Hi!
>Yes, i was also worried about these attacks. I cant really
>see any defense against them. I could surround my mechs
>with infantry, but then there's be less forces other
>places, and he'd simply choose not to use them against
>the mechs. How do i prepare for such attacks?!?
I used this tactic against Ed once and it was highly effective. Of course as
I used it I thought about effective ways of countering:
1. At the early stages of the game, place your mechs out of line of sight,
he scatters on average a lot more than if he can see the point of emergence.
2. Remember you can snap fire at tunnelers when they come out, use necrons
that dont have a snap fire penalty to do this. Image a nemesis necron tank
blowing up moles <evil grin>. The hellbore is more difficult since it has a
template, but it is less threatening since all troops will come out of one
transport in a limited area, you can thus divide your mechs far and wide and
he could only go after one or two detachments at the most. Moles are more
effective since they can split up a little more (even more with commissars),
but they dont have a template so snap fire from necron is high yield in this
scenario.
3. infantry back up. Knights, of course cannot be pinned by infantry, so
even if they are engaged you can still fire at the targets you battle plan
dictates without being disrupted by the IG that close combat you. Of course
you cant totally ignore them because they are many and your CAF is low. Use
cheap Kroxigors as shock troops and help your knights, remeber, on average
it takes 3 IG stands to take out a Mech for sure. If the Kroxigor takes out
on or two then its usually one-on-one with your mech and one IG, he should
usuallt win.
4. Combine 2 and 3, very effective. Snap fire at the troops as they come out
to reduce their number then unleash kroxigors on them. Imagine a nearby
group of gravguard with 4 attack dice each firing at IG stands, doesn't look
good for the IG.
5. Disruptor missiles. Slann forces are immune, when they engage you shoot
disruptor missiles into the melee (this raises an omission, necron are cold
blooded so they may do this), the penalties will maount on the IG placing
them in negative CAF, combine this with 4 and the IG will be wiped out!
These ploys are cost effective for the slann since the units I would use
might already be part of your standard army, so you dont buy extra needless
units for defense.
>This is a good suggestion. The old Gravguards would be renamed
>to Spawnguards, and the new gravguards get the long range HW
>tank busters.
Yes, I'll be testing this one, I think it will work fine.
>This is really no biggie, its just that we didnt feel they
>were worth the points. They made no real impact on the game,
>and were taken out easily (granted, by volcano cannons).
>Ill await your testing..
We'll see, if it takes guns that big, it means they are probably worth the
cost. As always some units work better against some armies than others.
Peter
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Received on Wed Feb 21 2001 - 13:56:09 UTC