The Webways are Opening! #11 Cronos and Raider Conversions

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With just £5.06 of my Phase Two Dark Eldar £25.00 Army Challenge left to spend, I went in search of my last purchase. I already have a Haemonculus and a Talos, so I was thinking about running The Dark Artisan formation. To do that I need a Cronos, but the new Cronos models go for a lot of money, and there was no 3rd Edition model to fall back on. Just one option then, buy another old Talos model and convert it up with some green stuff...

Whilst I was doing making that model, I also stripped and converted up the final Raider I got it the last post. Really happy how these two are looking, and that is all my money spent and the challenge complete. I will post again showing you all what I got for phase two, then we will look at my list. Of course. I still have to get it all painted, but more on that to come too!

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Necron Living Tomb Decurion Battle Report

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You have seen me paint the models, read about me choosing a list and now it's time to see my Living Tomb Formation in action! As you can see from the teaser picture, Blood Angels were the first army to face the Tomb and the Death Company seem to be in trouble, but how will it all pan out in the end?

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Necron Living Tomb Decurion List

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So now I have my Living Tomb Formation painted, I need a list for it! It's an interesting formation with three big tanks clocking up seven hundred points, so we are going to have to make full use of the formations special rules for sure. Of course, you only need one Monolith to make this formation, but for me it's all about the visuals, so I want to max out on the tanks...

The first thing to look at is the Obelisk, which along with the two Monoliths have to stay in reserve and deep strike in. The Obelisk comes out automatically on turn two, which is great, sadly it does scatter though. The small flyer base it's on should make it a little easier to not mishap and with your fingers crossed you should make it into battle turn two

As for the Monoliths, if you deep strike them in within twelve inches of the Obelisk you don't scatter, which for a six inch square base is great. Having said that, the Monoliths still have to roll a dice to come out of reserve. This brings me onto my HQ choice for the army, Nemesor! On turn two we will adapt his tactics and take the Warlord trait that adds one to our reserve rolls. Now everything in the army is coming out turn two on anything but a one. Nemesor is in the Decurion attachment, and with less numbers on the table due to the points spent on the tanks, we are going to need that 4+ RP roll

The other special rule of the formation is that once the Monoliths are down, you can immediately teleport a unit through each Monoliths door form reserve! Like I said at the start, I am going for the visual of how this army is going to look on the table, and for me, you can't get much more epic looking than twenty Warriors teleporting out of each Monolith right after they deep strike in. A couple of Immortal units will have to weather the storm on the table with some Tomb Blades until the formation arrives. Five Immortals to just hide and Ten Immortals to go with Nemesor. That leaves me with a few points left over for an addition deep striking distraction unit!

Enter the Transcendent C'tan, and why not, I have just painted him, and I think he will work well as the distraction unit in this army. Overall, I think this list is going to be a lot of fun and look really cool on the table...

Living Tomb Decurion List 1

Reclamation Legion
1x Nemesor (150)
10x Immortals (170)
5x Immortals (85)
20x Warriors (260)
20x Warriors (260)    
5 x Tomb Blades/Beamers/Vanes/Scopes (120)

Auxiliary
1 x Transcendent  C’Tan (250)

Living Tomb Formation
1 x Obelisk (300)
1 x Monolith (200)
1 x Monolith (200)

Points 1995

Ten points left to play with, but for now the list is locked and loaded ready for some action. Battle Report coming soon, but if you have any comments or suggestion on the list please feel free to let me know.

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Living Tomb Formation - Nearly Done

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So after finishing the green in the last post, I went back to the metal work and lined in all the recesses with a black wash. Some of the bigger areas were just painted black, along with the Monolith guns. The guns are highlighted, but it is quite subtle, but matches the rest of my army. I have also finished painting the gold and white details that I wanted to do, so I am nearly done now. Just the Transcendent C'Tan and bases to go...

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Living Tomb Formation - Green Painted

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That's the green done on the Necron Living Tomb Formation models, and yes, that includes all four hundred and ninety two Scarab eyes on the inside on the Vault! Next up, I need to go back to the metal work and fill in the recesses with black...

