<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Necrons Or Tyranids?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Necrons Or Tyranids?
I am looking for a new army that is super easy to paint cause I am not interested in investing more time painting.
NOT a Hoard army I painted my share lol but Tyranids can be non horde so I know that
a mix of shooty and close combat but I'm ok if shooting is better.
decent model range with a few builds
an army that probably will continue to get decent rules or be supported model wise (getting rid of finecast)
lots of flavour and variety.

so with that what do you guys think?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658583.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658583.page GMT Necrons Or Tyranids? OP" and some points and merely "bit better than average" at others. However, neither Necrons and Tyranids receive a lot of support from GW outside a few specific release windows, so they're about equal in that regard.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658584.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658584.page GMT Re:Necrons Or Tyranids?
I do not play anymore so I can't really say how competitive they are.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658585.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658585.page GMT Necrons Or Tyranids?
I would recomend some form of brown or grey. Perhaps you can do a spot colour as patterns on the shells. Or have the talons in a different colour.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658618.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658618.page GMT Necrons Or Tyranids?
Necrons are probably THE easiest to paint, even easier than oldschool marines (the ones that lacked the tons of sigils, seals, etc the current ones have).

Gameplay wise though i would be cautious about necrons. The handful of people i know that have necrons dont like playing them in 8th, they all say theyre not terribly strong and relatively boring.
That could just be because theyre all Warrior/Immortal spammers at heart though.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658643.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658643.page GMT Necrons Or Tyranids? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658655.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658655.page GMT Necrons Or Tyranids?
ballzonya wrote:
Thanks for the advice, I'm leaning necrons, I'm not a unit spammer so might me my downfall no matter which army I choose. I love to field as many different models as I can. Somebody mentioned don't glue then arms on necrons before painting why is that?


I play Necrons and like the army's lore, but everyone is right in that they're pretty boring right now. The majority of units in the codex aren't really suitable for competitive lists. There are a number of rules issues that really need to be solved for the rest of the units to be more useful. Things like Triarch Praetorians not having a Dynasty keyword and therefore not being able to benefit from most HQ buffs, low movement Spyders theoretically supporting high movement Scarabs and Reanimation Protocols being mostly useless in common game sizes since an opponent focus firing a unit to death means they never get to roll to reanimate. There are other issues, but I don't want to sound like a complainer. They're fun for casual play, but not much fun for competitive play unless you're happy sticking with a very limited number of good units.

If you're looking for something with regular new model support, just get Marines. Necrons and Tyranids can go years without a new unit. Even with something like the Psychic Awakening series, 'Nids got no new model releases. For Necrons, my expectation is either nothing or maybe to have one of the resin HQs redone in plastic. I'd be surprised if we see actual new units.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658672.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10658672.page GMT Necrons Or Tyranids?
ballzonya wrote:
Thanks for the advice, I'm leaning necrons, I'm not a unit spammer so might me my downfall no matter which army I choose. I love to field as many different models as I can. Somebody mentioned don't glue then arms on necrons before painting why is that?


Because the arms and guns rest tight across their chest, and their chest has a necron sigil on it.

If you completely assemble the model, it's very difficult to paint that area.


Spoiler:


 Kriswall wrote:
Necrons and Tyranids can go years without a new unit.


Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe there have only been... 3 new models since 2011 for Necrons, yes? That Forge World superheavy construct, the Tesseract vault, and the Cryptek that came with that one game.

So yeah, years between releases is pretty underballing it. Expect no new model support for a very long time.

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That being said, Necrons shoot better than nids. Nids melee better than Crons.
Niether army has much finecast, and with contrast paints, both are probably REALLY fast to paint. But you will always have a high model count for nids unless you go to full nidzilla lists.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10664316.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/783350/10664316.page GMT Necrons Or Tyranids?
In the current Competitive Meta, Necrons are better.

Painting wise Necrons are the easiest to paint, though I have seen some wicked looking desert/water schemes. Also, Necrons are great army to try airbrushing on as you can OSL the gauss, engines, and eyes fairly easy.

Tyranids are not easy to paint IMO. They have lots of little recess, fleshy bits, spikes, carapace that needs feathering to look right.

Tyranids are hoard army, they can be Nidzilla as you describe but its not competitive right now.

Neither range has received a lot of new model love from GW. I think necrons have the forgebane cryptek model in the last 5 years. They also got a FW super heavy LoW but ill exclude that. Tyranids haven't gotten anything, just repackage boxes.

Both armies do have good model ranges, both armies have multiple builds, though probably mono build for each for Comp list. Sadly the Blood of Baal didn't give Tyranids enough of a boost to make them super competitive in this marine meta. Necrons have yet to get the PA update.

Necrons Have the Doom 6 list with immortals + flavor (Destroyers, Tomb Blades, Wraiths). They have actually done well against marine meta.

Tyranids have Swarmlord/Genestealer Kraken detachemnt with Kronos hive Guard. Take 3 flyrants. Granted this could change a bit with the Blood of Baal. Exocrines and maybe even Warriors might become prevalent but it wont win you a GT.


They both have very unique flavor/lore and play quite differently. Do you want to play Terminators or Zerg?
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