I played in our local tournament as the "ringer" against anyone who got a bye round. I was tasked with bringing a "fun to play against list" - not the normal Necron Beat-stick lists.
HQ
- Necron Overlord, Warscythe, Mindshackle Scarabs, Sempiternal Weave, Resurrection Orb
Royal Court
- Lord, Warscythe, Mindshackle Scarabs, Resurrection Orb
- Lord, Hyperphase Sword, Mindshackle Scarabs, Resurrection Orb
- Lord, Hyperphase Sword, Mindshackle Scarabs, Resurrection Orb
Troops
- 20x Warriors
- 20x Warriors
- 20x Warriors
- 20x Warriors
Heavy Support
- Monolith
- Monolith
I was set against a 3x Chaos Hell-Turkey w/Baleflamer list. I spaced every Warrior out 2" for the whole game. Setting up on long table edges 4 rows deep took 5 out of 6 feet of table! Every single player at the tournament was chuckling that the Hell-Turkeys would cut the 4+ save Warriors down like wheat and the game would be over by turn 3.
Vector Strike and Baleflamers together only kept 3 to 4 Warriors down (per Turkey) each round (Reanimation on a 4+ was wa-ay too fun). With proper spacing they always hit just 4-5 Warriors each with their whacky flamers. After turn 2 I ignored the Hell-Turkeys as completely ineffective and hosed everything down with mass Gauss. I used Deep Strike for both Monoliths with fun results (as skimmers they auto-deviate if they land on the enemy).
Toughness 5 w/FNP and heavy 4-legged AV12 vehicles/monsters(I forget their names, they were quickly glanced to death) plus Rhinos melted from 160 Rapid fire Gauss shots walking forward and then being pulled through deep striking Monoliths.
By dice-down at the end of turn 5 I lost less than 30 Warriors and 1 Monolith. All 50+ remaining Warriors and Monolith were in the enemy deployment zone and there were only 7 Chaos troops and 2 Rhinos left on the table - all within rapid fire range of everything - Mindshackle Scarab wielding Lords and Overlords were a great deterrent (he only tried that once and rolled a 16 on 3d6 vs. his 10 leadership).
The Chaos Player was in a bit of denial and the hard-core tourney players were suddenly all sagely nodding their heads as if they had expected the results...