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Here's what I thinking with an unbound Necron list, assuming unbound is as unbound as it appears. No AA but the plan is to win the ground battle:

Transcendent C'tan: transliminal stride, 2 Waves of Withering 780
Transcendent C'tan: transliminal stride, Wave of Withering, Cosmic Fire 720

1500 exactly. I could drop a stride to Seismic Shockwave to get another Wave but with D being toned down getting into the thick of it seemed more important.

You double posted fyi

I don't get this list, if D weapons are going to be as balanced as they say, this list will be a load of crap.

Well I'm assuming D weapons will still be pretty uber just will now allow invuns. Which if anything makes the C'tan better as it still ignores cover itself and D Weapons were the only real threat to it. Unless you've heard more rumours on D weapons than me?

I mean what would actually kill this list? 2 Warhounds perhaps. But not a lot else.

Pretty sure that my 1500 greentide will have no problems locking those guyz up. Since i got 150+ models abroad. And the moment you get in mellee - you're not getting out.

You have to be able to hurt someone to charge and with d3 stomps a turn I can chew through a boy mob in 2 rounds of combat. No challenging to stop me either now. Sorry but 180 boys at 1500 is not competitive.

I'm sure my serpent spam list could take this on in 1500, 7 serpents and 1 farseer, and don't forget 35 dire avengers.

I recon I kill 3+ Serpents a turn. How much damage do they do to me? 7 shields are 4.5 shots each 7 Scatters with 4 each. So thats 59.5 shots 52.89 hits 8.81 wounding hits less than 2 unsaved wounds a turn. Even with all the DAs out and shooting you're lucky to do 4 wounds a turn and no way would you ever get all your firepower off if you Castle so you can do this I wipe all the Serpents in 1 turn. Sorry but the 7 Serpents are at a very poor match up against this as none of their good rules really work against D flamers.

Lol, ok.

Why lol?

I'm a horrible matchup for Serpent spam I should table them in 2 turns.

Lets say Serpents go first I deploy out of LoS so they have to move and bunch up to shoot me. They do that and do 2 wounds to a C'tan. Now my turn. I can't get anyone with the stride yet but the First one should be able to easily cover 2 Serpents with each template (more likely 3-4 if you've bunched to get shots but we'll stack everything in the Serpents favour) they are dead on 2+ so that should be at least 3 dead again we're stacking in Serpents favour.

Then the next C'tan shoots should again be able to hit 2 Serpents both dead on 2s. That should be 5 dead serpents. Then I shoot the S6 ap2 hellstorm over all the guys that have jumped out lets say I some how only kill 10. That leaves you with 2 Serpents and 25 Dire Avengers and it is game. Next turn should be near wipeout at best you'll just have stragglers to clear up in turn 3.

Seriously given I move 18" a turn can hide as easily as a Dreadnought and can kill your whole army in 2 good turns of shooting how on earth are you expecting to beat this with Serpent Spam? I just don't get your thought process?