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Ok i've been to a few games in my time and i've yet to see any necron players. What happened to them all??

ironhand45 wrote:Ok i've been to a few games in my time and i've yet to see any necron players. What happened to them all??

Necrons aren't popular for a variety of reasons.

-Necrons are an old army.
-Necrons suck competitively.
-Necrons aren't much fun to play for a lot of people.
-Did I mention we still have a ****ing Third Edition Codex?

Damn necrons really do suck. I just thought my friend hated them alot.

ironhand45 wrote:Damn necrons really do suck. I just thought my friend hated them alot.

Oh yeah, I forgot another thing: Necrons are incredibly annoying to play against, due to stuff like WBB, teleportation, and the Monolith.

Monoliths kinda scare me....

We all got tired of losing and phased out

asimo77 wrote:We all got tired of losing and phased out

touche salesman

I've got a friend starting Necrons. I look forward to getting stomped by something besides Marines.

My Dad plays Necrons, and I know a guy who runs a local gaming store who's main army is Necrons.

I hate necrons.
Res orbs are the bane of my existence.

<-- Necron player. We're still around

We are slowly coming back from our sleep. Necron players are the only guy who take their fluff to a whole new level where they will act like their army exactly.

thank god thats only necron players, i shudder at the though of ork players doing that.

Long UN'LIVE the cron boyz

A mate and I have both recently started playing Necrons.

At our club Necrons are now more popular than IG, Tyranids (never seen played) & Eldar and just as popular as Orks and Space Marines.

They obviously have their issues though, the main one for me being the cost as they have lots of metal figures still. A Unit of 10 Immortals would cost £85 from GW!

At my FLGS, I have only seen Necrons once, and that person was only there once and did not play a game. So I have no personal experience with them, but they definitely lack any kind of personality as a army, being the 'emotionless evil' like the Tyranids.

They are old. Simple as that.

<--Daemon player...but in process of getting Necron army for two reasons:

1. I like playing stuff that isn't normally seen. It puts some diversity in games, and alot of players don't know how to handle you.

2. They are due for a new codex VERY soon...which should hopefully make them more competetive. So the day it comes out, I'll already have the army.

They can be competetive...but it's hard with their phase out rule. And you should be scared of Monoliths.

We will rise again from the ruins of our tombs, and the universe will quake as they watch their brethren shredded under the potent blasts of our guns!

Personally I like them. I have very fond memories of obliterating an IG army! I took out two leman russ demolishers and a hellhound in first turn. Necron Lord and 5 immortals gave the mortar platoon a severe kicking in the second turn. The problem I have with them is the high points cost; you are going to constantly be outnumbered by any army and to be honest they are not super powerful as it is. They certainly don't equal the points cost.

We claw to the surface from our dusty tombs to harvest the souls of the living... then phase out, but that's our way.

They'll be back...

The main problem is their codex is so very old, they have only one troops choice and the fluff isn't great. Of course, Phase Out puts a lot of people off playing Necrons too.