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I have no clue what my opponent will be bringing to the table; all I know is that he has about 5000 points of Marines and so I'm assuming that he can field just about any tactical configuration he so desires, unless he's bought like 20 land raiders. I'm going to have to just field a list designed to outgun him and hope for the best.

HQ
Necron Overlord w/ Staff of Light
Cryptek w/ Abyssal Staff and Veil of Darkness
Cryptek w/ Voltaic Staff and Lightning Field
Cryptek w/ Voltaic Staff
Cryptek w/ Voltaic Staff
Cryptek w/ Voltaic Staff
Destroyer Lord w/ Staff of Light and Resurrection Orb

Troop
5 x Necron Warriors
5 x Necron Warriors

Fast Attack
5 x Necron Destroyers
5 x Necron Destroyers

Heavy Support
Doomsday Ark
Necron Monolith
Doom Scythe

Fortification
Necron Tomb Citadel w/ 2 Gauss Exterminators

= 1995 points.

The basic idea is thus. The citadel will sit at the back of the board and the two Warrior squads will each be manning a Gauss Exterminator emplacement. The Doomsday Ark will also be sitting at the back, probably on the citadel itself, and they will act as an artillery emplacement to take out predators, vindicators, stalkers, land raiders, metal boxes; basically anything I want to definitely die. If he hasn't meched up as much as I'm anticipating, the Ark will be repurposed to dropping large blasts on infantry. The Overlord will be my Warlord and will be joined to one of those warrior squads, basically to fuel the Royal Court squad and deny any real chance of him scoring a victory point for slaying the warlord.

The 2 squads of Destroyers will work in concert to take out infantry. The Destroyer Lord will be joined to one of them to help reanimation protocols, ready to swap to the other squad if one is getting too low to be worth helping. He has a SoL rather than a Warscythe because they're shooting infantry, the close combat potential is nice but wasted when I want to be shooting things to death, and SoL is AP3, so win.

The Doom Scythe will do what Doom Scythes do best: Scream onto the board and use its Death Ray to take out vehicles, and its Tesla Destructor will be for tearing into infantry.

The 5 Crypteks are a mini-Death Star squad; fragile but maneuverable. The Voltaic Staves will pretty reliably wreck any vehicle the unit gets within 6" of them (Mathhammer dictates that on average, they'll deal 8 hull points on average in one round of shooting. Even if by horrific rolls that were to be halved, that still wrecks any non-apocalypse vehicle.) The VoD lets them move from target to target.

Lastly, the Monolith is there to, again, do what Monoliths do best. It will Deep Strike in, and it will drop large blasts where it pleases, using its ordnance quality on vehicles if need be, using its Str 8 AP 3 against infantry if not, and the Gauss Flux Arcs are just for funsies. Additionally, it can pull the Crypteks or Destroyers to it if they could be put to better use in that location, for example if a Dreadnought looked like it was going to punch the Monolith in the next turn, pull the Crypteks over, blammy.

Thoughts, opinions, etc. The full list of models that I own are in the spoiler. For those seeing the discrepancy, I will be using old Pariah models to count as the other Crypteks.

I don't know much about Crons but 10 Warriors seems small.

 Feasible wrote:
I don't know much about Crons but 10 Warriors seems small.

If I owned Immortals then I'd use them as my troops and they'd be far more effective, but as I only have warriors, they'll just die quickly against Marine weaponry. Since it's a Purge the Alien game, Warriors won't be very effective actually shooting, so I'm pretty much just filling the required 2 slots and using them to fire the Exterminators.

ifs its not a tourney game consider asking him if you can proxy the warriors as immortals?

You must have your overlord attached to the court otherwise the crypteks must separate into other units

 necronspurs2012 wrote:
You must have your overlord attached to the court otherwise the crypteks must separate into other units

Not true, they don't work like an honour guard or the such. The Royal Court is a standalone unit that is generated by having an Overlord, but they don't have to fight with him.

I know someone that was stopped from doing that at a throne of skulls event at warhammer world

 necronspurs2012 wrote:
I know someone that was stopped from doing that at a throne of skulls event at warhammer world

That must have been an event rule, then; the codex doesn't mention anything about it, nor does the FAQ.

Perhaps swap the Crypteks for something that has more of an anti-infantry role? Marines do many styles well, including the infantry vehicle-hater. Now and again I slap big weapons on marines and minimize my vehicle numbers and it works a treat, as people always expect tonnes of SM boxes and therefore take too much anti-amour.

 Grayspear wrote:
Perhaps swap the Crypteks for something that has more of an anti-infantry role? Marines do many styles well, including the infantry vehicle-hater. Now and again I slap big weapons on marines and minimize my vehicle numbers and it works a treat, as people always expect tonnes of SM boxes and therefore take too much anti-amour.

It's a very anti-armor list, granted, but the advantage the way I see it is that most of the Necron anti-armor can double up as anti-infantry, since it's just large blast templates which are just as good at taking out swathes of Marines as they are at hurting tanks. Now that I see how deadly Voltaic Staves are, perhaps it'd be more worth my time removing that unit as you suggest, or changing it to a court of staff of lights, 15 12" str 5 ap 3 shots from one unit is nothing to be sniffed at with an average of 6 kills in one round of shooting.