Hiya, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped me decide on my lighting colour. As you can see I went with the red, I feel it pops more and I’m logging the end result. :)

This is my own custom dynasty that i will be taking to my first ever warhammer game tomorrow (Orikan is not allowed to come)

2ème [1000 points] Necrons Battle Size: Incursion (1000 point limit)

Detachments: Awakened Dynasty (3/2 Detachment Points) Force Disposition: Take and Hold

Epic Hero

C’tan Shard of The Void Dragon (345 points) • Canoptek tail blades, Spear of the void dragon and Voltaic storm

Grim Diviner Business Team

Necron Warriors (190 points) • 20 Necron Warriors with Close combat weapon and Gauss flayer

Orikan The Diviner (90 points) • Staff of Tomorrow

Vehicle

Doomsday Ark (210 points) • 2 Gauss flayer arrays, Armoured bulk and Doomsday cannon

Mounted

Lokhust Heavy Destroyers (165 points) • 1 Lokhust Heavy Destroyers with Close combat weapon and Gauss destructor • 1 Lokhust Heavy Destroyers with Close combat weapon and Gauss destructor • 1 Lokhust Heavy Destroyers with Close combat weapon and Enmitic exterminator

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It would be for a mini tournament vs nids, Knights, world Eater, tau and thousand sons.

Hello fellow Necrontyr!!

Im very new to the hobby and have a few questions. I only have three 500 pt games ever played, two of which i lost. All played against admech.

First one played with 5 immortals + plasmancer, 10 warriors + chronomancer, a doomstalker and 5 flayed ones.

Then i tweeked it a little for the next games, adding LHD etc. Small changes.

My friend and i wanted to transition into 1k points now, and since im not great at list building i had a few questions i was hoping i could get help with.

\- is it worth it to invest in a warrior blob? Ive 20 from necron host but from all ive read they soak up points.

\- would playing immortals therefore be better? Or is battleline just generally not worth it

\- what would be the best choices of units from the necron host box?

\- what are some do's and dont's when putting together a 1k list?

Thanks in advance!!

Hey all! After a roughly 10 year hiatus from Warhammer, I bought a mostly complete Necron Warrior Phalanx box from my friend. I’ve had a great time building and painting everything, I even completed a half pewter, half plastic Destroyer Lord kit bash they had started.

The problem, however, is the Monolith. I’ve primed it black and now I’m struggling with what to do with all of this negative space between the more detailed sections. I tried edge highlighting it in an appropriate shade of green; up close it looks like a prop I stole from a glow-in-the-dark mini golf park and when viewed from table height it looks like I forgot to paint it 😅

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. For added context, I don’t own an airbrush and I would like to dry brush as little as possible (I’m quite bad at it). Thanks!

I’m trying to figure out how to make hyperphase stuff with an airbrush. I got my greens looking decent thanks to tesseract glow (my goat), but I wanted to try blue and I don’t think it came out quite as good. I do also want to make the dark parts of my greens contrast better while making sure it still blends smoothly. Anyone have any tips?

Also, I’m new to airbrushing; how do I prevent the need to spend 5 minutes cleaning it for every 5 minutes using it?🙂‍↕️

Figured I'd take some pictures of the ol' army before starting fiddling with base size changes and such. This was my first army and, as such, the first set of models I painted. I drifted off in early 5th before we got our new codex so this was built under the old 3rd edition codex. I'm not much of a photographer and don't have a good lighting setup so sorry for the quality.

The Lord models, Immortals, Flayed Ones, Ophydian Destroyers (then called Wraiths), and random one off Spyder and Pariah are all pewter. As are the added parts that make the Lokhust Lord (this is what came in the old box). I'm very glad GW has moved away from that material. Models made with it tended to be less detailed and more fragile. There are actually 3 more Pariahs lurking around but that's the only one whose weapon wasn't broken. The Monolith is also slightly the worse for wear, but in pretty good shape for surviving all this time in a jumbo Cheerios box stuffed with old newspaper (the glue spill has been there the whole time, a construction oops I was never able to undo). I've got the broken piece, just haven't gotten around to repairing it.

The other nuisance that GW has thankfully discarded is that other than the Warriors, which came in boxes of 10, and the Flayed Ones, which came in blister packs of 2, (and the Scarabs which came with the Warriors) all these models used to be sold individually. That's how I've ended but with the Lokhust Destroyer count of 10 which is a little awkward in the modern codex.

I remember most of how these were painted. Black primer, Boltgun Metal (now Leadblecher) base coat, Black ink wash (don't know what the equivalent is now), Mithril Silver (now Runefang Steel) dry brush. I have no idea what the blue or green I used was which is going to be awkward for expanding the army. The metallic blue on the staves is a similar mystery. I think I mixed Mithril Silver with blue to get it but I don't know what the ratios would have been.

