Necrons planetstrike

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**Hammer18**

What are the best choices for a Necron army in planet strike where they are defending against Dark eldar and chaos space marines?

**schadenfreude**

C'tan with singularity and withering worldscape.

Orikan turns the entire table into difficult terrain.

Difficult terrain is dangerous terrain to the entire army because it is deep striking, and the C'tan makes it so they fail dangerous terrain on a 1 or 2. On turn 1 the entire dark eldar and CSM army now takes a dangerous terrain test that they fail on a 1 or 2.

Necrons break planetstrike.

**Shadelkan**

Stormlord, since, yknow, attackers get first turn, they're forced to deploy their forces. Ergo, more chances of lightning. I think.

Other than that, what Schadenfreude said.

**Hammer18**

Sounds good. Which Cryptek classes would you recommend bringing? Thanks for the advice so far.

**schadenfreude**

2 storms with both crystals in seperate units on the outside of your lines. That should give a few extra zaps when deep striking units land within 6".

Tremorteks with the -d3 to charge range set up in difficult terrain are good. Enemy units that can deepstrike can charge when they deepstrike. Worst of 2d6 from orikan -d3=frequent failed charges.

**Hammer18**

Worst of 2d6?
What of the rest of the army and which other hq?

**Dimitri7**

How many point are we talking?

**Hammer18**

2000.

**Dimitri7**

185- Nemesor Z
160- Vargarb Obyron
Royal Court:
40- stormtek w/ ether crystal
40- stormtek w/ ether crystal
40- Tremortek w/ seismic crucible
40- eterntek w/ aeonstave,chronometron(this is a point filler very much optional)
130- 10 Warriors
115- Ghost Ark
170- 10 Immortals
450- 10 Lychguard
250- C'tan w/ singularity and worldscape
180- 2 Annihiation barges
200- Monolith
total: 2000
I threw this together rather quickly for you but I think its decent what do you think?

**Hammer18**

pretty good. 3 things. Can't have two ether crystals in one court.
I Don't have two annihilation barges and I don't have 10 Lychguard. Could you specify where things went?

**Dimitri7**

How many Lychguard and annihilation barges do you have?

**Hammer18**

1 barge and 5 guard

**Dimitri7**

Take out 1 barge and 5 guard...change one stormtek to a pulsetek w/ eldritch lance making the total thus far 1700...you could add 5 heavy destroyers if you have the models or maybe another ghost ark and 15 more warriors. for a total of either 2000 or 1995 depending on the choice.

**Lucre**

You'll want some useful ranged shooting in there. Not too many solutions present with a decent chance to hurt something nasty and bigger than an 18 inch threat bubble, I guess you can try to rely on special rules, drifting templates and being glance tastic but I bet you can already feel how unstable that is.

Solar pulse also makes your day in an awful lot of games.
It's really weird to see a list without a pulsetek or a barge lord in it. Two of the more powerful options in the codex that fit into most lists very comfortably.

**schadenfreude**

Dimitri7 wrote:185- Nemesor Z
160- Vargarb Obyron
Royal Court:
40- stormtek w/ ether crystal
40- stormtek w/ ether crystal
40- Tremortek w/ seismic crucible
40- eterntek w/ aeonstave,chronometron(this is a point filler very much optional)
130- 10 Warriors
115- Ghost Ark
170- 10 Immortals
450- 10 Lychguard
250- C'tan w/ singularity and worldscape
180- 2 Annihiation barges
200- Monolith
total: 2000
I threw this together rather quickly for you but I think its decent what do you think?

Can only do a single court with Orikan, but I would add him. He's the guy that makes all open terrain difficult on turn 1, and because it's planetstrike and everybody deep strikes all difficult terrain becomes dangerous. With the C'tan 1/3 infantry without an invo will die on turn 1. What he also does is any enemy unit moving through difficult terrain that is difficult before his bonus rolls 2D6 for distance and uses the worst of 2D6 instead of the best. That may be crucial since units with that already have deep strike can deep strike and assault on turn 1.

**Dimitri7**

stormtek goes by himself to (hopefully) intercept enemies deep striking. The eterntek, pulsetek, Tremortek stay with the Nemesor in his court and Vargard goes with the lychguard so he teleport them to the Nemesor or an objective if needed.

**Hammer18**

this so far
HQ
Overlord-scythe, scarabs, orb-145
Orikan-165
Royal court
Cryptek-destruction, gaze, pulse-65
Cryptek-storm, field, crystal= 50
Elites
Triarch Stalker-150
C’tan shard-sentient singularity, writhing world scape-245
Troops
Immortals-10, tesla=170
Warriors, 9, ghost ark-232
Warriors-12-156
Fast attack
Scarabs-10-150
Destroyers-4, 1 heavy-180
Heavy support
Annihilation Barge-90
monolith-200
It totals 1998 at the moment. And I did miss the bit about Nem and Oby..

**Dimitri7**

Lucre wrote:You'll want some useful ranged shooting in there. Not too many solutions present with a decent chance to hurt something nasty and bigger than an 18 inch threat bubble, I guess you can try to rely on special rules, drifting templates and being glance tastic but I bet you can already feel how unstable that is.

Solar pulse also makes your day in an awful lot of games.
It's really weird to see a list without a pulsetek or a barge lord in it. Two of the more powerful options in the codex that fit into most lists very comfortably.

- You forget it's planetstrike they will be deep striking in the "18in threat bubble" to try and get to the objectives plus almost everything in the list has 24in range and the monolith has a 24in blast and the A barge has a 24in str 7 TL assault 4 tesla, arc weapon which can do some serious to damage to almost every vehicle and unit.
- I added a pulsetek to the list in the post right above your last one.
- I don't think flying over the enemy and swooping down while trying to defend objectives is the best thing, the firestorms could easily make them useless for the rest of the game by making it immobile or even destroyed before the game even begins. IMO

**smUrfsrUs**

How about a c'tan with lord of fire to mess up the melta weapons that come to destroy your buildings?

You need more A- Barges as they are one of the best units in the game.

**Hammer18**

Soon as I get money I will. I don't think we'll be playing with buildings

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I updated the list. What do you guys think?

**Dimitri7**

Your defending, scarabs might not be the best choice especially when the enemy brings down those firestorms because of those vulnerable to blasts they would be wiped out pretty fast.

**Hammer18**

What would you do with those extra points?

**Dimitri7**

8 Deathmarks for 152 making it 2000 on the dot.

**schadenfreude**

Scarabs in cover can take a lot of hits. If the firestorm gets real bad just have them go to ground for a 2+ cover save.

**Hammer18**

Or in reserve like I did. I used the list yesterday. I lost. I held I objective to two. The enemy got real lucky and popped three vehicles right off the bat. The scarabs proceeded to eat 2 vehicles then get killed by incubi. I would like to take out something and add in wraiths cause I felt like I was missing a quick punch.

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Also the Orikan and C'tan mix screwed up my opponents pretty bad. So I'd like to keep that.

**Deathleapah**

Maybe just take out that warrior unit since objectives in planet strike aren't controlled by just troops.
Sorry to add on, but what do you think would be the best necron thing for an attacking force?

**schadenfreude**

Deathleapah wrote:Maybe just take out that warrior unit since objectives in planet strike aren't controlled by just troops.
Sorry to add on, but what do you think would be the best necron thing for an attacking force?

Any unit that can deepstrike can assault on the turn it comes in.

Wraiths can deep strike then assault.

I think lychguard can deep strike and then assault provided they have a veiltek or big O with them.

**Hammer18**

That would work for offense. Might bring in Nem for some fun as well.