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Hey, I posted earlier about a small 550 point army list and decided to create an expanded army list so I knew where I was headed in the future and I was just looking for some thoughts on the list.

Royal Court
Necron Overlord
-Voidreaper
-Phylactery
Tachyon Arrow
-Resurrection Orb
-Phase Shifter
200 points

One Cryptek
-Veil of Darkness
-One Chronometron
115 points

One Necron Lord
-Warscythe
-Phylactery
-Orb of Eternity
-Gauntlet of Fire
135 points
450 points

 
Reclamation Legion
Orikan the Diviner 120 points
120 points

Necron Warriors
-Twenty Necron Warriors 260 points
260 points

Necron Warriors
-Twenty Necron Warriors 260 points
260 points

Necron Immortals
-Ten Necron Immortals 170 points
-Ghost Ark 105 points
275 points

Lychguards
-Five Lychguards 125 points
-Hyperphase and Dispersion 25 points
150 points

Tomb Blades
-Five Tomb Blades 90 points
-Five Nebuloscopes 10 points
100 points
1165 points
Deathmarks
-Five Deathmarks 90 points
90 points

Canoptek Harvest
Canoptek Wraiths
-Six Canoptek Wraiths 240 points
-Four Whip Coils 12 points
-One Particle Casters 5 points
-Transdimensional Beamer 10 points
272 points

Canoptek Spyder
-One Spyder 50 points
-Gloom Prism 10 points
-Twin-Linked Particle Beamer 10 points
70 points

Canoptek Scarabs
-Three Scarabs 60 points
60 points
402 points

Deathbringer Flight
Three Doom Scythes 480 points
480 points
 
Annihilation Nexus
Two Annihilation Barges 240 points
240 points

Doomsday Ark 170 points
170 points
410 points

2997 points

First off, a couple of things are illegal:
1. Orikan can't be chosen as the leader of a Reclamation Legion.
2. Immortals can't take a Ghost Ark as a dedicated transport.

All in all, this lacks focus. That Royal Court is kitted to the moon and each guy is a confused mess. You have a Tachyon Arrow alongside a Void Reaper, a Veil of Darkness with a Chronometron, an Orb of Eternity with a Gauntlet of Fire... I have no idea what each guy is supposed to do. You need to think of a role for the Overlord, Cryptek and Lord and kit them accordingly.

What's with the mixed weapons on the Wraiths? What are they supposed to do? Are they hunting monstrous creatures with the Transdimensional Beamer? Are they going after dedicated assault units with the Whip Coils? Are they hunting run of the mill infantry with the pistols? Again, you need to focus these guys. Decide what you want them to do and kit them accordingly.

Not meaning to be harsh, but you need to focus this army a lot and think of a game plan. Right now, it's just a mish-mash of formations with fancy wargear.

I agree with counter, its very disorganized. The Royal Court is good if you take Anrakyr, Szeras, and Obryn, then take Zandrekh as your legion overlord. bring 2 units of 10 Immortals, 1 with tesla, 1 with gauss, then 2-3 units of warriors with Arks, you'll also want to bring 3 squads of jetbikes, 2 with gauss and 1 with particle. Bring a harvest and the Deciever and maybe some flayed ones or death marks aswell. Just my preference

No worries, I don't really know much on the rules and how armies are supposed to be formulated, especially warlords and mixing weapons and such. I will take into consideration what you said and post a revised army later.

Also, I am rather opposed to taking any C'Tan as from what I have read collectively, they aren't great units.


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Royal Court
Necron Overlord
-Voidreaper
-Phylactery
-Resurrection Orb
-Phase Shifter
175 points

Orikan the Diviner 120 points
120 points

One Necron Lord 50 points
-Warscythe 20 points
-Phylactery 15 points
-Orb of Eternity 40 points
125 points
420 points

 
Reclamation Legion
Overlord 80 points

Necron Warriors
-Twenty Necron Warriors 260 points
260 points

Necron Warriors
-Twenty Necron Warriors 260 points
260 points

Necron Immortals
-Ten Necron Immortals 170 points
170 points

Necron Immortals
-Ten Necron Immortals 170 points
-Tesla Carbines
170 points

Lychguards
-Five Lychguards 125 points
-Hyperphase and Dispersion 25 points
150 points

Tomb Blades
-Five Tomb Blades 90 points
-Five Nebuloscopes 10 points
100 points
1190 points


Deathmarks
-Five Deathmarks 90 points
90 points


Canoptek Harvest
Canoptek Wraiths
-Six Canoptek Wraiths 240 points
-Six Whip Coils 18 points
258 points

