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Hey Everyone,

First time poster and have been lurking for a while.

Me and some friends have a weekend of gaming with a tourny at 1500 pts. i know I'll get lots of valuable feedback here.

Four of us all together: I am playing Necrons. My opponants will be Eldar, Space Marine, Imp Guard.

Not sure if SM will be vanilla or one of his chapter sm. Imp Guard is a new player who got an imp guard battleforce (not the jungle soldiers) and his army will be centered on it. Eldar could be anything.

Here is what i have written so far

HQ
Necron Lord
Warscythe, CCB 180

Destroyer Lord
Mindshackle, Rez orb 175

Troop
10 Immortals (Tesla) 170

10 Warriors 130

10 Warriors 130

Elite
5 Triarch Praetorian (ROC) Escort to DL 200

FA
5 scarabs 75
5 scarabs 75

Heavy
annie barge 90
annie barge 90
monolith 200

TTL: 1345

I know Praetorians are not a popular choice though i have had success and fun with by using them in conjuntion with the Destroyer Lord to deep strike and act a s bully force behind enemy lines.
Plus I just love the models!

I also thought about using 10 warriors in reserve, possibly in 2 groups of 5, to capture objectives.

Also toyed around with a ghost ark and 2 Destruct Cyrpteks in stead of Monolith

someone help a newbie out

Firstly, welcome to dakka and WH40k!
Hm, the destroyer lord with the praetorians might actually work. They aren't very popular models, but that combination has potential.
I would however, suggest considering grabbing a wing of wraiths instead of the praetorians as an escort to the D-lord.

Scarabs are good as is, however I think you may have assigned to many points to them, or your formatting is just a little confusing there.

The CCB and overlord, you can never go wrong with that.

In this case, I would ACTUALLY recommend the monolith, you have 3 other vehicles, and at that level, it'll be hard to deal with.

The troops look good, that should be pretty solid. I would keep them in the larger groups, so they can defend themselves better in assault if need be.

This should be a pretty good list all things considered, not optimized, but serviceable.

i would second a unit of wraiths as a bodyguard for the D Lord. Mindshackle scarabs + warscythe on the lord and wraiths with a couple of whip coils make for a nasty combo.

Personally I'd be tempted to go with only 2 small troops choices and squeeze more scarabs or some wraiths in than have 3 troops units but thats just me

Pick up destruction crypteks. 35 points for an assault 8/2 gun that can be mounted with your warriors is... really good.

Monos just aren't worth the points anymore, a destruction cryptek effectively outguns them, and is about 10 times more likely to make it to end game. But that's just me, I see -tons- of anti AV in all my games, a few destruction crypteks go a long way, and you have more scoring units to boot.

Go with what you like on the destroyerlord+praets, honestly those kinds of things are what make the army yours and not some copypasta build, and necrons are really good at supporting diversity in builds.

What I'd recommend is picking up 4 destruction crypteks, and adding on another warrior squad to your list. Anni barges are only 90 points, and in my experience two of them tend to outwound monoliths with ease. Meanwhile that 200 points can be better spent on 140 worth of destruction crypteks (4) and then you can use the last 65 points (60+your spare 5) to fill out a 5 man group to hold a cryptek and a point.

This change will keep your army almost completely intact, you still have enough AV to force your opponent to pick and choose, but you also have a much, much more effective counter AV list.

Also, remember-(carathir) if you wanted to go with a melee army then you really shouldn't pick crons. It's one thing to have a solid harassment unit (dlord+) and scarabs, but it's another to start depending on wraiths and scarabs to actually get the job done. Most armies have units that can annihilate scarabs, and deal with wraiths even if at a slight point loss.

TL;DR warriors+crypteks are amazingly good, get crypteks!

your correct that i have allocatted too many points to scarabs. i originally had a unit of 10 and when i split them i did not split the cost but doubled it!

Yay extra 150 to spend! That takes care of the Crypteks cost right there.

i have gone back and forth on the wraiths/ Praetorias. Wraiths more practical, Praetoriansmore of a personal choice. AP 2 with Rod of Covenant along with a D Lord just sounds like fun even with 1 attack. 2 wounds is cool but the wraiths have RP and the rez orb. 3 attacks and rending vs Str 5 AP 2, power weapon.

At first glance they seem dissppointing but as a bully force they are great, has anyone actually used them? (Praetorian that is)

I wanted to use them by deep striking in the back field and bullying the forces back there.

The thought of Despair Cryptek with Deathmarks is appealing too.

Thanks for all the feedback.

I actually have 3 other lists, this was the one i was keen on. I have to be versatile against three different armies.

I also have a phearon/ warrior blob/ triach stalker list.

I like the use of the eternity gate on the Mono mainly for teleporting units away from cc threats.