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... my bedroom closet, that is.  I found buried in the back of my closet some Necron miniatures that I had forgotten about.  I found a (partial) box of Necron Warriors, a blister of Flayed Ones, two Destroyers and a Monolith!  Anyway, I decided to see what kind of list I could put together using these models.  Here is the list I came up with.  Any feedback would be greatly appreciated:

++HQ++

Lord @ 185 Pts
   Staff of Light; Destroyer Body; Phylactery; Resurrection Orb
 
++ELITES++

5 Flayed Ones @ 105 Pts
   Disruption Field

5 Flayed Ones @ 105 Pts
   Disruption Field

++TROOPS++

10 Warriors @ 180 Pts

10 Warriors @ 180 Pts

10 Warriors @ 180 Pts

10 Warriors @ 180 Pts

A nice, solid core of Warriors.

++FAST ATTACK++

4 Destroyers @ 200 Pts

The Necron Lord will join this squad.

3 Destroyers @ 150 Pts

3 Destroyers @ 150 Pts

++HEAVY SUPPORT++

Monolith @ 235 Pts

Total Roster Cost: 1,850 points

Well, do I have the beginnings of a working list or should they go back into the closet?

You have a good start. However, you are best off with squads of four (or preferably 5) destroyers. Drop warriors to make this happen.

Drop the flayed ones and get a unit of 10 immportals (drop more warriors to do so). Make the remaining warriors squads of 12. I like my lord on foot, but other like mounted. Your choice.

Chuck~

You have a good start. However, you are best off with squads of four (or preferably 5) destroyers. Drop warriors to make this happen.

Drop the flayed ones and get a unit of 10 immportals (drop more warriors to do so). Make the remaining warriors squads of 12. I like my lord on foot, but other like mounted. Your choice.

Chuck~

You really need to consider that with your lord running with the destroyers, he probably will be out of range to lend the Res Orb to the rest of your army. Its unfortunate and boring, but the best necron armys seem to be the standard phalanx of unkillable guys surrounding a lord with a res orb and a monolith. I always take 2 lords so one can veil while the other stays in orb range. Oh and tomb spyders are helpful

I would personally nix the Flayed ones in favor of Immortals as well. I wouldnt drop any warriors, as they are an awesome basic troop. Drop some wargear from the lord, a destroyer maybe, and run with two large destroyer squads or 3 small ones. Your choice. Drop that gear and the destroyer, swap out FO for immortals, and youll be great. FLayed ones are, sadly, simply ok. If the game wasnt riddled with fearless troops, or if displacer fields gave Rending instead, then yes. But not now. I cant wait till 2009, when the new Necron codex will be out, after the new Chaos and Marine dex's, no doubt.

I don't really think an army without at least one squad of scarabs can be considered viable. They are simply amazing. Don't leave home without a squad of 6.

Flayed ones - simply not worth it. Maybe if they had rending claws.

Destroyers play kind of contrary to many rules of unit selection in that bigger squads are easier to keep alive. With necrons you lose many of the benefits of having multiple smaller units because you have to keep them all together and can't really risk splitting them up to engage several targets (since your destroyers should /always/ remain in range of each other for WBB rolls, unless you're sure your opponent can't kill one squad off entirely in a turn). And you're going to need to get down to 2 squads if you want some scarabs (which is a pretty good idea). Not gonna say that smaller squads of destroyers don't have some benefits, but they don't get AS MANY benefits out of multiple units as other dudes do like say landspeeders/bikes.

At 1850, I think one Lord is sufficient. Destroyers don't need an orb if you keep them out of assault, so you can put 2 x 5 destroyers and 10 scarabs on one flank and a warrior block on the other flank or center. If you're killing things with S10 weapons that's of course an exception, but the # of S10 things is slim.

I've seen most successful local necrons are using slightly bigger squads to keep from being outnumbered (at least one or two 12-16 man squads) and broken.

As people said you warriors require a Lord supporting them - period.

I usually dont concern myself with losing my destroyers, hence why I recommended what I did. But since I started with Tau, I am constantly manuvering. Nothing scares opponants more than expecting a slow, plodding army and finding it suddenly in your face with 40 rapid fire bolter shots, with many, many skimmers hitting your sides. That being said, I agree that a maxed scarab unit is perfect, I always have one. They usually make back their points by trapping squads inside destroyed vehicles, or tarpitting. But, I was trying to stick with the original list as much as possible.

I wish my closet would spit out a Monolith every now and then... You would most certainly benefit from working in some Immortals. Drop a Destroyer Squad and increase the other two to five each. Add some Scarabs.