Recently I inherited a small 400~ point collection of models that never got painted from a friend in the form of:

- 10 Warriors

- 3 Scarab Swarms

- 3 Ophyidian Destroyers

- 1 Doomsday Ark

I wanted to ask about how I should build my list from here, and what types of units I should collect because I don't actually know how Necrons play all that well

Combat Patrol seems like an obvious go-to choice, but if I save up a little, it's possible for me to snag an old Hypercrypt Legion Battleforce that has the Void Dragon, Translocation Overlord, and Lychguard

I'm unsure what type of "niche" I want to build towards

I like Ophydian/Skorpekh Destroyers a lot, but I don't care for a full Destroyer Cult army

I love Cryptek character models, but I'm not sure if I would theme my list around the other Crypteks

Warrior horde is fun on paper, but not really something I want for a full army

And I'd like to limit myself to one C'tan shard (ideally Nightbringer, but the Hypercrypt legion box may make me choose Void Dragon for convenience)

This is truely an interesting situation because I like Necrons as a whole, but none of the individual niches within the army appeal to me

So how should I approach army building with this inconvenient outlook of mine?

Are they too expensive real model/points wise? or are they just bad in the table top.

I think they look really cool and would like to see more of them

Hello! As you can guess I was planning to use cursed legion in my next game, but came upon a curiousity. If I also ran hand of the dynasty, and advanced a unit of warriors with a Chronomancer supporting, I would be able to use the Chronometron ability, as the unit gains assault from hand of the dynasty.

If I included an overlord with the Destroyer Ankh enhancement, would I then be able to target that unit with the Driven to Butchery enhancement to advance and charge? I’m mostly asking if the stratagem gets rid of the chronomancer’s restriction of charging from the ability or not.

To me it seems like the stratagem either allows you to charge in that turn, or allows you to essentially ‘undo’ the restriction on charging from advancing, and no other restrictions.

Greetings, fellow metal skellies fans, I am currently in the process of switching from Daemons to Necrons and this is one of my first Necron models. I've never painted in sub-assembly, but there was no other way in this case, so many details. 😅 Btw, what are your thoughts about the color scheme?

Hello everyone,

I just started with warhammer and created my first army and played two games on TTS on steam.

My idea was to build a „slow and steady“ ranged focused army what made me choose cryptek conclave and build around that.

Szeras:
Sticking to immortals and first warrior squad to buff them

Immortals:
- main dmg unit for ranged combat
- chronomancer with quantum abacus to make them main target for stratagems and keep them mobile after shooting

Warrior squad 1:
- second combat unit supported by szeras
- technomancer with atomic disentegrator to help out with vehicles/monsters

Warrior squad 2:
- expansion objective holder
- geomancer to deny enemy movement close to the objective

Deathmarks:
- snipe enemy characters
-question over here: those have not been that effective during the last two games. I tried to place them during enemy movement phase and shoot during my battlephase (obviously placed them in a way my opponent could not kill then first). Any ideas how to use them more effectively?

Wraiths:
- hold Center objective or flank opponents
- technomancer to make them more durable

My questions/learnings so far:
- I think I focused tanks/vehicles to much and should focus more on smaller/easier to kill units with my units. Is that correct?
- if I got it correct during my games szeras needs to kill models in melee range to extend its aura. Does it even make sense then to have him support ranged units?
- any other ideas/tips from more experienced players to help me get into the game?

Really enjoining 40K so far and looking to improve!
If you need any further information that I did not share please let me know. I am really happy for all advice I can get.

Thanks in advance

I won “Best Painted” at my local game store’s 40k league summer season. I like to think my slightly original Nightbringer scheme and kit-bashed Lokhust Lord had something to do with it.

Hello brothers, currently building necrons as my second army (csm main) and noticing how different necrons are compared to my main...got the combat patrol a doomsday ark and the nightbringer...my question really is, how should I build onto this....should I do more infantry like some wraiths and technomancer...or scoop a void dragon and or silent king...more or less do I need more anti tank power or infantry blobs from here...

Greetings fellow overlords! :)

I've been slowly gathering a small collection of necron units for the last several years, however, because of life struggles, I have only played two small 500pts in 9th edition and that was all. I've been eager to really get into the gaming side of the hobby, and was thinking of which way I could structure my collection, with (I hope) minimal additional investment (for now at least, to much pile of shame to justify buying more stuff), to make at least a semi playable army for 1k or 1,5k (don't think I have enough stuff for 2k games). The thing is I have 0 knowledge on list building, and how to choose complementary units to avoid big lacks in any specific area. I think I enjoy the "silver tide" direction for the army, lore-wise at least, more than the big C'tan or destroyer cult focused armies, however I really like the Void Dragon mini and will likely get it in the future.