Canoptek Spyder
-One Spyder 50 points
-Gloom Prism 10 points
-Twin-Linked Particle Beamer 10 points
70 points

Canoptek Scarabs
-Three Scarabs 60 points
60 points
388 points


Deathbringer Flight
Three Doom Scythes 480 points
480 points


Annihilation Nexus
Two Annihilation Barges 240 points
240 points

Doomsday Ark 170 points
170 points
410 points


2978 points


Okay, so I've taken on board what counter has said and made the Wraiths dedicated to taking out assault units as well as removed the plain Cryptek and replaced him with Orikan and made just a regular old Overlord with currently no kit and 22 points to spare. Basically I need a fair bit of guidance because I absolutely love Necrons and I want to start playing them outside of old DoW.

Ethan wrote:
Okay, so I've taken on board what counter has said and made the Wraiths dedicated to taking out assault units as well as removed the plain Cryptek and replaced him with Orikan and made just a regular old Overlord with currently no kit and 22 points to spare. Basically I need a fair bit of guidance because I absolutely love Necrons and I want to start playing them outside of old DoW.

This list looks much better and more focussed. Here a couple of improvement suggestions:

- I would drop the Warscythe and Phylactery on the Lord in the Court and, instead, give those upgrades to the Overlord in the Legion. The Overlord will make much better use of them. Keep the Lord a reanimation buffer with Staff of Light + Orb of Eternity. If you put both Overlords, Orikan, the Lord and the Lychguard in the same unit, you have a pretty nasty death-star.
- I don't think C'tan are particularly good either. Their biggest drawback is the random power selection. That said, they're super fun to play with.
- You don't have any mobility. Warriors in Ghost Arks and Immortals in Night Scythes are both great units.
- I find Deathmarks don't do much in small groups. You need 7-8 of them to have any impact. I would increase their squad size or drop them entirely.
- The Annihilation Nexus is a pretty mediocre formation. Doomsday Arks are terrible and Annihilation Barges are just okay.
- I'm not sure about the Deathbringer Flight. If you fight lots of armour and Knights, then it's a good take, otherwise I think it's over-costed for what it does. S10 Large Blast sounds awesome, but with the prevalence of cover saves in 7th, it's just not as good as it used to be. Furthermore, Necron flyers have to zoom, so you're only going to get 3-4 turns of shooting out of them per game.
- You don't have any anti-air and at 3,000 points you can bet there'll be some flyers kicking around. Yes, you can engage flyers with the Doom Scythes, but not with their Death Rays because Death Rays are blast weapons. At that point you're spending 160 points to do the same amount of damage as a Night Scythe at 130.

All in all, you`re off to a good start, but lacking an overall strategy I think. 3,000 points gives you so much flexibility to make a very cool specialized army. You can go fast with Night Scythes, Doom Scythes and Tomb Blades, assault with multiple Canoptek Harvests and Judicator Battalions, board control with Monoliths, Ghost Arks and Deathmarks, etc. I suggest starting off at a lower points cap and building from there. See what you like and what you don't like before spending upwards of $1,000 on kits.

I hope this helps!

Protip:

10 warriors + ghost ark, four / five times = win.

Ffyllotek wrote:
Protip:

10 warriors + ghost ark, four / five times = win.

Yeah, AV13 wall does pretty good, Arks/Barges/Stalker/Monolith will do well against armies with low S weapons

Heres a list you might want to look at though.

Reclamation Legion-1326

Overlord
-Warscythe

10 Immortals
-Gauss, Night Scythe

5 Lychguard
-Shield/Sword, Night Scythe

4 Tomb Blades
-Scope, Vanes, Gauss

4 Tomb Blades
-Scope, Vanes, Gauss

10 Warriors
-Ark

10 Warriors
- Ark

Court-370

Overlord
-Voidreaper, Phase Shifter

Orikan

Lord
-SoL, Orb of Eternity, Phase Shifter

Harvest-453

Spyder
-Beamer, Repair Array, Gloom Prism

6 Wraiths
-Whipcoils

6 Scarabs

Deathmarks-180
-10 Deathmarks

Flayed Ones-130
-10

Judicator Battalion-540

2 Stalkers
-Particle Shredders

5 Praetorians
-RoC

5 Praetorians
-RoC

The whole thing is 2999 pts.

You get 4 AV13 vehicles, 2 Flyers, Close combat/deep strikers, a Deathstar, Warrior blobs, Gauss(and plenty of it), an assault unit guaranteed to do damage, and yeah.

this is a basic list I whipped up, feel free to change and alter it.