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Right guys I need some help refining and finishing off this list for a Tournament coming up in November, I'm new to Crons, and have only played a few small games with them. MarkCron has given me some solid advice to start off the army.

The tournament is 1650 points with the following basic comp..

The basic Force Organisation Chart remains the same but the options from there will be restricted. Please
choose 2 from the following. Alternative options such as that printed in Codex Orks may be used as a
replacement.
Additional FoC (counts as both choices)
A Lord of War (counts as both choices)
A Single Formation (may take a 2nd but would, count as both your choices, this must be a different formation)
Allies
Remove restriction on the number of units that can be taken (counts as both choices, see below)
Additional Detachment eg Codex Knights or Codex Inquisition
Fortification (If taking a network then it counts as both choices)

Compulsory Troops selections must be at least 75 points, this includes for any allies taken.
Forgeworld Experimental Rules are legal
HQ, Elite, Fast Attack and Heavy Support units are all considered 0-2 and Troop choices 0-4. This is taken
across the entire army on a. E.g a Space Marine player takes 2 Whirlwinds in one of his Detachments he may
no longer use purchase any more Whirlwinds for his army regardless of where they come from or how many
other detachments he has. (This restriction maybe removed see above)

Lords of War are points capped to 799 points


My Necron will also contain no Warriors, because of personal preference, so only Immortal troops.

With that in mind, so far I have the following

HQ - Necron Overlord, MSS, ResOrb, Phase Shifter, Warscythe, CCB (Tesla Cannon)
Royal Court - VeilTek, StormTek

HQ - Necron Overlord, MSS, ResOrb, Phase Shifter, Warscythe, CCB (Tesla Cannon)
Royal Court - VeilTek

Troops-
5 x Gauss Immortals, Night Scythe (Stormtek here)
5 x Gauss Immortals, Night Scythe
10 x Tesla Immortals, (VeilTek here)
10 x Tesla Immortals, (VeilTek here)

Fast Attack- Tomb Blade

Heavy Support -
Annihilation Barge, Tesla Cannon, Tesla Destructor
Annihilation Barge, Tesla Cannon, Tesla Destructor


At the moment this puts me at 1595 points, so I still have a little to spend. I'm thinking of using my two comp points to get rid of the restrictions on units and squeezing a third AnniBarge in, but I'll have to find 35points to do that.

My only concern is heavy armour, I have a lot of Knights in my meta,so will this be a problem for me?

I think, if you were the drop the ResOrbs you could fit in a Barge.

I personally wouldn't do that. If your local meta is Knights, I would invest in your Royal Courts for some StormTeks for Haywire. You could even shift the VeilTeks from the Immortals to the Royal Court to have a DeepStriking Haywire shock troop (although I would instead opt to put the StormTeks in the Night Scythes with the Gauss Immortals, maybe bumping up their squad size to get more Gauss shots).

If you wanted to further squeeze points, you could take the Phase Shifters off the Overlords. That maybe enough to get a few Scarab Bases, which while not hurting Super Heavy's, can still put the hurt on high AV.

Would changing some of the tesla cannons to gauss cannons, perhaps on the CCB's, be worth doing?

What are our best ways of dealing with Knights is it just a case of relying in glances?

One possibility would be to drop both the CCBs and have the lords join the units in the Night Scythes, and fit in a Doom Scythe and 2 extra Tomb Blades.

I find glances work better - volume of shots that cause glances are more likely to bring Super-Heavy's down than one penetrating hit.

For the CCB I would use Gauss since it's a fast vehicle (I hardly ever use it though, I prefer my CCB's moving Flat Out). The Sweep Attacks are insane on it, so I personally wouldn't have Overlords with the Immortals. If you wanted to do that, I would look into Royal Court Lords (ResOrb may be worth it on them to make those Immortals hard to budge).

Never used a Doom Scythe myself so can't comment on the model. I hadn't noticed that Tomb Blade before, I would remove it unless you can find the points to field four more, they need to be maxed out to be threatening.

The tomb blade is meant to go unnoticed so it can dart onto maelstrom objectives.

Yeah I think maybe glances are the way forward then perhaps having one unit of 5 gauss and one unit of 10 gauss and then the same for tesla would be a better split. That way I have veil ten anti tank and infantry on the table asks the same threats in the flyers ready to be dropped where I need them.

Maybe drop a few upgrades and replace some barges for doomsday arks?

If you are facing a lot of heavy armour, I would suggest leaving the immortals as Tesla, but drop a couple from each squad and replace them with Stormteks. Shoot for a couple of stormteks in each veiling squad and another for the scythe without one.

Having tesla will help if you come up against invisible units, or if you scatter a bit more than expected.

Alternatively, make one immortal squad gauss and add a couple of stormteks to it, leave the other one as tesla, but double up stormteks in the scythes. Actually, I like this better, as with Gauss you'll want to drop in inside 12" anyway.

That gives you one DS vehicle killer, plus a DS tesla squad.

Cheers guys some interesting ideas that I'll have a play around with and come back with my findings.

I would run scarabs instead of 1 tomb blade.

You could get a pretty nasty Transcendent C'Tan for 799 points...

strugglingfish wrote:I would run scarabs instead of 1 tomb blade.

For what reason?

Tekron wrote:You could get a pretty nasty Transcendent C'Tan for 799 points...

I was considering it...

How about something like this. Tried to stick with your theme.

HQ - 265pt
Necron Overlord, MSS, Phase Shifter, Warscythe, CCB (Tesla Cannon)
Royal Court - StormTek

Troops- 355pt
5 x Gauss Immortals, Night Scythe (Stormtek here)
10 x Tesla Immortals

Fast Attack- 60pt
4 x Canoptek Scarab

Heavy Support - 180pt
Annihilation Barge, Tesla Cannon, Tesla Destructor
Annihilation Barge, Tesla Cannon, Tesla Destructor

LoW - 790pt
Transcendant C'tan
Storm of heavenly fire (large blast S 6 AP 3 Ignores Cover over C'Tan at end of movement phase)
Wave of Withering (Hellstorm S D AP 1)
Seismic Assault (48" 6D6 S 8 AP 3)