I dont see whats cheese about this, just blast those Ghostarks away and deal with those warriors after that. That blob still needs to get within 24″ anywaysto be even able to take a shot.

Why would you not just blow up the arks? Extra D6 and pick the highest for armour pen for ordance large blast from a battle cannon if they are in a nice blob simple, or vanquisher cannon’s even better for blowing up vehicles.

while a interesting tactic to keep your Destroyer Lords alive, but please review pg 90 of the codex about the courts.

hate to burst your bubble but the destroyer lords are not fearless, also what lictormu said

I can’t see this unit being able to do anything, it’s slow moving it’s not exactly shooty and it has to have a very expensive transport running behind it… tell me how you mulch up all the faster moving trash units nids can send at u, or those massive guard blobs or orks . Yea this unit would proly murder termimators that sounds like what it’s intended to do but would a person realy send their termies into a bunch of mindshakle lords and cryptecs? A thing like this would have to be able to murder an entire army to… Read more »

yeah Destroyer lords are not fearless so you will be losing combat and running at some point.

as for ghost arks, i still think they are one of the better transports in the game. AV13 until a pen is very nice and they are open topped so all 10 warrior inside can shoot out of it or assault if thats what you want to do.

why don’t you just blow up the ghost arks? A bunch of railguns get the job done.

THIS WIL NEVER EVER WORK!!!!
1) destroyer lords aren’t fearless!!!
2) if you have 2 destroyer lords you CAN’T have a royal court
3) which of your opponents will ever play you again if you play like this?

btw didn’t you 3 look at the codex when making this? so how could you not have seen point 1&2?

While the tactic may not work as a deathstar unit (as other have mentioned), I still think its a nice bit of cheese. I mean its still a way to get 1-2 Lord/Crypteks back. Maybe even a independent character.
You could always just use it in a smaller way. join a lord with sepiternal, phaseshifter and an orb and stick him in front to absob incoming fire. if he dies and doesn’t get his reanimation you still have the ghost ark. It might not kill armes but I can imagine it beeing a pain to dislodge from an objectiv.

Yep, this seems to be allowed by the rules since independent characters count as being part of the unit they have joined according to the brick. Just had to double check this since I had remembered they were treated as a separate unit.

Personally I don’t see this tactic being too cheesy. It’s good, but as said before, it can be dealt with big guns. ^^

Looks like Swampy failed in his cheese hunt this time.

Totally!
But seriously, I think Matt Ward could have been more specific and said Necron Warriors rather than models. I was never aware of this tactic. I thought models meant Warriors!
Stick Imotekh and a Harbinger of Eternity with Chronometron in (Imotekh at the front to take hits, Look Out Sir S10 Wounds, move when reduced to 2 Wounds (as if!)) and say: You can’t kill me!

You could also do Anrakyr- if you shoot the Ghost Ark, it’ll be like, “Give me that tank, please’ and if you shoot Anrakyr, he gets up. Either way put a Eternity Tek in to may the Lord you chose rdiculous to kill (unless they just kill the Ark first, then the unit).
Swampy, Darrel and Andy, did you consider that the Ghost Ark could be shot? or did you assume people would focus on the unit? And Destroyer Lords don’t get courts, and aren’t Fearless.

Does he give Imotekh a Cryptek with Chronometron to keep the Night for longer and a Cryptek with Solar Pulse to get Night for one turn after Lord of the Storm runs out? That would be even better!

Without wanting to sound like a smartass,

Does anybody else read the comments on a Beasts of War video before they actually watch the video?

I find this is fast becoming a necessity.

Deathwing Knights’ Smite attacks then plasma storm battery shooting from a Vengeance and it good by Ghost Arks, Good by Lords, good luck anyone left standing

If you want chees that you’re actually allowed to play, use Anrakyr to give a unit of Immortals Furious Charge/ Couter attack. Then you just take Illuminator Szeras as your second HQ to give them plus 1 toughness. Add in a lord with an Orb and they won’t die…ever.

Does the Jan. FAQ update clarify this? It says under Repair Barge that D3 models are added to the unit. That would not heal a character model.

Except if Szeras doesn’t roll right. I believe Mechanical Augmentaion should be a choice.

That FAQ does not say Necron Warrior models, which is where BoW are getting their idea from.