I wasn't even planning on playing Necrons, I had already bought stuff for Custodes. But my friend was building Space Marines and bought the Recruit and Command Box. Needless to say, I fell in love with Necron gameplay and they do look awesome
The Recruit Edition and the Necron Warriors are actually the exact same price from GW in Canada, which means you can usually get the Recruit Edition cheaper than you could just buy warriors
I've been thinking of getting into 40k for years now but I've only started seriously considering it since yesterday when a great friend of mine gifted me recruit edition, needless to say this video is very well timed as I'm far more interested in necrons than space marines
Just ordered the necron half of Indomitus Crusade to get me started, my first army for WH40k, I've been rifling through black library on audible, collecting physical copies of Horus Herasy books, and it was between Orks or Necrons for me. For a moment I was pretty Gung-ho on Tyrnids as well, but the price of Orks n Nids spooked me alittle. After all the money I've been dumping into paints brushes, exacto knife, sprew clippers a new table for my game room etc. I'm going to be knee deep in it over winter. All I need now is some type of community near me to connect with. Grateful for the strong online presence, but I still need to find a place to play.
Only just got into 40k and I'm gutted that I missed all these Necron starter sets, however there is a big market on ebay for necrons so I'm slowly building up my army from there.
Great advice on starting a Necron army! I got into WH40K about 6 months before the pandemic started by buying the Indomitus box. My roommate and I played countless Necrons vs. Space Marines matches, and I gradually expanded my Necrons to keep things fresh and interesting. I also bought the Command Edition for the terrain and to fill out both Necron and SM armies. My favourite units are Skorpekh Destroyers, Flayed Ones, and Lychguard. I bought the World Scour battle force box, which was a good deal. I know Doomstalkers aren’t meta and their shooting is heavily reliant on lucky dice rolls, but I’ve had good success with them. The box also had a Lokhust Heavy Destroyer, Flayed Ones, and a Chronomancer, which is especially useful with useful with the Custom Dynasty meta.
As someone who just started with 40k, and just split a Elite Edition box with a friend, I can say that's probably the best option if you have someone woh is also starting with the hobby, or just wants the Space Marines, from there... There's soo many ways to go, since Necrons can be Melee focused, shooting focused, a bit of both; just stick to what you like and there's a Necron list for that!
Local game store had the Elite box for $60 for Black Friday. Had to pick that up. Best value for Necrons I could ever find. Picked up 3 Lokhust destroyers at 25% off also. I think for now that’ll be my little Necron army lol
Sometimes I've thought about returning to my Necron force. They were my first army when starting 40k and tabletop games in general so it was a pretty hodgepodge force consisting of the SC box, Immortals, Deathmarks, Wraiths, Scarabs, and extra Warriors. Every so often I think about redoing things and building towards a 1500pt army, but honestly the biggest thing stopping me is the fact that, at a glance, the Necrons' 9E rules are just far more than I care to bother with.
Love playing them but it does feel like a chore getting all the pre game ready and than remembering everything every action. (Command protocols and reanimation rolls) it just gets god damn frustrating when a good game flips on its head and you remember your in the novok doctrine and thats why your math didnt add up.
You guys realise Necrons have VERY easy rules compared to factions such as Thousand Sons, Grey Knights, Aeldari, Drukhari and many more.... You basically just said that Warhammer 40k is too complicated for you
@@magearamil8626 hey bud I have 1000 pts of every army. Cabal points are easy and its only 1 phase. Eldar have fate dice, druchii is literally 1 added buff a turn, grey knights have tides and its 1 psychic power to change it so at most 5 chapter tactics a game if you changed to every 1. Those are all literally easier than a chapter tactic whole game, remembering every activation to reanimate, szarekhs 20 rules, illuminor buffs, and 2 chapter abilites per turn. Necron saving grace is their easy af stratagems. Id say staying in knights was one of the harder codex's for me to learn. But hey if you think druchii is harder maybe read their codex.
Great list I play Necrons and Custodes mainly in 40K and Blood Angels and Dark Angels in Horus Heresy. Edit: for the Necrons I use the Silent King, Void Dragon, Nightbringer amd mainly Destroyers and win most of my matches.
