Necrons vs Custodes! Warhammer 40k 500 point Arena Battle 

Interested in a Play On Tabletop hosted event? playontabletop.com/king-of-the-colosseum-events/

Necrons: "You are surrounded!" Custodian Dreadnought: "All im surrounded by is FEAR, and DEAD, MEN."

"If you don't give your unit's an opportunity to do cool things, they never will." - Nick 100% agree. Do the Cool Thing, even if it's not the most optimal. It's just more fun that way!

It took me a solid nine minutes to realize that the "turn him into socks" taunt was referring to the Flayed Ones.

Necrons: There's no way for them to win now. Dreadnaught: and I took that personally

Oh that map/terrain overview graphic was super clear and well done. Big kudos to the team for that.

I think the thing I love most about this channel is that, whilst everyone plays by the rules, they also remember that it’s ultimately a game and sometimes making nonsensical decisions because it’s cool is the best play 👌🏻

Man, that Dreadnaught did work.

I love the quoting of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Brave brave Sir Robin

All I can imagine is the Optimus Prime “I’ll take you all on” scene that’s been floating around RU-vid when that Dreadnought proceeded to show the Necrons how it’s done in the 41st millennium.

Been playing a lot of 500pts as a beginner, and have to say been loving using Rough Riders as Astra Militarum. Not a lot of people expect melee Guard

Love the coliseum! You can run, but you cannot hide, high impact, high action!

Michael is such a treat to see in any battle reports you guys have him involved with. Socks and toques for everyone!

That's probably the coolest and best game result possible. Both players won that.

Beautiful production. Nick and Michael are always fun to watch - energetic and competitive till the end. The editing is top notch. Great cuts. I hope lots of other channel manage to adapt a similar editing style. You are pioneers. I enjoy the format. Smaller skirmishes make every model valuable. Since dice tell stories, I say this is format would fit a narrative campaign centered on kill team esque characters very well. Would fit your editing style also. I see movie potential here. Love you guys' work.

Nice! This has been an awesome series on Patreon. Really makes me rethink the responsibilities of different 40k formats.

interesting alternative to Kill Team / Combat Patrol. I would like to see some Kill Team Matches and some Old World Fantasy if you guys are up for filiming some! Onepage rules too

Unstoppable object vs Immovable force "The Face" Michael vs "Turning Heels" Nick who will be the King of Arena?!

hey Michael if you're reading this just wanted to say I like your necrons and you're lookin pretty sharp

cool format! i like it!

Honestly combat patrol and 500-750pt games are my favorite way to play 40k. Forget 2k points with everything always getting cheaper in points.

This tiny format seems pretty fun with the restrictions you have. Definitely will give this a shot.

This was such a fun concept

I like that Michael has a necrodermis left thumb these days :)

as a custodes player who plays them for the fantasy of the power of an entire army existing in and represented by a few mere humans, i don’t have a single forge world model in my army. but this dreadnought right here was absolutely inspiring, that might have to change…

God, I love Necrons

I like to think at the end the ground of the arena erupts as tons of flayed ones just crawl out swarming the entire place

Interesting to watch 👍👍

Should have brought a Skorpek Lord. Even in his own hes an absolute BEAST. Well worth his points!

Thanks for the video

This was enjoyable to watch. I wonder if you guys would be open to do a kill team game.

Thank you so much for the "brave sir robin" reference from Monty python and the holy grail 😂

Where'd you guys get the terrain set from? I would love to get one.

This is how my first game with my achillus went everything else died and he dueled a norn emissary and won.

lol love watching your vids guys! Nick was killing me not dedicating the Dreadnought earlier in the match though 😣

Love your background music

Always killing it here love the channel an the work you guys do an the few of you I’ve met in person have been absolute riot to play with 🎉 custodes seem a bit lack luster now ; also doesn’t help Nick rolled like poo poo . Was like my last game had 10 man Dc with lemartes miss 75% of there hits 😂 dice gods

Nick has all my love for joining me in collecting Custodes in spite of how hot garbage their rules are right now. Great map, great players, thanks so much, guys!

Those sisters were brave AF !!!

Nick’s dice roll is iconic lol

Oh Custodes, such an awesome game! I'd love to see a rematch with however many dreadnoughts you can squeeze into 500pts re-vs the same force of Necrons LOL Goes into Play on tabletop archives: Wow it was 4 years ago! I still think about how brutal that Custodes vs Tzeentch 1500pts Championship game was; so many mortally wounded Custodes ;(

Damn, this is really interesting! Way bettere than current Combat Patrol. May I know what's the radius of the coliseum walls? Even better, may I know where you got those walls? Definitely planning on trying it out. :D

okay. first: i need a dreadnaught for my custodes army. second: name that dredy:SANTODES, bc this last stand was glorious like santodes!

