12,000 points of Necrons, Tau and Deathwatch fight to the death! Warhammer 40k Feature Battle Report 

Tau: So, temporary truce? Deathwatch: Foul Xenos, do you really think I would humiliate myself by- _The planet opens up, revealing a massive Necron army awakening_ Deathwatch: -not taking your generous offer?

This battle report feels lore accurate; necrons have everyone dead to rights, tau get obliterated in melee range by something beyond their comprehension, and space marines somehow pull a victory by having terminators teleport in at the last second.

I felt that last line. "My inner 12 yr old was super happy. My outer 48 yr old wants to go home and take a nap."

dont you just hate when you shoot at necrons 90 times and they just keep coming back to life

Nick's cheerful attitude makes me imagine the T'au commander is trying to be positive and buddy-buddy with the marines and it's hilarious. This was a really fun battle report.

Just want to say that you have outdone yourselves with this one- your best work imo

That was epic! The terminators teleporting down and holding the line is straight from a Black Library novel! Also, necron rolls were unbelievable :D

Tycho's narration is F#@KING AWESOME!!! I just started the video, and he's already got me pumped to see the other 60 minutes. Just describing the mission objectives was beyond awesome.

The necron experience is summed up perfectly by Tycho at 33:56 "He kills one... aaaand itpromptlygetsbackup"

There's 2 things you should hyped on this video : Tycho narration and Michael & Brent going all out

I remember barely being able to scrape together a 500pt list; but after a heavy 3 years of hobbing, this video makes me want to throw 5000 pts against another massive army. Looks so much fun! Love you guys❤

So much fun! I hope everyone enjoys this as much as I did!

I love these narrative themed battles. They're so much fun.

really hope the necrons can pull a win i very rarely see them win and they are my favorite

I can’t imagine the skill of JT with how lots of units have customised models

The sheer amount of toughness from everyone was impressive.

I love this narretive fights, big armies and a wonderful table. This was realy much fun to watch. As he said "my inner 12 year old me" is crying about this epicness.

36:47 And with that quote from The Ultimate Showdown has won Michael my support. Love it. Excellent job as ever, always glad to watch a PlayOn production.

I can’t wait 9 hours, I’m betting on necrons

This would honestly be a good movie for 40k. A last stand to the very end and actually getting the win. The Tau and Marines that are watching from space would be proud that their men who fought to the very end to save the star system

The terrain setup and underground is beyond epic!!!

@53:49 - I think the Nightbringer's Necrodermis may have prevented that kill if it had 4 wounds going into that fight phase. "-this model cannot lose more than 3 wounds in the same phase. Any wounds that would be lost after that point are not lost.". I could be wrong ofcourse. But as always, amazing production value, great story, and the terrain is an inspiration for future projects. Play On!

I thought they were doomed after turn 1. What a game! Love watching your matches, always so engaging.

Man this was so entertaining and fun to watch, I love how you guys did this, the setup, the narrative, the mood you guys always bring into your games. Keep it up, you guys are doing something really amazing for the entire Warhammer community to enjoy. Love from Latin America.

I love these more customized, narrative scenarios! The multi-table setup was sick :D

So cool; would love to see some more of these tag team battles. Would love to see Vastorr vs Bel’lakor led armies

Best battle report ever. You really outdid yourselfs with this one

this one was really, really good. I love the more narrative-focused games! I'm also really impressed by the tables! Amazing gaming tables. Thanks for the video!

The starting intro is genuinely amazing! You guys are doing great!! Keep it up!!! Can’t wait for more up close Tau vids (and other armies I just love tau 😊)

Oh MY GOD that was incredible! So many points!!! So many epic Moments! And what an ending! That was so cool!

Nick you sent me to the channel after I cut your plywood at rona. I am now officially getting into warhammer thanks to you!

That was AMAZING! I love these types of videos! Great work in production, SFX, narration and to all who played! You can’t ask for anything more.

This looks like a solid saturday afternoon. And an encore match throughout the night

Truly Epic, I enjoyed watching this while painting a squiggoth. The armies were gorgeous... and that ending!

