New to Necrons

[kennyjapan]

hi guys, just starting a Necron Army.

I have so far.
Trayzn and 12 warriors (warriors = 1 built and painted, others are unpainted and unmade + Trayzn = process of being painted and then made)

does anyone have any advice for me? which units work best with which etc.

Cheers
Kenny

[destroyerlord]

Yeah I would say save your self the heart ache and walk away before you spend any more time and effort on them! I have about 7k (Old book) of crons and had an awsome close combat based list.

If you must get crons then you need to build stuff your self. Triarch Stalkers are a good bet (no model though), Command Barge with a Plaino OverLord with scythe seems to do pretty well. Crypteks in with warriors in Arks gives a decent weapons platform. The other barge (With TESLA) in the Heavy slot seems to be the best heavy choice maybe supported by a Doomsday ark

[krasimirova]

Hey Kenny..

You could go to www.frontlinegaming.org/ they have done alot of different necron builds, all very competitive..

Hope it is somewhat helpfull, eventhou it isn't my advice..

Personally i don't play necrons, but i have fought against them plenty of times.. New codex is far superior to the old one IMO..

Cheers Kras..

[kennyjapan]

thanks for the advice guys

and destroyer you can say 'i told you so' if i get heart ache from it

[destroyerlord]

necrontyronline.freeforums.org/search.php?search_id=newposts AND necrontombworld.proboards.com/index.cgi? are the only dedicated cron forums if you wanna check them out!

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Scarabs. You must use Scarabs! I've had two games with my 'Crons under the new codex, and they have killed three tanks (one a spectacular Land Raider explosion) across them. Entropic strike is pretty awesome. So far I've found them to be the most effective anti-vehicle unit the 'Crons have...

My army is currently built around two blocks of 20 Warriors, two squads of 10 Immortals, a full sized Scarab swarm, 10 Flayed Ones (which can be expanded to 20), a Monolith, squads of Destroyers and Heavy Destroyers, with a Royal Court with 2 Lords (Warscythe and Res Orb) and 2 Crypteks (one shooty, the other teleporty), and a Destroyer Lord and an Overlord (both with same equipment as the Lords). Kitted out properly, an Overlord can be a close combat beast--last game my Lord pretty much single handedly wiped out a Guard platoon in close combat. The Flayed Ones can also be devastating on the charge, but I find they're vulnerable to getting shot up after wiping out their target, and I'm hoping to make them more resilient by bumping up their numbers.

I've also got 3 Wraiths, which I'm expanding to 6. I'm adding some Tomb Sypders, and will also be experimenting with Deathmarks, Lychguard, and Triarch Praetorians. Once I get them painted I will also be adding a Doomsday Ark, 2 Ghost Arks, and an Annihilation Barge--which I'm building so I can flop it back and forth between a Command Barge... I'm also adding a second Destroyer Lord (kitted out as above), and a third Lord with a Gauntlet of Fire and Res Orb. I'll probably be getting Stalkers and the flyers when they are released.

So far I've been avoiding the special characters, although I am tempted to try out Trazyn--if you're going to take advantage of his special rules, you'll need to have models of the type that he can replace when he comes back--Lords, Overlords, and Lychguard, IIRC--in your army.

[kennyjapan]

thanks for the link destroyer and dont worry trooper ive got some scarabs too =) my propsed list for 1500k, this by the way is based on actually holding out and wining against my 2 mates who i usually play (tau and marines) i know the marine one well seeing as i helped to make it and the tau one im getting the hang of. anyway here's what im thinking.

Trayzn (my mates already hate him and he'll be perfect for strolling along and grabbing the central objective [we usually play in a triangle with 1 objective in the centre] )
Accompanying Trayzn will be a Command Barge so Trayzn doesn't have to foot slog.

Im thinking of taking Imotekh because of his Night Fighting rules... my mates tau army is too shooty for my liking... he'll be generally strolling around (probably up the marine flank) just to make sure he has some fun too.

taking a royal court. which includes

Lord with Orb + Gauntlet (only thing i could find for 5pts -.- ) with a bunch of cron warriors who will use Imotekh's shroud to get close to the tau and start causing them problems

Lord with Orb + Warscythe with Lychguard (held back in reserve)

Cryptek1 (Harbinger of Storm) with cron warriors in a ghost ark generally going around and engaging tanks with the Cryptek's staff which is usefull against light (which is the extent of vehicles in my mate's armies) if Cryptek cant damage then ill glance them to death with the Ghost Ark.

Cryptek 2 Harbinger of Destruction with Solar Pulse (meaning i dont get affected by the night time on the first turn but everyone else is) ill probably have him alongside trayzn so he can take some wounds... or turn into Trayzn whatever happens.

Monolith which i'll deep strike inbetween the Tau and Marine lines (which always seems to be where all the fun happens.. and i miss, so some lychguard will jump out to join in the fray)

Some scarabs going round causing a nuisance to vehicles (if they dont damage im sure clogging them in air filters will do the trick nicely)

and some deathmarks for the 2+ wounding for a designated target which will be the Tau commander... (my mate has a Crisi Bodyguard and 2 drones.. and pretty much and i mean pretty much, all the trinkets you can give them meaning they're stupidly hard to kill and meant the last game we had turned into pure anihaltion (nothing wrong with that of course) and managed to get a tie in the end by luring my terminators out of the control zone =( )

So yeah... thats what im planning... as with my plans they never go well but hey it'll be good fun. any changes you think i should make, advice etc dont hesitate to shout at me or rip your hair out at something i have done stupidly wrong

kenny

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Actually, Kenny, I'm still learning the new army myself, and since I don't get to play very often now that I'm in grad school it's a slow process... So please share anything that you learn with me.

[kennyjapan]

hey np trooper, it will take me a couple of months to get everything

[destroyerlord]

Save your self the issue with the lith... they look good and were the gods of vehicles in the old book but are now pants. A better option will be the annihilation barge. For output of fire its a hell of a lot better. The gate on the lith wont be used much because if you can get a unit in the door way to zap them with it they will have melta burned you and toasted your most expensive unit!

Deathmarks seem good but they are not brilliant. I do like ghost arks but its a shame they didnt include a transport capacity of 12 instead of 10 so you could take a full 10 warriors and then a lord and cryptek from 2 courts. That is the 1 bonus, you can take 2 courts and thus drop warrior squads to 8 and place 2 crypeks with the destruction thing for a total of 5 flayer array shots plus 8 warrior flayer shots (if the vehicle didnt move thats 13 @ 24" or its 16 @ 18" (6" move)) Plus the 2 x 36" assault weapons at str 8 ap 2. This can be quite nasty and a bit of a surprise... provided you can keep the arks alive and mobile.