That Dread was listening to free bird for the second half of the game

11th day of asking for Grey Knights in 40k in 40m.

That Achillus was peak custodes lmao great game

That Dreadnought did WORK

9.05 . Spat my Juoce out . Such a Underated Player . Plus sooo funny 🤣🤣🤣

Dreadnought - “None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!”

Man, was Steve cosplaying as Nick this game cause some of those rolls were BRUTALLY bad.

Watching the light slowly fade from Nick's eyes this game was so incredibly painful because as somebody who has just started playing custodes within the past couple months against only my friend with a ridiculous amount of Tyranids is excruciating

The whole game: 'emperor's finest, emperor's champion' =)

You guys ever gonna do an Iron Warriors 40K in 40M? Would be super cool!

Can anyone tell me what shirt brand Michael is wearing. I've never seen that elk/deer logo on a polo before. Thank you very much.

Hey all, where do you get the objective cards they use for tactical objectives?

On the regular, what counts more: Wiping the board or point advantage? (I am new to the tabletop game)

Man Nick me and the custodes boys must have gotten ya interested at adepticon this year

Every video that Nick is in, he improves. Love that guy!

What is the size of the Coliseum board?

This is cool but Kill Team when?

What cards are you guys using for the stratagems ?? Leviathan?

Would you share the dimensions of the map and the gab between both deployment zones? Or did I miss these?

Weird question but what happened to rhino?

Where is the custodians shield captain? I thought he had to have a commander, and that’s the only non-name commander they have.

What are the dimensions of the board? We want to play coliseum mode

Oh snap. Did someone finally beat Tak and his epic list?

Where does one get that terrain set?

Is the discardimg an unachieved side mission and gaining a CP a house rule? I can't find it in the main rules anywhere

I know this is TOTALLY out of left field and probably no one will get it, but the music playing during deployment sounds a bit like "Emperor Awesome's" theme song from "Wander over Yonder"... 😂😅

Would love to see iron warriors on the table top or emperors children

That was so crazy! Surely wiping out your opponent should be an automatic win

How does a 6" move dreadnought catch a squad of destroyers?

It takes BALLS to play custodes in this format!

Ok, at 10:40 (asking because I have not played before, I am still working on turning my massive built grey pile of shame into at the very least "battle ready" models..or at least 1k points for starters): Would it not have made sense to let the character die there, since it was on Nick's own turn and his opponent had a chance to pull the "Assassination" objective next turn, netting him secondaries for killing the now-1-wound exposed character..? She does not hold the objective, she does not get a turn, and at most gets to fight first on next combat (iirc the opponent fights first in continued combat?), maybe removing 1 or 2 models depending on how strong a character she is... I suppose it used up one of the opponent's attacks... Hm. Ngl, no idea whether that or the chance of the opponent scoring Assassination and using a CP was more worthwhile here. I really want to start playing. If only I could decide on the two colour schemes I have been testing (or whether I should just go Leviathan) so I can go ahead and paint more than the 10x Termagant, 10x Hormagant, 5x Barbgaunt and 3x Spore mines I have finished so far. Hrnng...

As much as i love watching your channel i would like to see more people playing. as much as i like the ones who come at playon, it would be fun to see more new faces. Im guessing you are looking for more but maybe its hard to find in some way, maybe beacuse of time or some other reason. But back when you started you guys had alot more people coming to play so what happend?

10th day of asking for Grey Knights in 40k in 40m

These rules are way better than combat patrol.

custodes vs admech

Blade champion isn’t a named character

think green tide orks would win most of this format

Weird how space marine sounds just like tau nick.... But with that many ones we all know that's Steve playing...

What is the table size used here?

The Custodes are the only factions to have more models sold than units in the lore.

"Did you do it?" Necrons: "....yes...." "....what did it cost?" Necrons: "..... Everything..."

Just wish he used the dreadnaught sooner would have had a chance then

Necrons are cool

Would guard just win due to total board control

Dice are favored orange change my mind 😅

I dont understand had getting tabled doesnt give a massive amount of points

Great video but I always thought it was kind of dumb to draw objectives that are impossible to do on the first turn. I think you should be allowed to re-draw that.

fresh paint syndrome

"There's no time for wah wah booboo". *Write that down, write that down!*

Please no spoilers in the comments… thanks. @Play Tabletop thanks for these awesomely amazing video batreps !!! ❤

hmmm

Necrons necrons necrons!

hey guys pls check out more skirmish style games like warcry or the new blkout game

Hello good fellas!

Nick is the best. always here for a good time not a W. That said, you can't 'win' if you dont exist Xenos scum. Nice table/victory.

Duct tape thumb

Jeez why does nick even bother with taking a dreadnought in 500 points? Probably would've been better spent on more infantry.