BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC ARMADA 2 | Necron vs Imperial Navy (1v1 Beta 2 Gameplay Ranked Battle 25) 

Saw some very clever play against me in the previous battle, and just had to give it a try, myself! Learning from losses, and all that. Battle begins at 3:39 ! As I said previously - I'm super excited to keep the battles going after release, including some 2v2s, and some sub battles when I can get organized enough! Remember to join our Discord - it's an amazing and highly active community - discord.gg/6Tq3ut5 and if you'd like to pick up the game, consider doing it at this link to support charity and the channel as you do - www.humblebundle.com/store/battlefleet-gothic-armada-2?partner=PartyElite . Next couple days might see a slowdown in battles as I finish off a few guide videos and a review video as well, but they will be back in full force shortly after! Cheers, and enjoy!

What heresy is this tactic? Thou shalt throw thy ships at thy foe if thou desirest an honourful victory good Sir

learnt from your mistkes is an understatement

That was incredibly well played. Your opponent is more than welcome to be mad at himself hahaha. I am super happy you tried out a "secondary" objective strategy. I wouldn't want to play every game the same way time after time. It's cool to try different tactics and builds. Keep at it Party.

Necron voice actor: "NYAAH" Skeletor: "I'm so proud of you *sniff*"

Well done, I'm really happy to see you improving as much as you are

i guess he saw the mistake in not countering escorts. Great to see the necrons awakening on the channel!

"nope" … maybe they didn't feel that they played well!

Great BFGA 2 vids, keep them coming as well as some tutorials and strategy breakdowns, please.

I really enjoyed this battle, because I did exactly the same thing when I was beaten by a build very similar to this one: went right to the fleet builder and had a go at flying a bunch of Jackals myself :D Mine wasn’t quite so successful though... (Oh and btw, I’d second the idea of having a beginner’s guide. There’s a lot to keep track of in this game and a guide might help a lot of people out)

I do love some BF2:A The shrouds are fun, I prefer the Kopesh for the raw firepower. Its at a good price point for a light necron cruiser for what it brings to the table. I actually run a list with 2 Cairn battleships, and a Kopesh and its hilarious. Just let the Cairns brawl out the main opponent's force, then spread all 3 ships 1 to each point, so you own a majority 3-2 at least. Just totally fun. The thing to get used to is the fact that for ramming, that your armor is equal to that of any other ship's best armor, or better. Ramming doesn't hurt us...a lot. But, get used to the dispersed lightning arc stance when you first engage! Your guns shooting at all targets in range at once is clutch for getting early damage, before shifting into the repair stance later to keep your ships up and running.

I don't understand why people get so upset about losing because objectives If you want to neglect objectives all together and go for brawls at least pick a fleet that can force a fight instead of a couple of flying bricks These people have only themselves to blame really.

Loving all this BFA2 coverage. Can't wait for full release

You did nothing wrong. He was probably upset that you didn't engage him in a straight up brawl, since he was grouping up in a way that only a player expecting a straight up fight would group up. But that's not the purpose of the game... The objectives add another dimension, spread out the battle, and help balance things out a bit. But some salty players don't seem to get that.

great video, thanks!

Nice stuff !

Love your videos, keep them up! If only all gamers were as respectful as you.

Enjoying the BFGA2 uploads

nice win man

This is the build I run. I really don't think it's a good idea to split the jackals up. They are vulnerable to strike craft alone when spotted, and the primary value I get out of the build is just murdering escorts, which relies on a critical mass of firepower where it's not expected. The entire idea is that you drop the shields and do significant hull damage in one hit. That, and of course, having 2 ships not running silent makes it look like a dual cairn build, and it still has a bit of a chance against carriers due to 2 star pulse waves. By keeping your scythes split up, 1 to each of 2 points, you look like a person desperate to maintain some semblance of capping power with 2 cairns, and you also bait strike craft to star pulse wave. And frankly, it's pretty rare that a map shows up where 2 scythes teleporting into each other cannot get within star pulse distance of each other. You still have the second star pulse wave for the second load of ordinance. So deploy 1 scythe to each of 2 points, and then use your escort ball to hunt down and murder ships on a contested point. Also, 5 escorts means you can pretty much always get the scan off first, because you don't have to hit your first, second or even third scan. you just keep scanning as you close, and eventually some destroyer takes 300+ macro damage to the face with no warning. or 450 with the shroud. And if you run into tyranid escorts, you can drop everyone's shields in the first volley using dispersed lightning arc and hold fire. Also, I strongly recommend you use teleport to stay at range, not to engage. If necrons cannot outshoot someone at 9k, they cannot win, because that's the only thing they are good for. Your boarding damage is not bad as a flat value, but it's terrible for your ship cost. Those scythes are more expensive than an imperial battleship. how does 8 boarding damage look then? Is that good boarding damage for a battleship? No. It's average at best. I would recommend just staying at 9k range, relying on your guns to drop shields, then lightning strike.

