This thing is so much fun. I'm really liking the whole persistent campaign thing. It's really fun and gives you a lot more of a sense of accomplishment and identity. The downside is that so far it's been really, really easy. Defense is pretty much... instant death for the offense. It would probably be somewhat less so with other races, but with Necrons... forget it. Having your whole base already setup in a given province means that you can just pump out units like no tomorrow without having to worry about whether or not anybody is even in town when the attack commences. The Imperial Guard just tried to manhandle me in a sector where I had nothing but buildings, but since the base was already built, they couldn't even get to me before I'd built my main hero unit, researched half the upgrades, and plopped down a few flayer squads. So I ended up, more or less, rushing *them*. There were 2 CPU IG opponents working in tandem, and they at least put up a fight towards the beginning, but it didn't take long for me to become my usual unstoppable Necron force, so then I just ran around the map putting them down. I even managed to get the monolith up and running for the assault on the 2nd base, which lasted about 20 seconds with all my guys heading in and my monolith raining green fire. I did lose my honor guard early on, but otherwise I didn't lose a single unit. In fact, none of them got below 4 guys at once. I didn't even have to use my ressurection ability at all.
So yeah... you guys are going to want to play on hard, I think. Normal is way too easy so far. Part of that is the Necron method, but yeah... I think hard is the best bet. Though I haven't yet assaulted a main province yet, and I'm sure those are a bit tougher.
Anyway, screens. Sorry about the shitty quality. Apparently FRAPS is not the best for JPEG stuff. Oh, and the forum resizes everything, so if you want 1280x1024 shots, right-click and hit "view image" (or whatevever other method you prefer). These look pretty wonky resized. It isn't the game's fault.
Here's the reinforcement screen.
This is your commander screen, where you can buy upgrades and check out his honor guard units that follow him around from fight to fight.
These are the Necron worker units. They're building a plasma generator, which is the only Necron resource.
Some early-game ass kicking.
These guys shrug off rockets and grenades like they were BB pellets.
Monolith is en route (I have some great pictures of it shelling things from here... the explosion fills the whole screen) and flayers are getting burned by IG incendiary missiles. Unfortunately for the IG, the flayers don't really care.
Oh, fuck it. I have to put up the Monolith going apeshit. So, kids, remember -- this is what happens when you piss off a Necron.
