Fourth Game of the Year: Combat Patrol. Same old, same old.

 The usual weekly/bi-weekly  game of combat patrol at XP saw me once more pit my Tau against Darren's Necrons. This time I did generate about 20-25 VPs before being wiped out by Turn Three. We also were able to play those three turns in a hour and 15 minutes. While I lost once more a strategy vs. the Necrons is starting to come up

1) There is no point to separate your force and hunt objectives. You need all the firepower you can get. 

2) The Destroyers are a priority target. With 9 wounds they will need at least 27 shots to be killed in one turn of shooting. Thus you need all your units focusing on them. 

3) Once you have killed them you can start hunting objectives. You will need to make up any starting loss ration using your secondary objectives.

Thus for bad or for good versus Necrons your tactic needs to be the fortress. This a) increases your chance of killing Necron units b) maximizes the chance of attaining the secondary objectives c) maximizes the effect of observers and auras. This is not an army to scatter vs. this opponent. 

The pictures. The good thing is that in just one month I have gotten in four games. Not bad, not bad at all.