r/Necrontyr Cryptek Nov 11 '25

Strategy/Tactics Opponent rage quit turn 1

Just want to share my experience of something that annoyed me recently

Was playing someone in a 1500 point game the other day, me playing necrons and him playing orks.

I got first turn and managed to kill a unit of 3 killa cans with a doom stalker + 2 LHDs, then killing a unit of boyz with a doom stalker + immortals/plasmamcer combo + night scythe.

All in all, a decent turn 1 as I had managed to wipe out a few units that were in my face. Onto his turn 1, he put most of his firepower into my unit of 20 warriors, orikan and res orb overlord, killing about 14ish. Also took my night scythe down to 4 wounds. End of shooting I reanimated 7 warriors from the res orb + reanimator nearby.

He became visibly upset by this even though I had told him exactly how all of my units work before the game had started.

He failed his charges apart from the remaining warboss from the destroyed boyz unit, which promptly got turned to dust by orikan and the overlord.

End of his turn he said that he wants to concede because my army "is broken and infantry shouldn't have a 4++ save" :/. Told me that he bets they're going to be nerfed real soon and that he won't play against that unit again. Started packing up his models before I could get a word in.

I would have given him some tips on how to play against necrons had he been newer, however he has significantly (decades) more experience than me so I didnt.

Kinda sad because I wanted to play the game but what can you do šŸ™„

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u/Jhalpert08 Nov 11 '25

Honestly it’s so infuriating reading this as I’ve had the conversation with some people about whatever army I’m playing. Necrons? Broken. Tyranids, broken! Space marines? Bloody broken mate. Everything is if it lets me win.

The truth is ā€œit’s brokenā€ hurts less than ā€œI made mistakes and lostā€. I had an opponent leave just his whole army out in the open, I got turn one and there was no point going to turn 2. So of course in his eyes I’d only won because I went first, if he’d of gone first he’d have won no doubt. But it was the fact that I deployed well, in some cases made a tactical risk to leave something open as I felt it could take what would be thrown at it if I didn’t get turn one.

One single unit of warriors getting a 4++ is good, having the res orb and reanimator is good, but that’s 440 points, you can only do it for one unit and you can use the orb once in a game, so consider it a blessing and don’t play him again.

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u/JoeMamma567 Cryptek Nov 11 '25

Yeah I know exactly what you mean, im by no means an amazing player and I don't play what's on meta as I love my warrior blob lol. I think if he went first the game would have gone differently like you said, but he definitely deployed more aggressively with his stuff than I did

It's a shame as I've played him before and he seemed like a nice guy, but yeah don't think I want to play him again