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So Necrons have taken such a huge meta hit with the Tau and Eldar release but I'm thinking Tau may be the right answer to bring them back into the fold. Let me know what you think I can improve upon.

HQ: 160
Destroyer Lord (160): Warscythe, Sempiternal Weave, MSS

Troops: 740
10 Warriors (245)
Ghost Ark
5 Warriors (165)
Nightscythe
5 Warriors (165)
Nightscythe
5 Warriors (165)
Nightscythe

Fast Attack: 175
5 Wraiths (175)

Heavy Support: 180
Annihilation Barge (90)
Annihilation Barge (90)

ALLIES: 593
Fireblade (60)
Riptide (195): Ion Accelerator, SMS, EWO
10 Firewarriors (115): Shas’ui W/ Markerlight
3 Broadsides (223): HYMPs, Shas’ve, EWOs, Bonded

Total: 1848

Not a huge meta hit. They are still probably the beat dex (apart from eldar themselves) to deal with a serp spam and jetbikes with the mass amount of tesla and gauss.
Nice list btw.
I would drop the GA and 10man squad down to a night scythe and 5man, find 8pts from somewhere and get another annihilation barge - 2 more destructors! Whoop!

Your riptide should be 190.

Lose the fireblade and firewarriors. Pick up 2 squads of Kroot. More scoring, more versatility (outflanking) and sniper rounds help with an MC heavy meta.

Pick up a Buffmander as your Tau HQ. Just a cheap one with CCN+MSS.

Lose the bonding on the Broadsides. It's literally a waste of 3 points. It's a 3-man unit and can therefore never fall below 25%. It doesn't give you stubborn, it lets you REGROUP on unmodified leadership.

Now that the housekeeping is out of the way, a few general notes. You can do ok with NecroTau competitively. Just ok. Werner Born is a a primary Cron player and is highly ranked on ToF. That being said, that comes from placing well in all the big events but only winning smaller ones. If you're cool with that, then the premise is a good one.