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So, I just got back from my first two games using Escalation with my Necrons. 2500pts, with a Tesseract Vault (Antimatter Meteor, Wave of Withering) as my lord of war.
First game against Imperial Tank Company, with a Stormblade (strictly speaking not allowed, but nobody cared). Two turns of concentrated fire by a thunderbolt and two vanquishers brought down the Tesseract, but only after it had punched a sizeable hole into the opposition. In particular wave of withering was amazing, robbing the stormblade of 7 HP in one go and wrecking a swarm of Russes in one go. I repeatedly fucked up my reserves, though, so two flyers, a tombstalker and some jump troops sat on the side until turn four, at which point the rest of my troops had been pounded into paste by massed battle cannons.
Second game was against Chaos Marines with a Lord of Skulls. High point was Wave of Withering took out a pair of Land Raiders loaded with berserkers as well as a bunch of bikers, only to have Antimatter Meteor wipe the survivors and the passengers of the board. Two units of warriors, each with a Harbinger of Storm, took down the Lord of Skulls to two HP, only to have Overlord in a barge melee of the rest. Tabled the enemy by turn three.
On the table next to us there were Tau and Marines going at it, and I have to say: Wow, the tigershark sucks badly. The thunderhawk is already kinda mediocre and overpriced, but the Tau bomber is just terrible for that cost.
Overall I had fun with the book, though I am still ambivalent about Strenght D weapons in basic 40k. For what it's worth, I didn't see anything absurdly broken happening, but, then again, I am no tournament player, nor do I play Apocalypse.
