elites:

• Death Korps Combat Engineer Squad
  
• Griffon Strike Battery
  
• Leman Russ Forward Command Tank
  
• Hydra Flak Tank Battery
  
• Death Korps Rapier Laser Destroyer Battery

Troops:

• Death Korps Infantry Platoon
  
• Death Korps Platoon Command Squad
  
• Death Korps Infantry Squad
  
• Death Korps Grenadier Storm Squad

Dedicated Transports:

• Storm Chimera
  
• Centaur Carrier
  
• Hades Breaching Drill

Fast Attack:

• Hellhound Flame Tank Squadron
  
• Death Korps Death Rider Platoon
  
• Death Rider Command Squad
  
• Death Rider Squadron
  
• Salamander Reconinssance Squadron

Heavy Support:

• Death Korps Heavy Weapons Platoon
  
• Thunderer Siege Squadron
  
• Death Korps Leman Russ Tank Squadron
  
• Death Korps Ordinance Tank Battery
  
• Death Korps Field Artillery Battery
  
• Imperial Navy Air Support Squadron

There is also the usual campaign and fluff stuff, plus some rules supplements for Zone Mortalis and Apocalypse . For anyone wanting to take a closer look at the text before committing to it, I'm pretty dead set on picking this up along with a few new models come May, so there will be opportunity to either pick my brain on the forums to to flip through it at the Den when I'm in for a match.

If I had more money than sense, I'd get a Death Korps of Krieg army.

This is dumb....


NECRON NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER 225pts

12 armour all round
4 HP
Five death sphere bombs Large blast Str 10 Ap 1, Blind and Pinning
Heavy Support choice

Lore Weaver wrote:This is dumb....


NECRON NIGHT SHROUD BOMBER 225pts

12 armour all round
4 HP
Five death sphere bombs Large blast Str 10 Ap 1, Blind and Pinning
Heavy Support choice

Wow... yea my Sunshark Bombers are awesome. Serious case of bomb envy. Blah and av12 is such a pain to chew through on a flier.

Aegwymourn wrote:Wow... yea my Sunshark Bombers are awesome. Serious case of bomb envy. Blah and av12 is such a pain to chew through on a flier.

AV12 isn't bad on its own. It's bad here because of living metal (2+ ignore shaken, 4+ ignore stunned). It's bad on the Heldrake because of the Daemon Save (no need to jink) and Daemonic Posession (2+ ignore shaken/stunned)

Lore Weaver wrote:

Aegwymourn wrote:Wow... yea my Sunshark Bombers are awesome. Serious case of bomb envy. Blah and av12 is such a pain to chew through on a flier.

AV12 isn't bad on its own. It's bad here because of living metal (2+ ignore shaken, 4+ ignore stunned). It's bad on the Heldrake because of the Daemon Save (no need to jink) and Daemonic Posession (2+ ignore shaken/stunned)

Well the issue with AV12 is that most weapons with skyfire top out at str8 or so. So basically you have to glance it to death which means that bomber is probably going to get at least 1-2 of those suckers off. Probably won't be to much an issue, just the stats on that bomb is awesome. Perfectly being able to place a s10 ap1 template is boss.

4HP is a bit of a surprise to me. The stats on the bomb seem about right from what it is described as, with Blind being some nice icing. Where'd you find the stat line for this, Mark?

unstoppable large blast str 10 ap1 pieplates are never going to be "about right" =/

I'll admit I'm not all that familiar with bomber rules, do they not scatter or something? The point value does seem a scootch low to me, especially if it's 4 hp.

Bombs scatter d6. which is not the problem. The problem is that an almost unstoppable Flyer moves on the table 36 inches and drops a str 10 ap1 template on whatever it likes and the opponent has little to no tactical answer to it. Much the same problem as the helldrake. where you have an almost unstoppable flyer moving onto the table and putting a template wherever it wants... only instead of str6 ap3 ..these bombs wreck your land raider, terminators, and Instant-deaths most IC's....

