Necron help.

[ibeazoanthrope]

Every time i play as necrons, i always get obliterated in the first few minutes. Every time i look round a corner there's literally 5 turrets and a full scale army.

Any advise on how not to stink as necrons?

[Overread]

well the first things you want to build are 4 of the scarab builders. Make sure when these appear that you set them to incrase thier squade size from the start - 3 scarabs in a squade build quicker than one. Set each of these to making a power core - in the end you want to build 6 within the early stages of the game. After the 4 scarabs, add 2 warriors and the lord to the build list. As soon as the warriors appear start to boost thier numbers.
Once you have 6 power cores, send the scarabs out to capture the control points - this incrases unit caps and build speeds for unites - but only after they are captured and have a control point building built ontop
By now another warrior group should be added and you should be looking to build the first black tower thingy. As soon as it is built look to moving to the next tech level - whilst the command centre is upgrading, get the warriors defence upgrade.
Once in tech 2, the flesh covered warriors are brilliant in combat - especially with the deepstrike ability. Immortals are also a good choice - you also need to get the upgrade for the power generators - its expensive but needed.

tips:
for you commander take the
regeneration orb upgrade - the ability to bring and army back from the dead is extremely useful.
phalicry - the one that both repaires a lord and also protects him from ranged attacks
shroud - the upgrade that shrouds your army - this can be devestating if you opponent wides up losing his detector units in combat.

hope this helps a bit

[ZergLord]

Watch out for rushes.

Chaos Marines have the best rush, so be carefull.

[Haraio [MALAL]]

What Overmind and ZergLord said is right. The Necrons are the slowest army to get up to fighting shape, because their units are created very slowly in the start of the game. Therefore, try to get a few squads of Warriors as early as possible, to hold off the inevitable rushes. Play to the Necron's strength, which is their amazing resilience and staying power, and minimize their chief weakness which is their speed. The longer the game lasts, the harder it will be for your enemy to stop you, especially when you have the resurrection orb^^

[ibeazoanthrope]

ok, thanks people!