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Finally read it all, after so many side track looks at links given which led to further sidetracks LOL

Still building my Necrons, had terrible problems with supply, even the boxes of immortals i ordered from Direct failed to show up and GW are sending me replacements via courier!

I was lucky to buy a fairly large amount of Necrons from someone who was selling on ebay, who pulled the auction and split it up for me, which was very nice, finished dismantling and stripping and rebuilding what was painted took a while, I have found my last long bout of illness has slowed me down considerably to wha i used to be like, but, i am sure the getting stuck into using airbrush again will soon claw me back some time.

You whole army shot looks amazing and is keeping me going cant wait to get started on painting, however i like to have everything built and i paint in bulk, just my way after 40 years, its become my way, apart from when i used to do commission work.

Still not yet decided my exact colour scheme like you was when deciding where to put the blue on the scythes But Gold is going to be my main metal colour, your Necrons (or should i say Things 1's Necrons...although you do seem to have claimed them hahha...not unusual i did the same with both my sons when they broke off from the hobby for a while), have provided me with the inspiration, i wanted gold but wasnt really sure how i wanted it until i saw yours.

Do you know when we might see some input from the Things? I enjoy hearing about their participation, brings back good memories for me, i have already been through much of what you are with my own children, my eldest now in his mid-20's is a regular gamer and painter, sadly the other have dropped out of the hobby.

Thanks for the inspiration and congrats for reaching 50 posts on this thread.

Hey Baron, thanks for checking in.

Yeah, I've kind of claimed them for now, but that's only temporary. Thing 1 has expressed interest in learning how to use the airbrush & I think when he starts painting his own minis again, "ownership" will pass back into his hands where it belongs. I'm hoping you'll see something soon from him soon. He's picked out a figure to work on, so all we have to do is find the time.

Take your time picking a paint scheme... maybe do some experimentation. Once you decide on something you're kind of committed to it, so you might as well be sure you've got something that'll keep you interested and engaged.

And thanks for posting by-the-way... I appreciate it!

I have read just about everything you have listed in your sig, i enjoy your writing style, just got the 'nid one to read, my nid army is pretty old now, i was lucky it didnt get stolen with other armies, but thats mainly as my son has it to use with is ever growing more up-to date army, Same with my spacewolves, they where right in front of me, and i have purchased everything to make them up-to date, but illness plagues me, so i am slowed down a lot.
As you say though, i have more or less decided on the colours, its where to put them on the models thats the problem at the moment, so i shall content myself building everything, and i will get them to table top ready as a bulk painting project, then start adding the colours, not having an upto date playable army in either 40k or WFB is annoying, but i hope to playing again by next month, if my immortals ever arrive!! Once i get painting I am a demon LOL.


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In fact i am just finishing off my Lychguard, then onto the flyers, and when i have the immortals and have built them it priming time.

We have a box of Lychguard to do as well. Hopefully by that time, Thing 1 will be doing his own Necrons!

Deciding which way to build them is tough, warscythe or sield and power weapon, luckily i picked up 10 in a big ebay deal, so i made some with warscythe and some with shield and power weapon, was going to magnetize, but i dont see me using them that much, and i have enough of them now to do a squad of each (2x8).
I still havent bought everything that you can have in the army, havent got any stalkers, and i only have one spyder left out of the 6 i used to have, the others obviously left without my permission (sigh!) i rather like the older ones more tactically useful, but the new ones do look impressive, cant decide yet which i will get, I must get some though, i like how useful they are now compared to the old necron codex.
I am so far behind the times only had the new Necron codex about 2 months LOL.
I actually disliked using the Necrons but loved going up against them, lot of fun to fight against but i didnt like using them, now, i think they are far more interesting and diverse, that i should enjoy them.
I am really looking forward to Reading some of your battle reports, and Thing 1 learning how to use them.
I wonder if he will pick up quickly how best to use the myriad of unit types and rule sets for them, and learn how best to use the synergy they now have?
You need to realise that things need to be done in the right order to best utilise the various abilities of things, something i really like about the army.

I also have another stumbling block, i still havent got through the 6th edition rules, i hardly managed to play 5th edition as i fell ill not long after they came out, and only managed a few games with that edition, so I still think in 4th or evn 3rd edition sometimes LOl.

Reading peoples battle reports though often helps me pick up things, and i love to see other peoples ideas on how to play particular armies, I often have my own ideas, and they have stood me in good stead in the past, we shall see though once i begin playing.

Most of all though it is reading what your youngsters are doing and the enjoyment they get out of our hobby that really keeps me going.

