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Hey guyz,

I am buying for Xmas and my friend is getting into Crons. In your opinion which are the can't-do-without choices? I know some will say it is all relative. Point taken. But sometimes there are certain choices that the seasoned player feels he wants to field in *every* game. In other words, too good for the points to pass up.

Mainly we're talking 1500 points here.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Solorg

Off the top of my head: wraiths, warriors, nightscythes, annihilation barges and lords.

well...... I don't know how much your planning on buying so in that sense it is relative haha. Well my brother plays the dirty crons, I'll say its a fairly well rounded army, the easy ones are Night scythe and they're cheap by GW standards for a flyer. Barges are Nice, and Doomsday/ghost Ark, spyders are good, wraiths are good.

really almost everything has its use in this army, they are a well rounded army and a huge pain to fight when they stand right back up!!!! lol

At 1500 points id say warriors and a ghost ark or two is good. Overlord. Couple crypteks and a lord or two as well.

Wraiths, period. Buy him 2 boxes, tell him to model at least half of them with whip coils.

Another vote for wraiths. They are stupendous.

Barge spam and scythe spam is good too, but you can't go wrong with wraiths.

Wraiths or annihilation barge - can't really go wrong with these.

Wraiths, anni barges, NS, 2 boxes of warriors to msu NS, dlords

That's the cookie cutter OTT competitive army build for necrons. Just take msu warriors in NS max out on anni barges, take a dlord and then max out wraiths afterwards.

Over the book is good, but does suffer from a lot of internal balance issues.

As far as which units are good, a lot of that depends on your build, but oeverall, its almost easier to say which units are NOT good;

The Ugly
* - Ctan - terrible, so under-powered for the points it is shameful.
* - Flayed ones - maybe in some very very specific builds where you use the blood scarabs and you really really need their outflank, but these guys are sadly bad.
* - lychguard with shields - with a bad rule regarding their bounceomatic shields, these guys sound good on paper, but are terrible.
* - triarch praetorians - in theory these guys are great - in practice they are just challenging to get them to do anything.
* - Destroyers - ironiclly, even with a good gun, these guys don't hold their own - they are not "bad" as the other units on this list, they just are not as good as any of the alternatives.
* - Monoliths - too costly, not long enough range, lamed by silly ordinance rules (what do you mean my other weapons are snap shots?) these once durable behemoths are just left on the shelf.

Units that are marginal, or subjective to your build;
* wraiths - while a good unit overall - its still just a 3++ save, and in the current game with the volume of shots out there, they just die. Also, with the lack of assault grenades (so, they are only sort of immune to terrain....) and no WBB they are just not what they used to be. I still love them, but list must support them.
* ghost arks - unless you build a list where you really need some of their special rules, these things are just expensive transports that are not nightscythes. Love the model, but again, exceptionally build dependent.
* Scarabs and spiders - if this is your build - they can be very good - but if this is not your focus - scarabs die very easily in 6th.
* cryptek - highly variable by build - can be amazing if they fill in a specific gap in your list - or can be wasted points if too redundant.
* deathmarks - again, very variable by build.

As far as almost always good;
* warriors
* lords (cheap resorbs for warriors)
* nightscythe - the transport that makes the vendetta look balanced - totally amazing.
* annihilation barges - very amazing.

Find you list you like and one that matches your playstyle and go from there.

Best of luck, and have fun.

Destroyer Lords, Wraiths, Annihilation Barges, Nightscythe Warriors.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Let me just repeat everyone else..
Wraiths
Annihilation barges
but i was also say immortals...
immortals are good and most people (that I know)
don't like buying them themselves because they are pricy
so its nice to see them as a gift

Thanks very much for these ideas. This has been extremely helpful.

I would recommend Wraiths, or Crypteks (which can be bought in single blisters for a reasonable x-mas budget)

He loved it. Got him Immortals.