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Hey guys i'm pretty new at 40k and the army I chose to use are the new necrons. I have zero experience making lists and was hoping I could get some opinions from you vets thanks heres my list:

HQ:
Necron Overlord................................................................90
- warscythe.........................................................................10
-resurrection orb...............................................................30

Necron lord ........................................................................35
-resurrection orb................................................................30

Necron lord.........................................................................35
-resurrection orb................................................................30


Troop:
Warriors x12.......................................................................156

Warriors x12.......................................................................156

Immortals x5.......................................................................85

Transport:
Catacomb Command Barge...........................................80
-Gauss cannon

Elites:
Deathmarks x5...................................................................95

Lychguards x5....................................................................200
-hyperphase swords and dispersion shields

Fast attack:
Canoptek Scarabs x6........................................................90

Heavy support:
Doomsday Ark....................................................................175

Monolith................................................................................200

Total:.....................................................................................1497

Hey, mjo! I'm pretty new to these boards myself, but I'll try to give you some advice.

First, your Lychguards are priced incorrectly. The hypherphase swords and dispersion shields add 5 points to the cost of each model in the unit. You have 5 Lychguard, so their total cost should be 225 points.

The second thing is the Lychguards themselves. I don't know if I would take Lychguard in a list that had less than 2000 points, they're just too expensive for what they do. That's 225 points that could be going to more Warriors, a C'Tan, a Triarch Stalker....You get the idea.

Third, I would find a way to beef up your squad of Immortals. 5 Immortals are going to drop pretty quickly.

Fourth....I don't know. I'm just not seeing a whole lot of synergy here. You've got Lychguard, Scarabs, and the Monolith which all want to get close and personal, but then you've got decently sized Warrior blocks which I'm assuming you want to shoot with. You've also got a Doomsday Ark and Deathmarks. I would figure out a theme for your list - maybe all-shooty, all vehicle, all melee, whatever - then run with that.

Hope that helps you out!

re-wrote my list again thanks for all the input, but i didn't see the point in giving the lord close combat upgrades if he was going to be a part of units that arent going to be in close combat. So heres the new one:

HQ:
Necron Overlord..................................................................90
- warscythe...........................................................................10
-command barge

Necron lord ..........................................................................35
-resurrection orb..................................................................30

Necron lord...........................................................................35
.-resurrection orb.................................................................30

Cryptek .................................................................................25
-eldritch lance......................................................................10
-solar pulse..........................................................................20

Troop:
Warriors x15.......................................................................195
-necron lord


Warriors x8..........................................................................104
-cryptek
-ghost ark

Immortals x10....................................................................170
-necron lord

Transport:
Catacomb Command Barge...........................................80
-Gauss cannon

Ghost Ark............................................................................115

Ghost Ark............................................................................115

Elites:
Deathmarks x5...................................................................95

Triarch stalker....................................................................150
-twin linked heavy gauss cannon...................................15

Heavy support:
Doomsday Ark....................................................................175

Total:.....................................................................................1499

Um, why are you giving the units of warriors Rez.Lords? I think you would benefit more by putting him with the Immortals, because you'll save more points... And since the Immortals are better than the Warriors in terms of punching people (at range), they should be the ones to gain the extra survivability. They are simply more likely to kill something than the warriors.
Oh, and Immortals can't take a Ghost Ark. For them, it's either a Nighty Scythy or footslogging.

The Cornerfag~ wrote:Um, why are you giving the units of warriors Rez.Lords? I think you would benefit more by putting him with the Immortals, because you'll save more points... And since the Immortals are better than the Warriors in terms of punching people (at range), they should be the ones to gain the extra survivability. They are simply more likely to kill something than the warriors.
Oh, and Immortals can't take a Ghost Ark. For them, it's either a Nighty Scythy or footslogging.

I think he means the GA's are with the warriors, he just had the dedi trans all together.

I think you got the right idea but I would beef one warrior squad to 20, drop the other to 5 and drop the lord. Drop the orb off the Overlord as he's barged and want get much use out of it.

Add a WS/MSS to the lord with the RO in the warrior brick.

Another Idea i had was replacing the necron lord on the ghost ark with a cryptek with the following:

Cryptek .................................................................................25
-eldritch lance......................................................................10
-gaze of flame......................................................................10
-solar pulse..........................................................................20

Do this, but probably don't need the gaze of flame.




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Errata: I see now he had the GA attached to the Immortals. Yeah you can't do this. However I would keep both GA's just leave one empty and run it in front of your brick of 20 warriors.

i just edited the second one to update it

New Here too. Your second list looks a lot more balanced. Here's what I have to add:

It's a personal thing, but I don't like the Doomsday Ark much. For the same number of points you can get 2 Annihilation Barges, be able to target more units and move more fluidly.

I wouldn't put the warriors BEHIND the Ghost Ark... What is the Ghost Ark there for, but to make more warriors and provide an elevated shooting platform for a Shooty Crytek to ping things from?

Anpu-adom wrote:New Here too. Your second list looks a lot more balanced. Here's what I have to add:

It's a personal thing, but I don't like the Doomsday Ark much. For the same number of points you can get 2 Annihilation Barges, be able to target more units and move more fluidly.

I wouldn't put the warriors BEHIND the Ghost Ark... What is the Ghost Ark there for, but to make more warriors and provide an elevated shooting platform for a Shooty Crytek to ping things from?

The idea is to provide cover for the Warriors. And repair them. And if it gets borked its then difficult terrain protecting the warriors from getting assaulted and still providing them cover. The warriors themselves have AP 5 weapons so they aren't punching through armour anyway, it's a win win situation. Also, if by some miracle it doesn't die, it's there for late game objective rushing once the warriors drop to 10 or less.

i'm starting to like that idea of replacing the doomsday ark with annihilation barges if i did, my list would be changed like so:

Troop:
Warriors x14...........................................182
-necron lord

Heavy Support:
Annihilation Barge.................................90
-gauss cannon

Annihilation Barge.................................90
-gauss cannon

Total.........................................................1491
What do you guys think about these changes if I applied them?

I like it a lot.
I watched the latest Beat Matt Batrep at Miniwargamming.com... I have to say that I understand using the Ghost ark as a screen now.