Started reading the'nid P&M of yours, but got side tracked very quickly LOL.

I have a battle report in the offing... Necron v. Necron, 1750 pts. Been sitting on it for weeks as I haven't had the chance to work up the photos correctly, but I'm hoping I can knock it out soon. I find the Necrons very fun to play and much more versatile than I thought they'd be. If course they're a very good dex... which makes them easy to play and easy to win with, so that doesn't hurt.

There are some pretty good power combinations with the pretorians and at least one with the lychguard... however my son has his heart set on the lychguard... so that's where we're going. Good lord they are expensive though (points-wise).

As far as learning 6th, my best advice is to find someone who has been playing a lot and really knows the edition & is willing to play a few non-competitive games with you. Just play and have them work you through the rules (or make corrections to your interpretations) as you go. It helps... a lot... and you'll have more fun because you won't have your nose buried in the rule book all night.

Well gits if you havent used your doom scythes yet you are going to love them, yesterday I went up against a necron player (and argueably one of the best players at my local gw). It was a 2k game against my salamanders and i'd like to think I was holding my own until his 3 doom scythes came onto the board blew up my vehicles and dropped 1 unit of immortals and 2 units of snipers w/ cryptek in the middle of my army. By the end of turn 5 all that i had left standing was vulkan he'stan. *shakes fist at doom scythes*

I haven't. I didn't realize the Doom Scythes could carry troops. Will have to give those a second look. The problem at the moment is that for some odd reason, our Necron army has a TON of heavies... so if I go the Doom Scythe route I'm not sure how much of an army we can actually put together. One way or the other I think one more scythe is definitely called for... either as a third infantry transport or the fill the heavy slots with Doom Scythes.

Ah i thought they were fast attack being flyers, but yea 5 deathmarks with a cryptek with that flame template atack will destroy anything that is marked for death. also mind shackle scarabs for your lord is a definite headache, vulcan hit himself alot yesterday lol.

*chuckle* I'm trying to bitz-out a squad of deathmarks... just I'm too cheap to buy a box filled with things I'm not going to use.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
*chuckle* I'm trying to bitz-out a squad of deathmarks... just I'm too cheap to buy a box filled with things I'm not going to use.

I made 10 Deathmarks using body and legs of spare warriors, the only problem i found was the warrior torso being too narrow, to get round this, i filled the shoulder sockets with a ball of greenstuff before adding the arms and sniper gun (forgotten the name) worked perfectly, and with the spare Deathmark heads i had, they looked okay. However to add even more likeness to proper Deathmarks i cut off the cowling from the back of the Deathmark torso and glued it on to the back of the neck of the warrior torso, they look pretty good, anyway got 10 of them and enough parts to make another 15 if i really wanted to, although i doubt it.
When i eventually get the Immortals i ordered from GW direct, over a week ago, i am thinking of making some extra immortals out of the spare Warriors i have, i should have enough to make 20 Gauss Blaster Immortals, (I have so many Warriors built and painted from previous edition and a hell of a lot un-built, and part built, built and built and primed LOL, I think 100 painted Warriors is enough for now, i can utilise the rest for conversions to save myself some money.

As to all the super lets make sure i win ability of the Necrons, I would rather have a fun game, i will be playing against Marines (Salamander Chapter), Chaos Demon Army, and Nids first off, The Demons may had Chaos Marine Allies with a Helldrake which should be fun, but if they dont ...there is two armies with no transports for my Gauss, Not that it matters, i want to use a balanced army and stick with it, modifying it as i play different armies until i have a fun army which can give a good game to everyone i play without ruining their fun, but ofc when i come up against a power gamer whose sole purpose for playing is to table other peoples army, so they can do very little, then i will pull out all the stops, see how thy like it done to them, although i have found people like that try to avoid, experienced players with good armies and target newbies or easy armies etc.

Looking forward to reading the Necron V Necron Battle rep.

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I haven't. I didn't realize the Doom Scythes could carry troops. Will have to give those a second look. The problem at the moment is that for some odd reason, our Necron army has a TON of heavies... so if I go the Doom Scythe route I'm not sure how much of an army we can actually put together. One way or the other I think one more scythe is definitely called for... either as a third infantry transport or the fill the heavy slots with Doom Scythes.

Gits, I think you should read that too : http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2012/10/40k-paging-matt-ward-ahem-about-that.html

I know you're not a "power gamer" per se, but a little help couldn't hurt

Interesting article, and I don't disagree with their assessment of it's power. But we all know that GW never back-tracks on it's rules... so I'm afraid their suggestions will fall on deff ears.

