FUBAR 40K : Adepta Sororitas vs Necrons : Part 1

The Necrons learned of the presence of an Untouchable on an Imperial planet, Nilia 9C6, and dispatched a force there to find and retrieve him for research purposes. Hidden away by the Inquisition in the ruins of a town far from the any active settlement, the Untouchable is unaware of any danger. Cannoness Valoria has been ordered to retrieve the Untouchable or prevent him from falling into their hands, alive.

A drop ship deposited the Cannoness and two of her Battle Sisters squads just South of the town. 

Sister Caterina's squad is in the foreground, Sister Angelique is behind the wall in the back.

To the North, two squads of Necrons accompanied by three Canoptek Scarab Swarms fanned out to search for their quarry.

Necrons advance us

Table before the first moves (pictured above)

The Warriors sent the swarms ahead, their beating wings carrying them above any obstacle. In the shadow of a decrepit storage tank, one swarm found the prize.

Moments later, Necron Warrriors moved in to capture him.

With the enemy already in possession of the objective and retreating to their extraction point, Sister Angelique raced her squad across the ruins, hoping to gain a clear line of sight to the enemy, but swarms of robotic beetles hampered their advance. 

To the right of that fray, the Battle Sisters of Sister Caterina's squad, driven by holy zeal, stormed over the wall

If you look closely in the upper left, you'll see I've marked a swarm as suppressed (green bead). This was a mistake. There is no suppression in close combat. It should have been marked down (see special rules for Necrons below)

directly into the line of sight of an approaching Necron squad.

For a moment it looked like the Necrons would escape with their prisoner and extract a high price from the oncoming Adepta Sororitas. But the faith of the Sisters never wavered, knowing with certainty in their hearts, the Emperor protects.

As if in a state of confusion, both squads of Necron Warriors stopped in place - neither advancing to contact nor moving to extract their prisoner. 

A heretic might say the Necrons suffered glitches in their communication matrix due to atmospheric interference, common on Nilia 9C6, but the Sisters of the Adepta Sororitas knew it was the light of the Emperor's will that shone grace upon them.

The Necron Warriors with the prisoner failed their activation rule several turns in a row, as did the other squad. This allowed the Battle Sisters to stay in the fight.

The Sisters pressed forward, but clouds of flying, living metal swarmed on them, their metallic mandibles seeking any weakness in the Sororitas' Ceramite armor, buying the Necrons time to escape with their prize.

Or so it seemed.  Still the Necron Warriors stood in place.

Seizing the moment, Cannoness Valoria sprinted across the battlefield. Glowing green bolts of searing energy from Necron Gauss guns tore through the air exploding clods of earth at her heels as she sprang behind ruined walls. 

A short space of open ground separated her from her quarry.

The Necron with the green bead is suppressed, the one with the black triangle with the red X is actually down. I realized shortly after that I should in fact, lay the figure on its side, with the marker (to remind me they need to make a repair roll).

Stay tuned for Part 2!

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Background:

This week, I decided I wanted to try out FUBAR take on Warhammer 40K. They are a supplement, rather than a variant of, the FUBAR wargame rules for modern/sci-fi small unit combat. Instead of presenting the rules entirely as the variants do, such as Medieval or VSF, they cover converting the Warhammer 40K units and weapons into FUBAR units and weapons.

The recommendation for balance is to use the points from 40K (I assume the 3rd Edition in the name of the one document refers to the 40K version, but it may refer to the FUBAR version it was meant to supplement). I am very interested in 2e 40K of late, and so I used those point values and found I have around equal points of Adepta Sororitas and Necrons. 

The scenario idea came from the 3rd ed.  Codex : Witch Hunters (can be found online - Adepta Sororitas had their own codex as the end of second edition, and they are included in Witch Hunters in 3rd. I share this because I only just learned this recently).

The Forces:

Adepta Sororitas 

Cannoness Valoria: Elite, bolt pistol (2 FP), power armor (Save on 3+)

Battle Sister Squad 1 (Veteran, power armor (Save on 3+)):

• Sister Superior Angelique:bolt pistol (2 FP) 
• 4 Sisters with Bolt Rifles (3 FP each)
• 1 Sister with Melta (3 FP)
• 1 Sister with HMG (4 FP) 

 Battle Sister Squad 2 (Veteran, power armor (Save on 3+)):

• Sister Superior Caterina: Bolt  Pistol (2FP) 
• 4 Sisters with Bolt Rifles (3 FP each)
• 1 Sister with Flamer (3 FP)
• 1 Sister with Heavy Flamer (4 FP) 

 Necrons 

Squad 1

•  5 Necron Warriors: Veteran (1 FP, Save on 3+)

Squad 2 

•  5 Necron Warriors: Veteran (1 FP, Save on 3+)

Canoptek Scarab Swarms: 

• 3 Canoptek Swarms : Seasoned (0 FP, CC only, Save on 5+ , capable of a leap of 16" over intervening terrain). Each swarm acts independently.

The Necrons are not covered by the FUBAR supplements. No worries!

All Necrons have the following special rules (from "W40K 2nd Ed Battle Bible 1.7.2" - available online):

Self-Repair: "Necrons cannot be removed as casualties. Instead, mark them or place them on their side." At the start of each turn, before the automatic close combat round, for each Necron on its side, roll 1d6:

• 1 - destroyed, remove as casualty
• 2-5 still trying to repair
• 6 Repaired and immediately returned to fight. "

Isolation :  "A Necron warrior which repairs itself may find itself outside of normal coherency to the rest of its squad. Necrons in such a condition are said to be isolated. An isolated Necro cannot shoot, although it fights as normal in all other respects. It must move to join a unit of the same type."

Morale : "If the entire Necron force is reduced to 25% or less of its original number at the start of any Necron turn, then the whole army  will mysteriously vanish; the Necrons are assumed to have been driven away. Necrons which have fallen down but not yet removed can’t be counted as part of the remaining force, so a Necron army can be defeated if enough models are knocked down even if they are not permanently destroyed." 

The emphasis there is mine - I did not remember that when I was running the game and that played a part in the game's length for sure!

The Untouchable Rules

Untouchables are individuals immune to Pyskkers, or something like that. In any case, I had 3 blinds on the table one real, two dummies.

Swarms can check the blinds but cannot capture the Untouchable if found or escort him off the table. 

Once revealed, the Untouchable, Green with no armor, activates once per turn. And being Green, odds are high they'll fail their activation roll.

• If he is not currently captured or rescued and he activates successfully, he moves 1d6" in a random direction (roll 1d12, read like a clock direction). 
• Once captured or rescued, he becomes temporarily part of that unit and moves with them but still activates each turn in order to try and escape. 
• To escape (he doesn't want to be captured and in the confusion of the moment, doesn't want to be rescued either), he must attack his guard, and the guard must fail in their attack against him. If successful, the Untouchable immediately moves 1d6" in a random direction as above.

If the unit with the Untouchable is attacked, and there are any unsaved hits (using the unit's save value), the Untouchable is hit and killed on a 1 on a 1d6.

Once captured or rescued, the unit with the Untouchable can only move a max of 6" per turn.

As for FUBAR itself, there were some house rules added on the fly to address some grey areas, but more on that next time.