Storm Lord MkII

Very cool and cheap..I have 40 on order..

A couple of weeks ago I posted up a Storm Lord list.
It was built to operate around his Night Fight rules and to maximise the close ranged elements of the Necron book.
Night Fight is in effect for both player turns, I can't be arsed to turn it off with Pulses.. to turn it off for sure is too expensive after we have already bought the Storm Lord.

I threw this up as the list:

Storm Lord

1 x Veil Cryptek

8 x Lychguard

10 x Warriors

10 x Warriors

5 x Warriors

5 x Warriors

10 x Scarabs

10 x Scarabs

10 x Scarabs

2 x Canoptek Tomb Spyder

2 x Canoptek Tomb Spyder

2 x Canoptek Tomb Spyder

This was 1750 and frankly, poop.

At club night this week (check the link on the top right of the page - Cambridge Sons of War) I got to testing an 1850 version of this.

I played Kabalite's Dark Eldar and Dan's Chaos Marines (lash, oblits, battlecannon, termies...pretty decent for taking on Necrons actually) and got 2 wins.

There were 2 version of that..but the key difference is that I was play testing 1850 lists for the Caledonian Uprising tournament in January..

Obyron
Storm Lord
Veil Cryptek, Chronometron-tek
7 x Lychguard w. Warscythes
2 x 10 Immortals w Gauss (the Veil goes with one of these to transport them around and deliver rapid fire gauss)
2 x 5 Warriors (reserve)
2 x 9 Scarabs
2 x 3 Spyders

Obyron and Stormie attach to the Lychguard as does the Chronometron-tek. He allows a crucial re roll of the Night Fight dice, one of the armour saves for Stormie or Obyron, one of the lightning hits on a dangerous target, etc

the other option is to swap out Obyron for a Destroyer Lord with Weave and Scarabs, he is dangerous and has the reach to lash out from the unit after a deep strike or after being assaulted and consolidating, as jump infantry he can make a decent jump to hitting another section of the board.

After 2 games to provide 'proof of concept' to the army, I established a few problems.

Firstly, having deep struck the large unit of Lychguard etc in to an area of the board, they were then unable to assault and therefore somewhat stranded. They can teleport after fast moving enemies all day long, but as they cannot assault they can't do anything! This situation was minimsed through lightning rolls, bringing in the Immortals to rapid fire tanks to stun and using large scarab units to tie up or stall movement - either permanantly or temporaily.

Second issue, despite being a well equipped combat unit, good attacks, toughness, reasonable save, damn fine cc weapon and wound allocation including a rerollable invulnerable (once anyway) and a couple of 2+ saves.. well, Necrons are not a combat army... At all... So this huge unit of points was porting around the place, generally being one step behind the pace.. they need range. Porting about is wicked, but they need shooting.

Thirdly, the Troops contribute very little, especially only having one unit of Immortals to port around. Some 350 points were held in reserve and I hoped they didn't come in til later in the game as they had no real way of impacting the games. Crappy situation really.

These elements needed to be addressed. First thing, remove the Lychguard. Secondly, increase ranged output of teleporting units. Thirdly, get the troops into the game more..

With the Lychguard gone I save some 320 points...this is huge.
Let's remove the second special character (Obyron) and/or the Destroyer Lord for the 160.

I need a second Overlord to get access to the other Royal Court and second Veil of Darkness.
Stay true and attach the Veil guys to the Immortals...this completes objective 2 and 3. Pretty cheaply too!
(For now, our Overlord will just grab a 2+ save from Weave)

So it's:
Storm Lord
Court - Chronometron-tek, Veil 1
Overlord - Weave
Court - Veil 2, Lord - Orb
10 Immortals - Gauss, Veil 1, Lord - Orb, Overlord 
10 Immortals - Gauss, Veil 2, Chronom-tek, Storm Lord

Very simple. Notes. The unit of immortals with the Orb and Overlord has 2 Staff of Light's in it for 6 S5 AP3 shots, combined with the Guass and of course with the Abyssal Staff, gives a good amount of high strength low AP fire. Plus, they get up on a 4..
Storm Lord can reroll his Night Fight, plus one other per phase..sweet. plus this unit has 2 flamer templates as well from the Abyssal Staff and the Gauntlet of Fire.

Then we throw in the rest.
2 x 5 Warriors
3 x 3 Spyders
1 x 9 Scarabs
2 x 8 Scarabs

Idea: Turn 1, all three SPyder units double the size of the largest Scarab unit to 18.
This then bombs forward and tries to cause havoc. In the mean time (i.e. Turns 2&3) the other 2 units of Spyders grow in size to something equally scary.. or each turn you do the same and send forward wave after wave of nasty Scarabs..all in very large numbers?
So, all get a little bumb straight away and every turn OR bump one squad per turn to crazy size?

Anyway, that's 1850, the proof of concept has been gained to a limited degree and I truly believe that this is a better version than the one I play tested Wednesday...much better.

What do you think guys? My question to myself..and a homework assignment a la Project Mayhem..(movie reference?) is...how the fuck do I think this is supposed to handle Terminators?

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