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| One of strangess     Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Turn around... (if I'm not there I'm usually in Bangladesh)
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|  Necrons - starting 'em Hey, I'm posting for a friend actually... this person (he's actually registered here... he just hasn't posted in forever...) but anyways... he finally has the money to buy some 40k models, and wants to start with necrons. (either them or Tau, but he likes necrons more). We did some looking, and the battleforce seems to be any amazing deal (its easily over 500 pts... and all you have to do is throw in a lord to have a army you can play with right from the get go!). So... suggestions on what to get... or anything in general.
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| Extremis Diabolus  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in the shadows.
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 | Warriors should be the first priority. After you've got two decent-sized squads (12-15), then some Destroyers or Wraiths for mobility. Might want to consider a Destroyer Lord because then he can get the prerequisite Ressurection Orb all over the place quickly. After that, Monolith. Easily the best vehicle in the game (mostly because it's points cost is low for what it can do).
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| The Witchhunter  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: In your imagination
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 | when the time comes, i plan to get 5 battle forces, and with that added to my Necron Lord, Destroyer Lord, 6x Immortals and Monolith will give me the best part of two thousand points. not a bad start wouldn't you say? all tolled it will probably be the cheapest 2k army i have! |
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| Filthy, Dirty Radical    Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: lost in a blizzard, somewhere near toronto!
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| i'd look at scarab swarms over wraiths in all honesty. the wraiths are really one of those 'great on paper' units. if you take them, then you need at least 2 full squads due to their small numbers & the fact that they are "necrons". most seasoned players know to target your small specialist units like destroyers/wraiths and down them asap as their few numbers can easily stop them from getting their WBB roll... same deal goes for destroyers; if you take 'em, take at least 2 squads of 4 so that your opponent has as hard a time as possible trying to take them all down in one go. as for what to get; - warriors - more warriors - immortals - even more warriors!  - monolith! as for the secret to the monolith's true power; teleport. and teleport some more! combined with a viel of darkness, you can pull upto 2 units/turn out of any assaults they might be in! cheers!
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| Adeptus Arbrites  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: socal
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| yeah scarab swarms pwn vehicles! and are graet for tieing up thos close combat squad you realy dont want to get into your warriors to soon.
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| Destruction Manifest   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Loyall, Kentucky
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Blog Entries: 1 | Flayed ones might not be a bad ideal either, give ya some CC.
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| Adeptus Arbrites Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: socal
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| a word to ya if you play eldar. i had 2 wraiths tied in hTh with a wraithlord for all 6 turns with no wounds caused eather way. lol 3+invul rules!! if they only counted as powerweapons they could accualy cause some wounds :/
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| Sergeant   Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: pueblo, colorado (hell)
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| i would stick with 30-40 warriors. then maybe immortals and destroyers. gotta have the monolith. scarab swarms are cool. a necron lord doing the veil of darkness with a 10 man squad of immortals can put the hurting on almost any unit. gotta have a large number of necrons due to the if suckie phase out rule. nothing worst then almost breaking your opponent but he wins cause he killed that last necron needed to phase out. the destroyer lord on the body is useful cuz it allows your lord to be toughness 5 so you don't have to worry about catching a rocket to the teeth and losing your res orb. and bring a god. just because you can. there is no other reason for it. just because you can. |
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| Lieutenant  Join Date: Dec 2006
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Blog Entries: 2  | Actually there si a reason to bring a C`Tan, just to watch it being transformed into a chaos spawn via gift of tzeench But seriously... The core of a small army: Lord NW ~ lots IM ~ a couple When he gets more $$ he HAS to buy a `Lith because it`s just crazy. And it also helps the army a whole lot with teleport and such. I once killed a maxed out squad of marines with just 3 destroyers and a few lucky rolls I won`t lie, destroyers are great fun, but the their range advantage will pale after the first turn if the enemy is prepared. A squad of them could still be used to pick up annoying enemies though, it`ll all up to him. So basicly: * Lord for RESURECTION ORB (veil of darkness is an added bonus) * Lith for TELEPORTing your army * Warriors so you don`t PHASE OUT The rest is strictly up to preference. I`d go for Immortals and Scarabs 
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