The Necrons make my blood boil.

[T3h_Sh4d0w_1337]

I believe you already said that, but meh.

Any race can win if you just spam one or two units...but as the famous saying goes, it's not whether you win or lose, its how you play the game.

Incidentally, if you're looking for a challenge, 7 ai vs you on Easy can be a fun game, if you hold back a bit so the AI can acutally advance their tech.

[Lordofthemarines]

ai arent likley to tech up on easy
all they do is build a barracks and maybe some genereators and powerspawn basic units at you

[T3h_Sh4d0w_1337]

they will eventually, i've seen tanks on easy, you just have to leave them alone. It can get tedious I'll admit, but i find Standard games too challenging when I'm trying to relax

[Russelcoight]

Originally Posted by T3h_Sh4d0w_1337

they will eventually, i've seen tanks on easy, you just have to leave them alone. It can get tedious I'll admit, but i find Standard games too challenging when I'm trying to relax

yeah i agree with that actually. But campaign on normal offers a great balance for relaxing players (most the time, not when you get zerged by 2 ai on some maps!). I just wish there was a way to incorporate similar game play to standard game play. E.g double hp as well as commander items but obviously you would have the ai team against you.

[T3h_Sh4d0w_1337]

there's a mod on Dawn of War Download Files, Download Dawn of War Patches - FileFront.com
that has what you're looking for, i forget what its called but it lets commanders have wargear and also adds new units to the game

[Sergeant M. Fudgey]

I hate Necrons so much.
I checked the stats one day and guess what? Necron warriors have nearly the EXACT SAME STATS as an SM squad, the differences being increased health and regeneration that makes you think they must be hooked up on sythetic adrenaline. But they're machines.
Aside from this,

a full Space Marine squad (8) is 390 requisition.
a full Necron Warrior squad (8) is 175 power. And don't die. And if they do die then a Necron Lord just trundles over and ressurects them. For free. Allowing them to go over the population limit.

The great thing is their only infantry is their builder units, so good luck finding a basic unit that specializes against heavy infantry. Also, their turret can kill a basic unit in one hit.

If they are supposed to be slow, why can Warriors, Flayed Ones and maybe something else teleport to Necron buildings? Why in God's name would the Monolith teleport (Much less if they can't go through the Warp)? Why would the Necron Lord teleport? It doesn't make sense.

[Marshall_Brant]

Originally Posted by Sergeant M. Fudgey

I hate Necrons so much.
I checked the stats one day and guess what? Necron warriors have nearly the EXACT SAME STATS as an SM squad, the differences being increased health and regeneration that makes you think they must be hooked up on synthetic adrenaline. But they're machines.

Well duh, their nearly the same because in TT Necrons are just as good if not better than SMs. Relic has always tried to stick close to TT, so thus the Necrons are damn near invincible just like they are in TT.

If they are supposed to be slow, why can Warriors, Flayed Ones and maybe something else teleport to Necron buildings? Why in God's name would the Monolith teleport (Much less if they can't go through the Warp)? Why would the Necron Lord teleport? It doesn't make sense.

Because in TT most of their units can teleport into battle or teleport around the battlefield. Also teleportation makes up for their slow movement speed.

[Junk angel]

If they are supposed to be slow, why can Warriors, Flayed Ones and maybe something else teleport to Necron buildings? Why in God's name would the Monolith teleport (Much less if they can't go through the Warp)? Why would the Necron Lord teleport? It doesn't make sense.

They go trough necron space, the same place that wraiths shift into etc.
Also keep in mind that you can spam those sm units out a lot faster than he can take out those warriors. Not to mention GK's are definitely problematic for necrons. Or a libby plus chappy.

[MarkedOne]

I don't know what's up with you guys(sincerely, I've not a clue) I like the Necrons, theire my fav race, but in multiplayer with idiots, otherwise their just too fucked up, i play with the eldar, see, what i do is i build a webway gate as the first thing i do, (those bastards who think AI cheats just becouse it knows where you are, fuck you! you idiots just go on capturing those places which get you the blue resource(haven't played it in a while) think that that doesnt matter!? you try and pay attention to your enemys captured strategic points, finding them, no probs!) then i research the invis thing and as soon as the necron lord finds me (he comes around and listens to the webway gates, fuck the fucken noise) i just teleport my builders and move my whole god damn base somewhere else, by the time he finds me again i can teleport again, just build lots of teleports! its annoying but if you wanna get into the spirit of the game you do exactly that and you qualify as an Eldar leader. I remember, you know, on Soulstorm, the first map you can go to with the necrons instead of the gate? i built a massive fucken base around the thermal generator, made lots of those guys with skin.....the flayed ones... and killed them all beside the generator, the spiders killed beside the critical location and the lord beside the flayed ones facing the thermal generator, the idea was that as soon as i see a cocksucking eldar(thats right! i hate them now(when playing with the necrons)) i revive my lord, ressurrect my flayed ones, revive the spiders and kill em all to death(how ironic, one eldar disturbs the peace all of them die) and i wait for motherfuckin 20 minutes, no eldars, my wraiths scoop out the are and i wasted 20 minutes of my life, waiting for a fuckin unit producing webway gate to transform and fight me! fuck that! i just changed to play with the eldar, cleared out the first planet and bugged my game somehow fuckin it all up so i just start playin with the space marines and comlete the game and never play it again! fuck that man...

[AFURAMK]

Hmmm... Necrons can be very powerful, But have many weaknesses. When Im eldar I always vyper raid the necron generators stoping their tech to the monolith. Then I build warp spiders and fire dragons to deal with their slow armies. With the vypers knocking the infantry around the warp spiders tear them to pieces.