Grots Vs Necrons?

[IBBoard]

When I eventually get around to relearning the rules for 40K, I'm planning fighting against one of my friends Necrons. Only thing is, I don't know much about them. What I was wondering was whether Grots were good against them. Necron weapons seem anti-tank and anti-hard-person, but are they anti-massed ranks?

[Mirridi]

If you want to fight Necrons DON'T USE GROTS! Any HTH army will die.
To kill Necrons take long range high firepower units, such as Chaos Havocs.
1. A Monolith's particle whip would decimate hordes of grots, as would it's guass flux arcs.. (D6 hits on anything within 12").
2. I saw scarab swarms rip apart a badly placed terminator squad.
3. I also saw a 1,500 point Necron army wipe 2,000 points of space wolves out of existence.

To win: Stay 36" plus away from Monoliths and Gods. Don't shoot them, as it would be a waste of time and effort. Pour all your firepower into Warriors first, then any destroyers/immortals. If you're feeling suicidal, use power weapons on the warriors. (i.e. No WBB rolls) If you have some sure-fire way to get a dred into close combat with a monolith/immortals, do so as dred close combat weapons are god against the metallic undead scum.

In short: Necrons are unbalanced. They are way to powerful. You just better hope that your opponent doesn't use them properly. **COUGH CHAIN TELEPORTATION IS ILLEGAL** Their only downfall is no 48" weapons and C'tan, Monoliths and Destroyers are point sinks
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Remember: Go through their codex, and tally up every model he has with 'Necron' in it's profile as a special rule. Kill 75% of those, and the army will phase out. Including the monoliths.

[IBBoard]

So is there anything that Necron's can't kill easily?
Still ain't got round to the battle, I'll have to get back into things during my huge summer holidays of june through to september
But it does look like the Orks are stuck against Necrons.
"How to beat Necrons - stand back and shoot", what can't Orks do well - stand back and shoot
Not quite as bad, but I've been involved in a bring-and-battle at a local GW store and 3000pts of Necrons including one of each god easily won against over 6000pts of all sorts!

[Mirridi]

The way I see it...A Iron Warriors army, with 2 defilers (additonal Havoc launchers) and 2 squads of Havocs (so many plasma cannons...) would be able to deal severe damage if you had a whole bunch of marines to soak up destroyers.

[IBBoard]

2 defilers?!!!! I've just seen them in this months White Dwarf and they look nasty
But if an Iron Warriors army can take out Necrons, I can see Orks severly struggling

[Mirridi]

Been away.
Yup. Defiler. 72" Indirect. Barrage.

[IBBoard]

Ouch! Glad I'm not likely to be facing one of those for a while. They could be useful in the 'bring-and-battles' in the GW shops

[omegoku]

close combat.. necrons are slow and you should easily outnumber them.. get into combat as fast as possible, try taking down a few of them with massed big shoota fire. necrons can kill anything with there guns, but they have initiatve 1 or 2 and have only 1 attack, plus power claws wont let them get back up.. ignore the monoliths, and anything that isnt a necron.. its easy to wipe them out when you know how..

[IBBoard]

Its a good job Orks excel at combat then
I'll keep this as a tip for the future though - I never got back into the gaming before I moved down south on my years Industrial Experience. Going to hopefully get back into it again in or after summer, when I'm living in Manchester cuty center

[omegoku]

good luck, youll need it if you get near those monoliths..

[IBBoard]

If I ever play against Necorns no doubt when I first get back into it I'll get slaughtered half way to the Eye of Terror and back!