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Hey everyone, I've got a game today against the new Necrons codex. Never played against this army before, any ideas for a Blood Angels list I could make? 1500pts. I assume the Necrons are going to be mostly shooty based.

There are lots of slow, short ranged gunnery troops. Take a Baal Predator to move around them, whilst keeping a whirlwind or something at the back. Keep some Devs and Tacs, but take DC, Assault squads and the like to really destroy them. And remember, focus your attacks. A unit that is completley destroyed can't roll to get back up


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And remember, you probably will encounter a rule that either makes it nightfighting or a rule that makes all moving counted as moving into dangerous terrain.

it really depends on what kind of list you would like to play just in case you come across an idea you really dont like

with that being said the necrons have a few cheap tricks so it kinda limits what you can do. if you wanna go heavy mech expect to deal with night fight for 2+ rounds. and by the time you get up to where your in a good position to shoot but chances are you will end up being glanced to death. this even makes it easier if you go with stuff that has short range like baal preds. AV13 spam would be a good way to go

or you could go with DoA lists. you can get in alot of attacks in cc and wipe squads out like crazy but then you will be dealing with tesla weapons

and you could always go crazy and go with a storm raven based list. its loads of fun but your opponent has very little to shoot at making them easier to pop

there are also a few other lists but i feel that mech angels and DoA would be your best bet as they are usually solid lists

Take things that pump out quality attacks at a good rate, rather than spamming with your shots.
I'm planning a Descent of Mech list. I'm going to cram in as many Stormravens, Land raiders, Land speeders and Assault squads as I can and see where this goes.
I'm not saying you should try this. A point that is fun is if you take LRs with your squads you can deep strike them, a sort of combo of the two. No DoA, but you have sufficient armour to punch down Tanks and enough combat troops to rock the infantry.