I don't have any intention of building an airforce. Two flyers as transports seems fine. Neat, but not overbalancing... and so far, opponents who've bothered to shoot at them (even without skyfire) seem to have no problem bringing them down. However, I fully understand the power of the Necron planes and even within our Adepticon team... we figure if we come up against a Necron air force we're just going to lose. Them's the breaks... The same could be said for other builds in 5th Edition as I recall.

It's also clear to me from looking at the codex that the Doom Scythe has no transport capacity. Sorry polari, I think your opponent took advantage of you.

BaronB3 wrote:

 Gitsplitta wrote:
*chuckle* I'm trying to bitz-out a squad of deathmarks... just I'm too cheap to buy a box filled with things I'm not going to use.

I made 10 Deathmarks using body and legs of spare warriors, the only problem i found was the warrior torso being too narrow, to get round this, i filled the shoulder sockets with a ball of greenstuff before adding the arms and sniper gun (forgotten the name) worked perfectly, and with the spare Deathmark heads i had, they looked okay. However to add even more likeness to proper Deathmarks i cut off the cowling from the back of the Deathmark torso and glued it on to the back of the neck of the warrior torso, they look pretty good, anyway got 10 of them and enough parts to make another 15 if i really wanted to, although i doubt it.
When i eventually get the Immortals i ordered from GW direct, over a week ago, i am thinking of making some extra immortals out of the spare Warriors i have, i should have enough to make 20 Gauss Blaster Immortals, (I have so many Warriors built and painted from previous edition and a hell of a lot un-built, and part built, built and built and primed LOL, I think 100 painted Warriors is enough for now, i can utilise the rest for conversions to save myself some money.

That's what I did too... rather than the neck thing though, I'm in the process of making cloaks and cowls for them. They are turning out Grim Reaper-ish, but with guns.

About the BOLS article... it sounds like a whole lot of sour grapes to me. IG get their fliers in squads... and they are cheaper too. Demons and 'Nids get better cover with the MC's.
If you really think about it, Necron fliers have really crappy Time-On-Target compared to the imperial fliers.

Well, I do have a couple of the new SM flyers and some ork planes as well. Until I get those painted up and get some play-time with them, I don't really have a basis for comparison. I love them as troop transports. Long-range pin-point drops are hard to argue with... but their table-time is limited which is an important balancing factor. You have to be smart about how you use them, as good as they are... because your impact on the tabletop will most likely be limited to 2 or 3 turns. I guess that's why I haven't been in a big hurry to finish the gun for the Doom Scythes... as troop transports they fill a big hole in the army. While they're clearly outstanding as heavy support, we have several other heavy options, at least one of which (anni-barges) is quite viable. I might change my mind if we get the ark painted up & have another transport option... but for now... Night Scythes it is!

I could be wrong on the type of scythe it didnt do much shooting, but anyways i just picked up a stormtalon myself

Was cleaning out some shelves looking for a lost model part and Thing 1 and I decided to put all of his old Doom Eagles together for a photo-op. Here they are in all their glory... over 4000 points. Most of which are even painted!



He likes the fact that they're kind of a mish-mosh. I kinda do too... gives them character.

I'm so jealous of those old school vehicles. Thing 1 has my envy

That's a classy army for a kid to be running

Yeah, still needs work but it's getting there...

Impressive looking army. Something to be proud of.

Very nice. He has a respectable force and a good choice of units to build a decent list.

Got to get him to finish up some details. ( like father, like son)

I may sneak in and finish off the alar and Predator. I'm so jealous... He has four heavy vehicles and two land raiders! I have only one each...

Quick update. Painting up a couple of things to complete a 1000 pt Adepticon army. Pretty cookie-cutter. Wraiths and flyers, D-lord. Finished the last wraith (won't bore you with that). Making progress on the flyer (will be the third). Went very smoothly. I altered the paints I used a bit due to colors no longer in production or incredibly variable dye lots (Valejo is terrible at keeping their colors consistent). It's a little redder than the others but close enough that I think it'll look alright. Gold is done. On to the boltgun metal, black & finally the blue.

Looks great. Nice variations to the colours and tones. :thumsbup:

Very nice I love the way you do the Necrons Git's

Wow, looks great! The subtle changes & various hues make for an awesome look !

Good luck, Gits !

Got all the base colors down on the Scythe. Next up... detailing!

That blue makes a nice contrast with the gold ! Nice !!!

Thanks Yggs! Still a long way to go.