This game was played between my son and his friend as a warm up game, mostly to let them just play on their own, with as little oversight as possible, apart from the odd bit of tactical advise or suggestion. The main aim of this game was to let the boys work though the game without any prompts from me, just as they might have to in the tournament. As it happens they did very well at it, although it did take a very long time to play and was split over about 4 sessions and two days.
There is not much I can really comment on the actual game, as I did not witness very much of it, just popping in every so often to see how they were doing but from what I could tell both lists were actually working as intended.
The Tau ended up pushing up on their right flank while the Necrons ended up pushing up on their right, circling around the canter of the board.
As you can see, the Tau suits dropped in and tried to take on one of the necron blobs, but the reanimation tactics cause the suits a lot of problems, bringing back a number of warriors, causing the suits to take several turns to chew through all the warriors.
At the end of the day, the Tau did just enough to take the win, some unlucky draws on the cards for the necrons hurt at the end. Overall the game proved that both armies could work and that the tactics were pretty solid. Granted both armies were fairly constrained by model availability but the tournament was a good chance to stress test the armies and work towards building them in the future.
So, with all the test games done and dusted, it was on to the tournament!
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