Hey all, damn its been long since Ive posted here hehe.
Anyhow on to the subject, I sortoff ditched the hobby a month or 2 after 5th came out as I didn't like the new rules at all. I patiently abided my time untill one of my friends informed me that the 6th edition has been released. So after whiping the dust of my armies I played a couple of games to learn the new rules. Due to the huge gap of ''downtime'' with the hobby im looking for some input here to guide me.
I quickly found out that the wraith units are brutal nowadays, also found out they work nice with a Ctan his Arrow power if you have whip coils [unintended untill we where resolving combat] That being said I also noticed that there has been some drastic changes to the general populace there playstyle. From what I hear from my mates flyers are very common nowadays, so I tested them last weekend and it opened up a whole new way of transporting units.
My last list [after 3 other battles] looked somewhat like this:
Necron overlord w/res orb, phylactery, warscythe
13 warriors
Storm Cryptek [with the haywire gun]
Nightscythe
14 warriors
Harbringer Cryptek
nighscythe
10 immortals
6 wraiths 3 w/coils
7 scarabs
1 monolith
1 Ctan w/ regeneration power + anti melta
Total 1750.
Excuse me for not listing the crypteks their full gear loadout. Im at work atm and cant remember the exact powers I gave them. Anyhow, the list worked great overall vs Tau. Had 2 flyers coming in with the monolith, immortals where hiding untill they could get ported while the wraiths and scarabs + ctan had to face 2 rounds of tau shooting. The battle was exciting but I still felt like I was lacking some stuff in my list.
So I decided to do a bit of research while working;) and I see allot of people taking small units of immortals for their transports. I can't grasp the meaning behind this, judging from what I have read and seen so far with the new edition it seems to me that units have to be actually larger nowadays compared to the past. I testplayed a old fashioned footslog army [10 man units] but quickly got punished by it as my mate concentrated fully on one squad, whiped to negate WBB and moved on to the next.
Also from looking at the lists I see there seems to be very little actuall damage output, am I correct with this? If your army its main body consists out of flyers coupled with 5 man squads then I don't see allot of shooting happening. Likewise, although I really like how the new wraiths perform, I still find it somewhat strange to steer away from the Necron shooty army style and invest around 50% of your points in CC.
To put it simple:
#1 Has there been a shift of necron lists of trading shooty units for melee ?
#2 Why the minimised squads ? Aren't these going to get shred as soon as they disembark?
#3 How do we tackle flyers aside of our own flyers
#4 Are some old units obsolete nowadays?
#5 Tips and tricks that I might have overlooked, like the Ctan power Wraith whip coil combo