To be fair, IF you are playing IA, the opponent has a plethora of options. (Sabre platforms, Mortis dreads, Hypernos launchers, IA flyers of their own, etc.)

Pure codex: little to no interceptor, skyfire on a limited number of weapons/units (My DA can put out 6 flakk missiles, an aegis quadgun, and a neph fighter at 2000 pts. One interceptor, and a bunch of one shots that tie up whole units in shooting)

IA: Tons of interceptor/skyfire options. tons of flyers. (With IA I can build a DA army with no flyers.... in which every unit has skyfire and half have interceptor.)

Unless IA puts out FAQS/updated IA books and soon, they are gettting overpowered.

2000 Pts - Dark Angels Roster (Task force Albatross)

Total Roster Cost: 1990

HQ: Librarian (1#, 105 pts)
1 Librarian, 105 pts = (base cost 65 + Melta Bombs 5 + Increase Mastery Level x1 35)

Elite: Dreadnought (1#, 120 pts)
1 Dreadnought, 120 pts = (base cost 100 + Twin-Linked Autocannon 5 + Twin-Linked Autocannon 15)

Elite: Dreadnought (1#, 120 pts)
1 Dreadnought, 120 pts = (base cost 100 + Twin-Linked Autocannon 5 + Twin-Linked Autocannon 15)

Troops: Tactical Squad (11#, 245 pts)
9 Tactical Squad, 161 pts = 9 * 14 (base cost 14) + Meltagun 10 + Missile Launcher 15 + Flakk Missiles (for Missile Launcher) 10
1 Sergeant, 49 pts = (base cost 14 + Power Fist 25 + Upgrade to Veteran Sergeant 10)
1 Rhino, 35 pts

Troops: Tactical Squad (11#, 245 pts)
9 Tactical Squad, 161 pts = 9 * 14 (base cost 14) + Meltagun 10 + Missile Launcher 15 + Flakk Missiles (for Missile Launcher) 10
1 Sergeant, 49 pts = (base cost 14 + Power Fist 25 + Upgrade to Veteran Sergeant 10)
1 Rhino, 35 pts

Troops: Tactical Squad (11#, 245 pts)
9 Tactical Squad, 161 pts = 9 * 14 (base cost 14) + Meltagun 10 + Missile Launcher 15 + Flakk Missiles (for Missile Launcher) 10
1 Sergeant, 49 pts = (base cost 14 + Power Fist 25 + Upgrade to Veteran Sergeant 10)
1 Rhino, 35 pts

Troops: Tactical Squad (6#, 170 pts)
4 Tactical Squad, 81 pts = 4 * 14 (base cost 14) + Missile Launcher 15 + Flakk Missiles (for Missile Launcher) 10
1 Sergeant, 14 pts
1 Razorback, 75 pts = (base cost 55 + Twin-Linked Lascannon 20)

Troops: Tactical Squad (6#, 170 pts)
4 Tactical Squad, 81 pts = 4 * 14 (base cost 14) + Missile Launcher 15 + Flakk Missiles (for Missile Launcher) 10
1 Sergeant, 14 pts
1 Razorback, 75 pts = (base cost 55 + Twin-Linked Lascannon 20)

Troops: Tactical Squad (6#, 170 pts)
4 Tactical Squad, 81 pts = 4 * 14 (base cost 14) + Missile Launcher 15 + Flakk Missiles (for Missile Launcher) 10
1 Sergeant, 14 pts
1 Razorback, 75 pts = (base cost 55 + Twin-Linked Lascannon 20)

Fast Attack: Hyperios Air Defence Battery (IA) (4#, 105 pts)
1 Hyperios Air Defence Battery (IA), 0 pts
1 Hyperios Platform (IA), 35 pts
1 Hyperios Platform (IA), 35 pts
1 Hyperios Platform (IA), 35 pts

