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While I'm trying to hold off buying anything more until 6th edition, I've found out our local tournament will actually be doing 1500 points next month instead of our regular 2000.

Rather than field my Grey Knights as usual, I think I'd like to use this opportunity as inspiration to assemble my Necrons and a good excuse use them on the tabletop.

With that said, I currently own 10 Immortals, 20 Warriors, 2 Ghost Arks, 6 Wraiths, and 4 Barges. I'm going to need to represent Crypteks and Night Scythes (if I use them).

This is what I'm thinking for the core of the list:

Necrons
Overlord - Warscythe, Catacomb Command Barge
Overlord - Warscythe, Catacomb Command Barge
Royal Court - 2 Harbingers of Destruction, 1 Solar Pulse
Royal Court - 2 Harbingers of Destruction, 1 Solar Pulse
5 Warriors - Ghost Ark
5 Warriors - Ghost Ark
Annihilation Barge
Annihilation Barge
Total - 1080

I've got 420 points to spare. I'm thinking about adding some of those Immortals or Wraiths.

Thoughts?

Beef out the warrior squads!

What I would do is add 9 more warriors, 4 to one squad of 5 and 5 to the other, add 10 immortals for firepower, and 3 wraiths each of them have whip coils making it a total of 418 points and you will have 2pts left over.

I believe that if you add wraiths you need to add more than 3 otherwise they die fast, so maybe 4 or 5. Also, for wound allocation purposes, don't equip them all with whip coils - there is dakka thread on this.

Agree you need to add at least 1 more scoring unit because 5 warriors tend to die quickly out of the ark, unless you can keep them hidden - use the immortals maybe with Tesla.

I don't see any particular benefit to adding more Warriors to the currently existing squads.

I could add ~6 Wraiths and 5 Immortals in a Night Scythe.

What I'd do with some of the points is put the warrior squad up to 8 man and then put two Crypteks with each in the ghost ark, this being open-topped then becomes a pretty impressive gun ship with anti-tank from the Cryptek and glancing hits from gauss and solid anti-infantry with the gauss guns on the ghost ark and warriors inside. The other points would probably go on some immortals and maybe some scarabs?

I find it funny that all these people with little experience are telling you to max out the Ghost Ark Warriors (obviously they're unfamiliar with the Ghost Ark's secondary purpose: heavy weapons platform with minimum Warriors/maximum Lance-teks... much like Wolf 11x has them represented here. Pay attention here, you may learn something).

Anyway, yeah, with the left over points you could do:
- 2x 5 Wraiths (3 coils, 1 caster)
- 5 Wraiths (3 coils, 1 caster), 6 Immortals (tesla, Night Scythe)
- 5 Wraiths (3 coils, 1 caster), 2x 7 Scarabs
- 1 Lord (Orb, Scythe, Scarabs) + 5 Lychguard (Sword&Shield, Night Scythe)

Thanks, skoffs.

Currently, I'm thinking something like this:

Necrons
Overlord - Warscythe, Mindshackle Scarabs, Sempiternal Weave, Catacomb Command Barge
Overlord - Warscythe, Mindshackle Scarabs, Sempiternal Weave, Catacomb Command Barge Royal Court - 2 Harbingers of Destruction, 1 Solar Pulse
Royal Court - 2 Harbingers of Destruction, 1 Solar Pulse
5 Warriors - Ghost Ark
5 Warriors - Ghost Ark
10 Immortals - Tesla Carbines or 5 Immortals - Tesla Carbines, Night Scythe
6 Wraiths
Annihilation Barge
Annihilation Barge
Total - 1520

As you can see in the list, I'm debating to take 10 Immortals on foot for 5 in a Night Scythe (for 15 more points).

Regardless, I'm 20 points over and have yet to put any wargear on the Wraiths.

Thoughts?

Well, you're gonna need some Whip Coils on those Wraiths, so you may need to drop one and use it's points to equip your other ones.

The tesla Immortals would be great with a Night Scythe... but unfortuneately, if there's only five of them, they're not going to last long if they get into a hairy situation.
Guess you better just take the foot-sloggers and huff it to the objectives.

If you're dead set on taking those many Wraiths and Immortals, your only other option would be to drop some of the wargear from the Overlords. Having them fly naked apart from the Warscythe will free you up an extra 60 points.

On your revised list, the immortals almost look out of place. If you swap them for 5 warriors in another ghost ark then you'd probably get better resilience.

Maybe consider dropping the wraiths for a stalker and another LanceTek? Of course, that will leave you with no specialist CC at all, but you'll have a wholly mech list.

Or, do the ghost ark swap for the immortals, then swap the wraiths for scarabs (not for AT, but for tarpitting specialist CC units). you can then adjust the scarab bases to correct your points.

I could drop the Wraiths entirely and run 2 Immortal squads in Night Scythes.