New to Necrons

[dallas]

So I bought and built the battle box and I'm trying to decide on where to go from that point? what I want to do is buy a second battle box and more base warriors. I want Nemesor Zahndrekh and Vargard Obyron as my hq's so the list will look some thing like this:

HQ
Nemesor Zahndrekh
Vargard Obyron

10 War
10 war
10 war
10 war
10 Scarab Swarms

10 immortals

2 ghost arch

It's a very basic list and a very easy battle plan but I think it will work for games with friends untill i can save up the money to build a pro army

the battle plan is to put obyron with the immortals on one side with some war back up. have Nemesor on the other with war's backing him up and some scrabs blocking or just causing issues and the two ghost arch's in the middle i'm most likely gonna have the war's out of the arch's to lay down fire and the such and move up or back as the battle flows. but my main goal is to be somewhat aggressive on one side or the other have obyrons unit charge or be charged then have the war's with arch's shoot the (please do not swear) out of them when obyron tele's out or get's summoned out by Nemesor.

[Voice of Reason]

Baiting and switching is fine as long as the bait unit is tough enough to survive the assault. Immortals generally aren't tough enough to survive - they're only as tough as tactical marines. If you want them to be ok, try using a good sized unit of T5 guys - lycheguard, destroyers, praetorians... but remember it's expensive AND Obyron doesn't have a res orb to help protect them - meaning you'll probably want a court lord or destroyer lord to carry a res orb around.

the other problem with baiting and switching like that is you've got to time it right so that your other units can pounce on the unfortunate sods Obyron jumps away from.

another thing to consider is you don't seem to have any anti-air or heavy hitters. what is your answer to terminators?

[dallas]

as of right now I have no answer for terminators except lots of shots and kiteing. eventualy i do want to run obyron with lycheguard but right now it's just not in the cards. as for AA yeah that is a glaring issue that I need to address thank you for bringing it to my attention. I think the cheepist way cash wise it to get some foam and make a necron like Aegis Defence line with a lascannon or two. I have enough bit around to make a cool looking gun for the line. it's not the best but ut will have to do for now.

[Voice of Reason]

Kiting doesn't really work in this edition. the random charge means up to 18" away. Looking at the bell curve means that if you're in rapid fire range, there is a *very* good chance you will charged.

secondarily, mobile forces and aegis defense don't really work together on a conceptual level. really though, pick some interesting units and start building versatility.