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Can anyone give me a quick and clean comprehensible review of the new necrons, their advantages, strenght and weakness compared to the other factions?

-Great mid range shooting, and has some access to powerful long range shooting (though they are limited)

-Pretty Durable

-Excellent Vehicles

-Have access to plenty of wargear that disrupts the enemy (Mindshackle scarabs, tremorstaves, entropic attacks, chronometron, guass, tesla...)

-Really, really bad at CC, with one or two possible exceptions

In other words, pretty much like they were before, just more choices...

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:In other words, pretty much like they were before, just more choices...

Yeah, that too.

and no phase out.

Oh that too.

I've been so relieved that that's gone I completely forgot about it.

Such a stupid rule...

The army has a similar flavor as before, you have to be smart in order to do well, but you can do VERY well with the options presented.

Its a very, very, durable army. If you put the squishy in vehicles you can take a tremendous amount of punishment.

I played crons' for 7 years, sort ov sick of them, maybe ill start anew...

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

-Really, really bad at CC, with one or two possible exceptions

I've played a couple of games against new Necrons with Eldar, and warriors/immortals turned out to be surprisingly durable in cc. Certainly not good, but can tie units (even cc specialists like Striking Scorpions) up in combat for a while. Same for scarabs, which are also cheap and ES makes them one of best value options.

Flayed ones, on the other hand, are absolutely dreadful - I love the old models but they're not going to see much action now...

Lychguard and Triarchs are just too expensive for what they bring - 5 poor cc models for the price of a monolith? No thanks!

Otherwise what's been said is pretty much bang on - more choice, some good options and more a force to be wielded with skill rather than just marching warriors behind monoliths. Should make games against and with Necrons more fun, which is the point, yes?