Thanks for making this. I started collecting Necrons a few months ago, and while I'm a good ways in collecting, it's always good to hear fresh takes on the units and boxes! I would argue though that the Necrons do suffer a bit from being left behind a bit in terms of codex strength, especially compared to newer 9th codices like Eldar and Nids. The Nephilim secondaries help, but you really feel that difference in codex power if you're playing Tempest or another non-GT game against a more recently updated faction
@@georgefagan1351 Marines are better imo if they use select units, but worse if they use the other 95% of their stuff. It's really hard to tell. We both just get demolished by Nids and Eldar.
Recruit + Elite + Combat Patrol is a great way to get started...especially if you can either sell the marines halves or want to also start a nice little marines army as well. Thats how I jumped in with crons a year or so ago & have no regrets about it
I am so glad I bought an entire Necron army from a friend 6 months before 9th was announced. He just wanted it to stop collecting dust and sold it to me dirt cheap.
An updated "how to start an Admech army" would be nice, and this video is quite apt because I'm thinking of having Necrons to oppose my admech combat patrol
My newest list includes tomb blades and a night scythe, which come in the combat patrol box. I was unfortunately trapped in a blizzard or would have brought it to an 80 person gt this last weekend.
I started with 3 half's of the indomitus box, you can still find those every now and then. Recruit edition cost the same as a box of warrior atm, so that is a way better deal for sure.
The cheapest way to start Necron is by getting single issues of the Warhammer Imperium Magazine. With a bit of luck and patience you still find sought after issues at the price of the magazine. The Warriors are even cheaper, I never paid more than 1€ per Warrior. I have a 3000 point Necron army and paid less than 50% of the GW price and most of it was NIS. The Immortal Sprues come with a ton of bits, so you can easily convert Warriors into Immortals/Deathmarks. I have 60 Warriors 20 Immortals (10 of each), 10 Deathmakrs, 15 Skorpek Destroyers, one Doomark, 2 Technomancer, 2 Chronomancer, 2 Overlords, 1 Psychomancer, 2 Doomwalkers, 1 Doomsday Arc, 3 Heavy Destroyers, 18 Scarabs, 3 Cryptek Spiders, and I paid maybe 300€
I've never been quite happy with how the necrons have always looked tbh but the wave of minis along with 9th Ed have really hit the nail on the head. I think they've finally captured how necrons should look! Also my almost finished army is very close to this, ,which is encouraging Silent king Catacomb command barge- voltaic staff, gauss cannon, res orb Technomancer- hyp ab, can cloak Royal warden- veil of darkness 1 x 20 warriors gauss reaper 1 x 20 warriors flayer 1 x 5 immortals 1 x6 skorp dest 1 x 3 skorp dest 1 x 5 scarabs 1 x5 scarabs 1 x 3 wraiths 1 x Doomstalker
Necron Overlord, Warden, Warriors & Scarab Swarms are incredibly available 2nd hand from eBay & hobby stores for stupid discounts - makes collecting the basic stuff very easy
At the start of the year i managed to get a necron side of indomitus for £40 from my lgs. Few weeks later my friend got a big tyranid model that was reduced as the box was damaged. He opened it to find a hexmark destroyer and 3 ophydian destroyers. Knew i had to continue necrons from then on.
I would STRONGLY advise to wait and see what that Kill Team upgrade sprue will bring to 40k before buying Immortals since it may or may not be a big deal.