This is without any doubt your best video ever! That is exactly how i image 40k should be played! Thank you so much for this masterpiece. I have never been so thrilled watching someone push some minis on the table :D

This was so epic!!!! The tombworld series was my favorite I miss it so much but thank you play on for so epic moments. You are my reason to wake up ❤

This whole video was just "We kill X necros" Necrons, reanimating: Stop telling people I'm dead!

The way you made the story in this the highlight was beautiful. The addition of the extra things.. The green beams from the necrons shooting into space etc just add to the immersion. Great job guys..

I haven’t watched y’all’s content in a bit but I am excited for this video

This was an amazing game! Loved watching the swings between the teams and how close some of the rounds could be, can't wait to see you guys make more 3+ player games like this one

The King of Split Fire with the King of Overkill is Best Kill always makes for a funny dynamic lol

oh baby im hyped for this one

Great job, guys! Love the 2v2, love the narrative bits, love love love the two tier weird map. Very fresh, very entertaining!

36:47 HUZZAH! A MAN OF QUALITY!

Amazing! A welcome bit of narrative combat is such a wonder to watch. Can't wait for the next installment!

I know y’all have thousands of fans and probably don’t care what I say but I HEAVILY appreciate your passion for making these videos it single handily pushed me to finally start collected. This is my head cannon for how I play and I play for fun:) thank y’all so much it means a lot

One Deathwatch marine, badly wounded , holding on to the objective long enough for the First Company to reinforce just before he is overrun. THEN at the LAST possible moment, pushes the green button to sacrifice himself and thwart the Necron. Chills guys. Literal chills

This is honestly epic! Its the best battle report ive ever seen! Has given me and the boys some fantastic ideas!

Alright, you outdid yourselves with this one. Better than your Battle of Armageddon with Orks vs Guard and Black Templars. If you haven’t already done so, put this in your featured playlist, PlayOn! Right there with the endless hordes of Nids vs Ultramarines and that Battle of Armageddon!

Absolutely awesome. I loved the underground section. It was soo tense and close. Brilliant works guys

Incredibly fun game to watch. Thank you guys for doing this (playing, editing, painting and narrating!) The narrative ending was spot-on, neither team a loser. Audience the biggest winners of all.

This was the best battle report I've ever seen. Hope to see another one like this at some point in the future

The Best video and narrative I've seen on your channel. That was great!

I agree, has to be my top pick of my to ten battle reports you have done to date and definitely my favourite out of all the battle reports I have watched :)

Those Necron hordes terrified me, as a tau inthusiest, I am hoping for you Nick, FOR THE GREATER GOOD!!!

i realy love the mission with a twist and modifed arrwea. that was amazing to watch and very exiting with the impending doom! also love to see nick with his taau again!

I'll sue Play On for my broken jaw in the ground right now. WHAT A FUCKING GREAT GAME, GOOD GODS! I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE A BETTER GAME THAN THAT 8000 POINT MARINES VS TYRANIDS BUT DAMN!

Just stumbled across this format, and it is absolutely great! Sad it doesn't have more views. Surely deserves it.

I watched from the uk and brilliant narration and great gameplay and sportsmanship really enjoyed watching always love these videos 👍 I have ultramarines and my son has necron so love it when both armies are playing

Loved this one. All of your content is top notch. Tychos narration really does add some good drama and emotional investment.

This was amazing! Great job everyone! The quality was over the top!

I just stumbled upon this and I have to say I absolutely love this!!

Motivation to finish painting my Deathwatch incoming.

This is Phenomenal. Good Job J.T. it's always important to take out as many Xenos a you can. Still irks me that Space Marines can run away. 😠

You really should do more batreps like this, it was amazing and so much fun! A lot more interesting than regular matched play

Such a sick battle report! Everything about this video was amazing

As a cron player it's great to see some of the other models you don't see on the table very often, like the pylon and the sentinel

Just Awsome i mean it came down to the last roll. That lone Deathwatch held the line and helped stop the Superweapon. Fantastic as always.

dont ever want to get into collecting the miniatures myself but i gotta say, those new necrons look awesome

This was such a cool game. I'm playing a 20k battle on sunday With my 8k and a friends 2k necrons vs 10k mostly imperials, including a warlord titan. And I'm very inspired after this battle report. Thanks you for the great content.

