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Hello everyone, I've always been very interested in Necrons for a few reasons. One, they look badass, and two, they are not commonly played. These two factors motivated me to start my own army. My inspiration for this army is from an experienced Necron player I've observed once, as well as numerous tactica videos I've watched on YouTube.

Granted I'm a new Necron player, but a successful tactic I've seen involves using the destroyer lord and scarabs swarms to move directly into the brunt of the enemy to cause some trouble. All in all it is a sacrificial unit. This allows all my warriors to have time to shoot and quickly retreat back.

In the meantime my destroyers will be at the opposite end of the board laying cover fire down and moving in to protect the warriors when needed. The warriors will continue to fire and retreat back under this cover.


HQ: 330 pts

Necron Lord
+Veil of Darkness
+Resurrection Orb

Necron Lord
+Destroyer Body

Troops: 900 pts

10 Necron Warriors
10 Necron Warriors
10 Necron Warriors
10 Necron Warriors
10 Necron Warriors

Fast Attack: 520 pts

4 Destroyers
4 Destroyers
10 Scarab Swarms

Total: 1,750

Just a question. What are you going to do about Mech lists. In 5th, everyone is running heavy armor and heavily mechanized lists. With no heavy destroyers, your dead.

Also: Warriors really arnt that great. Immortals are amazing at busting down infantry.

I would suggest losing some warriors and adding some heavy destroyers to start.

Well, this list is flexible. But you're right about going against mech lists. In that case, I'll swap out approx. 3 warrior units for about 15-20 immortals and destroyers for heavy destroyers, etc. All in all though, I'm trying to avoid Phase Out in this list, which is the main killer of Necron armies.

You need to find room for heavy destroyers


What will you do if the opponent has AV 14?

Make room by dropping 2 warrior units, half the number of scarab swarms, and possibly axe one of the HQs

I suppose I could take out a unit of 4 destroyers for 3 heavy destroyers. Would this be sufficient?

I found Immortals being better than destroyers overall. 3 Heavy destroyers wont do the job IMO. If the guns were twin linked I would say yeah, but their not. It may sounds easy to roll 3s but for some reason it never happends. I would say play the list how you like and see what works and what doesnt.

The thing about heavy destroyers is though, there are only 3 in a unit. Three isn't enough to do much as they only have 1 attack each. So, multiple smaller smaller units will be needed, and in reality they will just end up be easy killpoints for the enemy player.

Destroyers are cheaper and their multiple S6 shots (3 per model) against the side armor of a Land Raider would actual do more damage in the long run.




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I would never play any less than the 10 scarab swarms. I find them to be amazing with contesting objectives. They have great cover saves, are fearless, and follow the swarms rule.

As everyone has said, you need heavy destroyers and some immortals.

you want two destroyer body lords, a monolith and scarabs with disruption fields.... the lords should have warsythes turbo boost with scarabs giving them a 2+ cover save, next turn charge tanks and f**k them up while using night shroud making a huge distraction which you capitilse on with destroyers, warriors and monolith destroying troops.

devinb1690 wrote:The thing about heavy destroyers is though, there are only 3 in a unit. Three isn't enough to do much as they only have 1 attack each. So, multiple smaller smaller units will be needed, and in reality they will just end up be easy killpoints for the enemy player.

Destroyers are cheaper and their multiple S6 shots (3 per model) against the side armor of a Land Raider would actual do more damage in the long run.




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I would never play any less than the 10 scarab swarms. I find them to be amazing with contesting objectives. They have great cover saves, are fearless, and follow the swarms rule.

LRs have AV 14 on all sides so...

You only need a single unit to contest an objective. the most objectives in a regular game is 3. Presuming scarabs are your only objective grabbers don't you think 6 is enough? Hey its not my list, do with it as you like. But when trying to shave points here and there consider taking out a few scarabs.

If your planning to use that veil o' darkness your going to need more than 10 warriors in a unit. A max unit works great for that kind of a trick. I'd like to second the use of Immortals as I LOVE them. Walking heavy bollters with T5. I also support in the inclusion of heavy destroyers in the list.

Ok kool, thanks guys for your help so far. As I've said, I'm new to Necrons and only know what I've been taught about them from others

So, now I should definitely make room for heavy destroyers and immortals.

Are Monoliths 100% necessary?

Here was what I was originally going for so that you can understand my noobie reasoning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeCK8wIgcnA

The problem with this list is not just stoping mech spam, its fighting an assault army. Yeah, your warriors will stick around and do pretty well agaisnt shooty stuff backed up by the res orb, but fight something assaulty and you are in trouble.
The new CC resolution rules are too unforgiving for necrons to use a list like this anymore, IMO.
You need a way to avoid close combat.

There are several ways to do this all of which have their own advantages and disadvantaes: Walling with scarabs, walling with monoliths, taking a destroyer based army.

Just my thoughts, good luck building a necron force.

ahhh classic fritz. monoliths are in someways necessary but only one is needed, they are the hardest things in the galaxy and compliment your army perfectly.

You really need at least 1 monolith to really make this army pop, running so many warriors you will want to be able to pull them through the monolith portal to get one more shot at making your wbb rolls. Plus the str 9 ap 3 template from the particle whip will help with your heavy armor woes.

Ok, sweet. I think removing 1 unit of warriors and about half the scarab swarms will make sufficient room for the Monolith.

I don't want to get rid of some of the swarms but in reality it will benefit my mobility and strength.

I think this might balance out my list enough to be more competitive than the previous list. What do you guys think?