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Living Tomb Formation - Painting the Metalwork

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Just a quick update on my progress of painting the Necron Living Tomb Formation models. I have completed the metalwork now, going in with a large soft brush and dry brushing one coat of Iron Breaker and one coat of Lead Belcher. I know there are some large flat areas on the models, but even so, with a bit of care you can get a good 'metal' look with this technique!

The next step for the metal will be to wash all the recesses with black, but before I do that I will go in and paint the green areas, and yes, that includes all the little Scarab eyes on the inside!

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Living Tomb Formation - Monolith Repaint

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So yeah, in the end I decided I would repaint my old Monolith, I painted it a long time ago and not to a great standard. usually it wouldn't bother me, but as I am painting another Monolith for my Living Tomb Formation, I want the three tanks to all look the same!

The first job was to remove the green plastic pieces! I personally like them and didn't want to paint over them. To remove the green bits, I simple dropped some water on them to work the PVA glue loose. This only took ten minutes and I was then able to remove the green part with a knife very easily...

Although the paint job I did was poor, it wasn't thickly painted, so I didn't need to strip it, I just went over the tank with some black primer. All done ready for painting...

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Next Painting Project: Necron Living Tomb Formation!

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Finally, the Long Fangs are done and it is time to get my Living Tomb Formation up and running, not the best formation in the world, but hell, it looks like a lot of fun!

I already have one Monolith painted from way back, but to be honest, it isn't a very good paint job as I was very inexperienced in them days. I must admit, I am seriously considering repainting it, but either way, this is going to be a lot of fun, really can't wait to get stick into these bad boys! More to come soon...

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Magnetised Monolith Built for Living Tomb Formation

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Next for me to build so that I can play the Living Tomb Formation was a second Monolith. I can't wait to get it painting and see the Formation on the battlefield, I think it's going to be a lot of fun! Of course, I had the usually jiggery pokery when building the Monolith, thank god for elastic bands. As usual I couldn't build it with at least something magnetised! One magnet inside the Monolith at the front and one drilled into the skill at the back of the door...

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My Las Vegas Open Game - Battle Report

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So, with all the build up over the last few posts, it is finally time for Aceface and I to have our practice game for his journey to the Las Vegas Open. I wish him all the best at the tournament, but for now, I will do my very best to put his amazing Tau army to the test! Wish me luck...

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Necron Tactics - Canoptek Harvest Formation (Vlog)

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An in depth discussion about the Canoptek Harvest Formation...

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Necron Wraith Super Phalanx!

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Having got myself a second unit of Wraiths specifically for my big 3k game with Aceface, I think it's about time I made use of them in a smaller game as well. After all, I know how much my buddies love playing against Wraiths!

As the Wraiths are pretty tough and very resilient, especially in the Decurion. I thought two units of them would sit in quite well to my Super Phalanx list concept, which you can read all about here. Basically an advancing Phalanx of very difficult to kill Terminator T-800 Necrons. Don't you just love Necrons!

At seventeen fifty points, two Canoptek Harvests are going to take up quite a few of them. So, it's going to have to be minimum Scarab units. The Reclamation Legion has to have a big unit of Warriors, two Ghost Arks and a durable HQ to keep the Super Phalanx theme going. No choices there really, the Deathmarks and Monolith get dropped for the extra unit of Wraiths and Tomb Blades have to go down to the minimum quantity as well.

Here is my final list, let me know what you think, battle report to follow soon

Wraith Super Phalanx Decurion v1 (1750pts)

Reclamation Legion

Core
1 x Overlord/Warscythe/Phase Shifter/Shroud (160)
7 x Immortals/Gauss (119)
15x Warriors (195)
10x Warriors/Ghost Ark (235)
10x Warriors/Ghost Ark (235)
3 x Tomb Blades/Looms/Vanes/Scopes (69)

Canoptek Harvest Formation
1 x Canoptek Spyder (50)
3 x Canoptek Scarabs (60)
6 x Canoptek Wraiths/Coils (258)

Canoptek Harvest Formation
1 x Canoptek Spyder (50)
3 x Canoptek Scarabs (60)
6 x Canoptek Wraiths/Coils (258)

1749 points   

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Super Phalanx Decurion Battle Report

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Now I know what Arnie meant when he said 'I'll be back'! Here is the Super Phalanx Decurion battle report that I promised, enjoy...

