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Hello everybody,
I just got a new Necron army, and I have zero experience with them. After reading the codex a couple times and doing some research, I made a 1500 point list. Any help would be much appreciated.
Anyways, here it is:

HQ

Overlord (with warriors)
Warscythe
Weave
MSS
Res Orb

Royal Court
Lord (with warriors)
Res Orb

Lord (with warriors)
Res Orb

Destroyer Lord (run with wraiths)
Weave
MSS

Troops

17 Warriors

16 Warriors

16 Warriors

Fast Attack

3 Whip Wraiths

3 Whip Wraiths

Heavy

Doom Scythe

1497 pts

As far as other models, I have:
26 more warriors (I have a few immortals, and I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to convert a few)
5 Destroyers
10 scarab bases
9 Flayed ones (shouldn't have bothered to put them here)
5 Lychguard
1 C'tan
6 Crypteks
1 Monolith

Again, help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

I do like that you're going with a silver tide flavor, but I'd recommend, given what you have, to cut that third squad of warriors down to five, put the in the nightscythe instead, and then shove remaining warriors until you have two 20 man blobs. I personally, think it'll help your list greatly if you have that little bit of extra added maneuverability especially late game when you need to contest or claim an objective. It'll be hard to punish those large blobs especially with a res orb in each squad. Also, I'd recommend putting those squads of wraiths together. Even with a D. Lord in one of them, they are still extremely squishy piece meal. It's only 6 wounds per squad of wraiths. But honestly, it would greatly help your list if you had some Anni barges or ghost arks at some point. Barges are so much money for their point cost, and ghost arks will keep your warriors alive even longer, especially with two squads of warriors. Try to get at least two arks though. Anymore and I feel it gimps you too much. Try to also aim for at least 3 barges, the minimum of two imo.

I really appreciate your detailed response, thanks a lot. I'm currently working on getting some arks and a barge(s). In the meantime, what about this revised list?

HQ

Destroyer Lord
Weave
MSS

Overlord (with warriors)
Scythe
MSS
Weave
Res Orb

Lord (with warriors)
Res Orb

20 Warriors

20 Warriors

5 Warriors
1 Nightscythe

6 Whip Wraiths


1305 points
Now the question is what to fill in the rest of the points with? I'm thinking either scarabs or destroyers, but crypteks might be cool as well. Thoughts?

herpguy wrote:
I really appreciate your detailed response, thanks a lot. I'm currently working on getting some arks and a barge(s). In the meantime, what about this revised list?

HQ

Destroyer Lord
Weave
MSS

Overlord (with warriors)
Scythe
MSS
Weave
Res Orb

Lord (with warriors)
Res Orb

20 Warriors

20 Warriors

5 Warriors
1 Nightscythe

6 Whip Wraiths


1305 points
Now the question is what to fill in the rest of the points with? I'm thinking either scarabs or destroyers, but crypteks might be cool as well. Thoughts?

I'd suggest adding 2 annihilation barges for some great str7 dakka for cheap, at 90 points a pop they are a steal. Use whats left of the points to grab a warscythe for your court lord. Should be golden