Starting Necrons

[creatureboi]

I'm planning to start collecting Necrons as a bit of a change from my tyranids. Does anyone have any helpful tips as to where I should start? I'm not looking for a super-powered tournament list but I prefer building a competitive army in line with fluff where possible.

I intend to go along the lines of a decurion rather than CAD with a solid base of warriors and immortals. Maybe a unit of 20 warriors, two units of 10 warriors both in ghost arcs, two units of immortals with nightscythes (my phone wanted to auto correct that to night urges...) and a min squad of tomb blades with the particle whip upgrade. The idea is that the 10 man squads would start in the ghost arcs which would sit behind the 20 man squad so if any do fail their 4+/4+ re animation rerolling 1's the arcs can just bring them back again.

In eternal war missions the immortals would probably start on the board but for maelstrom they would be in reserve with the nightscythes to grab objectives

If anyone has any experience with Necrons I'd like to hear your opinions. Also looking for a good necron forum equivalent to the hive, and/or any good YouTube videos/ channels for tactics and battreps

[phayze]

Doom scythe in the formation are pretty good. I see a lot of people utilizing the destroyer cult formation as well.

Shouldn't this be in the Other Armies section?

[Kark]

Yes, this thread should be in other section.

Nevertheless, immortals in scythes are good for mealstrom and perfect for eternal war objectives. Dropping them o objective (with secured) without scatter after 36" off movement is great, especially if You go second.

Canoptek harvest and destoyer cult are best formation by my recogning. Judicator batallion is not that bad, as it is some way to counter eldars (along with destroyers cult).

Furthermore, necrons are great allies for tyranids. It is not very fluffy, but the possibility to play with both Your armies in single battle is a lot of fun.

[creatureboi]

Oops I meant to put this in the "other" section but I must have accidentally put it here instead! Sorry guys

[seethe]

Use nebulo scope shield veined tomb blades man, just with gauss they are awesome.

Canoptek wraiths are amazing.

Can't go wrong with warriors if they are adequately supported. 10 in an ark are great for foward objectives. 20 with a cryptek are really resilient and a good hammer for the army. I don't normally run Dicurion with mine and will use a cryptek with the deepstrike artifact and Varguard Obyron to teleport the blob around.

[mattblowers]

Canoptek harvest is awful, as is the decurion formation. Despite what the internet would have you believe, reanimation protocols are terrible and guarantee a loss. What you want is to spam monoliths and Ctan shards. Those are ace!

I've also got an awesome beach house in Arizona I'll sell you at a steal!

This is the hive and 'crons don't produce biomass. I hate them all.