Upcoming battle against Necrons

[scorpio]

Hello members of the hive, I am having a battle against necrons this Sunday and was wondering what thoughts you could provide tactics wise, possible lists to try, and general tips. All would be helpful. I think we will play 1500-2000pts. Thanks.

[wisdomseyes1]

I have not played against new necrons yet, so I can not be of much help. I suggest looking in the vs necrons board for information on how to deal with them specifically.

[jifel]

Ok, Necrons arent actually great against nids. Do you have any idea what he will bring? Most armies either have a lot of Armor 13 or a bunch of Armor 11 fliers. Hive Guard are good, but not great against their regular vehicles. Other than that, get into CC! They have good shooting, Tesla weapons especially, but you can beat them up close. For this, Id recomend Ymgarls. Other wise they have only a little low ap. shooting, which is good for our MCs.

[sturm]

I'd say watch for mindshackle scrarabs. They can be quite nasty. Also, as jifel mentionned, tesla is something you have to keep in mind, mostly on the overwatch. I've had fair success with biovores if there is warriors on the table. It can hurt immortals too, but don't count on it being a sure thing. If you can take out their lord, either with biovores or precision shot/strike, it's always a good idea to do so.

I try to stay away from small bugs vs necrons, beside spawned termagants to hold objectives. MCs are pretty good but will die quickly if you don't have them come all at once. I havent tried the harpy against necrons, but I feel that it could do pretty well. I try to always include a few zoanthropes because of their AP3 warp blast, and you can always swap their power if your opponent goes for warriors instead of immortals.

[scorpio]

My friend has a LOT of warriors so he will not doubt be using them. He also has 2 monoliths a doomsday and 2 c'tan shards. Luckily he can't fit all that in in the size we're playing : ) he usually uses a beefed up unit of lychguard with an overlord and necrons lord in their, both with mind shackle scarabs. They are very nasty and he brings a res orb as well to make them even more survivable. Might use destroyers as he has a few of them, generally he will be focussing around big blasts to kill my little guys and charging anything big with the lychguard. I was thinking a tyrannofex might be alright with it's AP4 flamer. Thanks for the help so far guys : )

[squash]

Against necrons it's doubly important to target rear armor, so mycetic spores with dakkafex, flyrant with two brainleech devourers, that kind of thing works wonders against vehicles, and as ever, when in doubt, assault.

[Deleted]

Biovores = Lots of dead warriors

[the6thdegree]

As above- be careful around Mindshackles; they only affect one model though, so not good for Swarmlord/Trygons etc, but less dangerous against broods.

My Tfex with Rupture Cannon worked well against Necron Heavy armour; Necron weapons seem to have a 24inch range, so popping their mech T1 & T2 from your lines can hurt them and be unexpected. Also they have nothing that can really deal with 2+ saves, so again TFex and Armoured Shell Tyrant = good.

They are almost as bad as Tau in combat (other thn the Lychguard which really surprised me).

TBH - my normal tactics for MSU SMs worked fairly well against Necrons; target high priority stuff, flood table with gaunts, aim MCs at choice targets.