How Distinctive are the Necron Houses Really?

[TheNewman]

This came up in another thread, the long and the short of it is that since Marines are the only army I own with a 9th ed codex I don't have much of a handle on how differently the other 9th ed codexes play if you change sub-factions.

 

I don't want to get off into the weeds of the comparative volume of rules-differences, I'm more interested in the impact of the differences on the table.

 

(I'm finding that despite the many pages of strats/relics/etc difference between the various SM chapters, I can't lean very hard into those differences before it hurts how well the army plays.)

[INKS]

So the biggest impact I am having (I decide to do my own house as it were) is that you don't always want to be locked into the rule set of house X. House X might be good right now, but what about as the meta changes? And we are seeing this as other houses come into and out of favor with players. The rules seem fairly minor in it's re-roll hit, or wounds and stuff like that. More importantly to myself though is sometimes you take more than one detachment and those detachments might not all be from the same house. Much like Nids where you might take 2 different detachments and serve two different purposes in your total list. 

 

In terms of marines, think of it like Dark Angels who have the Ravenwing and the Deathwing. They have different options, serve different roles and are painted / distinguished between differently. Hope that helps.

 

Edit: I wanted to note that I am speaking in terms of competitive play. In terms of play for fun then I don't think it matters quite as much.