Warhammer 40K Caledonian Revolutions 2015

[jaqenhgar]

how's your list coming along mate?

Well I had a game against Wills tyranids yesterday and Orikan and friends failed to arrive until turn 4! When they did they couldn't do anything that turn so literally got one turn out of them - ripped apart a wounded Mawloc and some tyranid warriors but was too little too late.

So now I am thinking I need to start with stuff on the board - was first time playing with the Maelstrom missions so realised end-game isn't as important anymore. Now thinking one of these two lists if I take Necrons:

List 1: (CAD)
Orikan (Warlord, joins shields and swords unit)
Lord - res orb, solar staff (joins warscythes)
10 warriors - Ghost Ark
10 Warriors - Ghost Ark
15 Warriors
10 Lychguard - warscythes
9 Lychguard - hypephase swords and dispersion shields
6 Wraiths - 5 whip coils, 2 particle casters
Triarch Stalker
Canoptek Spyder - fabricator claw array and gloom prism

List 2: (CAD)
Orikan (Warlord, joins shields and swords)
10 warriors - Ghost Ark
10 Warriors - Ghost Ark
10 Warriors
10 Lychguard - warscythes
10 Lychguard - hypephase swords and dispersion shields
6 Wraiths - 5 whip coils, 1 particle caster
Royal Court Formation:
Lord - orb of eternity, gaunlet of fire (joins warscythes)
Cryptek - chronometron and solar staff (joins warscythes)
Overlord - res orb, warscythe (joins shields and swords)

Leaning towards the second list but what do yuo think? 3 big combat threats move onto middle objectives and sit there taking the pain and killing stuff. Supported by Ghost arks.

During my game with Will I was amazed at how well a 15 strong warrior squad stood up to tyranids in combat, with the reanimation protocols boosting survivability. Just have to point out, the 10 man sword and shield unit is T5, 3+/3++, rerolling failed saves of 1 and with RP of 4+, and once a game I get to reroll the RPs. Also pump out 20 S5 AP3 attacks, plus the AP2 attacks from the overlrd and Orikan - pretty awesome. Solar staff and orb of eternity should keep most of the 'softer' warscythe squad alive for two separate shooting phases.

Problems with both lists - only shooting comes from the warriors and ghost arks, in the first list all the warriors get BS5 while the stalker is alive. Lychguard are slow, footslogging across the board in no transports.