Would building around Trazyn be viable? I've been into the lore for ages but am just now getting ready to buy an army and he is one of my favorite characters
So I was reading the new necron crusade rules and I saw a battle trait for nihilak that is so busted Wich for rp a 6 makes an additonal 6 and can be modifed so its on a 5 and reroll work, And for living metal units they gain -1 damage I think if this was there dynasti trait they be pretty good and woud fit the whole defensive block
I think the main colours are usually done by spraying or airbrushing Leadbelcher, then Black Templar for steel-coloured parts, with Skeleton Horde for the bronze/brass parts. Not sure about details, but it gets the main box colours pretty quick
I got my entire army from Imperium magazine. My lokal book store orders them in good amounts and i can order any number for me. It is certainly very handy and i m sure thats going to piss off some ppl from the US. Sorry. I don´t how much money i´ve safed on my 1500 point army so far but i m sure its a few hundered bucks. The only offical model i have is a Doomsday Ark and even him i got for 40€. xD
A lot of prior kits are a bitch to assemble.... we are starting to have too many overlapping data sheets, Praetorians feel bland, over costed and have zero abilities. I love how Flayed Ones went down to 10 points and everypone got erxxcited. Then the next balance update half the factions received Armor of Contempt and our smiles turned upside down. Now Flayed Ones might as well have AP 0. Thier new Strats are strong which include Adcance and charge, +1 Damage to Lokhust shooting, MW's on the charge, ignoring rules that ignore damage, etc... but they lose access to Crypteks and C'Tan and Vehicles. Everythiong loses access to Dynastic Codes except for Flayed Ones and Plamacytes. Flayed Ones gain Obsec if the unit started with at least 10 of them, but they don't benefit from Annihilation Protocols. I do find the two new Armys of Renown interesting and competitive. I can't seem to make up my mind. Annihilation Legion is fast, hits hard and accurately and pArmy wide +1 to hit and +1 to Wound depending on the target's current unit Strength. The Annihilation Legion also has access to Flayed ones.
A 3D printer will set you back 150-200$. Right now the mars 2 costs around 100$ and it works great. You might also want a cure&clean station and you need some IPA, gloves and resin so in total you could get started for maybe 250-300$. After that every model costs between a few cent to a few euro for big models. So you could get an entire army a bit cheaper or around the same price as offical. The 2nd army will be dirt cheap tho. More important than price are these questions: 1.Do you have a seperate space where you can set up a resin printer? 3D Printer resin fumes aren't the healthyist things to breath. 2.Do you care about being tournament legal or do you only want models to paint and play with friends/ at a non GW store? 3.Do you want offical looking models? Most models you'll find have their own style, but you can find direct copys for many GW kits if you search for a while.
They just put the prices up for 3rd party retailers so good luck getting things cheaper lol. They will do it again too until you are forced to buy full price off they're shit tier site lol.
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I'm getting imperium PRECISELY to get a decent Necron force. The Mechanicum and Sorientas as just bonus mini armies
I wasn't even planning on playing Necrons, I had already bought stuff for Custodes. But my friend was building Space Marines and bought the Recruit and Command Box. Needless to say, I fell in love with Necron gameplay and they do look awesome
we have the exact same case lol
Me too!
Same, wth
The Recruit Edition and the Necron Warriors are actually the exact same price from GW in Canada, which means you can usually get the Recruit Edition cheaper than you could just buy warriors
Same here at least in Virginia
In New Zealand the Recruit Edition is $75 whereas the Necron warriors is $90!
I've been thinking of getting into 40k for years now but I've only started seriously considering it since yesterday when a great friend of mine gifted me recruit edition, needless to say this video is very well timed as I'm far more interested in necrons than space marines
I've loved this army since they were chaos androids! Keep up the great work, and take care!
Yeah, its too bad they keep getting made weaker and weaker.
Me, with over 5k points of crons: Hmm yes. I must learn how to start collecting Necrons.
I recently got back into the hobby and have been loving painting the newer necron models.
Just ordered the necron half of Indomitus Crusade to get me started, my first army for WH40k, I've been rifling through black library on audible, collecting physical copies of Horus Herasy books, and it was between Orks or Necrons for me. For a moment I was pretty Gung-ho on Tyrnids as well, but the price of Orks n Nids spooked me alittle. After all the money I've been dumping into paints brushes, exacto knife, sprew clippers a new table for my game room etc. I'm going to be knee deep in it over winter. All I need now is some type of community near me to connect with. Grateful for the strong online presence, but I still need to find a place to play.
Welcome to the Dynasties!
Check for local hobby/game shops. Most have a dedicated day for most games/CCGs/ etc
Only just got into 40k and I'm gutted that I missed all these Necron starter sets, however there is a big market on ebay for necrons so I'm slowly building up my army from there.
