When I heard that the Necrons were getting a new Codex I ran out and bought a jug of Simple Green and started to strip my old models. Most of my collection were Warriors, Immortals, Flayed Ones, Destroyers, and Lords so I knew I was safe an that thee units would make a return. On release I bought two Ghost Arks, Necron Overlord, Cryptek, an a Special Character otherwise my collection was all older models.
I love this model. It was a great kit and if you have a couple really big magnets you can make the Doomsday Ark as well. Be patient the model takes about 2 hours to build.
Unit of 20 new warriors. I used my OP Warriors as two squads to go in the Arks (x10 & x9 with Lord) and keep this unit on foot to help draw fire. If the opponant target the Arks and leave these guys alone they will tear them apart with x20 Guass Flayers.
Here is the Overlord. IMO he is a great HQ Choice. I take OVerlord and Destoryerlord along with a Royal Cout x2 Lords and x2 Crypteks. The Crypteks stay with the Overlord, while the basic Lords split, 1 with x20 warrior and 1 with either x9 Ark Warriors or the x5 Immortals...yes all Lords have Res Orb :)
I really like the Destoryer Lord fluff and rules. I have taken the Original OP Lord staff to this model for a change of pace. IMO Destroyers are marginal, but x6 upgraded Heavy Destroyers for 180 isnt that bad given the weapon they have.
I am not a big fan of most of the Elite Choices in the book and despite most peoples opinion I DO like the C'tan. Yes they are easy to poison out, but they are a very important unit to give you some counter assault as well as create a force multiplier and allow other units to survive or punish your oppponant for ignoring them. I try and take minimal costed powers for the C'tan and Usually bring two in a 1500 point list, or swap one for a Monolith.
Here is my unit of x9 Warriors with OP Lord.
Overall I really enjoy the Codex. It reminds me of the Dark Eldar book in that there are atleast three very viable list builds. All slots have some choice to them and the Characters are ALL very unique and carry a lot of fluff. I hope the rule rumor for 6th Ed are correct and you can choice 2 slots to give up in place of buying another slot (-2 Fast for +1 HQ). This would allow me to take 3 HQ along with 3 Royal Court for a really cool unique all character type army list :) I like the Scarabs, Wraiths, and Spiders and I am currently rebuilding the ones I have now.
For my color scheme I used black primer with Boltgun wet drybrush. I then Devlun Mudd washed the model and used Shining Gold for the trim and heads. I washed the gold with Griffon Sepia and then drybrushed with Burnished Gold and Mithril Silver. I used and Enchanted Blue with Asurman Blue Wash and Ice Blue Drybrush with another Asurman Blue wash. I will detail energy areas with Scorpion Green or Blazing Orange dependig onthe look. Most of these models pictured are still about only 50% to 75% complete and will require more details. I just wanted to get some discussion going for now :)
