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This is more of a desired list rather than an actual one I plan to bring. Basically I'd like to hear your opinions regarding the unit composition and formation usage:

Core: Reclamation legion.

Overlord with nightmare shroud, warschyte, phase shifter, and gauntlet of fire. 170pts
5xWarriors with Gauss.
10x warriors 130pts
20x warriors 260pts
5x lychguard with sword+shields.
3x tomblades with nebuloscopes, shield vanes and twin-linked gauss blasters.

Auxiliarry:

Deathbringer flight (2x doomscythes as they come)
Judicator batallion (Naked, as it comes, the praetorians go with rod of covenant)
Anhilation Nexus (anhilation barges go with gauss cannons.)
How it is? The basic idea is to blast the enemy (most of my meta is AM with one or two marine players and a dark eldar), tabling them before they retaliate.

I think you need to think about your strategy a little more.

AM can bring hundreds of troops or tanks and if you're going to sit back and blast them with the Doomsday Cannon or Deathbringers you might get a few plates on them; they'll get cover saves and then they'll shoot you to a pulp. Lascannon heavy weapons teams make a real mess of necron backfield vehicles and they can field more of them than you can shake your rods at.

Judicator Bn are great... at killing terminators and marines. Which Imperial Guard are not. All you need to chew through tanks and men are AP4/5 weapons.

I can see why you'd take a Deathbringer flight - for popping tanks. I'd probably leave that in, unless your Op has lots of tanks then I'd add scythe bearing lychguard in a nightscythe instead (maybe 2x5 scythe guard w/ NS)

Your troops are so superior in everyway to guard. Max warriors. I'd take four or five or even six warrior squads. Back them up with 20 flayed ones. And get a load of tomb blades to snipe any high value targets in cover and harrass en light armour vehicles.

Well, I'll keep this list whenever I get marine opponents. And for guard, I think I'll get a court switch the gear from RL's overlord to the court's, make him the warlord, and give the other lords resurrection orbs for two twenty man blobs and place the cryptek in one of em.

Well some things. I think you are thinking of necrons in the wrong light. Their strength is resilience not necessarily overwhelming firepower, espeshially from the "alpha strike" point of view.

You have too many choices from auxiliary and some of them are very subpar.

Possibly the worst formation the annihilation nexus is frought with problems. Firstly it forces you to take 2 annihilation barges which are no longer the bargain 90 points they used to be AND tesla got a nerf so they no longer provide the level of anti air they once did. Further the buff to the doomsday arch wasn't enough to make it a real contender. Other armies will just plain old out shoot necrons at range(eldar and tau I'm looking at you).

Deathbringer flight is a bit meh, although with tank spam a possibility it might be fun.

So I would say pick some theme and go with it. If you like flyers then go with that. If not then have a massive ground force. Canopteck harvests are good, so are flayed ones now. Destroyer cults are more for anti marines and eldar. Justicar battalions can be a general buff as making your inf bs5.

Regarding the post I think I'll go for coming a CAD with a Decurion. I'll drop both the Anhilation Nexus and the justicar batallion. The deathbringer remains because my enemies rarely bring anti-air.
Instead I'll add a cad with the following:

Cryptek with cronometron.

19 man blob of warriors.
5x warriors (or objective holders B)

2x triarch stalkers for BS boosting (this is mostly for the warriors)
and an anhilation barge.
All in all it would be 1998 points.

Lord Kragan wrote:
This is more of a desired list rather than an actual one I plan to bring. Basically I'd like to hear your opinions regarding the unit composition and formation usage:

Core: Reclamation legion.

Overlord with nightmare shroud, warschyte, phase shifter, and gauntlet of fire. 170pts
5xWarriors with Gauss.
10x warriors 130pts
20x warriors 260pts
5x lychguard with sword+shields.
3x tomblades with nebuloscopes, shield vanes and twin-linked gauss blasters.

Auxiliarry:

Deathbringer flight (2x doomscythes as they come)
Judicator batallion (Naked, as it comes, the praetorians go with rod of covenant)
Anhilation Nexus (anhilation barges go with gauss cannons.)
How it is? The basic idea is to blast the enemy (most of my meta is AM with one or two marine players and a dark eldar), tabling them before they retaliate.

Hi,

As you want c&c on this list I won't suggest any other auxiliary builds but just offer suggestions on what you have.

