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Hey all, I am a necron player and I fought a 2v2 with a buddy of mine playing IG, and we got totally raped by our buddies Chaos Daemons. He summoned in some giant dude (I don't remember the name, 3++/4+ fnp) and we just couldn't bring it down. I mostly was rocking a lot of warriors and immortals, since each player was 1k apiece (the daemon player had a eldar ally, we also don't play alliance rules etc due to group meta), and my instinct tells me that is the way to bring these down, but I just couldn't seem to make it happen. I feel like spamming gauss would be more effective than trying to wrastle up a smaller amoung of high str/low ap, but it just didn't pan out. I also got kind of screwed by the dice, but I'm trying to figure out a more solid strat. Should I be using my tomb blades to try and go bomb his psychers to take out his psychic dice? Do I take lychguard and just try and tie it up in melee for a few turns? It has 7 attacks or so on the charge, so I don't feel like my lych would stand up to it for more than 2 rounds tops, assuming I took 10. Which I really don't want to do, since they're so expensive if you take sword and board. I know that daemons can get screwed by dice, but I don't know enough about daemon mechanics to make sure everything is happening on the up and up. Any ideas?

Oh, and the battle tomorrow is 1v1, 2k pts, I'm running decurion, and none of us have airplanes/flyers

I propose you try using a bunch of Wraiths as offensive assault unit to put on the midfield to delay those nasty daemons from reaching you while take some Sword/broad Lychgurad as close range defenders of your gunline, throw in destroyer cult as well, they are the best shooting combination in the codexes.
Target priority, anything AP3/2 target those DP in armor or BTs, and small arms target lesser daemons, if he brings 2++ rerollable, then good luck and hope you got lots of sixes using Tesla.
Necrons have almost nothing in psychic, so taking out psychic units is a good move. While just do not forget to take a prism on your spider, so you have a slightly better chance to prevent those nasty offensive powers harming you.