Doing a lot better at keeping an eye on your other ships. A few hiccups but great improvement ^^ The reaction threw me off as well, thought that was a good game. They did a good job at wrecking your two larger ships. Can you purposely face Necron ships from a jump like that?? (Face a specific direction??)

Nice battle ;)

You can fix the movement/follow bug by cancelling orders (N-key by default I think).

Well played! Would you mind making a video where you try and beat this style of play? Would be pretty interesting to see!

That was such a necron thing to do lol

Again if you see that your opponent is trying to play the points just choose 3 of them, cap them then wait in the middle of them. Trying to run after a faster fleet is just the dumbest thing to do in that case, wait for your opponent to engage; you have better firepower and HPs. And plz stop whining about how it's unfair that a light fleet refuse to charge your battleships -.-

Please more I love watching this game

Can you play some ad mech soon?

What a grouchy boy, losing because he didn't play objectives.

you can send out a fighter squad to probe it will die but if you have spotted that doesnt matter objective achieved and spam that slowmoving ball of death cover the screen with them! if you click and drag you can decide the direction it moves for that movement bug, just select only the ship you have ordered to follow and tell it to move somewhere on its own it will be disconnected and you can group move it again

They just salty because the supervisor strategy won. I know the one thing people would like is to have different point modes with 1/3/5 points respectively so that different fleets and sub fleets can have their chance to shine. But have it that you choose what mode to play so you can play exactly how you want. Same goes for ranked. So there would be 3 different ranked formats to play for different styles.

10:25 EXPLOSION!

more vids pls necrons and chaos have my interrest and maybe some tips on fleet building

Do you want to see more ?? FUCK YES WE DO

You didn't do anything wrong here. He was salty and that is all there is to it! Phased with greatness and that which we strive to become, we scoff and turn our backs.

Can you try a Big Ships Necrons strategic? Because I really love the nec´s but I am very bad managing many ships :D

I wish they implement the same kind of system as in Total war games, with custom games, where we could change modes, rules ( especially point rules), maybe go for 3v3 or that kind of stuff... I want to love this game but I think it needs more content to really be what it deserves to be.

I understand strategic points as a game balancing mechanic, but they seem to be placed pretty randomly. If they were placed in locations that seemed somehow strategic (ex: gap in an asteroid belt) or were evenly spaced around the map (with phenomenon randomly placed) it would make more sense.

Could you do a guide video for each factions and sub- factions?

"gg wp" "NOPE"

lol 'nope'

Even without points I think you still would have been able to win

Salty opponent is salty.

12 pm when it will release for me but ill be in school so saad and dad has to study so saaaaaaaaad

If you dont target and click on your own ships telling them to follow they won't get that bug. Cancel orders should take care of that.

Well you both played good... He played the battle better on the short run with that first engagement, and you played it better on the long run, wich paid off... A shame that he need to be so salty about it really...

If you're going to have half a dozen escorts you need to use them. You focus too much on one fight. Stationary unused ships are wasted ships. A large part of why you lost last time was enemy escorts you ignored constantly firing into your big battles from the side while invisible

"Nope." Yeah that's fair, they really mishandled the initial engagement. You jumping two of your cruisers right into the middle of 4 of his and him managing to lose 2 of his own ships for just one of yours *isn't* playing well. They maneuvered their ships poorly so that they go in each other's way a lot, and ended up blocking one another which let you get away with your second cruiser. Still, good of your opponent to acknowledge that they played poorly.

Space kiting?

Moar necrons

Really enjoying your video's.6666

Why do you say this is your first time playing Necrons you played them like a month ago in two videos?

Man this is the only game where I have seen people get saltier than LoL.

I learnt that ramming necrons isnt a good strat they seem to have a high armor rating or something that just doesnt make it effective hah

Any EU people on the discord?

i ike necrons, i just hate that you get recket by critical damage

I feel like you are playing the wrong faction if you are gonna go for points. You commit your low base fleet in to heavy macro fire. The whole point of Necron, imo is heavy in and out damage. Atleast againt a Non Choas Macro Fleet. Do not get me wrong, every fleet should go for points but when you go so heavy point cap with a faction with low mobility it just seems counterintuitive.

Resistance is futile.

He might have said "nope" to him playing well tbh. When you as the winner says "WP" you are basically congratulating yourself as the better player won, at least that game.

You really pissed him off by constantly dodging his rams

He said nope because he played poorly

Its the best feeling when you beat someone in an RTS and they get mad because you specifically did not play the game your opponent wanted you to. Why the fuck would any smart Necron player willingly brawl with the Imperial Navy? Absolutely hilarious.

Lorgar did nothing wrong

You need to be using your other stuff more. you had a ship sitting on an objective when it was already captured when it could have been killing escorts

ohh First

running silent, running silent, running silent......

Yeah, you were better then him! How DARE you!?

where the fuck is total war

You play well, but tour Fleet is too spread. On almost every fight i Saw u go against more shop than u have.

The winner is not supposed to say "gg". Only the looser is. Saying it as a winner can come across as all kinds of condescending and other bad manners.