Blood Angels were a pretty typical DoA Dante list w/ a few sang priests, ASM, a Libby and a squad of sang guard too. and the SW had double LF, Hunters in rhinos, WG assigned to squads and rune priest. Both typical net lists if you get the drift. Jaws is nasty and very difficult to deal with when running necrons. We are now changing to 1850 lists which means I will adding in a C'Tan at 1850 and tweaking up my list a bit. Now tell me how to deal with rune priests. I cannot ley my crypteks or lord anywhere near it. I'm forced to try and tie up his unit with scarabs. I would need to totally redo my list to deal with jaws effectively.
This is what I said was a BIG failing in the current codex. I was quite shocked to see the lack of psyker protection when the Grey Knights have so much nasty stuff.... the Wolves of course, and even BA. Let's not forget eldar...an old adversary of the Necrons.
Sometimes I wonder if they playtest in a bubble. The stuff we find out about a codex a mere week after it comes out is surprising.
In this case, as soon as I saw the codex my biggest fear was Jaws. It's pretty much an autokill. It will be as devastating to us as it is to Nids... WORSE, because at least they have Shadow in the Warp. What do we have? A Gloom Prism? A 3" ranged piece of wargear that ONLY protects you against "targeting" your guys with pysker powers.
This is part of the problem. I don't swallow this for one second but some people think Jaws can't be deflected by Gloom because it doesn't target. I think that's not true. You are most certainly effected by the power. Something like... 'Fortune' is obviously undefendable.
So at first every list I made had at least one Spyder which contained Gloom Prism. Now I see how useuless a piece of wargear it is, plus it handcuffs your Spyder to your HQ/characters. It's ugly. I still use it though, even though it's terrible.
It does make you wonder if the Necrons woke up about 20 million years too late?
For me, I have always loved the Ghost Ark. It is terrible to say this, but hide in your Arks/Command Barges. You can shoot out, but they can't hit you. It's brutal, I know, but it's all we've got.
It's scary to think that with 6th ed, we will see Chaos, and then Eldar re-vamped. Two potentially heavy psyker based armies.
It should be something to deal with those guys.lol