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Hi guys.

I will have a game against necron soon and I would like your opinion concerning Heavy Support. My opponent would play 2 doom arks and 2 Monoliths

The first unit are havocs with 4 autoguns, to shoot infantry
The second one is a Land Raider, to shoot DA and Monoliths and/or bring an anti-tank squad of terminators
The third one, I hesitate between and Forgefiend with Hades Autocanon, angainst his infantry and maybe his heavy support, or a Maulerfiend with Powerfist and Magma Cutter againt his vehicules.

As anti-tank units, I will also have 2 squads of raptors with Meltaguns and Melta bomb.

Your opinion ?

What Point value are you playing? Also, are those Doomsday Arks, or Doom Scythes (the flyer)?

2500 points, and they are Doom Arks (antigrav, not flying)

Luckily he's brought the bottom tier of Necron heavy support, so you might be okay if he's just thrown them in without any real purpose... however, if he DOES know what he's doing, be prepared to deal with some trickery.
(is he bringing any Stalkers? if so, focus on those first. they will grant twin linking to the pie plate launchers, and you don't want that to happen)

Are tri-las Predators an option for you? 3 Lascannon shots (one of which is twin-linked) will do reasonably well against his Arks, giving your melta-dudes more time to get close to his Monoliths. Also, I would suggest MSU against all of his big pie plates, that way it is harder for him to get as many casualties in a single shot.

Thanks for your advises, goona adjust my army list.

If it is TL-Pie Launchers from 4 Stalkers, you are going to be in serious trouble if caught in the open.

My spies had confirmed me that he has only a single stalkers, gonna concentrate my firepower on it on the first turn, or send my WDP to crunch it

any good Necron Player will have enough shooting to blow any FMC out of the sky, then Focus Fire until its dead turn one. Even if it means hes giving a fair bit oy your forces a shooting-free first turn, he will just shoot thge Bolters at you until you hit the ground or you die, whatever is first. oif you ht the ground first, expect to be crrushed through weight of shots

basicly dont rely on a WDP to kill the stalker.

Ok thanks for your advices : gonna use my firepower to destroy it asap, than will deal with his monoliths

to be fair, you are probably better getting rid of the DDAs asap, because they are S9AP1Pies that can and will make mincemeat of a lot of things...

There are MANY pies dispensers in the Necron Codex

 meecham63 wrote:
There are MANY pies dispensers in the Necron Codex

No, there isn't.

Particle Shredder, Particle beamer, Particle whip and the Doomsday Ark are the only weapons that use the Blast or Large Blast template. At least off the top of my head. There are generally very few blasts in a typical Necron army.

 Sasori wrote:

 meecham63 wrote:
There are MANY pies dispensers in the Necron Codex

No, there isn't.

Particle Shredder, Particle beamer, Particle whip and the Doomsday Ark are the only weapons that use the Blast or Large Blast template. At least off the top of my head. There are generally very few blasts in a typical Necron army.

Available on-
Monoliths
Doomsday Arks
Stalkers
Tomb Blades
(C'tan have access to blast templates, too)

Really, if you wanted to, it would be no problem to spam pie plates with Necrons.

 skoffs wrote:

 Sasori wrote:

 meecham63 wrote:
There are MANY pies dispensers in the Necron Codex

No, there isn't.

Particle Shredder, Particle beamer, Particle whip and the Doomsday Ark are the only weapons that use the Blast or Large Blast template. At least off the top of my head. There are generally very few blasts in a typical Necron army.

Available on-
Monoliths
Doomsday Arks
Stalkers
Tomb Blades
(C'tan have access to blast templates, too)

Really, if you wanted to, it would be no problem to spam pie plates with Necrons.

And Tomb Spyders as well.

Sasori is right that their aren't that many different kinds, and you don't generally see them taken. However, as Skoffs points out, you can easily come with a whole host of them if you want too.

Consider:

9xTomb Spyder w/Particle Beamers 675
15xTomb Blades w/Particle Beamers 450
3xTomb Stalkers w/Particle Shredders 465 ( I think the Shredders are 5 points per?)

1590 points worth of bomb dropping secsie. Could be fun.

Jesus, throw in some troops + an HQ, and you could drown the table in 27 templates a turn.