Annual Megabattle thread of dooom.

[General Leevous]

It would never work sadly...

[jesterofthedark]

Maybe not in Ginger land where we spend all our game time ruining our own objectives....


BAM! take that!

[blantyr]

Maybe not in Ginger land where we spend all our game time ruining our own objectives....


BAM! take that!

Now, that is simply not true.  He didn't spend a lot of time ruining objectives.

It was quick!  It was easy!

[Rob S]

I am signed up and payed.

Its now 19 vs 9, we got the points.

AND I REQUESTED THE WEEKEND OF THE 20th off, let the games begin..

Point me at something and I shall make sweet BS2 snu snu to its face!!!

The date isn't the 20th any more.  Talk to Chase.

[General Leevous]

I am signed up and payed.

Its now 19 vs 9, we got the points.

AND I REQUESTED THE WEEKEND OF THE 20th off, let the games begin..

Point me at something and I shall make sweet BS2 snu snu to its face!!!

The date isn't the 20th any more.  Talk to Chase.

Can we get a concrete day so I can put in for it

[Rurouni Benshin]

I concur.  Stop Playing With My Emotions!!   

[DWalker]

Wait... The date changed?!?

[Battleground]

The date of the Megabattle is Saturday, March 20th.

[jesterofthedark]

So I'm goood??

Cuz if not I should stop my happy dance in front of my computer.  This would equal a sad face situation.

[cryptoron]

I'd like to submit this as a possible Datasheet for the Mega battle;

Necron AA Obelisk  80 Points
Unit: 1 AA Obelisk
Type: Tank
Armor: F(11), S(11), R(11)
BS:4
Weapons: 4 Turret Mounted Gauss AA Cannons
Special: Counts as Immobilized, may arrive as per Deep Strike rules

Gauss AA Cannon: Range (72), Str (6), AP (4), Heavy (2), AA Mount, Gauss

My model for it was the Hydra, basically subtracted something, then added something to keep the point cost similar, for example; I immobilized it, but gave it deep strike.  I also tried to keep it with the Necron feel; armor 11 all around because everything in the Necron codex has the same armor on all sides.  I also changed the guns to 4 heavy 2 cannons instead of 2 twinlinked guns because so far nothing in the Necron Codex is twinllinked.  So instead of 4 attack dice that you can re-roll misses, I just have 8 dice.  I then took away a str point and added Gauss (because all necron guns have it). 
I then added 5 points to the cost just to be sure.
What do you think?

[Rurouni Benshin]

So I'm goood??

Cuz if not I should stop my happy dance in front of my computer.  This would equal a sad face situation.

Ditto!

[Logan007]

So I'm goood??

Cuz if not I should stop my happy dance in front of my computer.  This would equal a sad face situation.

FYI, at BS4, having 8 shots is way better than 4 twin-linked shots.

4 twin linked shots at BS4 = 3-4 hits on avg.

8 shots at BS4 = 5-6 hits on avg.

[cryptoron]

It's a work in progress, this also came up on the 40K livejournal community, I'm still re working it.  Someone on the LJ site suggested adding a smaller version of the phase shift generator 6" instead of 12".  With a point cost of 150.  I'll post a newer datasheet soon.

[jesterofthedark]

yea, but everything in the necron army is also BS 4. I being imobilied also makes it alot easier to kill.  Having only two guns at armor value 11.  This thing can fairly easily die to str 6 fire, all imobilized will bump up to weapon gone and it only has 2 weapons.

I think its a fair attempt,  I don't see any issues, but I'm on your team....

[blantyr]

I'd like to submit this as a possible Datasheet for the Mega battle;

Necron AA Obelisk  80 Points
Unit: 1 AA Obelisk
Type: Tank
Armor: F(11), S(11), R(11)
BS:4
Weapons: 4 Turret Mounted Gauss AA Cannons
Special: Counts as Immobilized, may arrive as per Deep Strike rules

Gauss AA Cannon: Range (72), Str (6), AP (4), Heavy (2), AA Mount, Gauss

My model for it was the Hydra, basically subtracted something, then added something to keep the point cost similar, for example; I immobilized it, but gave it deep strike.  I also tried to keep it with the Necron feel; armor 11 all around because everything in the Necron codex has the same armor on all sides.  I also changed the guns to 4 heavy 2 cannons instead of 2 twinlinked guns because so far nothing in the Necron Codex is twinllinked.  So instead of 4 attack dice that you can re-roll misses, I just have 8 dice.  I then took away a str point and added Gauss (because all necron guns have it). 
I then added 5 points to the cost just to be sure.
What do you think?

The Hydra costs 200 points.  (Page 107 of Apocalypse base rules.)   80 points for something similar seems like quite a discount.

A Hydra fires four shots twin linked at BS 3.  On average, 3 hits are going to score.  Eight shots at BS 4 averages 5.3 hits, which is a significant improvement.  You might want to tone it down some.  Maybe 4 shots but with greater strength???

In principle, I'm cool with it, but I think you should look at your numbers a bit more.