[CAMPAIGN] Necron vs Ancient One - pls help

[Existor]

Any tips?

* too much "banelings" exploding onto my ships with creating spore clouds that constantly slow and damage my ships

* I always keep my warp-out versus Ancient scream otherwise all my ships are ♥♥♥♥ed

* I warp-out Amarkun (when cooldown is ready) since losing him immediately ends the game

* trying to take leaders that are immune to spore clouds but still, I suffer too much from constant tyranid charges with their boarding spam

[Existor]

Any help? Seems majority prefer to whine about game rather than play it?

[Cheeki Breeki Goob]

^ This.

This glorified boss fight shows how little mobility Necrons have, despite having a teleport on every ship, you can't engage or disengage from Tyranids or SMs with it unless you have a Scarab Swarm. Weapon ranges are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ too because I don't think they take into account how big the target is. I had this problem with the Phalanx too, where I had to brush up against the hull of the Phalanx to actually shoot at it.

[Cheeki Breeki Goob]

As for actual tips, I think we are SOL. Because Necrons don't have enough of anything to hold off the adds, DPS the massive tumor and disengage whenever it decides to use that massive AoE.

[Existor]

Thats what I'm trying to do with spam of Harvesters that have 240 speed and bunch of guns + immunity to asteroid and spore fields.

But seems Tindalos didn't even test their campaign.

[מלאך המוות - Klicky]

^ I feel the same way, not to mention some game breaking bugs in some campaign missions. I love/hate this game. I ll just probably lay it off for month or two until they fix issues like this.

[Ludatan]

This Mission is too hard for necrons. Even if you use max ships and try different tactics you dont get this boss. I allready tried shooting it by encircling or direct assault, i tried boarding, ramming, kinda everything you could do. Now after so many failed attempts where i came close some times, but then again my last ship (of 3 fleets with max ships) dies. I dont have any problems with the rest of the enemys and allready established full controll of all sectors around turn 30 on medium difficulty (which i underestimated). But this boss is just unbeatable.

[Sha'Romnin]

Fight seems limited in time... Go around the map is possible by continuously inflicting littles damage, but not fast enough (in hard difficulty)

[Ludatan]

the endless stream of nids slowly damages my ship crew to the point where a key system like the engine fails and then it goes down.

[Existor]

I finished this mission by editing saves. Don't know other way

[[OG] Brandoid]

Originally posted by Ludatan:

This Mission is too hard for necrons. Even if you use max ships and try different tactics you dont get this boss. I allready tried shooting it by encircling or direct assault, i tried boarding, ramming, kinda everything you could do. Now after so many failed attempts where i came close some times, but then again my last ship (of 3 fleets with max ships) dies. I dont have any problems with the rest of the enemys and allready established full controll of all sectors around turn 30 on medium difficulty (which i underestimated). But this boss is just unbeatable.

only turn 30? what is your fleet cap at?

[Ludatan]

Originally posted by Existor:

I finished this mission by editing saves. Don't know other way

How did you managed to complete the mission by doing this?

[Ludatan]

@Brandoid: I‘m now in round 51 and im renown rank 11. I think my fleet cap is around 1k fleet power. I have Full controll over all but one sectors that apeared so far (Last one, which apeared, was Medusa and in the first turn it opened up i got half the Systems). I really dont have any ressource or fleet problems, but this ancient one is anoying me. Its the only thing i just cant kill, whatever i do.

[Ludatan]

Ive finally made it with my necron fleet, but it took me over 4 hours of research and trying in 9 attempts to do it with necrons. At the end i had to sacrifice 3 fleets with 1k fleet power each and mostly elite crew combined with a good strategy and lowest game speed to win. If you want to do what i did you need:
1.) Be at least renown rank 10 to have strong enough fleets.
2.) Use the 3 best fleets you have
3.) Shoot full at close range, preserve star pulse for incoming tyranids.
4.) Dodge psychic scream as close as you can, then handle helper tyranids ship
If your ships are low retreat and then handle the little nids ships
5.) Repeat attack runs. If your ship is to low ram it into boss and then let reactors explode.
Keep your flagship save by keeping it between you other ships.
6.) Lure the ancient one slowly to your starting point so you can replace fallen ships faster, because they spawn there

[[HN]]

Haven't done the ancient one with the necron, but as imperium (I'm guessing the mission is the same) the thing was a joke, don't try to kill it, just focus on the crew on the thing will go down really, really fast.

[Noodles]

Originally posted by HN:

Haven't done the ancient one with the necron, but as imperium (I'm guessing the mission is the same) the thing was a joke, don't try to kill it, just focus on the crew on the thing will go down really, really fast.

Necrons don't have the the crew killing power that space marines do.