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I have some necrons (about 2250 of fieldable points, plus another c'tan), and I always giggle a little when my regular DE opponent throws dark lances and blasters at my monoliths (because those are the only things he has LOS to). teehee.

I can win games as necron, granted it is difficult, and there isn't a terribly high amount of variety in strategy, but it isn't a terrible as people make it out to be. Yes, they were hurt by 5th ed., yes they have a crappy set of rules, and yes half of the units in the codex are poor, but Necrons still have a good set of "core" units that can challenge any army, and when played well can be a threatening force.

Yeah they don't have much choice but I like it simple. I picked up a marine codex (god forbid) and just thought there were too many options. 5 different weapons for one guy, 3 others for another guy. bleh.. gave me a headache.

Granted I would like more options in the Necrons codex but only at most 3 choices for a few units.

I would like more than one (overpriced) troop choice

Also points values that end in 5 or 0 for preference.

Wraiths especially get my goat on this one ...

I like the army as it plays now. I'm a bit apprehensive about them reworking it out of all recognition.

i've played agianst a fair share of necron armies as well & i gotta tell you the phase out rule is a bloody joke they really need to fix this

Ascalam wrote:I would like more than one (overpriced) troop choice

Also points values that end in 5 or 0 for preference.

Wraiths especially get my goat on this one ...

I like the army as it plays now. I'm a bit apprehensive about them reworking it out of all recognition.

Wraiths aren't to bad, if you run them in groups of three, like you should, the point total is a nice one two three \(^...^)/

The best way to use them is to completely fill the fast attack and then the points are three six nine.

I do this

I still find it annoying to have something cost 1 pt over a nice round number.

Running 9 of them pretty much negates this niggle

A 9 wraith wing with Destroyer lord is a pretty scary sight to see when you go after those IG chimeras that are singled out. Hehe

I call it my Nazgul list.

9 Wraiths, Destroyer lord and Nightbringer

I'm doing this immediately.... as soon as I get a new job.

I'm three wraiths away from being able to do the same thing.

Then they'll go and change the unit size and stats on us, and i'll have to come up with a new name

Did you model yours with greenstuff cloaks? Because that would be full of win.

No, but it would.

If i gave them greatswords and glowing red led eyes that would be awesome too!

I hate working with GS.

in my local meta our necron players win quite a bit even against competitive lists im not saying its a crushing victory but they do win. Even against the dreaded mepheston

Yeah but Mepheston is fairly easily disposed of by warscythes and C'tan

Razorspirit wrote:Yeah but Mepheston is fairly easily disposed of by warscythes and C'tan

In conjunction with Pariahs, maybe.

Otherwise Mephiston is gonna whipsmack those cheeks.

You realise that warscythes are going away, and C'tan are being reworked, right?

A C'tan would easily pummel Mephiston, unless you have some bad luck. It may take some wounds as well but that ok for the most part. Yeah I've heard they might, or at the least get re-worked which really bites the dust.


Just read some stats on him though... He one BAMF

Mephiston strikes first with a S10 force weapon.

He'd be the one requiring bad luck for the C'Tan to kill him.

I've won several games with a Destroyer Wing based list, never easy (with the exception of a certain apoc game), but where's the fun in an easy battle?

My necrons don't lose a lot, even though I use 40 warriors.

I think that necrons are far from the worst army. If ya think about it, there an elite army, so it takes an elite player to master them, and yes phase out is a big problem for necrons but only depending on how large or small your phase out limit is. I learned that the hard way when I took a 20 warrior and destroyer lord army in 1000 points and filled the rest with more units like destroyers and tomb spyders which eat up the points, If I fielded 40 warriors with D fields, that means I have a high 30 phase out limit of resiliant troops that are all scoring units and are more than capable of holding and taking objectives, not only that, but 20 gauss shots at 12 inches is not something to overlook, (if your lucky enough to keep 10 warriors alive by the time you reach your enemy). so there not weak, its just that they've been held back while all the other races get updated and once the rules have been mastered, they are a lethal force not to be underestimated.

If Necrons are far from the worst army, who is that mysterious worst army? Even Tau don't have an unavoidable rule where they automatically lose any given game after taking X losses. They're an elite army with too few options to work with.

I enjoyed playing an acquaintance's necrons recently. At least they aren't Tau.

well, the worst army is a matter of opinion as I see it anyway, I could never win with my space marines against old dark eldar, but I got orks and found them to be more effective against smaller armies like space marines and other camping back armies like my friends dark eldar. I then moved onto necrons and developed tactics to deal with both shooty and close combat based armies, and there small size allowed them to be more flexible along the board (as they did with me anyway) and it seems to me that my necrons have won more games than my space marines and orks did. but my point is a tactical player will develop an army to there liking or to suit different playing styles making no army better or worse than any other, the other point is the lack of an updated codex, not because it has a small unit range, but the rules in the current codex are made for something like 3rd or 4th edition, since the new rules came out, the necron rules dont fit with them.