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I just got into 40k this year and I've been working up to 1000 points in necrons. So far I've got:

Overlord /w Glaive
10 Necron warriors /w gauss reaper
3 Skorpekh Destroyers
3 Scarab Swarm
3 Tomb Blades
Canoptek Doomstalker

For 600 pts total so far. For the last 400 points I've been considering adding 10 more warriors (or maybe 8 to make room for some gear options for the tomb blades) and a Ctan Transcendent.

I've been aiming for either a heavy shooting army with some melee for counter and screening or a mixed force approach.

Thoughts or any other suggestions?

 vict0988 wrote:

Transcendent C'tan are probably a bit better once you get up to higher point values, as far as I understand one of the main things that make them good right now is Sky of Falling Stars, which needs lots of targets to be good, you're not going to find that at smaller point levels. Transcendent C'tan also cost an arm and a leg unless you're going to proxy or get one second-hand because they're only found as a bonus in the Obelisk kit.

Don't get invulnerable saves on Tomb Blades and don't get ignore cover on gauss Tomb Blades.

You could get 10 Warriors, 3 Scarabs, 1 Chronomancer and 1 Ghost Ark (magnetize it so it can be a Doomsday Ark as well).

Went to the hobby shop today to pick up a new model and lo and behold their only models in stock (necron-wise) were SK, tomb blades, doomstalkers, overlords, and spyders. It'll be at least a week til they get some more variety in stock. Which bums me out since they are the only hobby shop in my area besides GW and I do not feel like shelling out full retail prices. Fortunately, I spied a Lady Olynder kit on the shelf and picked her up as she'd make a nice proxy for a Ctan Transcendent. (Along with a pot of Fenrisian Grey)

So it looks like I had to do a detour on my list development.

russellmoo wrote:

 Praetorius wrote:

 vict0988 wrote:

Transcendent C'tan are probably a bit better once you get up to higher point values, as far as I understand one of the main things that make them good right now is Sky of Falling Stars, which needs lots of targets to be good, you're not going to find that at smaller point levels. Transcendent C'tan also cost an arm and a leg unless you're going to proxy or get one second-hand because they're only found as a bonus in the Obelisk kit.

Don't get invulnerable saves on Tomb Blades and don't get ignore cover on gauss Tomb Blades.

You could get 10 Warriors, 3 Scarabs, 1 Chronomancer and 1 Ghost Ark (magnetize it so it can be a Doomsday Ark as well).

Went to the hobby shop today to pick up a new model and lo and behold their only models in stock (necron-wise) were SK, tomb blades, doomstalkers, overlords, and spyders. It'll be at least a week til they get some more variety in stock. Which bums me out since they are the only hobby shop in my area besides GW and I do not feel like shelling out full retail prices. Fortunately, I spied a Lady Olynder kit on the shelf and picked her up as she'd make a nice proxy for a Ctan Transcendent. (Along with a pot of Fenrisian Grey)

So it looks like I had to do a detour on my list development.

This is interesting as I had the same thought to use her as a Nightbringer ctan proxy

AoS has quite a few model that make good proxies for Ctan. In fact a lot of the Death Army could be used as bits or some sort of stand-in for Necrons. Reikenor the Grimhailer would make for a pretty good Nightbringer..

The Kurnoth Hunters from the Slyaneth could make for a whole Ctan set with their different weapon options.

Incidentally, I came across these two models as possible Void Dragon proxies on Etsy.



Only issue with these two is their size. The first one goes from a 25mm base up to a 40mm base, while the second one goes from a 40mm base up to a 100mm base.. I'm kind of leaning towards the first one as my preference for Void Dragon but I'm not sure if he's big enough.

A good page on other possible proxies for Ctan:
https://norerolls.co.uk/2020/10/20/shards-of-the-space-gods-alternative-ctan-miniatures/
https://norerolls.co.uk/2021/04/04/shards-of-the-space-gods-alternative-ctan-miniatures-part-2/