Necron Unit of the Week Series: Ophydian Destroyers

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NECRON UNIT OF THE WEEK SERIES

Welcome to the Necron Unit of the Week series for 10th edition! Each week will see a different unit from the Codex, Imperial Armour, and Legends datasheets featured for discussion. The goal here is to discover and chronicle tactics for the featured unit so that new players and veterans alike can use this database to inform their strategies with the wider knowledge of the forum. The game of Warhammer 40,000 is ever changing though, and as the rules evolve throughout the edition everyone should feel free to return to older threads with the release of new FAQs/errata, changes in points values, information gathered from games played, and of course the Codex being released. These threads are also great places for newcomers to the Necrons to post their questions about tactics related to the featured units.

Please note that the purpose of this series is not to lament what the current meta deems “ineffective”, or that another unit “does it better”. Those units will get their own threads.

 

This week’s unit is:

Ophydian Destroyers

 

With Deep Strike and Tunneling Horrors, is this unit good for grabbing objectives?

Do you take units of 3 or 6?

How effective are they in combat, what are their best targets?

Are there any unit or stratagem synergies that you've had success with?

 

 

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I love the Ophydian models, so I bring them a lot. They are legitimately solid against infantry. They have enough attacks to get through a lot of wounds on the charge. But I was surprised how well they've done against tougher targets. Popping a Plasmacyte let them nearly wreck a Devilfish in one turn in my last game (which Saracen has helpfully written about here). I feel confident they would have finished it the next turn had we had time to play it.

 

I almost always bring maximum sized squads of everything so far this edition, and the Ophydians are no exception. The first few games I was very conservative with them and mostly just held objectives with them. I have not redeployed them or used deep strike a ton.

 

I do wish we could add an HQ to the unit. The benefits of the other Destroyer Lords would be awesome here, but nothing we can do about that.