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Hello there, Im new to Dakka Dakka, but ive read some good stuff about it on Warseer.
So here i am . I have made an army, and posted it on warseer and got some good responce and critique, but i wanted to try and hear you guys out aswell (if it isnt the same people as on warseer ).

I have been playing alot with my necrons in a "balanced" list, and it have worked very well. Granted my opponents wasnt probably among the best, but so far so good anyway.

However, i LOVE the idea of the scythes and a"flyer army witch drop troops around". So i have decided to make a scythe list. I have looked on other scythe lists in here, and i must say, im not a fan of 9+ scythes with useless troops of 5 man warriors. It can be okay because of the necessity of additional scoring troops. But i have a love for the immortals, so i would like some large squads of them to really hammer on the enemy where i want them to.

I have made a list that looks as following.

HQ
Imothek (for the nightfighting so my planes will atleast make it to turn 2 or 3)

Destroyer lord w/ sempiternal weave and MSS

TROOP
10x immortals /w gauss and nightscythe
10x immortals /w tesla and nightscythe
5x warriors /w nightscythe
5x warriors /w nightscythe

FAST ATTACK
5x wraiths 2 /w whipciols 1 /w particle caster

HEAVY SUPPORT
Doom scythe
Doom scythe
Monolith

The idea is that immotehk joins the immotals with gause, and the destroyer goes with the wraiths.
my 10 man squads will be the sledgehammer against hes infantry and my warriors will go safe objectives (or relatively safe).
My wraiths are as anti melee and backup anti lightvehicles and the destroyer lord is anti MC IC and smaller squads, plus he works as backup anti heavy vehicles if and when the doomscythes fail.

The monlith is there as support and for pulling squads from reserve if their transport is blown away before they are delivere. then they can cut a good 18" or so from their movement when they enter form reserve.

This gives me 6 scythes and 35 bodies and 2 IC's plus a pyramid. I think it looks good, but i need some first hand experience, and would like to hear your oppinions if you have one .

On warseer i got some advice on replacing the wraiths with tomb blades as they should offer some synergy to the army with their fast moving firesupport abilities. I argued against it, as it should replace my wraiths and they have simple proved so good in every game i played so far, that i have a hard time getting rid of them.
Also got some advice that the monolith might be too slow for this army, but my arguments was that it may be slow moving, but it dosnt need to go far in order to be placed in a good spot, and it might be able to draw some fire away from the scythes.

I would very much appreciate it if i could get some feedback from you guys aswell.

Thanks in advance.

I personally dont like Doomscythes, just too expensive and easily killed, they're pretty short ranged so Nightfight wont protect you very well. I'd replace them with Annihilation barges, saving you 170 pts (you can pick up a third warrior squad+Night scythe or something).

The Monolith could also be swapped out, but if its working for you then keep it, it brings utility to any list.

I love Imotekh, but I cant help but think that he's hampering your shooting quite a lot too. Granted, your guns are 24" range, so youll be pretty close anyway. If you keep him, get him a Chronometron Cryptek to hang with his squad, the reroll to keep his Storm going is great.

The Wraith+Destro lord combo is nice, he works well catching missiles for them, and the squad is a nice beater unit and deterrent to keep CC nasties away from your squishy immortals.

Hope that helps.

I think making an effort to get Veil Crypteks would be worthwhile over a monolith. Really, despair teks synergize wonderfully with the scythes. You can drop off troops nice anne close, and obliterate stuff wholesale with ap1 flamers and tons of tesla wounds.