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So I had a spark of an idea today to build an electricity themed necron army (I already have 90% of these models so it shouldn't be too difficult).So heres the list:

Overlord
Ws, Sw, Ps, Mss
Barge

Overlord
Ws, Sw, Ps, Mss
Barge

Court (AT unit)
Despairtek
Veil, cloak
2 stormteks

5 warriors
Scythe

5 warriors
Scythe

5 warriors
Scythe

5 warriors
Scythe

3 scarab bases

3 scarab bases

3 scarab bases

3 scarab bases

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

2k

So the 6 barges and 4 scythes put out a shocking amount of st7 hits (more hits than shots on average). The 2 overlords have a lot of power to go hunting what they like and synergise really well with the electic pace of the scarab bases who can either go tank hunting or act as speed bumps, breaking up the flow of an enemy charge. The court will zap across the board due to the veil and try to overload any of the opponents armour I dont like the look of with their haywire. The scythes are lightening fast being flyers and can drop my scoring units where I like.
When upping the ampage for bigger games I could bring in the stormlord to blackout the board and give me oppertunity jolt my units into range.
I think this will be a well charged list Id like to run on my local circuit and can see it causing some opponents to blow a fuse when attempting to deal with all that tesla. What are your thoughts?


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I could drop 4 bases to upgrade from warriors to tesla immortals. Less effective but more themed....

Personally, I'd drop the weaves on the overlords as the barges improve the overlord's armor save. I'd then drop the despairtek and buy a couple more stormteks. Put a stormtek in each warrior squad.

This does a few things for you. 1) It makes your warrior squads a little more resilient. Even if all the warriors go down, the stormteks remain scoring so they are that much harder to shoot off of an objective if the last guy keeps getting up. 2) It gives you more firepower against AV and allows you to take an MSU approach to high armor targets - applying what you need, where you need it as opposed to having to stick the whole court on a single target. 3) Given the random nature of deep striking, it makes applying that firepower far more reliable.

The other thing I'd look at is possible combining the scarabs into two 6 base squads, but it'd take a little play testing to see if that would actually be more beneficial than the MSU approach.

Ahhh I was unaware that attached court members remain scoring if the rest of the unit is killed. That is definitely interesting! The only issue I would have with it is that I would then have to deploy my warrior squads early to take advantage of the stormteks and I would have no turn1 av14 killer. Could be worth a shot though!
I know what you mean about 2 units of 6 scarabs and went to and fro with the idea as well. However it just came down to the idea of seeing a serpent, exterminator, dakka fex, anni barge etc, wiping 90pts rather than 45... more speed bumps left this way!
The weaves are there in case the barge gets destroyed, but I suppose dropping them gives me 2 more scarab bases.
Thanks for the input!


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Out of the above list with what I current..ly own, all I would need is 1 more anni barge, 1 more command barge and 2 more scythes. Im telling you this because I was gutted I missed the word current out above...

Honestly, there really isn't much in the way of AV13/14 that absolutely must die turn one, and with the amount of cheap units you have, about the worst they could do is shoot down a CCB and leave an overlord stranded.

On turn one, I'd just focus on applying as much tesla fire as possible to the the units that would threaten your warrior squads.
Turn 2 drop the warrior squads from the incoming night scythes on them and eat their high AV.
Turn 3 load them back up into the night scythes and fly them off the board.
Turns 4/5 move them into position to drop onto objectives, applying more tesla fire from the scythes as needed.

A strong assault squad in a LR would worry me. But apart from that you are right. I like your tactic of dropping off the warriors then immediately re-embarking! Very nice if not near an assault threat, and makes me realise that Ive been wasting a turn of shooting when keeping them in the scythe.

What do you think about me dropping the barges, phase shifters, 1 scythe and veiltek completely and arming a squad for a brutal assault? Would give me 5 more scarab bases 4 more stormteks, a ghost ark and 2 lords with ws and mms.
Would look like this:

Overlord (with warrior #1)
Ws, sw, mss

Overlord (with warrior #1)
Ws, sw, mss

Court 1
Lord (with warrior #1)
Ws, mss
Stormtek (w #2)
Stormtek (w #3)
Stormtek (w #4)

Court 2
Lord (with warrior #1)
Ws, mss
Stormtek (w #2)
Stormtek (w #3)
Stormtek (w #4)

5 warriors (#1)
Ghost ark

5 warriors (#2)
Scythe

5 warriors (#3)
Scythe

5 warriors (#4)
Scythe

4 scarab bases

4 scarab bases

3 scarab bases

3 scarab bases

3 scarab bases

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

Annihilation barge

2k

All those stormteks fits the electric theme as well... there shouldn't be a mech list in the game that could stand up to this!