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How do other Dark Eldar players deal with Necron vehicles?

For those who don't know, Necrons have quantum shielding which allows them to ignore damage if they roll a d6 below the amount sustained.

I have only recently started playing Dark Eldar, but previously as a Space Wolves player I would use Plasma Cannons to murder them. Looking at the wargear available, there doesn't appear to be much in the way of 2 / 3 damage weaponry. Poison is obviously not effective against vehicles.

Beyond spamming d6 damage weaponry, does anyone have any hints of tips?

Haywire, blasters, disintegrators, grotesques, Talos.

As a necron player, Disintegrators are the bane of our existence.

Haywire works too. Just not blasters or dark lances, basically.

Hmm, what's the best way to get enough weapons into a list?

Take a Doomsday Arc, that's T6 14 wounds. My rough calculations indicate that I would need 12 disintegrators on average to kill it. As for Haywire I estimate needing about 14 of them.

I'll have a look into the possibilities provided by Grotesques and Talos. Thanks.

Given the new edition's points, I'd say the most efective solutions if you run into a lot of necron vehicles would be Razorwing Jetfighters equipped with Disintegrator cannons in the "Test of Skill" wych cult (+1 to wound vs high wound count models), or Haywire Blasters on scourges with anyone. Those things will do approximately 6 wounds on the drop vs any VEHICLE keyword model.

There are also a lot of mid-strength, low damage melee weapons available. Test of Skill+Slashing Impact Hellions would be pretty effective at killing a necron vehicle.

the_scotsman wrote:
in the "Test of Skill" wych cult (+1 to wound vs high wound count models),

Incidentally last time I faced dark eldars it was very wych heavy force. At first I was like "shrug" with my vehicles. Then those tooooooooooooooons of attacks started coming up. So what they wound on 5+ when you are rolling crapload and your quantum shield is joke

My vehicles soon had tons of things to worry.

And disintegrators just melts them.

tneva82 wrote:

the_scotsman wrote:
in the "Test of Skill" wych cult (+1 to wound vs high wound count models),

Incidentally last time I faced dark eldars it was very wych heavy force. At first I was like "shrug" with my vehicles. Then those tooooooooooooooons of attacks started coming up. So what they wound on 5+ when you are rolling crapload and your quantum shield is joke

My vehicles soon had tons of things to worry.

And disintegrators just melts them.

Arent' necron vehicles even T5, so with ToS it would be wounding on 4s?

the_scotsman wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

the_scotsman wrote:
in the "Test of Skill" wych cult (+1 to wound vs high wound count models),

Incidentally last time I faced dark eldars it was very wych heavy force. At first I was like "shrug" with my vehicles. Then those tooooooooooooooons of attacks started coming up. So what they wound on 5+ when you are rolling crapload and your quantum shield is joke

My vehicles soon had tons of things to worry.

And disintegrators just melts them.

Arent' necron vehicles even T5, so with ToS it would be wounding on 4s?

Wyches can get a Blast pistol, and can also get +2 to their str making them Str 5. Meaning against T5 you can easily wound on 4+ and 2+.

But i thought Necrons all were T6? Wyches wound on 4+ (which is still very good when its 30 changes to wound), and blast pistols on 2+ still.

Necron vehicles are T6. We have low T on our vehicles but not THAT low

Were wyches S4? Okay so they wound on 4+. Even scarier! For some reason I remembered they had S3(been a while since I played that game)

They are S3, but they have access to +1S due to wych cult obsession and/or drug. In fact a unit could be S5 with the appropriate buffs.

tneva82 wrote:
Necron vehicles are T6. We have low T on our vehicles but not THAT low

Were wyches S4? Okay so they wound on 4+. Even scarier! For some reason I remembered they had S3(been a while since I played that game)

They are S3 base but have lots of easy ways to get to S4.