Fast Attack: Hyperios Air Defence Battery (IA) (4#, 105 pts)
1 Hyperios Air Defence Battery (IA), 0 pts
1 Hyperios Platform (IA), 35 pts
1 Hyperios Platform (IA), 35 pts
1 Hyperios Platform (IA), 35 pts

Heavy Support: Whirlwind Hyperios (IA) (1#, 95 pts)
1 Whirlwind Hyperios (IA), 95 pts

Heavy Support: Whirlwind Hyperios (IA) (1#, 95 pts)
1 Whirlwind Hyperios (IA), 95 pts

Validation Report:
c-1. File Version: 1.16 For Bug Reports/www.ab40k.org; b-1. Roster Options: Imperial Armour, Named or Special Characters; a-1. Scenario: Normal Mission; b-2. Levels of Alliance: Allies of Convenience
Roster satisfies all enforced validation rules

Composition Report:
HQ: 1 (1 - 2)
Elite: 2 (0 - 3)
Troops: 6 (2 - 6)
Fast: 2 (0 - 3)
Heavy: 2 (0 - 3)
Fort: 0 (0 - 1)

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Truth be told, it's the named dudes, Tessaract Ark, and Charnel Lichgaurd that really have my attention right now. I'll probably give the bomber a proxy spin at some point, just to give it a whirl.

Still, only one dice of scatter is kind of scary, though still not as surgical as the Death Ray. At the very least it's competing for the same slots as the other Str 10 AP 1 flier in the Necron force, keeping things from getting too stupid that way.

Competing for the other flyer with a str 10 ap1 gun right now..

Argh.. i think all the books are looking great these days.. necron flyers still grind me the wrong way still. A necron fix up and alot of people would be so happy! Or.. alot of people would be unhappy.

I guess the bomb could be ordinance.. still though.. itll wipe out units of multiwound models easily unless they are nurgle.marked or something. At least its expensive?

Tom, I found it on Darogscompany http://darogscompany.blogspot.ca/

I love the new named HQs, though I'm sad that there still is no named Destroyer Lord. The Flensing Scarabs bit of wargear sounds nifty, but the Charnel Scarabs serve and ENTIRELY different role from their Canoptek brethren, dropping Entropic Strike to pick up Shred and Rending.

The Sentry Pylon just seems like a kick in the junk for anyone that isn't playing 'Crons.

I'm kind of surprised that the Tesseract Ark is getting 12/12/12. From the model I was expecting 12/11/11.

Acanthrites got bumped up 5 points a head, so that's good to see, at least.

The new Tomb beasties look fun, always a fan of Exile tech and Monsterous Creatures.

Charnel Lychgaurd -- Shred and Rage AND a Warscythe? Good thing these guys have the court cap to them.

Necrons still get no Battle Brothers, even with the Dark Havest, but it seems that only the named dudes and "Charnel"/"Maynarkh" stuff is limited to the Dark Harvest.

Necron Warlord table looks spiffy. No escape clauses or single use consumables like the Tau, but twin-linking get back up while sitting on an objective is just silly, and adding +1 Str to a single ranged weapon for the turn means things like a Str 10 Doomsday Ark, Str 8 TL Tesla Destructors, or Str 9 Heat Ray. The anti-slay the warlord trait just fits the army, I think.

Apparently a lot of the new models can be seen in their digital catalogue now.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/downloads/product/pdf/f/FW_Cat_2013_HQ.pdf

Anyone else feel like they just phoned it in on the Sentry Pylon weapons? The Gauss Exterminator is just the Doomsday Cannon and two extra side arcs, and the Heat Cannon is just the Heat Ray.

With the better picture of the Tesseract Ark, we can see it's a Twin Linked Tesla Cannon, not Tesla Destructor.

Tomb Sentinel looks nice and blasty.

Still no sign of the named dudes yet.

Having had a bit of a better look into the book, it looks like the Dark Harvest will be able to ally with more than just other Necrons.  That said, the other factions they can ally with (SM, CSM, IG, and Orks) are all Desperate Allies.  Unfortunate, but I suppose it allows for options.