Editing Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Necrons(8E) (section)

==Building Your Army==

===Buying===
The Start Collecting box still contains an Overlord, Necron Warriors and Scarab swarms as the first box, and a Catacomb Command Barge (which can alternatively be built as a Annihilation Barge and separate Necron Lord) and also throws in a 5 cron squad of Immortals which you can instead build into Deathmarks. Amazing value here, as it contains potentially 4/5ths of a basis for a Battalion detachment. As an additional plus against the old SC box(which isn't bad by any means) all units in the new box benefit from Dynastic code abilities, something the Stalker is unfortunately lacking.

Forgebane is a good set, containing a Cryptek with a Canoptek Cloak, 5 Immortals/Deathmarks, 5 Lychguard/Triarch Praetorians and 3 Wraiths. It clocks in at $160, which is a steal.

The Necrons Dominion Spearhead set gives you an Overlord, 12 Warriors, 10 Immortals/Deathmarks, a Canoptek Spyder, 3 Swarms,  3 Tomb Blades, and a Ghost Ark for $170. Quite a deal indeed.

===Converting===
You can convert a box of Necron Warriors into 50% Immortals and 50% Flayed Ones. The guide for how to do so can be found on google. Flayed Ones are probably the models you should most consider converting because of the high cost of the models and the debatable quality of their looks.

There's a pretty good and common conversion that turns 1 box of Wraiths into a Tomb Stalker/Sentinel.

Scarabs being more or less 1 sided (bottom can be flat) are perfect targets for molding with oyumaru and casting with green stuff. Helps you to make actual swarms.

You can make a relatively nice-looking Gauss Pylon with a globe, the cannon from a Doomsday Ark/Ghost Ark kit and some plastic spoons.

The Nighthaunt are a great source of bits and alternative models for many of your units. [https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Nighthaunt-Lady-Olynder-2018] would, with minimal changes, make a decent Transcendent C'Tan, while some of the more specialized Nighthaunt Infantry would make well on-theme Maynarhk, Novokh, or Nephrekh units, particularly Flayed Ones (2 full squads for ~$75 before bitz vs $180 for failcast) or Kit-bashed Immortals and Deathmarks.

===Painting===

You're going to need an awful lot of Leadbelcher (get a spray), Stormhost Silver and Nuln Oil. Unless you opt for one of the more colourful Dynasty schemes, or [[Lovecron|Lovecrons]].
: As an alternative to a Leadbelcher base with Nuln Oil shade, you could also drybrush Leadbelcher over the top of a black undercoat to achieve a similar effect. Both methods have a nice result.
: If you wanna go against the norm, a google search will yield lot of examples about how to find neat styles for your immortal laser zombie robots.