I think the whole list is notably strong... not unstoppably overpowered like it used to be, but very strong nonetheless.

It's worth noting that Zombocom intentionally plays a 'soft' list so as to give us more interesting (winnable!) games.

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so what would you suggest? IMO the best suggestions so far was the change to SR. anything else?

Or just post what a "hard' list looks like.

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And I think that's a good thing, as it's a little ridiculous that there's a C'tan at every Necron battle.

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A hard list would generally be popcorning and maxing out on good stuff.

2 x Warrior Phalanx + pariah
2 x Warrior Phalanx
10 x Monolith
2 x Pylon
1 x C'tan

2970 points

Possibly lose a monolith for a couple more pariahs, or a single pariah and swap the ctan for a supreme commander warbarque.

Obviously the monolith price changes with the latest list do restrict this type of list a lot more than they used to, which is definately a good thing.

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Oh my that looks brutal.

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Well disallowing single-Monolith formations would solve this popcorning issue.

No non-WE unit should be a formation of itselfe. 3 non-WE units should be the minimum to form a formation.

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I am slowly coming round to this way of thinking.

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i've played against this list using an Eldar torny list and it's nasty, 17 activations is hard to get rid of as it is, but with Necron maneuverability it's a nightmare

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What about only two "support" choices per Phalanx as an additional limit?

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It wasn't exactly that list you faced, since I don't have 4 phalanxes modelled up, but it was pretty close. I think I had a warbarque and an obelisk formation in there somewhere too.

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That would certainly be a limit on monolith popcorning, but it might also unduly restrict theming armies to be flayed one or destroyer heavy for example. On the whole I probably agree though, it seems a neccesary evil.

By the way, Corey hasn't logged into this site since December, has anyone been in contact with him?

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it wasn't against you Zombo someone turned up to the CGC with the army very much like that (in fact i think it was a bit different but not much) but yes we did play that game at Pats house.

It was a really nice army well painted and he was a nice guy but i lasted about one and a half turns up untill the point were his C'tan went critical in the middle of my last formation killing 5 guardian bases 2 wraithlods and a wraithguard base at which point i gave up.

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zombocom- that list is insane! i guess i'm lucky that everyone i play with doesn't think of using armies like those, so i never even thought of something like that.
so what would be the better way to prevent this?
do we need to go w/ only 2 support formations or could we add at least one obelisk to the monolith formation?