Great advice on starting a Necron army!
I got into WH40K about 6 months before the pandemic started by buying the Indomitus box. My roommate and I played countless Necrons vs. Space Marines matches, and I gradually expanded my Necrons to keep things fresh and interesting. I also bought the Command Edition for the terrain and to fill out both Necron and SM armies. My favourite units are Skorpekh Destroyers, Flayed Ones, and Lychguard. I bought the World Scour battle force box, which was a good deal. I know Doomstalkers aren’t meta and their shooting is heavily reliant on lucky dice rolls, but I’ve had good success with them. The box also had a Lokhust Heavy Destroyer, Flayed Ones, and a Chronomancer, which is especially useful with useful with the Custom Dynasty meta.
This couldn’t be better timed for me, thanks man!
As someone who just started with 40k, and just split a Elite Edition box with a friend, I can say that's probably the best option if you have someone woh is also starting with the hobby, or just wants the Space Marines, from there... There's soo many ways to go, since Necrons can be Melee focused, shooting focused, a bit of both; just stick to what you like and there's a Necron list for that!
9th edition is a pretty good time to start a Necron Army. Especially with them being in the starter sets.
Local game store had the Elite box for $60 for Black Friday. Had to pick that up. Best value for Necrons I could ever find. Picked up 3 Lokhust destroyers at 25% off also. I think for now that’ll be my little Necron army lol
Sometimes I've thought about returning to my Necron force. They were my first army when starting 40k and tabletop games in general so it was a pretty hodgepodge force consisting of the SC box, Immortals, Deathmarks, Wraiths, Scarabs, and extra Warriors. Every so often I think about redoing things and building towards a 1500pt army, but honestly the biggest thing stopping me is the fact that, at a glance, the Necrons' 9E rules are just far more than I care to bother with.
Love playing them but it does feel like a chore getting all the pre game ready and than remembering everything every action.
(Command protocols and reanimation rolls) it just gets god damn frustrating when a good game flips on its head and you remember your in the novok doctrine and thats why your math didnt add up.
You guys realise Necrons have VERY easy rules compared to factions such as Thousand Sons, Grey Knights, Aeldari, Drukhari and many more.... You basically just said that Warhammer 40k is too complicated for you
@@magearamil8626 hey bud I have 1000 pts of every army. Cabal points are easy and its only 1 phase. Eldar have fate dice, druchii is literally 1 added buff a turn, grey knights have tides and its 1 psychic power to change it so at most 5 chapter tactics a game if you changed to every 1. Those are all literally easier than a chapter tactic whole game, remembering every activation to reanimate, szarekhs 20 rules, illuminor buffs, and 2 chapter abilites per turn. Necron saving grace is their easy af stratagems. Id say staying in knights was one of the harder codex's for me to learn. But hey if you think druchii is harder maybe read their codex.
Great list I play Necrons and Custodes mainly in 40K and Blood Angels and Dark Angels in Horus Heresy.
Edit: for the Necrons I use the Silent King, Void Dragon, Nightbringer amd mainly Destroyers and win most of my matches.
I’m brand new and hoping to jump in on necrons, I’d love to see your list if you don’t mind.
Thanks for making this. I started collecting Necrons a few months ago, and while I'm a good ways in collecting, it's always good to hear fresh takes on the units and boxes!
I would argue though that the Necrons do suffer a bit from being left behind a bit in terms of codex strength, especially compared to newer 9th codices like Eldar and Nids. The Nephilim secondaries help, but you really feel that difference in codex power if you're playing Tempest or another non-GT game against a more recently updated faction
Their codex is miserably weak; they are propped up by VP farming.
Yup. I’d argue the only faction that got codex crept harder than us is Space Marines. Hopefully we get something better in 10th
@@georgefagan1351 Marines are better imo if they use select units, but worse if they use the other 95% of their stuff. It's really hard to tell. We both just get demolished by Nids and Eldar.
