I’m going through with Tau at the moment, and with my invisible jetpack commander and his entourage of Stealth Suits, I don’t actually have to build anything on most maps.

Only Chaos have withstood this technique so far, because their basic Cultists can see infiltrated units. Their stronghold mission is about destroying shrines to dispel a pink cloud over their base which kills you if you go in it.

Instead I spammed Skyrays and parked them outside the miasma, jetpacked a suicide Stealth Suit into the thick of it to reveal the location of their HQ, then bombarded it from outside until it broke.

And no problems with the ‘delete’ tip: I only know it because I played the things to death, and was sick of Leman Russ tanks worth 5 unit cap getting stuck behind a poorly placed building.

Wasn’t aware of that Del thing; useful to know, cheers :)

a) Penta, you do realise that if you select a unit and hit ‘delete’ it dies, right?

b) The saint only protects buildings nearby it. If it’s off defending something else, you can kill whatever you want. I took advantage of that with Guard, as they get hammered if you split your forces too much. So I sent a couple squads to distract the Angel, then banebladed the Monastery. End of.

Maybe that’s what really threatened the Necrontyr race with extinction; mass tooth decay and diabetes.

I had some real fun on the Sisters of Battle one; teleported my ‘lith to the back of their base, along with 3 squads of Immortals and my Necron Lord and somehow managed to take out their Monastery thing. Which was odd, since a) I hadn’t destroyed any of their statues and b) their Saint thing was still flapping about. Not quite sure what happened there o_0.

I’m actually trying to play it through as the Tau now, who I like almost as much as the Necrons, and who are better at rushing easy missions in a few minutes. Got stuck on the Orks this time, though – wanted to take them out early because they had lots of ways to invade my territory, but that mission can be a bitch. When my Greater Gnarloc got forever behind the building it came from, permanently using up 5 vehicle cap, and I discovered the Orks already had 4 Squiggoths, I kind of gave up. If I do it again, it’ll be a stealth rush on their HQ.