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Necron 2500 point list

Battalion
Overlord w/ warscythe
Lord w/ voidblade, resurrection orb
20 Warriors
2x10 Tesla Immortals
10 Lychguard sword & board

Outrider
Cloaktek
6 Wraiths
5 Scarabs
9 Tomb Blades all Tesla (3 shieldvanes, 3 shadowloom, 3 nebuloscope)

Spearhead
Chronotek
3 Doomsday Arks
Transcendent C’tan

Overall Total - 2496 points
Command points - 10

I’m working on a list for a beach house weekend getaway with a bunch of friends, with a killteam campaign and friendly pickup games afterward. I wanted to have a well rounded list that can hold up against orks, tau, admech, blood angels, and possibly iron hands. I have a lot of tesla for crowd control, some fast units for objective grabbing/ screening/ speed bumping, and triple DDAs for taking out the bigger stuff. I added a transcendent c’tan for a few extra mortal wounds.

There can be some light variability with swapping to a hyperphase sword for the overlord in favor of another scarab model, shifting the builds of the tomb blades around, moving the res orb to the overlord, etc. I will bring some extra models in case I want to change things a little more drastically. The first of which would be removing the c’tan in favor of another unit of 20 warriors and swap out a DDA for a ghost ark or an annihilation barge. I don’t have any destroyers nor do I like the models, so they’re not included (though I do like their effectiveness and will consider them in the future).

I also will put VoD on one of the HQ, with the possibility of adding a second or third relic for the cost of CP (Orb of Eternity and Nightmare Shroud, I’m looking at you).

My issue is that I’m torn between two Dynasty Codes, Sautekh and Nephrekh. Nephrekh seems more appealing to me, as I love to play armies that have a strong movement phase to outmaneuver opponents (I believe the game can be - and is more often than not - won in the Movement phase). I like the idea of using total cover terrain to hide units, then pop through them next turn and immediately start shooting instead of spending a turn or two going around. Having an 11” advance with Assault teslas is sooo nice.

But Sautekh has some great synergy. I don’t much care about the dynasty code as a good portion of my weapons are assault anyway, though it would be nice on the DDAs to cancel out the Heavy/Move penalty. The Sautekh WL trait is nice, similar to the Ultramarines trait (which I use quite heavily), getting those CP back is helpful for an army that might not otherwise have a lot to start with, though the max regain 1 per round diminishes this (don’t know if we’ll play matched play or open/narrative, so there’s that). Methodical Destruction looks like a useful Stratagem to synergize units that normally wouldn't combo.

C&C welcome, and advice on dynasty choice as well.

I suggest changing the Transcendent C’tan to the deceiver for some redeploy shenanigans before the first turn. Make the chronotek a cloaktek, he can repair DDAs. Make the spearhead nihilakh to enable your DDAs re-rolling 1s to hit, when they dont move, or sautekh to cancel the move/shoot heavy weapons penalty, but DDAs normally dont move around. Nephrekh is fine if you want to move around fast.

Ahh, I was going to make them all the same dynasty. That way my crypteks could support where they are needed the most. I think for the most part I want the DDAs on the move, using their S8 profile, unless there are some higher T models out there that need wiping first. The reason for this is that I want the option to utilize its full barrage of firepower (including the two gauss flayer arrays if needed) while trying to out position my opponent.

If I were to pick just one dynasty, what would you recommend?

It would be stupid to pick only one dynasty. If you want a fast army use nephrekh. If you want your DDAs to move around without the minus to hit for heavy weapons pick sautekh. I would go with at least two different dynasties.

I understand the want for multiple dynasties, like for DDAs to run as nihilakh for the bonus to shooting. But I see a synergizing benefit from having the same dynasty across all your detachments. Foremost, it allows your support units to be able to support any unit, whether it's in its detachment or not. I put my cloaktek with my outrider detachment because I want them to be faster to keep up somewhat with the wraiths and tomb blades, mainly. But running it with the same dynasty as the DDAs allows it to fly over and support them if need be. It allows my support to be versatile.

I see your point though. I do see the benefit of thinking of the spearhead detachment as separate from the rest of the army, as the entire detachment fits a specific role unique to the army. And I guess my want for versatility, be it situational, may not necessarily be needed.

I see your point as well. I guess everyone has to make up his mind whats better in his opinion. Support across the entire army, or a detachment working on its own.

In a game size like 2.5k, I would mix it up with two sets of dynasties. The advice given so far is what I would do.