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So basically I'm just starting to paint my army and I made a custom royal court that I really wanted to use. At my FLGS I've played a couple of tournaments where I've tried to be competitive to no real avail, and the majority of the winning lists are "elite" armies like deathwing termy spam, thunderwolf cavalry, bloodcrusher spam, you know the typical stuff. So I'm going to dick around, say screw objective games, and make the biggest most point concentrated necron deathstar I can and have a blast using it to not really win, but possibly just screw up armies that involve big bad melee units.

So here is the list I've come up with, I had to make a few sacrifices that I didnt really want to but it definitely has that draigowing feel about it.

HQ Imotekh the Stormlord = 225
HQ Nemesor Zandrekh = 185
HQ Vargard Obyron = 160
HQ Royal Court (attached to Stormlord and Zandrekh)
Lord x5 = 525
Warscythe, mindshackle scarabs, phase shifter
Cryptek x5 = 175
Destruction x5

Troop warrior x5 = 65
Troop warrior x5 = 65

Heavy Monolith = 200
Heavy Monolith = 200
Heavy Monolith = 200

= 2000

So obviously I'm not gonna win any objective games if there are any, but this list, while having very few units for a 2k point game, brings a lot of things to the table that other armies dont have.

1. First turn night fighting and lightning will help me pester those armies that really on long range shooting.
2. Having a unit with 5 ap2 missile launchers will help vs armies like deathwing, possibly killing entire squads of 5 a turn. Zandrekh could also make these str9 if he wanted to, easily bringing down landraiders and Valkyrie squads (if I can hit them).
3. 5x mindshackles and possibly having furious charge will make me a potent melee force, especially if I'm 1hitting paladins and nob bikers, while the 3++ saves will help me survive the fight, and zandrekhs orb will make sure that even if I am dead I have a 50% chance of getting back into the fray.
4. Obyron's cloak will make it very hard for the enemy to run away, and will allow me to destroy a lot of transports and vehicles from the rear by simply teleporting behind them.
5. I've got 3 hoover vaccuums I can land on far away, harder to handle units. It's high-risk/high-reward but nothing ruins a demon players day like a monolith landing next to bloodcrushers trying to suck them up while putting s8 blast templates on plague marines. And make no mistake I plan on landing right next to everything I can! It's fun because its risky! (p.s. rules question, do units assaulting a deepstruck monolith need a 6 to hit it that turn in melee?)

Well like I said its going to be a for fun list, but is there anything you think I could do to make it more deathstarry?

As one dude said, having Zandrekh in a NightScythe Turbo-Boost across the board so you can deepstrike your deathstar without scattering is really really cool.

Well, it can only be for fun reasons, two times five Warriors will not be enough in objective based games.

Have you considered using lychguard? Scratch a 'lith and add a group of lychguard to this insane deathstar. Yeah you got eggs in the basket but you wanted an "lol" list. Some extra warscythe attacks are pretty nasty.

Unfortuantly though, I think if you use the particle whip, you cannot use the eternity gate. I could be wrong though.

Ordenance disallows any other weapon from being fired and the eternity gate is treating like a shooting attack.

Am I right? If not, please correct me because that would be pretty epic to land an inch away from a big group sucking up half and popping the rest with the whip. Monolith goes,"OM NOM NOM".

Razorspirit wrote:Have you considered using lychguard? Scratch a 'lith and add a group of lychguard to this insane deathstar. Yeah you got eggs in the basket but you wanted an "lol" list. Some extra warscythe attacks are pretty nasty.

Unfortuantly though, I think if you use the particle whip, you cannot use the eternity gate. I could be wrong though.

Ordenance disallows any other weapon from being fired and the eternity gate is treating like a shooting attack.

Am I right? If not, please correct me because that would be pretty epic to land an inch away from a big group sucking up half and popping the rest with the whip. Monolith goes,"OM NOM NOM".

Only the Portal of Exile is a shooting attack. The Particle Whip and Dimensional Gate can both be used in the same turn.


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loreweaver wrote:As one dude said, having Zandrekh in a NightScythe Turbo-Boost across the board so you can deepstrike your deathstar without scattering is really really cool.

Wait how does the Nemesor prevent scatter?

McNinja wrote:

Razorspirit wrote:Have you considered using lychguard? Scratch a 'lith and add a group of lychguard to this insane deathstar. Yeah you got eggs in the basket but you wanted an "lol" list. Some extra warscythe attacks are pretty nasty.

Unfortuantly though, I think if you use the particle whip, you cannot use the eternity gate. I could be wrong though.

Ordenance disallows any other weapon from being fired and the eternity gate is treating like a shooting attack.

Am I right? If not, please correct me because that would be pretty epic to land an inch away from a big group sucking up half and popping the rest with the whip. Monolith goes,"OM NOM NOM".

Only the Portal of Exile is a shooting attack. The Particle Whip and Dimensional Gate can both be used in the same turn.


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loreweaver wrote:As one dude said, having Zandrekh in a NightScythe Turbo-Boost across the board so you can deepstrike your deathstar without scattering is really really cool.

Wait how does the Nemesor prevent scatter?

Nemesor prevents Obyron from scattering. So you Night Scyth Nemesor and then you DS Obyron un-scattered.

heh heh, this list looks awesome for fun games, but there are just to few troops.

ShadarLogoth wrote:

Nemesor prevents Obyron from scattering. So you Night Scyth Nemesor and then you DS Obyron un-scattered.

I see. Is that the "Deathstar," then? I've never been clear on what exactly constituted a deathstar.

McNinja wrote:

Razorspirit wrote:Have you considered using lychguard? Scratch a 'lith and add a group of lychguard to this insane deathstar. Yeah you got eggs in the basket but you wanted an "lol" list. Some extra warscythe attacks are pretty nasty.

Unfortuantly though, I think if you use the particle whip, you cannot use the eternity gate. I could be wrong though.

Ordenance disallows any other weapon from being fired and the eternity gate is treating like a shooting attack.

Am I right? If not, please correct me because that would be pretty epic to land an inch away from a big group sucking up half and popping the rest with the whip. Monolith goes,"OM NOM NOM".

Only the Portal of Exile is a shooting attack. The Particle Whip and Dimensional Gate can both be used in the same turn.


So a no to putting down S8 templates and "eating" enemies at the same time. That would be pretty cool but a little much I suppose.

McNinja wrote:I've never been clear on what exactly constituted a deathstar.

Badassed CC unit that dishes out a metric truck–tonne of damage, and is fairly hard to kill in return.

Ah. Thanks for clearing that up.

Well I'm not sure exactly if you can use obyron to deepstrike to zandrekh in a nightscythe as those units are not on the field they are in reserve technically until they enter through the NS's portal onto the field.

I always thought of deathstar as some massive pointsink unit that can both dish it out and take it, although I dont think it necessarily has to be close combat; but now that I think about it pretty much every armies "deathstar" units are pretty much close combat monsters... thunderwolves, nob bikers, paladins etc etc.

2 groups of 5 warriors might be enough for an objective game if I kill all the enemy troop choices :-) but yea the general rule is like 1 troop choice for every 500 points right? I believe the tournament is standard missions though so that could either work for me or against me; though bases is just the stupidest game ever; almost always ends in a draw for me.

I didnt realize that you couldn't fire any other weapons from an ordnance one on the same turn. Oh well now I have a 24" multimelta with a large blast lol. I'd still rather use the gate on demons though seeing as how they have invulnerable saves and eternal warrior. They'd be worth sucking up.

Anyway the tournament is on the 28th so I'll take pics and post the battle report!