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Hi!


Im a new player and am just getting used to everything. I have put together what should be A combined arms detachment.

I realise points are on the high side but bear with me and guide me! haha

Playing Necrons and hoping some of this makes a bit of sense?

Destroyer Lord (1) - 165pts
1 Destroyer Lord: Voidreaper,Resurrection Orb

Triarch Stalker (1) - 125pts
1 Triarch Stalker: Heat Ray

Triarch Stalker (1) - 125pts
1 Triarch Stalker: Heat Ray

Deathmarks (5) - 90pts
5 Deathmark

Deathmarks (5) - 90pts
5 Deathmark

Immortals (5) - 85pts
5 Immortal: Tesla Carabines

Immortals (5) - 85pts
5 Immortal: Gauss Blasters

Warriors (10) - 130pts
10 Warrior

Warriors (10) - 130pts
10 Warrior

Warriors (10) - 130pts
10 Warrior

Night Scythe (1) - 130pts
1 Night Scythe

Canoptek Scarabs (3) - 60pts
3 Canoptek Scarabs

Canoptek Wraiths (3) - 129pts
3 Canoptek Wraith: Whip Coils

Tomb Blades (3) - 54pts
3 Tomb Blade: Twin-linked Gauss Blaster

Canoptek Spyders (1) - 50pts
1 Canoptek Spyder

Annihilation Barge (1) - 120pts
1 Annihilation Barge: Gauss Cannon

Monolith (1) - 200pts
1 Monolith

So far so good, it's necrons though I mean, what would an edgelord dark angel player like myself know about the robots?

It's not quite a legal Combined Arms because you have four Elite and four Fast Attack. In a Combined Arms, you're only allowed 2 HQ, 3 Elite, 6 Troop, 3 Fast Attack and 3 Heavy Support. However, you can get around it by making the Stalkers into a squadron of two and by taking the Night Scythe as a dedicated transport for one of the Immortal or Warrior squads. On to the list itself.

You have the components to form a Canoptek Harvest (1 Wraith squad, 1 Scarab squad, 1 Spyder), so you might as well to give these soulless automatons Reanimation Protocols. Monoliths are very iconic for Necrons. Unfortunately, they're pretty bad on the tabletop. Annihilation Barges are also pretty bad. Deathmarks are very high risk, high reward. However, I've found that you need 8-10 per squad to have any meaningful impact on the game. You might want to consider giving the Tomb Blades Shield Vanes and Nebuloscopes. Those two very cheap upgrades turn them from mediocre into decent. Some other units to take a closer look at are Destroyers and Praetorians. Both are excellent at what they do.

I hope this helps!

Counter,


Whoops!!! You are right!!! Messed my numbers!

I had another wee think last night and will be doing some changes!

Thanks so mycg for the advice!

Also if I were you my first investment would be in buying either a regular overlord or one of the named Overlords. (if you have the one from the annihilation barge kit even better) because that is the only thing that prevents you from running a Decurion, and that is if you want to.

The Decurion is sort of iconic among Necrons now so you should at least try it compared to the CAD. I don't want to tell you to play either way but I do want to suggest you try both and see which one feels better.

Formations that you can use would either be the Canoptek Harvest that Counter explained or even just a squad of Deathmarks is a formation.

Welcome to the legion!