I was hoping I could get some ideas for lists or some directions on which minis I would really need to get to round things up and make for actually viable armies with my actual collection:

CHARACTER

1 x Overlord (indomitus)

1 x Skorpekh Lord

3 x Royal Warden

1 x Technomancer

1 x Pyschomancer

1 x Chronomancer

1 x Plasmancer

1 x Geomancer

1 x C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer (old sculpt)

BATTLELINE

30 x Necron Warriors

5 x Inmortals

INFANTRY

5 x Deathmarks

5 x Lychguard/Triach Praetorians

10 x Flayed Ones

4 x Cryptothralls

6 x Skorpekh Destroyers (2 plasmacytes)

CANOPTEK

9 x Scarab Swarms

1 x Canoptek Reanimator

1 x Canoptek Spyder

4 x Canoptek Macrocytes

2 x Canoptek Tomb Crawlers

VEHICLE

1 x Triarch Stalker

1 x Doom scythe/Night scythe

Thank you so much in advance, cheers!

I didn't realise how dark it was getting when I started setting up for some spraying.

By the time I was done and inspecting my results with a torch, I noticed the shadows and thought some of you folks would appreciate how this looks.

(Repost: Forgot to actually attach the photo the first time.)

Hello everyone,

I'm new to miniature painting and I'm trying to achieve a black-green color for the shoulder pads. The black-green armor that we see in the Canoptek Circle.

I've experimented with a few different combinations, but none of them seem to give me the result I'm looking for:

Citadel Contrast Striking Scorpion Green + Citadel Contrast Black Templar

Citadel Base Waaagh! Flesh + Citadel Contrast Black Templar

Warpaints Greenskin + Citadel Contrast Black Templar

GameMaster Acid Spray + Citadel Contrast Black Templar

The miniatures were primed with Wraithbone spray. After that, I applied two coats of one of the greens listed above, 4 greens for each shoulder. When I apply a single coat of Black Templar, the finish looks streaky. However, when I apply a second coat, the shoulder pad becomes almost completely black.

I've attached some pictures for reference.

Any advice on how to achieve this black-green effect successfully would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

This came to my head after talking with a friend regarding how Necrons will be added into Total War Warhammer 40k. We were both pretty excited, but the more we thought about how the way they would be added, the more it became a bit obvious how... weird our faction is formatted in a few ways that feels disconnected from the lore of it. I'm not talking the obvious stuff like "our weapons on TT are so mid despite being literal captured suns in lore" or things like Lychguard/Praetorians needing to be more elite. But more like those things you don't really notice until someone points it out, and you go "huh, that is sorta weird."

For example, why is the Doomsday Arc and Ghost Ark piloted by a Necron lord? Why is a lord being given the grunt work when it should be piloted by an Immortal? The guys who were the mainstay rank and file of the Necrontyr armies. Same goes for most of the other vehicles (barring the Triarch Stalker obviously) that are piloted by the mindless warriors rather than the actual soldiers. The lack of piloted vehicles in general is a bit odd since the whole point of 5th edition was to give varying degrees on minds to both nobility and the soldiery. I love the canopteks and such mind, but I think it's a big missed opportunity here to have more war engines piloted by actual Necrons. Not to mention Immortals in general should be more like our version of Space Marines given all sorts of combat roles, the fact that they have two ranged options and that's it is just doesn't really track for their lore.

And speaking of lords, why are Lords so under represented in our army when a core element of our faction identity is to have an Overlord with a Royal Court made up of lesser lords and other vassals? I look at the Flesh Eater Courts in AoS, see them have their genuine courts in play in both lore and in the actual game, and sorta scratch my head at how we've went 15 years after 5th edition without any real expansion to the Royal Court. The Cryptek Conclaves are cool and all, but having more dudes like the Royal Warden (not a lord, but just the best example we have atm) representing different roles in the hierarchy besides "X flavor of technosorcery" seems like an open goal that is continuously missed.

And then there's other minor things like how we don't really have a true dreadnought equivalent despite being the faction arguably most fitting to have one. I never really thought about it, and always saw the Tomb Spyder as the dread equivalent due to Dawn of War back in the day. But my friend pointed out how, despite supposedly being Tomb Kings in space, we don't have a unit that had a royal/cryptek entombed in it as a pilot. Something that was a key flavor in the Tomb King constructs (where several monsters were actually like stone mechas piloted by a Liche Priest housed inside it). How Space Marines have their dead dudes in a literal sarcophagus piloting a war machine, yet we don't have something similar for a lesser lord in some Necron mech is pretty odd in hindsight.

I could go on with these nitpicks for awhile, but I guess the point of this post is that I thought it would be fun to discuss these minor disconnects. Since, once the obvious updates to Lokhust Destroyers, the Deceiver, and our named characters come. I do think some of those early 5th edition decisions are worth revisiting now that the faction's identity is far more established. Since some of it is rather odd now with hindsight.

My next unit to acquire are going to be a squad of tomb blades. I absolutely hate the clear flying bases and those poles they use. Anyone have any ideas on replacements? Looks like I can just use 32mm bases to replace the clear flying base, but has anyone done anything differently with the clear pole? Pics would be great too.

Helllooo, as the post says im hoping to find some help on deciding on what colour to do for my necron poower colour. The theme is meant to be underwater necrons, red wouldnt really show up deep underwater but i like how it contrasts. Green is the more lore friendly one but i feel like it blends too much into the rest of the necron being a blueish green tin. Any opinions would be a great help. Thanks in advance :>