The production levels were amazing, music was astounding. Loved it!!

Definitely the best episode you've done yet. I'm guessing the length of the match made everyone forget that c'tan shards cant take more than three wounds a phase. Or that the super weapon had four wounds at the start of the game and turn 2 they failed a roll for damage, so somewhere an extra point of damage was dealt. Either that or I'm just confused by all the glory I witnessed.

It was an awesome game! I really enjoyed this video. All my favourite stuff was there. Thank you guys🤘

Hah! I was not expecting the dethklok reference at around 56 mins. Excellent battle report and excellent taste.

Great video, and lots of good fun. Always like to hear Tycho narrate and let JT play.

The Deathwatch and Tau moments away from fighting eachother are surprised by the sudden awakening of the necron tomb world and are forced intoan uneasy alliance. Now on a mission where they will all likely see their doom. The necrons of this planet had an unholy level of resilience, their ability to just get back up made them true horrors to the combined forces. Almostimmediatly bad luck strikes and the Tau are quickly being over run and Deathwatch take harsh losses. The defenders of the device are hammered and a single marine holds the point. In a critical moment a necron lord shoots up at him and the blast nearly takes him down. But the marine holds fast and barely stands his ground as his allies fall he must hold and wait hoping he can complete the mission. The tau are slowly obliterated and Deathwatch aren't doing much better. The tomb world rises up even more forces and the reinforcements hardly help. But hold the enemy off a little longer. A single terminator squad relieves the injured marine at the device determiend to hold the line for the comrade to finish the mission. The leech guard are too slow to reach them but the wraith pile in and the terminators swap them like flies. Only a few moments remain before the final soldiers outside fall and begin to go down the stairs and the cavern below has awoken leaving them surrounded. Injured and barely able to stand the veteran still standing manages to enact the final sequence and the crystal goes up. While none would survive they had done, a victory, filled with loss, but a victory none the less.

That was awesome! We need more of these! For the Greater Good!

This was phenomenal! Thank you so much and stoked for 10th edition!

The way this played out was just so quintessentially 40k. Loved this video folks.

That terrain is absolutely awesome

Phenomenal work as always, thanks all of you!

Absolutely Loved It. Beautiful board and wonderful players. Also thank you for using the Tesseract Ark and the Tomb Stalker, hope they get plastic models so they can be used more.

That lone Phobos marine surviving that onslaught and managing to hit the button was such a worthy end.

Clipping Tycho going "badabadabada" to play whenever I fire my cannons from now on.

Freaking awesome Episode - still one of the, if not the best youtube w40k cinematic channel !

36:47 "This is the ultimate showdooown, of ultimate destinyyyy"

Love the idea of Watson being a Durandal level A.I. just being reanimated over and over as a new rail cannon gunner, Son of Wattz, Necron Bombardier

Wow! the amount of effort that had to go in to the terrain for this game is crazy

Now that was Pyrrhic,but in this case, a victory at any cost is worth it.

Love the sound effects you did for the tank lmao 10:47

That was a great video. Would love to see more matches like this! Plus Go Necrons!

This was absolutely epic, please do more battles like this!

Ended up watching the whole thing. very well done ^^

This is exactly the kind of content that made me create a Patreon account after I found you guys! Keep you the good work!

I absolutely loved this. Hope to see more like this.

Bro, that was awesome, I'm so inspired to finish off my necrons now!

This. Was. AWESOME! Great video. Great presentation and narration. Well played. Exciting and nail-biting until the very end. This is what I imagine when I think 'WH40K'.

So fantastic!! This is is exactly how I envision 40k games I just need to convince people to play this style of game haha! Absolutely phenomenal job!!!

This just makes me want to build my own custom Deathwatch force. JT's lot have INSPIRED me BIG TIME!

YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING! Brilliant big battle. Play On should do the Infinite and the Divine narrative, bring Trazyn and Orikan vs a Ctan Shard! BIG NECRON BATTLE