Great video! Being new to warhammer im loving these “how to start -“ videos
Recently got into the game and loved the necrons so this videos perfect
Recruit + Elite + Combat Patrol is a great way to get started...especially if you can either sell the marines halves or want to also start a nice little marines army as well. Thats how I jumped in with crons a year or so ago & have no regrets about it
How many points total would that be?
@@Loiss don't know specifically, but off of the top of my head, likely right around 1000
@@rteishe thank you!
I am so glad I bought an entire Necron army from a friend 6 months before 9th was announced. He just wanted it to stop collecting dust and sold it to me dirt cheap.
An updated "how to start an Admech army" would be nice, and this video is quite apt because I'm thinking of having Necrons to oppose my admech combat patrol
Only thing I hate about flayed ones is their price per model...and they're only 10points per model too so getting a lot is just crazy expensive
I would love to see more of these!
My newest list includes tomb blades and a night scythe, which come in the combat patrol box. I was unfortunately trapped in a blizzard or would have brought it to an 80 person gt this last weekend.
I started with 3 half's of the indomitus box, you can still find those every now and then.
Recruit edition cost the same as a box of warrior atm, so that is a way better deal for sure.
The cheapest way to start Necron is by getting single issues of the Warhammer Imperium Magazine. With a bit of luck and patience you still find sought after issues at the price of the magazine. The Warriors are even cheaper, I never paid more than 1€ per Warrior. I have a 3000 point Necron army and paid less than 50% of the GW price and most of it was NIS. The Immortal Sprues come with a ton of bits, so you can easily convert Warriors into Immortals/Deathmarks. I have 60 Warriors 20 Immortals (10 of each), 10 Deathmakrs, 15 Skorpek Destroyers, one Doomark, 2 Technomancer, 2 Chronomancer, 2 Overlords, 1 Psychomancer, 2 Doomwalkers, 1 Doomsday Arc, 3 Heavy Destroyers, 18 Scarabs, 3 Cryptek Spiders, and I paid maybe 300€
I've never been quite happy with how the necrons have always looked tbh but the wave of minis along with 9th Ed have really hit the nail on the head. I think they've finally captured how necrons should look!
Also my almost finished army is very close to this, ,which is encouraging
Silent king
Catacomb command barge- voltaic staff, gauss cannon, res orb
Technomancer- hyp ab, can cloak
Royal warden- veil of darkness
1 x 20 warriors gauss reaper
1 x 20 warriors flayer
1 x 5 immortals
1 x6 skorp dest
1 x 3 skorp dest
1 x 5 scarabs
1 x5 scarabs
1 x 3 wraiths
1 x Doomstalker
Get yourself some LHD's. A unit of 3 gives you some ranged punch
@@philgagnon275 you're the 2nd person to tell me that, I'll ask the Xmas grot for some 👍🏻
Necron Overlord, Warden, Warriors & Scarab Swarms are incredibly available 2nd hand from eBay & hobby stores for stupid discounts - makes collecting the basic stuff very easy
Wayland Games in the UK is my goto place for minis.
this Video is so awesome. Wish there would be one for Tyranids, Tau, Salamanders, CSM, Dark Eldar, Eldar ...pretty pls ? :D
At the start of the year i managed to get a necron side of indomitus for £40 from my lgs. Few weeks later my friend got a big tyranid model that was reduced as the box was damaged. He opened it to find a hexmark destroyer and 3 ophydian destroyers. Knew i had to continue necrons from then on.
I would STRONGLY advise to wait and see what that Kill Team upgrade sprue will bring to 40k before buying Immortals since it may or may not be a big deal.
Auspex; "Necrons are incredibly easy to paint. Just spray a metallic colour, add a wash, and then pick out a few details."
Me; laughs in overachiever
Would building around Trazyn be viable? I've been into the lore for ages but am just now getting ready to buy an army and he is one of my favorite characters
black background with white writing might be better, screen always so bright lol
Awesome channel 😊
Please do a video like this for orks
Already spent about 1100 Pounds in EG after your videos, do you have you own reference promo-code for them?
read his description
I LOVE painting Necrons but I hate putting them together LOL
So I was reading the new necron crusade rules and I saw a battle trait for nihilak that is so busted
Wich for rp a 6 makes an additonal 6 and can be modifed so its on a 5 and reroll work,
And for living metal units they gain -1 damage
I think if this was there dynasti trait they be pretty good and woud fit the whole defensive block
Step 1) Get every Necron issue of Imperium you can.