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Super Phalanx Decurion List

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Time to bring my 'Super Phalanx' list concept into the Decurion, and for those of you that are not aware of the concept behind the list, it is pretty simple. The core is based around one big blob of Warriors and an Overlord, backed up by a couple of Ghost Arks. This use to be pretty hard to take down with RP rolls and then repair barge, but now with the Decurion Special rules, they just got a whole lot better!

So what makes them better? OK, so the unit isn't as good in the assault without the faithful Stormtek and Mind Shackle Scarabs from the Overlord, but the unit got a lot more resilient. 4+ RP rolls, re-rolling the ones plus repair barge from two Ghost Arks. these guys are going to be hard to take down, especially now the RP roll is done after you take a wound!

I have to do a bit of a change around with the rest of the army to fit it in with the Decurion restrictions, but adding in the Canoptek Harvest to get me more RP rolls within the army should bode well. I am really happy how the list is looking, but please feel free to let me know your thoughts. Battle reports to follow soon...

Super Phalanx Decurion (2k)

Reclamation Legion
1 x Overlord/Warscythe/Phase Shifter/Shroud (160)
18 x Necron Warriors (234)
10 x Warriors/Ghost Ark (235)
10 x Warriors/Ghost Ark (235)
6 x Immortals/Gauss/Night Scythe (232)
5 x Tomb Blades/Gauss/Looms/Vanes/Scopes (115)
1 x Necron Monolith (200)

Auxilery
6x Deathmarks (108)

Canoptek Harvest
1 x Canoptek Spyder/Prism (60)
8 x Canoptek Scarabs (160) 
6 x Canoptek Wraiths/Coils (258)

1997 points 

                   

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The 3k Game: Battle Report

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With all the build up posts of my three thousand point game with my good buddy Aceface. Here is the battle report of the event, and what a fun game it was. I won't spoil anything that happened and let you watch the battle report to see how it went, but just a quick reminder to check Acefaces YouTube Channel to see the game from his point of view as well...

 

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The 3k Game: Making the List

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So, back to my three thousand point game that I have arranged with my good buddy Aceface. Just as a quick reminder, Aceface is a huge Tyranid collector and an awesome guy who really knows his Tyranid tactics, so please check him out on his YouTube Channel if you haven't already. OK, so in the first post I revealed that I was going to play my sixty strong Necron Flayed One themed army, and those of you that follow my Blog will know that my current two thousand point list consists of two Canoptik Harvests, but with only three Wraiths in each Harvest. Not through choice, but through only having six Wraiths in my collection...

First thing I did then was find six more Wraiths, all second hand and some of them broken, but they were cheap and nothing I couldn't fix up. These guys just need a quick paint job and they are ready to rumble, whcih of course means that I am going for two Harvests in my list along with the sixty Flayed Ones...

Having not played larger games before, there was no way I was going to let the chance for me to play my Necron Pylon slip bye. I have had this thing for over ten years and it has only ever been fielded as a piece of terrain. I don't know how good it is on the table, but it is in the list regardless...

Now is was just a case of filling out the Reclamation Legion slots to make sure I got all the benefits it offers, a 4+ RP, Move Through Cover and Relentless, nice :) You will notice that I don't have any transports, and that is mainly to give me the points to hoard out and keep the theme of how the list works the same as at 2k, this is going to be interesting!

Flayed Cron Decurion Detachment 3k

Super Heavy
1x Pylon (420)

Reclamation Legion

Core
1 x Trazyn (130)
8 x Immortals/Gauss (136)
10 x Warriors (130)
10 x Warriors (130)
10 x Warriors (130)
10 x Warriors (130)
5 x Tomb Blades/Blaster/Looms/Vanes (105)

Auxiliary
20x Flayed Ones (260)
20x Flayed Ones (260)
20x Flayed Ones (260)

Canoptek Harvest Formation
1 x Canoptek Spyder/Prism (60)
7 x Canoptek Scarabs (140)
6 x Canoptek Wraiths/Coils (258)

Canoptek Harvest Formation
1 x Canoptek Spyder/Prism (60)
7 x Canoptek Scarabs (140)
6 x Canoptek Wraiths/Coils (258) 

3000 points

More to come...

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