And what's wrong with flying up 24" and dropping off a large group of warriors, and then having a flying Annihilation Barge...

But under Victory Conditions it says that if at any point your opponent has no models on the table they automatically lose..

So a Daemon player who manages to mishap every single unit first turn and have them destroyed or back in reserves auto loses.


Putting Lichguards in a flier against Tyranids is a BIG mistake. I put 10 Lichguard with a Lord with most upgrades down turn 2 pretty far up. Got shot by 25 Gargoyles only losing the Lord, but with him went the Rez orb and his 2+ 3++. All the Lichguards died from the assault before they even got to swing. Failed so many saves it's not even funny. He did 17 total wounds on me, 11 were auto wounds from Blinding Venom. I failed enough saves to lose the entire unit of Lichguard. We played 2 games and I lost both horribly, first game I had 2 fliers with 10 Lichguard in each, other game I had 4 fliers with 1 Nightscythe and 3 Doom Scythe. Doom Scythes were nasty as hell but only because I could shoot into assaults with them slaughtering tons of nids.

I wanted to try the units under the new rules and vs Nids fliers aren't all that, sure they dont have effective AA but the Necron fliers aren't that scary.

Units that have to start in reserves(Flyers or Drop Pods) do not count toward that 50% limit. Also, units embarked in transports that are required to be in reserves also don't count. Seems like Necrons are the new all reserve army.

Quick note- unless I misunderstand your list you only need 3 units of Warriors. A unit in a Dedicated Transport only counts as one unit for this purpose. (p. 124) So your two units of Lychguards are 2 choices, the Overlord and Court are another choice. (Or maybe 2 more choices, don't have the Necron book so not sure on that front.)
Anyway, you have 3, or at most 4 units in Reserve for the purposes of the 50% rule, not 6.

Monolith can also deep strike and with the new deep strike rules, 1: Skimmers that end a move over enemy models move the minimum distance to not be over enemy models, and 2: deep striking vehicles count as moving. Monolith deep strike immunity is back, even if Monolith IC squishing is not.

Quick note- unless I misunderstand your list you only need 3 units of Warriors. A unit in a Dedicated Transport only counts as one unit for this purpose. (p. 124) So your two units of Lychguards are 2 choices, the Overlord and Court are another choice. (Or maybe 2 more choices, don't have the Necron book so not sure on that front.)
Anyway, you have 3, or at most 4 units in Reserve for the purposes of the 50% rule, not 6.

Units can move before embarking, right? So it should not be too hard to embark on a Nightscythe even if it is zooming.