First off you list 5 warriors with gauss, I'm guessing you mean immortals as warriors start at groups of 10. Personally I'd run them as tesla especially if you plan on sitting back and shooting. Gauss only beats tesla when it's in rapid fire range really.

I'm guessing your expensive Lord will go with the shield guard? That will hit hard but is very slow. Expect opponents to either ignore it or just kill it with weight of dice from a distance.

Split the 20 warriors into two groups of ten (giving you 3 total) so that you can target different units rather than waste dice.

Tomb blades are great for jumping out, grabbing objectives and being a pain for your opponent. A very nice unit, if you can get more of them I would.

Deathbringer flight can be a bit of a gamble (what if it doesn't show up for a few turns etc), it won't be much of an alpha strike as the fighting will already be happening when it arrives and you usually get one good pass and maybe one average pass before you are struggling for a shot. When I use it I go big or go home with 3 doom scythes.

Judicator is very popular, but expect everyone to kill the stalker turn one, negating its bonus. Another case of go big or go home, you want more than one stalker so that there is a better chance of one surviving. Praetorians are good but a small group of them may die quickly.

Annihilation nexus isn't a popular formation as people loved the old barges as they were cheap and effective. They're still effective but now cost 33% more. I'd usually keep the same weapon profiles, so tesla cannons, as you will be targeting the same unit with all the barge's weaponry. Set up the doomsday ark with the best LoS you can as you don't want to move it. Use it for board control, no one wants to be caught in the open with that firing. but this will limit the effectiveness of the barges as you need to be within 12" (6"?) to use the special rules I think, so tesla wins out over gauss for range on them.

Remember your limitations. Slow and only medium range. Place objectives around the middle of the board to bring your opponent forward. Target priority is key. Don't waste shots on something you'll struggle to kill, reduce what is shooting back first. Use a warrior unit to bog something down if you can't kill it with shooting (my favourite tactic against riptides for example) and then your slow Lord unit can walk into combat and mop up.

Most importantly have fun!

Lord Kragan wrote:
Regarding the post I think I'll go for coming a CAD with a Decurion. I'll drop both the Anhilation Nexus and the justicar batallion. The deathbringer remains because my enemies rarely bring anti-air.
Instead I'll add a cad with the following:

Cryptek with cronometron.

19 man blob of warriors.
5x warriors (or objective holders B)

2x triarch stalkers for BS boosting (this is mostly for the warriors)
and an anhilation barge.
All in all it would be 1998 points.

If you are bringing 3 troop choices then run the mephrit dynasty cohort if you want more freedom than the decurion allows. Mephrit allows your troops to reroll 1's on RP. Which you may want if you are bringing that many troops.

So you want to take 1 cryptek with Chrono - 90pts
1 19 man blob of warriors - 247pts
5 10 man warrior squads - 650pts
2 stalkers - 250
1 barge - 120

Thats 1357pts + Death Bringer for 320 = 1677

Am I missing something here?

Also you may want to consider bringing/proxying Illuminor Szeras - he gives everyone within 6 inches +1 reanmate bringing you back to a 4+RP and has Str8 AP 2 Lance weapon with 36"

Naaris wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
Regarding the post I think I'll go for coming a CAD with a Decurion. I'll drop both the Anhilation Nexus and the justicar batallion. The deathbringer remains because my enemies rarely bring anti-air.
Instead I'll add a cad with the following:

Cryptek with cronometron.

19 man blob of warriors.
5x warriors (or objective holders B)

2x triarch stalkers for BS boosting (this is mostly for the warriors)
and an anhilation barge.
All in all it would be 1998 points.

If you are bringing 3 troop choices then run the mephrit dynasty cohort if you want more freedom than the decurion allows. Mephrit allows your troops to reroll 1's on RP. Which you may want if you are bringing that many troops.

So you want to take 1 cryptek with Chrono - 90pts
1 19 man blob of warriors - 247pts
5 10 man warrior squads - 650pts
2 stalkers - 250
1 barge - 120

Thats 1357pts + Death Bringer for 320 = 1677

Am I missing something here?

Also you may want to consider bringing/proxying Illuminor Szeras - he gives everyone within 6 inches +1 reanmate bringing you back to a 4+RP and has Str8 AP 2 Lance weapon with 36"

You missed the reclamation legion up there (the Overlord won't have the nightmare shroud, though, nor there are lichguard).

I just thought I would point out that Warriors have a minimum unit size of 10 models. Unless the Exalted Decurion has an exemption for this (I'm not familiar with that formation), that 5-warrior unit isn't legal.