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sorry I had accidentally posted this in the Fantasy Army Lists section. Hello, I'm brand new to wargaming, and I'm building a Necron army. I love that they're robots, and I loved them even more when I realized they were arrogant, trash-talking robots with a sense of humor. Anyways, I bought the starter box, so I have:

20 necron warriors [260 points]

5 scarab swarms[75 points]

I want the 5 deathmarks[95 points]

And either ghost ark or doomsday ark.

I need help understanding what I should get to be able to (hopefully) destroy my SO's Army of Nurgle Demons. He has played for years and obviously way more experienced than I.

His army list:

Hearald of Nurgle [190]

Great Unclean One w/Psyker lvl 3 etc. [290]

Plaguebearers[165]

Nurglings

and more nurglings[90]

beasts of Nurgle[156]

Epidemius[110]

3 Soul Grinders[180 each]

Daemon Prince w. Psyker lvl 3 etc. upgrades[345]


I was thinking with the Deathmarks I could automatically mark ljke his Prince or something down to to Wounding on all 2+ rolls.
But any suggestons as to what the best way would be to fight his Demons with my Necrons and what else I should get?

Thank you.

I have never faced deamons saldy. but from what i know your going to want at least 1-2 night sythes with immortals and maybe a ghost ark full of warriors. with the deathmarks i would look at 10 with a cryptek (what ever the cryptek with the flamer/abysal staff is). scarabs might help tie down some of the beasts. hard to say due to lack of experiance...

As for a hq id just run an overlord mss and phaseshifter incase you get into hand to hand.


Against most deamons you'd want weight of fire as AP dosnt matter so much.

jackblg has it spot on.

You definitely want to get some Annihilation Barges, so cheap for what they do. Night Scythe's can also dish out S7 hits and can deal with FMC reasonably well.

Deathmarks with a DespairTek in a Nightscythe should do you fine. It might even be worthwhile taking two units, since they mark two units and both benefit from marking each unit.

For the Overlord you have to take, Warscythe minimum. I would recommend a Catacomb Command Barge, since the Sweep Attacks can hit Swooping FMC and Ignore Cover (with S7 AP1 to boot!)

For the Twenty Warriors, a Ghost Ark with a ResOrb Lord will keep their numbers nice and high.

I'd recommend two units of Scarabs, since he's going to be running some vehicles, just provides target saturation.

It might also be worthwhile having some Necron Warriors in a Nightscythe with a StormTek to assist the Scarabs in dealing with vehicles.

Frozocrone wrote:
jackblg has it spot on.

You definitely want to get some Annihilation Barges, so cheap for what they do. Night Scythe's can also dish out S7 hits and can deal with FMC reasonably well.

Deathmarks with a DespairTek in a Nightscythe should do you fine. It might even be worthwhile taking two units, since they mark two units and both benefit from marking each unit.

For the Overlord you have to take, Warscythe minimum. I would recommend a Catacomb Command Barge, since the Sweep Attacks can hit Swooping FMC and Ignore Cover (with S7 AP1 to boot!)

For the Twenty Warriors, a Ghost Ark with a ResOrb Lord will keep their numbers nice and high.

I'd recommend two units of Scarabs, since he's going to be running some vehicles, just provides target saturation.

It might also be worthwhile having some Necron Warriors in a Nightscythe with a StormTek to assist the Scarabs in dealing with vehicles.

Thank you, both of you. This is really helpful. I was wondering though, I thought the ghost ark could only hold 10?

It can, but it can heal warriors outside the Ark