Step 2) Look for 2nd hand projects.
Step 3) ?
Step 4) Profit!
What one of my friend did was get 16 boxes of flayed ones
Geez when my cap stones get in
I personally think starting off you would be better to buy Battleforces or combat patrol. The starter kits are horribly low points
I wonder how you'd go painting Necrons with the contrast method? 🤔
I think the main colours are usually done by spraying or airbrushing Leadbelcher, then Black Templar for steel-coloured parts, with Skeleton Horde for the bronze/brass parts. Not sure about details, but it gets the main box colours pretty quick
Just spray them black dry brush necron compound little tesseract glow and done …. Anything beyond that is just color scheme
I got my entire army from Imperium magazine. My lokal book store orders them in good amounts and i can order any number for me. It is certainly very handy and i m sure thats going to piss off some ppl from the US. Sorry. I don´t how much money i´ve safed on my 1500 point army so far but i m sure its a few hundered bucks. The only offical model i have is a Doomsday Ark and even him i got for 40€. xD
They used to be soo cheap, you could get the half of indomitus box for 100$
Are they not cheap now?
I don't care if it has shit stats, if it looks good I'm getting it, is my approach to Necrons
A lot of prior kits are a bitch to assemble.... we are starting to have too many overlapping data sheets, Praetorians feel bland, over costed and have zero abilities. I love how Flayed Ones went down to 10 points and everypone got erxxcited. Then the next balance update half the factions received Armor of Contempt and our smiles turned upside down. Now Flayed Ones might as well have AP 0. Thier new Strats are strong which include Adcance and charge, +1 Damage to Lokhust shooting, MW's on the charge, ignoring rules that ignore damage, etc... but they lose access to Crypteks and C'Tan and Vehicles. Everythiong loses access to Dynastic Codes except for Flayed Ones and Plamacytes. Flayed Ones gain Obsec if the unit started with at least 10 of them, but they don't benefit from Annihilation Protocols.
I do find the two new Armys of Renown interesting and competitive. I can't seem to make up my mind. Annihilation Legion is fast, hits hard and accurately and pArmy wide +1 to hit and +1 to Wound depending on the target's current unit Strength. The Annihilation Legion also has access to Flayed ones.
Step 1: get a Doomstalker
Step 2: get another Doomstalker
Finished building the void dragon yesterday and it absolutely sucked. That being said, rest of the models I have were far easier
Everyone go check out Planet 40k. Great all Necron channel.
Would 3D printing be cheaper overall?
If u already have a 3d printer or can get someone to print them then yea it would be cheaper… but the initial set up of a 3d printer is costly
Who cares, why buy takeout when you can make it yourself 🤩
A 3D printer will set you back 150-200$. Right now the mars 2 costs around 100$ and it works great. You might also want a cure&clean station and you need some IPA, gloves and resin so in total you could get started for maybe 250-300$. After that every model costs between a few cent to a few euro for big models. So you could get an entire army a bit cheaper or around the same price as offical. The 2nd army will be dirt cheap tho.
More important than price are these questions:
1.Do you have a seperate space where you can set up a resin printer? 3D Printer resin fumes aren't the healthyist things to breath.
2.Do you care about being tournament legal or do you only want models to paint and play with friends/ at a non GW store?
3.Do you want offical looking models? Most models you'll find have their own style, but you can find direct copys for many GW kits if you search for a while.
@@VinfinityKendov Most tournaments allow 3D printed models. Just not GW events. Most events are not GW events.
Just picked up an entire unpainted army for £50.
They just put the prices up for 3rd party retailers so good luck getting things cheaper lol. They will do it again too until you are forced to buy full price off they're shit tier site lol.
Not with warriors... They suck now :(
How to start a Necron Army: Dont.
Yeah, they aren't very good. Once Nephlim is over, Necrons are over.
Skill issue.
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